Genesis chapter 15. Genesis 15. We come now to the story of Hagar,
Sarah, Ishmael, and Isaac. Now Abraham was married to Sarah,
married to her beforehand. And God promised Abraham a son. We read in Genesis 15 verse 4,
in the middle part of the verse, He says, He that shall come forth
out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. Alright, then
ten years passed. We come to Genesis 16 and verse
1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare
him no children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold
now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing. I pray thee,
go in unto my maid. It may be that I may obtain children
by her. You have to understand that women
in this day, godly women, believing women, knew the promise that
the seed of woman was coming. And they were all anticipating
having the Messiah. And that's what Sarah is anticipating
here. That's why this is so important
to her. This is not a sinful, vulgar
thing that she has in her mind. it may have been unlawful and
sinful for what they did but this is she's seeking that Messiah
to come and she says it may be that he's coming through through
Hagar now watch this and it says It says, And Abram hearkened
to the voice of Sarai. Verse 3, And Sarai, Abram's wife,
took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years
in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be
his wife. Abram married her. And he went
in unto Hagar, and she conceived. Verse 15 says, And Hagar bare
Abram a son. And Abram called his son's name,
which Hagar bare, Ishmael. Alright, 13 or 14 more years
passed. We're at 23 to 24 years now. We come to Genesis 17, 16. And there, God says, I will bless
Sarah and give thee a son also of her. I'm going to bless her
and I'm going to give you a son of her. Yea, I will bless her. I will, God says. And she shall
be a mother of nations. A mother of nations. That's important. We're going to see that later.
It's the description of the true church of God, whose elect are
called out of every nation under the earth. Kings of people shall
be of her. God's children are kings and
priests, made so by the blood of Christ. Verse 18, And Abraham
said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee. And God
said, Sarah thy wife, the only wife God recognized, Sarah, Sarah
thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his
name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him. for an
everlasting covenant and with His seed after Him. Another year
passed, 25 years after God made the promise. God works in His
own time, not in our time. Alright, Genesis 21, verse 1. It says, And the Lord visited
Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had
spoken. For Sarah conceived and bare
Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God
had spoken to him." You might call that in the fullness of
time. That's what it pictures, the
fullness of time, when Christ came. Verse 3, And Abraham called
the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare
unto him, Isaac. Isaac. Verse 9, And Sarah saw
the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, which Hagar had borne unto Abraham,
mocking. Ishmael, who was born after the
flesh, persecuted Isaac, who was born after the spirit. Verse
10, Wherefore Sarah said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman
and her son. For the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." And the thing
was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. Ishmael
at this time was probably 17 or 18 years old. And it says,
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight
because of the lad. And because of thy bondwoman,
in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice,
for in Isaac shall thy seed be called." Now turn to Galatians
chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4. And here's the spiritual meaning
of the story that we just read. Alright, Galatians 4 verse 21.
Paul says to the Galatians, tell me, ye that desire to be under
the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
free woman. The one by a bondmaid, the other
by a free woman. Ishmael was by Hagar the bondmaid. Isaac was by Sarah the free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh. That was Abraham's works. That
was Abraham's will and Abraham's wisdom, Abraham's doing. But
he of the free woman was by promise. That was God's doing. God brought
that son forth. Which things are an allegory?
This is a true story that teaches us spiritual things. We've seen
it in the Creation. We've seen it in the Fall. We've
seen it in Cain and Abel. We've seen it in Noah and the
Ark. We've seen it in the Rainbow. We've seen it in the Tower of
Babel. All the stories of the Old Testament are true, but they
are all allegories to teach us this truth of salvation by Christ. That's what they're for. Now,
we're going to see here Hagar and Sarah. represent two covenants. They represent two covenants.
