week of 2/27

 Unit 6  Session 4

A HOLY PEOPLE

1 PETER 1

As God is pure in all His ways, He calls His people to live likewise

in response to all He has done for them in Christ.

Throughout the Israelites' time in the wilderness, both the year

of rescue and the remaining forty years of punishment, God's

people found occasion after occasion to rebel against their

sovereign Savior. Yet God remained holy in all His interactions

with His people because that is Who He is - God is holy. He 

displayed His holiness through His abundant patience, His

faithful provision, His swift discipline, and His good law. In

all of this time, God worked to make for Himself a holy people

because God's image-bearers should be holy as He is holy, a

principle picked up in the New Testament book of 1 Peter.

Points to consider:

✞   God's people are to be holy, having been

     called by a pure God.

     * Why should Jesus' second coming impact

        our lives today?

✞   God's people are to live reverently, having

     been redeemed by a pure sacrifice.

     * How should a pursuit of holiness honor

        God?

     * What has been your favorite foreshadowing

        of Christ in the exodus narratives? Why?

✞   God's people are to love sincerely, having

     been given a pure heart.

     * How should we, as people changed by the

        gospel, show love to others?