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SERVICE A GIFT
Num_18:7.
All Christians are priests-to offer sacrifices, alms, especially prayers; to make God known to men.
I. Our priesthood is a gift of God’s love.
We are apt to think of our duties as burdensome. They are an honour and a mark of God’s grace.
1. They are His gift-
{a} The power to do. All capacities and possessions from Him.
{b} The wish to do. ‘Worketh in you to will.’
{c} The right to do, through Christ.
2. They are a blessing.
{a} Note the good effects on ourselves-the increase of fellowship with Him, the strengthening of all holy desires.
{b} The future benefits. Apply this to prayer and to effort on behalf of our fellow-men.
II. Our priesthood is to be done as a service-under a sense of obligation to a master, with diligence {an [Greek: ergon], not a [Greek: parergon]}.
III. Our priesthood is to be done as a gift to God-to be done joyfully, giving ourselves back to Him: ‘Yield yourselves unto God’-’your reasonable service.’
Then only do we really possess ourselves, and ‘all things are ours, for we are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.’