1. The word "uncircumcision" is not speaking of the Jewish custom or ordnance but rather the cutting away of the old fleshly nature. Jewish customs were never a part of salvation.

2. Moses said Deuteronomy 10:16 "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked."

3. Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 4:4 "Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings."

4. Paul said in Romans 2:29 "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."

5. God had the power to raise Christ from the dead and He has to power to raise the spirit of man from the dead that are dead in their sins also.

1. Very important here, we were not just made alive or had our corpse dead spirits raised from that dead state to living but it was raised with Christ. There is not life outside of God i.e. Adam and Eve and there is no life spiritually outside of Christ.

2. Ephesians 2:5 "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)"

3. Christ plus nothing else = life. This is the bottom line life, all life comes from God. Spiritual life comes from God through Christ.

1. Notice the word "forgiven" This word is past tense.

2. Colossians 1:14 "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:"

3. Ephesians 1:7 "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;"

4. Also notice that Paul says "having forgiven you all trespasses" Not just the past, not just the past and present, but rather ALL of our trespasses.

5. Having all of our sins forgiven is the only way we can stand perfect in the presence of God.

1. "Blotting out the handwriting" This means to wipe away, completely clean something hand written.

2. "of ordinances" This means law or the hand written law of God. Let’s remember God wrote the law on tablets, although He burned them into the tablets that is God’s hand, He has no physical body with a hand.

3. "that was against us," That is the ordinances or the ten laws of God that condemned us. The law had one main purpose; to show us our sins. Galatians 3:23-26 "But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24.) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (25.) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (26.) For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

4. "contrary to us" means an adversary to us.

1. "took it" as though it was a weight or an anchor.

19. "out of the way" as moving a road block.

2. "nailing it to his cross;" He Took the law to the cross with Him, if there is not law there is no sin, by nailing the law to the cross we have nothing to make us guilty = no more law breaking no more sin = no more condemnation. Galatians 3:13 "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"

3. Ephesians 2:15-16 "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (16.) And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:" While Satan is our adversary The law was our enmity in that it condemned us.

1. "spoiled" means to put off or ripped out of the hand of.

2. "principalities and powers" This is Satan and his angels that had great power over us in causing us to be law breakers and holding us at enmity with God. Ephesians 1:21 "Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:" Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

3. "he made a shew of them openly" Put them to an open shame by triumphing over them in his resurrection and ascension. 2 Corinthians 2:14 "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place."

4. Hebrews 2:14 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"