The Mother's Of Slavery & Freedom

The Mother's Of Slavery & Freedom

What Do I Want Them To Know?

You who want to be under the law… Are you not aware of what the laws says.

Kick out the slave woman and her son

Galatians 4:21–31 NIV - Anglicised

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labour pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the 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.”Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

1. IGNORANCE TO THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW BRINGS SLAVERY

are you not aware of what the law says?

Galatians 4:21 NIV - Anglicised

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?

Law was added so that sin would increase

Romans 5:20 NIV - Anglicised

The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Through the law we become conscious of sin

Romans 3:20 NIV - Anglicised

Therefore no-one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

2. ABRAHAM’S TWO SONS REPRESENT THE OFFSPRING OF THE LAW AND FAITH

1. Ishmael (Name never mentioned)

Child of the flesh (law produces fleshly actions and lifestyle)

(Abraham trying to make things happen on his own)

Born by the slave woman, Hagar

2. Isaac

Child of Promise

Born to be free

Born of a free woman

You have two sons (laws) working in you at all times

Two dogs Black and white .... which one will win?

3. THE METAPHOR OF THE WOMEN REPRESENTS THE OLD AND NEW COVENANTS

(These things may be taken figuratively)

Women Represent Two Covenants

1. Hagar Represents:

1. The Covenant from Mount Sinai (The law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai)

(Egyptian Slave and Handmaid of Sarah)The Covenant from Mount Sinai (The law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai)

The Covenant from Mount Sinai (The law given to Moses on Mt. Sinai)

2. Mount Sinai which corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem because she is in slavery with her children

3. Bearing children who are to be slaves

4. Mount Sinai

2. Sarah Represents:

1. The Jerusalem that is from above.

2. The mother of freedom

Son’s Represent Heritage

As believers, we are to be Children of promise

4. THE ETERNAL FATE OF THE SON’S

Son of the flesh is a persecutor

Always persecutes the son born by the power of the Spirit

Kick Out the slave woman and her son

The slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son

5. THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WOMEN AND THEIR SON’S

The Law Of Moses Is All About Slavery

The law was born into slavery (The law was added because of sin)

Hagar, An Egyptian born into slavery

The law without the love of God is slavery...

Impossible to keep.

No way to get ahead

It bears children who are to be slaves

The law always produces imprisonment, bondage and slavery

The Law Of Love (New Covenant) Is All About Freedom

The Jerusalem that is from above (Heaven)

Our Citizenship is in heaven (New Jerusalem)

Philippians 3:20 NIV - Anglicised

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Mount Zion, the new Jerusalem

Hebrews 12:22 NIV - Anglicised

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

The new Jerusalem, the city of God

Revelation 3:12 NIV - Anglicised

Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.

New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven

Revelation 21:2 NIV - Anglicised

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

TAKE HOME TRUTHS

Ignorance to the law brings slavery

The law reproduces the acts of the flesh

The women represent birthing the flesh or the Spirit… Slavery or Freedom

You must identify with Isaac (accept your true identity in Christ.)

YOUR RESPONSE TO TRUTH

Will you accept your true Identity in Christ ... original intent

Will you accept that you are God’s offspring

Will you receive your genuine innocence in Christ

Will you kick out the law … By Force .... yeast—teaching of the law

How do you kick something out of your mind? REPLACE IT!

Seed of the Woman & Satan

serpents seed bruise your heal--- Seed of woman will crush your head

Dividing wall of hostility Made the two one by abolishing the law

You will never be complete as long as you are having this war with in you...