Jesus Christ, the Living Stone (1 Peter 2:4-10) | Worship Service

Well, good morning, and we welcome you all to Kootenai Church. Would you please stand as we begin our worship service this morning with a call to worship from the book of Philippians. And it says in chapter 3, verses 7 to 11,.

But whatever things were gained to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish, so that I may gain Christ and be found in Him.

Not having a righteousness of my own, from which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God upon faith, that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings being conformed to His death.

In order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. So this morning, let's sing together in Christ alone, declaring our faith and salvation rests solely in Jesus Christ, our cornerstone, our solid ground.

Let's sing together.

Christ alone, my hope is found, the solid ground, fullness of God in the ground. His body laid, light of the world by darkness slain. Then bursting through, this is the power of Christ. In Christ's Christ, the strength to...

A big box of Bibles up here.

I'm going to hand these out here. I'm going to ask some people to come up. Don't worry, I'm not going to ask you any questions.

It's not an interview.

You know who you are. We do this with our seniors every year. Eric Heyman.

Eric, I saw Eric earlier. There he is.

Come on up. Come stand up here.

Iola, you on it?

John Pronitis. Ryan Razor. Arla Palmer. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Okay. John, here's your Bible.

Eric.

I didn't wrap these, you guys. That's for Ryan. And that's for Iola. And for Arla. Thank you. So we do this every year. And the question is, why do we do this? These, by the way, we do MacArthur Study Bibles for the seniors.

And we've done this for a long, long time. I was trying to think when we started this. I think it goes back to Tim. Tim and Megan, back in those years. And if you don't know who Tim and Megan are, they were grown up and moved away.

So we've been doing this for a long time. And we give the MacArthur Study Bible because we think it's the best study Bible out there on the market. We've given the kids the opportunity to choose between kids.

We've given the graduates the opportunities to choose between an LSB or a MacArthur Study Bible and then choose their translation. Well, for those of you that are graduating next year, we're not going to offer that choice anymore.

Because the LSB MacArthur Study Bible will be available. Your choice will be in color and whether you want your name on it and stuff like that. We do that because, again, we think it's the best study Bible around.

What do we want for these kids? It's the same as their parents want for them. We want them to glorify God with their lives. And the way to glorify God is to know the truth about him and to live according to what he has commanded us to do.

And the only way to know truth about God and to live according to the way that he's commanded is to learn the Bible, is to know the Bible. So that's why we do this. And also give us an opportunity to have them stand up here and you can see them.

And if you are not too old and you remember back to when you were this age, I'm at the point where I can barely remember it. But you have to make really important decisions at this time in your life when, in a lot of ways, you're the least well equipped that you're ever going to be to make those decisions.

And that's just a fact of life. We all went through it. The scripture is your key. It will tell you what decisions to make. Not every detail, but it will give you those principles that you need to make the right decisions to live rightly.

And I want you guys to all see them so you can be praying for them and offer your help and your wisdom. This is part of why we are here together as a church, to support one another. And so now you see who they are, right?

They're the best looking people in the church. That's always the easy part. So help them, offer them your wisdom, and just be there for them. So let's pray for them together. Father, we are grateful for this class of graduates.

We just pray for them. We know that they've got to make some really important life decisions. And we pray that they would rely heavily on you, that they would study your word, that they would talk to people who are wise in your word, and that their lives would be just great lives that glorify you, no matter how painful or distressing they may be, that they would be living according to your word.

In Christ's name we pray. Amen.

All right. Thank you.

See, that wasn't bad, was it?

Well, it shows you how old Dave is. I remember my graduation like it was yesterday. It's fresh in my mind. Turn your Bibles, would you please, to the Book of Luke, to the Gospel of Luke chapter 20. And while you're turning there, I'll just remind you that next weekend is our equipping conference.

There is still a link on the website if you want to register for next weekend. Next Sunday, Owen Strand will be here to do adult Sunday school class as well as to be preaching. And then after that, I'll be back in the pulpit.

