Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, June 23, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 155
Scripture: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building. (Heb 9:11)
Note: Gen 3:8, “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” Fear of reprisal condemned Adam and Eve into abandoning their first estate. The judgment of God hadn’t fallen on them yet, as anticipated. It was judgment of their own action and personal condemnation of their disobedience, that sent them running away from the light of God’s presence into darkness. They felt more comfortable hiding in the dark among the trees of the garden.
Isn’t it amazing that two people created in the light by God, and who had until then lived their lives entirely in the light of God’s presence, fellowshipping with God, suddenly developed a distaste and dislike for the light and instead had an affinity for darkness? God, the Creator, is the Father of lights, the One in whom there is no darkness or any variableness, neither shadow of turning, for He’s the source of light (James 1:17).
1John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” Adam and Eve were fully aware of what they had done when they were running away from the light of Gods presence and fellowship. Sin of disobedience had made them fugitives of the light in a domain otherwise under their command, control, dominion and authority. Disobedience robbed them of their God-given right to Eden, turning them into liars, with no respect for the truth. Darkness was now reigning fully over their affairs (1John 1:6).
Darkness can never stand the light. Fellowship comes from the Greek word, ‘koinonia’. It means to share in common. Unfortunately, the new status of Adam and Eve meant that they had nothing to share in common with God, hence the fear, the fright and the flight. Christian fellowship goes beyond merely attending Church, which is not even optional. It’s getting assimilated into the body of believers, becoming one body in one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism and one God and Father of all (Eph 4:4-6).
Food for thought: It’s pathetic not to have anything in common with God and His Son Jesus Christ, who died to redeem man from sin and God’s wrath.
Declaration: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 1John3:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
