Let's open our Bibles again to
1 Peter, chapter 2. 1 Peter, chapter 2. Now, if you have heard many,
many times, there are only two kinds of people who ever lived
on the face of this planet. There are believers and unbelievers. Those who believe God, those
who do not believe God. Those who believe, those who
bow. and those who are rebels. The title of the message this
evening is Builders or Believers. Another distinction. Builders
or Believers. Now, unbelievers are builders. They're going about building.
Salvation to them is something they're building. Unbelievers
are trying to build their own salvation. Believers have already
been built by God. Now, what's the difference between
the two? Well, this is why I want us, in a sentence, what I want
us to see in the next about 35 minutes, God made all the difference
between those two, between the builder and the believer. God
made all the difference. Now, verse 7, Under you, therefore,
which believe, he is precious. We dealt with this last week.
But, under them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed. The same is made the head of the corner. Now,
believers believe. They believe God. They believe
God's word. They believe Christ. They trust
Christ. Now, where did that faith come from? Those who believe,
Peter said. Where did that faith come from?
Well, it came from God, didn't it? Paul said in Ephesians 2
that faith is the gift of God. God gives it. It's a free gift.
And if the Lord's given you faith to believe Christ, You see Him. He's precious to you. I guarantee
you, if you have God-given faith, the Lord Jesus Christ is precious
to you. Without faith in Christ, a person's
eternally lost. And that's how serious this matter
of faith is. Without faith in Christ, a person's
eternally lost. Now, believers, they have faith.
They believe. And the builders, Peter says,
are disobedient. And that word disobedient means
they obey not. It also, one of the definitions
in the Greek is they refuse to believe. Believers believe. They
have God-given faith. These builders, they refuse to
believe. It's not just that they cannot,
they will not believe. They will not because they cannot.
They refuse to believe. It also means they refuse to
be persuaded. Well, I'm almost persuaded. Well, you're almost persuaded
because you refuse to be persuaded. They're disobedient. Unbelievers
are disobedient to God's command. The command of the gospel is
to repent and believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the command of God's word. And Peter calls the religious
leaders of his day builders because they're building their own righteousness,
they're building their own salvation. Look back at Genesis chapter
11. I read you this to open the scripture. This has always been
man's problem. Man sees there's a problem. Well,
we're problem solvers. So we know we're lost. We know
there's a problem. And what we think is, well, I
better get building. I better get building. In verse
1 of Genesis chapter 11, the whole earth was of one language
and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed
from the east that they found a plain. in the land of Shinar,
and they dwelt there. And they said one to another,
Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they
said, Go to, let's build us a city, and let's build us a tower, whose
top may reach unto the heaven. And let us make us a name, lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." They
know they need a way to the heavens. They know they need. A name.
Their name's worthless. Well, what are we going to do?
Let's get to building. We're going to build us a tower.
Unbelievers are unchanged to this day. They're just like these
people who built the Tower of Babel. They're just like the
religious leaders of Peter's day. And they show their disobedience
by going about to establish their own righteousness. They show
their disobedience by going about to build their own righteousness,
and they will not submit themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Every unbeliever is guilty of the same disobedience that the
religious leaders in Peter's day were guilty of. They're called
builders. Now, that's not necessarily a
bad thing. They were supposed to be builders
of faith. They're supposed to be building
people up into faith with the Word of God, but that's not what
they were doing. They were trying to build their own righteousness.
Instead of building on the solid rock, they reject the object
of faith and they build on their own foundation. God sent the
cornerstone. He sent the foundation. They
said, I don't need that. I'll have my own. Thank you very
much. And they build on their own foundation. These builders
rejected the only tried and true cornerstone. Well, is it any
wonder their building crumbled? They rejected the only cornerstone. It always crumbles because it's
built on sand. It doesn't have a foundation
because they rejected the only foundation, the Lord Jesus Christ. This word Peter uses builders. It actually means to restore. Or to rebuild or to repair, and
that's what the unbelievers trying to do, they're trying to restore
what was lost in Adam. Now, what was lost in Adam does
need to be restored, but they're trying to do the restoration
themselves. They're trying to rebuild. They're trying to repair,
patch up what was destroyed in Adam. And the problem is these
builders, they always reject Christ. They disallowed, Peter
said, the builders, these ones who are trying to patch things
up, they disallowed Christ. And that means they rejected
him. They disapprove of Christ. Now,
they understand what the scriptures say. The scriptures are not difficult
to understand. That's always a cop out when
somebody says, well, I don't understand the King James Version.
