WE ARE THE CIRCUMCISION, WHICH WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT, AND REJOICE IN CHRIST JESUS
Genesis 17:10
This Is My Covenant, Which Ye Shall Keep, Between Me And You And Thy SEED After Thee; Every Man Child Among You Shall Be Circumcised.
Romans 4:1-5,11-16
What Shall We Say Then That Abraham Our Father, As Pertaining To The FLESH, Hath Found? For If Abraham Were Justified By Works, He Hath Whereof To Glory; But Not Before God. For What Saith The Scripture? Abraham Believed God, And It Was Counted Unto Him For Righteousness. Now To Him That Worketh Is The Reward Not Reckoned Of Grace, But Of Debt. But To Him That Worketh Not, But Believeth On Him That Justifieth The Ungodly, His Faith Is Counted For Righteousness.
[11] AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN OF CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH WHICH HE HAD YET BEING UNCIRCUMCISED: That He Might Be The Father Of All Them That Believe, Though They Be Not Circumcised; That Righteousness Might Be Imputed Unto Them Also: And The Father Of Circumcision To Them Who Are Not Of The Circumcision Only, But Who Also Walk In The Steps Of That Faith Of Our Father Abraham, Which He Had Being Yet Uncircumcised. For The Promise, That He Should Be The Heir Of The World, WAS NOT TO ABRAHAM, OR TO His SEED, THROUGH THE LAW, BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH. For If They Which Are Of The Law Be Heirs, Faith Is Made Void, And The Promise Made Of None Effect: Because The Law Worketh Wrath: For Where No Law Is, There Is No Transgression. Therefore It Is Of Faith, That It Might Be By Grace; To The End The Promise Might Be Sure To All The Seed; Not To That Only Which Is Of The Law, But To That Also Which Is Of The Faith Of Abraham; Who Is The Father Of Us All,
Colossians 2:9-15
For In Him Dwelleth All The Fulness Of The Godhead Bodily. And Ye Are Complete In Him, Which Is The Head Of All Principality And Power: In Whom Also Ye Are Circumcised With The Circumcision Made Without Hands, In Putting Off The Body Of The Sins Of The Flesh By The Circumcision Of Christ:
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. And You, Being Dead In Your Sins And The Uncircumcision Of Your Flesh, Hath He Quickened Together With Him, Having Forgiven You All Trespasses; Blotting Out The Handwriting Of Ordinances That Was Against Us, Which Was Contrary To Us, And Took It Out Of The Way, Nailing It To His Cross; And Having Spoiled Principalities And Powers, He Made A Shew Of Them Openly, Triumphing Over Them In It.
Galatians 3:6-19
Even As Abraham Believed God, And It Was Accounted To Him For Righteousness. Know Ye Therefore That They Which Are Of Faith, The Same Are The CHILDREN Of Abraham. And The Scripture, Foreseeing That God Would Justify The Heathen Through Faith, Preached Before The Gospel Unto Abraham, Saying, In Thee Shall All Nations Be Blessed. So Then They Which Be Of Faith Are Blessed With Faithful Abraham. For As Many As Are Of The Works Of The Law Are Under The Curse: For It Is Written, Cursed Is Every One That Continueth Not In All Things Which Are Written In The Book Of The Law To Do Them. But That No Man Is Justified By The Law In The Sight Of God, It Is Evident: For, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. And THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH: But, The Man That Doeth Them Shall Live In Them. Christ Hath Redeemed Us From The Curse Of The Law, Being Made A Curse For Us: For It Is Written, Cursed Is Every One That Hangeth On A Tree: That The Blessing Of Abraham Might Come On The Gentiles Through Jesus Christ; That We Might Receive The Promise Of The Spirit Through Faith. Brethren, I Speak After The Manner Of Men; Though It Be But A Man's Covenant, Yet If It Be Confirmed, No Man Disannulleth, Or Addeth Thereto. Now To Abraham And His SEED Were The Promises Made. He Saith Not, And To Seeds, As Of Many; But As Of One, And To Thy SEED, WHICH IS CHRIST. And This I Say, That The Covenant, That Was Confirmed Before Of God In Christ, The Law, Which Was Four Hundred And Thirty Years After, Cannot Disannul, That It Should Make The Promise Of None Effect. For If The Inheritance Be Of The Law, It Is No More Of Promise: But God Gave It To Abraham By Promise. Wherefore Then Serveth The Law? It Was Added Because Of Transgressions, TILL THE SEED Should Come To Whom The Promise Was Made; And It Was Ordained By Angels In The Hand Of A Mediator.
