A Chosen Foundation Generation — Willie Mullan

We're down to thirty-seven, please. Seven, three, seven. Quiet, Lord, my thro 'ward heart,. Make me teachable and mild,. Upright, simple, free from art,. Make me, as a little child, From this trust and envy free, Pleased with all that pleases thee.

Seven hundred and thirty-seven, please. ...this evening, Peter, and up the second chapter, and we're going through from verse four right through to the end of verse ten. I have to try to take all this stretch in together this evening.

Christ as the Chosen Foundation

It's one great, mighty paragraph. Just seven verses, but it's quite a paragraph. You know, in this great paragraph, Peter, by the Spirit, is underlining two things. He's underlining, first of all, that there is a chosen foundation, and he makes it very clear that the chosen foundation for the Church is Christ.

You remember, as we went down the first three verses last week, Peter was saying to the saints, because just in the finishing verses of chapter one, he was talking about them being born again. Well, to all these born-again ones, he said last week, laying aside all malice and all guile.

You know, he wants the saints to be as gracious as their Master. And then he had a special word for the newborn babies. He wanted them to desire the sincere milk of the Word. Just because they had tasted and seen that the Lord was gracious.

You know, the word es-chobi can be translated since. Since ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. He wants the children of God to have a desire for those gracious words that fall from the Master's lips.

And he wants the children of God to be as gracious as their most gracious Lord. These are the things he was saying last week. And he ended with this note, talking about the Lord, who is gracious. And then he says this, this week, To whom have ye remembrance talking about this gracious Lord?

And this is the one we came to. He met us in grace, and he told us. His word was good to us. Whom that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out of that great and matchless grace. And we came to this gracious Lord.

And Peter says, To whom coming out unto a living stone. You see, this gracious Lord is the living stone. And he goes on talking about him being chosen of God and precious. And then he backs it up by scripture.

He says, verse 6,. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture,. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corn of stone. So that you can see that Peter is pointing up the chosen foundation. The gracious Lord is the chief corn of stone.

And there is no other. You know, I'm perfectly sure that when Peter turned this wonderful verse, this fourth verse,. When he said, To whom coming out unto a living stone,. This allowed indeed of men. I think his hand may be trembled as he scratched these words out.

Peter's Witness to the Living Stone

Because his mind must have went right back to that time, In the early days of the Christian church, When he and John were arrested in Jerusalem. You remember, he was just coming to the beautiful gate of the temple one day,.

And the man lying at the beautiful gate asked for alms. And you remember how Peter spoke to him, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And the great and mighty and memorable miracle took place.

And of course, it gathered a crowd. The people saw the man walking and leaping and jumping for joy. And of course, when Peter got the crowd, he began to preach to them. And do you know when he was arrested for that?

Let's go back and see him being arrested just for the moment. It's in the Acts of the Apostles. And it's chapter four. The Acts of the Apostles. And it's at the fourth chapter. And verse one says,. And as they spake unto the people,.

That is, as Peter and John spake unto the people,. The priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, Being grieved that they taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

You see, these Sadducees were a great and mighty and powerful thought among the Jews. The Pharisees were a great threat. So were also the Sadducees. And one of the differences between the Sadducees and the Pharisees lies just here.

That the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection, Neither of saint or sinner. They didn't believe in the resurrection. And of course, when Peter and John stood and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead, it grieved them.

And of course they laid hands on Peter, it says, verse three,. And they laid hands on them and put them in hold until the next day, for it was now even time. They kept them in prison all night. How be it many of them which heard the word believed.

And the number of the men was about five thousand. My, it was a good day's preaching. I can remember standing at the beautiful gate of the temple in Jerusalem, And looking down the now rocked and rugged slopes of the valley of Jehoshaphat.

And I said to Mr. Prophet who was with me, I said, you know there were five thousand books still here one day. He said, this is popular, this is a spot. Yes, but Peter and John were addicted. Sometimes, you know, when the Spirit of God is working in a real mighty way, the devil works too.

Don't think that just because God comes down upon you with blessings that the devil runs and hides. Oh, you can look out for the storm at any time. But they were arrested, put in prison, kept all night.

And then it says in verse five,. And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes And doneth the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander. And as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together in Jerusalem.

That is what was called the Sanhedrin. That's an old Hebrew word and it can be spelt with a name at the end or a name at the end. So don't be picking holes in it. You can say Sanhedrin or Sanhedrin, whatever you like.

But it's the old Jewish council. Dr. F. G. Mayer said it was the most venerable council on the face of God's earth. It was a Jewish court. And these men were going to stand before the Jewish court on this morning.

