LIVING STONE

LIVING STONE

1 Peter 2:4-9 

To Whom coming, as unto a LIVING STONE, disallowed indeed of men, but CHOSEN OF GOD, AND PRECIOUS, 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. Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a Chief Corner Stone, Elect, Precious: and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe He Is Precious: but unto them which be disobedient, The Stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made The Head of the corner, And a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offence, even to them which stumble at The Word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a Chosen generation, a Royal Priesthood, an Holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the Praises Of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His Marvellous Light:

Luke 20:17-18 

And He beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The Stone which the builders rejected, The Same Is Become The Head Of The Corner?  Whosoever shall fall upon that Stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever It shall fall, It will grind him to powder.

2 Corinthians 3:3-17 

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit Of The Living God; NOT IN TABLES OF STONE, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; BUT OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF God; Who also hath made us able MINISTERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; not of The Letter, but of The Spirit: for The Letter killeth, but THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIFE. But if the ministration of death, Written and Engraven in Stones, was Glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the Glory of his countenance; which Glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of The Spirit Be Rather Glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be Glory, Much More Doth The Ministration Of Righteousness Exceed In Glory. For even that which was made Glorious had no Glory in this respect, by reason of the Glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was Glorious, MUCH MORE THAT WHICH REMAINETH IS GLORIOUS. Seeing then that we have such Hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of The Old Testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. NOW The LORD IS THAT SPIRIT: AND WHERE The SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.

Donna K Purifoy

6/13/2023