Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, January 5, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 323
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.” In John 3, in the encounter of Nicodemus with Jesus, the primary source of attraction for Nicodemus was his earnest desire to understand the working of miracles. Nicodemus was overawed by the consistent supernatural manifestation of miracles under Jesus. Nicodemus came to Jesus not as a faultfinder, seeking to find out where Jesus could have possibly gone wrong in His theology.
Instead, Nicodemus came to Jesus in the spirit of a child, wanting to learn. Miracles are powerful attraction for drawing people to the God behind the miracles. All categories of people are attracted to miracles; the powerful, the lowly, the rich and the poor. Depending upon the nature of a need beyond medical or natural solution, the only realistic option for a breakthrough is by means of a miracle. When people in need feel cornered and become desperate for solutions, many are prepared to pay through their nose to have access to a miracle.
This unfortunate scenario of a desperate need on one hand, and a prophet who claims to have a solution to every problem, imagined or existing, is the usual scene that’s normally played out against unsuspecting seekers, who in their desperation against time, become hapless victims of these prophetic gold diggers masquerading as men of God in cassock. Some of these much trumpeted miracles have price tags, sometimes in the more recognizable foreign currencies.
This dubious merchandising of the Gospel of Jesus, something Jesus Christ never practised, had infiltrated the Church in multiple ways. Crafty, well planned, stage-managed miracles in consonance with paid agents, to feign sickness, had become the common stock in trade of people who have no business whatsoever, coming anywhere close or dealing with matters concerning the altar of God. This altar was sanctified with the precious blood of the Lamb of God.
Food for thought: The sanctity of the altar of God is too precious for pretenders of people who are yet to be sanctified, to meddle in.
Declaration: But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 1Cor 1:30
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
