[SPEAKER_00]: Now, uh, turn.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first Peter, I believe it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Open this up.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, if it's second Peter, I apologize, but I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's first Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's first Peter, so don't know, it's the second chapter of first Peter, verse four.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says in first Peter two four and before I say that, if we could please stand on the reading of this word, I believe in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to come back to first Peter chapter two later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to stay there because it's going to be a little while before we get back to.
[SPEAKER_00]: But first Peter chapter two verse four because I think we should finish it out and read a lot more of this verse four.
[SPEAKER_00]: But first four of first Peter chapter two says coming to him as a living stone who is rejected by men but chosen by God and precious and you are precious to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's first Peter's chapter two, verse four, God bless and honor the ring of his word and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you hear the phrase Stone Age, you probably think of a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may think of cave men when you hear Stone Age.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I love cave men, certain types of cave men.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of the Flintstones.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, that's why I'm wearing my Flintstone tie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say my Flintstone tie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have several Flintstones ties.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love them all, but I love this Flintstone tie.
[SPEAKER_00]: It always reminds me of taking my vitamins.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I forgot to do today, at least my Flintstone vitamins, which I do have some.
[SPEAKER_00]: I bought them for a sermon I did about a year and a half or two ago, and how to take them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, we have a Dino and Fred and Barney and Wilmond, Betty and BamBam and Pebbles.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said, that's my Flintstone tie if they're walking in a row, and I like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes it's used, and it's been over 60 years ago, a couple of things happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, that the Flintstones were on and two, the phrase Stone Age.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was used over 60 years ago to attack God in his creation in school, brown at the time that Flintstones were on effect after before and after.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here are coincidental.
[SPEAKER_00]: because cavemen have always been a fun thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the people who create the fun instillants, they were really wanting to make, they're talking about William Hannah Joseph Barber.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really wanted to make a fun cartoon sitcom.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they wanted to do, a six-way comedy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they kind of picked a very fun 1950 sitcom called Honeymooners.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a lot like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got Jackie Glees and pretty much in, you know, you got an old art carney that's alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Barney is pretty much our carney.
[SPEAKER_00]: And boy, it's a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said, you got that, they went through a lot of different things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we could do this space.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's it later on?
[SPEAKER_00]: They were the Jetsons.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said we could do the Romans and they did that later on too with the Silly Cartoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did it with a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, what about the cavemen?
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's why it's the modern stone age family, they did a lot of fun things with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to see cars and you know, you all remember, and I got a big collection of stupid funstone things.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing that happened just two years after, just two years after the funstones, something happened that they didn't expect.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was at the Bible that taken out of school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they didn't expect any of that, of course, because the thing about William Han and Joseph are bears with their Christians, the Christian, and they're with the Lord now.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they're a good Christian men, men who love the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Got that even made a Bible cartoons at Jeremy and I used to show the children.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: They aren't great cartoons, but they're fun, and they least show us a lot of good things.
[SPEAKER_00]: The things that I like about
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the fact that even when showing these caveman things, they didn't really talk about their evolution.
[SPEAKER_00]: Later on, people try to put that in.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you consider the fact that in 1960, when the show began, this is the same year, Andy Griffith came on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the hell out of Andy Griffith's stars that were part of the Flint.
[SPEAKER_00]: So on San Jackson's and others.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a lot of voices and other things in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point is it was a very innocent time.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But since then, a couple years later, they took God out of schools and kids started being taught that we came for cavemen, that we came from Apes and other things, and God was removed and Stone Age was used to take away creation and God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the name of today's sermon is Stone Age.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk about Stone Age first.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's before we really get into much meat of the sermon, so to speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is, first of all, Stone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a wonderful nephew named Stone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna speak to him before long.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna try to have him come and preach here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He now is licensed and preachers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a different style, but I love Stone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a good guy, I'm gonna have him come.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you hear Stone hear him, you think of old people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a lot of people talk about a stone, it's old.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can't get much older than it's stone.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I got different stones.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my office, different rocks and stones, some come from around the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're some from Greece.
[SPEAKER_00]: My father picked those up and brought them and they're from different places.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're famous in Sister Barbara.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember, whenever he was in,
[SPEAKER_00]: Israel and also in Rome and in other places he took stones from different places to the rocks and things and then what other is the difference between the rock and the stone there is not, stones bigger than a rock, that's all, but it's just a bigger rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he took different rocks of places to say, and he wrote it on most of them and said, this is from this and this is from that.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you've seen the little thing that you should belong to my dad and he gave it to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It shows the grave of Jesus and inside there's a little stone, a little rock that was from that.
