The work of priests

Malachi 2:7-8 says, “For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.” Several hundred years before Christ, the priests of Israel would not tell the people what they needed to hear, which incurred the wrath of God.

In 1 Peter 2:5, it says, "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." Christians function as priests, and we have the responsibility to spread the word too. Jesus charged His disciples to spread the word before He ascended into heaven (Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15). The priests of old wouldn’t tell people what they needed to hear. Have we caused any to stumble because we refuse to do the same? “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Corinthians 13:5).

Kyle Campbell