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

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Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12

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Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Cornerstone

Psalm 118:19-24

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.

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Cornerstone

Psalm 118:19-24

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.

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Cornerstone

Matthew 16:15-19

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.

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Cornerstone

Matthew16:15-19

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.”

Laying The FoundationA 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 FoundationA 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 FoundationA 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 FoundationA 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 FoundationA 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.

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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.

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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 FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Head

Ephesians 4:1515 Rather, speaking the

truth in love, we are to

grow up in every way into

him who is the head, into

Christ

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Head

Ephesians 5:2323 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 FoundationA 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 FoundationA 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.

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Jesus is

the Head

John 13:13 13 You call me Teacher

and Lord, and you are

right, for so I am.

Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Head

2Corinthians 4:55 For what we proclaim is

not ourselves, but Jesus

Christ as Lord, with

ourselves as your servants

for Jesus’ sake.

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Jesus is

the Head

John 14:1515 “If you love me, you will

keep my commandments.

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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 FoundationA 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 FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability

Jesus is

the Head

Ephesians 5:2424 Now as the church

submits to Christ, so also

wives should submit in

everything to their

husbands.

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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.

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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.

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Jesus is

the Head

1John 3:16a 16 By this we know love,

that he laid down his life

for us

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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.

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Jesus is

the Head

John 17:20-26

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,

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Jesus is

the Head

John 17:20-26

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.

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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.”

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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.

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Jesus is

the Head

Jude 24-25

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.

Breaking New Ground

Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12