Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the chief

cornerstone as we pick up in 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 6. And now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. And so an interesting prophecy then, that experience, the prophecy of what would happen with the temple, became the fulfillment with Jesus.

The stone disallowed by the builders, but yet has become the chief cornerstone and as

Peter said there's not salvation in any other for there is no other name under

heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. So the twofold effect though, he's

made the head of the corner but yet he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of a fence unto those which

stumble. Jesus is a cornerstone, the foundation upon which the church is built, but yet he is also a stumbling stone.

The Jews stumble over him because of the crucifixion.

They could not understand the Messiah being crucified and so they stumbled over the stone.

He became a rock of a fence to them.

Paul speaks of Christ crucified

to the Greeks foolishness, but to the Jews an offense, but unto us which are saved, the power of God. And so he is a rock of

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