Encouragements For Justified Yet Unholy Priests (Part 1) - Zechariah (Part 9)

Zechariah 3 Part 3 fi Encouragements for Justi ed yet Unholy Priests Zechariah 3:7 (ESV) “Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. 1 Peter 2:5 (ESV) fi you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacri ces acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:15–16 (ESV) 15but as he who called you is holy, you also 16 be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:17 (ESV) And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 1 Corinthians 11:29–30 (ESV) 29For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks 30 judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. Romans 3:20 (ESV) fi For by works of the law no human being will be justi ed in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 1 Corinthians 9:27 (ESV) fi But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disquali ed. 2 Corinthians 5:10 (ESV) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 1 Corinthians 3:13–15 (ESV) each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by re, and the re will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through re. fi fi fi 13 Psalm 130:3 (ESV) If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 1 Peter 1:17 (ESV) And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, Zechariah 3:8 (ESV) Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. Exodus 19:5–6 (ESV) 5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all 6 the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 1 Peter 2:10 (ESV) Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (ESV) For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. Zechariah 3:8–9 (ESV) 8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. 9For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. Isaiah 53:11 (ESV) fi Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satis ed; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. John 8:28–29 (ESV) So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but 29 speak just as the Father taught me. And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” Ezekiel 37:25c–28 (ESV) . .and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 26I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sancti es Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” fi 25. Philippians 1:6 (NASB95) fi For I am con dent of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 1:30 (ESV) fi And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sancti cation and redemption.