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Deuteronomy 5:29
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27 You go near and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and atell us all that the Lord our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’  
28 “Then the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. aThey are right in all that they have spoken.  
29 aOh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and balways keep all My commandments, cthat it might be well with them and with their children forever!  
30 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”
31 But as for you, stand here by Me, aand I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’  
32 “Therefore you shall1 be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; ayou shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.  
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Deuteronomy 5:29

A changed heart comes only from the presence of God's Spirit, and there was no provision in the Old Covenant for receiving God's Spirit. Because it is a process, there is a sequence to salvation. God calls and leads to repentance. The person begins to have faith in God and to become aware of sin, so he repents of sin. Now he is in a position to receive the Holy Spirit. He becomes baptized and has hands laid on him to receive the Holy Spirit. He has begun the process that will lead to salvation. None of these provisions were part of the Old Covenant.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Twenty-Eight)

Related Topics: Change of Heart | Changed Heart | Conversion Process | Conversion, Process of | God's Holy Spirit | Heart, Change of | Laying On of Hands | Repentance | Repentance as Change | Repentance, Process of | Salvation | Salvation Process




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