We believe in the priesthood of the believer there go the Catholics again
There goes any religion that you need to go to someone
To be in contact with God see as New Testament Baptist Christians
We believe in the priesthood of the believer meaning that as New Testament believers
we don't need a priest to mediate between us and God when we got saved we became kings and priests unto God and his father and
we became priests and
We have access to God first to me to five for there is one God and one mediator between God and man the man
Christ Jesus I have access to God the Father through his son Jesus Christ. I don't need a priest
I don't need a saint. I don't need a the Virgin Mary as a mediatrix. That's what the Roman Catholic Church calls her
I don't have to pray to Mary and hope she gets my prayers to God
I don't have to pray to a saint I can go to God myself through Jesus Christ because of the priesthood of the believer
Hebrews 4 16 says this let us therefore come boldly
Unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need see I can come boldly I
Can come boldly into the throne room of God?
Because I became a son of God
you know as the pastor of a church here, I have I
I have my office here and if you ever come to my office on on a Sunday morning or Sunday before service man
There's people coming in and out of my office all day long people
You know asking me questions and needing this and eating that you know and what people generally do what people generally do because it's the acceptable
Respectable thing to do is they walk up to my office they
knock on the door I
Say come in and they come in you know what my daughter Lydia does I watch her because we have the security cameras
She comes in skipping
She's so rude. She never stops
She never knocks
No matter what's going on. I could be meeting in there with you know a counseling session where she just comes in
I see her I can hear her coming you know
Singing and skipping and she just flings the door open runs in my office sits on the couch daddy
What you doing? You know why it's okay for her to do that because I'm her daddy
She
Can come in boldly into my office you don't have to ask
You don't have to knock
She can come in boldly to her father and with anything she needs
she wants candy or she got hurt or whatever might be and you know what you and I as
The sons of God through Jesus Christ we can come in boldly into the throne of God
Into the throne room of God. I don't need a priest
We believe in the priests of the believer, you know what that makes us uniquely Baptist