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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR, COMING TO YOU HERE
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I'D LIKE TO EXTEND A VERY WARM
WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS JOINING
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US ONLINE, TO OUR ONLINE
MEMBERS, AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS
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WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS
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WELCOME TO YOU AND WE'RE
GLAD YOU CHOSE TO STUDY WITH US
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TODAY. I'D ALSO
LIKE TO WELCOME THE
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MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS RIGHT
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NOW WE STARTED A NEW LESSON
QUARTERLY NOT TOO LONG AGO
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DEALING WITH THE FIRST
AND THE SECOND BOOKS OF PETER.
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OUR LESSON QUARTERLY IS
ENTITLED FEED MY SHEEP .
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NOW, I KNOW MANY OF YOU HERE
IN OUR AUDIENCE, YOU HAVE THE
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LESSON QUARTERLY SO YOU'RE ABLE
TO STUDY DURING THE WEEK AND
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THEN YOU COME PREPARED
TO STUDY HERE AT CHURCH.
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OF THE LESSON QUARTERLY,
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ABOUT THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,
AND THAT'S GOING TO BE THE THEME
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THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT TODAY.
WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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LESSON STUDY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO
BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN
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SONG, SO I'D LIKE TO
INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME
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AND JOIN ME ON STAGE.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
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IT IS ALWAYS A PRIVILEGE TO SING
WITH YOU EVERY WEEK - WE LOOK
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FORWARD TO IT,
DON'T WE LADIES? >>WE DO.
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>>IT'S JUST THE LADIES TODAY,
UM - AND, SO IT'S THAT TIME AND
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WE'RE GOING TO PULL OUT
OUR HYMNALS AND WE'RE GOING TO
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PRAISE THE LORD IN SONG - #282
- I HEAR THY WELCOME VOICE -
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BEAUTIFUL SONG - WE'LL DO
THE FIRST, SECOND AND FOURTH
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STANZAS. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
WITH US AND, AT THIS TIME,
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PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO
HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
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TOGETHER AND OPEN
UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY.
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AND, AS WE'VE STARTED THIS STUDY
SERIES DEALING WITH THE BOOKS OF
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1 AND 2 PETER, WE PRAY, LORD,
FOR YOUR SPIRIT TO COME AND
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GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS,
FOR THERE IS SUCH IMPORTANT
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INFORMATION FOR US THAT WE NEED
TO UNDERSTAND FOR THIS TIME IN
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WHICH WE ARE LIVING. SO, LORD,
BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
WELL, OUR LESSON THIS MORNING
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IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR MARSHALL MCKENZIE.
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HE IS THE PUBLISHING
DIRECTOR AT AMAZING FACTS.
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HE HAS TAUGHT LESSONS SEVERAL
TIMES HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH SO, THANK YOU, MARSHALL,
WE'LL TURN THE TIME OVER TO YOU.
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>>IT'S A POWERFUL LESSON -
LESSON #3 IN OUR STUDY - FEED MY
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SHEEP - 1 AND 2 PETER -
WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO A ROYAL
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PRIESTHOOD THIS MORNING. I
THOUGHT IT WAS SO APPROPRIATE
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THE LAST SONG THAT WE SANG IN
RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST AND HIS
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SHED BLOOD AND WHAT HE DID ON
CALVARY SO THAT WE COULD BE PART
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OF THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD THAT
HE IS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP.
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THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THE
GOSPEL'S GOING FORWARD, AND
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PEOPLE ARE MAKING DECISIONS AND
THEY'RE BECOMING PART OF THIS
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FOLD. I WANT TO
LOOK AT THE MEMORY
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TEXT THIS MORNING - IT'S KIND OF
THE CENTRAL TEXT AND THE CENTRAL
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THEME FOR OUR STUDY THIS MORNING
IN 2 - OR 1 PETER CHAPTER 2.
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OUR MEMORY VERSE - AND I'M JUST
GOING TO READ IT RIGHT OUT OF
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OUR LESSON QUARTERLY.
IT SAYS, "YOU ARE A CHOSEN
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GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,
A HOLY NATION, HIS OWN SPECIAL
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PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY PROCLAIM
THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED
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YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO
HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" - THAT HE
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HAS CALLED US OUT OF WHAT?
HE'S CALLED US OUT OF DARKNESS
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AND HE'S BROUGHT US IN
TO THIS MARVELOUS LIGHT.
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IT'S THAT SAME LIGHT
THAT, REALLY, COVERED OUR FIRST
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PARENTS, ADAM AND EVE, IN
THE GARDEN BEFORE THE FALL.
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THAT SAME ROBE OF LIGHT IS WHAT
GOD IS CALLING US INTO, THROUGH
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CHRIST, AND HE'S CALLING US OUT
OF DARKNESS AND HE GIVES US THIS
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PRIVILEGE AND THIS OPPORTUNITY,
WHEN WE COME OUT, TO BE PART OF
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THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
NOW, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT,
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THROUGHOUT THIS LESSON, THERE'S
SEVERAL POINTS THAT ARE BROUGHT
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OUT IN RELATIONSHIP
TO THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
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A FEW THAT I'D LIKE TO BRING TO
YOUR ATTENTION - WE MAY NOT BE
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ABLE TO COVER THEM ALL, BUT
I WANT TO JUST BRING TO YOUR
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ATTENTION THESE FIVE POINTS THAT
THE LESSON COVERS AS WE DIVE
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INTO 1 PETER CHAPTER 2.
THE FIRST POINT DEALS WITH A
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CHRISTIAN LIFE -
LIVING AS CHRISTIANS.
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THE SECOND POINT IS
CHRIST THE CORNERSTONE.
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SO, IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE'RE
GOING TO LIVE AS CHRISTIANS - IF
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WE'RE GOING TO LIVE CHRIST-LIKE
LIVES, THEN WE NEED TO BE
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LEANING ON WHO? WE
NEED TO BE LEANING ON JESUS,
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WHO PETER DESCRIBES
AS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
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AND WE'RE GOING TO - WE'RE GOING
TO GET INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT
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MORE - THE THIRD POINT IS THIS
CONTINUITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
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COVENANT AS IT
RELATES TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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SO, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IN
1 PETER CHAPTER 2 IS HOW PETER
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ACTUALLY GOES BACK INTO THE OLD
TESTAMENT AND THEN HE PULLS SOME
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PRINCIPLES THAT WERE GIVEN
TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND HE
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BRINGS THEM ALL THE WAY FORWARD
AND HE APPLIES THEM TO THE
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GENTILE CHRISTIANS,
AND IT'S A POWERFUL POINT.
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THE FOURTH POINT THAT THE LESSON
BRINGS OUT IS THE BIBLICAL
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CONCEPT OF THE ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD OR A HOLY NATION.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
CHRIST'S SPECIAL PEOPLE - HIS
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CHOSEN GENERATION - AS
WE'RE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS OF
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EARTH'S HISTORY.
AND, FINALLY, WE CAN'T END
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WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE
PROCLAMATION OF THIS MESSAGE.
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AND, IN THE LAST
LESSON - THURSDAY'S LESSON -
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WE GET INTO THE
PROCLAMATION OF PRAISES.
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WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL THAT CHRIST
HAS DONE AND WHAT CHRIST IS
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HELPING US TO BE A PART OF, YOU
CAN'T HELP BUT TELL OTHERS - YOU
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CAN'T HELP BUT SHARE THAT WITH
OTHER PEOPLE - BECAUSE YOU WOULD
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WANT THEM TO EXPERIENCE
WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING, RIGHT?
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YOU'D WANT THEM TO EXPERIENCE
THE BENEFITS OF BEING PART OF
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THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD THAT
CHRIST IS HELPING US TO BE A
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PART OF. SO I
WANT TO JUST DIVE RIGHT
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IN FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, OKAY?
WE'RE GOING TO DIVE RIGHT IN AND
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WE'RE GOING TO START
HERE WITH 1 PETER CHAPTER 2.
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SO, IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, I'D
LOVE FOR YOU TO OPEN THEM UP TO
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1 PETER CHAPTER 2 BECAUSE THIS
IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SPEND
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MOST OF OUR TIME THIS MORNING
- 1 PETER CHAPTER 2 - AND WE'RE
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GOING TO ACTUALLY START HERE
RIGHT AWAY WITH VERSE 1, OKAY?
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1 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 SAYS,
"THEREFORE," - PETER WRITES -
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"LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, ALL
DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, ENVY, AND ALL
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EVIL SPEAKING, AS NEWBORN BABES,
DESIRE THE PURE MILK OF THE
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WORD, THAT YOU MAY GROW THEREBY,
IF INDEED YOU HAVE TASTED THAT
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THE LORD IS GRACIOUS."
YOU WANT TO NOTICE HOW
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PETER STARTS THIS CHAPTER.
HE STARTS IT WITH A VERY SIMPLE
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WORD. THAT WORD -
AND I'M READING FROM
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THE NEW KING JAMES
VERSION - IS 'THEREFORE'.
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NOW IT'S INTERESTING, WHEN I
WAS GOING THROUGH SCHOOL I HAD A
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TEACHER, AS WE WERE STUDYING THE
BIBLE, HE WOULD ALWAYS TELL US,
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'WHEN YOU SEE THE WORD
'THEREFORE' YOU ALWAYS ASK
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'WHAT'S IT THERE FOR?'' OKAY?
