Continuing our study in the book of Revelation, we come to this glorious anthem sung to the Father and the Son: The Lord Jesus is the Lamb of God who was slaughtered to redeem us from the guilt and consequences of all our sins (Revelation 5:9-10).
In words reflecting Peter's (1 Peter 2:9) and echoing God's prophetic ideal for Israel at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:6), we are told that we are a kingdom of priests. We are priests--all of us--and we reign on the earth through our prayers (Revelation 5:8).
The priesthood of every believer is a key New Testament teaching: Every believer has the right and responsibility to read and interpret Scripture and to intercede for others.
We are all pontiffs--bridge-builders between God and other people (to use the ancient title of the priests of pagan Rome). When the first Roman emperor, Caesar August began to reign, he took the title Pontifex Maximus, the supreme bridge-builder between the Roman gods and the people of Rome. When the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustus, was deposed in A.D. 476, the bishop of Rome took over his title as Pontifex Maximus, and became the de facto Roman Emperor of the West.
Satan is the great enemy of the Bible and the gospel and used the Roman Pontiff to obscure these things. Replacing the merits of Christ alone with a treasury of merit that he had the keys to distribute, keeping professing Christians in fear of damnation.
When Martin Luther studied the book of Romans, all he could see in the righteousness of God was a fearful thing, but when God opened his eyes to this righteousness of God as something to be received by faith alone, his chains fell off (Romans 3:21-26).
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
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