03-12-2008, 03:38 AM
Friends, I know this is long. I would like you to use these thoughts and passages later to support your Christian beliefs with them when needed. Our JW friends are never encouraged to read things that pertain to their position in Christ. This is very long. I pray it will be rewarding to all that read it. I hope it will shed 'new light' on some things that have been hidden from 'some.'
Do only one or two in the congregation have spiritually circumcised hearts?
The Watchtower tells our Jehovah Witness friends that only a small remnant living today that make up that 144000 mentioned in Rev. 7:4 are ‘spiritual’ Jews, and therefore only these can be said to have circumcised hearts. Lets look at passages that would make the WT shudder if it thought lovers of God were investigating.
Romans 2:27-29 In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God’s law will condemn you Jews who are circumcised and possess God’s law but don’t obey it.
28 For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision. 29 No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people.
Reason with your friend that more than 144000 people have a
heart that is right with God, (justified as righteous). Not for any thing a human could, or can do, but by our faith in what Jesus Christ has ‘already’ done for us. God sees each in the congregation in His Son In other words friends, Each of you are the righteousness of God through Christ. He is not going to save the believer, because each of us have already been saved. He has ‘already’ saved us when he said; "It is finished.” “Our sins are… “Just as if they had never happened, (1John 1:9, Titus 3:5).”
Are we to accept the WT deceitful ‘fallacies that only 144000 (faithful Jews) are at peace with God? "That has serious implications for those who fall for it." Romans 4:9-10 shows us all it too for Abraham to be justified as righteous in the eys of God. The New Testament sings this glorious song. This melody is brought out in rom. 5:1.
Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us
Each believer 'should be born from above!- Jn. 1:13. The WT denies this truth. John through the Holyt Spirit has more faith in us than does the WT, (1 John 3:7, 1 Jn. 2:29, 1 John 4:15).
God could honestly proclaim to 99% of our WT followers, “Had you only known.” “Your lips professed me but your hearts were far removed from acknowledging this fact by not standing before those blind elders and acknowledge to them that I Jehovah was righteous. You also allowed them force you to be disobedient to one of the only two commands my Son gave you.” “You displayed this faithless disobedience ‘openly,' each time you rejected my Son as he was symbolically passed before you! Did you not know, with all your ‘books,’ that the princeable was given to you in Exodus 12:47?” Was not 1 Corinthians 10: 1-4, (‘all’) not clear to you? What part of all, did you not understand? “Oh if you had only believed. "If you had only known. (1 Jn. 2:29).”
Ephesians 2:15 ESV: by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Does that verse not tell us God sees no division in the New Testament body, (which is simply Church)? See Romans 3:22 again.
Hebrews 10:10 ESV: And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(Once for ‘all’ not all ‘time’ as the NWT decetfully phrases it (as they also do in Heb. 7:27), doing so to confuse lovers of God to think they are not sanctified.
Are only certain ones, (‘one or two per congregation) covered by the blood of Christ? Well, as did the O.T. priest, went about sanctifying himself ......'and the people,' with blood of animals, so like wise, the blood of the Mediator sanctifies the believing Jew and believing Gentile as holy in the eyes of God even today. Not just some of His people!
Are our JW acquaintances going to continue, to actually allow blind guides to tell them, ….(Yes, ‘this is what they are in essense really teaching them'), that your faith in the blood does not save you?” It is the water you were submerged in that did the job!” Didn’t the O.T. priest ‘once a year,’ …’sanctify himself and, “the people?” "Yes."
My JW friends, if you think you are not sanctified you had better re-read Deuteronomy 7:6 again. He begain setting aside His people and He does so today. Each is set aside from this unholy world to serve and be used by Him. (Romans 12:1-2 and James 4:4 is a warning to each of us not to just one, or two per congregation. Each is therefore justified and sanctified by their faith.
