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YOU ARE THE PRIEST IN YOUR TEMPLE.
As a child of God, you belong in the royal priesthood; in Revelation 1:6: we've been made kings and priests unto God, and every priest has to offer sacrifices (Hebrews 8:3). Your temple is your body; that's the temple of the Holy Ghost. And as long as you're in your physical temple-the living tabernacle that God has given to you, you have a job to do: to offer sacrifices. That's the sole purpose for the temple as revealed in the Old Testament (2Chronicles 7:12).
God is looking to have His sacrifices in your temple, and you're the priest over your temple. I can't be the priest in your body, because it's a private temple, exclusive to you. No wonder the Spirit, through Paul, writes in Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living your sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
1Peter 2:5 says, "Ye also, as lovely stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." We're living stones, and are to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. That let's us know that not every sacrifice is acceptable; it has to be by the rules.
Remember, Cain offered to God sacrifices that weren't acceptable, whereas Abel's sacrifice was acceptable to God (Genesis 4:3-7). Cain brought to God what he chose to bring to God, and Abel brought to God what God asked for. Doing it by the rules is doing it according to the revealed patterns; doing it according to the Word.
The Apostle Paul says, "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name" (Hebrews 13:15). The fruit of our lips in praise, worship, and confessons of His Name in testimony, are spiritual sacrifices we offer as priests in His temple (1Corinthians 3:16).
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God is looking to have His sacrifices in your temple, and you're the priest over your temple. I can't be the priest in your body, because it's a private temple, exclusive to you. No wonder the Spirit, through Paul, writes in Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living your sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
1Peter 2:5 says, "Ye also, as lovely stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." We're living stones, and are to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. That let's us know that not every sacrifice is acceptable; it has to be by the rules.
Remember, Cain offered to God sacrifices that weren't acceptable, whereas Abel's sacrifice was acceptable to God (Genesis 4:3-7). Cain brought to God what he chose to bring to God, and Abel brought to God what God asked for. Doing it by the rules is doing it according to the revealed patterns; doing it according to the Word.
The Apostle Paul says, "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name" (Hebrews 13:15). The fruit of our lips in praise, worship, and confessons of His Name in testimony, are spiritual sacrifices we offer as priests in His temple (1Corinthians 3:16).
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