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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Christ Alone Our Cornerstone | June 1, 2025
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- There is no person that god cannot save!
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- There is no promise that god will not keep!
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- There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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- Political division is at a fever pitch, of course, in the
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- United states. the divisions are deeper than ever and the
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- Rhetoric is more rabid. and paths forward... what happens
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- Next is more uncertain than it's ever been. yet in these
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- Hostile times there is hope. there is living hope in a
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- Hostile world. in a world in which people are becoming more
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- And more hostile towards christians and people of faith.
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- But we know that there is a way through as we navigate this
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- Season of cultural war, with grace and strength, and on the
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- Firm foundation which is jesus christ. "christ alone is our
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- Cornerstone." and that's the title of this message.
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- I love the song, "christ is my firm foundation; the rock on
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- Which i stand." "i put my faith in jesus." and then the
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- Question is asked, "will he ever fail?" the answer is "he
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- Won't!" and whatever you're going through in your life, if
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- You build your life upon christ, the rock of ages, the
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- Solid rock... "on christ the solid rock i stand. all other
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- Ground is sinking sand." i love the story of the little irish
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- Lady. she said christ is my solid rock, all other rocks are
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- Shamrocks. [laughter]
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- And we know christ is the solid rock. and we're building our
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- Lives upon his truth and his word. and his truth is marching
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- On. and we want to shine as bright and beautiful lights in
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- World filed with darkness. we want to do as jesus said, to be
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- Salt and light. “what good is it,” jesus said, “if the salt
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- Loses its saltiness, its savor? it's nothing good except to be
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- Thrown on the pathway and trampled on.” no, we are to be
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- Salty, and salt preserves and salt protects and salt can
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- Sometimes sting when there is a wound, and yet we are a
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- Preservative as salt.
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- And we are light in the darkness. we overcome evil with
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- Good. and it is our prayer... and our prayer in these days,
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- These important days is that god will enable us to preserve
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- Our freedoms and protect our families and persevere in our
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- Faith and proclaim the gospel of jesus christ. that's who we
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- Are and that's what we are about.
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- It's imperative in order to do this that christians unite and
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- Ignite! unite and ignite in the power of the holy spirit. that
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- We be together and stronger together and better together as
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- We pursue these godly goals in prayer. c. s. lewis once said,
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- “the only thing christianity cannot be is moderately
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- Important.” i'll say it again. to quote brother lewis: “the
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- Only thing that christianity cannot be is moderately
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- Important.”
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- It is important! vitally important and eternally
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- Important! this is a time... this is not a time for
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- Confusion in the church, this is not a time for division in
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- The church; it's time to stand up, to rise up, to be bold and
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- Strong and courageous with our biblical conviction! to be
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- Brave like esther who saved a nation because she said, or it
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- Was said of her, she had come to the kingdom for such a time
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- As this. because what happens now in christ, our children and
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- Our children's children... this generation and the generations
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- To come. thomas paine once said, "these are the times that
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- Try the souls of men." indeed! these are trying times. but we
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- As god's people have the opportunity and the
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- Responsibility to influence our culture.
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- So it's time to get together god's way. and that's what this
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- Passage in front of us is all about. it is about getting
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- Together on christ alone, our cornerstone. so let's begin
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- Reading. it's a beautiful passage of scripture and i want
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- To read all of it from chapter 2, verses 1 through 10. and so
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- Stay with me. we're going to walk through it.
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- 1) so put away all malice (see, this is a very good word for us
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- As believers right now) so put away all malice and all deceit
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- And hypocrisy (which means to wear a mask, fake) and envy and
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- All slander. (and do what?) 2) like newborn infants, long for
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- The pure spiritual milk...
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- Now this is milk for the mind. this is milk for the soul.
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- Spiritual milk. it is the word of god. it is the jesus book.
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- And like newborn babies, we are to crave this pure spiritual
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- Milk. it's not polluted milk.
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- When i was a little boy, i was told i was allergic to milk. i
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- Know i didn't like milk that much; to drink that milk, it
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- Was a task. so my mother would buy all kinds of things to put
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- In the milk to try to get me to drink it. nestle's quik. god
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- Only knows what was in that stuff. [laughter] and syrups
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- And strawberry. i still didn't like drinking milk.
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- But it's kind of sad in the church today... churches today
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- You have to put a lot of stuff, entertainment... a lot of stuff
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- Just to get people to come to church when we're to crave...
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- Like newborn babes, like little children, we're to crave the
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- Nourishment and the nurturing of god's word. that's... that's
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- What we're to do. and then he says:
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- 3) if indeed you have tasted that the lord is good.
