THE ROYAL PRIEST OF KING JESUSRevelation 1:5-6"To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and has made us kings and priest to God and and Father..."
When we become a child of God (Romans 8:15).He gave us a divine ministry of becoming the new Testament spiritual priest before God the Father.In heaven,Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest in the order of Melcizedek and He intercede for us(Hebrew 6:20).While of this planet earth,we are the present priest of God.What are the priestly duty as Christ's spiritual priest ?There are TWO main priestly ministries that you need to do:
1.To intercedes in prayer on behalf of sinners and christians who have lost their intimate fellowship with God.(I Timothy 2:1).
Remember the great blessing when we pray and intercede for others?Job the prophet was rewarded for his priestly duty after he prayed for his friends"The LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his freinds.Indedd the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before"(Job 42:10)
2.To offer spiritual sacrifices
There are literally four type of spiritual sacrifices that we need to present before God constantly as His priest.
i.Offer our body as a living sacrifice -Roman 12:1-surrender our will,emotions,feeling,senses,
desire completely under God's will.
ii.Offer sacrifice of praise -Hebrew 13:15
iii.Offer sacrifice of good works-Hebrew 13:16
iv.Offer sacrifice through giving -Hebrew 12:16
My fellow servants of God,are we committing ourself to perform this TWO priestly duty? Jesus Christ has appointed us to be God's priest and its our priestly duty now to intercede in prayer and offer a willful sacrifices unto Him .
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