Do you know that when you gave Me your heart, you became a completely different person? The old, sinful self was removed from your spirit by My blood, and you were given a completely new identity.
As I promised in Ezekiel 36:26: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
You may remember the Scripture that says, “The heart is deceitful above all things” (Jeremiah 17:9). But that deceitful heart is the heart of stone — the one I have taken away. Its removal is as certain as the stone rolled away from My tomb, revealing My resurrected life.It is no longer who you really are. For at your core, you are now the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Yes, you still wrestle with the remnants of that old heart and the wrong desires it tries to stir. But it no longer lives in your spirit. Paul describes that inner conflict, and he makes the same distinction:
“Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin living in me … For in my inner being I delight in God’s law … I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law” (Romans 7:20, 22, 25).
Paul is not avoiding responsibility here. No! He is making a differentiation in identity. He knew that his true self delighted in what is right. You are responsible for the wrong things you do, but they are no longer who you are. Your sin nature is outside your true self. And when I look at you, I see the good.Jesus
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