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Peter’s just described the new birth and the moral transformation of character necessary to sustain the new life in Christ (read 1:18-2:3).
Peter then presents an image of a spiritual house, or temple, with Jesus Christ as the foundational cornerstone into which believers are being built.
In looking at v5, let’s ask, what’s happening to us and why?
(Answer) We are being built to be a holy priesthood.
Why?
To offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Now comes the main point.
Christians who come in faith to Christ will be built into the walls of the building of which Christ is the foundation stone.
They form a spiritual house.
The “house” carries a couple of ideas for us to understand what we do and why we do it.
First, a house can be a building in which a family or household lives.
This picture is used elsewhere of the church (compare ), and it emphasizes
the corporate life of Christians under God as their Father,
with duties to Him and to one another.
Just like your home.
Children perform duties unto their parents and to one another.
This thought may well be present here, but it is a background one.
(Also) Second, a house can be a temple.
The Jews’ temple was the “house of God” not in the sense that he lived there but that he was present there without confinement.
Because the temple was the place of God’s presence,
it was the appropriate place for Him to communicate with His people and to receive their gifts, sacrifices and prayers.
His presence made it holy—a place to be approached with awe and reverence by people
who were themselves holy and permitted to be present.
Only the priests were allowed into the central part of the temple in Jerusalem.
These truths are certainly the main ones in this passage.
Peter develops them to make the point that we are the spiritual house of God.
"you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
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Now Peter says that Christians are a holy priesthood.
They are not only the stones that compose the building but also the priests who serve in it.
So our attendance and service is highlighted.
Our task is to offer spiritual sacrifices.
A spiritual sacrifice isn’t only material but it’s an offering of our entire self.
Marshall, I. H. (1991). 1 Peter ().
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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