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- When one obeys the gospel of Christ, he is added to the body of Christ and is thereby part of God's holy priesthood. As priests, all can offer up spiritual sacrifices and draw nigh to God through the mediatorship of Jesus.
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Sep 6, 2024 · Answer. The Bible teaches that all believers in Christ are priests in their own right. The main passage that deals with the priesthood of all believers is 1 Peter 2:5–9: “You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. . . .
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- The Apostle Paul Writes That We Are Now The Holy of Holies.
- Scripture Begins and Ends with Priestly Images.
- We Now Live Out The Priesthood of All believers.
Our role as priests—a role that includes both male and female—is a premier theme throughout Scripture. Watch for tabernacles, temples, sacrifices, cleansing, and any time that God comes close. Here are ten things you should know about the priesthood.
Priests had a full job description, but the essence of their work was that they were invited to come into God’s house and enjoy his hospitality. Could there be anything better? Of course, priests didn’t just casually wander into the Lord’s inner room—the Holy of Holies, the throne room itself. The Lord always cleansed and dressed his priests when t...
Any important human identity should appear early in Scripture, and the priestly identity appears in the beginning. Eden was the first tabernacle, the garden its first Holy of Holies. Adam and Eve were commissioned to work and keep the garden, and they enjoyed God’s presence. This same language is used for the priests who worked in the later wildern...
Here is Scripture’s basic taxonomy. It sounds ancient and irrelevant, but we still have an intuitive sense of the distinctions. Unclean means that there is something wrong with us and we are sure everyone knows it. Clean means that we are free to move about the community without painful self-consciousness. Holy, we think, identifies someone other t...
As we rummage through the New Testament looking for our priestly identity, it seems largely absent, except for Peter’s comment that we are a “royal priesthood” (1 Pet. 2:5, 9). But we shouldn’t be surprised that, given the conflicts between Jesus and the priests of the day, the epistles chose the word saintto continue this theme. Saints are holy on...
A New Testament image for you and for the church is that you are a “living stone,” part of a “spiritual house” (1 Pet. 2:4–5, also Eph. 2:19–22). That house is none other than the Holy of Holies itself. We are now the place in which heaven and earth meet. God walks among us through his Spirit who dwells in us. When those who had been to Jerusalem h...
Our story as priests aims for the time when Christ will unite all things in himself (Eph. 1:10). The heavenly Holy of Holies will descend and infuse our spiritual house and earth itself in a way that all the earth will be his Holy of Holies (Rev. 21:15–17). Awe and intimacy, which are ours now in Christ, will be ours even more.
Meanwhile, as we wait for the full descent of heaven to earth, we live as God’s priests—the body of Christ. We still have to work out local church structures and organization, but ordinary people now have the Spirit of God and do the work of ministry. Everyone is busy and needed. Our mission is to be close to the Lord, invite others to come closer ...
Mar 1, 2016 · If you are a born-again Christian you are a priest! The Bible says in First Peter 2:9 we are a royal priesthood!” The above illustration shows how uncomfortable we are with the term “priest.” We associate it with Catholicism or high church Protestantism. All born-again Christians are priests.
The priest is specifically ordained to confect the Eucharist — to offer and consecrate the bread and wine — on behalf of those gathered. The laity, too, actively participate by offering themselves and their gifts and sacrifices to God.
- Pat Gohn
Jan 1, 2013 · The Catholic Church affirms the existence of a common or universal priesthood (see CCC 1141, 1268). But this does not exclude the existence of a ministerial priesthood. Within the pages of the Bible we can discover a blueprint that reveals God’s plan for constructing his New Covenant priesthood.
Aug 5, 2024 · Did Jesus mean that we should never refer to our earthly father as “father” (Matthew 23:9)? Is it wrong for Catholics to refer to their priests as “father”? Should the pope be referred to as “holy father”?
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Mar 22, 2022 · We've all heard of priests, but we may not understand what "priesthood" means in the Bible. To understand the "priesthood of all believers," we must look into what the Bible says about priests, so we can understand how to be part of the priesthood today.
