A PECULIAR PEOPLE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

A PECULIAR PEOPLE.

TURN to Titus 2:14. "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority." A peculiar people. Now I think you know that we don't like to be considered peculiar. We are so afraid of it, that we want to be like the world, and just mingle with the world so that people won't consider us peculiar. Very often we hear people say, "Yes, she is a very good woman, but she is very peculiar; yes, he is a very good man—Oh, yes, but he's very peculiar." I tell you I'd be willing to make one journey around the world to find one church full of peculiar people. Why, that church would stir the world. The very thing we consider peculiar is the thing we need to-day. I believe Elijah was the most peculiar man of his day; but he was better than those thousands who followed Baal; he held the keys of Heaven, and could stand fearlessly before Ahab, because God was with him. Enoch was a peculiar man in his day, but of course he was different from other people; and undoubtedly Daniel was the most peculiar man Babylon ever had. Why, if we had only just a few peculiar people in New York, we should have a wonderful result. If God has got a great work to do he will take some peculiar man who separates himself from the world, and sets his face like a flint toward Heaven, and use him for himself.

—D. L. Moody.