Title: Stand Before God / Leviticus 21:1-24
Contents This week's hymn: 213 August 11th 1995
Title: Let's Stand Before God Youngjin Church Dawn
Text: Leviticus 21:1-24 21.hwp
The ordinance of the priests (Leviticus 21:1-9)
Everyone has laws that must be obeyed. Because these are those who go out to God on behalf of the people.
1. Do not continue to mourn over the dead. While the priests mourned the lame, the priests
You must not do anything that degrades your dignity. Jews are not allowed to approach a dead body within two meters.
It was considered unclean according to the ceremonial law. Numbers 19:14 says that anyone who enters the tent of the dead will have seven days.
while teaching them to be unclean.
2,. Dress up your own body. The Gentiles cut their hair in an attitude of praising and serving their gods,
had the habit of bleeding. But the priests, according to their custom, practice superstition.
Shouldn't Stand: God's people, especially leading leaders, are the light of the world, salt
You must not follow the customs of this world because you have to live.
3. Keep your home clean. A priest was not to be demeaned in marriage. pontiff
They were not to marry a woman who was rumored to be bad, or a woman who was guilty. divorced woman
It was the same with Jawa. In the New Testament, the wife of the Lord's servant is "reproachable in her ministry by being modest and temperate.
that there be nothing”. (1 Timothy 3:11)
4. It is forbidden to make one's descendants unclean If a priest cannot establish a pure family, his children are worthy.
You cannot glorify the Lord by not doing it. Therefore, the priests know that they belong to God.
Remember, you should always be sanctified. Today we are all holy priests before God. we too
We must live a holy life before a holy God (1 Peter 2:5)
Those who stand before God (Leviticus 21:16-24)
Those who perform duties before God must have qualifications. This qualification is to stand before God;
Let's find out who it really is.
1. A person with no physical blemishes can stand. Verse 17 says that among your descendants from generation to generation, who have a blemish in the flesh,
He said that no one will come near to God.
said you can't The priesthood is an office given only to a specific family. Priests pass on to their descendants
However, one of the offspring could be physically disabled. But this person is from that family.
This means that you cannot stand before God. On the other hand, in the New Testament times and today,
To say it can't be is a big mistake.
2. The mentally disabled cannot stand. God is willing to preserve the divinity of his altar.
He said that even an immoral person cannot stand before God. These people cannot be used as ministers.
Homni and Vinijas' sins are more than physical defects. it was worse Today, with mental and moral deficiencies,
There are many cases in which problems arise while trying to act as a society leader. We dare in our sins and transgressions
We are sinners who cannot stand before God, but our God has paid for our transgressions through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Because of this, he was able to stand before God.
Prayer / For the pastors of this land and missionaries around the world
For ministry, family and children