We are children of promise like Isaac

We are children of promise like Isaac

Gal 4:28

²⁸ Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Gal 4:23

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. ²³ His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.

Eph 1:13

¹³ And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

Eph 2:12

¹¹ Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— ¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    We are children of promise like Isaac

2)    When we believed, we were marked in Christ with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit

3)    Holy Spirit is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession

4)    When we were uncircumcised,   we were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus we once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.