Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. Galatians 4:28 (NIV). I love the plainspoken mystery of this verse. If you take it out of context, or you don’t know the history of Isaac and Ishmael, you would either reject or accept it at face value. Now, dig deeper. Do that, thenContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Galatians, 17 May 2022. Today’s topic: An Ancient, Beautiful Thing”
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Practical Proverbial, from Galatians, 12 May 2022. Today’s topic: Have-Not’s
These things are being taken figuratively: 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 isContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Galatians, 12 May 2022. Today’s topic: Have-Not’s”
Practical Proverbial, from Galatians, 21 March 2022. Today’s topic: Receive the Promise
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit. Galatians 3:14 (NIV). Way back in the Old Testament, over 400 years before Jesus (and Paul) lived, the prophet Joel prophesied that God would pourContinue reading “Practical Proverbial, from Galatians, 21 March 2022. Today’s topic: Receive the Promise”
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