THE KEY STONE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32711, 10 May 1946, Page 5

THE KEY STONE

OF GOD’S BUILDING MESSAGE FOR CHRISTIANS ‘“ißy Grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his worknaanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God ’ hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the. (Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the convenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, wh<rhath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, ©ven the law 1 of commandments contaned in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them, that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Sipirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together gioweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2) Jesus said unto them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures. 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner’; this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind l him to powder. (Matt. 21). P.B.A.