Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, March 30, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 395
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: Matt 16:18, “And I say also to you, You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The twelve disciples of Jesus, who would go on to become the apostles of Christ in the foundation of the Church except Judas, who committed suicide after his rather cheap betrayal of Jesus for the price of an ordinary slave, would go on together with Paul and Matthias, the balloted replacement for Judas, to become world changers.
The conniving and unrepentant Judas, whose voracious greed for money and the mundane things of the world, would see one of the loyal twelve disciples who walked closely with Jesus on a daily basis; ate together and suffered together at the hands of the baiting and wicked hands of the religious authorities of the day, with Judas doing a U-turn in the most unlikely collaboration and conspiracy of all ages, to sell his Master insultingly cheap, blatantly and in a most capricious manner that so shockingly defied all conventional wisdom.
The preponderance of Judas to indulge in petty thievery when he often stole from the moneybag, being the keeper of the most important bag, obviously at the blind side of his colleague disciples, but known to Jesus who knew his heart and who could not be fooled by any man simply because He had no blind side, was to see Judas walking closely in the centre of power and with the giver of everlasting life, yet so far away from the influence of the centre of power and the giver of eternal life. The problem with Judas was his deceitful heart (Jer 17:9).
What started out as a domestic problem of flirtations with pecuniary temptations when he had a glorious opportunity to have yielded his heart for a spiritual surgical operation that held control over his life and destiny, became a playing ground for flirtatious alliance with the very people looking for an opportunity to kill Jesus. Satan held influence and control over the hearts of the religious ruling class which alliance Judas surreptitiously joined with glee and greed. Unknown to Judas, his choice of keeping the moneybag at the expense of his precious heart which he should have let go, led to his ominous and gruesome death, all his bowels gushing out (Acts 1:18).
Food for thought: The decision of the heart over the place of money, is a question that’s still begging to be answered by every man that walks the earth.
Declaration: For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:10
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
