But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own possession

that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Okay.

Now we finally, finally, after a chapter in nine verses have an outward that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who

called you out of Dartens and delight. Why are you a chosen race?

Chosen, verse one, royal priesthood,

we just saw that priesthood, holy nation,

we saw that call to holiness, be holy for I am holy,

a people of his own possession. We know that he purchased us with

ransom. All those things, he's picking up the threads here, a chosen race, royal

priesthood, holy nation. Why? Why are you that? Why has he called you to himself that way?

Answer, that you may proclaim the Excellency of him you called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

You have been made alive.

You have been brought out of the darkness of death

through the new birth into the light of God's everlasting hope so that you might proclaim the excellencies that are being

unfolded in this book. The excellencies of God. A great thing, if I were teaching a small group,

I'd say next week, everybody come back with a list of all the excellencies of God

you see in Chapter 1 chapter 1 through 29.

And see what to come up with.

All the excellencies, the beauties, the virtues,

the greatness of God.

That's what we're supposed to declare to Vancouver and Minneapolis all of Canada all the United States all the nations of the world.

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