Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and will satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with a function of the priest as we pick up in Leviticus chapter 21 verse one and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now to Leviticus chapter 21?

As we have often told you, a priest had a twofold function.

First he was to stand before God representing the people, bringing their offerings

before the Lord and and they there standing before God for the people. Then he would come out and he would

stand before the people for God. He was the people's representative to God. He was God's

representative to the people. He was a go-between. And thus the priest was a special kind of an individual.

Even as in the New Testament there were special rules for the bishops, lifestyles that they had to adopt

in order to be a bishop in the church and certain rules that applied to the

bishop that didn't apply to all the others within the church because his life was to be exemplary.

As Paul said to Timothy, be thou an example unto the believer.

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