Paul’s Letter to the Gauls (Galatians) – Chapter 4

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.