you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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… mortars. It's the people who occupy that building. And so for a church to be built on the Bible means individual members must build their lives on the Bible. In fact, you find in 1 Peter 2 verses 4 and 5 these words, and coming to him, that is Jesus, as to a living stone which was rejected by men, but his choice and precious in the sight of God, you also are living stones. You are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood. Isn't that a great picture? We are the stones of the church. We are the bricks. We are the stones of the church. And if the real church, the invisible but real church, is to be built on the Bible, then the individual Christians who make up that church must build their lives on the Bible. And that's what we're going to be talking about, how we as Christians build our individual lives. Because if your life and my life and everybody's life is built on the Bible than our church is built on the Bible. Remember Jesus' words at the close of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7? He said, you've heard a lot of stuff. Just remember this. …
… well listen to what comes right after so come to Jesus the stone chosen by God and then listen let yourselves be built like living stones into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Now, that couldn't be any clearer. So Christ is the cornerstone. Okay, got that. And now you, his followers, you, members of his body, to choose a different metaphor, but you are to be built into an edifice of living stones based upon the cornerstone of Christ. It's a slightly different metaphor from head and members, but it's cornerstone and living stones making up a new and true temple. Ah, now the attentive reader will remember in the Gospel of John when Jesus says, I'm going to tear down this old temple and in three days rebuild it, referring to the temple of his body. Now we understand what the church is. We understand what those priests, those early temple priests understood. that in Jesus and his church, the work of the temple is brought to fulfillment. …
we've sung your praises lifting our voices up as a spiritual sacrifice now we wait before your word your God breathed word beyond these walls around this planet by the billions other people are hearing this word this very day and so we also hear it. Lord, speak. We pray you will anoint these words and they'll slip the bonds of ink on paper and become a living word for this church. In Jesus' name, amen. Please be seated. Living Stones. what do you suppose is the deepest foundation of any building on this planet as far as I can tell it's twin towers in Kuala Lumpur they have a foundation that is 400 feet deep that's deeper than a football field is long they're towering buildings and they needed a deep foundation. What do you suppose is the oldest foundation on this planet? Evidently in Syria near Aleppo archaeologists have found a foundation of a building that is 12,000 years old. As far as we know it's the oldest foundation. …
"An holy priesthood." 1 Peter 2:5. IN this Epistle Peter is speaking of the scattered saints in all parts of the world and, taught by the Holy Spirit, he says of them that they were "an holy priesthood." He is not talking about ministers! He is not speaking of a certain number of men who have passed through many grades of office and are, thereby, qualified to wear robes of a certain color— he is speaking of every Believer and he calls every saint a member of "an holy priesthood!" Every Mary and every John, every peasant girl and every laborer that puts his hands upon the plow, every servant of God in every capacity is a member of this "holy priesthood"—at least so Peter says, and Peter was not mistaken, for he spoke as he was "moved by the Holy Spirit." Let us, for the ten-thousandth time, state our own solemn conviction that it is time for England to wake up and solemnly rebuke the priestcraft that seems rising up in our midst! No man has any right to call himself, in any exclusive sense, a priest. When I take down the Book of Common Prayer and read, "Then shall the priest say"—I shut it up again with detestation! And if it were the best human book ever printed and had no other blunder and error in it, yet if it ventured to call any class of men, priests, I would denounce it as being tainted with Roman Catholicism! Christ is the only Priest who can offer sacrifice for the expiation of sin! He is "the Great Apostle and High Priest of our profession." But there is another priesthood—one of offering prayers and praises—and this belongs not to me because I am a minister, nor to any number of men who are called "Reverend," or "Very Reverend," or "Right Reverend," but to you as well, and to everyone else who by faith has believed in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord! If truly converted to God, a man though barely able to read his Bible, is a priest unto Him, because he has a new heart and a right spirit! He may never mount a pulpit, nor preside at a Church Meeting, but he may be a priest unto God! His only pulpit may be a cobbler's stall—his only platform for witnessing to Christ may be behind the counter or in the factory—but he is a priest for all that! …
In this world, though there is greater liberty of access than there was of old, yet still Christians are kept at a great distance from God in comparison of what they will be in heaven, where they shall be admitted even to higher privileges than Moses in the mount, when he besought God to show him his glory. They shall then see with open face, and shall know as they are known. Secondly. Christians are a priesthood with respect to their offerings to God. The principal part of the work of the priests of old was to offer sacrifice, and to burn incense. As the priests of old offered sacrifice, so the work of Christians is to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God. 1 Pet. ii. 5. “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” And here, 1st. Christians offer up their own hearts to God in sacrifice: they dedicate themselves to God. Rom. vi. 13. “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” The Christian gives himself to God freely as of mere choice; he does it heartily; he desires to be God’s, and to belong to no other; he gives all the faculties of his soul to God. He gives God his heart, and it is offered to God as a sacrifice in two ways. …
10. We cannot show this sanctification in a more excellent way, than by complying with that exhortation of the Apostle: “I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies” (yourselves, your souls and bodies; a part put for the whole, by a common figure of speech) “a living sacrifice unto God;” to whom ye were consecrated many years ago in baptism. When what was then devoted is actually presented to God, then is the man of God perfect. 11. To the same effect St. Peter says, (1 Pet. 2:5, ) “Ye are a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” But what sacrifices shall we offer now, seeing the Jewish dispensation is at an end? If you have truly presented yourselves to God, you offer up to him continually all your thoughts, and words, and actions, through the Son of his love, as a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. 12. Thus you experience that He whose name is called Jesus does not bear that name in vain: That he does, in fact, “save his people from their sins;” the root as well as the branches. And this salvation from sin, from all sin, is another description of perfection; though indeed it expresses only the least, the lowest branch of it, only the negative part of the great salvation. …