_(a)_ Note the good effects on ourselves--the increase of fellowship
with Him, the strengthening of all holy desires.
_(b)_ The future benefits. Apply this to prayer and to effort on behalf
of our fellow-men.
II. Our priesthood is to be done as a service--under a sense of
obligation to a master, with diligence (an [Greek: ergon], not a
[Greek: parergon]).
III. Our priesthood is to be done as a gift to God--to be done
joyfully, giving ourselves back to Him: 'Yield yourselves unto
God'--'your reasonable service.'
Then only do we really possess ourselves, and 'all things are ours, for
we are Christ's, and Christ is God's.'