The Offices of Christ

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The Offices of Christ

• How is Christ prophet, priest, and King?

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Jabatan Kristus

• Calvin membedakan 3 jabatan dalam Institutio.
• Pentingnya perbedaan ini karena sebenarnya
  manusia diciptakan untuk ketiga jabatan dan
  pekerjaan ini.
• Sebagai nabi, Kristus mewakili Allah di hadapan
  manusia. Sebagai imam Ia mewakili manusia di
  hadapan Allah. Sebagai raja Ia memerintah dan
  memperbarui pemerintahan manusia.

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Jabatan nabi

• Istilah dalam PL yg menunjuk nabi adalah nabhi,
  roeh, dan chozeh.
• Nabhi seorang yang datang dengan membawa berita
  dari Allah kepada umatNya.
• Roeh dan chozeh seorang yang menerima wahyu
  dari Allah, terutama dalam bentuk visi.

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Jabatan nabi

• Tugas nabi adalah mengungkapkan kehendak Allah
  kepada orang-orang dalam bentuk perintah,
  peringatan dan berkat, janji-janji pengharapan,
  atau teguran yang keras.
• Bukti Alkitab tentang jabatan kenabian Kristus
  Mat 2111, 46 Luk 716 2419 Yoh 32 419
  614 740 917, Kis 322-24

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Jabatan nabi

• Why did NT epistles avoid calling Jesus a
  prophet?
• Although Jesus is the prophet whom Moses
  predicted, yet he is also far greater than any of
  the OT prophets, in two ways
• He is the one about whom the prophecies in the OT
  were made. (Deut 1815-18 Luk 2427

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Jabatan nabi

• he is also far greater than any of the OT
  prophets, in two ways
• Jesus was not merely a messenger of revelation of
  God (like all the other prophets), but was
  himself the source of revelation from God.
• OT Prophet Thus says the Lord
• Jesus But I say unto you

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Jabatan imam

• Kata PL kohen artinya orang yang memegang
  jabatan yang mulia dan penuh tanggung jawab,
  mempunyai otoritas atas orang lain, petugas dalam
  peribadahan.
• Kata PB hierus artinya ia yang perkasa, seorang
  yang sakral, seorang yang mempersembahkan diri
  kepada Tuhan.

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Perbedaan nabi dan imam

• Nabi dipilih untuk menjadi wakil Tuhan bagi
  umatNya, untuk menjadi utusanNya, dan untuk
  menafsirkan kehendakNya. Nabi adalah guru agama.
• Imam adalah wakil manusia di hadapan Allah. Imam
  mempunyai hak khusus untuk datang menjumpai Allah
  dan berbicara serta bertindak atas nama umatnya.
  Imam juga adalah guru.

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Perbedaan nabi dan imam

• Beda ajarannya
• Nabi menekankan tugas-tugas moral dan spiritual,
  tanggung jawab dan hak-hak khusus
• Imam menekankan aturan-aturan ritual pada waktu
  umat menatangi Tuhan

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Jabatan imam

• Bukti Alkitab tentang keimaman Kristus Mzm
  1104 Za 613 Ibrani 31 414 55 620
  726 81

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Jabatan imam

• Jesus functions as priest in two ways
• Jesus offered a perfect sacrifice for sin. The
  sacrifice which Jesus offered for sins was not
  the blood of animals but himself. He was both the
  sacrifice and the priest who offered the
  sacrifice.
• Jesus continually bring us near to God. When
  Jesus offered a perfect sacrifice for sins the
  curtain of the temple that closed off the holy of
  holies was torn in two.

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Jesus as Perfect High Priest

• In order to be the perfect High Priest, Jesus
  must be God as well as man.
• God to know all things and bring man into the
  presence of the Father.
• Man He has the right to represent us before God
  and can express his petitions from the viewpoint
  of a sympathetic high priest, who understands by
  experience what we go through.

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Jabatan raja

• In OT the king has authority to rule over the
  nation of Israel
• In NT Jesus was born to be King of Jews (Mat 22)
  but he refused any attempt by people to try to
  make him an earthly king with earthly military
  and political power (John 615)

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Jabatan raja

• Nonetheless, Jesus did have a kingdom whose
  arrival he announced in his preaching (Matt 417,
  23 1228, etc).
• He is in fact the true king of the new people of
  God. Thus, Jesus refused to rebuke his disciples
  who cried out at his triumphal entry into
  Jerusalem.

