(1 Peter 2:9) - But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
Pattern…Obedience…Glory
· OT tabernacle
· OT Arch of the Covenant
· OT temple
· The Church
God’s nation --- Chosen…Royal…Priestly…Holy…Peculiar
(Ephesians 1:4) - just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
We are chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
· To create means to bring out of nothing
· to make means to take a substance and make it into something else
(John 1) …in the beginning was the Word …and the Word was God…and the Word was with God...
(Psalm 139) - For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me...
Isaiah says “God will watch over His word to perform…He will make sure that it accomplishes the purpose for why it was sent"
WIN: When you know God has chosen you,
· You live with more confidence
· You desire to use your gifts
· You believe for greater outcomes