Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Circumcision Of Christ - Colossians 2:9-12

Colossians 2:9-12 ESV 

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Circumcision of the flesh took place on the body of a man through which the seed of life would pass into the fertile soil of the woman. A new creature would be conceived. It  would foreshadow the circumcision of Christ. 

This cutting of the flesh made in the heart of man is done by the Holy Spirit. The seed of the word passes through a new heart pumping in the breast of a new creature, a new creation in Christ and a son of God. Instead of a flap of skin rolled back, this circumcision puts off the body of flesh and frees us for life in the Spirit. We are raised from the soil of our earth into the kingdom of heaven. 

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