Today I want to talk about the reality that when talking about the New Covenant Jeremiah is always covered, but rarely Ezekiel. Even in the book of Hebrews in the New Covenant, Jeremiah is quoted, not Ezekiel.
What this means on a practical level
Jeremiah tells us that HaShem will give us a New Covenant Jeremiah 31:32 CJB
“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai: “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
My comment as a crazy spirit-filled Gentile?
So what?
Man is still left trying to walk the walk using his own abilities. And those abilities are not sufficient. They never have been. It may be written on my heart, but I am not consciously aware of that. I am still left on my own trying to do what is asked. Trying to be obedient.
Ezekiel's version gives us the power of the Holy Spirit
Ezekiel 36:26-27 CJB
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit inside you and cause you to live by my laws, respect my rulings and obey them.
The key phrase is cause you to live. This is what the Spirit does within us. This is why Yeshua’s Baptism of the Holy Spirit is so essential to the New Life found only in the New Covenant.
The Hebraic First Hermeneutics Study Tool explains it this way:
2. The Causative Structure — The Most Important Grammatical Feature
The English “cause you to walk” is translating a Hiphil-flavored construction — the text uses וְעָשִׂיתִי (v’asiti, “and I will do/make”) followed by the result clause.
YHWH does not merely invite or enable Israel to walk in the chuqqim. The construction asserts divine causation: I will be the cause that you walk in them.
This is not coercion — it is covenantal re-creation. The logic of the whole pericope (vv. 25–27) is:
Sprinkling → ritual purification (taharah)
New heart → replacement of the stone-inscribed exterior with interior inscription
New spirit / My Spirit → the animating force that makes obedience natural, not strained
Result: telechu — you will walk, you will live it out
The ruach of YHWH does not abolish the chuqqim; it writes them from inside, fulfilling the promise of Jeremiah 31:33.
Now, Sergio walked far beyond my Hebraic understanding in his verbiage. I have no idea what a chuqqim is, for example [or Hiphil-flavored]. However, this goes far beyond writing them from the inside. What it says in reality—the reality I which I have lived for over 5 decades—is that by His Ruach HaKodesh abiding within me HaShem Himself will make me (and you) both willing and able to walk in righteousness. Most of the time I will not consciously be aware of it. But I will “seemingly just naturally” do what the Torah requires with no effort on my part.
In the New Covenant, we find this written out exactly. I’m going to quote from the International Standard Version—which I know nothing about. But it expresses clearly what the Holy Spirit anointed Paul to write in Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.
A more standard rendering is found in the NKJV
for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
A simple example is that with no intent on my part, after 52 years, I find myself eating a purely Kosher diet—though my diet is far outside the norm. It’s just what the Spirit has led me to eat, and how to eat it.
He has also given me a morning ritual that astounds me with its cleansing and power.
Please excuse me if I mess up what is a new lingo for me. The breath of the Father has changed me so that I begin every morning with a “hineni”—by offering myself as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1). Then I ask the Lord to show me any sin in my life which needs to be cleaned up by a solid teshuvah. Knowing that when the Lord forgives, He forgets, I accept that I am now clean & righteous [by grace and faith]. I then ask Him to show me what He wants me to do now and to anoint what I do by the power of His Ruach. That has resulted in this posting, this morning.
In all of this, the Spirit continually shows me how to phrase things so that they remain real. By His Grace I avoid religiosity. And it is such a joy to be living this way. This is what the Holy Spirit does in the New Covenant.
The core of the New Covenant is the Ruach HaKodesh within
Paul wrote that the Spirit within is the guarantee that all this “crazy stuff” is real and true. To explain, my position is that the Pentecostals severely messed up the simplicity and freedom of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (which Jesus was sent to give to us). They added countless extraBiblical manmade doctrines which are not helpful at all to most believers. The Charismatics (of which I am one) cleaned up some of the Pentecostal mess, but they have wandered off in emotional ecstatic worship and other silly indulgences of the flesh.
What is called tongues is basically a confusing translation followed fleshly emotionalism. The truth is that each believer who is Baptized in the Holy Spirit is normally given a private prayer language to use in his or her daily life. This does bring joy into your life, but it is nothing like babbling emotionalism. This private prayer language can reveal harmful spirits during deliverance sessions, show counselors what sins the counselee is presently committing [word of knowledge] to help the damaged person become more real, show prayer groups how to help [word of wisdom] someone in need whom they are praying for.
The gifts of the Spirit listed in 1 Corinthians 12 are simply practical tools given by the Holy Spirit as He determines to enable us to walk in freedom, power, and joy. You cannot believe how much these gifts help in a spirit-filled Christian marriage. That’s why Yeshua told us “whenever 2 or 3 of you are gathered together, I am there in your midst”. He phrased it like this [before the Ruach HaKodesh was given to us at Shavuot] because it is the best that this can be understood in the flesh—the old carnal man or woman. But a believing marriage is meant to be a powerful 3-way covenant directly powered by the Breath of the Father [Holy Spirit].
When taking about the New Covenant, Ezekiel 36 gives the key understanding.
I do not know where else this concept is found in the Tanakh. The entire New Covenant could not be talked about openly because Israel did not have the Holy Spirit within them. But I am convinced that it is there in many places, especially in Isaiah. The sad thing is that the institutionalization of the church pushed out the Ruach HaKodesh just as strongly as the Jewish trunk did.
You can usually tell because the person, man or woman, talks about the Lord in the third person—never in the 2nd person. They never share what the Lord has told them. There is no evidence of prayer without ceasing. It’s obvious to those filled with the Breath of God who has that breath living within them. If there’s any doubt, I can just ask the Lord to tell me. He will, though He normally will not give me permission to share what He just said.
