People have occasionally asked me if my Dad and I discuss our sermon topics before Sunday, and the answer is “No.” Actually sometimes we’ll talk about Biblical truths that I later hear in sermon form, but anything planned never happens. Occasionally, however, the Holy Spirit does something funny and we end up preaching sermons that are connected. This past week was one of them, from 1st Peter 2:9.
As I studied 1st Peter 2:9, I began to see an incredible pattern that, honestly, humbled and shocked me. Here is what the Word of God says:
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
As I read this verse, I began to realize that it’s all about God and His action. Peter uses the words chosen, royal, holy, and peculiar. When I read those words, which Peter is using to describe the believers position in God’s Kingdom through Jesus Christ, I realize that everything we have is not from our efforts, but from the action of a sovereign and loving God. God chooses us, through His son He makes us royalty and holy, and claims us as His own (peculiar). Then He allows us to show the world His goodness and greatness, because He and He alone has called us out of the darkness of this world and into a life lived in the light of Himself. Peter, better than most, understood the gracious call of God, out of a life of meaningless pursuits, into a life full of God’s majestic displays of power through fishermen and simple servants. When we realize that God’s grace is so much more than just eternal life, we will truly be speechless at the revelation of who God is.
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