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1.1 THE PRACTICE OF CIRCUMCISION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
2.1 Abraham — sign of covenant — Genesis 17:10-24
SYMBOLISM:
Like a wedding ring
Identifies the children of the Abrahamic covenant
2.2 Shechemites — circumcised and slain — Genesis 34
2.3 Moses and/or his sons — Exodus 4:24-26
2.4 Joshua entering land — Joshua 5:2-7
2.5 David — Michal’s bride price — 1 Samuel 18:20-29
1.2 THE CRITERIA FOR GOD’S FAVOR — Romans 2:25
2.1 Ritual must be backed by obedience — Romans 2:25a
2.2 Ritual without obedience is discredited — Romans 2:25b
1.3 WHAT REALLY COUNTS — Romans 2:26-27
2.1 Reality without ritual counts with God — Romans 2:26
2.2 The law–fulfiller is better — Romans 2:27
1.4 TRUE SPIRITUAL REALITY — Romans 2:28-29
2.1 What reality is not — Romans 2:28
2.2 What spiritual reality is — Romans 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
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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