基督是作为根基的石头、试验过的石头
这石头是为着神在以色列的建造所稳固建立的根基。我们今天能享受基督作这样稳固建立的根基。作为基督徒，我们有基督作我们头上的冠冕，作我们脚下的磐石。这磐石为着神的建造，已经在祂子民中间稳固的建立了。基督是试验过的石头，是受过试验且是可靠的。基督这石头，在祂三十三年半的人性生活中受了试验。祂是完美、完全、稳固、刚强的。
信靠祂的的人必不着急
凡信靠这受过试炼且可靠之石头的人，“必不着急”。钦定英文译本把这句话译为“必不匆忙”。达秘在他的一个脚注里说，这句话可译为“必不惧怕而匆促”。基督是可靠的石头，我们信靠祂。无论甚么事临到我们，我们都不必着急惊惶。我们可以安心。属世的人，甚至包括不太信靠主的基督徒在内，一有甚么事临到他们，就着急惊惶。
基督是宝贵的房角石
基石托住整个建筑，而房角石连接建筑的两部分。新约根据诗篇一百一十八篇二十二至二十四节告诉我们，基督是房角的头块石头（徒四11-12，弗二20）。基督将两面墙连接起来，一面墙是犹太信徒，另一面墙是外邦信徒。因为基督带头把犹太人和外邦人联结一起，所以祂是房角的头块石头。甚至在今天我们不仅以祂作我们的基石托住我们，也以祂作我们的房角石将我们联结在一起。我联于你，你也联于我。我们都被基督联结在一起。没有祂，我们是分开的，不相连的。今天的基督教缺少基督作联结的房角石。我们需要经历基督作试验过的、可靠的石头，作稳固建立的根基托住我们，并作房角石把我们联结起来。这个结果就是神的建造，基督的身体。
在马太二十一章四十二节，主耶稣对犹太首领说的话，指明他们原是匠人，但他们没有看见他们乃是弃绝神建筑物的房角石，就是基督。主耶稣引用诗篇一百一十八篇二十二至二十三节说，匠人所弃的石头，神已经作成了房角石。在行传四章十一至十二节，彼得引用主的话。在十一节他题到基督是房角石，在十二节他指明今天这房角石是我们的救主。
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Christ As the Head of the Cornerstone — Isa. 28:16
This stone is a foundation firmly established for God’s building in Israel. We can enjoy Christ as such a firmly established foundation today. As Christians, we have Christ as a crown upon our heads and as a rock under our feet. This rock is firmly established for God’s building among his people. Christ is a tested stone which has been tried and which is trustworthy. Christ as a stone was tested during the thirty-three and a half years of his human life. He is perfect, complete, solid and strong.
He Who Believes Will Not Hasten Away
He who believes in this tried and trustworthy stone “will not hasten away.” The King James Version renders this portion as “shall not make haste.” Darby says in a note that this can be translated as “shall not hasten with fear”. Christ is a trustworthy stone, and we believe in him. Whatever happens to us, we do not need to be in haste or in panic. We can be at peace. The worldly people, even including Christians who do not trust the Lord so much, are always in haste, in panic, whenever something happens to them.
Christ as the Precious Cornerstone
Whereas the foundation stone holds the entire building, the cornerstone joins two parts of the building. The New Testament tells us, based upon Psalm 118:22-24, that Christ is the chief cornerstone (Acts 4:11-12; Eph. 2:20). According to the New Testament, Christ as the cornerstone joins together the two walls, one of the Jewish believers and the other of the gentile believers. Because Christ took the lead to join together the Jews and the gentiles, He is the first cornerstone. Even today we are not only held by him as our foundation stone but also joined together by him as our cornerstone. I am joined to you, and you are joined to me. We are joined together by Christ. Without him, we are separate and detached. Today’s Christianity is lacking in the experience of Christ as the joining cornerstone. We need to experience Christ as the tested, trustworthy stone to be the firmly established foundation holding us and the cornerstone joining us together. This issues in God’s building, the Body of Christ.
The Lord Jesus’ word to the Jewish leaders in Matthew 21:42 indicates that they were the builders, but they did not have the discernment to see that they were rejecting the cornerstone of God’s building, Christ. The Lord Jesus quoted Psalm 118:22-23 by saying that the stone which the builders rejected was made the cornerstone by God. Peter quoted the Lord’s word in Acts 4:11-12. In verse 11 he mentioned Christ as the cornerstone, and in verse 12 he indicated that today this cornerstone is our Savior.