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Amillennialism
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Historic Premillennialism
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Postmillennialism
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Jabatan raja

• After his resurrection, Jesus was given by God
  the Father far greater authority over the church
  and over the universe. (Eph 120-22 Mat 2818 1
  Cor 1525)

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• In the Garden of Eden, Adam was a
• Prophet he had true knowledge of God and always
  spoke truthfully about God and about his creation
• Priest he was able freely and openly to offer
  prayer and praise to God. No need of sacrifice to
  pay for sins, but another sense of sacrifice Adam
  and Eves work would have been offered to God in
  gratitude and thanksgiving, and so would have
  been a sacrifice of another sort (cf. Heb.
  1315)
• King having been dominion and rule over creation

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• After sin
• Not functioned as prophets for they believed
  false information about God and spoke falsely
  about him to others.
• No longer had priestly access to God because sin
  cut them off from His presence.
• Instead of ruling over creation as kings, they
  were subject to the harshness of creation and
  tyrannized by flood, drought, and unproductive
  land, as well as by tyrannical human rulers

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• There was a partial recovery of these 3 roles in
  the kingdom of Israel but there were also
• false prophets
• dishonest priests,
• ungodly kings.

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• When Christ came, we saw the first fulfillment of
  these 3 roles
• He was the perfect prophet, who most fully
  declared Gods word to us
• The perfect high priest, who offered the supreme
  sacrifice for sins and who brought his people
  near to God
• The true and rightful king of the universe, who
  will reign forever with a scepter of
  righteousness over the new heavens and new earth.

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Our Roles as Prophets

• We have a prophetic role as we proclaim the
  gospel to the world and thereby bring Gods
  saving Word to people.
• Whenever we speak truthfully about God to others
  we are fulfilling a prophetic function
  (prophetic in a very broad sense)

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Our Roles as Priest

• We are also priest, because Peter call us a
  royal priesthood (1 Pet 29).
• Hebrew also tell us that our good works are
  sacrifices pleasing to God Do not neglect to do
  good and to share what you have, for such
  sacrifices are pleasing to God (Heb 1316).
• Paul also has a priestly role in mind for us when
  he writes, I appeal to you therefore, brethren,
  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as
  a living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God,
  which is your spiritual worship (Rom 121)

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Our Roles as King

• We also share in part now in the kingly reign of
  Christ, since we have been raised to sit with him
  in the heavenly places (Eph 26), thus sharing to
  some degree in his authority over evil spiritual
  forces that may be arrayed against us (Eph
  610-18 James 47 1 Pet 59 1 John 44)
• God has even now committed to us authority over
  various area in this world or in the church,
  giving to some authority over much and to some
  authority over little. But when the Lord returns
  those who have been faithful over little will be
  given authority over much (Matt 2514-30)

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• When Christ returns
• We will once again be true prophets because our
  knowledge will then be perfect and we shall know
  as we are known (1 Cor 1312).
• Then we will speak only truth about God and about
  his world, an in us the original prophetic
  purpose which God had for Adam will be fulfilled.

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• When Christ returns
• We will be priest forever, for we will eternally
  worship and offer prayer to God as we behold his
  face and dwell in his presence (Rev. 223-4).
• We will continually offer ourselves and all that
  we do or have as sacrifices to our most worthy
  king.

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• When Christ returns
• Yet we shall also, in subjection to God, share in
  ruling over the universe, for with Him we shall
  reign forever and ever (Rev 225).
• Jesus says, He who conquers, I will grant him to
  sit with me on my throne, as I myself conquered
  and sat down with my Father on his throne (Rev
  321). In fact, Paul tells the Corinthians, Do
  you not know that the saints will judge the
  world? Do you not know that we are to judge
  angels? (1 Cor 62-3).

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Our Roles as Prophets, Priests, and Kings

• When Christ returns
• Therefore for all eternity, we shall forever
  function as subordinate prophets, priest, and
  kings, yet always subject to the Lord Jesus, the
  supreme prophet, priest, and king.