Body of flesh

Col. 2:11-12 (KJV) says, “¹¹ In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins^[c] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.”

The Nestle-Aland text omits “of the sins.” If this is true what does it imply, say, or mean?

Well, first off, verse 11 would read like this, “In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ…”

If the Word became flesh, John 1:14, and we are renewed according to the original pattern or tupos, Col. 3:10. Then the flesh will become Word according the hearing of the Word. The flesh becoming Word puts off the body of flesh. The putting off of the body of flesh is by grace and the revelation of Christ in us by hearing the Word. Flesh is powerless against the Word by the circumcision of Christ. “Who shall separate me from this body of death?” Rom. 7:24, Col. 1:22. Death cannot co-exist with life. Death has lost its power. “O death, where thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?” 1 Cor. 15:55. Life is more real than death. Christ said, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.” Life forever. A life that is unaware of time. Death is aware of time. Life may not be aware of time if it cannot die. Time is nullified in true life.

In Christ, we have been separated and delivered from the body of flesh! We are now, by grace, in the Spirit. In the Spirit, we have liberty. We exercise and witness righteousness through the passive effect and apprehension of the unveiling of the Word of Christ in us. We actively witness through a passive internal effect by the circumcision of the heart by the Spirit of the Living God to make us His predestined children by the Spirit of Adoption in Christ Who our elder brother and Lord. He is our peace. Peace from the effects of the judgment of the law written in our hearts.

In the Spirit, in Him, the body of flesh is put off for good. Once immersed and drowned into Christ, the new man is. Is what? The new man is. He “is” because time is nullified, or death no longer has its sting. “IS” is perfect present tense because the new man is Christ in us, Eph. 2:15. Christ sits at the right hand of the Father in the heavenlies. The heavenlies are in eternity.