<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 It's been odd. People act funny, and they--they don't come into the order of our--of our psychology, of our educational, our learning, our creeds. It don't fit in there. And they kicked it out because it was too odd, too--too peculiar, too disagreeable with the--the plans that we as men had ideas of what the church ought to be. It ought to be a group of polished scholars. It ought to be a group of fine-dressed people. It ought to be a group of something where we have tried to make it an educational program, or something that would please our five senses, something that we could see, or taste, or--or feel, or--or something.
Most of it has been through the sight: "Look at our fine people. Look at our best crowd in the city. The mayor comes to our place. The--the chief executives of our city, the chief of police comes to our church."
And then, we find out when it comes down to actual the--the building, all we've got is some mortar and rock. And the building did not go on. They rejected the way. The stone that God had so prepared for it, they rejected it.

L-30 Now, we find out though in the next chapter, that when the builders found out that they were wrong... Yet, they had all the other stones there, but the reason they couldn't get them together was because there was a hole left. There was something that wasn't right.
Now, we already have the stones, the stones God foreordained. See? And we've got them all the way from Ephesus to Laodicea. We're only waiting for that Headstone that the builders rejected, waiting for His coming, the capping Stone. And when... These great stones are confessions. Now, we know that confession is a stone.

L-31 Now, the--our Catholic people say that when the--Jesus speaking, and He said, "Upon this rock (or stone), I'll build My church."... Now, the Roman church of Catholicism says that it was Peter, because he was the stone, the literal man, Simon Peter. He backslid a few days afterwards.
Now, we find out then the Protestant says that it was Christ, the Stone.
But not to be disagreeable, but if you'll just watch the Scripture, it was neither one. It was Peter's confession and revelation of Who Christ was. For He asked the question, and it was a question that was involved, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?" Some said Moses, some Elias, and some, oh, you know bones of some prophet that raised up or something. That was him. But He said, "Who do you say that I am?" There's the question.
He said... Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas: for flesh and blood never revealed this to you. (You never learned it in a book; you never heard it in a seminary.) But My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock (spiritual revelation of the Word of God, which He was the Word.) I'll build My church, and the gates of hell will never prevail against it."

L-32 That is the real church, not of mortar, and brick, and stone, and so forth, which is perishable. But the real church is built upon the revelation of the Word and will of God. And they've been placed in the body since the Ephesian church age, all the way to the Laodicea now.
But what... In the day that when Solomon had completed the temple, and the chief cornerstone...
As soon as the builders accepted the rejected, then the building started going up.
May I say this with all reverence and with all respects to every man in every church and every man's idea: when our builders today accept the rejected, instead of pushing them off, and calling them a bunch of holy-rollers, the odd ones that's making confession, that much sooner the building will be completed.


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