Paul today quotes Isaiah the Prophet! In illustrating the ultimate victory "Salvation by Grace" will enjoy over Law, over human works! The Quote fits well into Paul's overall argument against the "Judiazers" who have come from Jerusalem to … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE!
Let's follow Paul's logic a while. He is (successfully) trying to illustrate how we Christians enjoy real "liberty" (not "license" to sin, but "freedom" to live a godly life, via the sweet Holy Spirit's Guidance, Power) in Christ Jesus our … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … O JERUSALEM!
We have come to Galatians 4:25, one more link in Paul's allegorical chain of thought, in his vital doctrine of Salvation by Grace! "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … WHAT IS AN “ALLEGORY” AND WHO IS “AGAR?”
Today's Text verse is Galatians 4:24. Where Paul writes: "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar." Paul is here teaching … with a specific goal in … [Continue reading]
GALATIANS … TWO SONS
In Luke 15 Jesus told the beautiful short Story of a man with two sons, and the our Lord drew a wealth of practical truth from that account. But even longer ago (back in the Book of Genesis) a man named Abraham also had two sons. And the Apostle Paul … [Continue reading]
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