GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TO BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD?

LoveGodsWord said:

Really did I say that? Amazing what does the bible say?

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Romans 10:8-10, "But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach), because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

Hebrews 10:26-27, "For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies."

Don't you own a Bible?

LoveGodsWord said:

Hi Ligurian, love the scriptures and thanks for sharing. So what does it mean to you when Peter says God's people are to be a Royal Priesthood?

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Peter is saying the diaspora is to be a royal priesthood. Peter was given the Gospel of God by the mouth of Jesus in Galilee of the nation. This is also called the Gospel of the Kingdom, The Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 10:6-7 shows us where this Gospel was taken and by whom. Jesus says this word of the Father had made His Discipled-Apostles clean. This is how the royal priesthood comes into being... not only by blood, but by keeping the commandments of Jesus, which are truly the commandments of the Father. John 12:48-50

These days, because of the mandate to create no idols or representations of living things, we don't even know what the lost sheep of the house of Israel look like. We know this: Jesus' sheep hear His voice and will follow only Jesus. People who say that if Jesus came only unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel then the rest of the world is doomed... haven't taken into consideration that the sheep have been scattered among the nations and remain there to this day. This is why one is taken from a field and one is left, etc... mixtures happen, and so does free will.

So then, who is the royal priesthood? Jesus defines what they are in Matthew and John and the Revelation... and what they are defines who they are.

LoveGodsWord said:

How do we know if we are believers or unbelievers?

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John 14:15-17 If ye love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; 17 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14:24 He that loveth Me not keepeth not My words: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me.

LoveGodsWord said:

If the Royal Priesthood is holy and holy means to be without sin and obedient to Gods Word if we are practicing known unrepentant sin then are we a part of the Royal Priesthood?

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John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of My hand.

John 17:17 Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. (Sanctify = Holy)

John 17:6 I have manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of the world: Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me; and they have kept Thy word.

John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
7 If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Revelation 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name. (Name = Authority)

Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these words of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Jesus is the rock, because Peter only repeats what the Father told him, so the church is built upon Jesus Himself, not upon what Peter says about Jesus. Matthew 16:16-18

The gates of hell in that verse is the wide way in this verse:

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide the gate, and broad the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Many are invited/called, few are chosen...

The first didn't keep His word & denied His authority, Matthew 20:12-15... so they're not chosen.

Matthew 20:15-16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

The elect/chosen are then tested.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Revelation 3:10-11 Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Matthew 16:18 The Church built on the Rock is faithful.

Revelation 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him called, and chosen, and faithful.

This same story is told in Matthew 13:19-23 and Matthew 13:37-38.

pescador said:

One has nothing to do with the other. Your sins -- all of them -- have been forgiven because of Jesus Christ's sacrifice.

I believe what Scripture clearly says, so there is no need for further discussion about this.

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Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. Matthew 26:28

1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21 Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.

Esaias 40:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God. 6 The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: 7 8 The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever. John 1:23 Matthew 24:35

1 Peter 4:17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the Gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.

pescador said:

Romans 10:8-10, "But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach), because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

Hebrews 10:26-27, "For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies."

Don't you own a Bible?

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Deuteronomy 30:14-16 The word is very near thee, in thy mouth, and in thine heart, and in thine hands to do it. Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil. If thou wilt hearken to the commands of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His ordinances, and His judgments; then ye shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all the land into which thou goest to inherit it.

pescador said:

To my thinking it's redundant, as the true priesthood -- the one described in Scripture -- is composed of all believers.

Once again, "So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:4-5

Notice the verb tense... "are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood" -- present tense.

Holy: dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred
priesthood: the office or position of a priest

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2 Timothy 1:15 says all of Asia turned against Paul. And Paul calls up anathema on a gospel where the Holy Spirit is given by works of Law, Galatians 1:6, Galatians 2:7-9, Galatians 3:2, which is certainly the Gospel of the Kingdom, Matthew 5:19, John 14:15-17, which Peter was teaching in Galatia, 1 Peter 1:1.

Peter kept going to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, from the time of Matthew 10:5-7 through Matthew 28:18-20 to 1 Peter 5:11.

LoveGodsWord said:

Yep if I did not own one I would not be able to ask you what you think these scriptures mean in light of what you were saying and the question I was asking you. I am asking your interpretation of them in light of what you posted earlier. I think you missed the point though. If you do not want to answer the question just say so. You do not have to if you do not want to. I will leave it between you and God.

Take Care.

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I have no idea what you're talking about. What question do you have that I haven't addressed?

LoveGodsWord said:

Please follow the conversation. I posted earlier...

Your response was...

To which I responded...

The above scriptures do not agree with what you were posting so I asked you what you thought they mean in relation to what you said.

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I didn't realize that you were directly controlling our discussion. Since you don't like my responses then I will no longer respond.

LoveGodsWord said:

If the Royal Priesthood is holy and holy means to be not guilty of sin (breaking God's commandments and not believing God's Word), if we knowingly break anyone of God's commandments are we a part of the Royal Priesthood?

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"Holy" means dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.

LoveGodsWord said:

True, it also means set apart, to be pure and without sin in a moral sense. So the Royal Priesthood is set apart by God and are consecrated to be upright and without sin. What does that mean?

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Umm, it means that the Royal Priesthood is set apart by God and are consecrated to be upright and without sin.

LoveGodsWord said:

Hi all, according to the scriptures we are to be a Royal Priesthood and a holy nation. What do these scriptures mean?

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Priests have access to GOD in the holy of holies.

The royal family has access to the King.

LoveGodsWord said:

Good answer. Is sin allowed in the holy of hollies?

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No.