The Stone & The Rock

Hi, Praise the Lord to everyone in the Lord let the Grace of God fill you and you family mightly and abundantly.

Today I am going to preach about The Stone & The Rock so now you might start thinking who is this Stone and the Rock. In Hebrew A Stone is called as Eben and Rock is Greek word for Stone.

So now let’s get to the word and today’s first verse is Joshua 4:47. ” The. Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe and Joshi said to them : Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder what does it say take up a stone on your shoulder why not a tree why not anything else but why only stone and then the shoulder Stone it symbolises Lord Jesus Christ the carry my yoke for it is lighter so the Word of God is been proclaimed here that you carry Jesus Christ for He is light and easy to carry don’t your on burdens but carry Him, now let’s continue the, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, that this may be a sign among you when children ask in time to come, saying. What do these stones mean to you? Then you shall answer them the waters of the Jordan of before the ark of the Lord. And these shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever. So Jesus Christ is the memorial to us Jesus Christ is the the one who stands between us and God.

Joshua 8:30-32 now let’s go through this verse, Now Joshua bullilt an altar to the Lord God Of Israel in Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel , as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses” an altar of whole stone not any but whole stone not broken stone but again I will stress on this one word whole Jesus Christ is that whole stone because He whole and complete that is the reason that those who walk with Him and by His word they become whole and complete, are lacking anything in your life do you feel that you are incomplete look upto this stone He makes you whole and complete no one else can. Then it on which no man has weilded and iron tool, it is not it doesn’t have any scratch it is just perfect as Jesus Christ is perfect. Let’s continue with the verse. And there in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stone a copy of the Law of Moses which he had written. So on the stones were written the Law and from this Stone Jesus Christ we got a new law the law of Grace.

Gensis 49:24, But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By the mighty hands of the Mighty God of Jacob ( From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel) so here we again see The Stone is the Shepherd Jesus Christ is the Shepherd and He is the Stone. Jesus Christ leads us and stands firm in firm in fron of us as stone stands and Jesus Christ protects us.

Exodus 17:6, Behold, I will stand before you there on the Rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. Jesus Christ is the Rock from whom rivers of living water flows the water they drank was to quench there physical thirst the water which we drink from Jesus Christ quenches our thirst completely.

Deuteronomy 27:1-10 now over here Moses the Israelites to keep all the commandments which he commands today. And it says when they cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime. You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you a land flowing with milk and honey, if you notice carefully first the Lord instructs them to write the law on the stone and then he God He will give them a land flowing with milk and honey so the Jesus Christ comes first in your life that is Word and then comes everything your good health your prosperity.

2 Samuel 22:1 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, that means Lord is the Stone who protects us He is not a dead Rock but a living Rock which gives us life which protects us. Again in 2 Samuel 22:32 it says “Who is the Rock except the Lord He is Rock and He is the stone. 2 Samuel 22:47 ” The Lord lives who lives the lives He is living forever and ever, Blessed be my Rock Let God be exalted , The Rock of my salvation”. No one can save you except the rock Jesus Christ no one can give salvation to you except Jesus Christ.

1 Samuel 7:9-12 as we go through this we will see something significant happening at the end of the verse. So let’s read the verse now. And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. A lamb which is small and innocent just as Jesus Christ is innocent and made Himself of no reputation. Let’s continue again “Then Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. Now as Samuel was offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Beth Car. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer saying, ” Thus far the Lord has helped us. The meaning of the word “Eben” the stone. The word is made of three letters The Aleph is the first character in the Hebrew and alphabet & represents God or Heavenly Father. The Bet combined with Nun means Son in Hebrew or Jesus Christ. So the Eben has God the Father and God the Son together that is the Stone which not only represents Jesus Christ but the heavenly Father.

Pslam 93:15 To declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him. This rock which we rely upon has no unrighteousness but He is full of righteousness. Again it says over that He is the Rock. Psalm 94:22 But the Lord has been my defense, And my God the rock of my refuge. Jesus Christ is the Rock of our refuge. Pslam 118:22-23. The Stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. So in this verse it says that Stone was rejected even today we reject Jesus Christ we don’t listen to His voice we don’t obey Him we want to do what we feel like doing. So again this same verse is repeated in Matthew 21:42.

The story of the woman caught in the act of adultery is very well known everybody knows about it that is from John 8:3-11 according to the law those who commit adultery shall be stoned to death but the adulterous woman came in front of the Stone this Stone stoned the sins of that woman to death so it’s the Grace that saved her The the Stone so God gave the law through Moses but the Grace came through Jesus Christ if you read the verse very carefully you will Jesus Christ was writing something on the stone because during those time the roads were made of stone so Jesus Christ did a small change He didn’t stoned the woman to death but by the Grace He stoned sin so that sin doesn’t regin in her anymore He is God mercy and grace.

Do not reject this stone that is Jesus Christ except Him. He is full of Love and Grace.