Every Christian is a priest. Not in a metaphorical sense — in the direct biblical sense of I Peter 2:5 and 2:9. The structure of the Levitical priesthood (one High Priest, many secondary priests, qualifications, duties, sacrifices, altar) is replicated exactly in the Christian age: Christ…
Sanctification means to set apart — to consecrate something or someone for God’s specific use or service. The word carries no inherent reference to moral sinlessness; it refers to the status of belonging to God, of being separated from common use for sacred use. In the…
The curse fell on Meroz not for what it did but for what it failed to do. Jehovah was victorious without them; the battle was won; the enemy was destroyed. Meroz was not needed for the outcome. But Meroz needed the blessing that would have come…
When a person begins to seek God, Satan begins to seek that person. The obstacles are predictable and consistent: laziness, pride, fear, prejudice, and the love of an evil life. Each has appeared in the lives of people who sought God and failed to find him…
Neglect is not the absence of wrong action — it is the presence of a sin. The man who knows his duty and does not do it has sinned; the church that knows its obligations and ignores them is guilty. The hearer who has heard the…
Jeremiah’s word stands over every human plan: “It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.” The honest acknowledgment of limitation is not weakness — it is the first movement of wisdom. Pride is constitutionally blind to limitation. It is the nature of pride…
The landmarks that mark the boundaries of God’s revealed will cannot be moved without consequence — ancient Israel learned this by law, and the church has learned it by history. Every generation inherits landmarks it did not set and cannot reset. The temptation is always to…
True liberty is not the freedom to do anything — it is the freedom to do what is right within the boundaries that God has set. Every servant of God, from Christ himself down to the local preacher, operates within those limits. The word “liberty” is…
In the Bible a “fool” is not the simple or unintelligent but the morally condemned, and Scripture marks out four classes — the atheist, the ignorant church member, the rich fool, and the “wise fool” who knows God’s will and will not do it, the last…
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Jeremiah, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.