主乃活石，固然是被人所弃的，却是被神所拣选、所宝贵的。你们来到主面前，也就像活石，被建造成为灵宫，作圣洁的祭司，借着耶稣基督奉献神所悦纳的灵祭。因为经上说：看哪，我把所拣选、所宝贵的房角石安放在锡安；信靠他的人必不至于羞愧。所以，他在你们信的人就为宝贵，在那不信的人有话说：匠人所弃的石头已作了房角的头块石头。又说：作了绊脚的石头，跌人的磐石。他们既不顺从，就在道理上绊跌；他们这样绊跌也是预定的。
彼得前书 2:4-5
耶稣是绊跌的磐石。因为耶稣是神，而很多人对神已经建立了非常不同的概念，祂就被弃绝了。拒绝耶稣，就是否认了又真又活的神；那导致不信者绊跌或犯罪。耶稣说……
你要仔细查看我的话，看我如何应验律法和先知的一切话，虽然我没有成就法利赛人当时或现今的很多期望。小心仰望我，并在我上面建造。我是唯一可靠的根基……
0831 JESUS is the ROCK of OFFENSE
JESUS is the ROCK of OFFENSE. Because Jesus is God and many had built very different concepts of God, He was rejected. This rejection of Jesus is denial of the true, living God; it causes unbelievers to stumble or sin. JESUS says…
Look carefully to My WORD. See how I fulfill all the Law and the prophets, though I do not fulfill many of the expectations of Pharisees then or now. Look carefully to Me and build on Me. I am the only sure foundation…
“And coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected by men, but 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…’THW STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNERSTONE,’ AND ‘A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE.’”
1 Peter 2:4-5