Lesson 27: The Law Produces Slaves. The Gospel Produces Free People
Question 1
Marco Polo of Mike’s teaching: Monday 12th July 2021
“Tell me, you who want to live under the law, do you know what the law actually says? 22 The Scriptures say that Abraham had two sons, one from his slave wife and one from his freeborn wife. 23 The son of the slave wife was born in a human attempt to bring about the fulfillment of God’s promise. But the son of the freeborn wife was born as God’s own fulfillment of his promise.24 These two women serve as an illustration of God’s two covenants. The first woman, Hagar, represents Mount Sinai, where people received the law that enslaved them. 25 And now Jerusalem is just like Mount Sinai in Arabia because she and her children live in slavery to the law. 26 But the other woman, Sarah, represents the heavenly Jerusalem. She is the free woman, and she is our mother.”
Galatians 4:21-26 NLT
“But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
Galatians 4:30 NIV
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
John 8:36 NIV
“Paul is saying: “If you want to be under the Ten Commandments as a covenant, to follow and obey them, you are Ismael. You are a slave, and a slave of the law equals a slave of sin. Those two go hand in hand.
What’s Paul’s point? It’s simply this, that the Ten Commandment Old Covenant, represented by Hagar, was temporary...Sarah is our mother. The free-born woman. She represents the New Covenant. She represents the gospel where you and I are simply born or born again due to a promise. What promise? Put faith in what Jesus did for you. His suffering and death in your place. Hear it and believe it. As you do the Spirit of God works freedom in you because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom!
You have to hear these amazing words that Jesus took your penalty to make you free. And Jesus paid your debt as He breathed out His last and final breath. And Jesus removed your sin as far as the east is from the west. He atoned. He made atonement for all your wrongs. Jesus kept the law perfectly in your place because you couldn’t do it (‘try and fail’, ‘try and fail’ remember that?). Jesus suffered under the penalty of your sins, under the weight of God’s wrath, under the burden of the sins of the world which He had become, He suffered, He bled, He breathed out, He cried out in His final moments: “It is finished!”. The Old Covenant law is finished. Sinned Hagar away!
Oh, the freedom that Jesus died to give us, the blood He shed frees us from our sins and from the Old Covenant of trying hard, of being perfect, and living righteously. We are free and if Jesus makes you free, you are free indeed.”
Question 1: Are you living as a child of the slave, Hagar, or as a child of the freewoman, Sarah? And how do you know?
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