Yeah, you do. You reject it. You disapprove of it. You understand
what it says, but you don't like what it says. So you disapprove
of it. And these men, they disapproved of salvation like that. They
disapproved of salvation by grace. So they reject Christ altogether
and they try to build their own selves up. They try to build
themselves up through the law, through their obedience to the
law, and their building must crumble because God has appointed
Christ to be the one and only foundation. He's the one and
only cornerstone. Well, if you reject the foundation,
the building will crumble every time. There cannot be salvation
without Christ. You've heard it before. Let me
tell you again, come to Christ. There can't be any salvation
outside of him. Christ is the only one who can
restore what was lost in Adam. And when Christ restores what
was lost in Adam, he doesn't repair it. He doesn't patch it
up. He starts over and makes it new
into new birth. He causes a new man to be born.
So if you reject Christ, then you reject salvation and what
will happen every time is you'll stumble into hell. Look at verse
8 in our text. And a stone of stumbling, and
a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being
disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed. And a stone of
stumbling, that word means an obstacle. It's interesting to
the believer, Christ is the way, isn't He? The way, the truth,
and the life. To the disobedient, Christ is an obstacle. He's an
obstacle. And he's an obstacle only for
this reason, not because he's somehow different. No, he's the
same as they reject him. And they stumble at the word.
They stumble at the truth of the word. They stumble at Christ,
the living word. They stumble at the written word.
They study or they stumble at the doctrine of Christ, the teaching
of who Christ is, salvation in him. And they reject Christ.
And they stumble at him. Because salvation by Christ alone,
salvation through the substitutionary work of Christ. That doesn't
make sense to the natural man. It doesn't. So they can't believe
what they can't understand with the natural senses. And the gospel
is not to be understood with the natural senses. It's to be
believed. You've been hearing the gospel
a long time. Do you understand how God became man? Do you understand
how the holy son of God was made to be sin and never ceased to
be holy? Do you understand how God died? You don't understand
these things. You don't understand how God
could choose you, how God could be gracious to you, how Christ
could die for you. You'll never understand that.
But you're not called on to understand it. You're called to believe,
commanded to believe. And to the believer, Christ is
precious. Those things I just told you
that you can't understand with your human mind, those things
are precious to you because Christ is precious to you. But to that
religious builder, Christ is offensive. This is an offensive
thing to him. Instead of being saved by Christ,
they stumble at him. These men Peter are talking about,
they stumbled at the Lord, didn't they? They stumbled at his birth. You mean put my hope of salvation
in a man that was born in a manger? No. They stumbled at his parents. Well, they're so poor. They're
just, he works manual, his father works manual labor. The man they
thought was his father, they're poor. Poor people. They stumbled
at his hometown. Shall any good thing come out
of Nazareth? They stumbled at his lack of education. Who taught
him? He didn't come from one of our
seminaries, some of our schools. They stumbled at the company
they took. He ate with publicans and harlots. These men hung around
with him were fishermen, ex-fishermen. They stumbled at his appearance.
There's no beauty about him that we should desire him. They stumbled
at his doctrine, at his teaching. Oh, this is a hard saying. Who
can hear it? Didn't care if they gave him a free luncheon while
they left. Who can hear it? They stumbled at his death. The
cursed death of the cross. Now, that's precious to you to
believe, because he died bearing your curse, but to the disobedient,
they stumbled at that, at his death. Look back at Matthew 21.
