Before we knew God we were slaves. Knowing God is not just mental assent; it is an intimate bond. We walk right back into a form of spiritual slavery when we bond to something or someone else other than Christ Jesus. The Apostle Paul uses an illustration of two women in whom Abraham had intimacy with and the sons that they bore. He did this to show doing things the “ordinary way” as opposed to “by the power of the Spirit.” We are admonished to get rid of the slave woman and her son!