March 6, 2011

Santosh Poonen

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• Summary: Do you treat your priestly calling with the same reverence that the Levites had when they were chosen from among the 12 tribes of Israel? (Romans 15:14-21)
• Quote: One of the areas in which Jesus is an example to us is as a priest (Hebrews 6:20).
• Quote: Once Paul got a revelation of Jesus, he didn’t have the option to settle down as a “nice upstanding member” of a local church in Tarsus while he ran his business. Paul became a priest (Romans 15:16), and therefore he was effective for God.
• Quote: God showed us His kindness by choosing us as priests to serve Him continually (I Peter 2:3-9) – through our individual lives, in our marriages and homes, and in the church.
• Quote: A faithful priest daily seeks to present an offering to God without any defect.
• Quote: The priests ministry is first toward God, in being cleansed and sanctified:
  • In the Old Covenant this meant making sure they wore holy garments (Exodus 28:42-43).
  • In the New Covenant this means making sure that when we serve as priests on earth we are cleansed from things like malice, guile, hypocrisy, envy, and slander (I Peter 2:1).
• Quote: The priests ministry is then toward mankind in:
  • having a heart full of goodness (Romans 15:14)
  • being filled with knowledge (Romans 15:14) by being immersed in the Word so that we are continuing to grow (I Peter 2:2)
  • admonishing, counseling, and instructing others (Romans 15:14)
  • receiving grace from God (Romans 15:15) by:
    • walking in humility (I Peter 5:5)
    • becoming like all of our brothers (Hebrews 2:17, 5:1-5)
    • sympathizing with the weaknesses of others (Hebrew 4:15)
    • getting our hands dirty in the atoning work of others
• Quote: The two verses of the new song that we will sing in heaven are (Revelation 5:1-14):
  • 1. Jesus is worthy because He purchased us with His blood.
  • 2. We who are purchased have become priests to God.



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