I Peter 2:4-10
WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT YOU

1. "You are a chosen people..."

2. "You are a people belonging to God..."

3. "You are living stones..."

4. "You are a royal priesthood and holy nation..."

5. "Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy"
 In v. 9 he says, "All the old titles of God's people now belong to you"  - 1Peter 2:9 (Ph)

AS A PART OF GOD'S FAMILY...

I.  I AM ___________________  "

You are...chosen by God"

"Christ has accepted you."  - Romans 15:7 (NLT)

"Even if my father and mother leave me, The Lord will take me in!"  - Psalm 27:10 (NCV)

II. I AM _____________________    "
You...belong to God" 

WHAT DETERMINES VALUE?

1. ___________________________________________

2.  ___________________________________________________

"You have been bought and paid for by Christ, so you belong to him... - I Corinthians 7:23 (LB)

"Come to the Lord, the Living Stone rejected as worthless by men, but chosen as valuable by God.  YOU ALSO, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house..." 

- I Peter 2:4 (GN/NIV)

III. I AM _____________________   
"You are ... a royal priest"

"...God's instruments to do his work and speak out for Him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference He made for you..."   - 1 Peter 2:10 (MSG)

"He saved us and chose us for his holy work, not because we deserved it but because that was his plan long before the world began..."   - 2 Timothy 1:9 (LB)

"There are different kinds of service to God.  The Holy Spirit displays God's power through each of us as a means of helping the entire church.  All of you together are the one body of Christ, and each one of you is a separate and necessary part."  - I Corinthians 12:5, 7, 27 (LB)

IV. I AM _____________________ "
You...have received mercy"

"I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am.  I will not hold your sins against you."  - Isaiah 43:25 (GN)

"...Through what Christ would do for us, God decided to make us holy in his eyes without a single fault--we stand before Him covered with His love."  - Ephesians 1:4 (LB)

"The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end; so says the Lord who loves you."  - Isaiah 54:10 (GN)

HOW THEN SHOULD I LIVE?
"It is for you now to demonstrate the goodness of God who called you out of darkness into his amazing light...now you are the people of God."  - 1 Peter 2:9d -10a (Ph)

"Once you were less than nothing; now you are God's own!"  - 1 Peter 2:10 (LB)