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title: "MacLaren"
description: "Numbers  SERVICE A GIFT 
Num_18:7 .   All Christians are priests-to offer sacrifices, alms, especially prayers; to make God known to men.  I. Our priestho"
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Numbers
**SERVICE A GIFT**
**Num_18:7** .

All Christians are priests-to offer sacrifices, alms, especially prayers; to make God known to men.
**I. Our priesthood is a gift of God’s love.**
**** We are apt to think of our duties as burdensome. They are an honour and a mark of God’s grace.
1. They are His gift-
*a* The power to do. All capacities and possessions from Him.
*b* The wish to do. ‘Worketh in you to will.’
*c* The right to do, through Christ.
2. They are a blessing.
*a* Note the good effects on ourselves-the increase of fellowship with Him, the strengthening of all holy desires.
*b* The future benefits. Apply this to prayer and to effort on behalf of our fellow-men.
**II. Our priesthood is to be done as a service** -under a sense of obligation to a master, with diligence an [Greek: ergon], not a [Greek: parergon].
**III. Our priesthood is to be done as a gift to God** -to be done joyfully, giving ourselves back to Him: ‘Yield yourselves unto God’-’your reasonable service.’
Then only do we really possess ourselves, and ‘all things are ours, for we are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.’

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