John 1:17
For The Law Was Given By Moses, But Grace And Truth Came By Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:19-31
Now We Know That What Things Soever The Law Saith, It Saith To Them Who Are Under The Law: That Every Mouth May Be Stopped, And All The World May Become Guilty Before God. Therefore By The Deeds Of The Law There Shall No FLESH Be Justified In His Sight: For By The Law Is The Knowledge Of Sin. But Now The Righteousness Of God Without The Law Is Manifested, Being Witnessed By The Law And The Prophets; Even The Righteousness Of God Which Is By Faith Of Jesus Christ Unto All And Upon All Them That Believe: For There Is No Difference: For All Have Sinned, And Come Short Of The Glory Of God; Being Justified Freely By His Grace Through The Redemption That Is In Christ Jesus: Whom God Hath Set Forth To Be A Propitiation Through Faith In His Blood, To Declare His Righteousness For The Remission Of Sins That Are Past, Through The Forbearance Of God; To Declare, I Say, At This Time His Righteousness: That He Might Be Just, And The Justifier Of Him Which Believeth In Jesus. Where Is Boasting Then? It Is Excluded. By What Law? Of Works? Nay: But By The Law Of Faith. Therefore We Conclude That A Man Is Justified By Faith Without The Deeds Of The Law. Is He The God Of The Jews Only? Is He Not Also Of The Gentiles? Yes, Of The Gentiles Also: Seeing It Is One God, Which Shall Justify The Circumcision By Faith, And Uncircumcision Through Faith. Do We Then Make Void The Law Through Faith? God Forbid: Yea, We Establish The Law.
Romans 6:1-23
What Shall We Say Then? Shall We Continue In Sin, That Grace May Abound? God Forbid. How Shall We, That Are Dead To Sin, Live Any Longer Therein? Know Ye Not, That So Many Of Us As Were Baptized Into Jesus Christ Were Baptized Into His Death?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. For If We Have Been Planted Together In The Likeness Of His Death, We Shall Be Also In The Likeness Of His Resurrection: 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. 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. Let Not Sin Therefore Reign In Your Mortal Body, That Ye Should Obey It In The Lusts Thereof. Neither Yield Ye Your Members As Instruments Of Unrighteousness Unto Sin: But Yield Yourselves Unto God, As Those That Are Alive From The Dead, And Your Members As Instruments Of Righteousness Unto God. For Sin Shall Not Have Dominion Over You: For Ye Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace. What Then? Shall We Sin, Because We Are Not Under The Law, But Under Grace? God Forbid. Know Ye Not, That To Whom Ye Yield Yourselves Servants To Obey, His Servants Ye Are To Whom Ye Obey; Whether Of Sin Unto Death, Or Of Obedience Unto Righteousness? But God Be Thanked, That Ye Were The Servants Of Sin, But Ye Have Obeyed From The Heart That Form Of Doctrine Which Was Delivered You. Being Then Made Free From Sin, Ye Became The Servants Of Righteousness. I Speak After The Manner Of Men Because Of The Infirmity Of Your Flesh: For As Ye Have Yielded Your Members Servants To Uncleanness And To Iniquity Unto Iniquity; Even So Now Yield Your Members Servants To Righteousness Unto Holiness. For When Ye Were The Servants Of Sin, Ye Were Free From Righteousness. What Fruit Had Ye Then In Those Things Whereof Ye Are Now Ashamed? For The End Of Those Things Is Death. But Now Being Made Free From Sin, And Become Servants To God, Ye Have Your Fruit Unto Holiness, And The End Everlasting Life. For The Wages Of Sin Is Death; But The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
1 John 3:1-9
Behold, What Manner Of Love The Father Hath Bestowed Upon Us, That We Should Be Called The Sons Of God: Therefore The World Knoweth Us Not, Because It Knew Him Not. Beloved, Now Are We The Sons Of God, And It Doth Not Yet Appear What We Shall Be: But We Know That, When He Shall Appear, We Shall Be Like Him; For We Shall See Him As He Is. And Every Man That Hath This Hope In Him Purifieth Himself, Even As He Is Pure. Whosoever Committeth Sin Transgresseth Also The Law: For Sin Is The Transgression Of The Law. And Ye Know That He Was Manifested To Take Away Our Sins; And In Him Is No Sin. Whosoever Abideth In Him Sinneth Not: Whosoever Sinneth Hath Not Seen Him, Neither Known Him. Little Children, Let No Man Deceive You: He That Doeth Righteousness Is Righteous, Even As He Is Righteous. He That Committeth Sin Is Of The Devil; For The Devil Sinneth From The Beginning. For This Purpose The Son Of God Was Manifested, That He Might Destroy The Works Of The Devil. Whosoever Is Born Of God Doth Not Commit Sin; For His SEED Remaineth In Him: And He Cannot Sin, Because He Is Born Of God.
