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[4147.12 --> 4148.38] Jesus is also the architect.
[4148.92 --> 4151.62] He's the one building the temple where God dwells.
[4152.02 --> 4157.44] The living stones which this temple is built out of is us, the church, God's people.
[4157.44 --> 4162.88] Collectively, we are the church, the place where God now dwells.
[4163.70 --> 4167.08] And his people, us, the church, we are also the priests
[4167.08 --> 4173.02] in charge of offering spiritual sacrifices as our text lays out.
[4173.60 --> 4176.62] So all of us are now collectively the holy priesthood.
[4177.28 --> 4181.70] We no longer have to offer sacrifices of animals to atone for our sins
[4181.70 --> 4185.06] because Christ came into this world and became the ultimate sacrifice.
[4185.06 --> 4186.94] He was the atonement for us.
[4187.00 --> 4187.78] Our sins are forgiven.
[4188.66 --> 4192.86] So because of that sacrifice, instead of offering animal sacrifices,
[4193.04 --> 4197.26] we are to offer spiritual sacrifices, as our text says,
[4197.32 --> 4201.44] that are acceptable to God because Christ has forgiven us.
[4202.50 --> 4205.18] Now, Peter, later, he goes down and he starts breaking down
[4205.18 --> 4208.56] what these spiritual sacrifices are throughout the rest of this chapter.
[4208.70 --> 4211.34] And so that will come for a sermon series a little bit later.
[4211.34 --> 4215.74] But some of those sacrifices are things like resisting evil, doing good,
[4216.08 --> 4221.38] enduring pain and suffering without retaliating, and living holy lives.
[4221.86 --> 4222.66] You know, things like that.
[4224.18 --> 4227.72] So that's the very embarrassingly brief breakdown of the imagery in our text today.
[4227.76 --> 4228.80] But what does this all mean?
[4231.00 --> 4233.20] Well, we love what our loved ones love.
[4233.20 --> 4237.54] Our text today calls Jesus the cornerstone.
[4238.68 --> 4242.06] And his people, his temple.
[4242.90 --> 4247.14] In other places in the Word, Jesus is called the head.
[4247.90 --> 4249.48] And his people are the body.
[4249.90 --> 4250.92] Or maybe you remember this one.
[4251.14 --> 4253.12] In other places, Jesus is called the groom.
[4253.68 --> 4255.72] And again, his people are the bride.
[4256.72 --> 4261.14] In all of those examples, you can't have one without the other.
[4261.14 --> 4262.70] A head without a body is useless.
[4263.08 --> 4265.50] A groom without a bride is just a man.
[4265.80 --> 4269.50] A foundation without a building or a temple is a slab of concrete.
[4270.42 --> 4273.64] Jesus loves the church so much so that he died for it.
[4274.24 --> 4275.76] He wants to be with us.
[4275.82 --> 4276.94] There's a union there.
[4277.02 --> 4278.20] He desires that union.
[4278.44 --> 4281.66] And he knows that without that union, we are useless.
[4283.02 --> 4286.02] Without Jesus, we're a building about to crumble.
[4286.74 --> 4289.18] We're a headless body entering rigor mortis.
[4289.18 --> 4292.26] We can't be a bride without a groom.
[4295.62 --> 4299.46] Unfortunately, in our world today, there's many Christians, both young and old,
[4300.42 --> 4304.16] that feel that you can love Jesus without loving the church.
[4305.62 --> 4309.12] They lie on empty foundations, but they're exposed to the elements.
[4309.26 --> 4313.50] They want the head of Christ, but they are unwilling to be a part of the body.
[4313.50 --> 4320.00] They look at the groom with fondness, but they don't want to be a part or be the bride.
[4321.10 --> 4324.54] You can't love Jesus without loving the church.
[4324.86 --> 4326.90] That's not what relationship is.
[4328.24 --> 4329.46] Kevin DeYoung puts it this way.
[4329.54 --> 4329.98] It's beautiful.
[4330.14 --> 4330.76] It's grotesque.
[4330.80 --> 4331.40] But he says this.
[4331.50 --> 4334.28] He says, some of us want a decorpulated Christianity.
[4334.42 --> 4335.02] I love that word.
[4335.28 --> 4337.36] A decorpulated Christianity.
[4337.36 --> 4341.50] Some of us want a decapitated Jesus.
[4343.32 --> 4345.54] But you can't have Jesus without the church.
[4345.88 --> 4347.08] Jesus loves the church.
[4347.58 --> 4348.94] The church loves Jesus.
[4350.60 --> 4356.16] We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
[4356.16 --> 4361.98] The language used throughout this text is together language.
[4362.12 --> 4364.86] This is not I language or me language.
[4364.98 --> 4366.64] This is we language.
[4366.84 --> 4368.74] We are the church that Jesus is building.
[4369.00 --> 4370.26] It's not made out of one stone.
[4370.36 --> 4371.66] It's made out of many stones.
[4372.04 --> 4373.26] We don't go to church.
[4373.50 --> 4375.00] We are the church.
[4375.12 --> 4380.20] This church is built up as a community who supports and lifts up one another.
[4381.20 --> 4384.52] Now, I've witnessed that here at this church, and it's beautiful.
[4384.52 --> 4387.58] This community has gone through some trying times.
[4387.70 --> 4389.44] It's gone through some celebratory times.
[4389.60 --> 4391.58] But through all of it, we've gone through it together.
[4392.74 --> 4394.18] That's what church family does.
[4394.64 --> 4396.52] When someone's going through something, you show up.
[4396.88 --> 4397.88] You pray for them.
[4397.96 --> 4399.50] You be present for them.
[4400.86 --> 4405.56] You can also trust that when the inevitable day comes, when you're going through something,
[4406.26 --> 4408.20] your community will be there for you.
[4408.20 --> 4417.58] That's why it's so tragic to see churches get divided over trivial or selfish things like
[4417.58 --> 4422.10] foyer furnishings or what songs we sing on Sunday.
[4423.12 --> 4427.64] And I'm just going to name it, and people might be mad at this, or masking policies during
[4427.64 --> 4428.18] a pandemic.
[4428.18 --> 4433.50] We're built together by Christ as his temple.
[4433.78 --> 4438.86] We cannot let these little things, these individual things, break us.
[4438.94 --> 4441.06] Individual rights, that's I language.
[4442.28 --> 4445.34] It should never supersede the communal bond of being the church together.
[4445.70 --> 4448.34] We are the church.
[4449.92 --> 4451.48] Christ loves the church.
[4451.48 --> 4454.50] We must love the church.
[4454.62 --> 4457.34] This togetherness language, it continues in verse 9.
[4458.44 --> 4460.52] There we read, we are a chosen people.
[4460.74 --> 4462.38] We are a royal priesthood.
[4462.54 --> 4463.80] We are a holy nation.
[4463.98 --> 4466.82] We are God's special possessions.
[4467.50 --> 4470.20] We are together.
[4471.42 --> 4476.50] We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
[4476.68 --> 4478.08] Chosen by God.
[4478.08 --> 4484.98] We are God's chosen people together because of what Christ did for us all, right?