Exodus 40:12-13 (ESV)
Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
We are always washed and cleanses and dressed in holy garments before we act as priests before the Lord to serve Him. That is the order of what God did for Aaron and what He commands for us today. Remember, even though the above verses are taken from what happened after the Tabernacle was finally built, these instructions and examples were to illustrate to us the pattern of approaching God. Later we will be called priests who sacrifice to God:
1 Peter 2:4-6; 9-10(ESV)
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Every believer is now a priest of the Most High God. We are holy and royal priests. We are to concentrate ourselves to worship. He clothes us in His blood and makes us a king dome priest to serve Him. Note how Peter goes on to to tell us who were are in Christ:
1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV)
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
We have received mercy to declare mercy by being a priest for God and to God. We are His people, not our own. We are His “possession” and not our own. Aaron in the Old Testament was an example for us. The Tabernacle has been replaced by us, “living stones” to be a building for God where spiritual sacrifices are being offered. That is WHO we are.
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