And it says, verse seven,. And when they had set them in the midst they asked, By what power or by what name have you done this? They're thinking about the man that was sealed at the temple. And it's a very subtle question, you know.

I think it was one of the old Jewish lawyers who asked the question, By what name or by what power have you done this miracle? Because there is a law in Jewry and it's found in Deuteronomy, chapter 13, that if anyone works for medical in any other name than the name of Jehovah, he can be put to death immediately.

And so somebody started the court proceedings with a very subtle question. By what name have you done this miracle? Now, Peter knew what they were getting up. He knew that his life was in danger at that moment.

And it says here, verse eight,. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost. That's a great thing, you know. If you're going to have to stand for your faith, and if you're going to have to give an answer for the reason that is within you, see that you don't do it in any shape of bitterness or strife or vicissitudes.

You'd be better to take a breath and ask the Holy Ghost to take care of you, so you would answer the way a Christian would answer. Sometimes, you know, you can let your blood boil and then you talk and it's not Christian at all.

Like with the devils, often, who even Peter wants the Lord to drop him behind and kill him. You can talk out of your throat if you don't want to. But Peter was a great character. He must have took a deep breath here, and he was filled with the Spirit, and said unto them, Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel.

You see, he's quite respectful to the cause, because that's what we're taught to be. And he says, Ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we must day be examined of the good deed done to the infidel man by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and he didn't put a tooth in it, did he?

There was no crooked fiddling around with the answer. This came out plain and clear. You can slay me if you like. But by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, there's no fiddling with the answer there.

And then he went a bit further. He said, By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucify. And he was bound to know that this bit would stick hard with the court. Whom God raised from the dead.

My, I admire this character, you know. This was a great man. One day I'll meet him in heaven and I'll shake his hand and I'll thank him for the stand he took. Just look the court full in the face and said, By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucify, because it was that very court that crucified him.

Whom God raised from the dead. My, he's speaking out alright. By him doth this man stand here before you all. And he begins to curse at you because it's always best to get back to the book. This is the stone which was set at knock of you builders.

Which has become the head of the corner. That was Peter talking. He didn't say, Mind you, I'm the foundation. Don't touch me. Ah, what a bit of him. He said, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He's the foundation.

You builders, set him at knock. Let me tell you, he's become the head of the corner. For him, like me, he must have got excited if he said, Neither is there salvation in any other. For there's none other name.

That was good talk, wasn't it? There's none other name given among men whereby you must be saved. You can't get saved through the name of Moses. Blessed woman that you are. You can't get saved through her name.

And you can't get saved through King William's name. The last truth in all that we've lost. You can't get saved through that name either. And you can't get saved through the name of Padishah. Nor Catholic.

Nor Baptist. Nor Brethren. Nor Presbyterian. You either get saved at the feet of Christ, or you'll perish. There's no other way. There's no other door. There's no other land. There's no other... We'll come to that in a moment.

The Chosen Generation Built on Christ

Now he was quite clear about what he was about, you know, at all times. Yes, he's underlining something for us back here in 1 Peter 2. He's underlining that the chosen foundation of the Christian Church is Christ himself, the chief cornerstone.

And don't you notice that in our paragraph this evening, he not underlines the chosen foundation, but he underlines the chosen generation. You see, he's writing to these believers. You know now they're believers.

You saw them being born again. You know that they're redeemed with precious blood. You know they've been regenerated. You know that they were re-elect. We've gone down the first chapter and we can see this crowd.

Elect and sanctified and begotten of God are people born again and redeemed. People who have purified their souls. People who have an inheritance incorruptible and on the piles reserved in heaven for them.

Now he's writing to them and he said this to them in 2 Peter here. He says, verse 9,. But ye are a chosen generation. This is underlining that too. You see, he's making it very clear that Christ was the chosen foundation.

And he's making it very clear that born again redeemed believers, Christians, they're the chosen generation in this age. You see what he said there in verse 4? He said, To whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, Ye, ye also are lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.

When we talk about the spiritual house, what are we talking about? We're talking about the church and the believers. They're the chosen generation and they're being built on the foundation that was chosen, which was our greater law.

These are things he's underlining very clearly in the paragraph this evening. This is pointing out a chosen foundation, Christ, and a chosen generation, born again believers. But let's begin and do it properly.

You can see that he's talking about our gracious Lord in verse 3. And he says, To whom coming as unto a living stone. Mind you, this is something that Paul was dogmatic about. Paul was very dogmatic about the foundation.

