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One of the downsides of living in the west is our tendency to think individualistically instead of corporately. This can lead to downplaying or ignoring the significance of the corporate emphasis found in the Scriptures. God\u2019s purpose has always been to have a people for His own possession (see Ex. 19:5\u20136<\/a>; Eph. 1:14, 18<\/a>). Peter uses some of these corporate designations from the OT and applies them to the new people God has formed in Christ in 1 Peter 2:9<\/a>. Let\u2019s look at how he describes the church with some help from J. Vernon McGee in his Thru the Bible<\/a> commentary. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.<\/p>1 Pet. 2:9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He is saying several very wonderful things about us here. We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,<\/strong> and a people of His own<\/strong>\u2014not a \u201cpeculiar people.\u201d God\u2019s people are not supposed to be oddballs or crackpots or ready for the funny farm. Some folk seem to think that is what \u201cpeculiar\u201d means. It is more meaningful to use the translation: a people of His own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Chosen People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are a \u201cchosen generation,\u201d<\/em> that is, an elect race. Back in the Old Testament God chose, Israel as His people, and in the Scriptures there are two elect groups of people: the nation Israel, called an elect nation, and the church, called an elect nation and an elect people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now keep in mind that Peter is writing to his own people, the Diaspora, Jewish Christians who were scattered throughout the Roman Empire and even beyond it. In effect he is saying, \u201cAlthough right now you certainly do not look like a chosen generation, you are. Because you have come to Christ, you are a chosen generation, you are an elect nation, just as the children of Israel were elect.\u201d The keys of the kingdom have been given to the church, and we today are to give out the gospel because the church is the chosen instrument. This honor has been conferred upon believers. It is as if God had stamped out for you and me a wonderful medal on which is inscribed: You are an elect race; you are a chosen generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many vain attempts are being made in our day to identify certain people of this earth with the ten \u201clost\u201d tribes of Israel. They are said to be the gypsies, the Mormons, the Adventists, or the British-Israel group\u2014which is probably the most vocal. Well, if they could prove that England and America were settled by the ten \u201clost\u201d tribes of Israel, what have they proven? God has set aside the nation Israel temporarily, and today God is doing a new thing. He is calling out an elect race, a chosen generation, from every tongue and nation and people\u2014both Jew and Gentile\u2014and they are brought into a new relationship to God in the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excursus – What does it mean to be chosen?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although you and I say that we have come to Christ, He says that He has chosen us. I like that. It reminds me of the story of two little urchins from the slums of New York who got to Macy\u2019s department store and were looking in the window at the merchandise on display. They saw things which they could never have, but they played a game with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One said, \u201cI choose this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other said, \u201cI choose that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boy said, \u201cI choose the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girl said, \u201cI choose the doll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You and I are just like poverty-stricken little urchins in this world, but when we say, \u201cI choose Jesus,\u201d we find that He has already chosen us. How wonderful that is! The Lord Jesus said of His own apostles, \u201cYe have not chosen me, but I have chosen you \u2026\u201d<\/em> (John 15:16<\/a>). It is wonderful to know this. I am not being irreverent when I say that, since He has chosen me, He is responsible for me. The responsibility is His because I belong to Him. How wonderful it is that He has chosen us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Royal, Priestly People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are \u201ca royal priesthood.\u201d Back in the Old Testament God first of all chose the entire nation of Israel to be His priests. However, they sinned, and so God chose one tribe out of that nation. The priests came from this one tribe. Today there is no priesthood on earth which God recognizes\u2014except one. Today every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is a priest. Israel had a priesthood; today the church is a priesthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was a pastor, I preached a message entitled, \u201cYou Are a Catholic Priest.\u201d The word catholic means \u201cgeneral,\u201d of course. In that sense every believer is a catholic priest, and all have access to God. Since we belong to Christ, we can come into His presence, into the very holy of holies. Simon Peter tells us here that we as believers are members of a royal priesthood. We are children of the King. A little later on in this epistle we will read that the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and that He hears their prayers. Oh, how wonderful this is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Holy People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are \u201can holy nation.\u201d<\/em> The nation Israel was never holy in conduct, and the same can be said of the church. Israel\u2019s failure is glaring; the church\u2019s failure is appalling. Yet we are holy in our relationship with Him because Christ is our righteousness. If you have any standing before God, it is not in yourself; it is in Christ. I can\u2019t think of anything more wonderful than that today I stand complete in Him. What a joy it is to be a member of a holy nation, which is a new nation in the world today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Peculiar People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Peter calls us \u201ca peculiar people\u201d<\/em>\u2014a people of His own. We are a people for acquisition, a people for God\u2019s own possession. We belong to Him. Therefore, there is in the world not only a new nation but also a people that belong to Him. I don\u2019t know why some Christians are afraid of this concept. It doesn\u2019t mean that we are to be peculiar in conduct and act strangely but that we belong to Him. We are His very own people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can compare it to a boy who goes out and gets a job and makes his own money for the first time. His dad has been giving him an allowance, but now the money belongs to him. It is something that he worked for, and it is his very own. Well, Christ\u2019s work, His work of redemption, required the shedding of His blood, as we have seen in this epistle, and now He has a people for His very own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the high priestly prayer of the Lord Jesus, He says, \u201cI have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me \u2026\u201d<\/em> (John 17:6<\/a>). Also He said, \u201cAll that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out\u201d<\/em> (John 6:37<\/a>). How wonderful it is that the Father has given us to Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A People Called by God<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And God calls His own. He calls you today, my friend. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are or to which race you belong. Jesus Christ is calling to you to be His own. He wants you to join a chosen generation and a royal priesthood. He is not inviting you to wear robes or to recite rituals but to join a priesthood that has access to God. God is asking you to belong to a new nation. He does not mean Germany or England or Japan or even the United States. He asks you to belong to that great company of believers out of every nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 happy is that people, whose God is the LORD\u201d<\/em> (Ps. 144:15<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we [are] thy people and sheep of thy pasture \u2026\u201d<\/em> (Ps. 79:13<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the prophet Isaiah God says, \u201c\u2026 for the transgression of my people was he stricken\u201d<\/em> (Isa. 53:8<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the New Testament, \u201cWherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate\u201d<\/em> (Heb. 13:12<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, what a wonderful position we have in Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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