And then we're going to see that Hagar and Sarah represent two
religions. Two religions. They're very opposite
of one another. Then we're going to see that
the two sons represent the two kinds of children born of these
two kinds of religions. Alright, first of all, Let me
give you the main point of our message. True believers are saved
by the everlasting covenant grace of God our Father, by the faithfulness
of Christ Jesus His Son, by the Holy Spirit of God, and we're
free, entirely free from the law. Entirely free from the covenant
of works. Alright, first of all, Hagar
and Sarah represent two covenants. They represent two covenants.
Hagar represents the covenant of the law, of works, that covenant
God gave at Mount Sinai. He says there in verse 24, these
are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth
to bondage, which is Hagar. That's A-G-A-R is Hagar. Now, the covenant of works, God
gave it at Mount Sinai. He gave it at Mount Sinai. And
that covenant was a covenant between God and man. It was like
the covenant God gave in the garden in Adam. God gave His
law, not just 10 commandments, there's over 600 commandments,
and God commanded this dude, And the promise that God gave,
if that condition is met by man, the promise God gave is, and
you shall live. You'll be saved. You'll have
eternal life. Do the law and you'll have eternal
life. But no sinner can keep the law.
We can't obey the law. We were sinners when God gave
the law. And He gave that law not to give us life. He gave
that law to shut our mouth and to declare us guilty. As Paul
says here, the law only genders to bondage. The law finds us
in slavery, and if we try to come to God by the law, it just
genders to more slavery, more bondage, more chains onto that
curse. Okay, now Sarah. What about Sarah? Sarah represents the everlasting
covenant of grace. The covenant of grace. You with
me? Sarah represents the everlasting
covenant of grace. Now, this is the covenant that
God made with Christ, his son, before the world was made. Before
the world was made. Abraham was married to Sarah
long before Hagar came along. We have to pay close attention. Abraham was married to Sarah
long before Hagar came along. And so it is that God made this
covenant in Christ long before he ever gave the law in the garden,
long before the law ever came along at Mount Sinai. God had
already established this covenant in Christ in eternity. And then
it says God established His covenant We saw God establish His covenant
with Abraham long before Hagar entered the picture. He established
it. He not only made that covenant
before, He established it. God said, this shall be. This
is how it will be. Long before Hagar came along.
Long before Abraham started trying to enter in with his work. And
that's how it worked. When God made this covenant in
Christ, it was established. It was ordered in all things
and sure, because Christ became the surety for His people. God
chose a people and He gave them to His Son. Christ became surety. God said in that covenant, My
Son, you do this. You keep this law. You obey My
covenant. and you and your people shall
live." And there was no possibility that the Son of God would not
fulfill the covenant, because He's God, faithful, and He came
in holy flesh, and He fulfilled the covenant. He fulfilled the
covenant. The Scripture says, "...by so
much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." It says,
He's the mediator of a better covenant established upon better
promises. Doesn't that sound better? You
do it all, these 600 covenants, these 600 laws, which you can't
keep to earn salvation for yourself, or God's Son sealing the whole
deal up before the world was ever made, saying, I'll do it
all and I'll bring them to you, Father. Which one sounds better? the covenant of grace. And you
know, Sarah was a free woman. That means, the picture there
is, this covenant is all of grace. It's free grace. God didn't see
anything in us. He didn't look at anything in
us by which to choose or to pass by. God freely chose whom He
would. He freely chose whom He would.
It's a covenant of free grace. Now, when Abraham sinned, I mean,
when Abraham turned and married Hagar, Sarah remained his true
wife. God didn't regard Hagar as being
his wife. God only regarded Sarah as being
his wife. Now here's the picture. Whenever God gave the law in
Adam, and when He gave the law at Mount Sinai, God never regarded
that law, that covenant, as being the covenant whereby His children
would be saved. He never regarded that covenant
as being the covenant of salvation or of grace. He always viewed
his people in that everlasting covenant of grace. Always. Let
me show you that back in Galatians 3.16. That means when the law
entered, and when we send an Adam, it did not change the covenant
of grace whatsoever. It didn't alter it at all. Galatians
3.16 says, Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. And he saith not, and to seeds
as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.