WHICH, ULTIMATELY, LEADS YOU
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BACK BEFORE YOU
CAN MOVE FORWARD, OKAY?
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IT'S KIND OF LIKE HERE,
IN CALIFORNIA, YOU HAVE THESE
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AMAZING - YOU KNOW, WE HAVE
THESE RIVERS AND THEN WE HAVE
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THESE MOUNTAINS AND, SOMEWHERE
ALONG THESE RIVER WAYS, YOU FIND
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THAT THE CLIFFS GET A LITTLE
SHORTER AND A LITTLE SHORTER,
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AND YOU GET TO THAT POINT WHERE
THEY MIGHT BE 15 FEET OR 20
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FEET, AND SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE
LOVE TO JUMP OFF OF THOSE -
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RIGHT? - INTO THE WATER.
NOW, SOME OF YOU, PROBABLY,
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SITTING HERE ARE GOING, 'NO
WAY.' EVEN IF IT WERE FIVE FEET
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I DON'T THINK I
WOULD JUMP, OKAY?
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BUT I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS WHO
LIKE DOING THAT AND I'VE DONE IT
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MYSELF A FEW TIMES, BUT YOU'LL
NOTICE WHEN YOU GO TO THE EDGE
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YOU DON'T USUALLY GET UP THERE
AND JUST GO - AND YOU RUN OFF
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AND YOU JUST JUMP. ME,
PERSONALLY, I KIND OF GO TO
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THE EDGE AND I TAKE A
LITTLE LOOK AND THEN I - WHAT?
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I STEP BACK, OKAY? AND
THE PURPOSE FOR STEPPING
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BACK SOMETIMES IS TO CONTEMPLATE
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO, OKAY?
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AND THINK ABOUT IT. BUT
IT - THAT'S WHAT PETER'S
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DOING; WHEN HE USES THE WORD
'THEREFORE' HE'S ACTUALLY HAVING
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US STEP BACK FOR JUST A
MINUTE AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO
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KIND OF GET A RUN -
OKAY? - AT 1 PETER CHAPTER 2.
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SO, WHEN WE SEE 'THEREFORE'
- AND I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO
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VERSE 22, OKAY? THE
WHOLE CHAPTER HERE IN 1
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PETER CHAPTER 1 REALLY
IS UPLIFTING JESUS CHRIST.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN 1 PETER
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 3 - BEFORE WE
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READ - IT BRINGS OUT
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.
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IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 1, VERSES
7 AND 13, PETER TALKS ABOUT THE
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SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
AND THEN, IN 1 PETER CHAPTER 1,
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VERSE 11, PETER TALKS ABOUT
THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. ALL OF
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THESE THINGS, BY THE WAY, ARE
SPOKEN OF IN THE WORD OF GOD,
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AND THIS IS WHERE PETER
ENDS CHAPTER 1, THAT I'D LIKE TO
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BRING YOUR ATTENTION TO AS WE
KIND OF GO INTO 1 PETER CHAPTER
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2. NOTICE, WITH ME, STARTING
WITH VERSE 22 OF 1 PETER CHAPTER
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1, HE SAYS, "SINCE YOU HAVE
PURIFIED YOUR SOULS IN OBEYING
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THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SPIRIT
IN SINCERE LOVE OF THE BRETHREN,
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LOVE ONE ANOTHER FERVENTLY WITH
A PURE HEART, HAVING BEEN BORN
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AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED
BUT INCORRUPTIBLE, THROUGH THE"
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- WHAT? - "THROUGH THE WORD OF
GOD" - NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE, BUT
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OF INCORRUPTIBLE, "THROUGH
THE WORD OF GOD WHICH LIVES AND
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ABIDES FOREVER," -
GOD'S WORD NEVER FAILS.
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GOD'S WORD IS ALWAYS
TRUE AND IT'S ALWAYS CONSTANT.
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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING
CONSTANT IN YOUR LIFE, IF YOU'RE
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LOOKING FOR SOMETHING STABLE IN
YOUR LIFE, LOOK TO THE WORD OF
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GOD. GOD NEVER
FAILS ANY OF US. >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO PETER SAYS, 'THIS WORD
OF GOD, WHICH LIVES AND ABIDES
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FOR FOREVER' - HOW MANY OF US
WANT TO LIVE AND ABIDE FOREVER?
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>>AMEN. >>I MEAN, THAT'S REALLY
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WHAT WE WANT, RIGHT? I
WANT TO - I NEVER, BY THE
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GRACE OF GOD, I
WANT TO SEE TRANSLATION.
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I DON'T WANT TO DIE. >>AMEN.
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>>I WANT TO LIVE FOREVER.
NOW, IT'S IN THE LORD'S HANDS,
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BUT I KNOW THERE'S A
RESURRECTION - AND PETER TALKS
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ABOUT THAT IN 1 PETER - OKAY?
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BUT, NONETHELESS, THE WORD
OF GOD ABIDES AND LIVES FOREVER.
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NOW NOTICE, HE SAYS, "BECAUSE
'ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS, AND ALL
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THE GLORY OF MAN AS
THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS.
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THE GRASS WITHERS, AND ITS
FLOWER FALLS AWAY, BUT THE WORD
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OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.'"
AND THE HE SAYS, "NOW THIS IS
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THE WORD WHICH BY THE
GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO YOU."
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AND FROM THAT WORD HE CONTINUES
TO BUILD ON THIS CONCEPT, IN
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RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST, WHEN
HE BEGINS TO SAY, 'LAY ASIDE ALL
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MALICE' - "THEREFORE, LAYING
ASIDE ALL MALICE, ALL DECEIT,
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HYPOCRISY, ENVY, AND ALL EVIL
SPEAKING," - AND HE GOES ON, BUT
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I WANT TO DRAW YOU ATTENTION
TO THIS - TWO WORDS - WHERE HE
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SAYS, 'LAY ASIDE'.
MATTER OF FACT THEY REMIND ME
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OF WHAT THE
APOSTLE PAUL HAS TO WRITE.
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YOU READ THESE WORDS IN HEBREWS
CHAPTER 12, VERSE 1 - PAUL,
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SPEAKING JUST LIKE PETER, SAYS
TO US, "THEREFORE," - NOW, WE
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DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET
INTO HEBREWS CHAPTER 11.
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EVEN PAUL, HERE, IN
HEBREWS CHAPTER 12 STARTS WITH
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"THEREFORE," - OKAY?
"WE ALSO, SINCE WE ARE
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SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD
OF WITNESSES," - HE SAYS - "LET
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US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT,"
- JUST LIKE PAUL - OR JUST LIKE
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PETER SAYS AS HE BEGINS CHAPTER
2, HE SAYS, "LAYING ASIDE ALL
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MALICE, ALL DECEIT, HYPOCRISY,
ENVY, AND ALL EVIL SPEAKING".
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PAUL, IN HEBREW, HE SAYS,
"...LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT,"
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- THAT SO EASILY BESETS US
- OKAY? OR "THE SIN WHICH SO
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EASILY ENSNARES
US, AND LET US RUN WITH
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ENDURANCE THE RACE
THAT IS SET BEFORE US".
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YOU KNOW, SOME YEARS
AGO I STARTED RUNNING.
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I REMEMBER, IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE
COACHES, WHEN I WAS IN TRACK,
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THEY WOULD ALWAYS TELL ME,
'YOU'RE NOT A LONG-DISTANCE
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RUNNER. YOU'RE
KIND OF BUILT FOR THOSE
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SHORT DISTANCES.' IN MY MIND,
I WANTED TO RUN LONG DISTANCES.
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I WASN'T SO CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT
THEY TOLD ME, BUT THEY NEVER
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GAVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY, AND
SO I'D ALWAYS RUN THE 100 METERS
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AND THE 200 AND THEN WE'D
DO A 400-RELAY AND SO FORTH.
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SO SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS
IN WISCONSIN, AND I WAS THERE
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PASTORING, I REALLY TOOK IT TO
MYSELF - I WANTED TO RUN AND I
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WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO RUN AND
I HAD THIS GOAL THAT I WAS GOING
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TO RUN A MARATHON. AND
SO, I SET OUT AND I STARTED
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TRAINING, AND I LOST SOME WEIGHT
AND, MAN, MY TIMES WERE GETTING
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FASTER AND I WAS RUNNING LONGER
- TO THE POINT WHERE I COULD RUN
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FOUR HOURS
WITHOUT STOPPING, OKAY?
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I HAD GONE DOWN TO ABOUT - ABOUT
162 POUNDS AND I WAS JUST - I
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WAS ENJOYING IT - SO I RAN TWO
MARATHONS IN A FOUR-MONTH PERIOD
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AND THEN I RAN A COUPLE HALF
MARATHONS, BUT THEN, AFTERWARDS,
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I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, 'OKAY,
I'VE ACCOMPLISHED ALL THAT.
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I JUST NEED TO SIT DOWN AND
RELAX.' AND, WHERE I WAS LIVING
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AT THE TIME, WE HAD A LOT
OF DAIRY QUEENS AROUND AND I
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THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, I'M
DOING ALRIGHT, I CAN START THIS
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PROCESS.' AND SO I HAD ONE AND
THEN I HAD ANOTHER AND PRETTY
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SOON I HAD GAINED 50
POUNDS. IT HAPPENED THAT FAST.
