All right, go ahead and turn your Bibles to Galatians chapter number four, Galatians chapter
number four, and we'll start reading in verse number 21 where it says here, Tell me ye that
desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free
woman, but he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman
was by promise, which things are an allegory, for these are the two covenants, the one from
the Mount Sinai, which generative to bondage, which is Agar, for this Agar is Mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answerth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children,
but Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all.
For it is written, Rejoice thou barren, thou barest not, break forth and cry thou that
travailest not, for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise, but as then he that was born after
the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
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 free woman.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Let's go ahead and pray.
Father, we thank you so much for this conference.
Thank you for using these men to help us reinforce what we believe, and I pray, God, that you
fill me with your Spirit.
Help us to receive something from your Word this afternoon, and in Jesus' name we pray,
amen.
All right, so we're in Galatians chapter number four, and the title of the sermon this afternoon
is The Allegory of the Two Sons.
The Allegory of the Two Sons.
Now there's certain passages in the Bible that completely demolish specific doctrines.
They're so clear.
They're so distinct in what they're saying.
It's just without a shadow of a doubt, you know this is what the Bible says.
You know that nothing can refute it.
And Galatians four is an example of that, specifically in regards to Zionism.
It's so clear what the Bible's teaching here that no one can really refute what it's saying.
Now what's interesting about that is that you have dispensationalists today that will
go to Galatians chapter number four to prop up their Zionist doctrine, and in fact, they're
not reading it from the King James Bible.
They're reading it from their Fox News version of the Bible where they say that Ishmael is
not the unsaved Jew.
What is it talking about?
It's talking about the Muslims.
Why?
Because they hate the Muslims.
Now the first person I heard preach about this is a pastor in Lemon Grove, California
by the name of Pastor Doug Fisher of Lighthouse Baptist Church.
He spent an entire sermon on Galatians four talking about how the Muslims are Ishmael
and how the Antichrist is going to be a Muslim and all these things.
But you know what?
He didn't get that from the Bible.
He didn't get that from the Word of God.
He got that from some commentary and from watching too much Fox News.
Now what is an allegory?
And look, most of these guys will say, you know, it doesn't mean when it says allegory.
What is an allegory?
Well, it's simply a symbolic narrative, okay?
And what it is, it's using the real life of Ishmael and Isaac to basically represent a
spiritual meaning of what we see in the New Testament.
Now go to Galatians chapter two if you would.
I want to lay a brief foundation first before we get into Galatians chapter number four.
You see, the epistle to the Galatians was written as a result of Judaizers infiltrating
the churches in Galatia.
You say, what's a Judaizer?
It's a false teacher who's an adherent to Judaism who has an agenda to propagate, to
promote and convert people to Judaism.
You say, well, what's wrong with that?
You know, if these guys are trying to promote the God of Israel and the God of the Old Testament,
what's wrong with that?
Well, let me tell you what's wrong with that.
Matthew 23 verse 15, the Bible says, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
for ye can pass sea and land to make one proselyte.
And when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
You see, when these people are propagating their false doctrine, they're not making converts
for the Lord.
What are they doing?
They're making them twofold more a child of hell than themselves.
Why is that?
Because they are of the father of the devil, the Bible says.
They're not promoting the true gospel.
They're not promoting the God of the Bible.
They're promoting the devil is what they're doing.
The Bible tells us you don't have to turn there.
And Galatians 1 verse 6, I marvel thee are so soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ and to another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that
trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Now, we like to use that verse in regards to the Jehovah's false witnesses.
And guess what?
It applies to them, right?
We like to use them towards the morons and the Latter-day Saints, and it applies to them,
the Pentecostals and the oneness people, and it applies to them.
But in context, who is this talking about?
The Jews.
So here in context, it's saying that the Jews are bringing in another gospel.
It's the Jews who are perverting the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yes, you could apply it to every other false religion, but originally it was for the Jews.
Now Acts 15 verse 1 says, in certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and
said, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
So this is not something that was new, okay?
We see this as a theme throughout the New Testament that Judaizers are going around
trying to teach people this false doctrine and false gospel, which was a perversion.
But the Bible tells us in Acts 13, 39, and by him all that believe are justified from
all things from which he could not be justified by the law of Moses.
You see, we're not saved by adhering to the law of Moses.
The Bible tells us, for by grace are you saved through faith and then not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not of works that any man should boast.
The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 3 verse 28, therefore we conclude the conclusion of
the matter that man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law, the Bible tells
us.
