People of God

We’re moving onward in our series called ‘Stand Firm” where we’ve been doing a deep dive into the Books of 1 & 2 Peter. We’ve been focusing the last few weeks on a section of the letter where Peter exhorts his audience to live into their new identity as children of the Heavenly Father. For Week 11 we focused on 1 Peter 2:9-10 which read,

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his ownpossession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darknessinto his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; onceyou had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

When we embrace who God is, what he has done, and who we truly are we can truly live into our identity as his people who have received his mercy. A people whom Peter (quoting from Exodus 19, Isaiah 43, and Hosea 2) says are ‘a chosen race,’ ‘a royal priesthood,’ ‘a holy nation,’ and ‘[God’s'] treasured/special possession.’ What a glorious reality! And what a glorious encouragement to live into this identity so “that [we] may proclaim the excellencies of him who called [us] out of darknes sinto his marvelous light.”

Give the sermon a listen and we hope to see you this week at a Family Meal and/or a DNA group to dive even deeper.