It’s quite a mouthful for a topic
A rather alliterative theme,
No doubt you are trying to discern
Whether I am up to some scheme.
I am sorry to disappoint you
I have no scheme in mind,
It’s just that the topic struck me
At this particular time.
I thought I would write a poem
Using that alliterative line
And seeing I was at the computer
I thought now was a good time.
The peculiar peculiarities
I am sure that sounds strange
And then to add a peculiar people
They must be pretty deranged.
But like I have stated before
There’s no such scheme in my mind
But I shall write about a people
And they are of a special kind.
Follow me to the word of God
Where a word is found seven times,
That particular word is peculiar
Keep it foremost in your mind.
Almost every time peculiar is used
It is in reference to God’s people,
Only once you will find an exception
You can check the Bible.
Four times in the Old Testament
It is in reference to Israel,
But the two times in the New Testament
It identifies a different people.
Here are some peculiar peculiarities
Of this peculiar people,
Turn to the books of Titus and 1st Peter
I trust you are near your Bible.
First turn to Titus 2 verse 14
And you will find three peculiarities,
I shall list them in the next verse
Go there and find all three.
Redeemed from all iniquity
And purified unto Christ Jesus
A peculiar people
Who, in good works, are zealous.
A reading of 1st Peter 2:9 and 10
Should reveal another six
About a people who was so estranged
That only God could fix.
A chosen generation, a royal priesthood
A holy nation, a peculiar people,
Once in darkness but now of the light,
God’s own people: He being merciful.
To be continued…
Stewart Russell © March 2019
Can you really believe this?
It is May 31st, 2021,
Since I started writing this poem
More than two years have gone.
Back then I wrote to be continued
But I never got back,
This is now my longest poem;
In terms of time, that is a fact.
That is another peculiarity
But certainly, one we can overlook,
It is about the poem
Rather than the people God took.
So, let’s conclude this matter
We began two years ago,
There is something mighty important
That I want you to know.
These are the people of God
That have been washed in the blood,
The blood of the crucified one:
Only Jesus could.
Acts 20:28
This is the church of God
“Purchased with his own blood”,
The Bible says it in this fashion
And we also should.
God was in Christ Jesus
Reconciling the world to Himself
Thus, to walk in his peculiar calling
Is the believer’s wealth.
“In the world but not of the world”
But light and salt they are:
A peculiar people as unto the LORD
And not by this world marred.
Titus 2:13-14
Looking for that blessed hope,
And the glorious appearing
Of the great God
And our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Who gave himself for us,
That he might redeem us from all iniquity,
And purify unto himself a peculiar people,
Zealous of good works.
Stewart Russell © May 31, 2021
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