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Circumcision is a ceremony to cut a part of the body. Circumcision means the faith to take off the fresh and receiving promise of the seed from God. Israelites circumcised in eighth day after they were born in the Old Testament. But they forgot all the meanings contained in the circumcision, and did not recognize the Messiah. Baptism is the ceremony that is dies in water and is born again by the Holy Spirit. So they go into and out of the water, or they consume water. They believe that the former is dead and the be newborn through this ritual. So they gain the life associated with Jesus Christ who was died on the cross. Every day they act as the life of self-denial. Only the repentant lives as this life because the repentance is the life of the self-denial. They turn to the word of God from the love of the world. Circumcision and the baptism have the same meaning. Circumcision and the baptism are the death of the oldself and the be born again. Circumcision is the belief that it will b...

The worship is the respect of the mind to give self to God. In Old Testament times, sacrifice was offered by the death of animals in worship. The death of an animal is same as the death of a sinner. In the New Testament times, Jesus Christ was died on the cross. So sinners believe that they are died together on the cross. 『I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.』(Galatians 2:20) The worship is the determination of the mind to confirm that Jesus was died with the cross and move to a new life. 『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) The worship is the ritual an extension of baptism, is an extension of the sacrament. 『I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,...

The first covenant between God and man was contrated in the garden of Eden.『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』(Genesis 2:17) They must eat the fruit of the tree of life, and keep spiritual being. God had brought them out of the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve broke the covenant. God made a new covenant. 『And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.』(Genesis 3:15), God destroyed the people except the eight by the flood because the people were corrupt again. God made a covenant with Abraham. He said he would give the promised land and promised seed. So, God say to Abraham obey. Circumcision means the promise that have a descendant of the salvation. The descendants of the promise is Jesus Christ. The last is a covenant of blood through the cross of Jesus Christ.『Likewise also the cup a...

The law of God is like a jail that holds sinners. This law is called the law of sin and death. The law is a command of God who judges if Israel does not obey many laws. The law is the one God gave to the Israelites to make them cognize that human beings are sinners who can not but be judged. So the law means teacher that lead to Christ for repentance to return to God through sacrifice. But the Bible says that few repentance. The law of the Spirit applies to those who are guided by the Holy Spirit. God bought those who repented and were associated with Jesus Christ who was died on the cross from Satan. Let them to be born again by the Holy Spirit and be God's people. Those who obey the law of the Holy Spirit are unrelated to the law of sin and death. So God does not ask the sins of those who follow the Holy Spirit. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ...

(4) The comparison of Old and New Testaments The sacrifice and the cross The sacrifice of the Old Testament was the thing to kill the beast without blemishes devour instead of the sinner. In the days of the Old Testament priests offer sacrifices. The Old Testament sacraments were given to God continually and repeatedly to eliminate sin. The cross of the New Testament era was a sacrifice to redeem all sinner for the repentant only one time. Redemption is that God pay a price and buy a sinner for Satan. Redemption is that God pays to Satan the price of Jesus' blood and buy the repentant. The Old Testament sacrifice is for forgiveness of sins, but the New Testament cross is a shedding of blood to buy the repentant. So God cleanses the sins of those who belong to him. 『Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the en...

『Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ』(Romans 5:1) being justified by faith. The faith is the one of Jesus Christ. A sinner can not meet God. If the sinner is not righteous, he can not meet God, because God is holy. Those who was died on the cross with Jesus can enter into the faith of Jesus Christ.『 For he that is dead is freed from sin.』(Romans6:7) 『The death of the cross and the righteousness of God are in accord. 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) It isn't simply confession as that we believe in Jesus. We must believe that we have been buried with Jesus in our mind because we have been baptized. Baptism is a ceremony of the declaration that my fresh was dead. The repentance is to abandon the flesh's mind and to turn to God. I believe that I am a dead, and believe tha...

The life of newness to be born again is the another creature. 『Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.』(John 3:5) The life of newness to be born again is the resurrection. The resurrected body is different from the previous one. After the resurrection, Jesus suddenly appeared to the disciples.『And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.』 (Luke 24:36-37) He transformed himself.『After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.』(Mark 16:12) We can not see the resurrected body because of the flesh. We just accept it by faith. Why should we be born again? We can enter the kingdom of God only when we are born again. To be born again, we must believe that we become the dead same Jesus who was died on ...