Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Monday, February 5, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 349
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 dissolution of the old, Adamic nature at the rebirth of the believer is not a routine act of dead work that’s attained through personal efforts at reformation of the old nature. Neither is it an act of determination to walk in purity through self-righteousness. It’s an act of God’s grace through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
This act of dissolution of the old tabernacle is a God-centered initiative designed by Yahweh to reconcile man back to Himself through a spiritual rebirth, that puts the old nature to death through the sword. The fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in their futile desire to attain knowledge that makes them equal with God, rather became the barrier that prevented them from access to the tree of life. God demonstrated His mercy to man when He drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of life and living forever under His wrath without any hope of redemption (Gen 3:22).
Man had to leave the garden of Eden to go and till the ground and sweat for his efforts. Man’s desire for independence and knowledge outside God meant that he’s now the god of his own solutions as he had so desired. Man needed his space and his opportunity to explore things through self-help and personal efforts outside God’s wisdom, knowledge, sustenance and control. God accordingly obliged man to his wish of sweat, toil, suffering and independence outside God’s domain.
Separation from God is death, because God is the source of life. Adam’s infamous decision meant that he had to face the flaming sword that protected the tree of life as the only avenue back to the tree of life (Gen 3:24). Adam was not prepared to face the sword for his own sin, which would have meant death. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law (1Cor 15:56). It took the obedience and sacrifice of the last Adam, who is Jesus Christ, to lay down His life for man when He painfully faced the sword that the first Adam avoided, on the cross of Calvary.
Food for thought: Jesus Christ gave man the opportunity to exchange our corruption and mortality with incorruption and immortality.
Declaration: But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Cor 15:57
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
