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The problem with the Israelites was with their heart—their thinking and attitude. The Israelites did not obey God and fulfill their part in their relationship with Him for a simple reason: ". . . Everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart" (Jeremiah 11:8). God, however, had a solution: a different covenant, a new covenant, that would correct the problem.
Notice God prophesied He would someday create a new heart in His people by giving them His Spirit so they would obey Him: "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. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God" (Ezekiel 36:26-28).
Why do we need God's Spirit?
"For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His" (Romans 8:6-9).
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