The book of
Deuteronomy anticipates the benefits of the New Covenant, especially in
Deuteronomy 30:1-14: summarized in verse 6: “Yehovah your God will circumcise
your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so you may love Him will all
your heart and with all your soul, and live.”
Notice: All baptized believers Jews and Gentiles have been grafted into the spiritual Israel of God. As such all believers have received the circumcision of the heart inwardly:
Romans 2:9: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Philippians 3:3: For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in the Messiah Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Colossians 2:9: For in him [the Messiah] dwells all the fullness of the nature of God bodily. And you are complete in him [Jesus], who is the head of all principality and power: In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Messiah: Buried with him in baptism, by which you rise with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has quickened together with him [the Messiah], having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross...
Note: When we are baptized we enter the water as those who have died to self and we come out of the water as new creations in the Messiah having received the Spirit of God that enables us to walk according to His will in our lives. Only then can we have the enabling power of our God and Father Yehovah to live out the words that He gave to the lord Jesus to give us to obey and live out in our lives. Amazing Grace!
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