Promise Principle - Galatians Series:4

Tune: Ye Banks And Braes

('We cannot measure how you heal')

Galatians 4 v.22-31

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Two sons had Abraham the man

One by bond-maid, one by free woman

He who born of the bond woman

Ishmael the name of Hagar's son

He born of the flesh naturally

As all human births so do be

But the one born of free woman

Isaac the name of Sarah's son

 

Isaac, he was born by promise

God's plan, purpose, working in this

These things they be allegory

Symbolic, two covenants, see

For Hagar she be mount Sinai

In Arabia does it lie

Which corresponds to bondage, see

Earthly Jerusalem, not free

 

But Sarah, she symbolic be

Of Jerusalem above, free

Which is the mother of us all

Who in the Lord do trust and call

For it is written, Rejoice you

Barren that bears, for not a few

Children shall you have, but many

More than they that have husbands, see

 

Now we as Isaac was, we be

The children of the promise, free

But as it was in days of old

So the same pattern is retold

That they who by the flesh were born

They do still persecute and scorn

Those that are born of the Spirit

Who with God's family are knit

 

Yet what does Scripture say to do

When they oppose, persecute you?

Cast out bond woman and her son

They have a share in promise none

Shall not be heirs with free woman

Of the promise, nor with her son

And we of New Covenant be

The children of the mother free