In ROM 2:25 we read, "For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law."

Circumcision is only profitable if we keep the law. The circumcision of Christ was His pledge to keep the law in perfection for His church. Christ was circumcised and baptized. He submitted Himself to baptism after He was circumcised. These were two totally separate requirements to accomplish our salvation.

Circumcision was Jesus’ pledge of perfect submission and obedience to the law. GAL 5:3 says, "For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." He came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. In keeping the circumcision covenant, He gave His pledge to fulfill the law. We find in COL 2:11 that we are complete in Christ. "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands...by the circumcision of Christ." We are circumcised by the circumcision of Christ.

This teaches us that through the imparted obedience of Christ we have come to perfection in keeping the law in His imparted righteousness. The law was not abolished, but it was honored with perfect obedience. He said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." We have to see that the law was not destroyed. "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ." The circumcision of Christ being imparted to us gives us the perfect satisfaction of the law.

The fruit of this being circumcised in Christ is found in ROM 2:28-29. "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."