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"WHEN YOU SEEK TO BE JUSTIFIED BY WAY
OF LAW, YOUR RELATION WITH CHRIST IS
COMPLETELY SEVERED". (Gal 5:4 NEB).
Explanation of chapter 4:22-27 (NEB) of the apostle Paul's
letter to the Galatian congregation concerning the Law.
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(1) |
"Abraham had two sons": |
Isaac
and Ishmael. |
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(2) |
"one by his slave": |
By
Hagar a son named Ishmael. |
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"the other by his free-born wife": |
By
Sarah a son named Isaac. |
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"The slave-woman's son was born
in the course of nature": |
During her birth cycle. |
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"the free-woman's through God's
promise": |
Long after her birth cycle had ceased. |
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"The two women stand for two
covenants": |
(a) At Mount Sinai for earthly
Jerusalem.
(b) By Jesus Christ for
heavenly "Jerusalem". |
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(7) |
"Sinai is a mountain": |
Represents
earthly Jerusalem and her children born into slavery
and made subject to the "Law of commandments consisting in decrees" which is the "handwritten document"
made
obsolete by our Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph 2:15. Col 2:13,14). |
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"Heavenly Jerusalem": |
Symbolized
by the free woman Sarah. The "seed" of the
heavenly "woman" is our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rev 12:1-5). |
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(9) |
"O barren woman who never bore
child": |
The congregation of the heavenly
"woman" of God. (Heb 12:22-24). |
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"the deserted wife": |
Hagar
and her sons under the yoke of slavery to the
"Law of commandments
consisting in decrees"
made obsolete by our Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph 2:15). |
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"she who lives with the husband": |
(a) Sarah
the wife of Abraham.
(b) The heavenly "woman"
of 144,000 Spirit anointed sons of the new covenant.
(Rev 5:9,10. Heb 8:6-10). The enmity that
exists between both "broods" is between those
of the "serpent" (satan's "seed"),
and the "seed" of God's heavenly "woman"
of 144,000 Spirit perfected "new creations". (Gen 3:15 NEB. 2 Cor 5:17. Rev 21:1-4). |
BEING DECLARED
RIGHTEOUS.
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). To be declared righteous is
by one's faith according to accurate knowledge through our Lord Jesus Christ by
the Spirit of God. (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. (Matt
5:17).
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JUSTIFY: |
Show the justice or rightness of; vindicate;
free from the penalty of sin. |
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ALLEGORY: |
Narrative description of a subject under the guise of another
suggestively similar. |
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