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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Power of Praise
Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
The sacrifice of praise is the sacrifice God wants our "holy priesthood" to
offer! How do we do that? With our mouths, by making a joyful noise to the Lord,
speaking forth His praises, telling forth and extolling God's goodness.
First Peter 2:1 says: "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit,
hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking..."
You cannot praise the Lord and speak evil at the same time. Jesus said you
cannot get sweet water and bitter water out of the same fountain. You cannot
have evil speaking and praise for the Lord coming out of your mouth at the same
time.
The Apostle Paul said that there is nothing unclean of itself (Romans 14:14).
He was speaking about ceremonial uncleanness in reference to the Jew. Under
the Old Covenant, there were certain animals that were classified as clean and
unclean. Unclean animals were never to be used in sacrifices to Jehovah
God. It was not that the animals were dirty, it was just a distinction that God
made between certain animals.
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But Paul said there is nothing unclean of itself, except to that man who thinks
it is unclean. All things are made by God and they are to be received with
thanksgiving. Let's go back to First Peter, and cover some other things
concerning who we are in Christ Jesus.
First Peter 2:6-9: Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I
lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on
Him will by no means be put to shame." Therefore, to you who believe, He is
precious; but to those who are disobedient, The stone which the builders
rejected
has become the chief cornerstone, and A stone of stumbling and a rock of
offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were
appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called
you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
This is why we shout, this is why we clap our hands, because we have been
called out of darkness into His light. Many of us, before we were born again,
walked in darkness for many years. There wasn't anything to shout about in the
dark. But, praise God, we are in the light now, and there is a whole lot
to shout about, because we are getting to see all the things we could not see
when we were in the dark.
First Peter 2:10: "...who once were not a people but are now the people of God,
who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy."
There is a two-fold priesthood we are involved in under the New Covenant. First
of all, we are a holy priesthood. The holy priesthood offers up spiritual
sacrifices and praises. In other words, we extol and tell about the goodness of
God. We praise His name, and we give Him honor and glory in verbal ways.
Now the royal priesthood, on the other hand, deals with the things concerning
God by His Word.
The holy priesthood function is our personal, private extolling and exalting of
the Lord. We can also do that publicly, but it is primarily for our personal
and private worship. In our royal priesthood function, we extol and present the
things of God and the things of Christ through the Word of God--it is the
manifestation that comes through the Word.
Dr. Frederick K.C. Price
O. Addison Gethers
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