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1 Peter 2:1-5 “1 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

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1 Peter 2:9 “9 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.”

Revelation 5:10 “10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.””

(**** one of my only memories of the priest at the school i went to was how big he was.... he was burely, he was strong, he was (a bit unhealthy) but his largeness wasnt just physical.

He was a LARGE person in terms of spirit.

I remember specifially his singing.

one time i was given the role of holding the bible and walking ahead of Him into the church in the first song.

the same song we always sang.

I rememver how loud he was.

How, with such joy, he would sing as he walked down the isle of our little church where we would do our weekly mass as a school boy.

It impressed me.

He was, although a priest, actually HAPPY.

“PRIESTS AT HOME”

The priestly role was associated with the tabernacle and temple.

It emphasized sacrifice, site maintenance, and education.

In ancient Israel, priests acted as mediators between God and people.

They ministered according to God's instruction and they offered sacrifices to God on behalf of the people.

Once a year, the high priest would enter the holiest part of the temple and offer a sacrifice for the sins of all the people, including all the priests.

numbers 18:7 “7 And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve.

I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.””

Im the pre exile period the main focus of a priest was to offer sacrifices and maintain the sites of worship like the tabernacle.

Post-exile this shifted a little towards Leadership and Education.

Being a PRIEST for God was a UNIQUE, SPECIFC and HIGH SPECIALIZED ROLE.

A citical FUNCTION for the PEOPLE of God

and CONSIDERED A VERY IMPORTANT FUNCTION FOR GOD.

Some fun facts about Priests

They had to be BORN into it.

If you werent in the Line of AARON or from the TRIBE of LEVI you couldnt be a priest.

A whole tribe, a whole original family was dedicated to the PRIESTHOOD.

They were considered Unique & Different - priests were set apart their whole lives for this work.

They were blessed but they werent in it for the blessing - didn’t land an inheritance - their inheritance was the Lord Himself.

They had to be precise - They would have to wash and be riutually clean before entering (and old tale is that they used to tie a rope around the ankle of the high priest)

THERE ARE AMAZING PARRALLELS THAT EXIST HERE.

But fast forward to today here is what we do know.

Peter - calls our role now a holy priesthood.

a mediator ourselves

As men, as are the priests of our home.

But what if we were the people who REALLY acted like the priests over the home?

SO IF WE CAN ACCEPT THAT AS THE SPIRITUAL HEAD OF OUR HOMES AND THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELLBEING AND THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE WERE CALLED BY GOD TO LEAD.

WHAT DID PRIESTS DO… AND LET ME DRAW A PICTURE THEN OF WHAT WE ARE TO DO:

(now what im about to say may shock you, it may open your eyes to some things, it may challenge and some of this may even offend you a bit.

Let it shake you up in a way and stir something in you that MEANS you leave here challenged to be PRIEST in your HOME.

1.PRIESTS WOULD LEAD THE PEOPLE.

we are called to lead our people.

Priests would lead the meetings in the tabernacle and the ceremonies in the temple.

We need to LEAD spiritually in our homes.

What does this mean?

Do you assume THE LEAD SPIRITUAL ROLE.?

Are you seeing yourself as the GOD-APPOINTED and INSTALLED prime example for everyone in the HOME of what a Christian is to be.

Not trying to be perfect

Not a perfect person.

A Christian.

So that means using our CHRIST-LIKE example - Like a PRIEST would, Were called to lead.

I want to encourage us all that we, as men, are the ones that have the HEAD role.

The Lead by example.

I see a lot

Two real quick ways to lead like priest in your home:

be the head worship leader.

Not mum.

Not one of the kids who has a gift of music and a nice voice.

i have a horrible sounding voice probably but i dont care.

God loves it when i sing to him and my kids need to hear me singing to him!

Set up a sporifty playlist and add to it, find new worship music.

Load it up and play it in the house and the car.

its amazing how many worship songs my kids know because i play alot of worship in the truck.

He the guy who knows the bible: Priests would have an intricate knowledge of the torah/ the hebrew bible......We as Men, As Priests in our homes, should lead the charge when it comes to reading the Bible.

We should consume the most scripture of anyone in out homes and we should know the most scripture in out homes.

i think it irritates my kids but i play the audio bible in the truck.

I think it bugs my kids alot but i play messages and feeding myself constantly on the word.

but they are witynessed it ands it matters and GOD WILL honor it and use it and use it to bless your kids and your family in jesus name!

2.PRIESTS WOULD SERVE PEOPLE.

We are called to serve our people.

numbers 18:7 “7 And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve.

I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.””

We should be the head servant in the home and in the house of God.

starting at home......We should be the HEAD SERVANTS in our HOMES.

That starts for us, as our FIRST ministry.

We serve our wives in the way we lay down our lives for her like Christ did the church.

So how are we serving as priests right now.

STATEMENT: Ive got no BUSINESS Serving ANYONE in this CHURCH if my FAMILY IS NOT SERVED in MY HOME.

We should be the lead servants in our homes.

No One should occupy that place over us.

The WORLD tries to DEPICT or GIVE US A PICTURE that a MANS ROLE in the HOME is to JUST COME HOME whenever from the office, the Golf course, the Gym or wherever we want to be and then when we get home being a REAL man is that ill be BE THE BIG DOG who gets the biggest MEAL at MEALTIME.

and everyone runs around after him.

no.

in the Kingdom its the opposite: our Role is to SERVE OUR FAMILIES like PRIESTS SERVE THE PEOPLE.

(i remember being served communion by the priest as a schoolboy: standing there as person after person would come and he would SERVE them.

We are to be the SOURCE OF BLESSING.

WHERE OUR PEOPLE COME is to US:

There should be a sense spiritually that everyone in our home is continually COMING to us for counsel, for blessing, for help, for wisdom, for encouragement

Serving or our FAMILIES as PRIESTS over our home.

3.PRIESTS WOULD BRING ORDER

We are called to bring a HOLY order to our HOMES and our WORLDS.PRIESTS would follow a strict pattern of order to a group of people

They would bring a flow.

This is a “This is what we are doing” kind of order to things.

thats what we are supposed to do as well.

We shouldn’t giveaway this responsiblity to someone else.

this is our responsibility.

If there is chaos in your home - it’s YOUR responsibility to lead through it.