Many desire to make a good showing in the flesh and they would compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. Those who are circumcised keep the law as well and that they desire that you be circumcised that they may boast in that fact. God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of Christ by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
1) Christ is the only solution to our sin problem
2) Do not boast except of the cross.
3) Crucified to the world and crucified with Christ.
4) In Christ we are a new creation
Believing that Jesus the crucified Messiah as opposed to the law is the only solution for the sin problem.
Through enhancing our standing in this life or in the fact that we keep some laws over others. We should not boast in that except of the cross. The cross being the utterly forsaken manner in which Jesus died. Not to boast about ourselves but of Christ that all man might know Him.
By being crucified to the world, I have been rejected as unworthy by the world. By being crucified with Christ I have rejected the world as unworthy. (World means the present age with its lures). Christ is the only one who is worthy of all praise. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world.
We are a new creation in Christ. This is the work of the Spirit that we may accept into our lives.
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