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give you a heairt of flesh (Christ). And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."
The Apostle Paul explained how the prophecy of Ezekiel is fulfilled in our lives: "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, (the law) but in fleshy tables of the heart (Christ). And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward...Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death,
written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his counte nance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory...And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untak- en away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ...Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lordis, there
is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (II Corinthians 3:3-4, 6-9,13,14,16-18)
God prepared the tables of stone; He wrote the words by His own fingers.
Likewise, God prepared the heavenly Man Christ as the cornerstone ofZion.
God then prepared the flesh for the salvation of sinners. "Wherefore also
it is contained in the scripture. Behold, I lay in Sion a chief cornerstone,
elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded...
The stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the
comer. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them
which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed" (I Peter 2:6-8). Moses broke the tables of stone engraved and
given to him by God. He did so when he saw the ungodly, sinful acts of the Israelites. Likewise, Christ the cornerstone that was prepared of God and givento this ungodly, sin-stained world, was despised and broken on the cross.
The Israelites were victorious over all the power of the enemy whenever they turned to the Lord and encamped around the ark of the covenant, for the Lord manifested His presence there and guided them to victory. In the same way, when God did away with the old covenant and made into a new covenant with His people. He revealed Himself and His eternal Name in
Christ. Thus, Christ was made the cornerstone of the church, which is His spiritual body. Consequently, the church is exceedingly victorious over death, hell, and all demonic powers in the Name of Jesus. The church of Christ, therefore, has replaced the Tabernacle of Moses, in the New Testament. "For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, 1
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