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Born from Above • Jan 01st 1987

Paul’s Letter to the Galatians – Chapter 4 – Freedom From Law & Sonship in Christ

Eternal Purpose New Testament Paul the Apostle The Epistles

In this powerful teaching on Galatians Chapter 4, Gene Edwards explores one of the deepest revelations found in Paul’s letter to the Galatians: the believer’s freedom from law and identity as a son of God.

Paul describes the difference between spiritual slavery and spiritual sonship, showing how believers are no longer under bondage but have been brought into intimate relationship with the Father through Jesus Christ. This chapter unfolds themes of grace, adoption, inheritance, and the meaning of “Abba Father” in a deeply personal and transformative way.

The teaching also explores:

  • The contrast between law and grace
  • The difference between earthly Jerusalem and the Jerusalem above
  • What it means to be adopted as sons of God
  • Freedom from religious legalism
  • Christ being formed within the believer
  • Living by divine life rather than outward regulation

Gene highlights how Paul presents Christians as belonging to another realm — not merely followers of a religion, but participants in the life of God Himself. The discussion moves through Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, and Ishmael to reveal the spiritual allegory behind Galatians Chapter 4 and the believer’s inheritance in Christ.

This message is especially meaningful for Christians seeking freedom from fear, performance-based spirituality, and religious striving. It calls believers into a deeper understanding of grace, intimacy with God, and life in the Spirit.

Whether you are studying Galatians verse by verse, exploring Paul’s theology, or seeking a richer understanding of sonship and grace, this teaching offers profound insight into the Christian life.

Watch this chapter study and discover:

  • Why Paul contrasts slavery and sonship
  • What “Abba Father” truly means
  • How believers are free in Christ
  • The spiritual significance of the Jerusalem above
  • Why Galatians remains one of the most radical New Testament letters ever written
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Now, don’t ask me to explain that because you and I are caught in time and space, but I’m telling you, there’s a wedding out there somewhere. It’s already happened in the sight of God, and you and I are the results of that marriage. She is our mother. She is the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they will be one, and you and I are the results of that marriage. Rejoice, O barren woman, for you already have more children than the woman who has a husband. I am really delighted to know I have a mother, a spiritual mother from another realm, and praise God, my mama didn’t give birth to any slaves. I am a free man, and so are you. If I were you, I’d give up my bondage. There’s no reason to be under it. And I’m just going to finish. But at that time, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the spirit, and so it is now. Blastinius came down here. He was born in Jerusalem, and he came and persecuted you who were born in Jerusalem.

 

Paul of Tarsus is a cunning character. He says… this is so double and duplicitous of him, it’s unreal. He says, “Cast out the bond woman.” Why did he pick a verse like that? He’s saying to you, “Cast out the slavery in you. Cast out the slavery you put on yourself.” But man, listen, there’s no way you can read that without getting another impression. Cast out the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with a son of the free woman. I wonder if you were a Galatian, what might trip across your mind when you read that? Throw the dirty rascal out of this place.

 

So then, brethren, we are not children of that bond woman Jerusalem down there where Blastinius came from, but we are the children of the free woman. And it was for freedom that Christ has set you free.

 

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