Who Are The Believers? It Is An Impressive Resume

1 Peter 2:9

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Peter switches perspectives once again.  From the stumbling block that Jesus presents to the unbeliever, we come now to the place and purpose of the believer once more.  Peter indeed wants us to understand that we are set apart in our roles as believers, drawing together entitlements named and developed out of the Old Testament as they are fulfilled in the New through the work and power of Jesus Christ.  We are then reminded who we work for and why we work for him!

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,--four ways to refer to the believers, each one complementary to the rest, but also carrying a distinctiveness that we shall explore more.

in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him—there is a reason why exist, a job that we are called to do, a mission we are called to achieve.   

who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.—and a reminder of what it is that Jesus did for us in the first place.

Faith is not a static thing, neither is the work of Jesus.  It is ongoing in us and it is called to be ongoing out from who we are.  In Jesus, we have achieved something remarkable, but not something that is for us, but for the world.  And Jesus has chosen us to share it with them.