Circumcised or not, they were all unworthy without the sacrificial blood of Christ Jesus, as are we today. God’s people struggled to understand their unworthiness. God’s new creation is what counts, and it counts for everything.” “Let me be clear: circumcision won’t save you- uncircumcision won’t either for that matter - both amount to nothing.
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Both people groups were having a hard time accepting the fact Jesus came to free and save all of them. “In the Bible this word is used both literally and figuratively,” Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary explains, “Uncircumcision represented unbelief and disobedient to the covenant of God.” Paul used an extreme example that would be familiar to all parties involved in the conversation: Jews and Gentiles. So, what is?Ĭircumcision was a ceremonial process God’s Old Testament people participated in out of obedience. But unworthiness is quick to remind us …it’s never enough. If only we accomplish the next goal or reach the next level. In Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he addresses one behavior out of a million ways in which people try to gain favor in life. We weren’t meant to live for ourselves but for something so much greater. In a world bent on “self,” there are so many lost in search of themselves. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation.” - Galatians 6:15 NLT “It doesn ’t matter whether we have been circumcised or not.
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