And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. You get to studying for yourself and you are sure to go wrong.”, But Patrick said, “Out there in the shed I have a cow and when I was sick some time ago, I had to hire a man to milk her and I soon found he was stealing half of the milk and filling the bucket with water, but when I got well, I discharged him and took to milking me own cow and now I am getting the rich cream. The first is masculine, and the second is feminine. “I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it. 2. Of the fathers, and of others who are supposed to speak with authority. MEMORY VERSE: SAY: “This morning we’re talking about the truth that God is the rock. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (Matthew 25:1-13). I come to you as a genuine successor of Peter; I come to you in the direct apostolic order. The only rock of truth is Jesus Christ; and that we, as his redeemed, need to keep our eyes on him. THE ROCK = THE FIRM FOUNDATION, FIRM, NEVER SHAKING. That is what is implied in his thirteenth verse, “When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi.” Caesarea Philippi was the first great Gentile city just north of the land of Palestine, about twenty miles beyond the border of Palestine, and Jesus had gone up into the northernmost part of Galilee and was looking out toward that great Gentile world thinking of the untold millions who were still in their sins to whom His salvation was yet to come, the men for whom He was soon to die and He realized that so much depended upon men having a correct understanding of the dignity of His person. 3:11, Eph. “For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ,”. 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  17 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. It is difficult to answer the question of which Protestant denomination is the right one without first laying out a... by Luke Wayne | Feb 20, 2020 | Mormonism, World Religions. In 1 Peter 2, Christ is the cornerstone of the Church. 16:18). Peter, the man, is appropriately referred to as Petros. The foundation that had been built upon the sand swiftly crumbled while the house that stood on the solid foundation remained intact. But did not the Lord say unto Peter, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven”? There does seem to be a measure of testimony that would intimate that possibly that was true, but when they tell us that he was in Rome from A.D. 42 to 67, we have positive evidence to the contrary because those very years are covered largely by the book of Acts. Jesus is the Builder and Foundation of the Church | Christian Landmark Jesus is the Builder and Foundation of the Church With so many different churches existing in the world today, with conflicting doctrines, you may be wondering why it’s important that Jesus Christ should be the builder and foundation of the church. A literal translation would be, “The presbyters among you I exhort who am a co-presbyter,” or one on the same level as the rest. If Jesus had given to Peter and to the rest of the apostles the authority to forgive sins, when men came and made their confession, Peter would have said to Cornelius, “To him give all the prophets witness, that through certain authorized ministers of his you may receive remission of sins. What a solemn thing it is when you turn back to the sixteenth chapter of Matthew to find that within a short time after making his confession, Peter proved an absolutely untrustworthy guide. This is consistent with scripture elsewhere where the term rock is sometimes used in reference to God but never of a man. Surely not. We hate SPAM and promise to keep your email address safe. 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.” It is assumed that Peter is the rock upon which the Church is built and that the church built upon Peter will never come to grief. Let us see whether other apostles understood it that way. In other words, Jesus declares, “Simon, you are the rock, and on this rock I will build my church.” Peter has primacy in the church — a historical primacy, not papal primacy. Is it because their argument is not supported by the Greek, and so they must infer something from a text we don’t possess? Dr. Philip W. McLarty. He kept shouting out as he followed the preacher with his fists doubled, “What did the Lord say to Peter? Therefore, we can conceive of circumstances where it might be safer to go to Peter or to his successors than to Christ Himself.” That is the conclusion that one came to when he swung away from the plain testimony of the Word of God and subjected his mind to the decisions of the councils and to church traditions. Wherever a man honestly seeks to know the mind of God, the Holy Spirit is there to reveal the truth to him. Did not the Lord give unto His apostles as the first bishops of the Church special authority to forgive and to retain sins? Christ is the BUILDER, the church belongs to Christ, but Peter is the FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH. In Galatians 2:11 we read, “But when Peter was to come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.” What do you think would happen if one of the bishops should withstand the pope to his face in the presence of all the rest of them? Since motions & actions help kids remember, choose an action for ROCK. Long after the day of Pentecost when one would have thought that Peter would have been utterly beyond failure, that he could have been trusted in everything, we find that he turned aside from the truth for a time. This statement identifies Jesus as the builder and owner of the church; it is a simple matter of grammar and wording: "I will build MY church." and Ep. The number of a lake. 