Galatians 4 – Who is the “free woman” 2020

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Gal 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman.

Paul is going to illustrate being a child of Abraham through blood (or becoming a Jew) and being a child of Abraham through faith, or faithfulness.

Gal 4:23
But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

One woman was Hagar. Her child, Ishmael, was born as a child of Abraham through the flesh. He was born because of the desires of Abraham and Sarah to have a son as Elohim promised. Ishmael was the son born from the desire of the flesh. But Isaac was the son born through the promise.
I attempt to imitate a Pharisee in the era of Paul (granted it's lame...) in order to demonstrate the dilemma of this assembly. There were Judaizers in that day that were chastising Gentile assemblies for following the instructions of Yeshua Messiah and the Apostle Paul instead of converting to Judaism. Paul's letter to the Galatians is a refutation of their attempts.

In this chapter Paul commends the Galatians for loving one another, but he also rebukes the assembly for giving up and resorting back to their pagan ways. The Judaizers apparently made a huge impact on this assembly.

This may be the most misunderstood book (letter) in Scripture.
A thunderstorm interrupted our study on Galatians 4 to where we could not hear. The video is not bad, but due to our metal roof, the people could not hear

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