Friday, April 20, 2018

The Substance

Were God's ancient people distinguished among all nations for their privileges and blessings? Then much more happy are God's spiritual Israel. They are redeemed from a viler slavery than that of Egypt, and with a more glorious manifestation of power and grace.


Believers now have not the tabernacle in the wilderness, nor the temple at Jerusalem but they have all the precious realities typified by them. They are not mere outer-court worshipers, but have access to the Holy of holies through the blood of the Lamb.


They are not fed with the manna of the desert, but with "the True Bread of Heaven."


They do not drink of the waters of the rock of Horeb, but of the river of life flowing from the Rock, Christ Jesus.


They do not have in prospect an earthly Canaan, but a heavenly city, whose builder and Maker is God.


They do not have a temporal inheritance but an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance!


Israel of old had the shadows, Christians now have the substance.


[Author Unknown]


 




Psalm 73:1 ... Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.




Deuteronomy 33:29 ... Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.



Hebrews 10:9-10 ...  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.