The Battle for Speaking the Truth #2

Don Calvert ~ March 10, 2024
Galatians 4:21-31

Inward Action #1: Instead of

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to the truth you

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at the truth and

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it.

Inward Action #2: The hard truth spoken to you is taken as bad news

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, now it’s

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.
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1st Historical Fact: At age

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God calls Abram to leave his country, his father’s household, everything he has known and go to a land he has never been to and

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him many

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(Genesis 12:1-9).

Truth #1:

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rarely

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until it is

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.
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2nd Historical Fact: At age

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God’s

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has not yet arrived, and Sarai becomes

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.

Truth #2: This second marriage to Hagar was

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in that society, but it was not in the

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of

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.

3rd Historical Fact: At age

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Hagar gets

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and Sarai gets

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(Genesis 16:4-16).

Truth #3: God

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and sends Hagar back and promises to take care of her and her son, because He is not defeated by

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or

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.
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4th Historical Fact: At age

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God speaks to Abram again and

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they will have a son and he is to call him

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(Genesis 17 & 18).

Truth #4: God was waiting until both of them were “as

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as

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” before He would perform the

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of sending them a son.
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5th Historical Fact: At age

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the son of

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is born, they name him Isaac, which means

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(Genesis 21:1-7).

Truth #5: Ishmael has a

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and his

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standing is made clear, it’s one of

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.
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6th Historical Fact: Abraham is

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years old when Isaac is

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and he held a great celebration, but Ishmael is found

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. (Genesis 21:8).

Truth #6: Sarah wants the slave woman and her 17-year-old son

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; Abraham is distressed but God says

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to

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.
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The Old Covenant is the Law / The New Covenant of Grace

that was given.

was given.

Hagar is the

woman.
Sarah is the

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woman.

Ishmael was conceived in the pursuit of

.
Isaac was conceived by

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of God.

Mount Sinai and earthly Jerusalem are held in bondage to sin,

and

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.

Heavenly Jerusalem is from above and brought freedom from sinful bondage both

and

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.
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Spiritual Insight #1 – If you have put your

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in Jesus Christ, you are a child of the

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woman, Sarah; you are a child of

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.
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Spiritual Insight #2 – We have two births, the

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birth that makes us sinners and the

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birth that makes us the

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of God.
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Spiritual Insight #3 – Until Jesus

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, the children of freedom should

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to be

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by their legalistic half brothers and sisters.
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Implication #1 – All disciples of Jesus must

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legalism and soundly

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those who

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it.
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Implication #2 – We can’t fluctuate between rules and faith; either we come to God His way, or we

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at

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.
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Implication #3 – The battle for speaking His truth keeps us focused on the life of

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He has called us to;

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speaking it or adding to it, and

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isn’t far behind.
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