Acts 13:38-41
Be It Known Unto You Therefore, Men And Brethren, That Through This Man Is Preached Unto You The Forgiveness Of Sins: And By Him All That Believe Are Justified From All Things, From Which Ye Could Not Be Justified By The Law Of Moses. Beware Therefore, Lest That Come Upon You, Which Is Spoken Of In The Prophets; Behold, Ye Despisers, And Wonder, And Perish: For I Work A Work In Your Days, A Work Which Ye Shall In No Wise Believe, Though A Man Declare It Unto You.
Romans 7:1-25,8:1-17
Know Ye Not, Brethren, (For I Speak To Them That Know The Law,) How That The Law Hath Dominion Over A Man As Long As He Liveth? For The Woman Which Hath An Husband Is Bound By The Law To Her Husband So Long As He Liveth; But If The Husband Be Dead, She Is Loosed From The Law Of Her Husband. So Then If, While Her Husband Liveth, She Be Married To Another Man, She Shall Be Called An Adulteress: But If Her Husband Be Dead, She Is Free From That Law; So That She Is No Adulteress, Though She Be Married To Another Man. Wherefore, My Brethren, Ye Also Are Become Dead To The Law By The Body Of Christ; That Ye Should Be Married To Another, Even To Him Who Is Raised From The Dead, That We Should Bring Forth Fruit Unto God. For When We Were In The Flesh, The Motions Of Sins, Which Were By The Law, Did Work In Our Members To Bring Forth Fruit Unto Death. But Now We Are Delivered From The Law, That Being Dead Wherein We Were Held; That We Should Serve In Newness Of Spirit, And Not In The Oldness Of The Letter. What Shall We Say Then? Is The Law Sin? God Forbid. Nay, I Had Not Known Sin, But By The Law: For I Had Not Known Lust, Except The Law Had Said, Thou Shalt Not Covet. But Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Wrought In Me All Manner Of Concupiscence. For Without The Law Sin Was Dead. For I Was Alive Without The Law Once: But When The Commandment Came, Sin Revived, And I Died. And The Commandment, Which Was Ordained To Life, I Found To Be Unto Death. For Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Deceived Me, And By It Slew Me. Wherefore The Law Is Holy, And The Commandment Holy, And Just, And Good. Was Then That Which Is Good Made Death Unto Me? God Forbid. But Sin, That It Might Appear Sin, Working Death In Me By That Which Is Good; That Sin By The Commandment Might Become Exceeding Sinful. For We Know That The Law Is Spiritual: But I Am Carnal, Sold Under Sin. For That Which I Do I Allow Not: For What I Would, That Do I Not; But What I Hate, That Do I. If Then I Do That Which I Would Not, I Consent Unto The Law That It Is Good. Now Then It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. For I Know That In Me (That Is, In My Flesh,) Dwelleth No Good Thing: For To Will Is Present With Me; But How To Perform That Which Is Good I Find Not. For The Good That I Would I Do Not: But The Evil Which I Would Not, That I Do. Now If I Do That I Would Not, It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. I Find Then A Law, That, When I Would Do Good, Evil Is Present With Me. For I Delight In The Law Of God After The Inward Man: But I See Another Law In My Members, Warring Against The Law Of My Mind, And Bringing Me Into Captivity To The Law Of Sin Which Is In My Members. O Wretched Man That I Am! Who Shall Deliver Me From The Body Of This Death? I Thank God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. So Then With The Mind I Myself Serve The Law Of God; But With The Flesh The Law Of Sin. 