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” —Matthew 16:13-19. It is God the Father’s revelation to every trusting soul and we get it through the mediatorial work of our Lord Jesus Christ. “Except in Jn. If you have any issues, please call the office at 385-246-1048 or email us at info@carm.org. We'd love to keep you up to date with what is happening at CARM. Imagine a man cast out on a desert island with nothing but a copy of the Bible, no teacher, no clergy man, no priest, no church, no other books of any kind to instruct him. He is the foundation upon whom this glorious house rests. shaman. The Go on. Peter, preaching in the home of Cornelius, said, “And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree; him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly” (verses 39 and 40). Matthew 7:24-27. Our blessed Lord was nearing the end of His testimony here on Earth. They were going to crucify him in the ordinary way, but he said, “No, I denied my Lord once, He was crucified like them, crucify me with my head downward,” and tradition says he was crucified that way. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Gal. “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.” And Peter proclaimed remission of sins through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 16:18. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. ... And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it" (verses 17–18). Praise the Lord. The best way to answer that question is to see whether we can find an explanation of remission of sins from somebody who was there. 1 Peter 2:4-8; Eph. Then all those virgins arose, trimmed their lamps. In contrast to this, in paragraph #2 at the beginning of this article, the Roman Catholic Church says that the rock cannot refer to Jesus “but only Peter–as is so much more apparent in Aramaic in which the same word (Kipha) is used for ‘Peter’ and ‘rock. pétra (4073), a massive rock or cliff.” (Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament, electronic ed., G4074, Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2000, c1992, c1993). word; a (large mass of) rock:–rock(10), rocks(3), rocky(2). There are problems with the Roman Catholic position. . Jesus had just arrived with the disciples at Caesarea Philippi, about 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. Petros, Πέτρος, Peter, meaning stone. Matt. But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. I am resting upon what this Book reveals as to God’s way of salvation and if it tells me that Peter is the rock on which the Church is built and that there is no salvation except for those who are in the church founded by Peter, I want to know it, but I must find out from the Book. “…you are Peter (πέτρος, petros) and upon this rock (πέτρα, petra) I will build My church…” Greek nouns have gender. (835). He came on a day when this happy convert was reading his New Testament and as the priest entered the room Patrick rose to meet him with the Book in his hand. Since we do not have the Aramaic text, it is not proper to refer to it as proof of the Roman Catholic position. The word is feminine, and means a rock, as distinguished from a stone or a fragment of rock (πέτρος, above).” (Marvin Richardson Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, 1:91, Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2002). Note that Peter himself in the last verse referred to petra as being Jesus! Jesus is the rock on which the church is built The truth is that the only foundation is Jesus. The New Testament contains five different metaphors for the foundation of the Church (Matt. Now that the door is open; it stands ajar and whosoever will may enter in. Just imagine Peter supposed to be bishop of Rome, a great Gentile city, and yet it was definitely settled there that his work was to be among the Jews. Peter was there and the apostle Paul says that after discussing things, it was decided at that council that Peter should work among the Jews and Paul among the Gentiles. “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Every Christian has the same revelation. We are called to provide a biblical voice to the challenges we all encounter en route to the finish line of life. He did say, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” But is not the kingdom of heaven heaven itself? Jesus, who knew the heart of Peter, was not saying that Peter, the movable and unstable stone, would be the immovable rock upon which the Church would be built. Later when Jesus said He would build His church on the "rock," He used a different Greek word petra, which refers to a large rock (as in a mountain cliff). Petra, πέτρα , Ion. “Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal. That may seem like a rather broad statement but I believe that I can show you that it is true. Peter could not have been in Rom in A.D. 58 for in that year Paul wrote the epistle to the Romans and sent greetings to a great many people, but there was not a solitary reference to Peter’s presence in Rome. But how are we going to decide to accept that? In addition, Greek dictionaries and lexicons give us further insight into the two Greek words under discussion: A stone is movable, unstable; and this is exactly what we see with Peter, who doubted when he walked on water, who denied Jesus, and who was rebuked by Paul at Antioch. