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True Circumcision
Romans
What is circumcision?
Literally, it was a cutting away of the male foreskin.
What was it for?
What was it for?
There were some health benefits.
It’s cleaner for the male and historically, Jewish women have had the lowest rate of cervical cancer.
This is a divine command and revelation.
It had a special religious and theocratic significance that identified the circumcised as belonging to the physical and ethnical lineage of Abraham.
As a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
It was a sign, that is it symbolized something — But What?
It symbolized the need to cut away sin and be cleansed.
It was the male organ that most clearly demonstrated the depth of depravity because it carried the seed that produced depraved sinners.
Thus, circumcision symbolized the need for a profound deep cleansing to reverse the effects of depravity.
We’re in the section of Romans on Condemnation.
The need for the Gospel.
In verse 17, Paul began to address the Jew.
He said, “You’re a Jew who has the law, why do you teach others the law and don’t keep it yourself?
And now in verse 25, Paul goes for the jugular.
He addresses the one issue that the Jews took most pride in.
And so, Paul addresses this most important issue of Circumcision because it is a part of our understanding of the Gospel.
So, he begins by making a distinction of true and false circumcision.
So, for us to understand this section, I want us to do a walkthrough, kind of quickly, of Circumcision in the Bible.
This was for purification.
This was a part of the Law for purification.
Deuteronomy
What do you notice here?
Now the Lord is talking about hearts being circumcised.
What could that possibly mean?
Any way this could be physical in nature?
Stiff-necked — this pictured an ox who bowed up against it’s master.
The idea is that you will not submit to the yoke of your Master, the Lord God Almighty.
You are resistant and will not humble yourself — you will not submit to God.
You will not come under the Lordship of God.
Therefore, circumcise your heart.
Pierce your heart with that piercing comes the conviction of sin.
Do you see how this involves the Gospel message — Repent and believe.
This is the way into the kingdom of God.
Deuteronomy 30:6
You actually need God to circumcise your heart.
And look at the result — AND you will LOVE HIM with all your heart and all your soul — and notice this
so that you will live!
Unless the Lord circumcise your heart — you are spiritually dead!
You have no life.
You have no spiritual eternal life.
In other words — this is an absolute necessity — Heart Circumcision.
Jeremiah 4:4
Not physical, surgical procedure.
He’s talking about real circumcision.
How do we do this?
Notice what the Lord commanded.
Look how He phrased it.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord!
This is a humbling and submission to the Lordship of God.
Imagine submitting yourself as a grown man to the one with the knife — Ouch, right?
This would take submission — real submission.
And notice what happens if you do not — Circumcise yourselves to the Lord?
Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire!
NOT PHYSICAL!
What’s the only instrument that is sharp enough to penetrate the thick rhinoceros hide foreskin of your heart?
The Word of God!
Hebrews 4:12
Now let’s move forward.
Jeremiah 9:25
This is like those today who have been baptized, or walked an aisle, or made a profession of faith, or signed a card, or joined a church, or prayed a prayer.
There must be this spiritual circumcision.
There’s coming a day when God will punish those who are circumcised yet uncircumcised.
And look at verse 26.
The nations are physically uncircumcised and the house of Israel is uncircumcised spiritually.
That means they are in the commonwealth of Israel, but they are not in the spiritual kingdom of God.
They have gone through the ritual but never had the reality in their heart.
Ezekiel 44:6-7
In order to be a true worshiper of God — you must have a heart that has been converted, cut, pierced by the word of God to bring you into submission to the Lord so that you are no longer stiff-necked of heart.
New Testament
Acts 7:
Galatians 6:15
Notice what matters — a new creation.
Now what is a new creation?
What is he talking about?
The new birth.
In the Galatian churches, people came in after Paul left — Judiasers who were saying, “You have to be circumcised (physically).”
What was symbolic and pointing to the reality was taken as the reality.
Paul began Galatians by saying “This is another Gospel and those who teach another Gospel, “Let them be cursed!”
Ephesians 2
There is a note of sarcasm.
This was a so-called circumcision.
Paul was saying you have only been physically circumcised of your flesh — You need circumcision of your heart!
You’ve had the circumcision done by “human hands.”
You need the circumcision of the heart done by the spirit of God.
Philippians 3:2
Paul boasts and look what he boasted in first:
Philippians
Colossians 2:11
Look at
This is an analogy of circumcision — cutting — of the heart.
What’s the whole issue of Circumcision?
It’s a matter of the heart.
Now let’s go back to .
The only way you can observe the law is to have a new heart.
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