He had never any quibbles in his mind. He never thought it was Peter, you know, for the moment. Let's have a look at what Paul said for just a moment. We're at 1 Corinthians and the chapter 3 proof. 1 Corinthians and we're at the 3rd chapter.

Just to save time, the way down the chapter there at verse 11. Paul writing said, For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. He had no problems about the foundation at all.

Oh, he didn't think that Peter was the rock or anything like that, or the foundation. And I can tell you that Peter didn't think it either. Peter knew who the foundation was, our gracious Lord. And Paul says, For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is, and he's being dogmatic now, which is Jesus Christ.

Surely that's clear enough. And I think that Peter's very specific about this when he points to the chief cornerstone here. Yes, these two great apostles, one of them the great apostle to the Jews, and the other the great apostle to the Gentiles, one is perfectly dogmatic that there is no other foundation, and Peter is specific when he says Christ is the chief cornerstone.

Christ as God's Precious Cornerstone

Now I want you to get this very clear. That right down through this paragraph of ours, he talks a lot about Christ as the stone, as the foundation. Watch what is said here. Let's look at verse four. To whom coming as unto a living stone, this allowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious.

You see, we want to get what this stone really means to God. And it meant this, that God had elected Christ to be the stone. See down in verse six, wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, behold I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect.

You see in verse four he's chosen of God. In verse six, it is God that elects him to be the chief cornerstone. And in both verse four and verse six, the word precious is there. You see, God elects Christ.

God chose Christ to be the foundation upon which the church would be built. And Christ was doubly precious to God because of this. Twice we have this word precious. You know, this is the precious foundation that God laid for his church, for the church of God.

Yes, I want you to get the hold of that. You know, there's something there that you need to underline. I remember having some talks with a very brilliant doctor. He was a Roman Catholic doctor. And I think he was something of the elation.

And I remember we were discussing this, this foundation question, when I brought him to this passage and took him to it very carefully. And then I said to him, Doctor, tell me this, quite clearly. Is Peter teaching here that he is the foundation or is he teaching that Christ is the foundation?

He was a very honest man. He said, you know, from the way you put it and the way you underline it and the way you take it bit by bit, well, Peter is teaching that Christ was the foundation. But is that so in Matthew 16?

That was his next question. He was leaving the paragraph. But when you're friendly with a fellow, you're allowed to leave the paragraph. I said, Doctor, we'll have a look at it then. Let's have a look at Matthew 16.

Now we'll take it piecemeal and then we'll get it all right. Matthew 16, verse 13. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, and what a lovely place that is, right on the very edge of the Mediterranean.

I can remember sitting here with my feet in the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the water would have burnt you. It was so lovely. We were away down one day at Caesarea Philippi and I gave some of them a Bible reading, almost like what I'm going to do now.

When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist. Some, Elias. And others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

Verse 15. He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And there wasn't one of them made and answered at all, only Peter. And Simon, Peter, answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

That was a wonderful answer, you know. You know quite well what Peter meant when he said that, don't you? You know so many times in the New Testament Christ is called the Son. Sometimes he's called the Son of Man.

Well, that just has something to do with his humanity. He was the Christ of the human race. He was the Christ who knew everything about poverty and about pain. He knew everything about blunder and false witnesses, evil speeches.

Yes, he was the Christ of the human race. Sometimes he's called the Son of David. That doesn't refer to his humanity at all. That refers to his royalty. Because he was born King of the Jews, off the house of lineage of David.

Sometimes he's called the Son of Abraham. And that has got nothing to do so much with his humanity or even his royalty. That's got to do with his nationality. And he was a Jew, remember. And it was this little nation of Israel that brought Christ to the world, as it were.

And it's because this nation brought Christ to the world that the old devil has been determined for countless, hundreds of years to blot out the nation of Israel. And he used Hitler, and Hitler was determined.

He had a wicked, diabolical history in his heart. It was ingested into him by the devil. And he thought he would blot Israel out, but he failed. And then Nazareth, big, broad-shouldered Nazareth, thought that he would blot them out.

And one day a student said, we'll drive them into the sea and exterminate them. And in six days he was finished. And he's finished now. Oh, yes, so many have been against the little nation, you know. And I believe it's the devil that's at the back of it all the time, because the nation brought forth Christ.

Yes, they'll always be in trouble until he rules on the throne of his father David. Sometimes it's called the son of man, it's got to do with his humanity. Sometimes it's called the son of David, it's got to do with his royalty.

Sometimes it's called the son of Abraham, it has got to do with his nationality. Sometimes it's called the carpenter's son. That has got to do with his humility. A student of the carpenter's bench, you know, made chairs.