And after the service today, if you don't mind giving us a hand stacking the chairs into stacks of seven or eight, that would be very helpful for us. We have to set up for the conference, which means we do some thorough vacuuming in here and set up tables and tablecloths and all of that stuff.

So enjoy the fellowship, but at some point, just pitch in if you don't mind and help stack chairs. Luke chapter 20, beginning at verse 9, and he began to tell the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine growers and went on a journey for a long time.

At the harvest time, he sent a slave to the vine growers so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard. But the vine growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. And he proceeded to send another slave, and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed.

And he proceeded to send a third, and this one also they wounded and cast out. The owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I'll send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him. But when the vine growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, This is the heir.

Let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours. So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and destroy these vine growers and will give the vineyard to others.

When they heard it, they said, May it never be. But Jesus looked at them and said, What, then, is this that is written? The stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.

Let's pray together.

Our Father, we are grateful that we have the opportunity and the joy to gather around Your Word each and every Lord's Day to celebrate as Your people redeemed and called out of this world. We thank You for our salvation.

We thank You for the chief cornerstone, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was struck in our place, who was beaten and wounded for our transgressions. We thank You that in Your good and sovereign providence that You put Your love upon us, Your people, before the foundation of the world, and then You sent Your beloved Son into this world to die in our stead.

So we thank You for that great mercy. We pray that our hearts and our minds may be filled up with the knowledge of Christ today and a love for Him, that we would see Him as precious, that we would regard Him as worthy of all honor and glory and dominion and power.

We pray that You would cast our trust and faith and obedience upon Him. Thank You for Your mercy in calling out a people for Yourself. Thank You for the joy and the glory that it is to gather together and to worship You.

We pray that You would be magnified through our worship and through the affections of Your people as we turn our hearts to You in praise and adoration for the glory of Christ our King, in whose name we pray.

Amen.

Would you please stand as we sing together The Solid Rock.

The rock is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest name. But Christ, the solid rock, I steadily face. I rest on His unchanging grace His way I hope and stay.

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand. Thou come with trumpet sound. The ground is sinking Sand is sinking.

In Colossians 1, verses 15 -20, it says, He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible.

Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross, through Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

We're going to sing together, Behold Our God.

As healthy oceans in His pool Has covered every grain of sand Kings and nations tremble at His voice All creation rises to rejoice. Seated us adore Our King can't compare Come let us adore.

You may be seated.

Well, good morning. Turn in your Bibles to 1 Peter chapter 2. Our text today will be verses 4 through 10. And before we get started, I'd like to pray for the message. Father, I continue to pray. I continue to pray that the people here, they would truly value You, Lord.

They would put the right value on the Son, that they would esteem this Living Stone properly, that they would not be among those who would reject this Living Stone and suffer the consequences eternally.

I pray, Lord, with all of my soul that Your Holy Spirit would move among them. I know there are people here that don't know You, that have never put their faith in Christ. And so I pray that they would do that this morning.

And for the rest of us, Lord, that we would glorify You as we contemplate the greatness of our Gospel. In Jesus' name, Amen. So 1 Peter chapter 2, verses 4 through 10. Before we read that together, I have to ask you a very important question.

Does pineapple belong on a pizza?

Yes.

How many amens? Did I get some amens?

Alright.

Anybody who's just really against that? Yeah, okay. So I don't really know why this is, but if you go on social media at all, especially it seems like Christian Twitter, you'll find it's a very important question.

It divides the world, it divides all of humanity into irreconcilable warring factions. There's one side that loves those precious little trapezoids of sweet and sour juiciness. And there's other people that, for them it's an abomination, a gastronomic abomination that ruins this otherwise perfectly fine cheesy treat.

Amen.

