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Darren ForsdykeSunday 19th August 2012
“God’s Chosen People”1 Peter 2 v 9 - 12
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
“How amazing are your thoughts concerning me, God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.”
Psalm 139 v 17-18
God’s Chosen People
“He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.”
Psalm 103 v 10
God’s Chosen People
“For the Lord takes delight in his people.”Psalm 149 v 4
God’s Chosen People
“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold.” Psalm 149 v 4
God’s Chosen People
“He shielded them and cared for them;He guarded them as the apple of his eye”
Deuteronomy 32 v 10
God’s Chosen People
God didn’t choose you because of what your were,He chose you because of what He was
going to make you.
God’s Chosen People
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
You belong to God
You don’t belong to anyone else!
You don’t belong to yourself!
God’s Chosen People
God’s Chosen People
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
You are holy
Be holy
God’s Chosen People
- Justification
- Sanctification
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
Princes and Princesses in God’s Kingdom have great status and authority
God’s Chosen People
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God
(God’s special possession)
God’s Chosen People
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God (God’s special possession), that you may
declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
God’s Chosen People
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received
mercy, but now you have received mercy.
God’s Chosen People
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they
accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he
visits us.
God’s Chosen People
Darren ForsdykeSunday 19th August 2012
“God’s Chosen People”1 Peter 2 v 9 - 12
