Daily Bread - Oct 10 2006

Colossians 2:13 - "And you being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh He has made you alive together with Him having pardoned all our trespasses."

The uncircumcision of the flesh describes the spiritually dead state of man dominated by sin. Paul gives a thorough explanation of this spiritual condition in Roman’s chapter 5 and 7. Because of the domination of sin over the nature and appetites of man, all unredeemed are dead in their trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1,5). Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus the nature of sin is cut away like the foreskin of the flesh at the time of circumcision. Thus the power of sin is excised being permanently removed by the activity of God’s faith. Because of God’s grace, the mark or the new covenant is witnessed in our hearts by the inscription of the nature of God (Romans 8:4; 2 Cor 3:3; 2 Peter 1:5).

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org