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The Judaisers were claiming that there teaching was based on the Law. Paul now contends that they actually totally misunderstood the Law. They wanted to be under the Law, and wanted others (in this case the Galatians) to be under the Law. In fact people who are following a wrong path will often be desperate for others to go along with them on that path. Today we see how the LGBT activists are so desperate for everyone to approve of the path they have taken and cannot cope with anyone giving the merest hint of a suggestion that their path might be a wrong path. Now, we also want people to follow Jesus along with us, but if people choose not to follow that path we might be sad, for their sake, but we do not feel threatened because our security is not in our own wisdom, but in God. The Judaisers did not realise what the consequences of being under the Law were.
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Paul will now use the example of Ishmael and Isaac to illustrate the point, to illustrate the truth. Now Abraham and Sarah should never have had Ishmael, if they had fully trusted God Ishmael would not have been born. Yet God still uses this disobedience on their part as part of His plan, and here to illustrate the truth.It is also perhaps interesting that it is the women, Hagar and Sarah who are central to Paul’s argument. One was a slave woman, the other a free woman.
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