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AND I THOUGHT - (TAKES DEEP
BREATH) - AND SO THIS - WHAT
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PAUL'S TELLING US HERE AND WHAT
PETER'S TELLING US - IT MAKES A
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DIFFERENCE WHEN
YOU LAY THAT ASIDE.
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WHAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH AND WHAT
YOU CAN DO AND HOW YOU CAN LIVE
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MAKES SO MUCH MORE DIFFERENCE
WHEN WE LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT.
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OR LIKE PETER SAYS HERE IN
1 PETER CHAPTER 2, HE SAYS,
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"...LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, ALL
DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, ENVY, AND ALL
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EVIL SPEAKING" - IF WE
WOULD JUST LAY THAT ASIDE, HOW
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DIFFERENT LIFE
WOULD BE, WOULDN'T IT?
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE OUR LIFE WOULD
MAKE, NOT ONLY FOR OURSELVES BUT
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TO THE PEOPLE AROUND US, IF
WE WOULD JUST DO, HERE, WHAT
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PETER'S TALKING ABOUT.
BUT HE DOESN'T STOP THERE.
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NOTICE, WITH ME, VERSE 2, AS
WE READ, HE SAYS, 'LAYING THIS
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ASIDE' AND THEN HE SAYS, "AS
NEWBORN BABES, DESIRE THE PURE
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MILK OF THE WORD, THAT YOU MAY
GROW THEREBY" - SO NOW I WANT TO
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DRAW YOUR ATTENTION - HE SAYS,
'AS NEWBORN BABES' - WHAT DO
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NEWBORN BABES LOVE TO
DO? WELL, WE KNOW THEY
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LIKE TO SLEEP, OKAY?
MAYBE SOME AREN'T SLEEPERS AT
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FIRST, BUT THEY
ALL ARE EATERS, OKAY?
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WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT - I
REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD OUR FIRST,
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I MEAN, FEEDING EVERY TWO HOURS
- AND THAT WENT ON FOR DAY AFTER
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DAY AFTER DAY AND
MY WIFE'S JUST TIRED.
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BUT HERE, PETER GIVES US THIS
ILLUSTRATION AND HE SAYS, 'LIKE
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NEWBORN BABES WE ARE TO BE
HUNGERING AND THIRSTING AND WE
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ARE TO BE EATING THE WORD, IF
- IF WE COULD, EVERY TWO HOURS -
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EVERY THREE HOURS -
EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY.
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AND THIS REMINDED ME OF WHAT
JESUS SAID WHEN HE WAS TALKING
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IN THE BEATITUDES IN MATTHEW
CHAPTER 5, VERSE 6: JESUS SAID,
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"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER
AND THIRST FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS" -
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JUST LIKE PETER'S
DESCRIBING - AS NEWBORN BABES.
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HE SAYS, "BLESSED ARE
THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS" - WHY?
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YOU KNOW, WHEN A BABY IS HUNGRY
AND GETS FED, THAT BABY IS FULL
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AND THEY'RE HAPPY AND YOU SEE
THE LOOK ON THEIR FACE CHANGE
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AND JESUS SAYS, 'THOSE
WHO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEY SHALL
BE FILLED. IT'S ONE THING WHEN
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YOU'RE FILLED, ISN'T IT?
YOU'RE HUNGRY, YOU'RE IRRITABLE,
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BUT MAN, YOU GET SOME FOOD
IN YOUR SYSTEM AND ALL OF A
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SUDDEN IT'S A
DIFFERENT STORY ALTOGETHER.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN JOB CHAPTER
23, VERSE 12, JOB SAYS, "I HAVE
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NOT DEPARTED FROM THE
COMMANDMENT OF HIS LIPS; I HAVE
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TREASURED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH
MORE THAN MY NECESSARY FOOD."
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IN OTHER WORDS, JOB SAYS,
'LISTEN, I VALUE THE WORD OF GOD
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MORE THAN MY NECESSARY FOOD.'
AND THIS IS WHAT PETER'S TALKING
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ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS, 'AS NEWBORN
BABES' - WE NEED TO HUNGER AND
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WE NEED TO THIRST AND WE NEED
TO DESIRE THE PURE MILK OF THE
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WORD. AND WHY DOES HE
SAY WE NEED TO DO THIS?
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WE LAY ASIDE, RIGHT?
WE LAY ASIDE THE MALICE
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AND THE ENVY, OKAY? -
THE EVIL SPEAKING - AND THEN,
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AS NEWBORN BABES, WE THIRST AND
WE HUNGER OVER THE WORD OF GOD.
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AND THEN PETER SAYS, 'THAT YOU
MAY GROW THEREBY' - THAT YOU MAY
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GROW. WE EAT - RIGHT? - TO
LIVE AND IT HELPS US TO GROW.
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EPHESIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSES 14
AND 15 - PAUL ALSO TALKS ABOUT
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THIS GROWING - HE SAYS THAT "WE
SHOULD NO LONGER BE CHILDREN,
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TOSSED TO AND FRO AND
CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF
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DOCTRINE, BY THE TRICKERY
OF MEN, IN THE CUNNING" - OF
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CRAFTINESS - OR "THE
CUNNING CRAFTINESS OF DECEITFUL
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PLOTTING, BUT, SPEAKING THE
TRUTH IN LOVE," - HE SAYS - WE
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"MAY GROW UP IN ALL THINGS INTO
HIM..." SO PAUL GIVES US THE
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SAME PICTURE AS PETER DOES, THAT
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE - THAT LIVING
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AS A CHRISTIAN IS ALL
ABOUT CONTINUING TO GROW.
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YOU KNOW, WE'RE TOLD THAT WHEN
YOU ENTER THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST,
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YOU NEVER GRADUATE
- YOU NEVER GRADUATE.
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THERE'S ALWAYS
SOMETHING TO LEARN.
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THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO KNOW
AND GOD HAS SO MUCH TO SHARE
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WITH US THAT HE WANTS US TO
CONTINUE TO FEED SO THAT WE CAN
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CONTINUE TO GROW. WHO
WANTS TO STOP GROWING?
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WHAT YOUNG PERSON
EVER WANTS TO STOP GROWING?
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YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT MY SON WHO
IS ALMOST TALLER THAN I AM NOW,
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AND HE'S LOVING IT. HE
JUST WANTS TO KEEP GROWING
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AND HE KEEPS REMINDING ME, 'ONE
DAY, I'M GOING TO BE TALLER THAN
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YOU.' AND THAT DAY IS COMING.
MATTER OF FACT, MY WIFE SAID,
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NOT SO LONG AGO, SHE SAID,
'SOMETIMES I LIKE TO KIND OF
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STAND AWAY FROM HIM BECAUSE
HE'S ALREADY ALMOST TALLER THAN
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ME.' THEY LOVE TO GROW -
AND CHRISTIANS - LIVING AS A
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CHRISTIAN, WE
SHOULD LOVE TO GROW.
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WE SHOULD LOVE TO LEARN. WE
SHOULD LOVE TO BE LIKE JESUS.
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SO PETER SAYS, 'THIS ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD' - AS HE'S GOING TO
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DESCRIBE LATER - IS A PRIESTHOOD
THAT LITERALLY, AS HE SAYS HERE,
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LAYS ASIDE MALICE AND ENVY.
THEY'RE DESIRING THE WORD OF GOD
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AND THEY'RE CONSISTENTLY
GROWING - CONSISTENTLY
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GROWING AND LEARNING. AND
THEN HE ENDS - NOTICE VERSE
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3 - "IF INDEED YOU HAVE TASTED
THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS."
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HOW MANY OF YOU THIS MORNING
HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS
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GRACIOUS? THIS IS -
THIS IS THE EXPERIENCE
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- WHAT IT IS TO
LIVE AS A CHRISTIAN.
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.56
WE GET TO TASTE THE LORD DAILY.
WE GET TO TASTE AND SEE, AS THE
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PSALMIST SAYS,
THAT THE LORD IS GOOD.
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WHEN WE HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER
RIGHTEOUSNESS, LIKE NEWBORN
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BABES - WHEN WE LAY ASIDE THE
MALICE AND THE ENVY, PETER SAYS,
00:25:10.07\00:25:15.28
'WE SHALL TASTE THAT THE LORD
IS GRACIOUS' AND THE PSALMIST
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REALLY POINTS THAT OUT AND
BRINGS THAT TO OUR ATTENTION.
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WE NEED TO TASTE AND
SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD.
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NOW I WANT TO JUMP, IN THE
LESSON, WE'RE GOING TO JUMP
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RIGHT OVER TO MONDAY'S LESSON,
BECAUSE THIS KIND OF LEADS US
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ALONG. 1 PETER CHAPTER 2 - OKAY?
- VERSES 4 THROUGH 8 - SO NOW
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PETER'S GOING TO
SHIFT FOR JUST A MINUTE.
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HE'S GOING TO GO FROM, 'OKAY,
THIS IS WHAT, AS CHRISTIANS, WE
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NEED TO BE DOING' - AND THEN ALL
OF A SUDDEN HE SHIFTS THE FOCUS
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TO THE LIVING STONE. WHY IS ALL
OF THIS RELEVANT AND IMPORTANT?
00:25:53.25\00:26:00.52
SOME OF THE THINGS WE JUST
TALKED ABOUT - BECAUSE NOW,
00:26:00.52\00:26:04.09
PETER'S GOING TO TIE
IT TO THE LIVING STONE.