No, His standards haven’t changed. He is still righteous as 1 Jn. 2:29 mentions. That verse all by it self 'openly' places you in the family of God, (1 John 5:1-5). Only those who have becone a 'new person in Christ have been delivered from their old personalities that were once in sin, ('Adam'), but are now in Christ. "The "old man" was once in sin, (in Adam, in condemnation.) the new man is alive 'in' Christ,
Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
The WT 'double standards' in their uasage of all these passages can not go unnoticed. "This or that passage (they say) is only relating to our 144000" (they want us to believe)."
My WT following friends, You have been duped into only playing lip service to 1 Jn.2:29. Juggeling it. "Now He,(or she) is, but when April rolls around, "now He is not," (when Jesus is symboliclly passed before you). Then, He is not, for you 'openly' reject him, his body. The WT has blinded you so, that you no longer recognize the body, because they have made you also forget who you are in the eyes of God, (Hebrews 12:5-8).
“He really is righteous you know." Only born again 'Christians can say that. If they feel they are not, they can return to Him in brokeness. He loves you. He loves you right where you are! He loves you so much, that He can't leave you there where you are, (in that condition). As in the Prodical son...All it takes is a simple but heart felt sinners prayer.
He 'will' meet you, and cleanse you. Stop putting trust in Man.
Ishiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“ Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
In this condition is why each is able to partake of the Communion of the Lord's supper because 'each is sanctified …. “even today.” “Duh!”
Even 'each' member is to live a godly life not just one or two per congregation. In the WT eyes one must "earn" their right to partake.
But we are shown here that God has 'set aside' each one, not just a few!
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Run to 1John 1:9 and get your ducks in a row. You ‘are’ either a son,(or daughter) of God, or, the devils child, (Rev. 21:8 1 Jn. 4:4).
The Gentiles also needed to have their hearts circumcised “spiritually,” as we do today, (Romans 4:24.) Compare with Rev.3:20, ‘anyone,’ 1 Jn. 4:15,’ anyone.’
Each brother and sister in the congregation should be looking at our baptism the same way God was looking at circumcision in the above-mentioned verses. All the Jews were circumcised, but not ‘all’ were acceptable to God! We are being told in verse 28 that just because they were circumcised on the out side, this gave them no clout with God. Their hearts were not as clean,(forthright) as God wanted them to be. Likewise, for baptism to have real meaning, the heart must be right with God.
Each believer is to have the same kind of heart that God demanded and Paul was speaking about, (a heart that is ‘spiritually circumcised.) It is symbolic of being ‘right with God’. God wants a heart that loves righteousness and is humble to the Word of God. Only in this manor can someone be pleasing to God.
For example, some people who get baptized, only get a bath, and therefore do not get God’s approval. There are some baptisms that might appear’ to have real meaning on the outside, but they really have no true value on the inside, in the heart. In this condition a person becomes a hypocrite in the eyes of God. (Acts 7: 51, Exodus 33:5.)
The WT dogma is cought with putting 99% of JWs with "uncircumcised hearts!...
Colossians 2:13 ESV: And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the 'uncircumcision of your flesh,' God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Dear JW, What are you to do with that verse? You can’t keep ignoring its princible simply because you refuse to deal with it. Using WT theology, one must conclude that 99% of JW,’ well,… ‘I will let you finish that thought). It was written to you and me, (Acts 13:26. It was written to the Church, Rev. 2:11, 1 John 5:13,not only until the cults showed up, but for ‘all time,’- Colossians 3:21
.
Like the passages (above and below,) the WT has to deal with more of its 'double standards' with Acts 26:18. My JW friends, The heart that is circumcised, is sanctified. Even 1Jn.1:9 proves it.
1 John 1:9 KJV: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Thus those who are humble, and use the avenue of repentance remain spiritual Jews in the eyes of God. This applies to every obedient believer, not just 144000 as the Watchtower would have us to believe. See Romans 2:27-29 above. He will tolerate no heart of stone in his congregation, so that leaves only the Hearts He can deal with, spiritually (circumcised) hearts.
