Ex
19:5-6 Now therefore, if ye will obey my
voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto
me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which
thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
1
John 2:27
But the
anointing which ye have received of him abideth in
you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide in him.
The
prerequisite for being a present day priest is to have a desire for God, a
desire to be conformed into the image of Christ, to love the unlovely, to pray
for those who persecute you and mistreat you, always doing to others as you
would have them do to you. It is not about being religious at all and trying to
live by a law. A priest is one who from their innermost being flows the life and nature of our Father. It is living life
to the fullest.
A
lot of people are religious, a lot of people even like religious things, but
not too many take the time to linger until they really sense the presence of
God consuming them.
Ps
27:4 4 One thing have I desired of the
Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the
days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his
temple.
To
inquire in His temple today is a wonderful thing. We know that we are the
temple of the Lord and that to inquire in His temple today is to discover all
the loveliness of His beauty within us. As we meditate on Christ within us and
inquire for that beauty to be manifested, we begin to experience the
magnificence of His presence coming. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us
all the days of our life.
In
the New Testament God once again makes His desire know to have a Kingdom of
Priests.
1
Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light:
Here
we are two thousand years later and God’s people for the most part are not a
kingdom of priests but are grossly divided over doctrines and teachings,
ignoring the fact that we are all one in the spirit. However this is quickly
changing. People all over the world are beginning to wake up and shake the dust
of human carnal religious thinking off of them and realizing that they are
God’s Christ on the earth. Being fulfilled is the scripture that says,
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give
thee light.