This Morning’s Sermon:

Pete Regan

We are a Holy Nation

1 Peter 2: 9-12.

1 Peter 2: 9-10

1. We are a Chosen Race.
2. We are a royal Priesthood.
3. We are a Holy Nation.
4. We are God’s own possession.

1 Peter 2: 11-12

1. What does God expect our behavior to be.
2. How important is our behavior to the work of spreading the Gospel.
3. Our behavior, no matter the circumstance, must reveal the glorify God.

How does God reveal Himself?

1. Creation: Rom. 1: 18ff.
2. Man: Gen. 1&2; Ps. 8: 5.
3. Jesus: Jn. 1: 18, 14.
4. The Gospel: Rom. 1: 17.
5. Our behavior: 1 Peter 2: 12.

The behavior of God’s people revealing the Glory of God is not a new concept.

1. God is Holy: 1 Peter 1: 16; Lev. 11: 44; Rev. 4: 8; Ps. 11: 4; esp. Isa. 6: 1-7.
2. Israel to reveal God’s glory and holiness to the nations: Isa. 49: 6, 60: 1-3; Ezek. 20: 9, 14, 22, 41.

What does this mean to us?

1. We are a Holy Nation: 1 Peter 2: 9.
2. We are to be Holy in all our behavior: 1 Peter 1: 13-19.  Cf. 1 Peter 1: 6.

A Holy behavior does not happen by accident.

1 Corn. 9: 27; Eph. 4: 8-12; 1 Jn. 2: 1-2; Heb. 5; 8; 9.

What is the outcome of our Holy behavior?

Dt. 4: 7-8. Cf. Ezek. 20: 32.

How does this apply to us?

We are a light, a city on a hill:  Mt. 5: 14-16.

Conclusion: We are God’s people.  His possession.  Zealous for good deeds that demonstrate God’s glory to the world: Titus 2: 14