Circumcise your Heart

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Since ancient days, Jewish men were required to be circumcised. But people forgot the purpose. So the prophets called people to circumcise their hearts.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Since ancient days, Jewish men were required to be circumcised. It was an outward symbol of their inner identity as God‘s chosen.

However, as the decades went by, the notion of circumcision became watered down. It was seen as merely a ritual. An initiation.

In response, the prophets called the people to circumcise their hearts. That meant to have a living connection with the Most High God.

The outward symbol of circumcision was never the real point. Rather, an inner connection with the Most High God was the real point all along.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Deuteronomy 10:16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Deuteronomy 30:6. The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Jeremiah 4:4. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like f

Jeremiah 9:26. Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

Romans 2:27. Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2:28. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Romans 2:29. but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Romans 3:1. Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

 

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