The Priesthood of Believers

God has provided His people with offerings and spiritual sacrifices and gifts of worship and praise and obedience to Him, and has expressed His delight in receiving them from His people.

None of these offerings are for sin – only the sacrifice made by Christ of His Own body and blood were made for our sin. There are no other sin offerings, and there is no other high priest to make a sin offering except Jesus.

Rather, the spiritual sacrifices God has given to His people to return to Him in worship and praise, are our response to Christ's sole sacrifice for our sin.

Which raises the question, what is our position in making such offerings by the power of Christ unto our God?

Scripture declares that God has made all believers priests to Himself!

We are never to offer Him sin offerings, but only spiritual sacrifices of peace and praise and worship because He saved us.

When Jesus came, and purified His people by His atoning blood sacrifice, He brought strangers nigh unto God, joining all His people together in One.

Now we are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the Saints! Now we are built into the very spiritual temple of God, wherein He dwells by His Spirit, and wherein we who had been barred as strangers from the altar, make our spiritual sacrifices to God!

But still further, Peter informs us that we who were nobodies, are now made royal priests, fit to offer spiritual sacrifices! These sacrifices are our praise and worship and thanksgiving and deeds of charity in Jesus' name.

God has assigned to believer priests offerings different from Aaron's and Christ's – He has ordained our offerings of worship, praise, thanksgiving, and obedience!