11/6/07 - Life Journal - Abraham's Son

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galations 3:27-29

After accepting Christ into our hearts we are all equal heirs in the Abrahamic Covenant. We are not bound by the law but freed with the promise. "In you (Abraham) all the nations shall be blessed". All the earthly trappings, our sex or our privilege because of what race or social status we were born into are nullified. As Paul uses the offspring of Abraham figuratively in Ch. 4, we were once born of the flesh, like Ishmael unto Hagar, but now we are reborn according to the promise like Isaac unto Sarah. "So brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman", Ch.4 Vs.31

OK, so what does that mean? The promise from God came first, then the law which showed that it is impossible for us to live up to the righteousness of God and we were enslaved by the law, then Jesus came as the fulfillment of the promise, freed us from our sins through faith, and we became equal sons of God. The irony here is that by "binding" ourselves to God is how we find true freedom. If I give myself completely to him, in turn I am no longer a slave to the temptations of the flesh.

Still a little murky.....hmm.......OK, how about this, Born dead. Slave to the flesh. Faith in Jesus as my Savior. Give myself completely. Free in Him.

Lord, I think I have the gist of this here, please clarifiy it in my soul.