“He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.”
Whether born in the household or bought, every male must be circumcised. The covenant sign marks all equally — those born into privilege and those acquired — because the covenant itself encompasses all who are within its household. This equality of the sign anticipates Galatians 3:28: neither Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, in Christ — the covenant sign that preceded Christ's coming already embodied the equality that the gospel would make explicit. Romans 15:7 calls believers to accept one another as Christ has accepted them. The application: the covenant community is meant to have no hierarchy of insiders and outsiders based on origin. The same sign marks all. Does your community practice this equality in its actual fellowship?
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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