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Exodus chapter 29, verse 44.

Aaron also and his sons, I will consecrate to serve me as priests.

Oh, this is a really good word that we see in this verse, consecrate.

It means to set apart.

So the picture here in Exodus 29 is God setting apart Aaron and his sons, the line or the family of Aaron to serve him as priests.

And there's a lot we could talk about specifically with Aaron and

his sons as priests. But I want to lead us to pray more generally today in light of this picture

of consecration, of God setting apart people for a specific purpose. Because that's a picture we see all throughout the

Bible. There's a sense in which all of the people of God in the Old Testament, the people of Israel

are consecrated. They're set apart as his people, apart from all the other peoples. And this is what it means for them to be

holy. Later on, the next book in the Bible, Leviticus chapter 20, verse 7, God will tell us people

consecrate yourselves and be holy. Live as people set apart for God and his purposes. And then you fast forward to the

New Testament and you come to 1st Peter chapter 2, verses 9 and 10. And God says, in his word to us as the

church, 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.

Did you hear that? God just said, we are, for all of us who

are in Christ, we are, you and I are set apart by God for Him, for His purposes, which are totally

different than the purposes of this world. So I just want to encourage you today to see yourself,

your identity this way. You have been set apart by God to think differently, to feel, desire

differently, to speak differently, to live, to act differently, because you belong to God,

who calls you to be holy as he is holy. So God, we pray that you would help each of us who are in Christ today to live consecrated

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