We are chosen from the world by the Father, sanctified for the sake of the world by the Spirit, and called to missional obedience by the sprinkling of Christ's blood.
Peter identifies the church as the new Israel (1 Pet. 1:2, 18-19; 2:9-10). We are recapitulating the story of Israel, and Peter locates us in the story at Mount Sinai. The Israelites at Sinai were strangers going to a homeland or an inheritance they had never seen and kept en route by the pillars of cloud and fire. In the same way we are strangers going to an inheritance we have never seen and kept en route by the Holy Spirit (1:3-5). And like Israel, we are chosen to be distinctive through obedience to God so that the world can see that God is good (1:2, 2:9-10).
Tim Chester & Steve Timmis, Everyday Church
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