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.” Peter tells us that God is building a house and this house rests upon a living stone and that living stone is Christ! Is that heaven? When Christ said, “I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven,” it was because of Peter’s great confession, and he was to have the single honor of opening the door of the kingdom of heaven first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles. 3:11). The other man built his house on the solid foundation of rock. That is what we want to know.” The man who was preaching perhaps did not have wit enough to answer him quickly and so tried to go on with his preaching, but a very dignified looking friend, a typical New Englander standing next to me, listened until he could not stand it any longer. Finally the parish priest missed his erstwhile faithful parishioner so he arranged to visit him. 16:18, 1 Cor. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; . But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. Paul sent greetings to other Christians and you can imagine how ready he would have been to say, “And Peter, the apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings.” But Peter was not there so he could not do it. But these Scriptures do not refer to Christ as a rock upon which the church is built. Here it is in context. In fact, ever since the third century of the Christian era there has been a debate as to the exact meaning of the number of expressions used here. The kingdom of heaven is that sphere on earth which we commonly speak of as Christendom. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 2:20; Isa. But let us look elsewhere—the second chapter of the epistle to the Ephesians, verses 19 to 22: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.” We do not read here, “Simon Peter himself being the chief corner stone.” It should read that way if the other teaching is correct. Not at all, it is given to the Church of God as a whole. But some one says, “Surely Peter had some special place over and above others.” Turn again to his own epistle, 1 Peter 5:1, “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder.” Think of that for a moment. So autonomy. 10:4 is genitive singular) we find it referred to as a large immovable mass of rock in which a tomb is carved out (Matt. I remember reading Cardinal Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua years ago. 1:42, where it is used to elucidate Aramaic kēphás, Pétros is used in the NT only as a name for Simon Peter . No, not upon Peter. The feminine “petra” occurs four times in the Greek New Testament: We can clearly see that in the three other uses of the Greek word petra (nominative singular; “petras” in 1 Cor. Does John 9:2 imply that we pre-existed in heaven before birth? Translation of: Theologisches Worterbuch Zum Neuen Testament. No, he is not. Matt. Petra, πέτρα, ας, ἡ (1) literally, living rock, bedrock (MT 7.24), in contrast to πέτρος (isolated stone); (Timothy Friberg, Barbara Friberg and Neva F. Miller, vol. Apostle Martin Kunje || Rock Foundation Church-RFC. Theological dictionary of the New Testament. It is, “He that believeth on him is not condemned;” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved;” “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest;” “Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” It is the person that saves, and trusting Him we go on to learn more of His wonderful work but we begin with faith in Christ Himself. It is always a divine revelation when one is brought to a saving knowledge of Christ. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. If a professing member of the Church of God falls into sin, he is to be carefully dealt with and if he will not repent of his sin, the Church is authorized to bind his sin upon him and put him away from her fellowship. We are to look to no one else as the foundation, the source, or the hope on which the church is built. Mormonism teaches that every one of us existed as spirit bodies in heaven before we were born here on earth. Luke 22:57-58, “But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know Him.”. This house is the Church of the living God. Undoubtedly if he understood the Lord to say that the Church was to be built upon him, he would tell us so. We exist to bring glory to God through the transformation of lives. “Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Because of this a Roman Catholic theologian has declared, “It is evident from these words that our Lord wishes us to understand that Simon Peter had secrets with the Father in which Christ Himself did not share. Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Note that Peter himself in the last verse referred to petra as being Jesus! What, then, does petra, the feminine noun, refer to? First Peter 2:1-7: “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. “Some say that thou art John the Baptist.” This, you recall, was Herod’s first re-action when told of His miracles and testimony. If Simon Peter believed that, he certainly would not leave his disciples in any doubt regarding it; he would tell them the truth about a matter like this. The Roman Catholic Church puts a great deal of emphasis on Peter and claims that Jesus said he would build his church on him. This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church's very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope. 16:18). 