Colossians 2:11-15
January 22, 2007
2:11 In him you also were circumcised – not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ. 2:12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead. 2:13 And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions. 2:14 He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. 2:15 Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
The problem here for me is that I don’t feel very changed, even though I can point to specific changes in the way I think and the way I view the world and others around me. Nevertheless, this passage rings true to me, and I believe that “the rulers and authorities,” however they may manifest themselves, have no power to destroy me. -sdg-
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