
THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST COLOSSIANS 2:11
Being circumcised, spiritually speaking, which is just a way of referring to the fact that we were saved. When Jesus Christ died and rose again, He won a complete and final victory over sin. He not only died for our sins (salvation), but He “died unto sin” (sanctification; see Rom. 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. What the Law could not do, Jesus Christ accomplished for us. The old nature (“the body of the sins of the flesh”) was put off—rendered inoperative—so that we need no longer be enslaved to its desires. The old…
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