Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son […]
SOAP Devotion Galatians 4:24-27 – Do you live in the freedom of Sarah or the slavery of Hagar? – Free online Bible study – Commentary in easy English – Day 739
These things are being taken figuratively. The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves. This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem because she is in slavery with her children. For it is […]
SOAP Devotion Galatians 4:21-23 – Are you worthy in God’s eyes? – Free online Bible study – Commentary in easy English – Day 738
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 […]
Acts 7:8 – Should I circumcise my son?
“Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.” (Acts 7:8) When my husband and I had our baby boy, the trend had started not […]
Acts 7:6-7 – Does God condone slavery?
“God spoke to him (Abraham) in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in […]
Daily Devotional Acts 7:8 – Should I circumcise my son? – Free Online Bible Study – Commentary in easy English – Day 498
“Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.” (Acts 7:8) When my husband and I had our baby boy, the trend had started not […]
Daily Devotional Acts 7:6-7 – Does God condone slavery? – Free Online Bible Study – Commentary in easy English – Day 497
“God spoke to him (Abraham) in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 22 – Commentary Romans 4:17b – 20 – October 3, 2018
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old – and […]