00:26:04.09\00:26:08.26
SO, IF YOU'LL NOTICE WITH ME, IN
YOUR BIBLES, WE'RE GOING TO READ
00:26:08.26\00:26:10.30
THE NEXT FOUR VERSES IN 1 PETER
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 4 THROUGH 8 -
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HE SAYS, "COMING TO HIM AS TO A
LIVING STONE," - I WANT TO STOP
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THERE JUST A MINUTE. NOTICE
HOW IT SAYS, 'COMING TO HIM'.
00:26:21.24\00:26:25.51
SO, WHEN WE LAY ASIDE ENVY AND
MALICE AND EVIL SPEAKING, WHEN
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WE COME AS NEWBORN BABES,
HUNGERING AND THIRSTING OVER THE
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WORD OF GOD TO BE FILLED, AS WE
CONTINUE TO GROW IN CHRIST, AS
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WE CONTINUE TO TASTE AND
SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, PETER
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SAYS YOU ARE COMING TO
HIM. WE'RE DRAWING CLOSER AND
00:26:47.27\00:26:53.51
CLOSER AND CLOSER TO CHRIST.
SO HE SAYS, "COMING TO HIM AS TO
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A LIVING STONE, REJECTED INDEED
BY MEN," - WHICH WE'LL TALK
00:27:00.28\00:27:05.62
ABOUT - "BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND
PRECIOUS," - JESUS WAS CHOSEN
00:27:05.62\00:27:13.70
BY GOD AND JESUS IS
PRECIOUS. WHO KNOWS THAT BETTER
00:27:13.70\00:27:19.00
THAN PETER, RIGHT?
THINK ABOUT IT - LESSON #1 WE
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TALK ABOUT THE PERSON, PETER, IN
THIS QUARTERLY, WHO, BY THE WAY,
00:27:23.67\00:27:28.74
DIDN'T HE DENY
CHRIST, RIGHT? THREE TIMES?
00:27:28.74\00:27:33.65
AS CHRIST WAS FACING THIS
SUFFERING AND THIS PERSECUTION,
00:27:33.65\00:27:38.35
PETER WAS THERE
AND HE DENIED HIM.
00:27:38.35\00:27:40.66
BUT WHAT DID GOD DO?
GOD FORGAVE HIM, RIGHT?
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AND CHRIST SAID, 'I'M PRAYING
THAT YOUR FAITH DOESN'T FAIL.'
00:27:43.43\00:27:49.83
AND SO CHRIST FORGIVES PETER
- HE EXPERIENCES THAT - AND
00:27:49.83\00:27:52.93
PETER'S A NEW MAN - A NEW MAN.
00:27:52.93\00:27:56.71
AND SO, PETER UNDERSTANDS HOW
PRECIOUS THIS STONE REALLY IS -
00:27:56.71\00:28:02.91
THIS LIVING STONE
- THIS CHOSEN STONE.
00:28:02.91\00:28:09.35
THEN, VERSE 5, HE SAYS,
"YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES, ARE
00:28:09.35\00:28:13.25
BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL
HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO
00:28:13.25\00:28:18.76
OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS
00:28:18.76\00:28:23.83
CHRIST.
THEREFORE" - VERSE 6 - "IT IS
00:28:23.83\00:28:27.30
ALSO CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURE,
'BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHIEF
00:28:27.30\00:28:32.87
CORNERSTONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS,
AND HE WHO BELIEVES ON HIM WILL
00:28:32.87\00:28:40.22
BY NO MEANS BE PUT TO
SHAME.' THEREFORE, TO YOU WHO
00:28:40.22\00:28:44.22
BELIEVE, HE IS" - WHAT? -
"HE IS PRECIOUS; BUT TO THOSE
00:28:44.22\00:28:52.16
WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT, 'THE STONE
WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS
00:28:52.16\00:28:57.00
BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE,'
AND 'A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A
00:28:57.00\00:29:02.07
ROCK OF OFFENSE.' THEY
STUMBLE, BEING DISOBEDIENT TO
00:29:02.07\00:29:05.34
THE WORD," - RIGHT?
REMEMBER THAT WORD WE'RE
00:29:05.34\00:29:08.71
TALKING ABOUT HERE IN THE VERY
BEGINNING? 'TO EAT OF' - HE SAYS
00:29:08.71\00:29:13.31
THERE ARE A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT
ARE DISOBEDIENT TO THAT WORD -
00:29:13.31\00:29:16.35
"TO WHICH THEY ALSO WERE
APPOINTED." NOW THERE ARE SOME
00:29:16.35\00:29:20.99
INTERESTING THINGS THAT
THE LESSON BRINGS UP IN TALKING
00:29:20.99\00:29:24.73
ABOUT THIS LIVING STONE, AS
PETER DESCRIBES, THE PERSON OF
00:29:24.73\00:29:30.73
CHRIST. AFTER
TELLING HIS READERS -
00:29:30.73\00:29:34.70
AFTER TELLING HIS READERS
TO SEEK SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT,
00:29:34.70\00:29:40.14
PETER IMMEDIATELY
DIRECTS THEIR ATTENTION TO JESUS
00:29:40.14\00:29:44.38
CHRIST, THE LIVING STONE.
NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT
00:29:44.38\00:29:49.85
PETER, IN STARTING TO TALK
ABOUT JESUS AS THE LIVING STONE,
00:29:49.85\00:29:54.26
SWITCHES TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
AND HE ACTUALLY BRINGS OUT AN
00:29:54.26\00:29:59.13
OLD TESTAMENT PRINCIPLE IN
RELATIONSHIP TO CHRIST, SO HE'S
00:29:59.13\00:30:04.23
BEGINNING TO DRAW THESE TWO
THINGS TOGETHER. THERE'S THREE
00:30:04.23\00:30:09.54
OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES
THAT PETER'S PULLING FROM, THAT
00:30:09.54\00:30:13.14
HIGHLIGHT THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE CORNER STONE, WHICH
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REPRESENTS THE ROLE OF CHRIST
IN HIS CHURCH, AMONG HIS CHOSEN
00:30:19.88\00:30:24.85
GENERATIONS. I DO
NOT WANT YOU TO MISS THE
00:30:24.85\00:30:28.86
SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT PETER IS
DOING IN GOING BACK TO THE OLD
00:30:28.86\00:30:34.03
TESTAMENT IN REFERENCE TO THIS
CORNERSTONE, AS HE'S SPEAKING,
00:30:34.03\00:30:39.87
NOW, TO NEWBORN BABES - HE'S
SPEAKING TO CHRIST'S BODY - HE'S
00:30:39.87\00:30:45.27
SPEAKING TO THIS GENERATION
- THIS CHOSEN GENERATION
00:30:45.27\00:30:48.71
- THIS SPECIAL PEOPLE.
AND, BY THE WAY, HE'S NO
00:30:48.71\00:30:53.55
DIFFERENT THAN THE APOSTLE
PAUL - THEY DO THE SAME THING.
00:30:53.55\00:30:56.48
NOTICE, WITH ME, IN EPHESIANS
- YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE, TURN TO
00:30:56.48\00:30:58.79
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2 - EPHESIANS
CHAPTER 2 - NOTICE WITH ME,
00:30:58.79\00:31:06.13
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2 - WE'RE JUST
GOING TO READ VERSES 19 - OKAY?
00:31:06.13\00:31:11.13
- EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 19
THROUGH 22 - AND PAUL, HERE, IS
00:31:11.13\00:31:19.64
SPEAKING TO
GENTILE CHRISTIANS, OKAY?
00:31:19.64\00:31:24.88
AND HE ALSO IS GOING BACK TO THE
OLD TESTAMENT IN DOING SO - IN
00:31:24.88\00:31:30.99
SPEAKING TO THESE
GENTILE CHRISTIANS.
00:31:30.99\00:31:33.49
VERSE 19 IT SAYS, "NOW,
THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER
00:31:33.49\00:31:36.69
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS," -
YOU'RE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND
00:31:36.69\00:31:41.86
FOREIGNERS - "BUT FELLOW
CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND
00:31:41.86\00:31:46.27
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF
GOD, HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE
00:31:46.27\00:31:52.41
FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND
PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF
00:31:52.41\00:31:58.25
BEING THE" - WHAT? -
"THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE, IN
00:31:58.25\00:32:02.55
WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING
FITTED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A
00:32:02.55\00:32:08.66
HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD, IN
WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT
00:32:08.66\00:32:14.86
TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING
PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
00:32:14.86\00:32:20.87
SO HERE PAUL IS DOING EXACTLY
WHAT PETER'S DOING; HE'S GOING
00:32:20.87\00:32:25.41
BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
AND SAYING, 'LISTEN,' - TO THE
00:32:25.41\00:32:28.44
GENTILES - 'YOU ARE
A PART OF GOD'S PLAN.
00:32:28.44\00:32:33.25
YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
A PART OF GOD'S PLAN.
00:32:33.25\00:32:36.75
WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE
TO CHRIST, YOU'RE NO LONGER
00:32:36.75\00:32:39.45
STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS,
BUT YOU ARE NOW PART OF THE
00:32:39.45\00:32:45.26
HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.' SO THE
PROPHECY AND WHAT GOD'S PLAN WAS
00:32:45.26\00:32:51.47
FOR ISRAEL WAS MUCH
BROADER THAN JUST ISRAEL.
