Essex Remembrancer Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh… I. A NEW HEART IS A CONTRAST TO THE OLD. II. A NEW HEART IS PRODUCTIVE OF NEW EFFECTS. 1. Repentance. 2. Holiness. III. A NEW HEART IS CONNECTED WITH NEW PRIVILEGES (ver. 28). If Jehovah be our God, there is not a real good that is not ours. We have Him for the portion of our souls. We are interested in the exercise of all His perfections. His love is inviolably and eternally fixed upon us. His wisdom is incessantly engaged in making all things work together for our good. His power is ever operating to defend us from essential injury. His universal presence becomes an uninterrupted source of peace and a never failing occasion of comfort. We have access to Him and communion with Him. He is our Father, our Guide, our Friend. IV. A NEW HEART IS THE WORK OF GOD. V. A NEW HEART IS THE GIFT OF GOD. Application — 1. What an important subject on which to examine ourselves. It is possible to be mistaken — and a mistake here is fatal. 2. How vain are the attempts men make to do without a new heart. 3. Let the most guilty be encouraged to seek this blessing as the gift of God in Christ Jesus; and the most hardened to hope for it as the work of God, if He be sought as the Author of it. 4. Let every man know that he inevitably and justly perishes if he neglects it — despises it — or presumes that he can be saved without it. 5. Let us adore God for having made known so wonderful and gracious a method of restoring our fallen nature. (Essex Remembrancer.) Parallel Verses KJV: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. |
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