Peter unpacks the weight, power and gift we have in covenant with God. The Scriptural background Peter uses is Abraham’s encounter with God in Genesis 17 where God calls for circumcision, the flesh being cut away. The same is true today in the new covenant–to radically experience the new covenant with God there is no room for our flesh, made possible solely by the Spirit: “Circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit” (Romans 2:29).
