“The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.”
Deuteronomy 30:6
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Connection with Abraham's circumcision
God gave Abraham circumcision as the sign of His covenant in Genesis 17. Here He promises an inward mark, and Paul wrote that this circumcision of the heart is what happens to us in Christ (Colossians 2:11).
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Circumcision was the covenant sign God gave Abraham. God had commanded Israel to circumcise their hearts (Deuteronomy 10:16), and here He promises to do it Himself. Paul told the Colossians that in Christ they received a circumcision made without hands, a cutting away of the old self (Colossians 2:11).
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Moses had promised more than a sign in the body: "The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts" (Deuteronomy 30:6), and Paul told the believers at Colossae that they had received "the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands" (Colossians 2:11). Christ keeps the promise the sign pointed to, a people whose hearts God Himself has made new.
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