John Burnett: 28 And you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But as at that time the son who was born according to the flesh persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so it is even now. 30 But what does the Scripture say?
“Drive out the slave woman
and her son,
For the son of the slave woman shall not be an heir with the son of the
free woman.”
31 So then, brothers and sisters, we are not children of a slave woman, but of the free woman.
If you are in Christ, we are co-heirs with Christ. If you are born of the Spirit you will be persecuted but you will receive eternal life as a child of the promise. Ishmael was the son of the slave woman Hagar and would be a slave to his sin and thus would not be an heir with the son of the free woman (vs. 30).
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Tomorrow’s reading for Galatians 5:1-6
5 So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
2 Listen! I, Paul, tell you this: If you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 I’ll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole law of Moses. 4 For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.
5 But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. 6 For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
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