Colossian 2:11
Col 2:11 “In Him you were also
circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,..” How did I find myself in
Him? When was I circumcised in Him? How did this take place?
Circumcision is the cutting
off of the male human foreskin. Medical science has shown that a child who is not circumcised is more
susceptible to infections than the one circumcised. I remember in the village
our mothers would talk of mbororo disease. In fact they meant venereal diseases which were rampant to mbororo people because their males are never circumcised.
Medical science has proven that to be true. So physically, circumcision protects the child. The parallel in the spiritual realm is that we were circumcised in
Christ and our protection is in Christ.
Isaiah 53:6 makes us know that our iniquity (singular) was laid on Christ. We became in union
with Christ at the cross. That is where we find our union with Christ. We were
all sinners and the wages of sin is death and nothing else. But God laid on
Christ the iniquity of us all. Here the Bible is talking of iniquity not
iniquities. Iniquities would mean sins, but iniquity (singular) here would mean
the sinful nature. That producer of sin. God wanted to handle the problem from
the root, destroying the base that it may be permanent. When Jesus Christ drank
the cup at Gethsemane to take our sin to the cross, we were united in Him, he took everything to the cross. Col
2:11 makes us know that the sinful nature was put off when we were circumcised
by Christ. It is not circumcision made by human hands.
How did He circumcise us? By
immersion into Baptism. Verse 12 makes us know that it is in the burial through
Baptism in Christ and the resurrection with Him through our faith in the
working of God, who raised Jesus from the dead. Baptism in itself is an
obedient response to the grace of God but salvation takes place in the
spiritual realm where God washes away our sins in the cleansing blood of Jesus
(Acts 22:16). There is no magic in the waters of baptism. No one merits
salvation, but by God’s grace He pronounces one cleansed of sins bringing us
into a covenant relationship with God.
Galatians 5:24 “ Those who belong
to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” So in
Christ we have crucified the sinful nature. So the flesh (that sinful nature)
was taken away with its desires on the cross.
Do you understand what I mean?
· That Hereditary
curses were crucified at the cross?
·
Hereditary
diseases were crucified at the cross (diabetes, cancer etc)
·
Inherited sin
(idol worship, fornication etc) are crucified at the cross. Have you ever heard
that people worship idols because they inherited from their parents? Have you
ever heard that someone has the blood of fornication? That their family is a
line of fornicators? Is it strange to hear me say they are inherited? No!
Only if you would come to the
cross. The cross is the terminal point for the flesh (sinful nature). The cross
is therefore a taking point of a new life in Christ Jesus. Why do you keep on
casting and binding, losing ancestral chains when God tells you that he dealt
with them long ago at the cross? The
Devil’s strategy is to keep you in doubt so that you do not apprehend the
centrality of the cross and be freed.
1 Corinthians 15:45,49 makes
us know that the first Adam became a living being and the last Adam , a
life-giving spirit. We inherit life from Christ just as we inherited from Adam the sinful nature.
Inherited sickness is gone and life inherited from Christ. Are you still
afraid? Some Christians still say my sickness, my trouble , my my my... Christ dealt with it long ago. You have to
believe and receive it. Remember, you must be in Christ.
Read: The centrality of the cross (the place where the sinner is crucified)
Shalom!
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