Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Breaking New Ground Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Ephesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12

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Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Breaking New Ground Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Ephesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 19  Open to me the gates of righteousness,that I may enter through themand give thanks to the Lord.20  This is the gate of the Lord;the righteous shall enter through it.21  I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. Jesus is the Cornerstone Psalm 118:19-24

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 22  The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.23  This is the Lord’s doing;it is marvelous in our eyes.24  This is the day that the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it. Jesus is the Cornerstone Psalm 118:19-24

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. Jesus is the Cornerstone Matthew 16:15-19

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Jesus is the Cornerstone Matthew16:15-19

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone Acts 4:11-13 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone Acts 4:11-13 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone 1Peter 2:4-9 4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone 1Peter 2:4-9 6 For it stands in Scripture:“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,a cornerstone chosen and precious,and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,“The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone,”

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone 1Peter 2:4-9 8 and“A stone of stumbling,and a rock of offense.”They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Cornerstone 1Peter 2:4-9 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Ephesians 1:22-23 22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Ephesians 4:15 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Ephesians 5:23 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Colossians 1:18 18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Matthew 23:8-10 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 13:13 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head 2Corinthians 4:5 5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 14:15 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 14:21 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 14:23 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Ephesians 5:24 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head 1John 3:24 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 10:11, 14-15 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head 1John 3:16a 16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Ephesians 5:29-30 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, Jesus is the Head John 17:20-26

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Jesus is the Head John 17:20-26

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head John 17:20-26 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability Jesus is the Head Revelation 2:23b 23b And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

Laying The Foundation A Vision for Structure and Stability 24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jesus is the Head Jude 24-25

Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Breaking New Ground Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And Stability Ephesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12