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    The funeral pyre

    Positionally :

    Col 2:11 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,
    12 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.

    In action :

    Eph 4:22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
    23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
    24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

    The new self is created according to God in unity with his Holy Spirit and our God is a living, consuming fire. The circumcision performed by human hands on the flesh removed the flesh that was covering the head of the penis, the spiritual circumcision removes the flesh that covers the human spirit that was created in the fire that God is and that which is according to that fire.

    Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
    2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

    This ties in with Eph 4:22, the one we are according to the flesh is placed on God's altar as a living sacrifice. The only way we can do that is by counting ourselves as dead according to the flesh, making this a funeral pyre. Then God's fire consumes the sacrifice, which makes the sacrifice real.

    Many people of many religions have dreamed about making this real, there is only one God who can indeed make it real.

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    This flesh hurts when in the fire....I would like it to just DIE...of course I still want to breathe but I so get weary of the pain of crucifying the flesh.

    Particularly - "to be made new in the attitude of your minds"....I'm struggling with trust right now. Trusting God and not letting it matter that I can't trust people. Giving in to the truth that I cannot stop bad things and pain from happening to me. Trusting God that I'll be ok even when they do. Letting it be ok if I am in the dark while deception is happening behind my back.

    UGH! Pray for me.

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    Look at Jesus, the author and finisher of the faith. He is that living fire. He has the sword that is able to divide these things correctly so that it is the flesh that burns on the pyre and not something that should not be there.

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