Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, January 25, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 340
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: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” The moment Lazarus died, his body began to suffer an act of dissolution. The dissolution of our earthly house of this tabernacle is only a natural response to the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). The corruption process that produces death, decay and destruction, began in Adam when sin became the nature of man through an act of disobedience.
Lazarus had been dead for four days, and buried in the tomb. By the natural law of corruption after death, the internal organs of Lazarus were expected to have begun melting after four days. Putrefaction was expected to have followed in the order of corruption due to death. The Lazarus story was every bit a hopeless case going by conventional knowledge and education. This is what death does to everyone in the Adamic lineage without exception. Just as death stinks to man, so does sin stink in the sight of God.
God loves man unconditionally. God loves the sinner but He hates sin in the life of the sinner. It’s sin that produced death in our members. For there’s no death or any form of darkness in God. For in Jesus Christ is life and that life is the light of men (John 1:4). The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made (John 1:2-3). The presence of the life of Christ in any man destroys and reverses the power of sin and death in our members.
The unconditional love of God for man compelled Him to offer His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to man through His substitutionary death on the cross. This unconditional offer of love and sacrifice while we were yet sinners, and very much steeped in our sins and rebellion against God, is what we call grace. The grace of God could not allow man to suffer the consequences of the corruption that comes with sin and death. The mercy of God reversed the corruption process that had begun in Lazarus in the tomb and brought him back to life.
Food for thought: The irreversibility of death in man was altered in favour of Lazarus to demonstrate the resurrection power of Jesus.
Declaration: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus had set me free from the law of sin and death. Rom 8:2
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