[SPEAKER_00]: he had little rocks and pebbles and things from all over the world to show that he was there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a way of holding on to where he could be.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when we think of stone, we think of old people and you old people and I'm doing that quote of quote because you only had to be old to feel old sometimes in that right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we feel a lot older than we are, but you are old school or old fashion that I am even before I was even as old as I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're called old stone people, a lot of times that means that you're out of touch or dumb or living in a fantasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is what the people are online like.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is what a lot of the younger people.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe not even younger people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know people are older than me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call me old saying that I'm old fashion.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to say thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the fact is, I don't mind being called old.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind people saying that about me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind people saying I'm old fashion.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind that because I'm not talking technology.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking all that, but when they say that I'm going too old because I'm going back to the way it's the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, it's not an insult.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not an insult at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another version of Stone Age is a good thing, and that is what we're going to talk about today.
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of Stone Age is after the Stone Road away, and I'm talking about Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: After that Stone Road away,
[SPEAKER_00]: we were saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by that I mean, we're no longer able to live in the cave, because Jesus is no longer in the cave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once Jesus Christ died on the cross, you know, you two people would say, well, Jesus died on the cross, so we could say, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he didn't stay on the cross.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't stay on the cross.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was put into the cave and to the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't stay there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't stand the two.
[SPEAKER_00]: That stone rolled away so that Jesus,
[SPEAKER_00]: could live again, so that you could live and have everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know about the rest of you, but I live in a stone age.
[SPEAKER_00]: I live in the stone that rolled away age.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are some who don't want to take that because they have a stone hard heart, but you don't have to have that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are people who do have a stone hard heart, and those are the lost people, the lost world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, even some who have a stone hard heart and stone hard mind, yes, most from
[SPEAKER_00]: to go that route, many who want to believe in evolution, the Stone Age, the Ice Age, and it's a different type of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who believe in evolution have a different faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: All together, I've talked about it many times for me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't say I do, because I don't use the Lord God tells me a week or two and events sometimes a day and events I never know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do know this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are Stone Age, believe or two?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just not, in that kind of Stone Age, you believe in the Stone Age of Christ roll away the Stone and arose again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you no longer have a stone hard heart or stone hard mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can be molded and made and we'll talk about that today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray for those who have a stone hard heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen believers and talk to believers who try to combine and mold and come together.
[SPEAKER_00]: with the evolutionary believers bless you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who have a stone age, beliefs of evolution, or some believers who try to combine it all together, you can't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't seen people on line, and even on the radio who try to say, I think we can be come from evolution, and still have creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you can't.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is called creation a liar?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think evolution's a lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: not because I say so because the Bible says so that's why I'm a stone age believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe the stone roll away and because of that Jesus Christ saved my everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he did you too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you stone age believer?
[SPEAKER_00]: I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a stone age believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is also a hard headed people in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to one today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's the hard headed rockhead
[SPEAKER_00]: Unholable, unchangeable believer, at least in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there is one whose name was Simon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Old Simon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking about Simon Peter, who was Simon Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Simon Peter, one of my favorites.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was hard-headed, just like me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could be hard-headed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to be called hard-headed all the time, and I was, boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was very hard-headed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: One great thing we're having a head cut open.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not much a one great thing as you could prove you're not near as hard-headed as some thought because they got in there So so one way or another it took a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but they got in there either way Simon Simon Peter was a dirty mouth hard-headed no-adol Fistremen and yet humble all the same time and you know what that tells me If the loud mouth dirty mouth hard-headed no-adol fisherman
[SPEAKER_00]: can be used to God and humble so can you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he can be used to God, so can I.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he who was thought of as nothing to the people who are high up in the religious world and in the government world can be used to Jesus, so can you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And don't use this excuse that I can't help but curse, I can't help but guess you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't help but be what I know God can change.
[SPEAKER_00]: You but you gotta be changeable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Simon Peter was all these things, but let's take a look at Simon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look at Simon.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter 1 verse 42.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he, he being Andrew, then he brought him, mean, Simon, to Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Jesus saw him, he said, you are Simon, the Son of John.
