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Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

Paul here declares circumcision to offer no help to attaining salvation and uncircumcision

to be no hindrance to salvation. It has become irrelevant, what counts his faith, and the sort of faith that shows itself in deeds of love.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church, past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Galatians.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God. So last time Paul invited those who wanted to be under this

ceremonial law to actually read the law, that is the Torah, and to ponder what they find there.

He pointed to the fact that Abraham had two children from two different women, one a slave and one free.

He suggested that this is actually an analogy for the present time and not merely an account from ancient history.

The two women, he likened to two covenants, the Sinai covenant, encapsulated in the Ten Commandments,

and by implication, the new covenant of forgiveness

in Christ. The first, Hagar, then stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and bears children for slavery

and corresponds to the then-current Jerusalem. The slavery, we should note, is not caused by the law,

but rather shown by it.

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