Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 345
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.” As Christians, we have an experience of the dissolution of the body according to the old nature and have put on a new building which is Christ. We are dead with Christ by baptism into His death and risen up with Him in resurrection into a new life. The old nature which is Adamic and walks according to the law of sin and death, died in Christ on the cross of Calvary. In its place a new nature, a superior nature that walks by faith according to the Son of God, under the control of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, had set us free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2).
Therefore if we are dead with Christ, then we are liberated from the rudiments of the world, that lead to bondage and death. Col 2:20-22, “Wherefore if you are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to ordinances? (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?”
If Christ had set us free from the elemental spirits of the world, why then do we still clinch to things that tend to dead works? Believers are sometimes bound by dead works. Dead works are anything we do to earn, obtain or maintain our salvation. Dead works operate under the cover of religious spirits. It’s a look good spirit, a pious spirit that wants to impress themselves and God of their efforts. It lacks the root capacity of the work of grace wrought through Christ by faith. It’s a boastful spirit (Eph 2:8-9).
The true believers have their boast in the work wrought through them by the power of Christ when He overcame death, satan and sin. The things that are external to us do not have any influence on our salvation. It’s the things that come from within us that should concern us. Mark 7:18-20, “And Jesus said to them, Are you so without understanding also? Do you not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without enters into the man, it cannot defile him. Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all the meats? And He said, that which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.”
Food for thought: Evil originates from the heart of man, not from external things such as the food that we eat. We only need to sanctify the food with Thanksgiving and it becomes acceptable in the sight of God.
Declaration: For from within, out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders. Mark 7:21
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
