Our%20Relation%20with%20Christ%20our%20Rock%20(1Peter%202)

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Our Relation with Christ our Rock (1Peter 2)
Coming to Him as to a living stone (1Pet 2 3).
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The Story Behind the Painting of the Last Supper
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Our Relation with Christ our Rock

• Read 1Peter 2 1-10

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Abandoning the Negatives

• Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit,
  hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking (v 1)
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Abandoning the Negatives

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• Desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on
  another, either because of a hostile impulse or
  out of deep-seated meanness
• Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
  leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and
  wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of
  sincerity and truth. (1Cor 58)

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Abandoning the Negatives

• Deceit (guile) ??????
• The act or practice of deceiving concealment or
  distortion of the truth for the purpose of
  misleading duplicity fraud cheating
• Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not
  impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no
  deceit. (Ps 322)

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Abandoning the Negatives

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• A pretense of having a virtuous character, moral
  or religious beliefs or principles, that one does
  not really possess.
• In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude
  of people had gathered together, so that they
  trampled one another, He began to say to His
  disciples first of all,Beware of the leaven of
  the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (Lk 121)

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Abandoning the Negatives

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• A feeling of discontent or covetousness with
  regard to another's advantages, success,
  possessions, etc.
• and death, which entered into the world through
  the envy of the devil, You have destroyed
  (Prayer of Reconciliation)

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Abandoning the Negatives

• Evil speaking (slander) - ?????????
• One insults his brother publicly and demeans him.
• Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I
  will destroy The one who has a haughty look and
  a proud heart, Him I will not endure. (Ps 1015)

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Abandoning the Negatives

• Cleanse us from all blemish, all guile, all
  hypocrisy, all craftiness, and the remembrance of
  evil bearing death. (Prayer of Reconciliation)

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Receiving Nourishment

• As new born babes, desire the pure milk of the
  word, that you may grow thereby (v. 2).
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What does the church nurse us?

• Milk of Love
• Blessed is he who nurses from it! It is
  available in winter, as well as in summer. It
  does not need to be heated or to be cooled, for
  it is always ready (St. Clement of Alexandria)
• Spiritual teachings
• Living rituals
• Intercessions and prayers of the saints

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Coming to the Stone

• If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is
  gracious. Coming to Him as to a living stone,
  rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and
  precious (v. 3-4)
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Christ is the Stone

• Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,
  a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure
  foundation whoever believes will not act
  hastily (Is. 2816).
• The stone which the builders rejected has become
  the chief cornerstone. (Ps 117 22).
• For behold, the stone that I have laid before
  Joshua upon the stone are seven eyes. Behold I
  will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of
  hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that
  land in one day (Zech 39).

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Figures of Christ the Stone

• Joshuas Behold, this stone shall be a witness
  to us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord
  which He spoke to us It shall therefore be a
  witness to you, lest you deny your God (Josh
  2426, 27).
• Jacobs
• Mosess
• Davids

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The Chief Cornerstone

• Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious
  but to those who are disobedient, The stone
  which the builders rejected has become the chief
  cornerstone (v. 7).
• Having been built on the foundation of the
  apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being
  the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole
  building, being fitted together, grows into a
  holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are
  being built together for a dwelling place of God
  in the Spirit. (Eph 220-22)

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Offering Acceptable Sacrifices

• You also, as living stones, are being built up a
  spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up
  spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through
  Jesus Christ (v. 5)
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Acceptable Spiritual Sacrifices

• Slaying the human will or the ego
• I have been crucified with Christ it is no
  longer I who live, but Christ lives in me (Gal
  220)
• The sacrifice of humility before God and men
• For you do not desire a sacrifice, or else I
  would give it. You do not delight in burnt
  offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken
  spirit a broken and a contrite heart, these O
  God, You will not despise (Ps. 5116,17).

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Acceptable Spiritual Sacrifices

• The sacrifice of good deeds
• Do not forget to do good and to share, for with
  such sacrifices God is well pleased (Heb.1316).
  
• Offer the sacrifices of righteousness (Ps.45).
  

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Acceptable Spiritual Sacrifices

• The sacrifice of the flesh
• Let us, then, control the flesh, through the
  bonds of love and offer it on the altar. Let us
  hold on to the cross of the Lord, offering the
  members of the body as a living, holy, and
  acceptable sacrifice to God. (Rom. 121). Let us
  slay the members of the flesh and not present
  them as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,
  but present them as instruments of righteousness
  to God. Hence, all the desires, emotions,
  feelings of the members of the body are
  sanctified to become energy helping the spirit,
  instead of fighting the spirit. (St. Augustine)

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Acceptable Spiritual Sacrifices

• The sacrifice of thanksgiving
• Therefore by Him let us continually offer the
  sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of
  our lips, giving thanks to His name (Heb.13 15)

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Our Relation with Christ our Rock

• Coming to Him as to a living stone (v. 3)
• Abandoning the Negatives
• all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all
  evil speaking
• Receiving Nourishment
• The Word of God
• Love
• Spiritual teachings
• Living rituals
• Intercessions and prayers of the saints

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Our Relation with Christ our Rock

• Coming to the Stone
• Christ is the Stone the chief corner-stone
• Many figures of Christ as the stone in the Old
  Testament
• Offering Acceptable Sacrifices
• Slaying the human will or the ego
• The sacrifice of humility
• The sacrifice of good deeds
• The sacrifice of pain and suffering
• The sacrifice of the flesh
• The sacrifice of thanksgiving