Two Kinds of Ministries

Pride and cowardice, the lust to rule and oppression, hypocrisy and backbiting meet each other. One folly covers itself with another folly. People cover up their own folly by backbiting others. Yet who becomes white by blackening others; who becomes pure by pouring dirt over another?

In the Old Testament we have the ministry of the priests. They were to bear the people’s sins into the sanctuary before the Lord’s face. If they bore them out into the camp, they acted against God’s will. In the New Testament we find priests for God. Jesus, as the great High Priest, presents Himself before the Father and intercedes for us. He prays for transgressors. As God’s children we are called to serve. Among other things, we are to bear people’s sins into the sanctuary before God’s face. When a brother sins, his sin must not be exposed to one and all; it should not be announced at every street corner to inquisitive people. By bearing your brother’s sins to others, you defile them by planting the poison of suspicion into their soul, causing them to have evil thoughts. A priest of God takes his brother’s sins with him into the sanctuary before God’s face and prays for him. He is a priest of God. The person who takes the sin out into the camp is a priest of Satan, for he is the accuser of his brethren.