Under bondage or promise?

John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

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Genesis 17:15  ¶And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

16  And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

17  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

18  And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

19  And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Galatians 4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Abraham’s children; one born of a bond-woman  (Hagar – Ishmael) and one born of a free-woman (Sarah – Isaac) and of a promise from God

Jeremiah 1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

We are born physically into this world coming from where we know not, but we are born as a subject to this world and are under bondage to this, or of this, world. I the Lord knew us before we were born and he will know us after our death then this life we have here is but a passing of time, and we know that time is nothing to the Lord.

Joel 2:28  ¶And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

Acts 2:17  And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

We are prophets today through the receiving of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ by the Father? God knew us before we came into this world.

We are, upon birth, under bondage to this world, physically, socially, under the control of Man and society. We are born under bondage.

When we receive the Holy Spirit we are “born again”; we receive that which is[was] ours [before we were born]. Coming once again into union with the God, the Father of us all. We are no longer under bondage of this existence for we are come to understand that we are not of this existence, but only reside here for a short time.

Galatians 5:1  ¶Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Our purpose here has nothing to do with this world and its demands and needs but only with the others of us who are yet to understand what we understand.

Luke 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 10:27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Psalms 95:7  ¶For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye will hear his voice,

We are God’s Word in this world;
We are His voice speaking to the hearts of Man.

Romans 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17  ¶And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

We who are born again are born of the promise of God.

Therefore, we are no longer born of the bondage as in our physical birth, we are born (again) of the promise of God.

So that answers the question; but brings forth other questions.

Being no longer born of bondage (to this world) we are longer subject to the bondage of this world neither spiritually, socially, nor physically. But to do God’s work we do need to reside in this world and therefore we do subject ourselves to the physical aspects of this world and societies that we live in.; but we do it not on not on the world’s terms/standards but on our terms, through the application of the Holy Spirit, using what we are taught from and by God’s Word.

And to enable us to do God’s work we need to know God’s Word.

2 Timothy 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

If we don’t read God’s Word
we don’t learn God’s Word.