God made the covenant with Christ, just like He made that covenant
with Abraham. This is a covenant between God and Christ. Alright,
now look, in this I say that the covenant that was confirmed
before of God in Christ. The other covenant, the law,
which was 430 years after, cannot disannul that it should make
the promise of no effect. Do you understand what that says?
That covenant that God made with Abraham in Christ was sealed
and settled and established. And when the law entered 430
years later, it didn't alter that promise of salvation one
bit. It didn't change it at all. And
that was so. When God established His covenant
in Christ to save His people in Christ by the everlasting
covenant of grace, the broken law in the garden, the broken
law at Mount Sinai didn't change it a bit. We were still in Christ
because God put us in Christ. He didn't change it. He didn't
change it. Now, Hagar was never intended
to be the one to give life. Sarah was the one through whom
God said life was going to come. Hagar never was the one through
whom life was going to come. Now, that's the picture there
is the law was never the one through whom life would come.
The everlasting covenant of grace is the one through whom life
will come. So what was the covenant of works for? Why was it given? What was Hagar? She was Sarah's
handmaid. She was a handmaid Sarah. Well
that's what the law, the covenant of works was a handmaid to the
everlasting covenant of grace. Look at Galatians 3 verse 24. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster,
It was a handmade, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. And you should capitalize that
F right there, put a note beside it, by Christ. That's who it's
talking about. It's by Christ, the faithfulness
of Christ. But after that faith is come,
after Christ is come, we're no longer under a schoolmaster.
That was just a handmade. Now this is peace for the believer.
This thing was so settled and so sure in Christ. It can never
be altered. It can never be changed. And
therefore nothing you and I can do can ever turn God from Christ
and from His covenant of grace toward us. It can never happen.
This is so for all God's people. Now that's the two covenants.
Those covenants are opposite. They're night and day from each
other. One's a covenant of works. One is a covenant of grace. One
is a covenant they said you do and you'll live and therefore
it could never be yes and amen. The other one is Christ shall
do it all and He has done it all and so therefore all the
promises of God in Christ are yes and amen. There's no maybes
about it. Okay, now secondly, two kinds
of religion. Two kinds of religion. Hagar
represents works religion. Those that are trying to take
the law of Moses and come to God by their works of the law.
Now, when I say that, you be sure you understand, in Paul's
day, it was very subtle in Galatia. They were saying, we believe
we're saved by the grace of God through faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. But, you have to keep the law. But you have to keep
the law too. That's what they were saying.
And Paul said, when you entered that butt in there, you changed
the whole thing. You mixed law and grace and it
ceased to be the gospel. It ceased to be the gospel. Now
look here, Hagar represents works religion, Galatians 4.25. This Hagar is Mount Sinai in
Arabia. Now, if you look at Mount Sinai
in Arabia, in Saudi Arabia, that's not in Israel. Now Israel typified
the kingdom of God. Israel typified the church of
God, the kingdom of God. So if you're in Mount Sinai trying
to come to God by Mount Sinai, you're not even in the kingdom
of God. And that's the picture there. You're not even in the...
If you're in works religion, you're not in the kingdom of
God. Period. Galatians 4.25 says, And Hagar
answered to Jerusalem, which now is. Isn't it God-wise? He worded that Jerusalem which
now is. And by His sovereign hand, you
can still look at Jerusalem and see the illustration He's given. It was so in Paul's day and it's
so now. Look to earthly Jerusalem right
now. What do you see? You look there now, you see what
all works, all law, religion is. It is an earthly Jerusalem. with earthly priests and earthly
altars and serving the letter of the law, looking for an earthly
kingdom. That's what it is. That's what
all works religion is now. Works religion is looking for
an earthly kingdom now just like they were when Christ came the
first time. Just like they were then. That's what I refer to
when I talk about free will works religion. Now look at verse 25,
Galatians 4.25. And she's in bondage with her
children. She's in bondage with her children. When Hagar brought forth that
son, because Hagar was a bondmaid, because she was a slave, you
know what her son was? A slave. He was born into slavery. That's true. And that's what
everybody that this false church brings forth. Every child this
false church conceives and brings forth by her works and her ways
and her means is a child of bondage. They're in bondage. All their
children are in bondage. Look back at Galatians 3.10.
