The Word Endures Forever: The Rejected Stone
1 Peter 2:2-10
Pastor Bob Hiller
5/18/2014
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/DATI8OcQpEw
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1. All who are ____________ have been called ____________ in the kingdom of God.
2. As priests, we proclaim a message that is ____________ to the ____________.
3. As priests, we not only ____________ this message, but still need to ____________ it.
Scripture Readings
Acts 6:1-9;7:2a,51-60
1 Peter 2:2-10
John 14:1-14
Take It With You!
Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.
Thus, only those are the holy and spiritual priesthood who are true Christians and are built on the Stone. For since Christ is the Groom and we are the bride, the bride has everything that the Groom has, even His own body. When He gives Himself to the bride, He gives Himself entirely as what He is; and the bride, in turn, also gives herself to Him. Now, Christ is the High and Chief Priest anointed by God Himself. He also sacrificed His own body for us, which is the highest function of the priestly office. Then He prayed for us on the cross. In the third place, He also proclaimed the Gospel and taught all men to know God and Him Himself. These three offices He also gave to all of us. Consequently, since He is the Priest and we are His brothers [and sisters], all Christians have the authority, command, and obligation to preach, to come before God, to pray for one another, and to offer themselves as a sacrifice to God. Nevertheless, no one should undertake to preach or to declare the Word of God unless he is a priest.
Martin Luther