00:32:51.47\00:32:56.84
'FOR GOD SO LOVED THE' - WHAT?
'THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY
00:32:56.84\00:33:01.71
BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER
BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT
00:33:01.71\00:33:06.45
PERISH BUT HAVE
EVERLASTING LIFE', AMEN?
00:33:06.45\00:33:10.92
WHOEVER - AND SO, PETER IS
GOING BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:33:10.92\00:33:15.02
COMING FORWARD,
SPEAKING TO THE GENTILES.
00:33:15.02\00:33:17.26
PAUL'S DOING THE EXACT
SAME THING - HE'S BRINGING THEM
00:33:17.26\00:33:19.89
TOGETHER, HELPING THEM
REALIZE 'YOU'RE PART OF A BIGGER
00:33:19.89\00:33:23.73
PICTURE' - 'YOU'RE PART OF A
BIGGER PLAN' - 'YOU'RE PART OF A
00:33:23.73\00:33:27.70
TREMENDOUS FAMILY'. AND THIS
SHOULD GIVE US ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:33:27.70\00:33:34.58
I REMEMBER WHEN I BECAME A
CHRISTIAN, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF,
00:33:34.58\00:33:38.81
'I'M GOING TO
LOSE ALL MY FRIENDS.
00:33:38.81\00:33:42.02
I WON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS.' BUT
I MADE THE DECISION AND, BELIEVE
00:33:42.02\00:33:47.89
ME, I HAVE FRIENDS
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
00:33:47.89\00:33:51.53
GOD'S FAMILY IS MORE
THAN ANY ONE CLASS OF PERSONS.
00:33:51.53\00:33:57.33
GOD LOVES THE WHOLE WORLD AND HE
LOVES EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL.
00:33:57.33\00:34:02.90
AND SO, PAUL, REACHING BACK,
IS HELPING THEM TO GRASP THIS.
00:34:02.90\00:34:06.84
HE'S ALSO HELPING THE JEWISH
CHRISTIANS TO GRASP THIS CONCEPT
00:34:06.84\00:34:11.48
ALSO. IT'S BIGGER
THAN JUST YOU AND I.
00:34:11.48\00:34:15.88
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING,
JESUS, IN TALKING TO THE CHIEF
00:34:15.88\00:34:19.29
PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES, GOES
BACK TO THE SAME OLD TESTAMENT
00:34:19.29\00:34:24.16
PASSAGES TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND
THIS POINT - AND THAT THE FOCUS
00:34:24.16\00:34:30.07
IS CHRIST - THE FOCUS IS CHRIST.
HE'S THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:34:30.07\00:34:37.37
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT
CORNERSTONE, EVERYTHING FALLS
00:34:37.37\00:34:41.38
APART. IF, IN OUR LIVES, WE
DON'T HAVE THAT CORNERSTONE - WE
00:34:41.38\00:34:46.35
WONDER, SOMETIMES, WHY OUR LIVES
FALL APART: BECAUSE WE DON'T
00:34:46.35\00:34:51.15
HAVE THE CORNERSTONE
- JUST LIKE A BUILDING.
00:34:51.15\00:34:53.46
BUT JESUS TALKS ABOUT THIS
IN LUKE CHAPTER 20, VERSES 17
00:34:53.46\00:34:57.16
THROUGH 19 -
I'LL READ IT FOR YOU.
00:34:57.16\00:34:59.03
HE SAYS, "WHAT THEN IS THIS THAT
IS WRITTEN: 'THE STONE WHICH THE
00:34:59.03\00:35:04.33
BUILDERS REJECTED'" - BY
THE WAY, WHO IS HE REFERRING TO?
00:35:04.33\00:35:08.14
HE'S REFERRING TO ISRAEL.
THEY WERE TO BE BUILDERS.
00:35:08.14\00:35:11.94
THEY WERE TO BUILD
UP THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.
00:35:11.94\00:35:15.18
THEY WERE TO ENLARGE THE TENT,
SO TO SPEAK, SO THAT EVERYBODY
00:35:15.18\00:35:19.81
WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
TO COME UNDER THAT TENT.
00:35:19.81\00:35:24.22
BUT THEY - THEY
REJECTED THE STONE.
00:35:24.22\00:35:29.56
HE SAYS IT "'HAS
BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?
00:35:29.56\00:35:33.80
WHOEVER FALLS ON THAT STONE WILL
BE BROKEN; BUT ON WHOMEVER IT
00:35:33.80\00:35:38.57
FALLS IT WILL GRIND HIM TO
POWDER.' AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS
00:35:38.57\00:35:43.17
AND THE SCRIBES THAT VERY HOUR
SOUGHT TO LAY HANDS ON HIM, BUT
00:35:43.17\00:35:47.91
THEY FEARED THE PEOPLE -
FOR THEY KNEW HE HAD SPOKEN THIS
00:35:47.91\00:35:50.88
PARABLE AGAINST THEM." SO
JESUS, GOING BACK TO THESE
00:35:50.88\00:35:55.82
SAME PASSAGES THAT PETER'S
TAKING THE CHURCH BACK TO - THAT
00:35:55.82\00:35:59.59
PAUL'S TAKING THE CHURCH BACK TO
- HE'S ENCOURAGING PEOPLE THAT
00:35:59.59\00:36:03.86
THE TENT IS MUCH BROADER
THAN WHAT THEY THINK IT IS -
00:36:03.86\00:36:09.80
THAN WHAT THEY THINK IT
IS. THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE
00:36:09.80\00:36:13.47
IS PRECIOUS. THE
CHIEF CORNERSTONE IS VITAL.
00:36:13.47\00:36:18.37
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE IS VERY
IMPORTANT TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE,
00:36:18.37\00:36:23.11
WHETHER JEW OR GENTILE, BUT
TO THOSE WHO ARE DISOBEDIENT,
00:36:23.11\00:36:27.42
WHETHER JEW OR GENTILE, HE IS
A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK
00:36:27.42\00:36:32.39
THAT ALWAYS SEEMS IN
THE WAY. I TOLD YOU THAT I
00:36:32.39\00:36:36.52
BECAME A
CHRISTIAN. I MADE MY DECISION
00:36:36.52\00:36:39.29
TO FOLLOW CHRIST. BEFORE
THAT, LIFE WAS MISERABLE.
00:36:39.29\00:36:45.23
BUT I REMEMBER MY DAD GOING TO
CHURCH AND HE CAME BACK AND HE
00:36:45.23\00:36:50.67
WAS STUDYING HIS BIBLE AND HE
WAS GOING TO CHURCH ON A REGULAR
00:36:50.67\00:36:53.61
BASIS. AND I
REMEMBER WHEN I WOULD GO
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.51
VISIT HIM, HE WOULD
ALWAYS HAVE THESE RULES.
00:36:55.51\00:37:00.68
'MARSHALL, WHEN YOU COME TO MY
HOUSE ON SABBATH' - ON SATURDAY
00:37:00.68\00:37:05.52
- HE SAID, 'WE DON'T SLEEP
ON THE COUCH, WE GO TO CHURCH.'
00:37:05.52\00:37:11.66
AND, FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I
THOUGHT, 'THIS IS JUST GETTING
00:37:11.66\00:37:14.20
IN MY WAY' - BECAUSE I
HADN'T MADE MY OWN DECISION.
00:37:14.20\00:37:22.30
BUT I REMEMBER, WHEN I STARTED
MAKING MY DECISION TO FOLLOW
00:37:22.30\00:37:25.41
CHRIST - I REMEMBER GOING
TO VISIT MY DAD AND, ALL OF A
00:37:25.41\00:37:28.98
SUDDEN, WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT
WAS GETTING IN THE WAY - THAT IT
00:37:28.98\00:37:32.25
WAS A ROCK OF STUMBLING, OR
A ROCK OF OFFENSE, I ENJOYED.
00:37:32.25\00:37:39.99
MATTER OF FACT, I REMEMBER BEING
THE FIRST ONE UP IN THE MORNING,
00:37:39.99\00:37:42.72
FIRST ONE DRESSED,
FIRST ONE READY TO GO.
00:37:42.72\00:37:44.96
NOW, THAT TOOK A COUPLE OF
YEARS, BUT SLOWLY GOD WAS MAKING
00:37:44.96\00:37:50.03
THE CHANGE AND NO LONGER WAS
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE A ROCK OF
00:37:50.03\00:37:55.44
STUMBLING, BUT NOW HE WAS
PRECIOUS BECAUSE HE WAS GIVING
00:37:55.44\00:38:00.41
ME LIFE AND HE WAS HELPING ME
UNDERSTAND THAT I WAS A PART OF
00:38:00.41\00:38:05.15
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD - I WAS PART
OF A BIGGER FAMILY AND A BIGGER
00:38:05.15\00:38:09.62
PLAN THAN ONE I
WAS CURRENTLY LIVING.
00:38:09.62\00:38:13.62
IT'S POWERFUL WHAT PETER'S
TALKING ABOUT - WHAT PAUL'S
00:38:13.62\00:38:16.46
TALKING ABOUT.
THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS IN
00:38:16.46\00:38:22.16
THESE VERSES I WANT TO DRAW YOUR
ATTENTION TO: IN 1 PETER CHAPTER
00:38:22.16\00:38:26.60
2 THERE'S A COUPLE POINTS THAT
ARE BROUGHT OUT IN RELATIONSHIP
00:38:26.60\00:38:30.91
TO THIS LIVING STONE -
THIS CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:38:30.91\00:38:37.28
NOTICE, WITH ME, 1 PETER CHAPTER
2 - AND NOTICE WITH ME, VERSE 5
00:38:37.28\00:38:44.25
- ACTUALLY, I'LL GO VERSES 4 AND
5 - NOTICE THERE'S A PARALLEL
00:38:44.25\00:38:48.42
HERE THAT TAKES PLACE, OKAY?
00:38:48.42\00:38:51.56
"COMING TO HIM AS TO A LIVING
STONE, REJECTED INDEED BY MEN,
00:38:51.56\00:38:57.73
BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND PRECIOUS"
- VERSE 5 - HE SAYS, "YOU ALSO,
00:38:57.73\00:39:03.51
AS LIVING
STONES," - YOU NOTICE THAT?
00:39:03.51\00:39:07.21
JUST LIKE THE LIVING
STONE, HIS CHURCH IS TO BE WHAT?
00:39:07.21\00:39:14.58
LIVING STONES - PLURAL
- WE'RE TO BE LIKE CHRIST.
00:39:14.58\00:39:20.69
THERE'S THIS PARALLEL THAT
PETER'S MAKING BETWEEN THE STONE
00:39:20.69\00:39:25.66
AND THE STONES - OR THE
MEMBERS THAT MAKE UP THE BODY.
00:39:25.66\00:39:31.63
AND THIS PARALLEL IS VERY
IMPORTANT WHEN HE BEGINS TO TALK
00:39:31.63\00:39:35.10
ABOUT THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND
WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT IN
00:39:35.10\00:39:38.41
JUST A MINUTE. BUT
NOTICE THIS PARALLEL: HE'S
00:39:38.41\00:39:41.51
THE LIVING STONE AND
THEN HE SAYS YOU, ALSO,
00:39:41.51\00:39:45.31
ARE LIVING STONES.
THE LIVING STONE AND GOD'S
00:39:45.31\00:39:51.75
LIVING STONES - GOD'S SPIRITUAL
HOUSE - HOLY PRIESTHOOD - JUST
00:39:51.75\00:39:56.26
AS THE LIVING STONE WAS CHOSEN -
NOTICE, WITH ME, VERSE 4 - "BUT
00:39:56.26\00:40:02.03
CHOSEN BY GOD AND" - WHAT?
- "PRECIOUS," - NOW MOVE OVER
00:40:02.03\00:40:06.67
TO VERSE 9 AND YOU'LL NOTICE,
AGAIN, THIS PARALLEL - OKAY?
00:40:06.67\00:40:11.67
- 1 PETER CHAPTER 2,
VERSE 9, "BUT YOU ARE A" - WHAT?
00:40:11.67\00:40:15.94
- "CHOSEN GENERATION" - JUST
LIKE CHRIST WAS THE LIVING STONE
00:40:15.94\00:40:20.78
AND YOU ARE TO BE LIVING STONES
- JUST LIKE CHRIST WAS CHOSEN
00:40:20.78\00:40:25.52
AND PRECIOUS, HIS BODY IS
WHAT? A CHOSEN GENERATION.
00:40:25.52\00:40:30.99
THERE'S THIS PARALLEL THAT'S
GOING ON BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS
00:40:30.99\00:40:34.93
BODY - CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH
- THEY'RE TO BE TOGETHER -
00:40:34.93\00:40:39.67
THEY'RE TO BE KNIT TOGETHER.
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU TURN
00:40:39.67\00:40:44.94
WITH ME TO MATTHEW CHAPTER
16 - MATTHEW CHAPTER 16 - THIS
00:40:44.94\00:40:51.81
IS BROUGHT OUT IN A - IN A
CONVERSATION THAT CHRIST HAD
00:40:51.81\00:40:58.02
WITH PETER AND PETER IS, BY
THE WAY, WRITING ABOUT THIS IN
00:40:58.02\00:41:02.22
1 PETER, SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE
SENSE THAT WE GO BACK TO THIS
00:41:02.22\00:41:05.96
SITUATION WHERE CHRIST AND PETER
ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION AND
00:41:05.96\00:41:10.33
THIS POINT IS BROUGHT
OUT IN THIS CONVERSATION.
00:41:10.33\00:41:13.90
MATTHEW CHAPTER 16, VERSES 14
THROUGH 19 - IT SAYS, "SO THEY
00:41:13.90\00:41:18.81
SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN THE
BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH,'" - IN
00:41:18.81\00:41:24.41
OTHER WORDS, THEY WERE ASKING -
OTHER PEOPLE HAD OTHER THOUGHTS
00:41:24.41\00:41:27.08
ABOUT JESUS - 'WHO WAS
HE?' 'WAS HE ELIJAH?' -
00:41:27.08\00:41:29.25
OKAY? - 'WAS HE JUST A PROPHET?'
00:41:29.25\00:41:32.55
ETC. IT SAYS, "'AND
OTHERS JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE
00:41:32.55\00:41:36.46
PROPHETS.' HE SAID TO THEM,"
- JESUS SPEAKING NOW, SAYS, "BUT
00:41:36.46\00:41:40.80
WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?" -
OKAY? SO EVERYBODY'S OUT THERE
00:41:40.80\00:41:45.43
AND THEY'RE
WONDERING, 'WHO IS JESUS?'
00:41:45.43\00:41:47.84
BUT THEN JESUS SAYS, 'BUT
WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?'
00:41:47.84\00:41:51.07
- SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES -
AND, SIMON PETER, THE FIRST ONE
00:41:51.07\00:41:54.84
TO RESPOND - VERSE 16 -
"...ANSWERED AND SAID, 'YOU ARE
00:41:54.84\00:41:58.85
THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE
LIVING GOD.' JESUS ANSWERED AND
00:41:58.85\00:42:03.62
SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED ARE YOU,
SIMON BAR-JONAH, FOR FLESH AND
00:42:03.62\00:42:08.26
BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS
TO YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHO IS IN
00:42:08.26\00:42:12.73
HEAVEN. AND I ALSO
SAY TO YOU THAT YOU
00:42:12.73\00:42:15.63
ARE PETER, AND ON THIS ROCK
I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH, AND THE
00:42:15.63\00:42:19.17
GATES OF HADES SHALL
NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.
00:42:19.17\00:42:22.20
AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE KEYS
OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND
00:42:22.20\00:42:24.87
WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH WILL
BE BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WHATEVER
00:42:24.87\00:42:27.71
YOU LOOSE ON EARTH WILL
BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN.'" THE
00:42:27.71\00:42:32.28
INTERESTING FACT IN THIS PASSAGE
IS HOW SIMON EXHIBITS A FAITH IN
00:42:32.28\00:42:38.65
CHRIST AND HOW JESUS THEN TURNS
TO SIMON AND CHANGES HIS NAME TO
00:42:38.65\00:42:44.56
PETER, WHICH IS A STONE
- OKAY? - PETRAS OR A ROCK.
00:42:44.56\00:42:51.60
YET JESUS, IN SAYING THIS,
BRINGS PETER BACK TO THE FACT,
00:42:51.60\00:42:57.31
THOUGH, THAT HE, CHRIST, IS THE
ROCK - PETRA - UPON WHICH THE
00:42:57.31\00:43:03.41
WHOLE HOUSE IS
FITLY JOINED TOGETHER.
00:43:03.41\00:43:07.52
SO, EVEN THOUGH PETER - HE SAYS,
'PETER YOU'RE A STONE AMONGST
00:43:07.52\00:43:11.95
THE STONES, BUT I AM
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.'
00:43:11.95\00:43:17.53
>>AMEN. >>'I AM
THE ROCK THAT THIS
00:43:17.53\00:43:20.36
CHURCH IS GOING TO BE BUILT
ON.' AND SO WHAT PETER'S TALKING
00:43:20.36\00:43:24.87
ABOUT IN 1 PETER IS - ALL
GOES BACK TO PART OF WHAT HE
00:43:24.87\00:43:29.40
EXPERIENCED WHEN HE HAD THIS
CONVERSATION WITH CHRIST AND HE
00:43:29.40\00:43:32.94
REALIZED HIS PLACE IN ALL OF
THIS. CHRIST IS THE ROCK - HE'S
00:43:32.94\00:43:40.95
THE LIVING STONE AND
WE ARE JUST LIVING STONES.
00:43:40.95\00:43:49.12
THE SECOND THING THAT THIS
BRINGS OUT - GOING BACK TO PETER
00:43:49.12\00:43:51.66
- 1 PETER CHAPTER 2 - THE SECOND
POINT THAT'S MADE HERE BY PETER
00:43:51.66\00:43:57.87
IS THIS CONCEPT
OF A SPIRITUAL HOUSE.
00:43:57.87\00:44:01.44
NOW, I WANT YOU
TO NOTICE VERSE 5.
00:44:01.44\00:44:03.47
HE SAYS, "YOU ALSO, AS LIVING
STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A
00:44:03.47\00:44:09.81
SPIRITUAL HOUSE, A
HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP
00:44:09.81\00:44:15.68
SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE
TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
00:44:15.68\00:44:21.52
SO HE SAYS, 'LISTEN,
YOU'RE LIVING STONES.
