New spirit given with stony heart removed and heart of flesh given. 

Ezekiel 36:26

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“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26

This promise was made to the Jewish people and was fulfilled by God when He sent His Son Jesus Christ to live within the heart of human beings by the presence of the Holy Spirit. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus as their Christ and Lord, they rejected the new spirit and the heart of flesh. Now, this promise is given to whoever believes in Jesus Christ, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

The “heart of flesh” that is given to us refers to our humanness. Today, the heart of flesh is not wanted by today’s culture but instead is hardened like a heart of stone. The atheistic entity that gives people what to feel, say, think, and do replaces the human heart of flesh. The conscience and spirit of human beings are hardened to enliven the image of the beast to speak and live through them. Today’s culture is not living in the humanness of the spirit and heart of flesh, but instead are hardened and groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

God wants our humanness, our spirit, our heart so that we can receive the Holy Spirit by living for Jesus Christ who atones for our sin. He wants to give us a heart of flesh and a new spirit. As our example, Jesus Christ was born in the form of human flesh to retain a heart of flesh as a human being, but He was also born of the Spirit of God. He was truly and properly a fleshly human being and truly and properly God. God wants us to be born again by water and the Spirit, meaning our fleshly birth and our birth in the Holy Spirit. “Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ ” John 3:5-7

When the stony heart is removed and we make room for the Spirit in this body of flesh, then the fruit of the Holy Spirit will blossom in our spirit, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.” Galatians 5:16-26

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1