Monday, October 20, 2008

Curses and Blessings Part 10

We are coming to the conclusion in this series on blessings and curses. If you have not read through the entire line of thought, please go back to the first post on this issue and read the posts in sequence.

In Galatians 4:21 Paul asks us to look at the picture provided by Abraham’s two sons. One was of the freewoman and one was of the bondwoman. The one born to the bond woman was of the flesh. He came into existence because of the scheming of people. Isaac, the child of the free woman, was a child of promise. These are symbolic of two covenants – one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage and the other corresponds to Jerusalem. Sinai of course was the place where the law was given.

Paul concludes by saying this in verse 28, “Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise…. Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? ‘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. Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

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