00:44:21.52\00:44:24.53
YOU'RE TO BE A
SPIRITUAL HOUSE. NOW, THERE'S A
00:44:24.53\00:44:26.76
PARALLEL, CHRIST, RIGHT?
HE'S THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:44:26.76\00:44:30.23
HE CAME TO SET THE EXAMPLE
FOR US AND, AS WE LIVE BY THAT
00:44:30.23\00:44:35.94
EXAMPLE, THIS IS HOW WE RELATE
TO HIM - WE'RE TO BE A SPIRITUAL
00:44:35.94\00:44:40.81
HOUSE. WE'RE TO BE A HOLY
PRIESTHOOD. WHAT DID PRIESTS DO
00:44:40.81\00:44:46.45
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY
00:44:46.45\00:44:49.12
DID WAS OFFERED SACRIFICES.
AND SO, PETER, GOING BACK TO THE
00:44:49.12\00:44:53.79
OLD TESTAMENT POINTS BACK TO
THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND HE'S
00:44:53.79\00:44:58.49
TALKING ABOUT IT IN
RELATIONSHIP TO SACRIFICES.
00:44:58.49\00:45:01.46
WHAT KIND OF A
SACRIFICE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
00:45:01.46\00:45:04.63
WHAT KIND OF SACRIFICE DO
THESE LIVING STONES OFFER?
00:45:04.63\00:45:10.14
NOTICE, WITH ME, ROMANS CHAPTER
12, VERSES 1 AND 2 - ROMANS
00:45:10.14\00:45:14.04
CHAPTER 12, VERSES 1 AND 2 -
ROMANS CHAPTER 12, VERSES 1 AND
00:45:14.04\00:45:20.02
2 - PAUL WRITES, "I BESEECH
YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE
00:45:20.02\00:45:31.46
MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU
PRESENT YOUR BODIES A" - WHAT?
00:45:31.46\00:45:36.33
>>A LIVING SACRIFICE.
>>"A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY,
00:45:36.33\00:45:40.07
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH
IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.
00:45:40.07\00:45:44.74
AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS
WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE
00:45:44.74\00:45:48.54
RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YOU
MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND
00:45:48.54\00:45:52.18
ACCEPTABLE PERFECT WILL OF GOD."
PAUL SAYS THE SACRIFICE - PETER
00:45:52.18\00:45:55.88
SAYS WE ARE TO BE LIVING STONES
AND WE ARE TO OFFER SACRIFICES.
00:45:55.88\00:46:02.52
AND THEN PAUL TURNS AROUND AND
SAYS, 'AND BY THE WAY, THIS IS
00:46:02.52\00:46:05.96
THE SACRIFICE YOU ARE TO OFFER
AS A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD - IT'S
00:46:05.96\00:46:10.73
YOUR LIVES.' YOUR LIVES
ARE TO BE A LIVING SACRIFICE.
00:46:10.73\00:46:17.51
PETER'S USING THE TERM
'PRIESTHOOD' TO EMPHASIZE THE
00:46:17.51\00:46:21.64
NEED FOR MAKING A SACRIFICE.
THIS - ONE OF THE THINGS THE
00:46:21.64\00:46:26.55
LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD DID IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT AND, IN DOING SO,
00:46:26.55\00:46:30.52
THEY WERE TO BE AS HOLY EXAMPLES
OF CHRIST TO THE PEOPLE.
00:46:30.52\00:46:35.96
OUR SACRIFICES
ARE TODAY OUR LIVES.
00:46:35.96\00:46:41.60
BUT I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - THIS
IS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT WITH
00:46:41.60\00:46:44.13
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, OKAY?
AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO GRASP.
00:46:44.13\00:46:48.30
SO I WANT TO SKIP, FOR THE SAKE
OF TIME, I'M GOING TO MOVE RIGHT
00:46:48.30\00:46:51.34
OVER TO WEDNESDAY'S LESSON
WHEN WE DEAL WITH THE ROYAL
00:46:51.34\00:46:54.94
PRIESTHOOD, OKAY?
I'LL MAKE A QUICK NOTE TO
00:46:54.94\00:46:58.88
THIS COVENANT PEOPLE, OKAY?
BECAUSE PETER'S GOING BACK TO
00:46:58.88\00:47:02.95
THE OLD TESTAMENT - HE'S GOING
BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT - PART
00:47:02.95\00:47:05.45
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PLAN WAS
THAT, ULTIMATELY, THEY WERE TO
00:47:05.45\00:47:09.89
BE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD - THEY
ARE A COVENANT PEOPLE, OKAY?
00:47:09.89\00:47:16.10
SO NOTICE WITH ME, THERE'S A
COUPLE PASSAGES - IN THE VERY
00:47:16.10\00:47:18.80
BEGINNING GOD FORMED A COVENANT
- OKAY? - WITH HIS PEOPLE.
00:47:18.80\00:47:23.64
THE FIRST ONE IS IN
GENESIS CHAPTER 9, VERSE 9.
00:47:23.64\00:47:26.34
I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH
THIS QUICKLY - IT'S NOAH.
00:47:26.34\00:47:28.44
WHEN NOAH GETS OFF THE ARK
AND HE OFFERS A SACRIFICE THERE,
00:47:28.44\00:47:35.18
THEN GOD SAYS, 'AND I WILL MAKE
A COVENANT WITH YOU.' THIS IS
00:47:35.18\00:47:39.49
THE COVENANT THAT HAS ALWAYS
EXISTED, AND WHAT GOD IS DOING
00:47:39.49\00:47:43.56
IS HE'S RENEWING THE COVENANT.
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN YOU TURN
00:47:43.56\00:47:48.00
TO GENESIS CHAPTER 17, VERSES
1 THROUGH 4 - IT'S THE ONE WE
00:47:48.00\00:47:52.47
ALWAYS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
- IT'S THAT COVENANT THAT GOD
00:47:52.47\00:47:55.90
FORMS WITH ABRAHAM.
REMEMBER, HE PULLED HIM OUT OF
00:47:55.90\00:47:58.57
THE LAND OF UR AND HE'S WALKING
THROUGH AND HE'S EXPERIENCING,
00:47:58.57\00:48:02.11
BY FAITH, WHAT IT MEANS TO
LIVE FOR GOD ON A REGULAR BASIS.
00:48:02.11\00:48:08.08
GOD, ALONG THE WAY, GETS TO THE
POINT WHERE HE SAYS, 'NOW THIS
00:48:08.08\00:48:11.25
IS THE COVENANT THAT I'M MAKING
WITH YOU.' HE'S NOT MAKING A NEW
00:48:11.25\00:48:15.12
COVENANT, HE'S RENEWING THE
COVENANT HE'S ALWAYS DESIRED -
00:48:15.12\00:48:19.76
>>AMEN. >>WITH HIS PEOPLE.
00:48:19.76\00:48:21.76
AND SO, CONSTANTLY THROUGH
SCRIPTURE - IN EXODUS CHAPTER 2,
00:48:21.76\00:48:25.60
VERSE 24 GOD REMEMBERED THIS
COVENANT WHEN HE RESCUED HIS
00:48:25.60\00:48:31.04
PEOPLE FROM OPPRESSION IN EGYPT.
AND THEN EXODUS CHAPTER 19 -
00:48:31.04\00:48:38.11
GOD, SPEAKING TO MOSES, REMINDS
THEM OF THIS COVENANT JUST
00:48:38.11\00:48:43.59
BEFORE HE GIVES THEM THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS. SO WHEN WE GO BACK
00:48:43.59\00:48:48.49
TO THE OLD TESTAMENT - WHAT
PETER IS DOING WHEN HE'S TALKING
00:48:48.49\00:48:51.23
ABOUT A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND
HE'S PULLING THAT FROM THE OLD
00:48:51.23\00:48:54.20
TESTAMENT, WHAT HE'S SAYING
IS THAT GOD WANTS A COVENANT
00:48:54.20\00:48:58.00
RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU GENTILES,
JUST AS HE - MUCH AS HE DESIRED
00:48:58.00\00:49:02.54
TO HAVE A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:49:02.54\00:49:07.71
THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE. GOD
SHOWS NO PARTIALITY, RIGHT?
00:49:07.71\00:49:13.92
>>AMEN. >>GOD IS NOT PARTIAL.
00:49:13.92\00:49:15.78
THE COVENANT THAT HE'S ALWAYS
DESIRED, HE WILL ALWAYS WANT.
00:49:15.78\00:49:19.69
AND, IT'S INTERESTING, IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 9, VERSE 27 IT TALKS
00:49:19.69\00:49:25.56
ABOUT CHRIST AND, AT HIS DEATH,
HE CONFIRMS THE COVENANT - THE
00:49:25.56\00:49:31.43
VERY COVENANT THAT WE
CONSISTENTLY SEE THROUGHOUT
00:49:31.43\00:49:34.77
SCRIPTURE. AND THIS
IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE
00:49:34.77\00:49:36.84
PART OF THIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD -
THIS HOLY NATION - IT MEANS THAT
00:49:36.84\00:49:41.58
WE - HOLY PEOPLE - THAT WE
ARE PARTAKERS OF THIS COVENANT
00:49:41.58\00:49:45.41
RELATIONSHIP THAT GOD HAS
ESTABLISHED AND THAT GOD IS
00:49:45.41\00:49:49.92
GOING ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU'D TURN TO
00:49:49.92\00:49:52.65
HEBREWS WITH ME - IF YOU TURN
TO HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 - OKAY?
