THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 255

I believe this to be a must read. Galatians chapters 6:15 states the following: For in Christ JESUS neither circumcision availeth anything nor un-circumcision but a new creature and as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy and UPON THE ISRAEL OF GOD.

Galatians 4:22 states that Abraham had two sons, one by a bond maiden and the other by a free woman. The son born to the bond maiden was born after the flesh whereas, the other son born unto the free woman was born by promise. This is an allegory which represents two covenants. The one covenant is issued from Sinai and genders to bondage representing Hagar the bondwoman - this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia which answered to Jerusalem - a place which is in bondage along with her children.

But Jerusalem which is above all is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice you barren woman (Sarah) that bears no children. Break forth and cry you that travailed not for the desolate (barren woman Sarah) will have many more children than the bondwoman.

Now we, as Isaac was, (Sarah the freewoman child) are the children of promise. In verse 30 what does the scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall NOT be HEIR along with the son of the freewoman." So then we are NOT the children of the bondwoman but rather, the children of the freewoman.

Return then to Abraham and the God-given promise that states - In you Abraham and in your SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed. Galatians 3:36 takes this even further. This verse states, Now to Abraham and his SEED were the promises made." God did not say that the promises were applicable to seeds as in seeds plural. Instead, God said specifically to your seed in the singular. It is this one SEED singularly spoken of that is the SEED of the Holy Spirit of God -- which SEED is Christ.

ISAAC was born of Abraham and Sarah's natural seed. God at HIS appropriate time had resurrected Abraham's capabilities as a man, implanting into Abraham the SEED of Promise (CHRIST). We read this new genealogy in Matthew chapter 1.

The promised SEED was not ISAAC or JACOB. The two promised SEEDS moved through them but they were NOT the PROMISED SEED in whom all the nations of the earth were going to be blessed. The promised SEED came forth at the fullness of time. From the TWO SEEDS of the Holy Spirit a NEW blood line began. In this context, the blood of the Holy Spirit life In Jesus' veins, being brought together in the womb of a willing surrogate named Mary.

In Mary’s womb, the embryo was clothed with Adam’s sin prone flesh. Note the bones and the blood were the embryo of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, at Calvary not one bone of JESUS' body was broken. The embryo had no sin. However, JESUS' flesh becoming more marred than any other human. Jesus' flesh being reduced to a shell of a man.

More to follow on Isaac and why he was not and is not the seed of promise.