[SPEAKER_00]: You shall be called Cephas, which means Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna get into all the meanings of that name here just a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter was heart-headed.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a loud mouth and a healthy set of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tried to tell Jesus to stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: When Jesus said, I'm gonna have to die on the cross.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he told me several times.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he tried to tell Jesus to stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tried to tell him, he was wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: He tried to tell him, you're not gonna have to die.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he tried to tell him what it's out of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does he go, oh Jesus, he didn't wanna see him die.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who, who, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a loved one.
[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, I've done that.
[SPEAKER_00]: My father.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd been sick so many times and gone through so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a good man and a good pastor, a good daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what a good father.
[SPEAKER_00]: Such and a good boss, it was my boss.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was so many hats that he wore.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whenever he was all these things, I didn't want to see him go, who would?
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what, when he told me he was going to go, I've heard it so many times, different doctors and things things are going to go, I can't think, no, no, no, I didn't want to hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to live in pretend world in a sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what, reality is reality.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here to say, son, I am going to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Jesus had to do the same Peter, but even worse, because my father, my father, and my pastor, and all these things, but he was still just a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus on the other hand was God in the flesh, the Son of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he had to rebuk Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus told him that he will be put to the test.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, I'm going to read it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Luke 22, right this down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luke 22, verse 31 through 34.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if Jesus said, these words to me, oh, I'd be scared.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, every two more notes are put to the test.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe every day we all have weaknesses.
[SPEAKER_00]: but I hope we never put to the test in this sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: So listen what it says, and Luke chapter 22 verse 31 through 34.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's probably another place.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's two of the fact I'm sure it is, but this is put very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the Lord said, now I like to say that, the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause he is the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the Lord said, Simon, Simon, listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jesus never has to say your name more than once.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know he's very serious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember Martha Martha?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Simon assignment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Simon assignment, Satan has demanded to have you to sift you, lie as wheat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Woo, I don't know if you know this about wheat.
[SPEAKER_00]: they don't just go smack and now suddenly you have weak to cook with though it gets put through all sorts of blades and again and again until it suddenly becomes like powder.
[SPEAKER_00]: And don't you know that sometimes we have to be tested in the same way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Satan doesn't just want to smack at you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he wants to destroy you and put you into powder.
[SPEAKER_00]: but God isn't going to let that happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: He lets us be tested though.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one is says, Simon, listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen also, me shut up open your ears.
[SPEAKER_00]: Satan has demanded to have you to sift you as wheat.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you have repented, just drink then your brother, see God, Jesus knew.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knew he was going to go through the test.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he also knew that he was going to run away, feeling there's other places that he said this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you said it more than once,
[SPEAKER_00]: He said that you are going to deny me three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said you're going to deny me and curse.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he did all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He denied him, he curse.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's say what else he says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter said to him, Lord, I'm ready to go with you to prison into this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He denied it was going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm no.
[SPEAKER_00]: He at one point says, and it doesn't say here, but he says in another place isn't a scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if I have to die, everyone else may fail.
[SPEAKER_00]: You put one not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't we sometimes think that, oh, everyone else might.
[SPEAKER_00]: mess up and curse with not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else might mess up and have sex out of wedlock, but not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else might drink alcohol, but not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else might do a drug, not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else might look ugly, but not me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone else may not look as me, look bad in that outfit, but not me, and then you buy it and you find out you're wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, the point is, is I'm talking about myself, I'm not anyone up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, until you go through the test, you have no idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, God does, this is what we should be in on him, not ourselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what Jesus said in verse 34.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows to day, you will deny three times that you know me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, folks, that's denial.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three times, today, before the rooster crows, oh, you know, Peter didn't wanna believe that, but he did, didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, keep in mind, he was also the only one
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, John was the only one that went there to the cross.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Peter was the only one that went there during the trial.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of people say, bad, Peter, old, horrible, hey, where is everyone else?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where was everyone else at?
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, he failed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he also tried when you failed and you were.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, don't get mad if you fell down.
[SPEAKER_00]: You backed up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also, remember, at least you tried.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least you was doing the run-in when you fell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people don't even go.
