Why Does the Bible Talk about Circumcision?

Lesson Theme: Physical manifestations of spiritual applications

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”  I was told this by a preacher when I was just a child, and I think about this frequently almost 30 years later.

As society drifts farther and farther from the pier of God’s Word, we seem destined to a measure of self-destruction and doomed to re-invent the wheel only to re-discover the truth present in God’s inspired Word.

There is a growing movement promoting ‘intact males’ and anti-circumcision. Is it un-natural to circumcise your baby boy?  Is it purely cosmetical surgery left over from an outdated judeo-christian oppressive attempts to curb masturbation?

In an adult-oriented lesson, lets not shy away from a clear Bible teaching, lest we pass over a precious truth symbolized in this medical procedure.

Note:  No PowerPoint lesson today. Let’s just use our Bibles and make some notes in the margins.

The Circumcision Lesson

 

“Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.”

— Exodus 4:25