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Saved to Serve

Sunday, June 12, 2022
Pastor Jojo Ma

 

I.          The Ordination of Old Covenant Priests
II.        The Ordination of Our Great High Priest
III.       The Ordination of All Believers as Priests

I.         The Ordination of Old Covenant Priests
1 Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3 You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams.

4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

5 Then you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 6 And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

7 You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

10 Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11 Then you shall kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 12 and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

15 Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, 16 and you shall kill the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar. 17 Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 18 and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.

19 You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, 20 and you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar. 21 Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.

II.        The Ordination of Our Great High Priest
Jn 5:46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Lk 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, [Jesus] interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

The point is we can’t read Exodus without clearly seeing Jesus as the true reality of it all. He is the substance of all the Old Testament types and shadows.

Heb 13:11-12 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

“Try to fully understand the Trinity and you’ll lose your mind. Try to deny the Trinity and you’ll lose your soul.”

III.      The Ordination of All Believers as Priests
Titus 3:5-6 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

God does not accept us for who we are; He accepts us for who Christ is.

1 Jn 2:20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One.

The old covenant priests’ ordination was a vivid picture of our own salvation experience today: washed clean, robed in holiness, anointed with His Spirit, and our sins atoned for by a bloody substitute.

All Christians have a calling as priests of God to serve Him faithfully, not in a wilderness tabernacle but in the local church…and to the world.

Heb 9:13-14 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Saved to serve. Set apart to serve. Do your ears listen to God’s Word? Do your fingers do the will and work of God? Do your feet walk with God faithfully each day to bring Him glory? Remember, you’ve been saved to serve. Each time you put on your socks, remember what your big toe is for.