It's a difference in values. Now, not moral values. Listen, there's no morality at stake here, okay. There's no biblical ethics involved. It's just that one camp likes them and the other one doesn't. One camp esteems them highly and the other one doesn't.

But there are other places where how we value things actually matter. They have some far-reaching impacts. For instance, education. How we value education changes the way that we train our kids and it changes the trajectory of their lives for good or ill.

Again, I'm not asserting a moral, an ethic in any of that. It's a difference in the way that we value it. It has a difference in life. Nutrition and fitness, another example, right. How we view that, how we view the importance of fitness will determine much important things about our lives one way or the other and it can be over-emphasized, under-emphasized again.

I'm making a moral argument. It's just that the way that you value this thing can matter. There are more significant dividing lines the way that we value a pre-born child, the way that we value the environment or personal freedom.

Those things matter. So the point of this little exercise, little introduction is not about pineapple but it's how we value things. How we value some things, how we, our estimation of the value, somebody here I didn't know was here.

Hi, Dan. How we put value on those things has an important impact on our lives and on our futures, even potentially for our eternal state. So we're going to see today that this one most important valuation, this one most important, most momentous estimation of worth and character is the determining factor for not only this life but for all of our eternity.

So what we think of this one thing, how we value this one thing, what we believe about this one thing, this one most important thing. It defines the only eternally relevant distinction between human beings.

Nothing else matters. This is the only evaluation, the only estimation that has that kind of crucial implication for your eternal state. That one distinction is obvious to most of you, most all of you.

What is the value of Jesus Christ? What is he? Who is he? What's he worth? How important is he? What do I do with him? Now we can ask that in other ways. Have you believed in Christ or have you not? Somebody loves pineapple.

Very insulting. Have you repented of your sins and put your faith in Christ or have you not? That's the question, right? Are you resting entirely for your salvation on the perfect life and atoning work of this resurrected Savior, this God-man Jesus Christ, or are you not?

Do you believe that he's worthy? Do you think he's valuable, that he's precious? Or is he nothing, a myth, non-existent, worthless? Or maybe a good teacher, a little bit of value, a misunderstood mystic, maybe no more valuable than Buddha or Muhammad or Moses or Superman.

That's the question. How do you esteem the living stone? That's how the question is posed in our text. Are you among those who reject him or do you esteem him as living and precious and worthy, worthy of your faith.

And your devotion?

1 Peter 2, 4 -10. In coming to him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

For this is contained in Scripture. Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious cornerstone, and he who believes upon him will not be put to shame. This precious value, then, is for you who believe, but for those who disbelieve.

The stone which the builders rejected, this became the chief cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word and to this stumbling they were also appointed.

But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God. You had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. This is a transcendent passage of Scripture. You see in this passage here so much of the gospel, the great benefits, the privileges to those who are in union with Christ.

So I want to start with a quick survey through the passage. What do we see here as you look at this passage? First we see Christ. He's referred to as the living stone there in verse 4. That's the metaphor that you see immediately.

There's an allusion to some Old Testament passage right there in verse 4. There's an allusion to the Old Testament passages that Peter's going to use later on. He's going to use to kind of restate and emphasize the point that he makes in verse 4.

You see that Christ is referred to as a choice or chosen stone, a precious cornerstone, a rejected stone, a chief cornerstone, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. The stone metaphor you see is applied to Jesus Christ.

He's the stone and one's estimation of the value of the stone stands as the determining factor for one's earthly life, also for one's eternal destiny. He's either chosen and precious and believed upon.

You see that?

Or he's rejected. He's disbelieved. He's stumbled over. In one case, you see very positive results of esteeming Christ accurately. You see that? We are, believers, are referred to as living stones, as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood.

We're said to offer spiritual sacrifices with which God is actually pleased. We'll not be put to shame. We're referred to corporately as a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, the people of God.