And I assure you, if he made a chair, it was well made. Peter's not calling him the carpenter's son, and he's not calling him the son of Abraham, or the son of David, or the son of man. Peter's looking into his face and he's saying, thou art the son of the living God.

That's got to do with his deity. That's what that's got to do with. You know, no wonder the Lord turned round to him and said, flesh and blood has not revealed that unto thee. He didn't learn nothing from it.

He must have been alone with my father. And you know, it's a good thing to get alone with God, because he tells you little things at times. Yes, this is the great answer. Thou art the son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art thou, Simon Bardono, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.

The Rock of Peter's Confession

Now, does scripture bear out that Peter was the rock that the church was built on? I ask you again, did he preach this to the Sanhedrin? Or did he point to Christ? I ask you again, what did Paul think was the foundation?

I ask you again to examine what he's teaching in 1 Peter chapter 2. And you'll find that all these bear out that Christ was the rock. You see, what Christ was saying to Peter is this. Saying this is the great answer, this is the wonderful confession.

And upon the rock of your confession of me, I will build my church. That's what he said. That's what the rock is. It's the rock of Peter's confession. And the church was built on the rock that Christ was God and died for us.

That's the rock. You know, I want you to get the hold of this, which is the mighty statement, I will build my church upon this rock. I will build my church. You see, the church is built by Christ. Let's get the hold of that.

I wish some of the modern espy evangelists would learn this. I've made or not built into the church by evangelistic trickery. Oh, not at all. Oh, this evangelistic trickery won't build the church, I assure you of that.

It will make false professions and damned people. Let us who preach the gospel get it into our hearts that Christ must build the church. Oh, he just sent you out with a message and you just stick to it and leave the building to him.

I've seen a lot built in, you know, in my lifetime. But I never did any tricks to do it. I just trusted the builder. If the church is built by him, I will build my church. And those of you who argue with me that the church was in the Old Testament, have another look at the text.

I will build my church. It's still future, you know, from that spot. Oh, it was Israel, the nation that was there. The church was about to be built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.

It was still future. It says, I will build my church. It's built by him. Let me say this. It is built on him. On this rock, on the rock of thy great confession. On this rock, I will build my church. There is no other foundation.

And Peter is saying that he is the chief cornerstone and you can't have two of them, you know. Yet I want you to get this, that the church is built by him. And the church is built on him. And I want you to get this quite clear.

The church is built for him. It's my church. It doesn't belong to the Baptists, mind you. Nor the Romans. Nor the Brahmans. God forbid if it just happens to be that it belongs to him. It's my church. And it's built by him.

And it's built on him. And it's built for him. Mine. This is mine. You know, he loved the church. He gave himself for it. That he might think divine pleasure. That he might make it his very own. It's called his right.

Yes, it's his. And it's for him and it's for him alone. You know, this is a great saying that he said here. He said, upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Christ Builds and Preserves His Church

I want you to get the hold of that because you must get that in its right perspective. I know that the gates of hell is just a figure of speech that he's using. In fact, I don't know whether there are any gates on hell or not.

But I know that this is a figure of speech. And I know what he's saying. You know, when we talk about hell, we get a lot of things into our minds at once. It's the unseen place of the perishes. And you know there's a world of perishes all around us.

Ah, but they won't keep Christ back from building the church. They will not prevail. You know, when we talk about hell, sometimes we think about darkness. And there is a kingdom of darkness around us.

Ah, well, the church is marching on. And the gates of hell, of the kingdom of darkness, will not prevail. You know, we are marching on. But don't think that we are ham-dinner and fish. We are ham-dinner.

And we are marching against the gates, as it were. And they'll not prevail, you know. A world of perishing souls won't keep Christ back from building the church. And the kingdom of darkness won't keep Christ back.

Sometimes we think of hell as made only for the devil and his angels. Oh, devil to devil, with all his diabolical powers, with all the energy that he possesses and all the activities he commands, will not keep Christ back from building his church.

Sometimes we think of hell as the second death. Sometimes we think about eternal death. Ah, the enemy of death will not keep Christ back. In spite of a perishing world, in spite of the kingdom of darkness, in spite of diabolical powers, in spite of every enemy, Christ will build his church, and he's doing it.

Son, I had the joy of kneeling with a woman last night and seeing her weep away to Christ. Which, you know, it's built on him and by him and for him. And, you know, the gates of hell are all the forces of the enemy, if you like to put it like that.

