Because of Jesus You Can Serve God Without Shame

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Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Zechariah 3:1-10.  As usual, I encourage you to read the passage yourself first and see what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help, then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!
 
Zechariah 3:1-5 (NIV)
1  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
2  The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
3  Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
4  The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you.”
5  Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.

On verses 1-5:  Here Zechariah describes a fourth vision that he sees.  It’s a picture of Joshua the high priest dressed in filthy clothes and standing before the angel of the Lord.  Satan is at Joshua’s right side accusing Joshua of all the sins Joshua has committed. 

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生命和平安的约

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玛拉基书 2:5  我曾与他立生命和平安的约，我将这两样赐给他，使他存敬畏的心，他就敬畏我，惧怕我的名。

阅读经文: 玛拉基书 2:1-9

1「众祭司啊，这诫命是传给你们的。 2 万军之耶和华说：你们若不听从，也不放在心上，将荣耀归于我的名，我就使咒诅临到你们，使你们的福分变为咒诅。因你们不把诫命放在心上，我已经咒诅你们了。 3 我必斥责你们的种子，又把你们牺牲的粪抹在你们的脸上，你们要与粪一同除掉。

神拣选利未人，使以色列人可以借着他们与神沟通（相交）；也借着利未人，使以色列人的罪过可以得赦免，并蒙悦纳。这个制度建立在神的能力和圣洁之上。也因为利未人是神所拣选的仆人，他们必须放弃拥有地土和财产的权利，只能在会幕（或圣殿）里工作，因为神就是他们的一切。神也要求以色列其他支派要负起供应利未人的责任和义务。

所以当利未人里作祭司的不再相信有神，不相信神爱他们，随随便便地应付献祭的事时，整个以色列人的根基就倒塌了。祭司污染祭坛，偏离正道，在律法上瞻徇情面，以致于他们被众人藐视，看为下贱。当一个人不尊重自己时，也很难得到别人的尊重；一个祭司不尊重自己的身份和事工时，人也不会尊重他和他的工作。

在〈彼得前书〉二章9节里，他说：“惟有你们是被拣选的族类，是有君尊的祭司，是圣洁的国度，是属神的子民。要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德”。你们，指的便是信徒，这就是“信徒皆祭司”的由来。

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