BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

BREAKFAST WITH JESUS

A daily devotional
Pastor Stanley
22nd SEPTEMBER 2024

IT'S TO THEIR HARM

Matthew 21:44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed." (NIV)

Jesus Christ is the cornerstone and the living Stone. The stone in this sense is not like a small stone you pick from the ground but a rock -- a huge rock. Jesus Christ is the living Rock. 1 Corinthians 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

And the Bible in Matthew 21:44 says "Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed."
Think about someone falling on Jesus the Rock or Jesus falling upon someone, what would happen to such a person? Broken to pieces or crushed to powder. And this is not only applicable to Jesus but to everyone of us who is born again.

1 Peter 2:4-5 As you come to him, the living Stone —rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Here in this verse Apostle Peter unveiled a profound truth that we are living stones like the living Stone Jesus Christ. And as such anyone who falls on us is broken to pieces and anyone we fall on is crushed to powder. Think about that for a moment! 

You don't have to be afraid or concerned about those who are against you, it is to their harm. However they come against you is to their harm. If they fight against you they will be broken to pieces, if you turn to fight against them they will be crushed. It therefore doesn't matter who is against you it is to their harm and destruction. So relax! 

When Saul was persecuting the Church Jesus said to him, "It is dangerous and it will turn out badly for you to keep kicking against the goad."
Acts 9:5 And Saul said, Who are You, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting. It is dangerous and it will turn out badly for you to keep kicking against the goad [to offer vain and perilous resistance]. (AMP)

Jesus wasn't concerned about the church Saul was persecuting but about Saul himself. He said you would destroy yourself by fighting the church. Anyone fighting the church today is the same; it is to their harm and destruction and it will turn out badly for them. 

You are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. You are a living stone in the living Stone. When people fight against you it is to their harm and destruction. So relax, don't worry about them.

CONFESSION

I belong in the living Stone Jesus Christ the eternal Rock. I am a rock like Him and anyone who falls on this stone is broken to pieces and anyone I fall on is crushed to powder. God has made me formidable and indestructible, and has given me absolute ability and dominion over all my enemies, in Jesus' Name. Amen. 
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