Sermon Notes 3/23/25
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Being Lively Stones
I Peter 2:4-5
I. The Living Stone- Jesus Christ
A. How can a stone be “living?” (v. 4)
1. Can you speak to it?
2. Can it speak back to you?
3. He is alive!
4. Living Stone was rejected by man
5. Living Stone was chosen by God
B. Chief Cornerstone (v. 6)
C. ______________ Stone: _______________________________
D. Stone of ______________ becomes a stone of _____________
II. We are Lively Stones (v. 5)
Greek meaning- ________________________________________
A. We ____________________ Jesus, the Living Stone
1. By our _____________________
2. By our ___________________
3. By our _________________
4. We have ___________________
5. We have a ______________________
6. We have _______________
7. We have a ____________________
8. We have _________________
9. We have ________________
10. We have a _____________________________
11. We have ________________________
B. Lively Stones are ___________________________ (Titus 2:14)
1. Means __________________________________________
2. Jesus called ___________________ to be apostles
C. Special people; why?
1. _________________________________ in Christ
2. We have the same _________________
3. We have ______________________________ (Ps. 116:15)
III. Stones are for ____________________
A. _________________ house
B. Building a __________________________________
C. What is a NT believer priest?
1. Represents ______________________________________
2. Access before the _____________________ (Heb. 4:16)
3. Same ________________ before God
4. No ___________________
5. _____________ (Rev. 1:6)
a. Royal _________________ that has cleansed us
b. Royal ________________- Christian
c. Royal ___________________
D. The ________________________ of the priest (v. 5)
1. _____________ (Rom. 12:1)
2. _____________ (Heb. 13:15)
3. _____________________ (Heb. 13:16)
4. _______
__________ (Phil. 4:18)
5. _____________ (Rom. 15:16)