"The Lamb That Was Slain"

"Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." (1 Peter 1:20 & 21) Here is the thing about trying to be perfect: it ain't going to happen! Only Jesus was perfect, in every way! We, on the other hand, can only be made perfect by the blood of the Lamb of God who was slain; and by nothing else, will we be made white as snow. In the Passage above, Peter is putting across a point about how Jesus being slain for us, is also the power to believe in God; that His being manifested to us, for the purpose of redeeming us, is the manifestation of the God that Loves us! Not only that; but the fact that He has risen from the dead, and been given Glory as the perfect sacrifice for our sins, means that we can be assured our sins have been removed because it is God who has removed them. This portion of Scripture is very similar to what Paul is putting forth in Romans chapter 8; because, as we continue to read on through the rest of this chapter and on into Chapter 2, we can see that the common thread is the Spirit of God living in us, that provides the means by which we Know the Truth; and the same Spirit will guide us, even carry us through this journey, as long as we are abiding in the Truth. Whereby Paul uses the "sons of God" to describe those that walk in the Spirit, Peter uses "living stones" as his description of those that are led by the Spirit. There really is no difference in the way living stones and sons of God are pictured as to their roles in the here and now, or even the here after; because they both are to be examples of Jesus, who is not only the Son of God, but also the Chief Corner Stone.