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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 2:25-29 - Ritual With/Without Reality

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Romans in Outline No. 30

1.1  THE PRACTICE OF CIRCUMCISION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

2.1  Abraham — sign of covenantGenesis 17:10-24

SYMBOLISM:

Like a wedding ring

Identifies the children of the Abrahamic covenant

2.2  Shechemites — circumcised and slainGenesis 34

2.3  Moses and/or his sonsExodus 4:24-26

2.4  Joshua entering landJoshua 5:2-7

2.5  David — Michal’s bride price1 Samuel 18:20-29

1.2  THE CRITERIA FOR GOD’S FAVORRomans 2:25

2.1  Ritual must be backed by obedienceRomans 2:25a

2.2  Ritual without obedience is discreditedRomans 2:25b

1.3  WHAT REALLY COUNTSRomans 2:26-27

2.1  Reality without ritual counts with GodRomans 2:26

2.2  The law–fulfiller is betterRomans 2:27

1.4  TRUE SPIRITUAL REALITYRomans 2:28-29

2.1  What reality is notRomans 2:28

2.2  What spiritual reality isRomans 2:29

3.1  SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM:

A separated, pure, obedient walk

3.2  CONTRASTS

Physical Spiritual
External Internal
Guaranteed the physical and material blessings and inheritance of Israel Guaranteed spiritual blessings

3.3  MANIFESTATIONS OF SPIRITUAL CIRCUMCISION

4.1  The heart — Deuteronomy 10:16; 30:6

4.2  The ear — Jeremiah 6:9-10

4.3  The lips — Exodus 6:12, 6:30

3.4  APPLICATION OF SPIRTUAL CIRCUMCISION

4.1  A separated walk — 2 Corinthians 6:17-18

4.2  A pure walk — Matthew 5:8

4.3  An obedient walk — Colossians 2:9-15

Romans 2:25-29

25 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. (NKJV)

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