R.C. Sproul

into a holy temple.

This foundation really makes the old temple of brick and mortar to be obsolete because we now have a holy temple in the Lord in whom you are also being built together for a dwelling place of God in the spirit.

Again, you had the foundation and then you had the cornerstone.

But what makes up the rest of the building?

Who are the stones, the bricks that are knit together to make this magnificent building?

We are, as the Apostle Peter said, we are the living stones that Christ uses to knit together and he's taking Gentile stones and Jewish stones and knitting them together to...

build together a dwelling place of God in the spirit.

If we just would believe those last words, that last phrase of this last verse of chapter two, I believe the life of this church would be transformed.

I believe we would have revival like we've never seen.

I believe that our worship experience on Sunday morning would undergo a metamorphosis.

Why?

Because we have been built together as a people to be a dwelling place, a dwelling place of God.

in the spirit.

So if we really believe that, we would know that when we come together on Sunday morning for worship, that we're coming into the manifest and manifold presence of God.

And if we really believe that, if we really believe that God was here in the power and presence of the Holy Ghost,

Our worship experience would go through the roof and we would experience a renewal of our souls, a refreshment of our spirits, a fullness of reverence and adoration because we know that we have spent time with the Lord.

There's only one authority that can absolutely bind the conscience, and that authority is sacred Scripture, and that all controversies over doctrine and theology must be settled in the final analysis by Scripture.

The Bible says that all men are liars, and I'm afraid that I verified the truth of that, at least in terms of its application to myself in our last session, because I concluded our last session by saying from now on we were going to only consider the distinctives of Reformed theology.

But I was mistaken.

I don't want to leave you with the impression that the doctrine of sola scriptura is a distinctly or uniquely