10-11 - Galatians 4 1-7

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(Speaking of us - ) verse 1 - What I (Paul) mean, is that an heir, while they are a child, is not much different from a hired servant, though they’re the owner of everything! 2 But they’re under guardians and managers until the date set by their father.

     3 This is us! While children, we’re held in bondage to the basic principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son to us, born of woman, and born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were held under by the law. {Truth is an iron/unbreakable measuring rod. Imperfection/“missing the mark” translated sin, is the opposite of Life! This is because God iS life, and he “is perfect” Mt.5:48. And imperfect is a held in bondage to it condition. Because imperfect cannot somehow transform itself into perfect.}

     This bound over to futility (disobedience) is so we receive adoption as sons and daughters and heirs. {Heirs to Life and the kingdom, an enduring paradise/perfection. Enduring because “all of heaven and all of earth” (Eph.1:10) will fully understand that straying in any tiny way from Truth/perfect Love, purity and holiness, can onLy ever result in imperfection/entropy, the opposite of Life - So all will be fiLLed with God’s Spirit/Presence - saturated/“sealed”. We shall “put on immortality” 1Cor.15:52-55.}

     6 And because we are his heirs, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, that cries out {responds}, “Father! My Father!”

     7 So you are no longer a servant, but a son or daughter, and if a son or daughter, then an heir of God. {“We shall be like Jesus” 1Jn.3:2 “the exact representation and image of God’s person” Col.1:15. THE blueprint, Jesus is called “the First” (greek “proto” and he is “forever preeminent” which I figure Jesus is also, the prototype of what God is creating. God, when all is fulfilled, calls us his jewels. So faceted, unique, not clones, and not merely an Ant Farm, the other option for creation? ..But would that be a paradise? Jewels - Malachi 3:17. ….”The lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow and their young will lie down together” Isaiah 11:7.

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Tomorrow - Galatians 4:8-20

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