1. The Preciousness of Jesus
1 Peter 2:4-10

2. 1 Peter 2:4-10
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 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.” Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,

3. “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
1 Peter 2:4-10
“The stone the builders rejected     has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,
“A stone that causes people to stumble     and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the message— which is also what they were destined for.

4. 1 Peter 2:4-10
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.

5. Charles Spurgeon
“The hearing of the gospel involves the hearer in responsibility. It is a great privilege to hear the gospel. You may smile and think there is nothing great in it. The damned in hell know. Of, what would they give if they could hear the gospel now? If they could come back and entertain but the shadow of a hope that they might escape from the wrath to come? The saved in heaven estimate the privilege at a high rate, for, having obtained salvation through the preaching of the gospel, they can never cease to bless their god for calling them by his word of truth. O that you knew it! On your dying beds the listening to the gospel sermon will seem another thing than it seems now.”

6. Samuel Rutherford
“What fairer thing is there than Christ? O fair sun and fair moon, and fair stars, and fair flowers, and fair roses, and fair lilies, and fair creatures: but O ten thousand times fairer Lord Jesus!... Let my eyes enjoy His fairness, and look Him forever in the face, and I have all that can be wished.”

7. Bible Verses
“And you are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being himself the chief cornerstone.” - Ephesians 2:2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which if your reasonable service.” – Romans 12:1-2

8. Bible Verses
“By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.” – Hebrews 13:15 “For every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices.” – Hebrews 8:3

9. Bible Verses
“That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” – Ephesians 2:12 “Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” – Ephesians 2:19