The Priesthood of the Believer Part 4: Our Offering as Priests
The Resurrection of the Believer (Guest Speaker)
1 Corinthians 15
He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed
The Priesthood of the Believer Part 3: Our Responsibilities as Priests
"The believers’ priesthood is based on their sharing in the heavenly calling with Christ (3:1)... Jesus is our high priest, and believers have been brought into such a relationship with Christ that they too are priests with the concomitant responsibilities and privileges that adhere to the priestly calling."
The Priesthood of the Believer Part 2: Our Raiment as Priests
1 Peter 1:22-25
1Peter 2:1-10
The Priesthood of the Believer 1: Our Great High Priest
Hebrews 2:16–18
Hebrews 4:9–16
Hebrews 5:1–10
Hebrews 7:1–3
Hebrews 7:11–28
Living the Christ Life 41: Maximum Glorification
Inclusio- a phrase that occurs twice within a book that indicates the start and end of a section.
Chiasm- a literary structure which includes a reversal of clauses for emphasis.
Grant Hawley, The Guts of Grace, p. 403, 405.
A -Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
B - Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
C - But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
B’ - For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
A’- will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Living the Christ Life 40: The Golden Chain of Glorification Part 6
*Foreknew- "to know by experience previously"
*Predestined- "to be conformed to Christ"
*Firstborn- "preeminent rank, superior"
*Called- "to fulfill God's purpose for your life"
*Justified- "by works, vindicated, maturity"
*Glorified- "the better resurrection out ahead!"
"Glorified"- doxazō
to influence one’s opinion about another so as to enhance the latter’s reputation, praise, honor, extol
to cause to have splendid greatness, clothe in splendor, glorify, of the glory that comes in the next life.
William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 258.
"Paul tells us there are two kinds of inheritance: all believers are heirs of God (birth-inheritance), and for those who set their life goal to be perseverance in suffering with Christ (even if they sometimes fail), they can become co-heirs with Christ (reward-inheritance).
To be a co-heir with Christ is what Paul elsewhere calls 'inheriting the kingdom.'”
Joseph C. Dillow, Final Destiny: The Future Reign of the Servant Kings, 4th Edition (Houston, TX: Grace Theology Press, 2018).
Living the Christ Life 39: The Golden Chain of Glorification Part 5
"Justified"- dikaioō
"to take up a legal cause," show justice, do justice, take up a cause
"to render a favorable verdict," vindicate
-"by (on the basis of) works, by what one does"-"to cause someone to be released from personal or institutional claims that are no longer to be considered pertinent or valid," make free/pure
"to demonstrate to be morally right," prove to be right
William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 249.