Hello, I'm Michael Barber and this is my dear friend, Dr. Jim Prothro, and we're here for our

Bible study on Galatians.

We're having a blast working through this amazing epistle of St. Paul.

We're going to pick up now in chapter four where Paul says, tell me you who desire to be

under the law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons,

one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. So let's just stop here for a second and talk about

the backstory here. Abraham had two sons and what do people need to know about those two sons?

Yeah. So back in the book of Genesis, starting in chapter 12, when God first called

Abraham, promises Abraham that he's going to have a family and that's through his family,

the whole world will be blessed.

We've talked about this a little bit in Galatians 3.

But if you follow along with that, at first, Abraham is, you know, he's always trusting God.

He's following God, and yet in Genesis 15, he says, God, you haven't given me anybody yet.

God says, your own son,

shall be your heir. And Abraham and his wife, Sarah, they're both old, right, past the point

that where either of them should be expect to be able to father a child, right? It would be miraculous

anyway. And Sarah has a handmade, that is, say, a slave girl, right, who's under her, and she says, you know,

she, I'm putting words into her mouth. She thinks, well, maybe God didn't mean through me,

right? Just try it with this younger-

I've always thought that, I've always had in mind, Abraham taking the Benjamin Franklin approach. Well, God helps those

who help themselves, right? Right, right. And so I got to help myself figure out a way to have a son.

And, you know, Sarah, ain't working out. So what are we going to do? And she says, well, take my handmaid.

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