We are God’s treasured possession and His very own people (Continued)

We are God’s treasured possession and His very own people (Continued)

Mal 3:17      

            ¹⁶ Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard.  A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

¹⁷ “On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. 

1 Pet 2:9

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

Ex 8:22

²² “‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the Lord, am in this land. ²³ I will make a distinction^[b] between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.’”

Deut 7:6

⁶ For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Rom 8:14

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Those who fear the Lord are His treasured Possession

2)    We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that we may declare the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His wonderful light.

3)    God will make a distinction between His people and other people.

4)    The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

5)    For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.