Galatians 4:31 You Are Children of the free woman, So Seek to Reconcile the Children of the Bondwoman

Galatians 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.

Christian, because you are an heir of the Kingdom of Christ, you are not a child of the bondwoman. Have you received the Spirit? Do you have faith in Christ? Are you persevering? Then you are not to turn back to the Law. You are not the heir of bondage. You are not receiving the reward of the earthly Jerusalem, which is destruction (as 70 A.D. bears witness). Those who are heirs of the bondwoman have her same fate. They will not enter the Kingdom of God.

Christian, “to you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted” (Matthew 13:11). The Pharisees and those of the legalistic system “will keep on hearing, but will not understand; [they] will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; for the heart of this people has become dull, with their ears they scarcely hear, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they would see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and return, and [God] would heal them” (Matthew 13:14-15). If they would hear the way of the cross, if they would turn to Christ, they would be forgiven and would be heirs of the free woman. However, their hearts are dull; they are in need of the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to even hear the Gospel that we preach to them (and we are to preach so that they Holy Spirit might change their hearts and bring them to repentance).

To you who have, “more shall be given.” You are an heir of the Kingdom. You have the Spirit as your guarantee. You have eternal life now. When Christ returns, you shall be given more; you shall be given perfect everlasting life with God. However, those who do not have, such as those who remain slaves to the Law, even what they do have “shall be taken away” from them. The knowledge and the life which they possess will be taken away. Brothers and sisters, pray for them for they do not “accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to [them]; and [they] cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised” (1 Corinthians 2:14). Pray that the Spirit might awaken them from their Spiritual death. Pray that they might come to Christ. And plead with them that they might repent and receive Christ. As children of the free woman, it is your duty and your true delight to seek for them to be reconciled with God (2 Corinthians 5:20-21).