It says we've received mercy. Our purpose is given to us in verse 9. We are what we are in Christ so that we may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

On the other hand, there are those who reject the stone. They reject Christ and they're said to stumble in their disobedience. They're to be offended by Christ and His gospel. By contrast, they remain in darkness.

They're not called out of it. They remain not a people. They've not received mercy. So it all depends on Christ, doesn't it? The trajectory of your lives on earth, and much more importantly, your eternal destiny, depends on what you do with this stone.

What is your relationship to Christ? Reject Him if you esteem Him as unworthy, unworthy of your devotion, then your destiny is darkness and all that accompanies that. All the agonies of eternal hell await.

But if you believe on Him, if you esteem Him rightly, you esteem Him as God does, biblically chosen by God as precious, then you'll have marvelous light, a life of sanctifying trials as we've seen earlier.

In 1 Peter.

Sanctifying trials but with inexpressible joy. Union with Christ and His people forever. You get to be part of this family, this nation, this priesthood. You become one of His people. You receive mercy.

Now there's no question that the essence of the Christian faith, what makes it distinctive from other theistic faiths, it's only this. It's our estimation of this person, Jesus Christ. Our whole religion,.

Our worldview,.

It's distinctive only in its estimation of Christ. Without Christ, what would be the difference between Christianity and Judaism? What's essentially the difference between a Christless Christianity and another theistic faith?

Well, that's a dumb question. What is Christless Christianity? It's an oxymoron. There is no Christianity apart from Christ, apart from esteeming Him biblically, truthfully, accurately, as precious, as worthy of our devotion, as a worthy object.

Of our faith.

He is the center of our religion. He is the object.

Of our faith.

And He is the hinge of all of history. He's the fulcrum upon which every important human distinction rests, isn't He? Every one that really matters, eternally and ultimately. All human beings are God's image bearers.

They're therefore worthy of dignity and respect and care. But it's clear that there is a chosen family, a family of God, and that there is a reprobate family, a family of Satan. There is a royal priesthood and there is a self-righteous, though sometimes religious, mass of humanity that is far apart from God.

Those things exist. There's a holy nation and an unholy nation. There's a people of God and a people of self and Satan. There's a people of God and not a people. There are those who have received mercy and those who have not, haven't received mercy to salvation.

There's the city of God and the earthly city. There are only those categories of human beings. Those are the only categories that matter. One dividing line, two peoples. So, Jesus Christ stands right in the middle of everything that matters.

And He stands right here in your path today. I was reminded of Balaam and his donkey. The kids love the story of the talking donkey. He stood in the path of Balaam and his donkey. And He stands in your path in the same way today.

Now, the obvious comparison, I am no more eloquent than that brain donkey on my best day, right? But that donkey was given words to speak. And we have words in front of us. God has given us these words to hear.

And so, I'm offering you exactly the same opportunity that that donkey offered his master. You have that same chance. I'm going to spend the next however many minutes, I don't know, trying to convince you that you right here, right now are being confronted by the Lord.

You are here. Not that much, right? His word is here. This word, this passage is here. And you will here and now be confronted by this man, this living stone, Jesus Christ. And if you haven't already firmly and finally resolved in your mind what to do about Him, whether to believe or to harden your heart and reject Him, then my prayer to the Holy Spirit of God continues to be that you will do that right now, today, in the next few minutes.

I pray He will give you no other opportunity, no way out. You'll see this fork in the road and you'll see the signs and you'll choose a path. And if you have chosen that path long ago, if long ago you esteemed this living stone accurately and you've devoted your life to Him, that road has been long and it can be arduous and I know that and that the trials can be distressing and heavy, then I pray that this would be refreshment to you as you re-understand, you look again at the value of this one in whom you put your faith.

He is worthy of all that you've committed to Him. So there's your introduction. I'm going to preview the passage. I'll start kind of a more detailed exposition with the verse four. Now, you know I'm not going to take a whole passage like four through ten and do it full justice.

