Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 73
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: Before the advent of faith through the redeeming work of Christ, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until faith was revealed. The law was our guardian and jealous custodian until Christ came. The arrival of Christ released us from the bondage of jail, as it was impossible for anyone to be justified before God through the tutelage of the law.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death. We are now justified by faith in the sight of God, no more under a paid guardian of the law through the ritual sacrifices of blood offerings. What the law did in serving as a custodian was to watch over the world until the coming of the Messiah.
The law, which was the schoolmaster, wasn’t involved in direct teaching as a core function but rather had custodial rights in ensuring physical safety, moral uprightness and guarding the choice of companions until adolescent.
The Mosaic law watched over the Israelites from the time of the Exodus till its fulfillment in Christ. Peter’s disappointing ambivalent behaviour in avoiding the Gentile buffét at the church lunch, confusing the validity of the dietary laws with the power of grace to sanctify the believers as against being sanctified by keeping the law, is a typical example of confused Christian believers who through ignorance have chosen to underestimate the efficacy of the Grace that flows from the blood that pours out of Immanuel’s veins.
Food for thought: There is no limit to the power of Grace to sanctify and provide justification by faith.
Declaration: Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (Gal 2:16)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
