Romans 2:28-29 (NKJV)

“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly…but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.”

The spiritual man can be marked by the inner circumcision of the heart. The spiritual man is not the religious man; on the contrary, he has no respect for religion because religion deals with the outward pressures to bring behavioral conformity. The spiritual man is known by the removal of the veil of the Old Nature; he no longer lives by the instincts and appetites of the Fallen Nature, but is marked by the inner freedom and power to disobey the world system.

This is the true Jew. This is the man who receives praise from God. Those who still practice empty religion can fake conformity to the spiritual life but they lack the power to truly live the spiritual life. They look outwardly spiritual but are inwardly impotent to resist the pressures of worldliness and bondage to comply with society’s demands. They are empty shells that hold on to the letter of religion but lack the regenerated nature that overcomes the world. The spiritual man has victory and lives in victory and operates from victory, because his circumcision has been completed.

“Lord, I am circumcised at heart, but this outer fiber life has the tendency of re-growing itself. Lord, I pray that the knife of circumcision be always available re-circumcise my heart whenever You know it is needful. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.”