Now look at Galatians 2 and verse 3 that says, but neither Titus who was with me being a
Greek was compelled to be circumcised and that because of false brethren, unawares brought
in who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might
bring us into bondage.
You see, these were the Judaizers and you know what they're called?
False brethren.
So these Sam Gibbs and these guys who are promoting this Judaism type of Judeo Christian
religion, what are they?
They're false brethren.
They're coming out to spy out the liberty and to bring Christians into bondage.
Now with that in mind, go to Galatians chapter 4.
So keep in mind, that's what's taking place at this time here in the book of Galatians.
Verse 21 says, tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
You know what I see a lot today?
These people who want to claim that they know the word of God and they're promoting the
Jews and saying that they're God's chosen people, they're not even listening to the
law.
The Bible says in verse 22, for it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond
maid, the other by a free woman, but he who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh,
but he of the free woman was by promise.
Now here we see that he's talking about specifically two sons, Ishmael and Isaac.
You don't have to turn in Genesis 16 verse 11, the Bible says, and the angel of the Lord
said unto her, behold, thou with child and shall bear a son and shall call his name Ishmael
because the Lord has heard thy affliction.
So the bond woman is referring to Hagar, the free woman is referring to Sarah and the son
who's born after the flesh is known as Ishmael.
Now why is he called that?
Why is he referred to as being born after the flesh?
Well, for the primary reason in Genesis is because he's a result of Sarah's lapse of
faith, okay?
God had promised Abraham a child, which was Isaac, in their lapse of faith, they took
matters into their own hands and she ended up giving Hagar to Abraham's bosom and what
happened?
The result was Ishmael out of that relationship.
Now this was not the avenue that God had planned to bless them through.
And so Ishmael is symbolic of a person trying to obtain God's promises through something
else other than God and his promises, okay?
Now here's the thing, who's doing that in the New Testament?
Who's trying to obtain the promises of God without Christ?
It's the Jews.
Go to Romans chapter number four, I'm going to read to you from Romans chapter two and
verse 17 where the Bible reads, Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law,
and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest of things that are more
excellent being instructed out of the law, and are confident that thou thyself are a
guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish,
a teacher of babes, which has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Look at Romans four, verse 13, it says, For the promise that he should be the heir of
the world was not to Abraham or to his seed.
Now let me ask you something, was Ishmael Abraham's seed?
Yes, he was.
But it says here, For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to
Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Go to Romans chapter nine, you see Ishmael was a child of Abraham, but what does the
Bible tell us?
According to the flesh.
Not according to the promise that was given unto Abraham that Isaac, and through Isaac
that he should be called, it was referring to him.
Look at verse number six, Not as though the word of God had taken an effect, for they
are not all Israel which are of Israel, neither because they are the seed of Abraham, right?
Just like Ishmael, he was the seed of Abraham.
Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children, but in Isaac shall
thy seed be called.
That is, they which are the children of the flesh, just like Ishmael, these are not the
children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise, at this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son, and
that's referring to Isaac.
Now go with me if you would to Romans chapter number eight, and look throughout the New
Testament this is exactly who this is referring to.
This isn't talking about Muslims.
There is no Muslims in the New Testament.
You don't hear about Allah, and all these other things.
You don't hear about, no you might have had some beards, in those days they were kind
of, look I'm a Christian, I got a Muslim beard.
The Bible says in Philippians 3 9, and be found in him not having mine own righteousness
which is of the law, but that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness which is
of God by faith.
Romans 8 3 says, for what the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh.
Speaking of Ishmael, that symbolic thing of Israel says, God sending his own son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of
the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
Now you go to your average independent fundamental Baptist church, I guarantee you they'll tell
you, oh no, no, no you got it wrong brother Meher, Ishmael is the Muslims, it's the Muslims.
We all know that it's the Muslims, and they will take you to Genesis 16, and I've had
people take me to this passage of scripture right here.
Genesis 16 verse 12 in reference to Ishmael says this, verse 11, and the angel of the
Lord said unto her, behold thou art with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name
Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction, and he will be a wild man, his hand will be
against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of
all his brethren.
Go to 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, and I've had people take me to the scripture and say
see, that's like the Muslims right?
They're wild, you know their beards and stuff, and you know screaming and chopping people's
heads off, their hand is against every man, you know they're against everyone and everyone's
against them, there you go right there.
But is that a part of the narrative of the Bible?
Is that what we see in the New Testament?
Is that what we've seen over the last couple hundred years, thousands of years?