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- Got milk? ha, well, "taste and see," the psalmist said, "that
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- The lord is good." and once you taste... once you experience
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- The goodness of god... how many believe that god is good to
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- You? yes, he is. god is good. the goodness of god follows us
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- All the days of our lives. so if you have tasted the goodness
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- Of god, the grace of god in your life... one of the marks
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- Of the believer is that you have an appetite for god's
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- Word. before you became a christian you cared less
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- Probably about the bible. you didn't understand it at all.
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- The scripture says the natural man, the person outside of
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- Christ, doesn't receive the things of the spirit. so if
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- You're not a christian, you have little if no interest in
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- The bible. but once you become a believer, you have this
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- Insatiable appetite to feast on the word of god.
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- And not only is it called milk but also in scripture called
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- Meat... the meat of the word. so this is how we grow up into
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- Our salvation. this is how we grow in our faith and mature as
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- Believers in christ.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Whenever angels are mentioned in our culture today, it's
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- Usually at a new age, bizarre, and honestly kind of a freaky
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- Way. but the bible tells us that that's not an accurate
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- Picture of angels at all. and that's exactly why i wrote my
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- Book, angels. after all, angels announced christ's birth to the
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- Shepherds. angels ministered to jesus during his temptation.
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- Angels were present when he rose victoriously from the
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- Grave.
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- I believe, in fact, i know angels exist and they surround
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- Us today.
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- In my book angels, i reveal how to see beyond the very thin
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- Veil separating our reality from the angelic realm.
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- Understanding what scripture truly teaches about angels
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- Friends who are asking questions.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Verse 4: 4) as you come to him...
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- I like that! in just a few moments i'm going to give an
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- Invitation and invite you to come to jesus. we say it again
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- And again.
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- 4) as you come to him, a living stone
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- Now when you think of a stone, you probably don't think of
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- Something as living, even your pet rock is not living. you
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- Think of something as being stone cold dead, or dead as a
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- Rock. but here peter who built his life of the firm foundation
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- Of jesus christ, he said "you are now coming to a living
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- Stone. the stone at the tomb was rolled away, and christ
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- Came out of the grave, and he lives, and he is this living
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- Stone... and he's illustrating from the building of the temple
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- And the building of some of the great walls of the ancient
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- World.
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- 4) as a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of god
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- Chosen and precious... (the precious stone, the rock of
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- Ages. and then, watch this, verse 5) 5) you yourselves like
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- Living stones...
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- So now you who were once dead, you were once like stone-cold
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- Dead. you know, because of christ are being built up as a
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- Spiritual house. this is why we say at prestonwood,
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- Prestonwood, the church, is a place to call home. because
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- This is a spiritual house. not these buildings but it is
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- 5) ... a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices
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- Acceptable to god through jesus christ.
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- We're doing that today. we're offering spiritual sacrifices
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- Whether it is our person as living sacrifices to the lord,
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- Whether it our possessions as we offer what we have to the
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- Lord, or whether it is not only our person, our possessions,
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- But it is our very presence in the lord, our praise as we lift
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- Up praises to god. it's the spiritual sacrifices of
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- Worship. this is our devotion. this is why we come; it's our
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- Dedication. and then verse 6:
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- 6) for it stands in scripture...
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- It's a good word to describe the conviction, the commitment
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- Of the bible. “it stands [tap] in scripture.” this is what
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- Stands. remember, he said, “the grass withers, the flower
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- Fades, but the word of our god will stand forever.” it's
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- Stands! it's always true and trustworthy in scripture.
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- 6) behold, i am laying in zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen
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- And precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put
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- To shame.” 7) so the honor is for you who believe, but for
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- Those who do not believe, “the stone that the builders
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- Rejected has become the cornerstone, 8) and “a stone of
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- Stumbling, and a rock of offense.”
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- Jesus christ alone, cornerstone. he is either the
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- Stepping stone into heaven or the stumbling stone into hell,
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- Based on what you do with jesus. whether you receive him
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- As the chief cornerstone... build your life upon him, or
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- You reject him as he was often rejected. and this literally
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- Happened in hebrew history where the cornerstone of the
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- Temple was tumbled down into the kidron valley and when it
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- Came time to lay the cornerstone for the temple,
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- They were looking for it. "where's the cornerstone?" "oh,
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- We sent it." they called down to... well, they didn't call
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- Down. they sent word down to the quarry and "send the
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- Cornerstone! we're ready to lay the cornerstone." they said,
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- "we don't have it. we sent it years ago." in fact, they did,
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- And somebody had rejected the cornerstone and threw it down
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- Into the kidron valley which is still there... not the
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- Cornerstone, but the valley. and so this literally happened.