[SPEAKER_00]: So remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Peter was also good building ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a firm foundation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for singing that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: My grandpa was saying that every single day, nearly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every time I hear it, I hear my grandpa singing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: In that great, that God gives us a firm foundation in our life, your mother, your father, your grandfather, your grandmother, your teachers, your preachers, your son-in-school teachers, even your teachers in school, the people who live a good life and have a good character,
[SPEAKER_00]: and God gives you a firm foundation through them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when they have a firm foundation, and some people would call me hardheaded and they was right, my poor mama knows this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a hardheaded little brat sometimes, but they said, you're gonna do this, I'm like, Ella?
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't last long.
[SPEAKER_00]: I might have been hardheaded and they'd have to whip me and they would mean good and there was a talent to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a talent.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm on that talent with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dad had a talent now.
[SPEAKER_00]: My mom wasn't alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had talent.
[SPEAKER_00]: She used really good tools, really good tools.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking boards and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really good tools.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing about it, my dad did too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now my dad uses eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: My mom used my heart against people.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, there's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The great thing about it was this, that hardheadedness could also be a gift, a gift given you by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize that growing up, but my father eventually told me, son, you're right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could be hardheaded and any, he didn't mean to me, but he said, it could be annoying as what it could be.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, but he goes, but it can also be a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes because a hard headness goes we use to make you determine, determine to follow God, because determination could be a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be a blessing to do what's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Peter took.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a hard-headed, loudmouth man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was unchangeable at times, but guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Even that was moldable and changeable and determined.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was determined to follow the Lord God, even when he had to face death.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about that now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Peter was upon this rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now go to Matthew 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to say this verse and then we're going to go to this Matthew chapter 16, Matthew 16, because this is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: It gets misused sometimes, but Matthew 16, verse 18 says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, and I tell you that you Peter and you are Peter and on this rock, I will build my church.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's take a look at the word Hades.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this case, they're more or less talking about hell, though, but it actually means the grave.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not going to reveal upon it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why Hades gets used is people knew the phrase Hades, which was actually false God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he was the false God of the great, the underworld.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why they're talking about in that sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's take a look at Matthew chapter 16.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to read verses 13 through 18 and it says this, verse 13 through 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for a second, fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says, when Jesus came into the region, a Cessaria Philippi, he asked his disciples, who do men say that I am?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Son of Man, that I, the Son of Man, am.
[SPEAKER_00]: They said, some say that you are John the Baptist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others say he lied to and others Jeremiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: or one of the prophecies that they think he came back from the dead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that sounds weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what that means?
[SPEAKER_00]: They knew there was something spiritual about him.
[SPEAKER_00]: They knew there was something holy about him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, that's not such a bad thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They knew there's some spiritual wonderful about them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that great.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, let's say what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said to them, but who do you say that I am?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Son of Peter replied, verse 16, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah, or John, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my father, who is in heaven,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I tell you that you are Peter, remember what the word means, C-Fist's Rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: And on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will reverse the 19 now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will not give you the keys of the king, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whatever you bind on earth, I'll be bound in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whatever you loose on earth will shall be loose in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he commanded his disciples to tell no one that he was Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't want to know Jesus of the Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: We said, I say, Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that was his full name, it wasn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the Christ of the Messiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hadn't told anyone yet, he was the Messiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: How did Peter know?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord God told him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'll only see in Acts chapter 2 after this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Acts chapter 2 and 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter was used by God to build the church.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rock built.
[SPEAKER_00]: the church on the foundation that we're talking about, who is the rock?
[SPEAKER_00]: The rock is Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rock isn't Peter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jesus is using a play on other words.
[SPEAKER_00]: His name meant rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: See if it's meant rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: So why would he do this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he was letting him know that you are going to be the rock that I built the church on, but the rock which his Peter is at the official rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rock Peter was simply going to be that hard rock that was going to the church is going to be started with, but the rock, the church itself is going to build on the rock of Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are not founded on a preacher.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one should go around saying, oh, we are strong because of Fred Coons.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the strength of Fred Coons started this, but it was a strength of Christ, the rock,
[SPEAKER_00]: that Fred Cooves was started.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the foundation, the rock Christ that Billy Graham was started upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the rock of Christ that Adrian was started upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the rock that whoever you could you could all say that those ministers, those pastors who love Jesus, their rock is Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the rock, the true rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, go back to Peter again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told you in Acts 2 and 10, he is leading different ones, whether it be the Jews or the Greek, the Gentile.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, what it says in Acts 4, 11, listen, what Peter says in Acts 4, 11, he, Jesus, he is the stone, you builders rejected, which is come, excuse me, which has become the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a beautiful song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really wanted my mom to be able to sing up, but we couldn't find the back up music.
