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The Everlasting Covenant

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    All True Believers are Spiritual

    From this case, therefore, we learn most conclusively that the seed which God promised to Abraham, which should be as the sand of the sea and the stars of heaven for number, and which should inherit the land, is a spiritual seed. That is, it is a seed which comes through the agency of the Spirit of God. The birth of Isaac, like that of the Lord Jesus, was miraculous. It was supernatural. Both were brought about through the agency of the Spirit. In both we have an illustration of the power by which we are to become sons of God, and thus heirs of the promise. For we, even now on this earth are to be wholly spiritual, otherwise we are not true children of God. Our everyday life of work and business is to be a spiritual life. “Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of Christ dwell in you.”EVCO 77.1

    The seed of Abraham after the flesh are Ishmaelites. He was a wild man, or, as the Revised Version has Freemen, not Slaves nor Ishmaelites. it, “A wild ass among men.” 1Genesis 16:12. Moreover, he was the son of a bondwoman, and therefore not a freeborn son. Now the Lord had already signified, when speaking of Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, that the seed of Abraham were to be free. Therefore if Abraham had only remembered the words of the Lord, instead of harkening to the voice of his wife, he would have been saved much trouble.EVCO 77.2

    It is worth while to dwell at length upon this phase of the subject, for it will save much confusion as to the true seed of Abraham, and the true Israel. Let the points be stated once more.EVCO 78.1

    1. Ishmael was born after the flesh, and could not be the seed. Therefore those who are only of the flesh cannot be the children of Abraham, and heirs according to the promise.EVCO 78.2

    2. Isaac was born after the Spirit, and was the true seed. “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.” 2Genesis 21:12. Therefore all the children of Abraham are they alone who are born of the Spirit. “We, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.” 3Galatians 4:28.EVCO 78.3

    3. Isaac was freeborn; and none but those who are free are the children of Abraham, “So, then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.” 4Galatians 4:31.EVCO 78.4

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