Is it really the Muslims who's against every man who are wild and has every man against
them?
No, that's not what we see.
And in fact in 1 Thessalonians 2, 14, the Bible reads here, for ye brethren became followers
of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus, for ye also have suffered
like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews, who both killed the
Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and they pleased not God, and
look what it says, and are contrary to all men.
What does that mean?
Well in the Hebrew, that means his hand is against every man, that's what it means.
It says there, contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might
be saved, to fill up their sins always, for the wrath has come upon them to the utter
most.
That's talking about the Jews, their hand is against every man, well hold on a second,
but it says every man's hand is against them, yeah that's why they've been booted out of
109 countries, because every man's against them, okay, go to Titus chapter 1, but these
Republican Baptists want to get up and say no, what you need to do is spend some more
time on Fox News, and get your doctrine right, that's what they'll tell us, Pastor Sean Hannity,
and all these other guys, these Catholic guys, who by the way, why are you learning doctrine
from a Catholic?
Some unsaved, reprobate Fox News representative who doesn't know the Bible.
Now look, he said, but hold on a second, come on, the Jews, it says they're wild, now haven't
you heard these Muslims scream, that's wild, that's why it says they're, that they're wild.
Well what does it mean to be wild?
Well it means to be out of control or unruly, right?
Look what Titus 1 10 says, for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially
they of the Muslims, no, especially they of the circumcision, the Jews, whose mouths must
be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they are not, for filthy lucre's
sake.
So who are the wild unruly people?
It's the Jews, these bunch of liars.
Now go back to Galatians chapter 4.
So Ishmael's not talking about the Muslims, you know, I believe Ishmael was saved, amen,
but the literal person was saved, but what there's, what he symbolically represents,
which is the unsaved Jews, they're not saved, okay, they're children of the flesh.
Look at verse 24 of Galatians 4, it says here, which things are an allegory, for these are
the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which generate the bondage, which is Agar,
and they'll say right there, Mount Sinai right there, I mean in Arabia, it talks about, right?
That's why I talk about the Arabians.
I'm gonna read to you from Luke chapter 5 verse 37, it says, no man putteth new wine
into old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottle
shall perish, but new wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved.
No man having drunk old wine straightway desireth new, for he saith, the old is better.
This is in reference to the old covenant and the new covenant, and you know what it's telling
us there in Luke chapter 5 and verse 39, it's telling us those who have drunk the old wine,
these Judaizers, these Pharisees, they don't want to go into the new covenant, why is that?
Because they think the old is better, but you know what the Bible teaches us in Hebrew
chapter 8, that the new covenant is better, he's a mediator of a better covenant established
upon better promises.
That's why it's better.
And look, Ishmael and Isaac are not the only symbolic people in the Bible that represent
unsaved Jews and Christians.
You have Saul of the Old, King Saul of the Old Testament who also represents unsaved,
the unsaved Jews, and you have David who represents Christians.
You know, when Saul disobeyed God, Samuel came to him and what did he say?
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to someone who's better than you.
And what does it say in the New Testament?
The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof.
You say, hold on a sec, it says bringing forth the fruits thereof and what King Saul says
better than you.
Yeah, because Jesus is better.
He's the mediator of a better covenant established upon better promises, okay.
Now here's the thing, okay, the differences between the two covenants here obviously is
referring to the Old Testament and New Testament.
Hebrews 8 is a quotation from Jeremiah chapter 31.
Now let's read Jeremiah chapter 31 and verse 31.
It says behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt, which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord.
Now go back to Hebrews 8 and verse 7.
So there we see in Jeremiah 31 verse 32, he tells them that he was a husband unto them,
okay.
Now look at Hebrews 8 and verse number 7.
Keep that in mind.
It says for if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been
stopped for the second for finding fault with them.
He saith behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt, because they continue not into my covenant.
Look what it says, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Now this is a quotation from Jeremiah chapter 31.
You ask, and please don't, you ask James White, and he will tell you, you see, this is a contextual
error in the King James Bible, okay.
He'll tell you that Hebrews 8 is a contextual error because it's not quoting Jeremiah chapter
31 perfectly.
Why?
Because in Jeremiah 31, he was a husband unto them, but in Hebrews chapter 8, he regarded
them not.
Now we know that the Bible's inspired and preserved.
There's no mistakes.
There's no error.
James White.
So what does it mean?
It means this.
In the Old Testament, he was a husband unto them.
In the New Testament, he doesn't regard them anymore.
That's what that means.
You see, in the Old Testament, they were a people of God.