[SPEAKER_00]: Turns out, wouldn't matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wouldn't matter if you'd found that background music, we wouldn't be able to use it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You should have done it anyway, I'm just kidding with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing about being the rock, as Peter was, God has to mold us and chisel us.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that we saw when we was in Rome,
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a lot of wonderful art done by Michael Angela who really couldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: He painted in all this, but here's the thing about Michael Angela.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some say he was gay.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was really no proof of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some say that because he did not paint or make women extremely well and he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were good, but the problem was they sometimes looked like men of the
[SPEAKER_00]: with some women parts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing about it is, they're still good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I dare you to want to try it themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing about it was it wasn't like it took clay and molded it, made it to look like they wanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would take honest about stones and chisel it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not an easy art.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a nice easy thing to do at tall.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to chisel it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know God doesn't sing with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he found you, you were a stone.
[SPEAKER_00]: a messed up rock.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about those round rocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you were, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a lot rounder and I like to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm telling you, it's okay, you can say it, man, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing about is it's when you look at all sorts of stones, a lot of them have rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every single Christian has a rough edge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you have a lot more rough edges and you like that, man, I know we do sometimes, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times when you start dating someone in the world, they don't look at the rough edge, they say, look what I can make him into being.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the way it should be either.
[SPEAKER_00]: What you should see is someone who you love despite the rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: God sees it that way, but a lot of people want to stay rough-denged in that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: God loves me and accepts me just the way I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but he's not gonna leave you that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: So God takes that chiseling tool, and he starts knocking those rough edges off.
[SPEAKER_00]: And before long, you start looking more and more like him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He starts taking off all the sharp edges that cut us, that make us rough, that we get fit through the doorway, and all these other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And before long, no longer you've heard it.
[SPEAKER_00]: No longer do you have all that roughness.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's started coming smooth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you start saying, man, everything around me's changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're changing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those people aren't as jerkies as we know you're not the jerk you used to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just hate that show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to hate.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: They made it in 1957.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's you this change for the Bible used to be really annoying to me, but no, no, no, Paul used to be so mean, but now my dad used to think Paul was a meaning and then I'll say, I really like him now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Paul didn't change you changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: God, it's chiseled you down where you're starting to become more like him and less like you
[SPEAKER_00]: hard and stoned heart man and stoned mind man.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's changing you, God's changing you, that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to be that way anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Once upon a time Jesus Christ came down through a parade and all sorts of people were crying out and the Pharisees said, stop them shut them up!
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus said, if I shut them out, the very stones would cry out.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're supposed to be those types of stones.
[SPEAKER_00]: Crying out the name of Jesus praising us, holy name, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: God takes away our faults and our feelings by correcting us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Takes away our rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it hurts to be corrected.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I've mentioned want to go that I've had my skull cut open.
[SPEAKER_00]: More than once, and here's the thing, I don't really like having my head cut open if I'm being honest with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really like that I'm gonna have to go through that again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hopefully not my skull because it's not fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what has to happen has to happen as a Christian though, you're gonna have to have your head cut open so to speak.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about all your rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: All those things, guys got to get in there to that stone mind, change it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to take away those rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it only, I make me leave person and say, oh, I enjoy.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you don't, it hurts, but it's for the better.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many scriptures.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't get through them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get to say this at first, but I will now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that there is over 500 scriptures in the Bible that talks about stones?
[SPEAKER_00]: I intended them say in all of them, but tell us, I'll have any of their war.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's not all stone, some say rock same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was like, I can't do them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even do half of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't even do a third, but I will mention one or two.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Isaiah 51, one, Isaiah 51, one, says listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look to the rock from which you were human and to the quarry from which you were dug.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that great?
[SPEAKER_00]: In that a good one, I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right away, I've come back to the Flintstones and I kept thinking about Fred and then digging up those rocks and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that he was in the quarry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, God dug you out of all the rocks.
[SPEAKER_00]: He dug you out of all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he shewned you every day and takes away those rough edges.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that beautiful?
