The In order to fully understand the nature and function of the church, it's imperative that we understand who Jesus is.

And today on Truth for Life, we'll explore the Apostle Peter's description is faith or rejecting with unbelief.

Alistair Begg is teaching from 1 Peter Chapter 2,

we're looking at the third verse of this second chapter and we noticed that

Christian growth begins with a taste.

That taste we said was a life-giving taste and also a life-changing taste.

We noted that the taste was personal, but that it wasn't private. And as

he comes to the fourth verse, Peter changes metaphors. And as he begins to pick up on this new metaphor, he further

reminds his readers that although they have come to Christ singly, that they do not

live in him separately. And in this section, beginning with

verse four and through to about the 10th verse, Peter provides for us another

description of what it means to become a Christian and at the same time

the implications of having done so. Now what I'd like to do is try and gather our study

around three headings. First of all by noticing is Jesus is described here in verse four as the living stone, the living stone. We're all

aware of statues and great shrines that have been erected to religious figures in the past and indeed

we can go throughout the world and find people embodied in marble. And yet the wonder of Christian proclamation is this,

that unlike a Buddha who may be enshrined in marble or in granite, Jesus Christ will never be found

explained in those terms because this

truth which transformed the

truth which transformed the disciples

after the events of Calvary. You remember how John describes for us and

you can read it actually in John chapter 20 and in verse 19 that the disciples were so overcome and so discouraged by the events of Good Friday

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