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Romans 11 speaks of Grace being given to the Jew first, but because of the rejection of Jesus Christ, we as Gentiles were grafted in. But an assurance is also made that God will turn back to the Jews. And we know this through the promise of the restoration of Israel. This was God’s Covenant to the Jew first.

So is it any surprise that certain people reject the Promise made by God when they reject His Grace?

In post 126, I quoted Paul’s words describing the difference between the heir of the bond woman and the heirs of the children of Promise by faith.

Those under the bond woman reject the heirs of Promise by faith.

There are none so blind as those refusing to see.

Keep looking up Sister, this could be the Day.

——>In post 126, I quoted Paul’s words describing the difference between the heir of the bond woman and the heirs of the children of Promise by faith.

It’s a good lesson. Unfortunately, you miss a very important point.

The Slave Woman and the Free Woman - Two Covenants

http://www.biblelightinfo.com/covenant-seal.htm

[NIV] Gal 4:24 These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Gal 4:25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Hagar represents works righteousness, a failed attempt at justification by keeping the law by the flesh, by human effort, apart from God, not by faith.

Gal 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Gal 4:30 But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
Gal 4:31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Gal 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Gal 5:2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
Gal 5:3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Gal 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

The free woman Sarah represents righteousness by faith, faith in Jesus Christ, who kept the law perfectly for us, and shed his blood to satisfy the demand that the sinner’s blood be shed.

Gal 5:5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.
Gal 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

So it is not the law that is cast out with the Old Covenant, rather there is a change in how the law is viewed - in the New Covenant, the Law of God is internalized by His people:

2 Cor 3:3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Cor 3:4 Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.
2 Cor 3:5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
2 Cor 3:6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Cor 3:7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,
2 Cor 3:8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

So the New Covenant differs in that it is not a covenant with God to keep the letter of the law written in stone, but a Covenant of faith, a faith that is automatically obedient to the spirit and will of God as expressed in His Law. A true faith does not view God’s Law as a burden to be kept externally, but an expression of love to be taken into the obedient heart and mind.

The only difference in the New Covenant, as shown above, is that the Law of God is now written in the hearts and minds of God’s true people, the people of faith who express their love of God by obedience to God’s Law: