Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 375
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.” Man is a spirit that has a soul and lives in a body, which is the earthly house of this tabernacle that we dwell in. The body being the visible part of man, is understood by everyone regarding its purpose and function. However, the invisible parts of man that aren’t accessible to our five senses, have suffered a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation, whenever man had used sources other than the infallible word of God.
The Bible didn’t leave us in the dark concerning the essential differences between the soul and the spirit of man. Aside the text from Hebrews 4:12 that talks about the word of God as the operational tool that’s able to clearly define the dividing partition between the two invisible parts of man, the Apostle Paul wrote on the same subject in 1Thess 5:23, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
It took the discernible ability of God’s word to identify the non visible parts of man. The soul constitutes our mind, will and emotions. This is the part where we think and feel. It’s the part where we plan and organize, the part of us that stays focused or gets distracted. Our soul feels pleasure and is able to perceive hurts from others. It’s in our soul that we become discouraged or motivated to do things. Our very personality as known to others is attributable to the soul. It’s in our soul that we become anxious, worry and fret. It’s the same soul that ensures that we’re able to rest peacefully and meditate on good things.
Man was created as a spirit being, housed in a clay tabernacle which is the body. The spirit of man is the part of man that died instantly when Adam disobeyed God. This death is spiritual separation or disconnect from God, who is Himself a Spirit. When we become born again or regenerated in Christ, we become new a creation as a result of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. Jesus paid the full price for the death that we justifiably deserved through the sin of Adam, by the shedding of His precious blood. When we become born again, our spirit comes alive again and becomes reconnected to the life source in Christ Jesus.
Food for thought: Reconnection of man to God is through our regenerated spirit that comes alive through the quickening power of the life source in Christ Jesus.
Declaration: In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Eph 1:13
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