We'll come back to it in another way later. This is kind of a preview of the main point all the way through it. So verse four in LSB, it's, and coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men but is choice and precious in the sight of God.

You can see verse four alone isn't a proper sentence. It doesn't have an explicit subject. You have to read it with verse five to get the subject. So let's do that. And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men but is choice and precious in the sight of God.

You also as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So we see from verse five that you, Peter's readers, you are the subject.

So it's you who are said to be coming to Him as to a living stone. Now that you would include Peter's original audience.

We know who that is.

From chapter one, verse one. Believers scattered throughout a part of the Roman Empire that is today modern Turkey. It was clearly intended as a circular letter. It's part of the canon of Scripture. And so as part of the canon.

Of Scripture,.

It's intended for you. So you and all believers are the subject. It is you who are coming to Him. You Christians who are coming to Him. So the word translated coming to, that's a participle. It's translated coming to, emphasize that the to.

The word carries a connotation of closeness or intensity. It's not only moving toward, but moving to in order to touch or to engage with some intensity. It's not just a kind of somewhat moving toward.

We are said to be coming to this living stone, not just toward Him. The verb that's translated coming to is used a lot in Hebrews. And you may be familiar with some of Hebrews. You've been studying it for the last 15 years or so.

This is Hebrews 4 .16. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Draw near is the same verb that is here translated coming to.

So drawing near is a good translation choice. We are here then not commanded to draw near to Him, but we're said to be doing that. You coming near to Him. We are doing that. We have come to Him, yes, and we continue to move further toward Him.

We are in this process of sanctification. We're being made more into His image. We're growing in our union.

With Him.

We're growing in our communion.

With Him,.

In our obedience to Him, in our devotion to Him, in our conformity to Him. Now I've smuggled in an interpretation of Him. Into that verse. It's obvious that Him refers to Jesus Christ. But it doesn't say that.

Him is the Lord just mentioned in verse 3.

If you've tasted.

The kindness of the Lord. But if that's all we had, we wouldn't know if this refers to the triune God or if it refers to which person of the Trinity this would refer to. But we see it from the rest of verse 4 that this stone is distinct from God.

You see?

The rest of the verse tells us that. The stone has been rejected by men but is choice and precious in the sight of God. So the stone and God the Father in this sense are distinct. So we can understand this to be Jesus Christ.

We know that the stone rejected by men in verse 4. The precious cornerstone in verse 6. The stone which the builders rejected that has become the chief cornerstone. You see that in verse 7. The stone of stumbling and rock of offense in verse 8.

They're all part of this one extended stone metaphor for Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ the living stone. It's used that way explicitly to refer to Christ.

Jesus used that.

Used it of himself in the synoptic gospels that you saw that Jim read in Luke. It's in all the synoptic gospels that way. Peter used that same metaphor in Acts as we'll see. So we have good evidence that the stone metaphor refers to Jesus Christ.

So Peter says we're coming to him. We're coming to Jesus Christ. Now your it's possible your translation says come to him. Translates that instead of coming to him that participle translates as come to him as an imperative as a command.

That's not true. That's not that's wrong. There are no commands. It's not a command there. There are no commands at all in verses 4 through 10 as a matter of fact. This passage is just telling us what Christ has done.

Tells us what believers do. What God has done to them in response. And what unbelievers do and what God will do to them in response. The passage tells us these things and the implications of them. There are no commands here for anybody to change anything.

There's no direction to think a different way or to act a different way than Peter asserts that people already do and act. Now the statement of things as they are and as they will be for those who reject Christ and if that is you I pray you hear this.

The statement of things as they are and will be for those who reject Christ is certainly enough to make an unbeliever reconsider how he thinks and acts. In particular how he thinks and acts about Christ.

How he acts in response to Christ. It's enough to convict and to take the force of a gospel command to believe in Jesus Christ. But it is incorrect to translate the verbs as commands. Peter is laying out realities.

