November 3, 2025 • 16 mins
4 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[a] 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.”[b] 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”[c] 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”[d] They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 9 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.
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a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.”[b] 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”[c] 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”[d] They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 9 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.
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by humans,
but chosen by God and precious to him. You, also,
like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house,
to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to
(00:56):
God through Jesus Christ. For in scripture it says, see
I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen, precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him will never put
be put to shame. Now to you who believe this
(01:20):
stone is precious, but to those who do not believe,
the stone, the builder's reject has become the cornerstone, and
the stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that
makes them fall. The stumble they stumble because they disobey
(01:45):
the message, which is also what they were in disdain for.
But you are the cho a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare
(02:08):
praises of Him who called you out of the darkness
into wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but
now you are the people of God. Once you had
(02:29):
not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. There's
a lot to be said about this, and Unfortunately, I'm
actually going to just toss this out there. There are
(02:51):
those who interpret this to mean that they have the
right they because they're chosen by God to rule and
feel superior or supreme to others. That isn't. What this
(03:13):
means is that because we have we are sharing in
God's love. We're sharing in that love that we have
found through the teachings of Jesus Christ. That we have
found a path that no one can toss us away,
(03:35):
that no one shall be tossed away. Everyone will become precious.
It doesn't mean that if you aren't like me, you're nothing.
It means that because you aren't like me, you are
everything to God. We aren't supposed to be this uniform thing.
(04:00):
Where the uniform informity comes in the fact that we
all share in God's love and that we are all
tolerant of the differences and we respect the differences of
each and every one of us because God made us
different from each other. He made us in his image
and likeness. Yes, but his image in likeness is infinitely diverse.
(04:28):
There's something that some people when they're teaching things like this,
that they forget that God is infinity. There means that
there may never be two things exactly the same, and
that we are supposed to celebrate through Him. We are
supposed to celebrate the differences in the diverseness of that infinity.
(04:56):
Divine is infinite, Divine is diverse, Divine includes and so
many out there right now, especially right now, that they're
(05:19):
trying to use the teachings of the Bible and twist
them into something that they're truly not, and try to
twist them into something that means that if you don't
be exactly who I am, you're destined to burn. But
(05:40):
that's not true. These teachings are designed so that we
can celebrate the diverseness that is all of life. For instance,
I'm going to address a conspiracy that is out there
(06:01):
because there is a interstellar into galactic however you want
to put it, something that has an object or a
chunk of rock or ice that has found its way
into our Solar system from outside of our solar system,
(06:24):
that is finding its way the humans can see it,
but it came from the vastness of space outside of
our Solar system, and they're saying that, oh, it's so
different in everything that it must be trying to invade
it must be that it must be alien visitors, and
(06:50):
that there's so many conspiracies out there because it's something
different that there has to be a conspiracy attached to it.
That is the way so many of us think, and
that is the way that Sono many of us are
taught to think. But if we turn and turn to
(07:14):
a lens of science, science meaning to study, it becomes
just simply something beautiful and something to learn from. And
that is part of the lesson. Diversity is something to
learn from, to understand, maybe not fully, but try to understand.
(07:42):
And that's part of the struggle, is to try to understand,
and that struggle becomes beautiful because you're trying to understand
through love. One of the most important things things that
(08:02):
Jesus tried to teach us was to love each other.
Just because we are all God's children. We don't have
The object isn't to love each other because we're all alike.
It is to love each other because we're all so different.
(08:29):
Celebrate the diverseness that is life. Stop trying to say, oh, well,
we're superior because we have opposable fuelms. Oh well, you
know we're superior over that particular man because the blood
vessels in his brain are smaller because he has dark skin.
(08:54):
That's really that has been said, or go the other
way that well, he's he's worth us. He has a
light skin. While his ancestors were wallowing in the mud,
(09:16):
My ancestors were creating geometry. Kind of not the point.
The point is is that we were all created by
the same infinite being. God created us all. He sent
(09:39):
his son, another being from within himself, to teach us
to love. The misconceptions again that Jesus Christ was was
supposed to sit as a warrior to defeat those who oppress.
