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*Stones That Live Part 2 (1 Peter 2:4-10)*
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*Sunday p.m.*
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Introduction: Review Part one of sermon
I.
God is presently Engaged in a Building Project of Spiritual Proportions
A. The project begins by coming to Christ.
(idea of a worship setting)
1. Christ is The Living Stone
2. Christ is rejected by men
3. Christ is choice and precious to God
B.
The building is a spiritual house
1. Believers are living stones used to build the church
2. It houses a holy priesthood
3. Christians offer up spiritual sacrifices (made acceptable only by Christ)
Conclusion:
Christians offer up to God such spiritual sacrifices as
The body for service
Thanksgiving or praise
Doing good and being generous
Living a life for others
*Main thought: Christians are the people of God who accomplish the purpose of God.*
Tonight we are going to see:
II.
Jesus is the starting point of God’s building (vs.
6-8)
III.
God has a purpose for His building (vs.
9-10)
1 Peter 2:6-10
II.
Jesus is the starting point of God’s building (vs.
6-8)
If you will, Peter is using the O.T. for backup to demonstrate what he has just said (namely that God is building the spiritual house of the church).
A.
Isaiah 28:16
1.
The times of Isaiah- Isaiah wrote during perilous times.
The Northern kingdom of Israel was about to fall to the Assyrians.
Spiritual decline was the norm in those days.
(sound familiar?)
a.
Being a prophet in the times of ancient Israel had its hazards.
Noone who is the midst of sin likes to hear about how they are messing up.
That is precisely what the prophet did.
And he didn’t always just prophesy to the normal person on the street.
He often did it before kings who had the power and authority to carry out an execution.
b.
If tradition is accurate, Isaiah was placed inside of a hollow log and sawn in half.
2.
Isaiah’s message-
a.
The subject of ch.
28 is the Northern kingdom, of which Samaria was the capitol, and the southern kingdom (Judah) of which Jerusalem was the capital.
b.
The content of the message is that the Assyrians would be coming against Israel.
c.
There were those who would likely scoff at his message (vs.
22)
d.
The people of Israel were often tempted and gave in to worshipping other gods.
It seems they were trusting in these gods to deliver them from the Assyrians.
e.
And right in the middle of it (vs.
16) Isaiah says that the only One to be trusted is the stone which God has placed in Zion.
(That is, Jerusalem)
f. Jerusalem was significant because it was the location of the temple, where God met with His people.
So the name Zion carried great meaning.
It seems to have signified the place where the power of God resided (the only problem is that God’s power does not reside in only one location).
g.
The way for true deliverance is through the stone which has been laid in Zion.
Not trusting the false gods, but rather the true God
h.
At the end of verse 16, we see that the one who trusts in this stone will not have to make haste (run or get away).
It may be saying specifically that those who trust in the Lord would not have to flee from the Assyrians and Israel’s enemies.
3.
The usage in 1 Peter
a.
The verse is now being applied to the role of Jesus Christ in the church.
b. Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone.
c.
The cornerstone was a significant part of the building.
It did a couple of things (at least)
aa.
First of all it helped hold walls together at the corner.
Gave the building strength and stability.
bb.
Second it gave a point of reference from which the building could rise.
It provided a place to start.
Illustration:
Today there is a similar procedure among builders.
After a foundation has been poured, usually the first men to show up will set the direction for the whole building.
One of the first things they will do is establish the position of one or two exterior walls.
That is, those walls which sit on the edge of the foundation.
When they find out exactly where one of these walls (maybe a sidewall) sits, they will mark its location with a chalkline.
The next step is often to find the location of a wall (maybe an endwall) which joins the wall just chalked at a corner.
Care is taken to be sure that where these two walls join is perfectly square.
Once these two walls (which make up a corner of the building) are established, many of the other measurements for other walls are taken from them.
They keep the dimensions of the house what they should be.
They become the standard upon which the rest of the house is taken .
If they are off, it may work for a while, but at the very latest, when the builder gets to the rafters, some sort of corrections will have to be made.
They are the corner.
They are square and straight.
Very important.
The starting point which determines the direction of the rest of the building.
That is what Christ is to the church.
He is the cornerstone.
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