Deuteronomy 10:16

 

 

Can you believe it?

In the Old Testament?

And it was there all the time;

It’s no accident.

 

It is circumcision

And as plain as ABC

So, what is the great surprise?

It’s ancient history.

 

Go, I adjure you,

And read it for yourself,

It speaks not of the physical

But of spiritual health.

 

When I first read it

Circumcision was clear

But when I read it a second time

Something else appeared.

 

Circumcise the foreskin

Of the penis, you’d expect,

But with a more careful reading

This you’d reject.

 

Please check again

And there you will find

It’s “the foreskin of your heart”-

There all the time.

 

 

This is Deuteronomy

The fourth Tora book

And it was written by Moses

Go, take a look.

 

Old Testament Law

Was encapsuled therein

Showing myriad circumstances

How one may sin.

 

Obstinacy was one,

To the heart it pertained,

And circumcision outside of it

Was futile and vain.

 

Circumcision of the flesh

Was done by a man

But in Deuteronomy, of the heart

Is the Master’s plan.

 

 

In Christ to be precise

By way of the cross,

Whereupon the spilling of blood

Was the actual cost.

 

Therefore, it follows

And to this I say, “Hark!”

Circumcision profits one nothing

If it’s not of the heart.

 

Circumcision is by faith

For the Gentile

But the circumcised is uncircumcised

If Christ is denied.

 

The following sums it up

Far better than I can,

The inward circumcision is of God

And not of man.

 

 

Romans 2:28-29

 

For he is not a Jew,

Which is one outwardly

Neither is that circumcision

Which is outward in the flesh;

But he is a Jew,

Which is one inwardly;

And circumcision is that of the heart,

In the Spirit, and not in the letter;

Whose praise is not of men,

But of God.

 

Stewart Russell © July 9, 2025