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12 Precious Stones on the Breastplate: We are Being Transformed, Mingled, and Built up

July 14, 2015 by aGodMan 1 Comment

The twelve precious stones on the breastplate in Exo. 28:17-21, on which the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were engraved, signify all the redeemed and transformed people of God built together to become one entity.

The central and ultimate point of the priesthood, and the central item of the priestly garments was the breastplate of judgement (see Exo. 28:15-30). As priests to God today we need to see what this breastplate signifies and how can it be applied to … [Continue reading]

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Receiving God’s Leading in the Meetings of the Church as we Exercise our Spirit

July 13, 2015 by aGodMan 1 Comment

God reveals what we should do through the church, by the church, and with the church; the church is God’s leading, for the church bears the divine alphabet by which God makes known His leading. Witness Lee

The Lord's desire is to recover the universal priesthood of all His people: He wants that all the believers in Christ would be His priests, those who spend much time with God to be infused and filled with God, and who function as priests of the … [Continue reading]

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Serving God in our Spirit in the Gospel of His Son, the Subjective Gospel of Christ

July 10, 2015 by aGodMan 2 Comments

All of us need to function as priests of the gospel of God according to the revelation of the book of Romans; we need to learn the elements and details of the gospel, we need to experience the full content of the gospel, and we need to exercise our spirit to learn how to minister the gospel. Witness Lee

This morning while enjoying the Lord in His word with the help of the ministry of the age I was touched with the fact that our priesthood of the gospel is a matter in our mingled spirit. Paul told us that God is his witness how he serves God as a … [Continue reading]

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To Serve God in the Gospel is to Worship God; our God is Living to us and in us!

July 9, 2015 by aGodMan 1 Comment

When we come to serve God, or worship God, we need a blood-purified conscience; our defiled conscience needs to be purified so that we may serve God in a living way.

According to the divine revelation in the Bible, all those who believe in Christ and receive Him as their Savior and life are priests to God, and they are ministers of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, laboring priests of the gospel (Rom. 15:16). We … [Continue reading]

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Being those Functioning as Priests of the Gospel in the Church as the Body of Christ

July 8, 2015 by aGodMan 2 Comments

The service of the priesthood of the gospel is the service of the church as the Body of Christ; the focus of our service is to save sinners and offer them to God, and the goal of our service is the building up of the Body of Christ (Rom. 15:16; 12:4-5; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Eph. 4:11-12, 16).

The New Testament service ordained by God is that all His believers are priests to God to serve God with the offerings that He desires (Rev. 1:5-6; 5:9-10; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9). Today God does not desire physical sacrifices (such as lambs, bulls, pigeons, … [Continue reading]

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All the Believers are Priests to Serve God with the Offerings that He Desires

July 7, 2015 by aGodMan 1 Comment

Col. 1:28-29 Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ, for which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power.

The Lord Jesus redeemed us from our sins by His blood and made us a kingdom, priests to our God and Father (Rev. 1:6); the New Testament clearly tells us that all of God's chosen people, all believers in Christ, are His priests (1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Rev. … [Continue reading]

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Being Laboring Priests of the Gospel Offering Saved Sinners to God for His Delight

July 6, 2015 by aGodMan 1 Comment

Paul is a pattern of the priesthood of the gospel; in the Epistle to the Romans, which concerns the gospel of God, he tells us how sinners can be saved and justified by believing in the Lord, how they advance in Christ by being sanctified and transformed, and how they present themselves to God as living sacrifices so that they may become members of the Body of Christ to live the church life, expressing Christ corporately and awaiting His coming. (Witness Lee)

As believers in Christ we are laboring priests of the gospel of God by serving God in our mingled spirit in the gospel of His Son (Rom. 15:16). We are laboring priests of the good news, the glad tidings, by serving God unceasingly in our spirit and … [Continue reading]

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