(10:12):
Now through stories and and and through different narratives and
through rhetoric that the those who want to oppress twist
and turn things until it looks like the oppress are
(10:32):
now becoming the oppressors. We're seeing a lot of that
again in human in in our human society, there's only
one human society. I'm sorry there there is only only
one human society, one human uh country, one, there's only one. Now.
(10:57):
The fact that people who people have decided to divide
things up because well, I live in the desert and
you live in a forest. I live near a glacier,
you live in in in a tropical lagoon. But what
(11:22):
we will see, and this is kind of a point
that if we accept it, we're all children of God
and that we all exist in the same society, and
that we all share in God's love, things will disappear. Starvation,
(11:48):
abuse they disappear, Oppression disappears. Okay, so there's some way
of thinking. So there's the So does wealth and control,
because we all realize that we all have something equal
(12:11):
to share, something that is always needed. Yes, maybe something
one thing is needed a little more than other things,
but we all have something to contribute at any given time.
And when we start to realize that we all have
something to contribute in any given time, especially according to
(12:36):
the scripture that is written and handed to us by
God before human editing, that we don't have to be
afraid of the differences of other people. We don't have
to be afraid of a different life form appearing near us.
(13:00):
We don't have to be afraid of any of that
because we're all sharing in one respectful, loving life. We're
all sharing the same universe given to us by God.
We're all sharing the same time given to us by God.
(13:22):
We're all sharing the same love that God has put
deep inside of us. When we learned that that love
is placed deep inside of us and we start to
look inside of ourselves to find our purpose and our value,
we start to realize, because it's put inside of us
(13:47):
did there is no being that can take it away
from us. It is ours for eternity. The secrets to
internal life is exactly that looking to yourself eternally and
(14:12):
understanding what God has given us. So I want to
ask all of you to ask this from our creator,
our God, that we all can walk with him hand
(14:34):
in hand, that we all get to hold God's hand
as we travel through our lives. Ask that of Him.
Ask that right now of God, HEMI your hand, so
I can walk with you and hey in your hand,
(14:56):
so I can start to see how everything is beautiful,
and how everything I can learn through the differences in
diversity that you've put here, how I can learn to
understand myself better by looking inside of myself and finding
(15:20):
the value and the love You've placed there. Amen,
As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by humans,
but chosen by God and precious to him. You, also,
like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house,
to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to
(00:56):
God through Jesus Christ. For in scripture it says, see
I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen, precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him will never put
be put to shame. Now to you who believe this
(01:20):
stone is precious, but to those who do not believe,
the stone, the builder's reject has become the cornerstone, and
the stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that
makes them fall. The stumble they stumble because they disobey
(01:45):
the message, which is also what they were in disdain for.
But you are the cho a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare
(02:08):
praises of Him who called you out of the darkness
into wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but
now you are the people of God. Once you had
(02:29):
not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. There's
a lot to be said about this, and Unfortunately, I'm
actually going to just toss this out there. There are
(02:51):
those who interpret this to mean that they have the
right they because they're chosen by God to rule and
feel superior or supreme to others. That isn't. What this
(03:13):
means is that because we have we are sharing in
God's love. We're sharing in that love that we have
found through the teachings of Jesus Christ. That we have
found a path that no one can toss us away,
(03:35):
that no one shall be tossed away. Everyone will become precious.
It doesn't mean that if you aren't like me, you're nothing.
It means that because you aren't like me, you are
everything to God. We aren't supposed to be this uniform thing.
(04:00):
Where the uniform informity comes in the fact that we
all share in God's love and that we are all
tolerant of the differences and we respect the differences of
each and every one of us because God made us
different from each other. He made us in his image
and likeness. Yes, but his image in likeness is infinitely diverse.
(04:28):
There's something that some people when they're teaching things like this,
that they forget that God is infinity. There means that
there may never be two things exactly the same, and
that we are supposed to celebrate through Him. We are
supposed to celebrate the differences in the diverseness of that infinity.
