The circumcision




『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 ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.』(Genesis 17:10-11), 『He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.』(Genesis 17:13). This was a testament of the people of God in the Old Testament times.

Circumcision is a ceremony in which an old man dies and becomes a covenant people of God, 『Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 』 (Isaiah 52:1)

God also calls to the Israelites must to be circumcised in the mind. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. (Deuteronomy 30:6) Paul expresses "circumcision of the mind" as "circumcision of Christ“. In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (Colossae 2:11) The meaning of this is to forsake themselves thoughts before the word of God. This is the expression of the obedience to God and going into Christ. This is expressed as baptism in the New Testament times.
 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)     

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