Colossians 2:11-15
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
The circumcision of Christ means our hearts have the sin cut away to keep sin from infecting it by the work of Christ’s righteousness in us, and He further puts His Spirit in us to keep us pure. The burial of our old man put to death is reflected in being baptized into Christ, as we rise with Him from death into new life, and this is by trusting God’s work to raise both Him and us from death into life. Furthermore, this life has circumcised our hearts and given us life with Him by forgiveness to the point of wiping the slate of sin and its sentence forever from our lives; the slate is considered clean now, never to be seen as sinful by God again. He also has taken away the means of righteousness as keeping the Law that was our enemy in a sense (contrary, against us) by nailing that salvation by works to the cross, as He perfectly fulfilled the Law for us, and now gives salvation by grace and puts His Law within us and lives in us to be able to hear and do those things in His power. Jesus defeated the evil powers that led us by deception to fall from grace by giving more grace in Christ and taking away the ability of the evil adversary to ever do that again. Jesus paraded through the streets to Golgotha and had the victory parade ending in triumph over death for each of us forever out of the tomb!
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