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1st Peter chapter 2 verse 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.

Oh yes, did you just hear that description of who you are, who I am, who we are, as the church, as those who are in Christ. I mean we could just camp out for a long

time with each of these descriptions a chosen race a picture of God's grace that has made us his children, not by any merit in us,

but totally by mercy and him.

By his grace, we've been made a royal priesthood, like this picture of priesthood,

like we are able to come to God, you and I able to come to God,

only a few people in the Old Testament could do,

and only that in part because they still had sin,

and then we come to God through Christ into the throne room of Grace, a royal

priesthood, a holy nation set apart, a people set apart for God.

You and I have been set apart for God. a people for his own possession, we belong to God, like we are his own possession.

We belong to God, like we are His, like my children belong to me. We are like that with God. We belong to Him. Like why all these things? Why a chosen race, royal

priest that a holy nation, a people for his own possession, so that we may proclaim, so that you

may, I may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you and me out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Like that's who we are.

We once lived in darkness on a road that led to eternal death.

Now we've been called out into marvelous light.

In a road that leads to eternal life, we experience eternal life even right now. and we have been made all these things don't miss the point here

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