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Matthew 16:17,18: “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 in heaven, And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Elder Mark D. Rowell, said it so well in these few words: “Flesh and blood hath not
revealed it BUT my Father in Heaven.”

I think the prime attribute of the Rock is the divine revelation of truth that Christ is

the son of the living God.

Stop, I ask you, and consider what he said! All of the times we have heard/read

about the Rock (of which much can be said) which was smitten, in 1Cor.10:1-4 and
that was a rock of stumbling and a rock of offense in 1Peter 2:1-10;) to those who
have not through the Spirit, put aside all guile, hypocrisies, envies and evil speak-
ing, and become as newborn babes desiring the sincere milk of His words of truth
by the revelation of Jesus Christ, which was revealed to us by the Spirit of God, that

we might grow in the knowledge of the revelation of God by His Spirit, that Christ
is the Son of the living God; and grow until such glorious knowledge and truth
enables us by the Spirit, to stand upon that Rock and rejoice, giving all glory to God

in the assembly of those who seek the Lord by His Spirit, and are assembled to wor-
ship Him, in the truth of the revelation that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God,
and our fountain of living waters!

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus Blood and righteousness;

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

but wholly lean on Jesus' name;

On Christ the solid Rock I Stand,

All other ground is sinking sand,

All other ground is sinking sand
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