No one in the congregation is perfect, but by confessing our sins we stay sanctified and holy in the eyes of God. All believers are spiritual Jews if their inward hearts are toward God. He demands this. In this way, when the heart was truly involved in the circumcision act, (or in baptism) a believer truly becomes a spiritual Jew in God’s eyes and thereby is an obedient believer, see Romans 2:22-29 again .
2 Tim 2:22 (KJV) Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The only clean heart is a changed heart—a ‘spiritually’ circumcised heart.
Has God Changed?
Jeremiah 4:4 (KJV): Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
After finding, and reading these many verses, no one can honestly say that God is satisfied with only a few honest circumcised hearts per congregation. Think about it—does God change? God was demanding all of His people to have spiritually inclined (circumcised) hearts in the O. T. The WT is actually in direct opposition with God on this matter, teaching that only 144000 are spiritual Jews. The JW has never had these O. T. verses brought to their attention. Using Watchtower theology, one would conclude Jehovah is not as strict as He once was.”
Jer. 9:26 KJV: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are 'uncircumcised in the heart.
The average JW has been unknowingly placed with these!
Ask the Jehovah’s Witness: Does it not strike you as strange that the Watchtower has never brought your attention to these Old Testament passages? The WT organization is afraid that if they did, you would not follow their false teachings on who’s heart should be (spiritually) circumcised. Have you been told that your heart is not circumcised and that you are not a spiritual Jew? Have you been told that only some in the congregation have a (spiritually) circumcised heart? If that is true, just look where you have been placed! You have been placed outside of Christ by (unknowingly) rejecting God’s grace! I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust anyone who didn’t have a heart like God demands.
Any shepherd that has not placed the sheep in union with Christ Jesus, by hidding the mystery,(Col. 1:27,28 )by teaching them each only a few have a circumcised heart have ('biblically speaking) placed them in condemnation!” My JW friend, read John 14:23, and John 6:53, 56. Then go over John 15:1-6, and John 17:19-21 again to see the position Jesus wants each follower to be in. Paul went through pain to get this done, (Gal. 4:19,)He is taking as many as he can out of sin,(Adam),and putting them in safety, in Jesus Christ, (Romans 8:1). By believing deceitful teachings of the WT, its blind guides, blindly ignore the pronouns that the Holy Spirit has placed for those who have spiritual insight and agraduate of the7th grade. Revelation 3:20, 1 John 4:15 and Rev. 21:18.
Any honest-hearted person, after being shown these Bible passages, will have to agree. All the way back into the O. T. Jeremiah 9:26 we find that God didn’t want any uncircumcised hearts, the same applies for today. If we would but humble ourselves enough to judge our sin, (the way those back then 'didn’t do,') by using the directions given in 1 John 1:9, God would not have to judge our sin for us. He would simply forgive our sins instead.
1 John 1:9 KJV: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (Ish.1:18)
By confession and repentance when we are guilty, we prove that our hearts are in a spiritually right (circumcised) condition. Humbling our hearts to Him we are classified as spiritual Jews, as spiritual descendents of Abraham by ‘simple’ faith.
Ezekiel 36:26 NASB: "Moreover, I will give you a (1) new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the (2) heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
God rejects hearts that are like rocks, (uncircumcised). God understands and accepts the fact that we all will stumble and sin, but He doesn’t accept hearts that are not (spiritually) circumcised, (see Deuteronomy 30:6, Leviticus 26:41 and Exodus 6:30, Math. 18:3.)
Ezk. 44:7 NASB: when you brought in (1) foreigners, (2) uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you (3) offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they (4) made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.
My dear JW friend, after reading passages that the WT hides from us in its dogma, “How many uncircumcised hearts do you suppose Jehovah wants in His places of worship today?” Jesus also tells us the kind of hearts we must have. The average JW has been unknowingly not only betrayed, but binsulted.
