Homilist Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. I. THE FACT. We have Christ's authority for applying this spiritually to Him. The rejection of Christ foreknown. Rejection by man no proof of worthlessness: the rejected may be of God. Men reject the greater for the lesser; the moral for the sensual, all self-indulgent men risk their moral in gratifying their sensual; the spiritual for the natural, God has ordained us to life by faith, because that life is higher and nobler than the life of sense or appearance; the enduring for the sake of the temporal: all this in rejecting Christ. Hostility to Him worse than useless — ruinous. II. THE CAUSE. "This is the Lord's doing." God works by man: through man as an agent: over man as the sovereign fjord. God works by the wrath of mum the child's rebellion and anger will not frustrate the father's purpose. That may be the Lord's doing which looks very unlike it. Evil a mystery, but God's doing through it, clear in the Gospel, though nowhere else. III. THE RESULT. "It is marvellous in our eyes." The scheme of salvation, marvellous in conception, unlike and beyond all human thought. All that God does should be marvellous to us, would be if we were His little children. Wonder plays an important part m our history and religion. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.WEB: The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. |
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