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REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!
Studies in 1 Peter
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Christians are a spiritual temple.

• So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,
  but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and
  are of Gods household, having been built upon
  the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
  Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in
  whom the whole building, being fitted together is
  growing into a holy temple in the Lord in whom
  you also are being built together into a dwelling
  of God in the Spirit. (Ephesians 219-22)

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• Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and
  that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man
  destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him,
  for the temple of God is holy, and that is what
  you are. (1 Corinthians 316-17)

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Christians are a spiritual priesthood.

• I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
  God, to present your bodies a living and holy
  sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your
  spiritual service of worship. (Romans 121)

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• But I have received everything in full, and have
  an abundance I am amply supplied, having
  received from Epaphroditus what you have sent, a
  fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice,
  well-pleasing to God. (Philippians 418)
• Through Him then, let us continually offer up a
  sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of
  lips that give thanks to His name. And do not
  neglect doing good and sharing for with such
  sacrifices God is pleased. (Hebrews 1315-16)

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Christians are the new Israel of God.

• Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and
  keep My covenant, then you shall be My own
  possession among all the peoples, for all the
  earth is Mine and you shall be to Me a kingdom
  of priests and a holy nation. These are the
  words that you shall speak to the sons of
  Israel. (Exodus 195-6)

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• For you are a holy people to the Lord your God
  the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people
  for His own possession out of all the peoples who
  are on the face of the earth. (Deuteronomy 76)

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• A chosen generation
• Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who
  reside as aliens, who are chosen (1 Peter 11)
• A royal priesthood
• and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him
  in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,
  (Ephesians 26)

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• For if by the transgression of the one, death
  reigned through the one, much more those who
  receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of
  righteousness will reign in life through the One,
  Jesus Christ. (Romans 517)
• A holy nation
• but like the Holy One who called you, be holy
  yourselves also in all your behavior (1 Peter
  115)

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• A peculiar people
• Or do you not know that your body is a temple of
  the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from
  God, and that you are not your own? For you have
  been bought with a price therefore glorify God
  in your body. (1 Corinthians 619-20)

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Recipients of Gods new covenant of grace.

• Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be like
  the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or
  numbered And it will come about that, in the
  place where it is said to them, You are not My
  people, It will be said to them, You are the
  sons of the living God. (Hosea 110)
• But I will have compassion on the house of Judah
  and deliver them by the Lord their God, and will
  not deliver them by bow, sword, battle, horses,
  or horsemen. (Hosea 17)

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• What we receive from God!
• for you once were not a people, but now you are
  the people of God you had not received mercy,
  but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 210)
• What we do for God!
• But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
  holy nation, a people for Gods own possession,
  that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who
  has called you out of darkness into His marvelous
  light (1 Peter 29)

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Never be ashamed of who you are in Christ! What
a privilege to be a Christian! You can't get
anymore special than that!
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How do we become a part of these people of God?

• We must recognize the precious value of Jesus.
• We must come to Him!