Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Friday, July 1, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 81
Reading: Matthew 27:57-66, 28:1-15
Scripture: He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee. (Luke 24:6)
Note: The unrighteous man uses the law, that he may become righteous. But when he he has finally succeeded in becoming righteous, it stands to reason that he can no longer use the same law as a vehicle, for he has already arrived at the end of his journey. The law was the vehicle or the schoolmaster to lead us to our destination, which is Jesus Christ.
The law was fully in charge, leading the children of Israel during the exodus from Egypt through the uncertainty of the wilderness into the promised land. These were a people who had been in slavery in Egypt and suffered untold hardships, injustice and death. Egypt being a type of the world had greatly influenced their lifestyle, tastes, behaviour and attitude. They had become a very stubborn nation that gave Moses, their redeemer, a lot of headache, frustrating his leadership and often making him to regret having to be the one to lead them in the first place.
Their stiff-necked attitude and behaviour therefore necessitated the need for a guiding constitution that shall be the reference point for all arguments, confusions, debatable situations and matters requiring arbitration. This constitution is what we commonly refer to as the law. It included details such as dietary regulations for their health and safety, ceremonial rituals such as the atonement to purge them from their sins, and moral laws that would ensure order in society, bring about sanity and ensure equity and justice for all.
Disobedience of the law in any form, carries with it a prescribed punishment, ranging from fines, to performing rituals to pacifying God or the offended, to extreme sentence such as death. The law as a schoolmaster was very strict and unbending in enforcing the rules for a young nation that was still under tutelage, learning the rudiments of being a nation under God until they had come of age when there shall be no further need for a schoolmaster. The coming of age for Israel, which is a prototype of the Church, was fulfilled in the coming Messiah, who is Jesus Christ the Lord.
Food for thought: The dispensation under the law as the schoolmaster, was a just necessity by God for a nation of stiff-necked people.
Declaration: Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. (Deut.9:6)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