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 18 verse 2 actually stay in Psalm 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got three verses and there's a lot or we're not gonna go through them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because there's over 40 verses in there but we are gonna go through three of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 18 verse 2 says, the Lord is my pillar and my fortress and my deliverer.
[SPEAKER_00]: My God, my rock and whom I take refuge my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in verse 31 of Psalm 18,
[SPEAKER_00]: or who is God except the Lord?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or who is a rock besides our God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 1846, the Lord lives and blessed, the rock and lay the God of my salvation be it's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hold it, you remember that song?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord live it and blessed be the rock and let the God of my salvation be it's all.
[SPEAKER_00]: It comes from Psalm 18 verse 46, it's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go to Luke 19, Luke 19, verse 37, before you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and everyone already said that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rocks cry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go to first Peter, I'm gonna say, first Peter, chapter five.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many of your cells under the mighty handle God that he may exalt you in due time cast all your care upon him because he cares for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be sober and watchful because you're adversaire the devil walks around as a roaring lion singing, speaking whom he may devour resist him firmly in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are experienced by your brotherhood
[SPEAKER_00]: But after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will restore, support, strengthen and establish you to him be the glory and dominion forever and ever, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is gonna remold us, God is gonna remake us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna make us what we need to be or we ought to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all of this is to say, one main thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: that Jesus, Jesus is the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the cornerstone of which our lives are to be built.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the whole point.
[SPEAKER_00]: It said it all throughout the Old Testament and I couldn't even go through them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was so many, I was here for hours going through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was hard to do, but I went through that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the cornerstone, in fact,
[SPEAKER_00]: and what is a cornerstone?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, every building that is built has a cornerstone in which every home is built.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I didn't bring it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could have there is a brick that I have in there that was the cornerstone for the old church building my father built before I was born.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's right before I was born.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I was born in the middle of the building of that, and that wasn't for the moment of truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's for crescent Lake Baptist Church way back in the 70s, 50 years ago this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, and that cornerstone I have, but the cornerstone of that church wasn't that great.
[SPEAKER_00]: The cornerstone of that church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it in my mom, by the way, was was putting that building together and cleaning those bricks while expecting me.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is, you say, what's wrong with that blockhead?
[SPEAKER_00]: Me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the point is this, all of that happened 50 years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the cornerstone wasn't that the cornerstone was Christ Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's to be the cornerstone of our life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Psalm 118 verse 22,
[SPEAKER_00]: The stone that the builder's rejected has become the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you remember earlier on when Peter quoted that in Acts, it started in Psalm 118 verse 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you recall, I've told you this before, Psalm 118, that there is right in the middle of the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you remember that then, then we have Ephesians chapter two, verse 19 through 20, and listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians chapter 2, 19 through 20.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the entire building
[SPEAKER_00]: tightly framed together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is who and whom we must be built upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the cornerstone that is Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is our cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: If a church is built on anything else, then it is a lie and it is not a church of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are too many churches to say,
[SPEAKER_00]: You need Jesus to help you in life, but you could be safe through other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not a church of Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is not a church of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you need Jesus, but other things too, that is not a church of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is a cult.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be something else, but when people say you need Christ, but you also need these actions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't go to that church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they're trying to say they're you have a quarterstone over here that's Jesus and a quarterstone that's your actions and a quarterstone over here that's your membership and a quarterstone that's your tithe and offering no no no no no I've got to tell you something there's one cornerstone and that is Christ Jesus himself don't get me started
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians, 3, 11.
[SPEAKER_00]: For no one can lay an ante, I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one can lay another foundation and I've got to stand up, you know what that means.
[SPEAKER_00]: So no one can lay another foundation that which was laid, which is Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ is the one and only.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians 10, 3, 3, 4.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I had to cut this down a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because sometimes Peter, our Paul's season, I love you, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes you didn't understand a period or a comma, maybe you didn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, he just went on and on and on and it's hard to stop and start in the middle of his books.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you noticed that, he did anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says all eight to same spiritual food and all drink the same spiritual drink,
[SPEAKER_00]: for they drink of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: We drink from the rock Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go to first Peter chapter 2 and we're going to go once again to verse 4.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 4 this time to 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to start off with that many
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe it's not long, but it seemed it to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was reading it.
