Chapter 4                               

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  4:1 I also say that as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ from a slave, even though he is the owner of everything. 2 Rather, he is under guardians and managers until the time appointed by his father. 3 In the same way, when we were infants, simple-minded and immature, we were held in bondage, enslaved under the basic elementals or principles of the world. • 4 When the fullness of the time had come, however, God commissioned and sent forth His Son, becoming out from a woman, becoming under the law, 5 so that He might rescue [out of the marketplace] those under law, that we might actively receive placement as sons.

• 6 And BECAUSE you are sons, God commissioned and sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying loudly, “My Daddy, the Father!” For that reason, you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if you are now a son, then you are also an heir through God.

8 But at the time when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods [m]. 9 Now that you know God, however, or rather, that you are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and destitute elementals or principles to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? 10 You scrupulously observe feast days and sabbath days, and months, seasons, and years. 11 I am frightened for you, lest perhaps I have toiled with effort for you without reason or purpose.

12 Brothers and sisters, I implore you; become as I, for I also have become as you. You have wronged me in nothing. • 13 Even more, you are aware that I proclaimed the gospel to you through the weakness of the flesh right from the start. 14 And in your trial regarding my flesh, you neither despised me, nor rejected me with contempt; but you received me as a messenger of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 What then was your blessedness? 15 I bear you witness indeed, that if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and would have given them to me. 16 Have I now become your enemy by speaking truth to you?

17 These [Christian preachers coming from Jerusalem] falsely appear zealous towards you in order to separate you from us, and in order to get you to be zealous towards them. 18 Being zealous is great when it’s in a noble and good thing – and not just when I am present with you, • 19 my children, for whom I travail in birth again until Christ shall have been formed inside of you. 20 I wish that I could be present with you soon and change my tone, for I am perplexed by you.

• 21 TELL ME, you who want to be under law, why don’t you listen to the law? Indeed, it is written that Abraham had two sons; one out from a slave woman and one out from a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave woman was conceived according to the flesh; while the son of the free woman was conceived through the promise. • 24 These things are to be allegorized [n]; for these are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai into the procreation of slavery, which is Hagar. 25 More than that, this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia which corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem. She is indeed in slavery with her children [o]. 26 Whereas the Jerusalem from above is free, who is OUR [p] mother. 27 Further, it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren woman, not bearing child; let the one not travailing break forth and cry aloud; because the desolate woman will bear far more children than the woman who has a husband” (Isaiah 54:1).

28 More than that, brothers and sisters [including non-Judean Christians], you, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But, just as at that time, the one conceived according to flesh persecuted the one conceived according to Spirit, so it is now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? – • “CAST OUT the slave woman and her son; for the son of the slave woman (s) shall not inherit along with the son of the free woman” (Genesis 21:10 & 12) (q). 31 So then, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but we are children of the free woman [p].
 		  
Gospel Comments Notes
• Kingdom: Having rescued us out from the delusion of self imagining a connection with God through NOT keeping the law, Jesus then placed us already as sons fully into God as our Life. Thus every step of our lives, every next moment, we live only with God and out from Him.

• Definition: There are two parts to being a son of God, first conception (Covenant) and second practice (Kingdom). Our conception begins with Spirit becoming part of us that we might receive Jesus as the One Sperm of God, now written upon our hearts. Our practice is being the intercession of God by that same Spirit (see Romans 8:26-27), for the sake of our Christian brethren (Galatians 4:19). In-between, by Spirit, we speak, “My Daddy, the Father,” even as we apprehend with full assurance of faith everything of God given to us.

• Covenant: Every believer in Jesus must reckon with the great contradiction between the two covenants, the old and the New. The old is for slavery and death; the New is for Life. The Church as the fulness of Christ (see Ephesians 1:23), the New Jerusalem always coming out from God, is our mother. We are being formed as sons in the womb of the Church.

• Kingdom: The whole world is fixated in fear right now over the false claim to the inheritance. The Gospel commands us to cast out that false claim, for only believers in Jesus are the Heir of Abraham. Yet our great weapon is our Travail for the sake of our brethren (see Galatians 4:19), for our Jerusalem is the Church.		 m. They do not generate themselves; that is, “god” here means “source.”

n. First, things in the old covenant become allegories of the New. Second the New Covenant and the New Jerusalem annul the old for all. Third, no one alive today, Judean or non-Judean, wats to connect with God through the old, for it only kills all.

o. The natural Judean AND the Old Covenant.

p. Paul includes non Judean ethnicities inside of “Our,” that is, Jerusalem.

q. The issue of the inheritance rules our world today with fear and murder. Few believers obey Paul’s instruction to cast out the claims of the natural Judean and the old covenant.