The circumcision of Israel, and their following observance of the Passover, signified the renewal of the covenant between Israel and God. In a similar fashion, my prayer is that in my lifetime I might be granted the privilege of witnessing a renewal of the covenant between America and God. This would not be the New Covenant, which God reserves only for individuals by regeneration. Neither would this be the Old Covenant, which God uniquely established with Israel according to the flesh under the Old Testament. And yet, to insist that nations today cannot establish any covenant with the Triune God is a foolish notion. Not only is it possible, but in the case of America, it has already been done. The goal of every Christian in America should not be “MAC” (“Make America Christian”), but “MACA” (“Make America Christian... AGAIN”).

It’s official, Pastor Joel affirms infant baptism!

Romans 1:24-32 is clear, when a society willfully chooses to reject God's truth in exchange for the lie, as well as reject God's glory in exchange for the glory of the creature, God promises to hand them over to their sins and the horrible consequences which will inevitably follow. Romans 1:18 assures us that God has clearly revealed himself to all people, both by his creation and his just wrath toward sinners. So in Romans 1:24-32, the Apostle Paul is merely demonstrating precisely how the wrath of God is revealed. One clear demonstration of the wrath of God is God's choice to hand sinners over to their own lusts, so that they might receive the “due penalty” for their sin (the natural consequences of sin). In other words, sin is its own punishment (not the only/ultimate punishment). Apart from God’s “saving grace” (found only in Christ), all people have embraced their own rebellion by casting off the righteous rule of God and his Law. Therefore, on one level, Romans 1:24-32 applies to each and every individual who has been born. However, on another level, Romans 1:24-32 also applies to collective societies and cultures down through human history. At the Tower of Babel, arrogant sinners defied God and incurred his just judgment. At Sodom and Gomorrah, the people were so corrupt that God rained down fire and consumed their cities. Furthermore, when God told Moses and Joshua to utterly destroy the Canaanites, it was because these wicked and godless people had filled up the full measure of God's wrath by committing heinous acts of rebellion for over 400 years (Genesis 15:13-16). In short, when a society abandons God, God will abandon them.

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The fact that this circumcision was performed under Joshua, rather than Moses, points forward to the new and better circumcision of the heart that comes by grace under the administration of Jesus, and not the law under the administration of Moses.

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Christendom 2.0 won’t happen without the Baptists, and Baptists won’t fully get on board until they learn to think covenantally.

“Circumcision was originally a seal of the promise of the land of Canaan... It was in the believing hope of that good land that the patriarchs circumcised their children; but when God had sworn in his wrath concerning the men who came out of Egypt that they should be consumed in the wilderness, and never enter Canaan, nor come within sight of it, as a further ratification of that sentence, and to be a constant memorandum of it to them, all that fell under that sentence, and were to fall by it, were forbidden to circumcise their children, by which they were plainly told that, whatever others might, they should never have the benefit of that promise of which circumcision was the seal.” -Matthew Henry

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