This is what Paul is saying. He says here in Galatians 3.10,
for as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse. They're in bondage. For it's
written, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the law to do them. You can't
pick and choose what you're going to keep with God. If you let
your corn grow and let your beans run up your corn, you've broken
God's law. If you keep the Sabbath day and
you want to insist that a man keep that day, if a man don't
keep it and you don't kill him, you broke that law. You've got to keep it all, every
bit of it. That's why it's under the curve.
Verse 11 says that just shall live by faith and the law is
not of faith. The law is not of faith. There's
no way you can try to keep the law and come to God and be living
by faith. It's impossible. It's almost
impossible. Galatians 4.3, look there with
me. Galatians 4.3. Now I said it's all earthy. It's all earthy. Look at Galatians 4, 3. He says,
Even so, when we were children, we were in bondage under the
elements of the world. He calls it the elements of the
world. It's earthy. All those touch not, taste not,
handle not, do this, don't do that. All that law was earthy.
Verse 8, Howbeit then when you knew not God, you did service
unto them which by nature are no gods. But now, after that
you've known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again? How come you want to go backwards
to the weak and beggarly elements? To that earthy, whereunto you
desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and
times and years. Paul said, I'm scared of you,
lest I've preached in vain. That's what he was telling them.
But now Sarah represents true religion. True religion. The
true church of God which is above. Now look at Galatians 4 and look
at verse 26. But Jerusalem which is above
is free which is the mother of us all. Mother of us all. Earthly Israel. Now listen carefully. This is so important. Earthly
Israel. earthly Mount Zion, earthly Jerusalem,
which was in earthly Mount Zion, all of that God created to typify,
to picture His true church, His spiritual Israel in heavenly
Mount Zion, in heavenly Jerusalem. Whenever Christ finished the
work and He arose from the dead, He didn't go to Jerusalem and
sit down in a throne. Not earthly Jerusalem. He ascended
to heavenly Jerusalem in heavenly Mount Zion and sat down in His
throne. That's why He said if my kingdom
was of this earth, I'd fight. My people would fight, but it's
not of this earth. It's a spiritual kingdom. Now
look, Isaiah 2. I'm going to show you something.
This prophecy is being fulfilled right now. We're in the last
days. Hebrews 1 said, In these last
days God has spoken to us by His Son. Look at Isaiah 2 and
verse 2. It shall come to pass in the
last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established
in the top of the mountains. That's His church above in heaven. "...And shall be exalted above
the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it." All His people
out of every nation. "...And many people shall go
and say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways."
Christ Himself. "...And we'll walk in His path
for out of Zion." Not that one over there in the desert. That
one in glory, out of Zion, where Christ is seated, shall go forth
the law, the gospel of God, the word of the Lord shall go forth
from heavenly Jerusalem. I can prove that to you. Go to
Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12. I'll show you. You see, earthly
religion is still looking for an earthly kingdom. Look here. Not God's people. Look at Hebrews
12, 28. Peter stood up on Pentecost and
said, Brethren, now we see. We were just a little while ago
saying we need to go and establish the kingdom. Now we see He has
established it. And He is Lord and Christ of
that kingdom. Look here, Hebrews 12, 18. You are not come to the
mount that might be touched, that burned with fire. That was
Mount Sinai. And nor Mount Zion, nor that
earthly Jerusalem or earthly Mount Zion. Verse 22. But you
come unto Mount Zion, unto the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general
assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. Do you see
that? The everlasting covenant. This new covenant has nothing,
it's not anything like that old covenant. That old covenant was
written on stone. It spoke of the elements of the
world. It brought into bondage. This
new covenant is an everlasting, eternal covenant. It's a spiritual
covenant. He writes this law in our hearts,
upon the fleshly tables of the hearts, and we worship our King
seated in heavenly Jerusalem. This is the true church of God.