Verse 42, Matthew 21. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye
never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders
rejected, the same as become the head of the corner? This
is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Therefore
I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you,
and given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof. And
whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on
whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And that tells me the salvation
of our souls has everything to do with this stone. Everything. We'll either fall on Christ that
stone. Christ is the stone. He's referring to himself. We'll
either fall on Christ as a broken sinner and find salvation in
him or we'll be disobedient, refuse to bow to him and he'll
fall on us in judgment and grind us to powder. One or the other.
And that's the appointed end of Everyone who rejects Christ
is to be ground to powder by this stone. Now, someone would
wonder, Preacher, are you saying God elected some to heaven and
God elected some to hell? He appointed them to hell just
like he appointed others to heaven? No, sir, I'm not. And God's word
doesn't say that either. God indeed did elect some to
salvation. But all God had to do to appoint
the others to hell is leave them alone. He didn't do anything
special to appoint them to hell. They did it themselves. God just
let them do exactly what they wanted to do. He let them build
exactly how they wanted to build. And the just results of that
disobedience and that building is condemnation. Stumbling into
hell. Just like the builders of Babel.
They had a great plan, didn't they? They probably engineered
pretty good talent. But they stumbled. Fell. And that would be the appointed
end of every human being if it wasn't for God's electing grace.
What's the difference between faith and disobedience? What's
the difference between a builder and a believer? God's electing
grace. Look back in our text, verse
9. They're going to stumble into
hell. They were appointed. But you
are a chosen generation. Now, here's the difference between
believers and unbelievers. First, they have faith. Second,
the difference between builders and believers is God's electing
love. You're a chosen generation. God
chose a people out of Adam's fallen race. He chose to save
those people and his son. He chose them out of the lump
of Adam's fallen humanity and put them in his son. Christ agreed
to be their servant. That is the distinguishing mark
of every believer. It's God's election. God elected
them. He chose them unto salvation.
And God did not choose them because he looked down through the telescope
of time and he saw they'd have a little bit of faith. Or he
saw they'd be better than somebody else some way. They'd have a
little bit of goodness. No. God chose a people. Just out
of his sovereign will. Just because he would. His sovereign
love for the sake of his sovereign love and no other reason. All the reasons for God's electing
of people are found in him. And the only reason a believer
is not still an unbeliever is God's electing love. God chose
him and revealed himself to him. Now I'm telling you, I love that. I love hearing it. I love preaching
it. I love the truth of it. I love God's electing love. Because I know this. Without
God's election, there would be no salvation. None. I need God
to elect me. I need Him to choose me. Because
I never would have chosen Him. But He chose me in electing love. The Lord told his disciples,
you didn't choose me. I chose you. Why wouldn't they go away? Why
wouldn't they go away? The Lord said, go away if you
want to. Peter said, to whom should we go? Why wouldn't they
go? Why did they know there was no other place to go? The multitude
left. Because the Lord said, I chose
you. You didn't choose me. I chose you. If salvation does
not begin with God. There's no salvation. The sinner
can't do it. We can't muster it up on our
own. God must do the work. Terry, God chose you. Wayne,
God chose you. Adam, God chose you. Terry, God
chose you. Can you imagine such a thing?
My soul, I just, that thrills my soul. Do you find that a comfort
to your soul? God would choose you. All that
ought to give you comfort. This term Peter used here, chosen
generation. This is a family term. The elect
of God have been chosen to be put into the family of God. He
adopted children and put them into his family. He caused them
to be born again into his family, not in Adam's family, into his
family, and they see See, they have a seat at his table. Christ
has become our husband. He's become our brother. God
has become our father. The Lord said, I go to my father
and your father. Those are family terms, husband,
brother, father. We have brothers and sisters
in this family. Why are we brothers and sisters?
We've got the same father. So we're members of the same
family. Why? God's electing grace. The third
difference between believers and unbelievers, between builders
and believers, is this. Unbelievers are building. Builders
are building. Believers are already built.
