B25.02.84.htm

"WHEN YOU SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY WAY
OF LAW, YOUR RELATION WITH CHRIST IS COMPLETELY SEVERED". (Gal 5:4 NEB).

AN EXPLANATION OF CHAPTER 4, VERSES 22-27 (NEB), OF PAUL'S
LETTER TO THE GALATIAN CONGREGATION, CONCERNING LAW.

QUOTE:

(1) "Abraham had two sons": Isaac and Ishmael.

(2) "one by his slave": By Hagar, a son named Ishmael.

(3) "the other by his free-born wife": By Sarah, a son named Isaac.

(4) "The slave-woman's son was born in the course of nature": During her birth cycle.

(5) The "free-woman's through God's promise": Long after her birth cycle had ceased.

(6) "The two women stand for two covenants": (A) At Mount Sinai: Earthly Jerusalem.
(B) Through Christ: Heavenly "Jerusalem".

(7) "Sinai is a mountain": Represents the earthly Jerusalem of today and her children born into
slavery to laws made obsolete by The Christ.

(8) "Heavenly Jerusalem": Symbolized by the free "woman" Sarah, from whom, and out of
whom, came the "seed", Jesus Christ.

(9) "O barren woman who never bore child": The congregation of God's heavenly "woman".

(10) "The deserted wife": Hagar, and her sons under the yoke of slavery to laws made
obsolete.

(11) "she who lives with the husband":
        (A) Sarah, wife of Abraham.
        (B) The spiritual "woman" of 144,000 anointed sons of the new covenant. (Rev 5:9,10)
              (Heb 8:6-10). Enmity existing between both "broods" (Gen 3:15 NEB): Between
              those of the "serpent" (satan's 'seed'), and the "seed" of God's heavenly "woman":
              144,000 new spirit perfected creations. (2 Cor 5:17).

COMMENTS.
One cannot be declared righteous by the circumcision of one's flesh or by other requirements of the Mosaic Law. (Gal 5:2-6 NEB). Being declared righteous is by the work of the Spirit through faith according to accurate knowledge. (Gal 2:15,16. James 2:24. 1 Tim 2:3,4). Both the Mosaic Law and the work of the Spirit by faith are from God through The Christ.

JUSTIFY: Show the justice or rightness of (person, act, etc); vindicate, free from penalty of sin.
ALLEGORY: Narrative description of a subject under the guise of another suggestively similar.

25/2/84.