Peter in 1st Peter 2:9-10 writes of the reflective glory of God’s people, the church, this new society birthed by our personal transformation and this one parallels the description God gave Israel in Exodus 19:5-6 where He calls them, a “special treasure, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”. This isn’t a suggestion, by Peter, that God is done with Israel as God will fulfill all of His promises and covenants with them. These two verses describe primarily from First (Old) Testament phraseology, the kind of Great Society the church has become. Grammatically, these four descriptions are not verbs, they are nouns! That revelation ought to cause us to realize that God does not see His Church based upon what they DO but rather what they ARE, it is this truth that should cause each and every member of God’s family to realize that: “Who we are equals what we do and NOT what we do equals who we are!” Furthermore, Peter gives us, “The expressed mission of this Great Society” saying, “that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into His marvelous light.”
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