The Foundation the Lord's

01/27/2025

For it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bondmaid the other by a free woman.

Galatians 4:22

I do not know about you but I find such things to be quite lovely here that are once seen in the text. Much as this had not our God in his time all things beautiful made. For of such then is the building even that of the Lord. Then too are we being possessed of the kingdom, a city therefore made without hands once more by all things invisible so being let down from above. Much as in the fashion of Christ which caught up, being taken from them, thence did arose. It sounds awful to put it as such or so from the start wherein it was written that these things contained. Yet in this is the foundation, your surety made. See, our God is not beheld then by any as one that perhaps had owned us much like in fashion of debtors or sinners as some have supposed. How many of you know some that would whisper the old mantra that 'to whom much has been given had much also forgiven.' Though such quite simply could be considered by some as a blasphemy especially given our God's own nature and place. Such good can you also conclude that in Abrahams' sons this nature was made almost as that of their spiritual father with one heart set in keeping one woman, the other very much lost in the desert. Perhaps though in example the answers not to be found with the drifting of sand or even in unsteady brush once had with the wind. Instead, in all this you can be very much certain of our Father's hand once again. He had hardly left off and forgotten his people much as Hagar once knew for certain herself being witness to the enteral purpose and also his glory. See for in that here the nature had preceded the glory. At such times in this life, it very much looks as though not all things clearly visible so do appear. Just ask Joseph all alone in a pit with no water how he thought of his brethren then at that time. Then again later, when he had reason to save all of Egypt, could he not have done unto them as unto also to whom much had been given and so also of whom much is expected the same. How many of you know of the exaltation that follows when he who is faithful in little gets set over much. It seems a natural order of sorts that this should appear as after the building put into place and not hardly exalted by time or the weather. Here in the building are we after his very own nature and purpose, founded and sure. I know, some of you preachers love to talk about the immutability of these things that cannot change as though your very own preaching ought never to age. Then again these things are often as dry as the dust, like in the desert with it's shifting of sands, or the ground from which Adam once taken was returned only to dress it and keep it at the command of the Lord. Could not the dressing then be referred to as that of himself since by his very own lack of inaction this disorder arose. Now it goes on down the line to the time of Abraham, another spiritual father yet of a sort, of the type that above all is faithful and true though not really as all things considered. Might well that be just referring then on back to the Lord. Of all the things though that can be drawn from this text, there remains the breath of his Son as seen in the family's natural order of such as those who have conquered ought to have reached out in surrender but so too have they fell. So being tempted then by the test on the whole which Adam had lost, Abraham too had somewhat fallen short of the glory and so had failed in his post. Herein is it not almost a spiritual mission of sorts, by the which Abraham having not yet conceived brought forth a child. Then too might well have you wondered that in all of this our God is still working and so gets the glory. For it is up to us still to praise, my friends, whether in good or in evil, in life or in death, that all then should praise very much rather. Despite all that's seen by our very own eyes, faith then requires the evidence of things seen not as of yet that thus should appear very much rather. Could it be that in all of this our God is still working. How well some of you know such of course whether from the sum of your lives in center to the same total in shape of the building that of Christ the whole figure. Come on now to the building made without hands where Christ is the middle, that is to say the one central figure, the chief cornerstone on which the rest of the house stands and all holds together. When once though upon him it has fallen, the same is been made the head of the corner. Might well you and I know of this such having found this ourselves taking place in our worlds. How many of you know of hatred and evil, then too having seen in all of these things our just God very much figured. But then too as with Joseph in Genesis 50:20 can you say it again that he makes even the worst of the evil to turn out for good or so have all the rest of our days passed but as a leaf on the wind or just as the grass that is withered and sown. See now the handmaid's perspective and that also of Sarah as unto the death. Her having ceased from finding him fun or text says finding some other sort of pleasure though as from Christ the center are all other things spoken. Considering this rather could not Sarah have been just as dead as supposed. Yet still our God brought forth the grace and the healing rather enough also with strength in abundance to conceive from the womb. So too there's some in our midst that would say their sin doesn't matter having therefore no effect or a sum, being washed in the blood removed from the central, and so forgotten about in the far deepest ocean. All that is fine and wonderful to say very much surely. But what then if those who are very much working under their very former own operating delusions, who see naught of the Lord's favor but how you portray him as all things working out from the center. To such as these then, our God still is faithful both in the leaving and the taking and the giving also were such a thing even possible. It takes very much a perspective of mercy and grace to deal with it from the start and so too to forgive as with Peter who found his brother almost near quite caught up of the evil. I mean, I do not know about you, but having to forgive time and again through all the ages of man, I would need a lot more than Sarah's mentorship rather. For of such is the building even that of the Lord. Herein is reflected the need for some other more spiritual mother, with all that you soon would be tempted to free. The spiritual mother, that of the free, had not a mention of then in the text. Except that you too endured as in Hebrews 11 all things and even afflictions, seeing him who lives so being counted as faithful.