52. Spiritual Circumcision: What a Concept!

Through His death on the cross, Christ cancelled out our debt—the punishment due for our sin. We’ve undergone a spiritual circumcision. In God’s eyes our body of flesh has been removed and therefore is no longer a factor in our union with God. It’s literally become a non-issue, because He has taken us out from under the jurisdiction of law.

Freedom from the power of sin is a phenomenal gift of God. But we need to be careful. Our death to sin, brought about by freedom from law, has only one purpose: the opportunity to pursue uninhibited relationship with God—in spite of the weakness of our sinful nature. Never is this freedom to be thought of as a license to sin.

This amazing privilege endows us with the capacity to make good choices, whereas formerly we did not. We have freely and gloriously been handed everything we need for our pursuit of Jesus.

From Free from the Power of Sin: the Keys to Growing in God in Spite of Yourself

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