Matthew 18:3 KJV: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Here he shows that a true, repentant heart is imperfect yet still able to be molded. Notice, He said that we must change. Not only must one believe, but one must also repent—not only outwardly—but also inwardly. Some hearts can be molded. Some can’t. Can yours? Of course.
Disciple
Do only one or two in the congregation have spiritually circumcised hearts?
The Watchtower tells our Jehovah Witness friends that only a small remnant living today that make up that 144000 mentioned in Rev. 7:4 are ‘spiritual’ Jews, and therefore only these can be said to have circumcised hearts. Lets look at passages that would make the WT shudder if it thought lovers of God were investigating.
Romans 2:27-29 In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God’s law will condemn you Jews who are circumcised and possess God’s law but don’t obey it.
28 For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision. 29 No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by God’s Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise from God, not from people.
Reason with your friend that more than 144000 people have a
heart that is right with God, (justified as righteous). Not for any thing a human could, or can do, but by our faith in what Jesus Christ has ‘already’ done for us. God sees each in the congregation in His Son In other words friends, Each of you are the righteousness of God through Christ. He is not going to save the believer, because each of us have already been saved. He has ‘already’ saved us when he said; "It is finished.” “Our sins are… “Just as if they had never happened, (1John 1:9, Titus 3:5).”
Are we to accept the WT deceitful ‘fallacies that only 144000 (faithful Jews) are at peace with God? "That has serious implications for those who fall for it." Romans 4:9-10 shows us all it too for Abraham to be justified as righteous in the eys of God. The New Testament sings this glorious song. This melody is brought out in rom. 5:1.
Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us
Each believer 'should be born from above!- Jn. 1:13. The WT denies this truth. John through the Holyt Spirit has more faith in us than does the WT, (1 John 3:7, 1 Jn. 2:29, 1 John 4:15).
God could honestly proclaim to 99% of our WT followers, “Had you only known.” “Your lips professed me but your hearts were far removed from acknowledging this fact by not standing before those blind elders and acknowledge to them that I Jehovah was righteous. You also allowed them force you to be disobedient to one of the only two commands my Son gave you.” “You displayed this faithless disobedience ‘openly,' each time you rejected my Son as he was symbolically passed before you! Did you not know, with all your ‘books,’ that the princeable was given to you in Exodus 12:47?” Was not 1 Corinthians 10: 1-4, (‘all’) not clear to you? What part of all, did you not understand? “Oh if you had only believed. "If you had only known. (1 Jn. 2:29).”
Ephesians 2:15 ESV: by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Does that verse not tell us God sees no division in the New Testament body, (which is simply Church)? See Romans 3:22 again.
Hebrews 10:10 ESV: And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(Once for ‘all’ not all ‘time’ as the NWT decetfully phrases it (as they also do in Heb. 7:27), doing so to confuse lovers of God to think they are not sanctified.
Are only certain ones, (‘one or two per congregation) covered by the blood of Christ? Well, as did the O.T. priest, went about sanctifying himself ......'and the people,' with blood of animals, so like wise, the blood of the Mediator sanctifies the believing Jew and believing Gentile as holy in the eyes of God even today. Not just some of His people!
Are our JW acquaintances going to continue, to actually allow blind guides to tell them, ….(Yes, ‘this is what they are in essense really teaching them'), that your faith in the blood does not save you?” It is the water you were submerged in that did the job!” Didn’t the O.T. priest ‘once a year,’ …’sanctify himself and, “the people?” "Yes."
My JW friends, if you think you are not sanctified you had better re-read Deuteronomy 7:6 again. He begain setting aside His people and He does so today. Each is set aside from this unholy world to serve and be used by Him. (Romans 12:1-2 and James 4:4 is a warning to each of us not to just one, or two per congregation. Each is therefore justified and sanctified by their faith.
No, His standards haven’t changed. He is still righteous as 1 Jn. 2:29 mentions. That verse all by it self 'openly' places you in the family of God, (1 John 5:1-5). Only those who have becone a 'new person in Christ have been delivered from their old personalities that were once in sin, ('Adam'), but are now in Christ. "The "old man" was once in sin, (in Adam, in condemnation.) the new man is alive 'in' Christ,
Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus
The WT 'double standards' in their uasage of all these passages can not go unnoticed. "This or that passage (they say) is only relating to our 144000" (they want us to believe)."
