Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, April 5, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 400
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 expected victory of the Church over the power and influence of the gates of hell, was dependent on a Church that’s living within the ambience of God’s grace. The triple mandate, beginning with the spirit of service with the heart of the lowliest servant, might seem weak to the carnal mind, but to us who are born of the Spirit, it is the power of God onto salvation.
The truth of the washing of feet as demonstrated by Jesus was just one of several examples that He could have chosen from, to bring out the light of God’s revelation to His disciples. Were the example of Jesus meant to be taken literally to perpetuate cycles of rituals running down the ages, the mechanism of feet washing gesture would have been rendered redundant by advances in technological developments that have machines that can perform a better task of feet washing for a mass of people at a time.
The reality of the enormous challenges on the demands of time as a precious commodity in our age would have made the literal washing of feet of a large congregation by any leader such a laborious and time consuming exercise that it would have literally died altogether a natural death, with all the deep spiritual significance that Jesus sought to carry across to His disciples lost on the Church. First, when we come to Christ for the washing of our sins, we can be sure that is permanent and complete.
No act can cleanse us further from our sin, as our sin has been exchanged for the perfect righteousness of Christ on the cross (2 Corinthians 5:21). But we do need continual cleansing from the effects of living in the flesh in a sin cursed world. The continual washing of sanctification is done by the power of the Holy Spirit, who lives within us, through the “washing of water by the Word (Ephesians 5:26), given to us to equip us for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16–17).
Food for thought: The washing of regeneration and the renewing of the spirit through sanctification, are both acts of the Spirit to bring us to the position of a perfect man.
Declaration: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Titus 3:5
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
