The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
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… and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. Notice the language of an uncircumcised heart. Deuteronomy 30 verse 6, the Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your heart, with all your soul, and live. Jeremiah 4, circumcise yourselves to the Lord. Now, these were Jews already circumcised physically, but Jeremiah says, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done. burn with no one to quench it. The prophets, and indeed Moses before in the Torah, made this connection. The cutting away of the skin physically was a pointer to the corresponding cutting away of the flesh of the heart that was supposed to take place in the Jew. We see this here in Romans 2. We're going to see it again in Romans 4. This was not merely a figurative use of the word that then developed later in the history of Israel. …
… The good soil has to be prepared by the Lord. Listen to Deuteronomy 30, verse 6. The Lord will circumcise your heart to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, so that you may live. the greatest command, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. And God has to say, He will circumcise your heart to love Him that way. That's why in the New Covenant text of Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36, it says that God speaking, I will give you a new heart. I will put my Spirit in you. I will transform you. I will write my law in your heart. Heart work is God's work. So the first thing we have to do in approaching the matter of advancing the kingdom is to do so humbly. Secondly, obediently, and these are very brief, obediently. What do you mean by that? Well, what I mean by that is precisely what in verse 21 our Lord says. …
and go back to the 30th chapter of Deuteronomy. I want to tell you what Deuteronomy chapter 30 and verse 6 says salvation does. Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart. He'll circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live." Now, wait a minute. That's the great commandment. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. You mean that God will enable us to do that? It's just what it said. This is what salvation is. It's when God circumcises your heart, does surgery on your heart, cuts off the diseased part, so that the result is you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. How can you tell when somebody's been transformed? They love the Lord with all their heart and all their soul as much as we can in our fallen limitations. If we have been born again, we love the Lord with all our soul and all our heart. …