Pastor teacher and author Adrien Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and it’s impacted Untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated thanks for joining us for this message here’s Adrien Rogers we’re studying first Peter together under this major topic Timeless Truth for tough times now times have always been tough for the children of God but Jesus Christ has always been sufficient he has he will be and I want you therefore to learn some truths today our subject
today is life on the Rock not life on the Rocks but life on the Rock and that rock is Jesus now let’s begin reading in verse four 1 Peter 2 chapter 2 that is and verse 4 we’re going to break right into the middle of a sentence he’s speaking about the Lord and he says of the Lord to whom coming as unto a living Stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious ye also as Lively stones are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ wherefore also it is contained in
the scripture behold I lay in Zion a Chief Cornerstone elect precious and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded unto you therefore which believe he is precious but unto them which be disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to them them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereinto also they were appointed but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood and I’m going to stop reading right there in the middle of that
sentence the Reader’s Digest said some time ago that in order for a person to be happy and in order for a person to have fulfillment three things were necessary number one they needed something to believe number two they needed someone to love and number three they needed something worthwhile to do now that’s true but not because the reader digest says it that is true and I think the Bible would confirm that in order for us to find fulfillment and happiness and meaning and life we must have something that we can believe in I mean really
believe in and then we must have someone to love and to love us and then we must have something worthwhile to do rather than just merely drawing our breath and drawing our salary and fighting to live while we live to fight there must be more to life now I believe in the scripture that I’ve just read to you you’re going to find out that in the scripture that Jesus Christ is indeed the Fulfillment of all three of those needs and we’re going to point it out to you as we’re thinking today about the Church of our Lord Jesus
Christ and I want to tell you the grandest organization this world knows anything about is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ I believe that with all of my heart and all of my soul that the grandest organization and organism in this world is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ now Peter is talking about rocks Stones if there’s anything that Israel has a lot of it’s rocks Stones if they could find a way to export rocks they’ve got plenty of rocks and Peter was interested in rocks one day Jesus called him a rock one day Jesus
