Galatians 4:28-31

November 27, 2005

4:28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac. 4:29 But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now. 4:30 But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman. 4:31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

Verse 28 can be paraphrased, “You Gentile Christians are children of the same promise as the Jews.” Jews of that time were counting on their Jewish genealogy to claim the promise of God, but Paul says that the true children of God and inheritors of the promise are all those who have faith in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile. -sdg-

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