Katika Wakolosai 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
Ambaye ninyi pia mnatahiriwa kwa tohara iliyofanywa bila mikono, katika kuuondoa mwili wa dhambi za mwili kwa kutahiriwa kwa Kristo: Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead (Wakolosai 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 (Mwili) is buried with Christ and becomes a partaker of His death and the new man (Roho) 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
Tutasema nini baada ya? Tutaendelea katika dhambi, neema hiyo inaweza kuwa kubwa? Mungu apishe mbali. Jinsi ya kufanya sisi, Waliokufa kwa ajili ya dhambi, Endelea kuishi humo? Unajua kuwa hamjui, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Kwa hiyo tumezikwa pamoja naye kwa ubatizo katika mauti: kwamba kama vile Kristo alivyofufuka kutoka kwa wafu kwa utukufu wa Baba, vivyo hivyo na sisi tuenende katika upya wa uzima.
Kwa maana ikiwa sisi tumeunganishwa katika mfano wa kifo chake, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: Kujua hili, kwamba utu wetu wa kale umesulubishwa pamoja Naye, ili mwili wa dhambi uharibiwe, ili tusitumikie dhambi tangu sasa. Kwa maana aliyekufa amewekwa huru mbali na dhambi (Warumi 6:1-7)
Ulipobatizwa, you were circumcised in the circumcision of Christ and you have buried your old former life.
Mzee, who is carnal and sense-ruled and is dominated by the sinful nature, no longer exists.
Mzee, the carnal man, 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 mfuate Yesu 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, na 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. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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, Lakini chini ya neema.
Nini basi? Je, tutatenda dhambi, Kwa sababu hatuko chini ya sheria, Lakini chini ya neema? Mungu apishe mbali. Unajua kuwa hamjui, Ambao mnajitoa wenyewe kuwa watumwa wa kutii., watumishi wake ambao mnawatii.; Kama ni dhambi kwa kifo, au kwa utii kwa haki? (Warumi 6:8-16)
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness (Warumi 8:10)
Kwa maana ikiwa mnaishi kwa kufuata mwili, Mtakufa: lakini ikiwa ninyi kwa njia ya Roho mnayatia moyo matendo ya mwili, Mtaishi. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Warumi 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. uzinzi, uasherati, talaka, (ngono) uchafu, effeminacy, mapenzi ya kupita kiasi (tamaa), tamaa mbaya, tamaa, hasira, hasira, uovu, kufuru, filthy communication, uongo, ulegevu, ibada ya sanamu, uchawi, chuki, tofauti, uigaji, ugomvi, uchochezi, uzushi, husuda, stealing, mauaji, ulevi, shangwe (1 Wakorintho 6:9- 6, Wagalatia 5:19-21, Wakolosai 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. Matokeo yake, you shall live a holy life unto God and bear the tunda la Roho.
‘Kuweni chumvi ya dunia’