My WT following friends, You have been duped into only playing lip service to 1 Jn.2:29. Juggeling it. "Now He,(or she) is, but when April rolls around, "now He is not," (when Jesus is symboliclly passed before you). Then, He is not, for you 'openly' reject him, his body. The WT has blinded you so, that you no longer recognize the body, because they have made you also forget who you are in the eyes of God, (Hebrews 12:5-8).
“He really is righteous you know." Only born again 'Christians can say that. If they feel they are not, they can return to Him in brokeness. He loves you. He loves you right where you are! He loves you so much, that He can't leave you there where you are, (in that condition). As in the Prodical son...All it takes is a simple but heart felt sinners prayer.
He 'will' meet you, and cleanse you. Stop putting trust in Man.
Ishiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“ Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
In this condition is why each is able to partake of the Communion of the Lord's supper because 'each is sanctified …. “even today.” “Duh!”
Even 'each' member is to live a godly life not just one or two per congregation. In the WT eyes one must "earn" their right to partake.
But we are shown here that God has 'set aside' each one, not just a few!
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Run to 1John 1:9 and get your ducks in a row. You ‘are’ either a son,(or daughter) of God, or, the devils child, (Rev. 21:8 1 Jn. 4:4).
The Gentiles also needed to have their hearts circumcised “spiritually,” as we do today, (Romans 4:24.) Compare with Rev.3:20, ‘anyone,’ 1 Jn. 4:15,’ anyone.’
Each brother and sister in the congregation should be looking at our baptism the same way God was looking at circumcision in the above-mentioned verses. All the Jews were circumcised, but not ‘all’ were acceptable to God! We are being told in verse 28 that just because they were circumcised on the out side, this gave them no clout with God. Their hearts were not as clean,(forthright) as God wanted them to be. Likewise, for baptism to have real meaning, the heart must be right with God.
Each believer is to have the same kind of heart that God demanded and Paul was speaking about, (a heart that is ‘spiritually circumcised.) It is symbolic of being ‘right with God’. God wants a heart that loves righteousness and is humble to the Word of God. Only in this manor can someone be pleasing to God.
For example, some people who get baptized, only get a bath, and therefore do not get God’s approval. There are some baptisms that might appear’ to have real meaning on the outside, but they really have no true value on the inside, in the heart. In this condition a person becomes a hypocrite in the eyes of God. (Acts 7: 51, Exodus 33:5.)
The WT dogma is cought with putting 99% of JWs with "uncircumcised hearts!...
Colossians 2:13 ESV: And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the 'uncircumcision of your flesh,' God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Dear JW, What are you to do with that verse? You can’t keep ignoring its princible simply because you refuse to deal with it. Using WT theology, one must conclude that 99% of JW,’ well,… ‘I will let you finish that thought). It was written to you and me, (Acts 13:26. It was written to the Church, Rev. 2:11, 1 John 5:13,not only until the cults showed up, but for ‘all time,’- Colossians 3:21
.
Like the passages (above and below,) the WT has to deal with more of its 'double standards' with Acts 26:18. My JW friends, The heart that is circumcised, is sanctified. Even 1Jn.1:9 proves it.
1 John 1:9 KJV: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Thus those who are humble, and use the avenue of repentance remain spiritual Jews in the eyes of God. This applies to every obedient believer, not just 144000 as the Watchtower would have us to believe. See Romans 2:27-29 above. He will tolerate no heart of stone in his congregation, so that leaves only the Hearts He can deal with, spiritually (circumcised) hearts.
No one in the congregation is perfect, but by confessing our sins we stay sanctified and holy in the eyes of God. All believers are spiritual Jews if their inward hearts are toward God. He demands this. In this way, when the heart was truly involved in the circumcision act, (or in baptism) a believer truly becomes a spiritual Jew in God’s eyes and thereby is an obedient believer, see Romans 2:22-29 again .