that He draws His people into. Now, Sarah, you remember, was
called the mother of all nations. Now look at verse, Galatians
4.27, says, therefore, it's written. See, He says there, Jerusalem
which is above is free, which is the mother of us all, because
it is written, Rejoice thou barren that bearest not, break forth
and cry thou that travailest not, for the desolate had many
more children than she which had the husband. Go to Isaiah
54, and I want to show you this real quick. I was going to skip,
just read this to you, but you probably should see it. Isaiah
54. If you don't see these things,
it won't help you as much. In Isaiah 54, he's quoting exactly,
in Galatians 4, he's quoting exactly from Isaiah 54. He says here, Sing, O barren,
thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing. See there,
it's the same exact verse. You know where this comes in?
After Isaiah 53, where that great chapter that declares that Christ
laid down His life for His people, and that He accomplished our
redemption, and He put away our sins, and He arose to glory.
And then the Word comes forth now. This is what He was declaring
on the day of Pentecost, after He arose to glory and began to
call out His people out of all... He started with the Jews there
in Jerusalem. And He's telling them now, you
sing, and look down here at verse 3, or verse 2, He says, enlarge
the place of your tent. You better break down the walls
of this church. It's fixing to get bigger, he said. It's not
going to be just initial anymore. Look at verse 4. For thou shalt
break forth on the right hand and on the left. Now look, it
started out, why did he call it barren? Why did he call it
without a husband. Because that little band of Jewish
believers, that little band of disciples that Christ called
out of Israel, they looked like they was a barren church, like
they didn't have any fruitfulness at all. And they looked like
that church was a widow because they crucified our husband, Christ
Jesus. But look what he says here, verse
3. He says, Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles. and make the desolate
cities to be inhabited. He is saying Christ who came
forth through Israel, the seed, He is going to inherit all His
children among the Gentiles. Look at verse 4. So fear not,
little widow, for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither be thou
confounded, For thou shalt not be put to shame, for thou shalt
forget the shame of thy youth, and you won't remember the reproach
of your widowhood anymore. Why not? Because thy maker is
thine husband, the Lord of hosts is his name, thy Redeemer, the
Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called. Because he's calling out all
his people all over the earth. Do you see that? He is there
in glory. He is seated on the throne. The
gospel is going out from Him. He is gathering in all His elect
into His church through the gospel. Alright, so that is two covenants,
totally opposite, works, grace. Two religions totally opposite,
the religion of works, the religion of grace. Now here is two kinds
of people that these religions produce. Verse 23, Galatians
4.23. Galatians 4.23. He says, He who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh. You see it there? He who was
of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the free
woman was by promise. Ishmael was born of the bondwoman
of Hagar by Abraham's works. What you see there in that is,
you see a man who... I preach the gospel to you. I
declare the everlasting covenant of grace to you, just like God
made that promise to Abraham ten years before. And Abraham
got tired of waiting. And a man will sit and he'll
hear the gospel and he gets tired of waiting on Christ to bring
forth fruit. And he turns from Christ, turns
from the everlasting covenant of grace, and he goes to the
law and he says, I believe I'll help God out, see if I can't
produce some fruit myself. That's what Abraham did. And
all he produced from that was a son of the flesh. A son of
the flesh. That's all he produced. That's
what works religion does. They use the law, they use fleshly
means, and all these things, and all they produce are sons
of flesh. Nothing else. Sons of flesh.
