Galatians chapter 4 today we will Lord willing finish the chapter we're going through Galatians chapter by chapter and verse by verse and our text will be verses 15 through 31 we'll pick it up where we left off last week so I'll have your turn there if you're not there already and once you do if you're able I'll ask you to stand you can follow along as I read if not that's all right where you're not there already, and once you do, if you're able, I'll ask you to stand. He can follow along as I read.

If not, that's all right, where you're seated.

Beginning in verse 15, the Apostle Paul is really showing us a sight to himself in this letter to the churches in the area known at the time as Galatia.

And he's really, I think, hurting.

And he's talking to them about how he once really had a good relationship with them,

but he does not any longer have good relationship with them, but he does not, not any longer have that

relationship with them. So he says verse 15, where then is your blessing of me now? I can testify

that if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Those people, speaking of the Judaizers, are zealous to win you over but for no good.

What they want is to alienate you from us so that you may have zeal for them. It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always,

not just when I am with you. My dear children, verse 19, for whom I am again in the pains of

childbirth until Christ is formed in you, speaks to the love that he had for them. How I wish I could be with you now and change my tone because I am

perplexed about you. Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law

says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave

woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the

flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as a result of a divine promise.

These things are being taken figuratively.

The women represents two covenants.

One covenant is from Mount Sinai, speaking of the law, and bears children who are to be slaves.

This is Hagghar. Now, verse 25, hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds

to the present city of Jerusalem because she is in slavery with her children. But, verse 26, the Jerusalem that is

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