2. a rock, i.e. In 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, Paul writes, “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. By Here, Christ summoned Peter to be a shepherd who loves Jesus and the Church’s people. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas,”. With respect to the foundation of the church, Scripture does speak of Jesus as the foundation: “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. Petros, Πέτρος, “a noun akin to 4073, used as a proper name; “a stone” or “a boulder,” Peter, one of the twelve apostles:— Peter(150), Peter’s(5).” (Robert L. Thomas, New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic, and Greek Dictionaries: Updated Edition, H8674, Anaheim: Foundation Publications, Inc., 1998, 1981). 16:18 when they claim Peter was the rock on which the church is built. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Does not that exactly correspond with our Lord’s words to Peter on the coasts of Caesarea Philippi: “Peter, you are a rock-like man and you are built upon this rock, the confession that I am the Son of the living God.”. 27:60, “and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock (petra); and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.”, 1 Cor. And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Here is how they understand the verse: "Thou art PETER, and upon this rock (Peter) I will build My Church" (Matthew That's the … And honest princes will rule under him. Eerdmans. Simon Peter holds the first place in the college of the Twelve; Jesus entrusted a unique mission to him. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Eerdmans. It is the bed-rock foundation fact that Peter had just acknowledged -- namely, … 7:24-27). . One of the Mormon religion's central doctrines is their teaching that the New Testament church fell into absolute,... by Matt Slick | Feb 23, 2020 | Roman Catholicism, World Religions. 27:60) and in reference to Christ (1 Cor. We believe with Chillingworth that “The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants” and so are not very much concerned about traditions or about the decisions of church councils or the declarations of popes, fallible or infallible. If Simon Peter was ever pope, he never knew it for he speaks of himself as a “co-presbyter” with all the rest of the elders in the Church of God! The foundation is the most fundamental part of a building, upon which all else is built (Cf. 16:18). by Luke Wayne | Mar 2, 2020 | Mormonism, World Religions. In Ephesians 2, Christ is the cornerstone with the apostles and New Testament prophets as the foundation. A lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English lexicon (636). This passage of Scripture has been the source of a great deal of contention, of difference of opinion among theologians for many years. One metaphor that has been disputed is Jesus Christ’s calling the apostle Peter “rock”: “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. . Stay informed of what’s new and what’s coming up on the air and on the web. We know that the apostle was not in Rome in the year A.D. 50 because in that year the apostle Paul with Barnabas went up to Jerusalem and the council of Jerusalem decided that the Gentiles did not have to be circumcised and keep the law of Moses to be saved. 881. How can any one say that Christians are not capable of reading the Word of God and getting the mind of the Lord when the Holy Spirit has been sent from heaven for the express purpose of opening the truth to those who honestly seek that truth and are prepared to walk according to it? For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. a rocky peak or ridge . Others said He was Elias, for it is written, “I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5). “By the word “rock” the Saviour cannot have meant Himself, but only Peter, as is so much more apparent in Aramaic in which the same word (Kipha) is used for “Peter” and “rock.” His statement then admits of but one explanation, namely, that He wishes to make Peter the head of the whole community of those who believed in Him as the true Messias; that through this foundation (Peter) the Kingdom of Christ would be unconquerable; that the spiritual guidance of the faithful was placed in the hands of Peter, as the special representative of Christ.” (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm). 3:11). "I Will Build My Church!" We greatly appreciate your consideration! 16:13-20). They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 16:16). Was not that private judgment? Our series on the Sermon on the Mount ends today with a warning in parable form: “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. We turn from all these to the Book itself. The Roman Catholic Church essentially believes that Christ was saying this:“And I also say to you that you are Peter (the rock), and on you, Peter, I will build My one Holy Catholic Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” This interpretation forms the basis of the doctrine of the primacy of Peter, the idea that Christ founded the church on Peter. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. The Rock Foundation is a non-profit charity organisation that provides health care, education, social reformation, and relief materials to the needy. Through faith in Christ. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 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