Unbelievers are builders, constantly trying to repair and patch up
what was lost in Adam. They're trying to build, trying
to prop up and establish their own righteousness. Look back
in verse 5 here, 2 Peter. 1 Peter 2. Believers are already built.
See that in verse 5? Ye also as lively stones are
built up a spiritual house. God's already built you. There's
no need for you to do any building. God's already built you up a
spiritual house. Now what did God make us? When
God built up His people, what did He make them? Well, these
builders, they're appointed to stumble into hell. because of
their own works, because of their own building, because of their
disobedience, they'll stumble into hell. Well, believers are
appointed some things, too. And every one of them is in Christ
and because of Christ. Because we're built by God on
Christ, there are some things that we're appointed. Back here
in verse 9. First of all, we're appointed,
a believer is appointed to be a royal priesthood. But you are
a chosen generation. a royal priesthood. Believers
have been made kings and priests under our God, a royal priesthood.
In the Old Testament, no man could occupy the offices of king
and priest at the same time, never. Now, you could be a prophet
and a priest. You could be a king and a prophet,
but you could never be a king and a priest. That combination,
that office of king-priest is reserved for one. The Lord Jesus
Christ alone is King Priest. Christ is King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. And Christ is also our great
high priest, who makes an atonement for sin. Only Christ can be the
King Priest, right? Only Christ. And everyone in
Christ. Everyone in Christ is a King
Priest because we've been made just like Christ. In Him, we're
just like Him. In Christ, believers are kings. Kings have a very specific wardrobe. They have a royal wardrobe. But
what does a believer wear? You have a royal wardrobe. The royal robe of Christ's righteousness. And kings reign. God's people
reign over sin. Now you might think, wait a minute,
I don't feel so much like I reigned over sin today. Well, now we
still sin if that's how you're going to count reigning over
sin that you never sin anymore. You're not going to you're not
looking at it right. God's people reign over sin.
We do still sin. But sin shall not have dominion
over you. For you're not under the law,
but under grace and under God's grace, you reign over sin. And
one day we'll reign with Christ eternally. We're kings. And believers
are also made to be priests. Now, what is a priest function?
What a priest do? Well, priests, they offer sacrifices
and the priest has direct access to God. All the people didn't.
Only the priest had direct access to God. Only the high priest
could go into the Holy of Holies and he could just go once a year,
not without blood. And that high priest would go
into the very presence of God, the Shekinah glory of God shown
there in that Holy of Holies between the wings over the mercy
seat, into the very presence of God. You who believe can do
the exact same thing. Go right into the presence of
God Almighty. You have direct access to God
the Father. Well, now, how's that? In Christ. Look over Hebrews chapter 10. A believer has direct access
to God the Father, because in Christ he has been
made a priest. Hebrews 10, verse 19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the
veil, that is to say, his flesh, and having a high priest over
the house of God, Let us draw near with a true heart and full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. How is that?
Through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Him, you have
access to the Father. And priests offer sacrifices.
Every believer does, too. Now, in the Old Testament, everybody
couldn't offer a sacrifice. Saul couldn't, could he? But
the priests can. And you who believe can too.