God did regard them.
He was a husband unto them, but when the new covenant came, guess what?
He doesn't regard them anymore.
And this is the verse that I use to Christian Zionists who are saved and claim to be King
James only.
I'll tell them, look, if you're King James only, you only have one of two ways of interpreting
this verse, Hebrews 8.
Either you're saying that it's a contextual error, right, because it's not saying the
same thing as Jeremiah 31, or it's replacement theology.
Stick that in your pipe and choke on it.
You only have two ways of determining what that means.
And you know what?
It's replacement theology is what it is.
So these are two people groups.
Now go to Galatians chapter 4, verse 25, it says, For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
And I'm kidding you not, they'll tell you, that's in reference to the muzzle, because
it says Arabia.
But you got to define the Bible using the Bible, because it says an answereth to Jerusalem.
What does that word answereth mean?
Well in Proverbs 27, verse 19, it says, As in water, face answereth to face.
So what does that mean?
When you look into water, what are you going to see?
Your own reflection.
So what is the Bible telling us in Galatians 4, and verse 25, For this Agar is Mount Sinai
in Arabia, and reflects Jerusalem, which now is, and by the way, this now is not talking
about 2018.
It's talking about the Jews of that day, okay.
So he's saying, those people who adhere, those who are the children of Hagar, those
who are adhering to the law, they're the ones who reflect Jerusalem, which now is.
Verse 26, But Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all that heavenly
Jerusalem.
Verse 27, For it is written, Rejoice thou that beareth not, break forth and cry thou
that travailest not.
For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now, which is exactly what was taking place in Galatians.
Now verse 30, Nevertheless, what saith the scripture?
Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall be not be heir
with the son of the free woman.
So then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Now go with me if you went to Matthew chapter eight, these will be the last scriptures we
go to and I'm done.
So we see that in the Old Testament, what did Sarah say, hey, cast her out, cast out
Hagar, cast out Ishmael, because they're not going to be heir with Isaac, okay?
What does that symbolically show?
What is that in the New Testament?
Well, in the New Testament shows that the unsaved Jews will be cast out.
Wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Are they going to be cast out of the land?
You know, isn't that what that's talking about?
Where do they really go?
Where are they going to be cast out of?
The Bible tells us in John eight, you don't have to turn there, verse 32, Jesus speaking
to the Pharisees, he says, and he shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
They answered him, we be Abraham's seed, and we're never in bondage to any man.
How sayest thou, ye shall be made free?
Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committed sin is the servant
of sin, and the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth forever.
Now look at Matthew eight, because I'm going to show you where they're going to be cast
out into.
Matthew eight, verse 10 says, when Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to them that followed,
verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel, and I say
unto you that many shall come from the east and west and shall sit down with Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and the kingdom of heaven, but the children of the kingdom, who's that
referring to?
That spiritual Ishmael, those unsaved Jews, but the children of the kingdom shall be what?
Cast out into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
He said, where are they going to be?
You mean, you know, they're not just going to be cast out of the land, they're going
to be thrown into the lake of fire.
That's where they're going.
Every single last one Christ rejecting Jew will be slain before the Lord and will be
cast into the lake of fire.
We said, well, hold on a second.
You read from John eight and it says servant, the servant abideth not in the house forever.
Well, let me read you from Matthew 25 verse 29 where it says, front to everyone that hath
shall be given and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken
away even that which he hath and cast thee the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
You see, many of the parables found within the gospels, a lot of reasons why people trip
up and they stumble at these parables, it's because they don't understand that it's talking
about the Jews.
Just because it says servant doesn't mean it's talking about a Christian, it's talking
about the Jews.
That's where they're going to be cast out of.
So Galatians four is one of those portions of scripture that just demolishes this so-called
concept that the Jews are God's chosen people and that Ishmael is the Muslims.
No, they're not the Muslims.
Stop hating on the Muslims and try to reach them.
Stop hating the Muslims and try to preach the gospel to them.
Stop hating on my beard and just go out and preach the gospel to the Muslims.
Bunch of racists.
But what is this teaching us here?
You know what?
Anybody can be a part of Isaac.
Anybody could become that child of promise in Christ.
Amen?
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Follow me.
Thank you for your word and Lord, I didn't do justice to this subject, but I'm thankful
for the word of God that just explains this so clearly.
And thank you for those who've come across this truth that have taught it to us and I
pray that Lord, you'd help us to be faithful with the word of God to propagate it as you
see fit.
We pray these things in Jesus' name.
Amen.