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 Jesus Hath Made Me Free From The Law Of Sin And Death. For What The Law Could Not Do, In That It Was Weak Through The Flesh, God Sending His Own Son In The Likeness Of Sinful Flesh, And For Sin, Condemned Sin In The Flesh: That The Righteousness Of The Law Might Be Fulfilled In Us, Who Walk Not After The Flesh, But After The Spirit. For They That Are After The Flesh Do Mind The Things Of The Flesh; But They That Are After The Spirit The Things Of The Spirit. For To Be Carnally Minded Is Death; But To Be Spiritually Minded Is Life And Peace. Because The Carnal Mind Is Enmity Against God: For It Is Not Subject To The Law Of God, Neither Indeed Can Be. So Then They That Are In The Flesh Cannot Please God. But Ye Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit, If So Be That The Spirit Of God Dwell In You. Now If Any Man Have Not The Spirit Of Christ, He Is None Of His. And If Christ Be In You, The Body Is Dead Because Of Sin; But The Spirit Is Life Because Of Righteousness. But If The Spirit Of Him That Raised Up Jesus From The Dead Dwell In You, He That Raised Up Christ From The Dead Shall Also Quicken Your Mortal Bodies By His Spirit That Dwelleth In You. Therefore, Brethren, We Are Debtors, Not To The Flesh, To Live After The Flesh. For If Ye Live After The Flesh, Ye Shall Die: But If Ye Through The Spirit Do Mortify The Deeds Of The Body, Ye Shall Live. For As Many As Are Led By The Spirit Of God, They Are The Sons Of God. For Ye Have Not Received The Spirit Of Bondage Again To Fear; But Ye Have Received The Spirit Of Adoption, Whereby We Cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself Beareth Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God: And If Children, Then Heirs; Heirs Of God, And Joint-heirs With Christ; If So Be That We Suffer With Him, That We May Be Also Glorified Together.
Galatians 2:16-21
Knowing That A Man Is Not Justified By The Works Of The Law, But By The Faith Of Jesus Christ, Even We Have Believed In Jesus Christ, That We Might Be Justified By The Faith Of Christ, And Not By The Works Of The Law: For By The Works Of The Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified. But If, While We Seek To Be Justified By Christ, We Ourselves Also Are Found Sinners, Is Therefore Christ The Minister Of Sin? God Forbid. For If I Build Again The Things Which I Destroyed, I Make Myself A Transgressor. For I Through The Law Am Dead To The Law, That I Might Live Unto God. I Am Crucified With Christ: Nevertheless 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. I Do Not Frustrate The Grace Of God: For If Righteousness Come By The Law, Then Christ Is Dead In Vain.
John 1:17
For The Law Was Given By Moses, But Grace And Truth Came By Jesus Christ.
Galatians 3:16
Now To Abraham And His Seed Were The Promises Made. He Saith Not, And To Seeds, As Of Many; But As Of One, And To THY SEED, WHICH IS CHRIST.
WHEN WE READ ABOUT THE FLESH IN THE WORD OF GOD WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FLESH IS.
ABRAHAM'S FLESH WAS THE FORESKIN OF MAN WHICH IS CUT OFF AS A SIGN AND SEAL FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE RECEIVED THE SIGN OF CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH
AS CHRISTIANS, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR SIGN AND OUR SEAL.
Philippians 3:1-3 Finally, My Brethren, Rejoice In The Lord. To Write The Same Things To You, To Me Indeed Is Not Grievous, But For You It Is Safe. Beware Of Dogs, Beware Of Evil Workers, Beware Of The Concision. For WE ARE THE CIRCUMCISION, WHICH WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT, AND REJOICE IN CHRIST JESUS, And Have No Confidence In The Flesh.
Donna K Purifoy
3/5/2024