CIRCUMCISION UNDER GRACE! - By Rober E. Hanna

Scripture Reading: Colossians 2:10, 11; 3:11

According to Jewish law, circumcision is an absolute requirement as a religious rite. Even under the Abrahamic covenant, circumcision was performed as a seal of confirmation. "And God said unto Abraham...This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised...And the uncir-cumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant" (Gen. 17:9, 10, 14).

When circumcision was neglected during the wilderness wanderings of Israel, "At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, make thee sharp knives and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. And Joshua made him sharp knives and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins" (Josh. 5:2, 3).

The life of Jesus was impeccably governed by all Jewish law and commandments because, as He affirmed in the 17th and 18th verses of the fifth chapter of the book of Matthew: "Think not that 1 am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." When Jesus was born. He was immediately subject to the law. "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child. His name was called Jesus" (Luke 2:21).

But then we find the apostle Paul and his coworker Barnabas being called to testify before the council at Jerusalem in opposition to the legalistic teaching: "Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved" (Acts 15:1). Their testimony was effective, even the apostles and elders being convinced that Gentile believers were not to be burdened with circumcision or keeping the law. In this dispensation of grace "Ye are complete in Him, in Whom ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands."

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