They will not prevail. It's a wonderful thing, you know, in this dark, devilish, diabolical world of ours. But I don't need to start to teach you that evil men are getting worse and worse. I don't need to teach that these days, not in Ulster.

In spite of hell and darkness and diabolical doings, man and woman are still getting saved. Christ will build his church. You know, when I got all this over out of me, the old doctor said, you know, you're harming me.

You're stopping the verse short. Oh, doctor, I never did that in my life. I said, alright, go on to the next verse. And he's talking to Peter and he said, And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

I said, would you not like to put another one to it when you're at it? Let's put another one. Have a look at John's gospel for a moment. And we're at John's gospel, chapter 20. John's gospel, chapter 20, verse 19.

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his side. Glad then were the disciples, glad when they saw the Lord. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you. As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whosesoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them. And whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained. I said, we might as well put them all together, Doctor.

The Apostles Preach Forgiveness Through the Gospel

He said, well that's very fair of you because I'm sure I should have turned you to that one anyway. You know, I want to do this for the class this evening. And I want to do it very carefully. You know, when he said, Dear, I give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind in earth shall be bound and whatsoever thou shalt loose, it shall be loosed from heaven.

And then when he said to all his disciples here, Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained. I said, tell me first of all what you're thinking, Doctor.

Let me ask you this. Do you think in your mind just now that Peter was given some sort of power that he could retain, tell me, because they would be retained in heaven or he could loose things down here and they would loose in heaven.

Do you think that he and some of the other apostles had some sort of power that they could possess? And whosoever sins they retain, they should be retained. And that's exactly what I said. Well, I said, you know, that's very simple to prove that you're completely wrong.

Because you only want to watch Peter going out preaching and see if he ever used this kind of authority and power. And I shall let you see him preaching and I shall let you hear him preaching and I shall show you certain things that he did.

And you'll find he had no such power at all. Now watch me doing this very carefully. Come to the Acts of the Apostles and we're at chapter 8. The Acts of the Apostles and we're after each chapter. Now this is the place where Philip the evangelist went down to Samaria.

See verse 5, Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them. He knew what to preach for, right? Verse 12 says,. But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Then another character is introduced, then Simon. And if you've got the chapter, you'll see who he is. Verse 9, There was a certain man called Simon which before time in the theme said they used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria giving out that himself was some great one.

Now this man Simon the sorcerer, verse 13, Then Simon himself believed also and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and wonders, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. And when he was baptized he continued with Philip and wonders, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.

And now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. These two apostles came down from Jerusalem. They didn't visit the Samaritans because the Jews didn't agree with the Samaritans.

But now that the grace of God had come among the Samaritans they thought they would send down Peter and John. Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, for these believers here among the Samaritans, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

Now these Samaritans, although they were true believers, had not yet received the Holy Ghost and it explains here, for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Then laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost. Now I want you to see who's laying hands on. It is two apostles. It is Peter and John. And I want you to make sure who they're laying hands on.

They are Samaritans. Because I hear people picking this up, you know. And they talk about laying hands on and giving people the Holy Ghost. Only they are not apostles and the people that they're touching are not Samaritans.

You see, the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. In fact, there were two temples in Jerusalem. There was a temple up in Samaria and I was in the ruins of that one day. And of course there was a great temple down at Jerusalem itself.

And there was a great danger that if the Samaritans, some of them got saved, they would start a retreat to the Lord. And God was going to make sure that this wouldn't happen. And in a sort of a way, He forced the Jewish apostles to go down to touch the believing Samaritans.

And if you ever hear of a fellow laying his hands on somebody, he will need to be an apostle and they will need to be a Samaritan without the Holy Ghost. And don't be reading anything more into it, or you'll get into debauchers.

But that's not the point that I'm thrashing out. I want you to get this. It says, verse 18,. And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money.

See? Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee. Mind you, that was a big saying for Peter, wasn't it? Not so many books that I read about talk like that, your money perish with you.

I'll just tell you that's what he said. Thy money perish with thee. Because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Thou hast made a partner lot in this matter. This fellow was only a professor.

He wasn't a true believer at all. Ah, but Peter caught him on. Of course, when people begin to open their mouths, you can catch them on all right. He just said too much. Peter said, you're not a believer.

Oh, he'd lost her if I know that. And he got baptized by a merchant too. And the Pope will be baptized by a merchant who are not dead, you know. It's a bookmaze, you know. But you're not both God's. And certainly he didn't blot Peter.

Peter said, I can tell you right now, the way you're talking, you have made a partner lot in this matter. But Peter went on a bit further, you know. Peter said, thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.