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God’s Order for Quality BelieversQuickened Together with ChristEphesians 1:3: Colossians 2:11:Blessed be the God and Father of our LordIn whom [In Christ] also ye are [were] cir-Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with allcumcised with the circumcision made with-[every] spiritual blessings in heavenly placesout hands, in putting off the body of the sins[in the heavenlies] in Christ.of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.God has blessed you with every spiritual blessingand has made you complete in Christ. Godwas in Christ and Christ is in you. God in Christin you makes you complete in him. You are completein him with every spiritual blessing.Colossians 2:10 further says, “. . . which[Jesus Christ] is the head of all principality andpower.” We are completely complete in Christwho is head over all principalities and powers.Now consider this: If Christ is the head of allprincipalities and powers, and if you are completein Christ, are you powerful, are you morethan a conqueror? God in Christ in you gives youthe power to manifest the more abundant lifebecause you are over all principalities andpowers.**Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh andblood, but against principalities, against powers, againstthe rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritualwickedness [wicked spirits] in high places [from on high].”Born-again believers do not wrestle against flesh andblood, against people; they wrestle only against spiritual274The covenant of circumcision was a covenantof blood. God said to Israel, “Okay, you aremine; I’ll protect you. You’ve given your blood.We have a covenant, and I will not break thecovenant of blood.” So long as Israel walked onthe commandments of God, there was literallynobody who could harm them. But Colossians2:11 says that we were circumcised with the circumcisionmade without hands, which was puttingoff the body of the sins of the flesh.Our circumcision is the getting rid of the body ofthe sins of the flesh. The body of the sins of theflesh was circumcised from us because Christ boreour sins. It was Christ’s act, not our own, that putus into the blood covenant. We’ve just never seenthis Word and the greatness of what we have in Godin Christ, and the privilege we have of sharing it.power. We are to deal with causes, not symptoms. And thecauses of problems are principalities, powers, wickedspirits from on high. And since Christ is head of all principalitiesand powers and we have Christ in us, we are morepowerful than Satan and can overcome him and the powerhe wields.275