[SPEAKER_00]: See, I try to be thoughtful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I fail, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look here.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, chapter two, four through ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Coming to him as a living stone who is rejected by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also as living stones are whole-excuming, are being built up into a spiritual house as a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Through Jesus Christ, for also it is,
[SPEAKER_00]: contained in the scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, I say, by the way, it's for my say, look, I lay in Zion, a chief cornerstone, elect precious and he who believes in him shall never be put to shame.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, to you who believe he is precious.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to those who are disobedient, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
[SPEAKER_00]: See how they're repeating it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, he's quoting again.
[SPEAKER_00]: They stumble because they are disobedient to the word, to which also they were appointed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you,
[SPEAKER_00]: are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of people for God's own possession.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that you may declare the goodness of him, who is called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
[SPEAKER_00]: In times past, you were not a people, but now you are the people of God,
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking to you, Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they're in a different place, but he's talking to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not talking to just the Jewish.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not talking to just these Gentiles.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking to all Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You little rocks, little stones, little pebbles.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a devil to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've been chosen from God to live in you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he is going to use you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you let him, how do you praise the Lord?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't deserve to be used of God, but I'm only being used because God said, I wanna mold you, make you and I said, Lord God, use me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord God, use me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be humble, be used.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many other things that could read, but I don't want to do all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to do all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will read one or two more though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 62, there's two parts in Psalm 62.
[SPEAKER_00]: He only is my rock in my salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 62 verse 2.
[SPEAKER_00]: He only is my rock in my salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is my refuge.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will not be greatly shaken.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 62 verse 6 and 7, he only is my rock of my salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is my refuge.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will not be moved.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember that song?
[SPEAKER_00]: I will not be moved.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would not have moved that grace song and that great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It may have come from that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say, but it goes on to say in verse 7, and God is my salvation and my glory.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rock of my strength and my shelter is in God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that beautiful?
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, earlier on, it was quote in this from Isaiah as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: We, you know, Peter quoted it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It talked about, therefore, there's Isaiah 28 verse one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, that says the Lord God, see, I lay in Zion, a stone, a test stone, a precious corner stone, firmly placed, he who believes, shall not act hastily.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a few others from Psalm which I'm not gonna quote because I don't want you to be here all day long, but they're really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Talk them about calling out to God, you are my rock, my salvation Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, you are my rock, my salvation mind, born as the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are gonna go through difficult times as a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna go through difficult times.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a regular human being.
[SPEAKER_00]: Read to your Christian or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a Christian you're going to go through difficult times because you are a Christian because the rock does live in you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I've got news for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's much easier when you can call upon the rock to help you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I promise you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: when you call upon him, he will answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now sometimes we want him to speak out in audible voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the thing is, I don't know what audible voice he would have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say that because most of the theatrical, they have God with his booming voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you go back,
[SPEAKER_00]: and you listen to a Elijah.
[SPEAKER_00]: God did not speak out a booming voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was great storms, there was earthquakes in the hail and all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: God didn't do that, but still small voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you do that through the spirit?
[SPEAKER_00]: You listen to him, through prayer, through the word, through song and God will speak to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he'll lead you in little rocks, little pebbles, little stones, and let the great rock move you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God will use you every time to his will, not your own.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let the rock shake move you use the rock mover man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let that be done to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will close with Psalm 95, verse one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to say some 95 or one and I will, but I just saw that I had one that is too perfect what I just said, some 31 vs 3.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Psalm 31 verse 3, for you are my rock and my fortress.
[SPEAKER_00]: For your namesake, leave me and guide me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I will pose a Psalm 95 verse 1.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh come, let us sing unto the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's not pose in prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus, thank you for loving us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Help us, Lord God, not to be hard-hearted, hard-headed, or we can't be moved or used.
[SPEAKER_00]: For those in this world who do not know you or what to know you, who cannot be moved or used or anything else Lord, I pray that they will be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many times people miss quote or miss you, just to scripture that talks about being able to move mountains.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Lord God, we don't physically need to move mountains needed you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray, Lord God, instead of moving Mt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jew will be able to move these rocks, Lord God, us, that we will cry out when people tell us not to.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will cry out not to our will but yours and Lord people will be able to see you living in us.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will chisel away the rough edges that every single day we will be less like us and more like you than people angers and they will, but we will not allow the old us to be
[SPEAKER_00]: but to let the new you, the rock, the new us, the rock we've seen in us for God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that it will be firmer and firmer like you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus name amen.