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(Lesson 2082)(08-17-17)  Galatians 4:21-31
    “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.”

    In today’s quote Paul, still trying to convince the Jews to abandon the old Hebrew law as a requisite part of the doctrine of Jesus, uses the example of the two women who gave birth to Abraham’s sons namely,  Agar, Sarah’s hand maiden, and Sarah herself, to establish which lineage would legitimately inherit the promise of God. Isaac, by law, should have inherited Abraham’s birthright. However, because Jacob was Sarah’s son as God had promised, he became the heir to the birthright, just as God had predetermined.  Therefore, those who have accepted Christ, being free from the law, are born of the promise just as was Jacob. 
    In all, this lesson again established that Jesus is the promise of God to all who seek eternal salvation, through faith in Him as having the power to remit all sin. ~