Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 53
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 Apostle Paul was one person who could confidently be described as a spiritual man, without any qualms or protest. However, being a spiritual man does not in any way mean that the Apostle was an invisible or intangible person. The description “spiritual man” only serves to contextualize the orientation of the Apostle to the things of the Spirit. His tangibility and materiality as human could never be called into question as a result of his spiritual tendency as a person.
A further proof of the description “spiritual man” not being confused with an invisible and intangible man is explained by Paul in 1Cor.2:14, where the anthropos psychikus (natural man) is contrasted to the anthropos pneumatikos (spiritual man). The natural man does not mean a man made out of a soul. Paul is speaking of their orientation.
The shameless attempt by the proponents of the objective vision hypothesis to draw the writings of Paul in the Epistles into a collision course with the four gospel narratives can aptly be described as intellectually disingenuous and academically pathetic.
Paul believed in the resurrection of the body. It will be a glorified body that is immortal, glorious, powerful, and free from the effects of sin that dominates the soma psychikon (natural body).
Food for thought: Redemption is deliverance from sin; its power, hold, effects and guilt over man.
Declaration: But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. (1Cor.2:14)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
