Connecting The Dots Galatians 4:21-31 Genesis 16, 17 and 21

Galations 5: 29 But as then he that was born AFTER THE FLESH persecuted him that was born AFTER THE SPIRIT, even so it is now. 30. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 31. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Genesis 17 Sarai gives Abram the bond servant Hagar to have his child, because she was barren. Hagar conceives and bare Ishmael. He is the son of the bond woman mentions in Galations 4. In Genesis 17 God changes Abram's name to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah by adding the Hebrew letter "He." When you pronounce the letter you breath out. So evidently this represents God breathed into Abraham and Sarah. In Genesis 21 God opens Sarah's womb and she bares Abraham Isaac who is the son of the free woman in Galations 4. So quite litterally Ishmael was born AFTER THE FLESH and Isaac was born AFTER THE SPIRIT.

I didn't deserve the death penalty for his crimes.

 Balo Holsh

I was almost aborted when my biological mother was two months pregnant. She was raped when she was only 14 years old. My adoptive parents took my biological mother in their home and took care of her in every sense during her whole pregnancy. When I was born they gave her the option to chose giving me up for adoption or keeping me. She chose to give me up and my parents adopted me. My adoptive parents kept taking care of my biological mother (whom I never met by choice) supported her, gave her a home and paid for her studies until she was 22, when she was able to be independent and make a living for herself (I know she got married to a great guy when she was 24). I adore my parents and I'll be forever grateful to my mother because thanks to them, I was adopted, not aborted. My biological father was a rapist but I didn't deserve the death penalty for his crimes.