<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 And remember, it was cut away from the place it would be put together at. But when it come together, it didn't ev--need even honing. It was already honed. God had made it so it fit perfectly into its place. Oh, what a type there we find of the spiritual, how that every gift of God, every odd act of borned again Christians in their peculiarity, yet, it's got its place. It fits in the body. It goes to its right place.
And many of us would--would try to say, "Now, that's not of God." A good, holy, consecrated soldier of the cross... And we say, "Now, we stood in church the other night, and we heard such-and-such a thing. That can't be of God." But if it's in line with the pattern, if it's in a line with the Scripture, it may be odd but it's going to have its place. See? It'll fit right in, and it won't even need honing or polishing. It'll go to its place, for the great Architect, Christ, is preparing it now: odd one to the other.

L-27 Now, we notice in the building down here in the next chapter, that in this building there was one stone that was actually too odd to fool with. So the builders rejected it. So they just pitched it over into the corner and said, "That stone is actually too odd to be used. There's no such a place..." Now, remember, it was the builders who should've knowed different. Jesus spoke of it.
But come to find out, they had built the building so high until they missed the stone, and they didn't know where that stone was. They might've searched all the ships; they might've run through every ox cart; they might've sent messengers up into Joppa and down, and say, "Has another load come in?"; or, "Did you lose one on the road? There's something wrong. We just can't find that stone for this place."
And when they could not find it nowhere else, come to find out it was right on the ground. It was the chief cornerstone that the builders rejected.
Jesus spoke of it and said, "Have not you read of the stone that the builders rejected was the chief cornerstone, the head of all of it, where the rest of the building rested upon it.

L-28 And I think in the--the building today of the spiritual house that God worships in, I think that that's been a great big failure today among the builders. We have come with our denominations, and we have laid them in sincerity. We have sent our boys to school to educate them to speak well before a congregation, learned them psychology and Bible history. And we have did everything, and built fine pews, and made high towering steeples, and beautiful music, and so forth, have we built. But we find out there's something wrong.
We've tried to build it out of man-made material, what education could produce, what seminaries could bring out of them, what scholarship... We've tried to build it upon education, upon scholarship, upon denomination. And all these things will not work as long as we have not accepted this odd stone, this peculiar stone. But as the building begin to materialize, they realized that the hole that was left, the odd stone fit it to the dot. That's where the spiritual builders today... And that's why the Bride building of Christ is not ready for the Bridegroom, is because that the builders has rejected the Chief Cornerstone that was laid on the day of Pentecost, which is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. See?


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