EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 36:26 God’s work moves from external to internal with the gift of a new heart and new spirit (see Ezekiel 11:19; compare Ezekiel 18:31). The outer purification will be no use without the inner desire to live rightly before God (Ezekiel 36:27). The connection of “water” (v. Ezekiel 36:25) and “Spirit” (v. Ezekiel 36:27) lies behind John 3:5. I will put my Spirit within you predicts an effective inward work of God in the “new covenant.”

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