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- And so the hebrew listeners would have known exactly what
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- Peter was talking about, how the cornerstone was rejected
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- And how christ then was rejected. and so he is either
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- The one you build your life upon or reject and lose your
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- Life because of it.
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- 8) ... a rock of offense. they stumble because they disobey
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- The word, as they were destined to do. 9) but you (now stay
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- With me because this is a beautiful word from god.) but
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- You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
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- People for his own possession, that you may proclaim the
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- Excellencies of him who called you out of darkness and into
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- His marvelous light. (say amen) [amen!] 10) once you were not a
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- People... (you were not a people! you were nothing. you
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- Were abandoned) ...you were once not a people, but now...
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- Now you are god's people; once you had not received mercy, (we
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- Were on our way to judgment. we have no mercy) but now (in
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- Jesus christ) you have received mercy.
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- What a wonderful passage of scripture. [applause] so what
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- Does this mean... all of this?
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- First, it means that we belong together. i said we need to
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- Come together. we need to get together right now. so how do
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- We do that because we belong together, in that we are
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- Birthed together. we are born again together. 1 peter 1:23
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- Says that we are born again by the word of god. it is vital
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- That the church be filled with born again believers. we've
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- Regenerated. church membership should be a regenerated church
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- Membership. i do believe in church membership. i believe
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- Every christian should be a part of a local body of
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- Believers... the church, serving the lord in our own
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- Community and reaching the world with the gospel.
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- Some people in life choose to what we used to say shack up
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- And not get married. and just hanging out at church and not
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- Being a part of the church family in commitment is sort of
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- Like shacking up. i want to challenge you if you are not a
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- Member of this church or a church like prestonwood...
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- Exalting christ, preaching the bible, growing in faith,
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- Reaching the world... that you get yourself engaged in the
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- Body of christ, that you are... because we are birthed
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- Together, we belong together.
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- We... you know, there's no such thing as an unchurched
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- Christian. some of you may say that's not right. yes, it is
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- Right. there's nothing in the new testament that would
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- Suggest that you could be an unchurched christian. there are
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- A lot of unchurched people and there are people i guess who
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- Are de-churched... they're not in church; they're out of
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- Church. but if you are a christian, then you will love
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- The bride of christ who is the church of the lord jesus
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- Christ. "christ loved the church and gave himself for it."
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- No doubt, peter was remembering the day when jesus asked in
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- Matthew chapter 16, “who do men say that i am?” and peter
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- Confesses in the power of the holy spirit, “you are the
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- Christ, the son of the living god.” and then the lord
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- Responded, “upon this rock i will build my church and the
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- Gates of hell will not prevail against my church.”
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- So jesus established the church. the church is not an
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- Afterthought. it's not an accident of human history. the
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- Church has been in the heart and mind of eternal god from
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- Eternity past and will be the church triumphant in heaven
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- Forever and ever and ever. in the meantime, we're to give
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- Ourselves to christ and follow him in his footsteps into the
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- Fellowship of god's church. i challenge you, if you say
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- You're a believer in jesus, that you would connect and
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- Belong to the ministry of the local church.
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- So god's design for the church, we are believing together. we
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- Believe together, and therefore, we belong together.
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- Titus 2:14 says, "he has saved us in order to purify for
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- Himself a people that are his very own..." don't you love
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- That? his very own people! and what are we to do? "...eager to
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- Do what is good!" the bible says is i know something, it's
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- A good thing and i don't do it, that's sin! so we are eager to
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- Do what is good.
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- At times we may be disappointed in church or churches. it's
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- Possible even to be disillusioned with the
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- Institutional church or churches that we see around us.
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- But in spite of the failures and flaws of the institutional
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- Church, the living church of the living god is alive and
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- Well. and we're to be called and committed. why? because we
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- Believe together. we don't get together just because we like
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- Each other. i hope we love each other. i want to talk about
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- That in a moment, but that's not why we're here. we're here
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- Because we love god and we want to worship him and we want to
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- Welcome him into our lives by believing him. so we are
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- Believing and belonging together.
