Let me just point out to you a little bit later in the chapter about the Lord Jesus
Christ in verse 14 the Bible reads, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from
all iniquity and so he didn't just come just to save us from our sins and to redeem us
from all iniquity but he said and to purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of
good works.
Now what does it mean to be a peculiar people?
Well if you go back to the Old Testament we don't have to turn there for sake of time
but when God first said this in the Old Testament he said it about the nation of Israel and
he said if you follow my word if you keep my statutes he said then you will be a holy
nation you will be a chosen people and he said you will be a peculiar treasure unto
me.
You will be different is what that means when he says you're a peculiar people he's saying
you're going to be different from all the other nations around you that's what he said
to them in the Old Testament and in the New Testament we as Christians are called out
to be a peculiar people unto the Lord.
My question today is what is the difference today between the way a lot of Christians
live their lives and the philosophies that they hold and the way that the world lives
and the way that the world teaches the difference ought to be an adherence to God's word amongst
his people that's what makes us peculiar and by the way being pure is what makes us peculiar
he's here to purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.
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