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Bishop Jakes - Stand Fast

(KJV) Galatians 4:28 - 5:1 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

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(KJV) Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Do not give in to the temptation to bow down. It takes strength to be able to stand.

Text written by Paul post Christ's Ascension. They were leading the church without a bible. They were using old testament documents in this new context.

God will save people you don't like. Be careful when taking a scripture or teaching from the past that related in that context and trying to put it toward your own.

Galatians is radically liberal- the birth canal of our modern protestant teachings. I can pray for myself.

Hagar- not just a slave, she is a slave... A bondwoman; having no choice and no free will. A son is not heir to the promise because he is born under the bind. Lest the slave inherit the master's stuff.

God told Sarah that he would not bless her through her slave, not her man, nor her womb, but through the promise. The power of the pregnancy was purely through the strength of her god.

Now there are two women and two sons. When reading Genesis it appears that this incident just happens, but as Paul tells it, it is revealed that God was orchestrating these things toward the fulfillment of a promise that will come.

The eldest son mocked the son of the free woman. Sarah put them out saying that he will not be an heir with her son.

Legalism is Ishmael. It is the child of he bond. Dogma is the child of the bondwoman. Shall not be heir with the child of the promise.

You can't curse what is free.

It is not the battle of flesh, it is the battle of ideas. One says you must go back and do what we did to get the promise. The other says that you were adopted into the royal family, and you needn't do anything to inherit the promise, because it was bought through Christ's blood.

The greatest battle is that in your head and the artillery is words. Neither fact negates the fact that you are an heir.

Despite your heritage and pedigree you are free through christ alone. Don't let people put extra stuff on you. You already got it - stand therefore in the promise. Put out every illegitimate idea- cast out every thought or idea that brings you into captivity.

All you have to do is occupy till I come ...