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1 Peter (Program #13) -Growth in Life and Its Results (3)<\/p>\n1 Peter (Program #13) -Growth in Life and Its Results (3)<\/p>\n
After establishing a marvelous, organic metaphor at the beginning of chapter 2 in his first epistle concerning our enjoyment of Christ in His word as the nourishing milk is to a new born babe, the apostle Peter suddenly changes the metaphor to something mineral; he picks up the thought of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah even quoting him in chapter 28:16 “Therefore thus says The Lord Jehovah: Indeed I lay a stone in Zion as a foundation, A tested stone, A precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established; He who believes will not hasten away<\/em>.”\u00a0 Peter shows us that the same Christ who is the very milk in the word to the believers is also this stone; a tested, precious cornerstone for the foundation of God’s building.\u00a0 But Peter then goes even further than Isaiah and points out that this stone chose by God and precious can also be a stone of stumbling or even a fence to those who don’t believe.<\/p>\n Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a><\/p> Subscribe: TuneIn<\/a> | RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Peter (Program #13) -Growth in Life and Its Results (3) After establishing a marvelous, organic metaphor at the beginning of chapter 2 in his first epistle concerning our enjoyment of Christ in His word as the nourishing milk is to a new born babe, the apostle Peter suddenly changes the metaphor to something mineral; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6356,4],"tags":[7850,27,25,26,7491,622,96,7493,4084,29,198,700,1736,1968,7479,7807,7485,7477,1613,7492,7490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Play\"](\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" "\\"Play\\"")
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