The spiritual life: In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands

The apostle Paul in the epistle to the Colossians makes a summary of his missionary activity, meanwhile he was in Rome he wrote to that community to instruct them in the spiritual life and prevent the entry of heresies into that incipient christian community. Paul reminded the believers in the epistle to the Colossians that the Kingdom of God begins with the sacrament of baptism, that is, with the spiritual circumcision, in practical terms this means that we abandon the things of the flesh to accept the things of the spirit. For all Christians this has an important meaning, if we follow the commandments or pagan concepts such as justice or prudence, it is because we follow the dictates of the flesh and we are not following Jesus.
To imitate our Lord Jesus and follow his example is to live the spiritual gifts inherited from on high, to live the piety (constancy, firmness, devotion), to live the mercy (compassion, kindness, gentleness), not to practice virtue or follow a set of imperatives. The spiritual gifts are precision and accuracy (truth), progressive mentality (way), and life as explain the Sacred Scriptures in John 14:6.
The Kingdom of Heaven implies a change in the spiritual sight, because the spiritual birth is the passage from death to true life, from darkness to the light of God: "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God" Luke 9:62.
And about this the apostle Paul affirms:
"In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins." Colossians 2:11-13.

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