We offer the sacrifice of praise in Thanksgiving. And you want
to know how we do that? It's in Christ. Look at Hebrews
13. Hebrews 13 verse 15. By Him, by Christ therefore,
let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That
is the fruit of our lips. giving thanks to his name. We
offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Back in our
text, 1 Peter 2, verse 5, he also as lively stones are built
up a spiritual house and holy priesthood. To do what? Offer
up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. See, it's all in Christ. So first
of all, the believer is appointed to be a royal priesthood, king
priest. Second, a believer is appointed
to be a holy nation. See that in verse nine, your
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Now, in the Old
Testament, those priests, they made themselves clean just in
ceremony. They washed their bodies with
water and that ceremony said they were clean. And all that
was is a picture of the holiness of Christ who offered himself
without spot to God. He's holy. Well, believers are
made holy, a holy nation, a holy people, and not just in a ceremony,
but actually, literally holy, perfect and pure. Now, how's
that? In Christ. Look at Ephesians
chapter 5. Everything that the believer
is appointed is in Christ. That's what I want you to see
here. We've been made holy in Christ. Ephesians 5 verse 25. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. Now
why did he give himself for it? That he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word. That he might present
it to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing. but that it should be holy and
without blemish." That's you in Christ, holy and without blemish,
without spot or wrinkle. Third, a believer is appointed
to be a peculiar people. Now, people who don't know the
Lord, think what you believe is strange. They think it's strange
that you really feel it necessary to get here on a Wednesday night
because it's just too long between Sunday to Sunday to hear the
gospel and be fed. They think that's strange. That's peculiar. And we are. We have all our own peculiarities. A long time ago, I worked with
this woman. We had cubicles. You can hear
what's going on across the wall there, you know. She was talking
to this woman about salvation, how you're saved. I thought,
my soul, I just really can't believe anybody with any intelligence
is saying these things. It was absurd. And I waited, I just thought
about it and thought about it, and I went over to her and I
said, I heard what you're saying. I said, do you know that's not
what the Bible says? I hear you say you go to church,
does your pastor open the book and read to you out of it? Because
what you said is not found in God's word. And she said, really? I said, yes. And she said, well,
tell me what you believe. Tell me how you're saved. And
I told her as much as I could. They're on a spy quotes scripture
tour. And she looked at me and she
said, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard. She thought
that guy's peculiar. Well, that's not what this word
Peter uses means. It doesn't mean you're strange.
It means purchased. It means you are purchased possession. You've been purchased by the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ came and redeemed his
people with his blood. He bought them back and they're
his. They're his possession. Lock,
stock and barrel. In Exodus 19, 5, the Lord calls
that nation Israel, my peculiar treasure. And of course, that's
what spiritual Israel is. God's peculiar treasure. God
treasured his people, the people that he loved, he treasured them
so much, he redeemed them. He bought them with the most
precious thing he had, the blood of his son. He gave the life
of his son to purchase his peculiar treasure, and they belong to
him. They're his purchased possession.
Look over in Deuteronomy chapter 7. Everything I'm telling you
from the New Testament is right here in the Old Testament. This
is the eternal gospel. Deuteronomy 7, verse 6. For thou art an holy people unto
the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth. Now the Lord did not set his
love upon you, nor choose you, because you are more a number
than any people, for you are the fewest of all people. But
because the Lord loved you, and because he keepeth the oath which
he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out
with a mighty hand." He's redeemed you out of the house of the bondman,
from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt." That's a salvation
that the Lord purchased for His people. Now that begs the question,
why? Why did the Lord build this salvation? You don't build it, He built
it. Why did He build this salvation? Why did God purpose and accomplish
this salvation for His people? Well, verse 9 in our text tells
us, That you should show forth the praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his marvelous light. God did all
this for his glory. He did it so his son would be
glorified. He did it simply for the glory
of his grace. He did it so that you who believe
would be made trophies of his grace. And that's what heaven's
going to be. It's going to be God's trophy
case. When it's all done, he's going to stand back. And say,
look what I did. These are my trophies. I made
them. I bought them. I chose them.
I found them. I shed my blood for them. I washed
them. I caused them to be born again. Trophies of my grace. And the believer's purpose, now
and then, is one thing. To show forth the praises of
our Savior. Isn't that an honor? To be able
to show forth the praises of the one who gave his life to
save you. What an honor. To go tell what
great things the Lord has done for you. Isn't that an honor?
That's that message you preached two Wednesdays ago. You just
go home. You tell your friends and your
family what great things the Lord has done for you. Can you
say anything better than that? That's an honor. And I'll tell
you one of the things he's done for his people. God called his
people out of darkness. And not just into his light,
does Peter say, but into his marvelous light. Where did God
find you? You were in the dungeon. There
wasn't a window in that thing letting some light in. There
wasn't even a crack in the wall letting a little bit of light
in. You were in utter darkness. And God in his mercy came and
called you out. He opened the door and set you
free. He took you out of that darkness
of sin and brought you into the marvelous light of Christ's holiness. He brought you out of the darkness
of the law and brought you into the marvelous light of his gospel.
