For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. - Philippians 3:3
We are the true circumcision, not they. They have the name, the form, the outward sign. We have in Christ and in the new birth its fulfillment. It is the difference between having the lamb of the Old Testament sacrifice and having Christ, the Lamb of God.
- True circumcision is having the heart pricked and laid open by the Spirit.
- True circumcision is a renouncing of our own righteousness.
- True circumcision is of the heart, not the flesh.
- It is to draw nigh to God with the heart, not the body.
- It is to rejoice in our completeness in Christ, having no confidence in carnal descent, tribe or family, ceremony or law. Our salvation and acceptance by God is only in Christ, not in anything connected with this flesh.
Henry Mahan
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