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- But the second thing is, we are built together... we are built
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- Together. believing together, belonging together, built
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- Together. and that's that whole illustration that peter is
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- Giving us about the cornerstone, building your life
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- On christ. and when peter said, "you are the christ, the son of
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- The living god", that's the great confession, and jesus
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- Replied, "upon this rock..." peter wasn't the rock, he
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- Was... he was a little rock... literally, his name. but the
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- Rock is not the church, the rock is not the pope; the rock
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- Is jesus! and upon this rock... this confession that jesus
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- Christ is lord. "you are the christ, the son of the living
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- God!" it is on this rock... jesus, the cornerstone alone
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- That we stand. and we are built together.
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- Jesus told in his most famous sermon, the sermon on the
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- Mount... and if you know the sermon on the mount, you know
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- He closes it, because he was a good preacher... communicator
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- With a powerful story, he said, "two men went out to build
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- Their house and one built his house on sand, no foundation.
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- The other built his house on a rock that was firm foundation.
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- And then the lord said the storms began to rise and they
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- Always do, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. we all
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- Have storms in life. jesus said when the rains and the winds
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- Beat against the house of the man who built his house on the
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- Sand, it fell, and jesus exclaimed, "and great was the
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- Fall of it." just a total collapse of that man's house
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- Representing his life, because it had no foundation.
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- Love is what holds us together. and that's what peter is
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- Talking about when he talks about this love that we have
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- For one another in the earlier... just skim back in
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- Your bible. go back to chapter 1 and verse 22: "having
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- Purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a
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- Sincere brotherly love (not a fake love, not a phony love,
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- But an authentic love, a real love. not hypocritical love.
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- The word hypocrite means to wear a mask. so many people put
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- On a mask... a smile, but they don't love.
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- And so he says let your love be sincere and then he uses the
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- Word philia, ... brotherly love there. and another kind of love
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- In the new testament, agape love which is god's kind of
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- Love, the love of christ, the love of the cross. "love one
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- Another earnestly" and that is a very muscular word. it means
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- Vigorously, with fortitude and restraint. "love earnestly from
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- A pure heart." a sincere love, a strong love! this is what
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- Makes us... this strong love... get out of our easy chairs to
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- Walk our streets and pray for our neighbors.
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- But if you are born again, as jesus looked at nicodemus, an
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- Old man. we don't know how old he was but he was an aged man,
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- He was a respected man, he was revered man, he was a rabbi,
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- And yet jesus looked at him and said, “you must be born again,
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- Nicodemus.” and so if you are born again, you have eternal
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- Life. jesus went on to say that famous verse. we'll sing about
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- It at the invitation. “for god so loved the world that he gave
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- His only begotten son that whoever believes in him would
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- Not perish but have everlasting life.”
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- And so, we believe together and we belong together. and the
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- Mortar is love... it's the love of god and the love that we
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- Have for one another. and i can assure you, the world is
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- Watching. what did jesus say about this? "by this shall all
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- People know that you are my followers... my disciples, that
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- You love... that you love one another." we belong together,
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- We believe together and therefore, we are blessed
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- Together.
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- Aren't you blessed to be a part of god's church? just to read
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- Those sentences that we highlighted earlier? you're now
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- A royal priesthood. you're a priest. i'm a priest and you're
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- A priest. you don't need another priest. did you know
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- That? you don't need a priest. jesus is our high priest. you
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- Don't need me to be your priest. i'll pray for you; i'm
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- Be your pastor. but you don't need a priest. because jesus is
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- The priest... the high priest. and you are of a royal
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- Priesthood. that means you are of a kingly heirdom and you
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- Have access to god. we can boldly come to the throne of
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- Grace, anytime, anyplace because jesus ever lives to
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- Make intercession for his people! you are the people of
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- God.
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- We were nothing as we've already emphasized. we had
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- Nothing going for us. we were people scattered all over
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- The world. but now we are a holy priesthood. this passage
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- Speaks so well of our identity in christ and our dignity in
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- Christ and our destiny in christ. and so he says, "you
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- Were called, therefore, to be a light in the darkness, to bless
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- The nations. because we are blessed, we want to bless
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- Others. verse 10... i just hit it one more time and then we'll
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- Close.
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- 10) once you were not a people, but now you are god's people
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- Once you had not received mercy, but now you have
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- Received mercy.
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- The main thing we need is the mercy of god which comes by the
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- Grace of god. because of what christ has done for us. and
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- When we had nothing, we were nothing. he gave us everything:
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- The forgiveness of sin, hope and future with him, he put us
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- In a spiritual family, his church.
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- And so what are we to do? we're to battle together for the
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- Souls of men. we are to believe together, belong together,
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- Build together and battle together and the word of god is
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- Our weapon and the testimony of jesus and the power of prayer.
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- Amen? [amen] christ alone, our cornerstone.
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- ♪♪♪
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