These two reactions to Christ and he's letting that speak for itself. A reasonable person would know what they ought to do in response. So then coming to him continually drawing near to Jesus Christ that's something that Christians do according to Peter.

Similar to other scriptures 1 John is full of this. Really all of 1 Peter is ongoing sanctification, growth in our union with Christ is simply something that Christians are said to do. Reminds me of a chapter in a book I read recently.

Chapter 4 I think it is. So the inevitable response of a repentant heart if you've ever come to Christ for saving faith if you've ever repented of your sins put your faith in Christ you will continually be in the process of drawing ever nearer to him.

Not always in a simple linear fashion there are fits and starts and ups and downs of course but ongoing sanctification is the normal expectation and experience for every believer.

It's clearly taught here.

So we have come to Christ we are continually drawing ever nearer to him. Then Peter gives us this really striking metaphor for Christ. It's almost an oxymoron or at least it's a paradoxical sort of metaphor.

A living stone. The strangeness of that metaphor gets our attention. Let's look briefly at the words themselves. They're not mysterious at all not hard to translate but we need to be as clear as we can on the language for a particular reason.

What's translated as to a living stone is two Greek words one means alive and one means stone. Is that good? Zao means alive or living it's the common word it's the common Greek word for that. It just means alive the opposite of dead we'll think about that.

Lithos is the word for stone and that is actually important. It's not Petra it's not Petras Peter does not have himself in mind whatsoever in the passage. So let's get that weird interpretation out of the way.

Lithos means an individual stone a small stone or prepared stone and in this case you should imagine a cut stone a shaped stone like a stone for the temple a stone for a building but in this case a living stone strange metaphor.

In the natural world or if you took that literally it would be an oxymoron a living stone. There isn't anything more stereotypically dead than a stone. We even have the term stone dead or stone cold dead.

Now I've spent more time than I'd care to admit trying to understand what it means to be alive. That's a question that has been very interesting fascinating me for a long time.

What does it mean.

To be physically alive? What's the definition? How could you define something that's alive that would exclude anything that is not alive? And there really isn't an adequate definition of that. It's not at all easy to answer.

So whatever it means to be alive whatever that means one thing we know for sure a rock does not meet the definition. That's a good way to test your definition of what it means to be alive. If it could apply to a rock your definition is wrong.

There's a famous saying that is trying to define nothing. Nothing is what rocks dream about. You've heard that? Well, why is that a good saying? Because rocks don't dream. Rocks don't think. Rocks don't do anything because they're not alive.

So why the rock metaphor and why the living?

Why?

Well, let's continue with the stone metaphor and we'll come back to the living part. Peter continues that metaphor in verse 5. He applies it there to believers calling us living stones. You see that being built into a temple.

A spiritual house.

Lord willing we will get back to that idea another time. We're continuing we're going to park on this metaphor for Christ. So he goes back to that metaphor applying it to Christ in three Old Testament passages using the stone metaphor.

You see in verse 6 Behold I lay in Zion a choice stone a precious cornerstone and he who believes upon him will not be put to shame. Then you see in verse 7 the stone which the builders rejected this became the chief cornerstone.

Again in verse 8 a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. So this is Peter's metaphor.

He uses these.

Three Old Testament scriptures to make this point here regarding Christ as a living stone. Regarding his mistaken and damning rejection by some and his saving and precious value to those who believe. He uses them to reiterate and develop.

What he said.

In verse 4 really. That Christ is rejected by men but is choice and precious.

In the sight of God.

He's often been wrongly valued by men esteemed and worthless but in fact according to God and so in reality he is truly choice and precious. So we're going to take a very brief look at the Old Testament context for each of the passages and then we'll bring them back together and we'll see how they all fit together.

In 1 Peter.

So the first of the Old Testament passages there in verse 6 that's a reference to Isaiah 28, 16. And you're free to turn back there or not turn back there that's up to you. You have your Bible.

In your hand.