00:49:52.65\00:49:58.46
HEBREWS CHAPTER 8 - PAUL
COMES BACK TO THIS ISSUE OF THE
00:49:58.46\00:50:03.70
COVENANT WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT
THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS IN HEBREWS
00:50:03.70\00:50:08.57
CHAPTER 8. HE SAYS -
VERSE 7 IS WHERE I'LL
00:50:08.57\00:50:14.44
START - "FOR IF THAT FIRST
COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS,
00:50:14.44\00:50:17.25
THEN NO PLACE WOULD HAVE
BEEN SOUGHT FOR A SECOND."
00:50:17.25\00:50:19.71
- HE SAYS - "BECAUSE FINDING
FAULT WITH THEM," - THERE WAS NO
00:50:19.71\00:50:22.82
PROBLEM WITH THE COVENANT.
THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH GOD
00:50:22.82\00:50:26.52
MAKING A
COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE.
00:50:26.52\00:50:28.32
THE ISSUE WAS THE PEOPLE -
WHETHER THEY WANTED TO CONTINUE
00:50:28.32\00:50:33.09
IN THE COVENANT OR NOT - BUT THE
COVENANT ITSELF DOESN'T CHANGE
00:50:33.09\00:50:37.43
AND THIS IS WHY PETER CAN GO
BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND
00:50:37.43\00:50:40.24
APPLY IT WHEN HE'S
TALKING TO THE GENTILES.
00:50:40.24\00:50:43.61
AND YOU'LL NOTICE WITH ME - HE
GOES ON - "BECAUSE FINDING FAULT
00:50:43.61\00:50:46.27
WITH THEM, HE SAYS: 'BEHOLD, THE
DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD,
00:50:46.27\00:50:49.44
WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW
COVENANT'" - AND THE WORD,
00:50:49.44\00:50:52.28
THERE, IS ACTUALLY
'RENEWAL' OF THIS COVENANT -
00:50:52.28\00:50:56.72
"WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL
AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH -
00:50:56.72\00:51:00.59
NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT
THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS
00:51:00.59\00:51:03.36
IN THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY
THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE
00:51:03.36\00:51:06.66
LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE THEY DID
NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND
00:51:06.66\00:51:10.50
I DISREGARDED
THEM, SAYS THE LORD.
00:51:10.50\00:51:12.63
FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT
I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF
00:51:12.63\00:51:15.07
ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAY
THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN
00:51:15.07\00:51:18.97
THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM
ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE
00:51:18.97\00:51:21.94
THEIR GOD, AND THEY
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."
00:51:21.94\00:51:25.01
AND SO PAUL IS TELLING THIS TO
THE HEBREW CHRISTIANS, BUT PETER
00:51:25.01\00:51:28.52
HELPS US UNDERSTAND THAT
THIS COVENANT IS MUCH BROADER.
00:51:28.52\00:51:31.92
IT'S NOT JUST FOR LITERAL
ISRAEL, THERE'S ALSO A SPIRITUAL
00:51:31.92\00:51:35.82
ISRAEL THE BIBLE SPEAKS ABOUT.
THIS TRANSITION - AND THIS IS
00:51:35.82\00:51:40.10
WHAT PETER'S GETTING INTO
AND HE'S STARTING TO MAKE THIS
00:51:40.10\00:51:44.07
TRANSITION IN HELPING THEM
UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE PART
00:51:44.07\00:51:48.80
OF A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD - THEY'RE
PART OF A COVENANT RELATIONSHIP
00:51:48.80\00:51:53.24
WITH GOD, AND
THAT IS FOR EVERYBODY.
00:51:53.24\00:51:57.41
NOTICE, WITH ME, VERSE 10 OF
1 PETER CHAPTER 2 - NOTICE, WITH
00:51:57.41\00:52:02.48
ME - WELL, WE'LL GO BACK
TO 9 AND 10 SO YOU CAN SEE IT
00:52:02.48\00:52:05.82
TOGETHER - KIND OF BRINGING THIS
ALL TOGETHER - HE SAYS, "BUT YOU
00:52:05.82\00:52:12.06
ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, HIS
00:52:12.06\00:52:17.83
OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY
PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO
00:52:17.83\00:52:24.54
CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO
HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;" - IN VERSE
00:52:24.54\00:52:28.81
10 HE SAYS, "WHO ONCE WERE NOT A
PEOPLE BUT ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF
00:52:28.81\00:52:35.15
GOD, WHO HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY
BUT NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY."
00:52:35.15\00:52:42.92
GOD, HERE, IS
TALKING ABOUT A HOLY NATION.
00:52:42.92\00:52:48.40
HE'S TALKING ABOUT A ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD THAT IS CONNECTED
00:52:48.40\00:52:53.44
WITH THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE,
WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST.
00:52:53.44\00:52:58.21
HE'S THE CORNERSTONE
THAT MAKES ALL OF THIS WORK.
00:52:58.21\00:53:01.68
AND I THOUGHT IT'S INTERESTING
THAT PETER USES THE WORDS
00:53:01.68\00:53:04.11
'ROYAL' AND 'PRIESTHOOD'.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT CHRIST THE
00:53:04.11\00:53:09.08
LIVING STONE - THE CHIEF
CORNERSTONE - DO YOU REALIZE
00:53:09.08\00:53:13.39
THAT SCRIPTURE, AND PAUL
IN HEBREWS, TALKS ABOUT HOW
00:53:13.39\00:53:16.32
CHRIST IS A PRIEST KING?
CHRIST IS DESCRIBED AS - HE'S
00:53:16.32\00:53:22.33
AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZADEK,
WHICH WAS A PRIEST KING.
00:53:22.33\00:53:27.57
AND SO, HIS BODY, IF
IT'S CONNECTED TO HIM,
00:53:27.57\00:53:31.74
THEY WOULD ONLY BE
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
00:53:31.74\00:53:36.24
NOTICE, WITH ME, REVELATION -
AND I'M GOING TO CLOSE WITH THIS
00:53:36.24\00:53:39.91
- NOTICE, WITH ME, REVELATION -
REVELATION CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 -
00:53:39.91\00:53:55.33
HE STARTS OUT BY SAYING, "THE
REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST" - SO
00:53:55.33\00:53:59.63
WE KNOW, WHEN WE GET INTO
THE BOOK OF REVELATION, OUR REAL
00:53:59.63\00:54:02.77
FOCUS, THROUGH
ALL OF IT, IS CHRIST.
00:54:02.77\00:54:05.81
BUT THEN I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
VERSE 5 AND VERSE 6: "AND FROM
00:54:05.81\00:54:12.81
JESUS CHRIST, THE FAITHFUL
WITNESS, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE
00:54:12.81\00:54:17.52
DEAD, AND THE RULER OF
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH.
00:54:17.52\00:54:24.23
TO HIM WHO LOVED US AND WASHED
US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN
00:54:24.23\00:54:28.93
BLOOD, AND HAS MADE US" - WHAT?
- "KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD
00:54:28.93\00:54:36.20
AND FATHER, TO HIM BE GLORY
AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER."
00:54:36.20\00:54:42.31
JESUS IS THE KING PRIEST AND
HIS BODY WOULD ONLY BE A ROYAL
00:54:42.31\00:54:49.78
PRIESTHOOD. HE'S
MADE US, THROUGH WASHING
00:54:49.78\00:54:52.19
US, THROUGH
CLEANSING US FROM OUR SIN.
00:54:52.19\00:54:55.06
HE'S MADE US TO
BE KINGS AND PRIESTS.
00:54:55.06\00:54:58.19
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN JESUS
WRITES, IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3,
00:54:58.19\00:55:01.43
TO THAT LAST CHURCH, HE SAYS,
'TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH, I WILL
00:55:01.43\00:55:05.20
GRANT FOR HIM TO SIT ON MY
THRONE.' DO YOU REALIZE CHRIST
00:55:05.20\00:55:13.07
WANTS US TO BE PART
OF HIS ROYAL FAMILY?
00:55:13.07\00:55:18.11
BUT THAT ROYAL FAMILY IS ALSO A
HOLY FAMILY - A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
00:55:18.11\00:55:27.39
- A HOLY NATION. AND
SO PETER PUTS THESE ALL
00:55:27.39\00:55:31.73
TOGETHER AND HE ENCOURAGES THE
BODY - THAT WHAT GOD MEANT FOR
00:55:31.73\00:55:36.60
THE OLD TESTAMENT,
HE MEANS FOR EVERYBODY.
00:55:36.60\00:55:39.87
THIS WAS FOR EVERYBODY TO
PARTICIPATE IN AND TO BECOME
00:55:39.87\00:55:43.87
PART OF. AND SO, BY
THE GRACE OF GOD, MAY
00:55:43.87\00:55:47.31
WE TRULY PROCLAIM THIS
TO THE PEOPLE THAT WE COME
00:55:47.31\00:55:52.28
IN CONTACT WITH. MAY
THEY SEE THAT WE'RE A PART
00:55:52.28\00:55:55.95
OF THIS ROYAL
PRIESTHOOD. >>AMEN.
00:55:55.95\00:56:00.29
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU THIS SABBATH
00:56:24.51\00:56:28.35
DAY AS YOU PARTICIPATE
IN HIS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
00:56:28.35\00:56:34.62
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
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YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
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