“No amount of religion or legislation can give the dead sinner life. Only Christ can do that through the gospel.”
– Warren Wiersbe
The Ancestry Allegory: “Two Mothers” and “Two Sons”
Hagar (Law-Based Salvation)
- Second Wife Origin: Unbelief
- Nature: Slave Ishmael = “God Listens”
- See: Matthew 5:45b
- Life Source: Ordinary/Natural/Physical
- See: Galatians 4:22-23
- Inclusion: Dismissed
- See: Genesis 21:10-12
- Presiding Covenant: Mt. Sinai (v. 25)
- Home: First-Century Jerusalem
- See: Galatians 4:25
- Blessed then Banished
- See: Genesis 21:8-10
- Final Result: Contempt
- See Genesis 16:4
Sarah (Grace-based Salvation)
- First Wife Origin: Promise
- Nature: Free Isaac = “He Laughs”
- Life Source: Miraculous/Supernatural/Spiritual
- See: Galatians 4:22-23
- Inclusion: Accepted and Ordained
- See: Galatians 4:31
- Presiding Covenant: Abraham Home: New Jerusalem
- See: Revelation 21:1-3
- Barren then Blessed
- See Galatians 4:27
- Final Result: Contentment
- See: Genesis 21:6
** Additional passages are given below **
Note: Galatians 4:29-30 answers many questions:
How are Jewish and Gentile believers related?
v. 28 – We are all children of the Promise
Unknown - “Just as Isaac’s birth was a miracle of God, so Christianity, offering people the
opportunity to be born again, is a miracle of God (John 3:3).”
Why is there conflict in the Holy Land?
v. 29 – Because of Ishmael’s violence.
Genesis 16:12– “Ishmael will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against
everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Who does God favor?
a. v. 30 – To those who come to him through the promise, he gives the inheritance
Additional Passages from the Chart Above
Matthew 5:45b – “For God gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.”
Genesis 21:10-12 – So Sarah said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.” 11 And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” (ESV)
Revelation 21:2 – “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.”
Genesis 21:8-10 – “The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, ‘Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.’”
Genesis 16:4 – “So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.” (NLT)
Genesis 21:6 – “Sarah said, ‘God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.’”
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