In Colossians 2:11-12 we read about the circumcision in Christ and being buried with Christ in baptism and risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God. But what does buried with Christ in baptism and risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God mean according to the Bible?
The circumcision in Christ
У Него вы и обрезаны обрезанием нерукотворным, в совлечении греховного тела плоти обрезанием Христовым: Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead (Колоссянам 2:11-12)
The new creation is circumcised in the circumcision of Jesus Christ. This circumcision is not made with hands, a natural circumcision of the foreskin of a male. But this circumcision is a work of the Spirit and takes place by putting off the body of the sinful flesh of males and females. The circumcision in Christ; the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, takes place by baptism, when the old man (плоть) is buried with Christ and becomes a partaker of His death and the new man (дух) has risen from the dead through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised Him from the dead.
The old man is buried with Christ in baptism
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Боже упаси. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Знаешь, нет, что многие из нас, крестившиеся во Иисуса Христа, крестились в Его смерть? Посему мы погребены с Ним крещением в смерть: что подобно тому, как Христос воскрес из мертвых славою Отца, даже и нам следует ходить в обновленной жизни.
Ибо если мы были посажены вместе по подобию смерти Его, мы также будем подобны Его воскресению: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin (римляне 6:1-7)
When you were baptized, you were circumcised in the circumcision of Christ and you have buried your old former life.
Старик, who is carnal and sense-ruled and is dominated by the sinful nature, no longer exists.
Старик, плотской мужчина, has died in Christ and the new man, the spiritual man, has been risen in Christ from the dead.
Old things have passed away, all things have become new!
You believed in Jesus Christ and decided to следовать за Иисусом and entered a covenant with Him and as a sign of the covenant is the circumcision in Christ.
Just like in the Old Covenant the natural circumcision of the foreskin was a sign of the covenant between God, Abraham, и his Seed, in the New Covenant, the circumcision by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh through baptism, is a sign of the New Covenant in Christ.
The new man is risen with Christ from the dead
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Итак, не позволяйте греху царить в вашем смертном теле, что вы должны повиноваться ему в его похотях. Не отдавайте членов ваших в орудия неправды греху.: но отдайте себя Богу, как ожившие из мертвых, и члены ваши — орудия праведности Богу. Ибо грех не будет иметь над тобой власти: ибо вы не под законом, но под благодатью.
Что тогда? будем ли мы грешить, потому что мы не под законом, но под благодатью? Боже упаси. Знаешь, нет, тот, кому вы отдаете себя в рабы для подчинения, вы его слуги, которым подчиняетесь; от греха ли к смерти, или послушания праведности? (римляне 6:8-16)
И если Христос будет в тебе, тело мертво из-за греха; но дух есть жизнь благодаря праведности (римляне 8:10)
Ибо если вы живете по плоти, да, умру: а если вы духом умерщвляете дела телесные, вы будете жить. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, они сыновья Бога (римляне 8:13-14)
Jesus Christ has conquered the death! If you have become a new creation in Him, you have been redeemed from the power of sin and death by the putting of the body of the sins of the flesh and you have been given power in Christ to reign over sin and death.
You shall no longer listen to the flesh and be led by the sinful nature of the flesh and fulfill the lusts and desires of the flesh, since the flesh with its sinful nature has died in Christ.
The proof that the flesh has died in Christ
If the flesh with the sinful nature has died in Christ, the flesh shall no longer produce the unrighteous works of the flesh, which are a.o. прелюбодеяние, блуд, развод, (сексуальный) uncleanness, effeminacy, inordinate affection (похоть), evil concupiscence, жадность, злость, гнев, злоба, blasphemy, filthy communication, lying, похотливость, идолопоклонство, колдовство, ненависть, variance, эмуляции, борьба, seditions, ереси, envyings, stealing, убийства, пьянство, revellings (1 Коринфянам 6:9- 6, Галатам 5:19-21, Колоссянам 3:5-10).
If you still do the works of the flesh, you are not circumcised in Christ, because the body of the sins of the flesh has not been put off and is not buried in Christ but is still alive.
Старое творение, who belongs to the world and lives in the kingdom of darkness, does these unrighteous works. But if you are born again and you are circumcised in the circumcision of Christ by the putting off the body of sins of the flesh, you shall not do those works anymore, but you shall do righteous works according to the will of God.
You shall listen to the Father and submit yourself to His Word and obey the words of God and apply them into your life, since the Word of God is the truth. You shall walk after the Spirit in the will of God and the Spirit shall reign in your life. Как результат, you shall live a holy life unto God and bear the плод Духа.
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