Sa Mga Taga Colosas 2:11-12 we read about the circumcision in Christ and being buried with Christ in baptism and risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God. But what does buried with Christ in baptism and risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God mean according to the Bible?
The circumcision in Christ
Sa Kanino rin kayo tuli sa pagtutuli na ginawa nang walang mga kamay, sa paghubad ng katawan ng mga kasalanan ng laman sa pamamagitan ng pagtutuli kay Cristo: Inilibing kasama Niya sa binyag, na kayo rin ay nagbangon na kasama Niya sa pamamagitan ng pananampalataya sa gawain ng Diyos, sino ang bumuhay sa Kanya mula sa mga patay (Mga Taga Colosas 2:11-12)
The new creation is circumcised in the circumcision of Jesus Christ. This circumcision is not made with hands, a natural circumcision of the foreskin of a male. But this circumcision is a work of the Spirit and takes place by putting off the body of the sinful flesh of males and females. The circumcision in Christ; the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, takes place by baptism, when the old man (laman) is buried with Christ and becomes a partaker of His death and the new man (espiritu) has risen from the dead through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised Him from the dead.
The old man is buried with Christ in baptism
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Hindi ba ninyo alam, na napakarami sa atin na nabinyagan kay Jesucristo ang nabinyagan sa Kanyang kamatayan? Kaya't tayo'y inilibing na kasama Niya sa pamamagitan ng bautismo sa kamatayan: na tulad ni Cristo na binuhay mula sa mga patay sa pamamagitan ng kaluwalhatian ng Ama, kahit ganoon dapat din tayong lumakad sa pagiging bago ng buhay.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: Alam na alam ito, na ang ating matanda ay kasama Niyang ipinako sa krus, upang ang katawan ng kasalanan ay mapahamak, upang mula ngayon ay hindi na tayo maglingkod sa kasalanan. Sapagkat ang patay ay napalaya sa kasalanan (Mga Taga Roma 6:1-7)
When you were baptized, you were circumcised in the circumcision of Christ and you have buried your old former life.
The old man, who is carnal and sense-ruled and is dominated by the sinful nature, no longer exists.
The old man, ang makamundong tao, has died in Christ and the new man, the spiritual man, has been risen in Christ from the dead.
Old things have passed away, all things have become new!
You believed in Jesus Christ and decided to sundin si Jesus and entered a covenant with Him and as a sign of the covenant is the circumcision in Christ.
Just like in the Old Covenant the natural circumcision of the foreskin was a sign of the covenant between God, Abraham, at his Seed, in the New Covenant, the circumcision by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh through baptism, is a sign of the New Covenant in Christ.
The new man is risen with Christ from the dead
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. Sapagkat sa na Siya ay namatay, Namatay siya sa kasalanan minsan: kundi sa Siya ay nabubuhay, Siya ay nabubuhay sa Diyos. Gayon din naman kayo ay nagbibilang na kayo ay patay nga sa kasalanan, kundi buhay sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ni Jesucristo na ating Panginoon.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Hindi ba ninyo alam, na kung kanino ninyo isinusuko ang inyong sarili na mga alipin upang sumunod, kanyang mga lingkod kayo na inyong sinusunod; kung ng kasalanan hanggang kamatayan, o ng pagsunod sa katuwiran? (Mga Taga Roma 6:8-16)
At kung si Cristo ay nasa inyo, patay na ang katawan dahil sa kasalanan; ngunit ang Espiritu ay buhay dahil sa kabutihan (Mga Taga Roma 8:10)
Sapagkat kung kayo'y nabubuhay ayon sa laman, kayo ay mamamatay: datapuwa't kung sa pamamagitan ng Espiritu ay inyong pinupukaw ang mga gawa ng katawan, kayo ay mabubuhay. Sapagkat kasing dami ng pinapatnubayan ng Espiritu ng Diyos, sila ang mga anak ng Diyos (Mga Taga Roma 8:13-14)
Jesus Christ has conquered the death! If you have become a new creation in Him, you have been redeemed from the power of sin and death by the putting of the body of the sins of the flesh and you have been given power in Christ to reign over sin and death.
You shall no longer listen to the flesh and be led by the sinful nature of the flesh and fulfill the lusts and desires of the flesh, since the flesh with its sinful nature has died in Christ.
The proof that the flesh has died in Christ
If the flesh with the sinful nature has died in Christ, the flesh shall no longer produce the unrighteous works of the flesh, which are a.o. pangangalunya, pakikiapid, diborsyo, (sekswal na) karumihan, effeminacy, inordinate affection (libog na libog), evil concupiscence, pag iimbot sa pag iimbot, anger, galit na galit, malice, kalapastanganan, filthy communication, pagsisinungaling, kahalayan, pagsamba sa diyus diyusan, ang pangkukulam, galit na galit, variance, mga pagtulad, alitan, mga sedisyonal, mga erehe, envyings, stealing, mga pagpatay, lasing na lasing na, revellings (1 Mga Taga Corinto 6:9- 6, Mga Taga Galacia 5:19-21, Mga Taga Colosas 3:5-10).
If you still do the works of the flesh, you are not circumcised in Christ, because the body of the sins of the flesh has not been put off and is not buried in Christ but is still alive.
The old creation, who belongs to the world and lives in the kingdom of darkness, does these unrighteous works. But if you are born again and you are circumcised in the circumcision of Christ by the putting off the body of sins of the flesh, you shall not do those works anymore, but you shall do righteous works according to the will of God.
You shall listen to the Father and submit yourself to His Word and obey the words of God and apply them into your life, since the Word of God is the truth. You shall walk after the Spirit in the will of God and the Spirit shall reign in your life. Bilang isang resulta, you shall live a holy life unto God and bear the bunga ng Espiritu.
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