11In Him you were also circumcised in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. 12And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, 14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! 15And having disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Circumcision was a requirement from God to be performed on the Jewish people, setting them apart from the rest of the world as a sign that they were His. (The one true God)
Christ performs a Spiritual circumcision when we become saved.
When we are baptized it symbolizes to the world we are dead in our sins, (under water-buried) and out of the water (born again) new in Christ.
So who or what "decrees that stood against us"? Our sins, Satan shouts them from the mountain tops!
Jesus has taken your sins "nailing it to the cross!"
Don't let Satan convince you otherwise!
Jesus "disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them,"!!!!!!!
Rejoice brethren as you are forgiven by the grace of Christ Jesus!
Blessings, David
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