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09/14/2024
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“I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them ...” (11:19). Although in Ezekiel’s vision, tragically, God’s glory departed from Jerusalem’s Temple (10:18), that was not the end. God was “a sanctuary” for His people in the countries of their exile, and He promised to bring them back to their land (11:16-17). Even more, God promised to give them a heart of “flesh” in place of stone, and a chance to be transformed by “a new spirit” (11:18-20).
“They will be my people, and I will be their God” (11:20). God’s desire has always been that Israel and the whole world would belong to Him fully. Through Jesus Christ, He made a way for our hard hearts to be transformed.