Would you turn with me to Peter, the book of First Peter and the second chapter, 1 Peter 2.5, he said,

You also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable

to God by Jesus Christ.

Is it true that we have been made priests and kings unto our God?

Well, what do priests do?

Well, if you go back and study, I mean, you know, how would you understand priests?

And the priesthood, you'd have to go back to the Old Testament and read books like

Leviticus and see what the priest did, who they were, and what they did.

And you'll find that a big part of what they did involve the offerings of the Lord.

So much of their time and their day and their effort was involved in the offerings,

and there were many and numerous and varied.

And he said, today, we as living stones are built up a spiritual house. Now, let me just go over this again. What is the house of God? We are. Now, just us

in this local congregation in Branson? No. This building, is this building the house of God?

This local church is it the house of God? No, it's a part. Not just the building, not the physical facilities.

The house of God are all those living stones

who've been sealed into place by the Holy Spirit, right?

And the house of God consists of those that have genuinely been born again all over this country, all over this world,

and those who not only on the earth, but already in heaven.

Right?

We all of us together make up the house of God.

It's a spiritual house.

And he said, we are, as the priest of the lord what are we to do a holy

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