Now, imagine if you'd been blind all of your life. I think being
blind would be such a horrible thing. You can't see the faces
of your loved ones, you can't see the beautiful colors and
shapes of God's creation. And if you're blind all your
life, never seen that. And suddenly you could see, suddenly
you could see the faces of your loved ones. Suddenly you could
be driving home and say, wow, isn't that sky beautiful? When I was a kid, I thought my
parents have got to be so old. I thought I'll never say, look
at those clouds. Aren't those beautiful? I say
it all the time now, don't I? We go on a walk and I say, wow,
look at that. That's so beautiful. I guess I'm old too, I guess. I don't know. Those things are
beautiful to you if you've got eyes, if you're blind or not.
But if you've got eyes, they are. And God's elect have experienced
that, being blind and suddenly seeing. Suddenly. seeing marvelous things in God's
marvelous light. Everything you see now is marvelous
because that marvelous light reveals the Lord Jesus Christ.
In this light, we see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. In this marvelous light, we see
this great mystery, how God can be just and justifier. In this
light, we see how God can put my sin away through the sacrifice
of his son. I'm telling you, that's marvelous.
David said, this is the Lord's doing. It's marvelous in our
eyes because we see it all in the marvelous light of God's
glory. Now, this salvation, it must be the Lord's doing. David
said, this is the Lord's doing. It's marvelous in our eyes. It
must be the Lord's doing because I didn't come this way. I didn't
come into this world this way. I wasn't born this way. Peter
says in verse 10 in our text, which in time past were not a
people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained
mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Now, none of us have always
known God. I once was lost. Now I'm found. I was blind at one time, but
now I see. Now, from all of eternity, God's
elect have always belonged to God. God chose us. He put us
in Christ. He's always loved us. We've always
belonged to him. God's elect have always been
under the blood. But when we were born into this
world, we were sons of Adam. When we were born into this world,
we had Adam's sinful nature, and that's the only nature we
had. We weren't the people of God. We were sons of Adam. Now
Christ had already accomplished all the work. He'd already accomplished
all the work of salvation. But you and me didn't know it.
Somebody had to come tell us. The songwriter said, in my heart
a battle was raging. Not all prisoners of war had
come home. They were battlefields of my own making. It was my fault,
my sin. I didn't know the war had been
won. Then I heard that the king of all ages had fought all my
battles for me. And the victory is mine for the
claiming. And now, oh, praise His name,
I'm free. Now you're the people of God
because you've been born again by God's Spirit. Now you've been
given faith in Christ and the love of God is shed abroad in
your hearts. How'd that great change happen? Mercy. It's God's mercy. Not because
we did anything to deserve it. We didn't obtain it. We didn't
go get it. It's God's mercy. Look at Ephesians chapter 2.
God's mercy. Ephesians 2. Verse 1. And you hath he quickened,
who were dead in trespasses and sins. Wherein a time passed,
he walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past, in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature
the children of wrath even as others. But God, whose rich in
mercy, for His great, His unconditional love wherewith He loved us, even
when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
by grace your That raised us up together, made us sit together
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come,
He might show the exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus. It's mercy. That's good for us
to read those passages of Scripture and remember where you came from. Remember that deep pit of sin
and despair that you come from. Remember where you were when
God found you. Remember what it is God saved
you from. Remember that He saved you from yourself. Remembering
that will give you compassion for the lost. That young girl
told me, that's the strangest thing I ever heard. My heart
broke for her. I was born just like her and
would still be just like her if it wasn't for the mercy of
God. Now, you answer this question
in your heart. Are you a builder? Or are you a believer? If you're
a builder, quit. Quit your building. Rest from
all your building. Rest from all your labors. And
rest in the Lord Jesus Christ. Rest in the finished work of
Christ. Quit your building and be built
in Him. Alright, may the Lord bless you.