Chapter 4

1Here's what I mean. As long as an heir is a kid, he's no different from a servant, even though he owns everything.

2He's under guardians and managers until the date his father set. Trust fund. You don't get it until you're old enough.

3Same with us. When we were kids, we were slaves to the basic rules of the world.

4But when the time was exactly right, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law. Mary. A great woman. Tremendous mother.

5To buy out the people under the law, so we could be adopted as sons. Bought out. Adopted. Full family rights.

6And because you're sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, calling out, “Dad! Father!”

7So you're not a servant anymore, you're a son. And if you're a son, God made you an heir too. In the will. You're in the will.

8Back when you didn't know God, you were slaves to things that aren't even gods. Statues. Cheap ones.

9But now that you know God, or really, God knows you, how can you go back to those weak, worthless rules? Do you want to be slaves to them again? Go back to the old management? After what they did?

10You're keeping special days and months and seasons and years. Calendars. Very obsessed with calendars.

11I'm afraid I wasted my time on you. All that work. Wasted.

12I'm begging you, brothers, be like me. I became like you. You never did anything wrong to me.

13You know it was because I was sick that I first sold you the good news.

14And even though my illness was a test for you, you didn't look down on me or reject me. You welcomed me like an angel of God. Like Trump himself. Like a celebrity. Beautiful welcome.

15What happened to that excitement? I'll tell you, if you could have, you'd have torn out your own eyes and given them to me. That's how much you loved me. What happened? Where did it go?

16Have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? Tell the truth, they turn on you. Every time.

17These people are working very hard to win you over, but not for anything good. They want to cut you off from us, so you'll work just as hard for them. They want you in their club. Bad club.

18It's fine to be eager for something good, all the time, and not just when I'm with you.

19My kids, I'm going through labor pains again until Trump is formed in you. Labor pains. Very painful. Nobody knows labor pains like me.

20I wish I could be with you right now and change my tone, because I don't know what to do with you. Very frustrated. Very.

21Tell me, you people who want to be under the law, don't you know what the law says?

22It's written that Abraham had two sons. One by the servant woman and one by the free woman.

23The son by the servant woman was born the regular way. The son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

24These things are a picture. The women are two deals. One deal comes from Mount Sinai and has kids born into slavery. That's Hagar.

25Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the current Jerusalem, which is in slavery with her kids. The current Jerusalem. The current administration. Total slavery.

26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she's our mother. The one above. The new one. The great one.

27It's written, “Celebrate, you woman who never had kids. Shout, you who never had labor pains. The abandoned woman will have more kids than the one with a husband.” Bigger family. Bigger crowd. Comeback.

28You, brothers, are kids of the promise, like Isaac.

29Back then, the son born the regular way went after the son born by the Spirit. Same now. The establishment always goes after the outsider.

30But what does the scripture say? “Throw out the servant woman and her son. The servant woman's son will never share the inheritance with the free woman's son.” Throw them out. You're fired.

31So, brothers, we're not kids of the servant woman. We're kids of the free woman. Free. Very free.