2 Tim 2:22 (KJV) Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
The only clean heart is a changed heart—a ‘spiritually’ circumcised heart.
Has God Changed?
Jeremiah 4:4 (KJV): Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
After finding, and reading these many verses, no one can honestly say that God is satisfied with only a few honest circumcised hearts per congregation. Think about it—does God change? God was demanding all of His people to have spiritually inclined (circumcised) hearts in the O. T. The WT is actually in direct opposition with God on this matter, teaching that only 144000 are spiritual Jews. The JW has never had these O. T. verses brought to their attention. Using Watchtower theology, one would conclude Jehovah is not as strict as He once was.”
Jer. 9:26 KJV: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are 'uncircumcised in the heart.
The average JW has been unknowingly placed with these!
Ask the Jehovah’s Witness: Does it not strike you as strange that the Watchtower has never brought your attention to these Old Testament passages? The WT organization is afraid that if they did, you would not follow their false teachings on who’s heart should be (spiritually) circumcised. Have you been told that your heart is not circumcised and that you are not a spiritual Jew? Have you been told that only some in the congregation have a (spiritually) circumcised heart? If that is true, just look where you have been placed! You have been placed outside of Christ by (unknowingly) rejecting God’s grace! I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust anyone who didn’t have a heart like God demands.
Any shepherd that has not placed the sheep in union with Christ Jesus, by hidding the mystery,(Col. 1:27,28 )by teaching them each only a few have a circumcised heart have ('biblically speaking) placed them in condemnation!” My JW friend, read John 14:23, and John 6:53, 56. Then go over John 15:1-6, and John 17:19-21 again to see the position Jesus wants each follower to be in. Paul went through pain to get this done, (Gal. 4:19,)He is taking as many as he can out of sin,(Adam),and putting them in safety, in Jesus Christ, (Romans 8:1). By believing deceitful teachings of the WT, its blind guides, blindly ignore the pronouns that the Holy Spirit has placed for those who have spiritual insight and agraduate of the7th grade. Revelation 3:20, 1 John 4:15 and Rev. 21:18.
Any honest-hearted person, after being shown these Bible passages, will have to agree. All the way back into the O. T. Jeremiah 9:26 we find that God didn’t want any uncircumcised hearts, the same applies for today. If we would but humble ourselves enough to judge our sin, (the way those back then 'didn’t do,') by using the directions given in 1 John 1:9, God would not have to judge our sin for us. He would simply forgive our sins instead.
1 John 1:9 KJV: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (Ish.1:18)
By confession and repentance when we are guilty, we prove that our hearts are in a spiritually right (circumcised) condition. Humbling our hearts to Him we are classified as spiritual Jews, as spiritual descendents of Abraham by ‘simple’ faith.
Ezekiel 36:26 NASB: "Moreover, I will give you a (1) new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the (2) heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
God rejects hearts that are like rocks, (uncircumcised). God understands and accepts the fact that we all will stumble and sin, but He doesn’t accept hearts that are not (spiritually) circumcised, (see Deuteronomy 30:6, Leviticus 26:41 and Exodus 6:30, Math. 18:3.)
Ezk. 44:7 NASB: when you brought in (1) foreigners, (2) uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you (3) offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they (4) made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.
My dear JW friend, after reading passages that the WT hides from us in its dogma, “How many uncircumcised hearts do you suppose Jehovah wants in His places of worship today?” Jesus also tells us the kind of hearts we must have. The average JW has been unknowingly not only betrayed, but binsulted.
Matthew 18:3 KJV: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Here he shows that a true, repentant heart is imperfect yet still able to be molded. Notice, He said that we must change. Not only must one believe, but one must also repent—not only outwardly—but also inwardly. Some hearts can be molded. Some can’t. Can yours? Of course.
Disciple