The Cornerstone
1 Peter 2:4–10 (ESV)4 As you come to him, (a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,) 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as
they were destined to do.
Mark 8:31 (ESV)!
31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.!
Jesus said to them, e“Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;4 this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Matthew 21:42!
Heb. 3:18, 19; 4:2, 3, 6; Jno. 3:36; Acts 14:2; 17:5; Rom. 2:8; 10:21; 11:30;Belief = obedience; unbelief = disobedience!
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
I. (ESV)Psalm 118:22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
Matthew 23:34–39 (ESV)
34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and
crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’
Matthew 21:9!
”9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
Psalm 118:26!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
Isaiah 64:11
11 Our holy and beautiful4 house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Jeremiah 12:7
the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 22:5
5 But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.