Ezekiel 36 25-27 I will sprinkle
clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you
from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give
you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove
from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put My Spirit in you and cause you to follow My decrees
and be careful to keep My laws. Jesus loves His people with everlasting
love and has inscribed their names upon His heart. He has
received them as the jewels of His crown and the signet ring
upon His right hand. He delights over them as a bridegroom
over his spouse. He knew that a hellish master
had usurped dominion over them. He encountered this diabolical
foe and rescued them from his cruel grasp, so they became his
by conquest. He found them wretched and pitiful
and poor and blind and naked, and he wrought out a glorious
robe of righteousness to adorn them for his celestial palace.
He knew that their sins were both abominable and innumerable,
so he laid down his life and shed his sin-atoning blood to
satisfy each demand of divine justice. He found their hearts
estranged from Him and their affections given to the worthless
baubles of this fleeting world. He sent His Holy Spirit to win
their love, to create new hearts within them, to lead them to
choose Him as their everlasting All. Thus they became His by
voluntary surrender. I have loved you, my people,
with an everlasting love, with unfailing love I have drawn you
to myself. I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they
will be my people. I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.