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== Ishmael ==

An Ishmael is someone that persecutes you (verse 29).

{{ Cf |
[[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.

 [24] Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

 [25] For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

 [26] But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

 [27] For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

 [28] Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

 [29] But as then '''he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit''', even so it is now.

 [30] '''Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.'''

 [31] '''So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.''' 
| Galatians 4:22-31 | [[KJV]] }}

An Ishmael is not a saved christian (verse 30).

== How to deal with an Ishmael ==

Well throw him out [30]. If he searches you out on the street or in a church or some other building avoid him or leave the place. Because if you are [[True believers|born again]] your body is the temple of God.

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What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 
| I Corinthians 6:19 | [[KJV]] }}

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