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the professedly pagan peoples, and will gatherthem out of all the evil conditions into whichthey shall fall, into a condition of genuineconversion and consecration to Himself. Howmuch like God! all will exclaim, who knowJehovah. What an example does the Father set toHis children, the sons of God!— Eph. 5:1; Z.'92-63.Ezekiel 36:25.Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness,and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.—Then will Jehovah wash His apostate peoplewith the pure, unpolluted water of the Word ofTruth; and from all their filthiness of flesh andspirit, of life and of doctrine, and from theiridolatry of Molech and of Baal, will He cleansethem; and they shall be clean.— A333; Z.'92-64.Ezekiel 36:26.A new heart also will I give you, and a newspirit will I put within you; and I will takeaway the stony heart out of your flesh, and Iwill give you a heart of flesh.— God judges thethoughts and iintents of the heart, and He willgive His professed people a pure heart to serveHim and to love Him with fullness ofconsecration. He will take away from them thestony heart (Jer. 31:33), wherewith for sake ofearthly emoluments and honor of men, they haveresisted Him and hardened their consciencesagainst His Truth. He will put within them a newspirit which they have not known— the spirit ofwilling service and obedience to Jehovah, thespirit of the truth, the spirit of wisdom, ofcourage, of a sound mind, and of Divine love.—2 Tim. 1:7; Z.'99-187; A310; Z.'03-171.Ezekiel 36:27.And I will put My Spirit within you, andcause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shallkeep My judgments, and do them.— God willgive them His Holy Spirit and cause them towalk in His "royal law of love" (Jas. 2:8), so thatthey shall keep that law and do it.— Z.'99-188.