TEXT: 1Peter 2:9
PREACHER: Pastor Bodunrin Timothy
1Peter 2:9
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
What is a sign? A sign means prove or evidence (2King 20:10)
2King 20:10
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
What is a wonder? A wonder is a happening beyond human imagination that makes you open your mouth involuntarily.
God uses signs and wonders to remind believers that He is the Almighty and shows unbelievers so that they may believe.
Isaac was a prove of God’s promise to Abraham
Daniel’s escape in the Lion’s den was a wonder.
Hebrew 2:4
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
As God’s elect (Chosen), we are to be a prove of God’s wonder to our world. Without signs and wonders, people who not believe.
In Mathew 11:3-5) John sent out his disciples to get evidence that Jesus was the CHRIST. Many in that manner is waiting for the prove that you are indeed a chosen generation. (Romans 18:9)
Mathew 11:3-5
3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:
5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Romans 18:9
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Isaiah 53:10 proves that we are Jesus’ seed, we stand in His stead, bearing His glory and divine presence. You are Heaven’s headquarters because you are God’s house; His living, moving and active tabernacle.
Isaiah 53:10
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.