Thank you for joining us at this time where we read the word of God.
We are doing so in the New Testament and our quote is in Paul
' s book or Letter to the Galatians, Letter to the Galatians, chapter
four. Let us read chapter four of the Letter to the Galatians. That
' s what God' s word says. But I also say, meanwhile,
that the heir is a child in no way different from the slave,
although he is lord of everything, but is under tutors and healers until the
time appointed by the Father. So we too, when we were children,
were in slavery, under the rudiments of the world. But when the fulfillment
of the time came, God sent his son born of a woman and born
under the law to redeem those under the law so that we might receive the
adoption of children. And because you are sons, God sent into your hearts
the spirit of his son, who cries out abba father, so you are
no longer a slave, but a son. And if son, also heir
of God through Christ. Certainly, in another time, not knowing God,
you served those who by nature are no more gods now knowing God or rather
being known by God. How do you turn back to the weak and poor
rudiments to which you want to re- enslave you guard the days, the
months, the times and the years. Moreover, I fear of you that
I have labored in vain with you. You guys. I pray, brethren,
that you may become like me, for I also have done myself to
you, as you have done me no wrong, for you know that because
of a disease of the body I preached the Gospel to you at the beginning
and you did not despise me or cast me away because of the trial I
had in my body. Rather, you received me as an angel of God,
like Christ Jesus. Where, for there is that satisfaction that you experienced,
for I testify to you that if you had been able, you would
have taken your own eyes out to give them to me. I have become
your enemy to tell you the truth, they have zeal for you, but
not for good, but they want to turn you away from us so that
you may have Him for Helios. It is good to show him in the
good as long as and not only when I am present with you my little
children, for whom I again suffer labor pains until Christ is formed in you.
I would like to be with you right now and change my tone,
for I am perplexed as to you, tell me what you want to be
under the law. You have not heard the law, for it is written
that Abrahana had two sons, one of the bondwoman, the other of the
free woman, but that of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh plus
that of the free woman by promise, which is an allegory, for these
women are the two covenants. The one comes from the mountain. Sinahi who
gives son to slavery. This is agar, because agar is the Sinai mountain
in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for it is with its children,
It is in bondage plus Jerusalem from above, which is the mother of
all of us. He is free because it is written, rejoice, you
barren one, you who do not give birth, break in joy and cry
out, You who have no labor pains, for more are the children of
the desolate than of the one who has a husband. So, brothers,
we, like Isaac, are children of promise, but as then, he
who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the
spirit. Even so now, what the scripture says outside to the slave and
her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son
of the free, So brethren, we are not the children of the slave,
but of the free.