This is an excerpt from my newly released book Magnify The Lord: Ten Reasons to Discover, Declare, and Defend why Christ Came, (Xulon Press ; ISBN 9781602669314).
A Peculiar People
*If you have been delivered from the hand of the enemy, you have
been delivered to a place of safety and service in Christ, who is your
life. Stand up and serve a God who only accepts what He’s worked
through His own grace. It is by His grace we stand before Him as
holy and blameless, without any spot. It is by His grace we can serve
Him righteously in this corrupt world. We are His and His alone. We
were bought through a means that goes beyond and above the usual
purchase. The purchase of our life is incomparable. This is why the
Bible describes God’s people as peculiar. The means by which we
were purchased is so special that the intent and purpose of such a
purchase is also above and beyond the normal. Our redemption is special.
PURCHASED FOR SERVICE
We were slaves of sin, and we treasured the life we were living.
We gave ourselves to our master and we were free from God in
all matters of holiness and righteousness. We did not want a new
master, and we were in darkness to His beauty and loveliness. None
of these things moved Him. He knew He could change us from
being a servant to sin to living and longing to serve righteousness.
He knew He could and would make us into a trophy of His matchless
grace. He knew that to do this He would have to go farther than
any master had ever gone to purchase his subjects. He also knew
exactly what each person He would purchase would be doing in His
fields. He weighed the cost and paid the price to make His people
special. This work has no comparison. It’s only for those who have
been purchased in such an unusual way by His own blood.
"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
marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but
are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy,
but now have obtained mercy."
(1 Peter 2:9-10)
The Lord’s people do live a life of service that is
unusual, unashamed, and unadulterated even in the midst of a
perverse generation. Don’t be cheated by the
Americanized gospel.
Jesus came to deliver us from something to something.
Praise God!
*Taken from Magnify the Lord: Ten Reasons to Discover, Declare, and Defend why Christ Came, chapter 6(He's Come to Deliver), pages 164, 165.
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