Choice Gleanings - May 6

May 6 - Choice Gleanings

 DAILY READINGS: Numbers:16:41But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
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And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar…and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Genesis:16:3And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
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And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? Genesis:16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
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For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. Galatians:4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
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Even though Hagar had become Abram's second wife, the angel of the Lord addressed her as Sarai's maid. She represents the law given

at Mount Sinai, and therefore she could never be truly joined with faith, for Abram represents faith, and Sarai, grace. The law can only

be handmaid to grace. Mankind so often tries to be joined to faith by works, but God consistently reminds us, "by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified"  (Gal:2:16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Sovereign grace o'er sin abounding, ransomed souls, the tidings swell;

'Tis a deep that knows no sounding, who its breadth or length can tell?

— John Kent

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