(04:56):
Divine is infinite, Divine is diverse, Divine includes and so
many out there right now, especially right now, that they're
(05:19):
trying to use the teachings of the Bible and twist
them into something that they're truly not, and try to
twist them into something that means that if you don't
be exactly who I am, you're destined to burn. But
(05:40):
that's not true. These teachings are designed so that we
can celebrate the diverseness that is all of life. For instance,
I'm going to address a conspiracy that is out there
(06:01):
because there is a interstellar into galactic however you want
to put it, something that has an object or a
chunk of rock or ice that has found its way
into our Solar system from outside of our solar system,
(06:24):
that is finding its way the humans can see it,
but it came from the vastness of space outside of
our Solar system, and they're saying that, oh, it's so
different in everything that it must be trying to invade
it must be that it must be alien visitors, and
(06:50):
that there's so many conspiracies out there because it's something
different that there has to be a conspiracy attached to it.
That is the way so many of us think, and
that is the way that Sono many of us are
taught to think. But if we turn and turn to
(07:14):
a lens of science, science meaning to study, it becomes
just simply something beautiful and something to learn from. And
that is part of the lesson. Diversity is something to
learn from, to understand, maybe not fully, but try to understand.
(07:42):
And that's part of the struggle, is to try to understand,
and that struggle becomes beautiful because you're trying to understand
through love. One of the most important things things that
(08:02):
Jesus tried to teach us was to love each other.
Just because we are all God's children. We don't have
The object isn't to love each other because we're all alike.
It is to love each other because we're all so different.
(08:29):
Celebrate the diverseness that is life. Stop trying to say, oh, well,
we're superior because we have opposable fuelms. Oh well, you
know we're superior over that particular man because the blood
vessels in his brain are smaller because he has dark skin.
(08:54):
That's really that has been said, or go the other
way that well, he's he's worth us. He has a
light skin. While his ancestors were wallowing in the mud,
(09:16):
My ancestors were creating geometry. Kind of not the point.
The point is is that we were all created by
the same infinite being. God created us all. He sent
(09:39):
his son, another being from within himself, to teach us
to love. The misconceptions again that Jesus Christ was was
supposed to sit as a warrior to defeat those who oppress.
(10:12):
Now through stories and and and through different narratives and
through rhetoric that the those who want to oppress twist
and turn things until it looks like the oppress are
(10:32):
now becoming the oppressors. We're seeing a lot of that
again in human in in our human society, there's only
one human society. I'm sorry there there is only only
one human society, one human uh country, one, there's only one. Now.
(10:57):
The fact that people who people have decided to divide
things up because well, I live in the desert and
you live in a forest. I live near a glacier,
you live in in in a tropical lagoon. But what
(11:22):
we will see, and this is kind of a point
that if we accept it, we're all children of God
and that we all exist in the same society, and
that we all share in God's love, things will disappear. Starvation,
(11:48):
abuse they disappear, Oppression disappears. Okay, so there's some way
of thinking. So there's the So does wealth and control,
because we all realize that we all have something equal
(12:11):
to share, something that is always needed. Yes, maybe something
one thing is needed a little more than other things,
but we all have something to contribute at any given time.
And when we start to realize that we all have
something to contribute in any given time, especially according to
(12:36):
the scripture that is written and handed to us by
God before human editing, that we don't have to be
afraid of the differences of other people. We don't have
to be afraid of a different life form appearing near us.
(13:00):
We don't have to be afraid of any of that
because we're all sharing in one respectful, loving life. We're
all sharing the same universe given to us by God.
We're all sharing the same time given to us by God.
(13:22):
We're all sharing the same love that God has put
deep inside of us. When we learned that that love
is placed deep inside of us and we start to
look inside of ourselves to find our purpose and our value,
we start to realize, because it's put inside of us
(13:47):
did there is no being that can take it away
from us. It is ours for eternity. The secrets to
internal life is exactly that looking to yourself eternally and
(14:12):
understanding what God has given us. So I want to
ask all of you to ask this from our creator,
our God, that we all can walk with him hand
(14:34):
in hand, that we all get to hold God's hand
as we travel through our lives. Ask that of Him.
Ask that right now of God, HEMI your hand, so
I can walk with you and hey in your hand,
(14:56):
so I can start to see how everything is beautiful,
and how everything I can learn through the differences in
diversity that you've put here, how I can learn to
understand myself better by looking inside of myself and finding
(15:20):
the value and the love You've placed there. Amen,
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