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Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith. Brought you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being. I wanted to do a word study this fine morning.

Our preacher at church on Saturday, or excuse me, on Sunday did a great job with 1st Peter 2.

This line in particular, verse 9, 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.

Once you are not a people, but now you are God's people. Once you had not received mercy,

but now you have received mercy.

Our power preacher did a fine job going through nearly every word in those two sentences

right there. Like what it means to be a royal priesthood. That's interesting, isn't it? So the royal

part means privileges, but the priesthood part, I shouldn't say but, and the priesthood part means there are responsibilities

to serve as well. Talked about a holy nation, people of his possession, all this stuff.

But one word he didn't touch on that was standing out to me was the use of the word

marvelous so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of the darkness

and into his marvelous light. Why marvelous? Why not just called you out of the darkness and into his marvelous

light why marvelous why not just say light out of the darkness into the light why did you

have to put that extra adjective in there why marvelous light and i couldn't go on in my life without

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