The Father and His Son’s Sacrifice | Communion
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Do not lose the lesson in all this that Paul gives in Galatians 4:21-31. These two mothers (Sarah and Hagar) and sons (Isaac and Ishmael) represent two covenants: law and grace. Law cannot live with grace; therefore, “Get rid of the slave and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the free woman’s son. We (Christians) are not children of the slave woman; we are children of the free woman.”
As if time was not enough of a test of Abraham’s faith, when the son was old enough (Most scholars believe he was 18 or so years old.) God told Abe to…
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