Hand-Picked for God's Purposes - 1 Peter 2:4-10 - 5th Sunday in Easter - May 7, 2023

07/05/2023 20 min
Hand-Picked for God's Purposes - 1 Peter 2:4-10 - 5th Sunday in Easter - May 7, 2023

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Send us a textThanks for joining us today! Listen in while Pastor talks through this beautiful section of scripture, where we learn that we are all building blocks in God's house, and that he has hand-picked each and every one of you! Let us all keep Christ as our cornerstone, where he can be the foundation in our lives and in the decisions we make in this life. God be with you today and always. If you are local, come on by to see us! We're located at 3800 Hondo Pass, El Paso, TX 79904Find us on-line! trinityelpaso.orgFB @trinitylutheranelpasoIG @trinitylutheraneptxAnd find our sermon videos on YouTube! 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:“See, I lay a stone in Zion,    a chosen and precious cornerstone,and the one who trusts in him    will never be put to shame.”[b]7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,“The stone the builders rejected    has become the cornerstone,”[c]8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble    and a rock that makes them fall.”[d]They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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