Welcome back to the Bible Project podcast. I'm John Collins and we're going to be talking

again with Tim Mackey and continuing the conversation on the law. We're going to pick up what

we left off, talk about the prophets and how they continue Moses' metaphor of eating a

circumcised heart and how they expand on that metaphor. Then we're going to get to Jesus

and how he talks about fulfilling the law, how he summarizes all the law and the great

command. Then we're going to talk about his followers and how they wrestle through how

to also fulfill the law and how Paul the Apostle does that in his own life and how he encourages

other people to do it as well. Our video on the law is at youtube.com slash the Bible project.

We've got other videos there too. But hey, let's jump in.

So Israel has failed to fulfill the law. And then we get to the prophets. And then the prophets

are all looking back and then trying to explain to the people of their day why this is happening.

And they came to the same conclusions that Moses came to. And the most important figures

who address this are the two prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, who were contemporaries. They

lived through the exile of Israel and the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. And they both

said that all this horrible stuff is happening because of Israel's rebellion and disobedience.

And they said if there's going to be any hope for a future which they believe there was

for Israel and for God's purposes in the world, then God's people, the human heart would

need to go undergo some fundamental transformation, some healing. And they use, they develop Moses'

metaphor that your hearts need to be circumcised, which is an odd metaphor.

Well, so yeah, and I was going to dig into that. So you said, so does he say both things,

your heart is hard. And then he also says your heart is circumcised.

Yeah, so Moses' diagnosis is the metaphor of having a hard heart. Okay. Dagnosis, which

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