“Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.”-Deuteronomy 30:6
In verse 6 of Deuteronomy Chapter 30, we’re told something most folks have been led to believe is only a New Testament phenomenon.
In this verse, Moses says that it is HASHEM who will “circumcise” your heart and the hearts of your children so that you will be able to love the Lord completely.
Understand the proper order:
FIRST, one must have a sincere desire for the Lord.
THEN, He will take the action of circumcising your heart.
Here’s another reminder about something I’ve already taught you.
Biblically speaking, “heart” means “mind”.
That’s right homies.
The word “heart” is just a literal translation from the Hebrew.
However in ancient times way up until approximately 400 A.D., everyone (and I mean everyone) assumed the heart organ was where the thinking processes took place.
This was a universal belief at the time.
We know now it’s the brain organ where thinking takes place but back in the Bible days, everybody thought the heart muscle was responsible for doing the thinking instead of pumping blood.
That’s why in Scripture, you’ll see the words “heart” and “mind” being used interchangeably.
So whenever you come across the word “heart” while you’re reading your Bible, just replace it with the word “mind” and you’ll capture the intended real meaning of the Scripture writers.
So getting back to what I was saying, the Lord declares He will “circumcise the hearts” of those who return to Him.
In this context, what does that phrase mean exactly?
We’re talking about divine intervention here.
The Lord is putting into the minds of humans a supernatural capacity to love Him.
For the gentiles in the house, this shouldn’t surprise you because this is also a foundational principle of the New Testament.
Keep in mind that any principle that is universally portrayed as being some revolutionary NT principle is ten times out of ten (that’s not a typo, I’m really saying 10 times out of 10), was already a long established Torah principle and pattern that was just brought forward by the New Testament.
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