God instituted the religious rite of circumcision when he established a covenant with Abram and changed his name to Abraham in Genesis 17. The word covenant literally means “a cutting,” and in times of old covenants were made when men cut animals in half and walked between them as they made a compact or promise to do or not to do certain things. Thus the sign of the covenant between God and Abraham (and all the seed of Abraham) was a cutting in men’s flesh. God required that every male descending from Abraham must cut their flesh in circumcision or else be cut off from their people. He also required that every male member of the nation, even if only a slave, be circumcised.

Many years later God established the festival of Passover when he delivered Israel from the power of Egypt.  Until then Israel had been a foreigner in a foreign land, but now that he was about to establish Israel as a sovereign nation, he announced a law by which aliens (people from other nations like Egypt) could participate as full citizens in the new nation. He said,

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. (Exodus 12:48-49 KJV)

Today we live in strange times when dark ministers parading as angels of light have come out to tell Christians that they must obey the “one law” espoused by the Torah and they would be right… if Jesus Christ had never lived and died and risen again. But, he did and in that living and dying and living again he fulfilled the law of the Passover lamb. Following Jesus’ death those who believe in him were no longer required to offer a sacrificial lamb each year so that the angel of death would pass over them. No, the Bible teaches that Jesus himself became our Passover lamb. Paul says,

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: (1 Corinthians 5:7 KJV)

Then concerning our standing in Christ with respect to circumcision Paul teaches,

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (Colossians 2:9-11 KJV)

So, when God first covenanted with Abraham he established a law which mandated that he and all his male progeny must be circumcised in their flesh. Later he established a law in the days of Moses that all citizens of Israel must yearly sacrifice a Passover lamb. God established “one law” which all Israel had to obey. But after Christ’s death and resurrection Paul’s teaching and the Book of Hebrews make it clear that Christians no longer need to obey this “one law” with respect to partaking yearly of a Passover lamb or being circumcised. We instead live under a new reality of being able to eat of our Passover Lamb every day! And we can only do this if Jesus has already circumcised us! And he circumcises us internally, in our hearts, not externally in our flesh.

Yet, today’s Judaizers in the various Hebrews Roots movements like 119 Ministries remain hell-bent upon putting Christians back under the “one law” of the Torah. To them I say with the writer of Acts,

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. (Acts 7:51 KJV)

To the Judaizers I say read this and learn what it means:

I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. (John 6:48-58 KJV)

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (1 Corinthians 11:24-32 KJV)

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (John 13:34 KJV)

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:8-11 KJV)

And finally I say learn what this means:

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Matthew 7:12 KJV)