Priests  1 Peter 2:5-9

This post covers priests in God’s service.

‘Priests’ describes what the Bible says about priests. When Moses came down from the mountain after receiving the Ten Commandments, He found the Children of Israel worshipping a golden calf. He unhappily called out, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” Exodus 32:26. Only those of the children of Levy responded and went through the camp destroying idol worshippers. For this action, God appointed them as priests to guide worship services.

A new covenant replaced the Old Law in the New Testament, Galatians 3:24-26. “Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law… the law was our guardian until Christ came…But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,” Thus, in Christianity, the Levitical priesthood no longer exists.

Instead, the Christians became the new priesthood, 1 Peter 2:5, 9. “…you yourselves like living stones … built up… a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God…

… But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession…” Therefore, in the church all Christians serve as priests under Christ.

The High Priesthood now belongs to Jesus, Hebrews 4:14. “… we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God,” Note, there is no scripture that authorizes any other priesthood, nor any person to assess sins and then prescribe forgiveness for sins. The Catholic practice for such priests does not rest on scriptural authority.

 Instead, individual Christians are taught by Jesus in His model prayer to pray to God and obtain forgiveness.

Matthew 6:9-13 “Pray then like this… and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors… And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”  When we pray, God forgives us as we forgive others.

So, what did we learn?

1.In the Old Testament, only Levites were priests.

2.Christianity superseded Moses Law.

3.In the church, all Christians are priests and pray to God for forgiveness.

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