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 according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.
“Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband. Isaiah 54:1
Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 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.”[ Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
These under the law are like the son Abraham had by his slave=woman, Hagar. But Christians are freeborn - heirs, like Isaac, to all God's promises.
Why?
Son of the promise is born from Spirit, sons of the flesh are born from the salve, the law.
We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman, for we are born through the faith, the promise of the Lord.
Children of Abraham is a very good example to explain how we are the heir of the promise.
How?
How great the son of promise, it is the grace of the Lord prepared it before our born to this world.
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