The Glory of Priestly Success
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🗓️ 15 November 1987
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Will you turn with me please to the passage for this morning's message found in the book of Malachai, chapter 2, verses 1 through 9. |
| 0:13.0 | Malachai, chapter 2, versus 1 through 9. |
| 0:18.8 | And now, a priest, this command is for you. |
| 0:22.4 | If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed I have already cursed them because you do |
| 0:36.6 | not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your offerings, and |
| 0:46.7 | I will but you out of my presence. |
| 0:49.6 | So shall you know that I have sent this command to you that my covenant with Levi made hold, says |
| 0:56.3 | the Lord of hosts. My covenant with him was a covenant of life and peace and I gave them to him that he might fear and he feared me he |
| 1:07.7 | stood in awe of my name true instruction was in his mouth and no wrong was found on his lips. |
| 1:15.3 | He walked with me in peace and uprightness and he turned many from iniquity. |
| 1:21.5 | For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and men should seek construction from his mouth. |
| 1:27.0 | For he is a messenger of the Lord of hosts. |
| 1:30.0 | But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. |
| 1:38.0 | You have corrupted the Covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts. And so I have made you despise and obeys before all the people |
| 1:49.9 | in as much as you have not kept my ways, but have shown partiality in your instruction. |
| 1:57.0 | Last week we took a good bit of time to establish the relevance of this text for 20th century church and pastoral ministry. |
| 2:07.0 | I argued from the book of Hebrews that there is no more official priesthood in the Christian Church. |
| 2:14.0 | Jesus Christ is our high priest who sacrificed himself once for all so that there is no more |
| 2:20.7 | sacrificial ministry within the Church. He rains and intercede for us in heaven today, |
| 2:25.8 | applying his own blood to our sin that we might be accepted with the father. And therefore |
| 2:32.0 | the whole priesthood is ended except insofar as we are all a |
| 2:35.6 | priesthood with access to God and him. But we noticed in verse 7 of this text that that wasn't the only task of the priest namely to sacrifice. |
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