In a third message on the passages in I Peter 1:1-2, we continue to look at Peter's background, this time examining his status as a member of the Kingdom of God. That said, even though Peter struggled with this at first, he found out the hard way that the world is not his friend. If someone as loving, sacrificial, and revolutionary as Jesus was treated cruelly and unjustly, then that should cause a believer in Christ to want to be set apart from this world. When you choose Christ, we are strangers, out of place in this world, and that is because God is replacing a heart moved by fear, failure, and inadequacy, with a heart empowered by confidence, victory, and competence, through the work of the Holy Spirit.