The Law

John 7:19-22 – Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?” “You are demon-possessed,” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?” Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

Romans 2:29 – No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

Matthew 12:30 – “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Exodus 12:48 – “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.

Application:

• ·         The true sign of belonging to God is not an outward mark on the physical body but the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit within—what Paul meant by “circumcision of the heart”.
• ·         There can be no double-mindedness in our relationship to Jesus.
• ·         The command to circumcise showed not only that work might sometimes be done on the Sabbath but that it must be done then.
• ·         Only those consecrated to the Lord in covenant commitment could partake of Passover; only for them could it have its full meaning.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV