True Identity In Christ 1 Peter 2:9-10
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9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Chosen Race
Wayne Grudem writes,
God has chosen a new race of people, Christians, who have obtained membership in this new ‘chosen race’ not by physical descent from Abraham but by coming to Christ (v. 4) and believing in him (vv. 6–7).
What an amazing truth to know that we are chosen by God.
We where not chosen because of our righteousness or ability,
but are chosen to be in Christ because of the Fathers love for us.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The Father has chosen you because of His great love.
In a life that it seems that we can often times be overlooked and not chosen by people.
In a life that far to often we feel the pain of rejection.
God knew you,
He knew your in your faults, your weaknesses, your struggles, the mistakes you have made in the past and in the future.
Yet, even knowing all of that He choose us to be His Son’s and Daughter’s.
In the Kingdom we do not become excepted by God because of what we can do.
In the Kingdom we are not chosen because we have somehow earned the right to be chosen Son’s and Daughter’s.
We are chosen because God’s love for you.
And not just chosen because that was the easy solution for God.
God chose you at the price of sending His one and only Son to die in your place.
Story of being chosen (need to find)
Peter brings up the second mark of our new identity in Christ.
2. Royal Priesthood
3. Holy Nation
4. God’s People
5. Receiver of Mercy
Wayne A. Grudem, 1 Peter: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 17, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 117.