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EPHESIANS 2:14-22
Christ Our Peace
"...For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Christ Our Cornerstone
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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1 PETER 2:9 (NKJV)
"...But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light..."
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ROMANS 11 (NKJV)
Israels Rejection Not Total
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life? But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. "Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace." But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written:
God has given them a spirit of stupor,
Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear,
To this very day.
And David says:
Let their table become a snare and a trap,
A stumbling block and a recompense to them.
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,
And bow down their back always.
I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you conti
Lyrics
DEARLY BELOVED
'HEART OF THE KING' SC; 2015
Music: Robert Banks IV / Lyrics: Rosa Banks
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VERSE 1
Who?
We were a people on HIS mind
Chosen before the Clock of Time
CHORUS
Dearly Beloved we are peculiar people
Dearly Beloved we are peculiar people
Royal treasure
HE looks upon us as royal treasure with a love without measure
Inside HIS heart we are like royal treasure
TRUTH
The Word of the LORD declares, in the Book of 1 Peter 2:9
We are a chosen generation
A royal priesthood
An Holy Nation
A peculiar people
Raising our Holy, sacred praises unto the ONE who purchased us with HIS Sinless Blood
Bought us back out of Darkness into HIS marvelous Light
We are royal treasure
Yeah, yeah, yes we are
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
BRIDGE
Who?
VERSE 2
Before the sun, moon and stars became the lights up in the skies above
We were a people on HIS mind
Chosen before the Clock of Time
CHORUS
Dearly Beloved we are peculiar people
Dearly Beloved we are peculiar people
Royal treasure
HE looks upon us as royal treasure with a love without measure
Inside HIS heart we are like royal treasure
