Free Bible Commentary
“Colossians 2:10-13”
Categories: Colossians“And in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.”
--- End of Scripture verses---
Only in Christ Jesus can we be made “complete” (verse 10), lacking nothing that is good and essential for spiritual life and prosperity. As Christ has “all the fullness of deity” (verse 9), He is more than capable of filling us up with all the spiritual blessings that can only be found “in Him” (Ephesians 1:3). Jesus is “the head over all rule and authority,” and He amply supplies all that the body (His church) and its members (Christians) need to survive and flourish.
In Christ Jesus we have undergone a spiritual circumcision (verse 11). Unlike the physical circumcision of all Jewish males, this one is evidenced by the ways that our lives have been transformed, not by the changed outward appearance of the flesh. Paul talked about this circumcision in Romans 2:28-29: “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.”
This circumcision takes place in the waters of baptism, when we are “buried with Him” and afterward we are “raised up with Him through faith” (verse 12). Again Paul elaborates in his letter to the Romans: “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.” (Romans 6:3-6)
This circumcision of the heart where the “old self was crucified” and the “body of sin” was “cut away” cannot be appropriately called a work of man because it is actually “the working of God” (verse 12). This is where the Lord makes us “alive” spiritually, “having forgiven us all our transgressions” (verse 13). Have you been made complete in Christ? If you have not been baptized for the forgiveness of your sins, you have not experienced the necessary spiritual rebirth or taken your first baby-step in a new life in Him.
Please read Colossians 2:14-15 for tomorrow.
Please come worship God with us today at the Taylorsville Road church of Christ located at 3741 Taylorsville Road in Louisville.
9:30 AM Bible Study – 10:30 AM worship service – 5:00 PM worship service.
Have a blessed Lord’s Day!
- Louie Taylor
Share