Yeah, but it looks so zealous. You'd be zealous and lost. They
do so much good stuff in the world. I'm glad they do. Makes
it easier on us. The leaves on the tree shade
the fruit, don't they? So that's good. but they are
children of flesh if they are born of the flesh and born of
the law. Now look here, Galatians 4.28 says, Now we, brethren,
as Isaac was, are the children of promise. Children of promise. What does that mean? Galatians 4.4. He says, When
the fullness of time was come, Remember what God said? Right
according to that set time, that Son came forth. When the fullness
of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. And
He did it. He redeemed us from the curse
of the law. All those that God gave to Him.
Why did He do that? That we might receive the adoption
of sons. That the adoption of children
might be given to us. We were predestinated unto it,
God said. That's why He did it. Look here.
And because you are sons, not to make you sons, not to make
you children, but because you already were children. Because
God already put you in Christ. Christ already redeemed you.
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore, you're
no more a servant. You're no more under that covenant
of works. You're no more under that bondage. You're no more
a slave under the law anymore. He says, but you're a son. And
if you're a son, what was that whole thing God was telling Abraham
he was going to have? An heir. An heir. And if you're
a son, he says, then you're an heir of God through Christ. Look back at Galatians 3.29.
If you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according
to God's promise. We're all Isaac. We're all born
of God by God's promise. The children of Abraham. That's
the true children that he was talking about. When he took Abraham
out there and he said, count the stars, Abraham, if you can
number them. Abraham looked up there and he said, I can't even
begin to number those stars. He said, that's how many children
you're going to have. He's talking about if you're
Christ, then you're Abraham's seed and you're heirs of God,
just according to that promise he made, that everlasting covenant
of grace. Alright, now here's the last
thing. Here's the end. For now, Right now, everything
is just like it was then. Verse 29, But as then, he that
was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now. Ishmael, that child born after
the flesh, he mocked Isaac, who was born after the Spirit, he
persecuted him. It's the same way now. Same way now. You know
what they call us now? They call us antinomian, because
we say Christ fulfilled the law. We say we're not under the law,
we're under grace. We don't have to add anything
to it. Righteousness is established by our Redeemer. They say, you're
lawless. That's what they said to Christ.
That's what they said to Paul. This man preaches against the
law, they said. That's what they always say.
He that's born after the flesh persecutes him that's born after
the Spirit. Paul was dealing with it right
there in Galatians 4, verse 16. He asked them, am I become your
enemy because I tell you the truth? He said, they glory in
your flesh because they don't want to suffer persecution for
preaching the cross. And they want to have something
to glory in by making you do something. And he said, but God
forbid I glory, saving the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. And
that world he's talking about there is that whole old covenant
law, that whole system. He says, I'm dead to it and it's
dead to me because of Christ. So, what we're going to do? We're
going to continue glorying in Christ and wait on God because
He's going to sort the whole thing out in the end. Look here
in verse 30, Galatians 4.30. Nevertheless, what says the Scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. Brethren,
false religion. That covenant of works with all
her sons of flesh is going to be cast out by God just like
Rahab and Ishmael was. Now, the sons of the bondwoman,
they can't be heirs with the sons of the free woman. Grace
and works don't mix on this earth. They sure not going to mix in
the presence of God and glory. They're going to be cast out.
And so this is Paul's conclusion, verse 31. So then, brethren,
We are not children of the bondwoman. We're children of the free. Everlasting
covenant of grace, born of the Spirit of God, that true religion
from Christ above. And we're children now of promise
and heirs of God. So here's the conclusion. Now
let's go to Galatians 5.1, just read it out. Stand fast, therefore,
in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I, Paul,
say unto you that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing."
If you have to add anything, if it's necessary you add anything
to Christ, Christ profits you nothing. Here's what you have
to do. He says, I testify again, every man that circumcised, he's
a debtor to do the whole law. Christ has become of no effect
unto you. Whosoever you are that's justified by the law, you're
fallen from grace. For we, through the Spirit, wait
for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ,
whether you have the law or whether you don't have the law does not
matter. What matters is you've been made a new creature so that
you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you work from the
constraint of his love. That's what matters. We are the
circumcision which rejoice, which worship God in the spirit, rejoice
in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Amen.