Christ is the living stone for God’s building – He’s the foundation stone, the cornerstone, and the topstone, and we are being transformed into living precious stones for the building up of the church as God’s spiritual house; Christ as the stone has seven eyes for searching, enlightening, and infusing to produce us as living stones for God’s building.
Lord Jesus, we come to You, a living stone, so that we also become living stones for God’s building. Thank You for regenerating us with Your life so that we may be children of God. Thank You for taking us through a process of transformation so that we may be produced as living precious stones for the building of God’s spiritual house. We open to You. We allow You to look at us with Your seven eyes so that You may search us, enlighten us, judge us, expose us, burn us, and infuse us. Amen, Lord, gain us as living precious stones for Your building! Amen!
When Peter was called by the Lord Jesus, he used to be called Simon, but the Lord immediately changed his name to Cephas, Peter, that is, a stone. This means that the Lord will make Peter from a man of clay into a stone, even a living stone.
Later in Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus said that He will build His church upon this rock, which is Christ and the revelation of Christ, with stones like Peter, regenerated and transformed people.
God wants to gain not only many redeemed and regenerated people; He wants to gain many living stones for His building, stones that are built together into God’s spiritual house.
We believers in Christ need to realise that we are not only saved from eternal perdition but even more, we are here to be transformed into our very nature to be living precious stones for God’s building, the church.
We can’t transform ourselves. We cannot change ourselves. We are made of clay, which is not suitable for God’s building. But we have received God’s life into us as a seed, and as He grows in us, we are being transformed.
It is by the growth in life that we are transformed, and it is by opening to the Lord’s shining and allowing Him to judge us, search us, enlighten us, and transform us that we can be transformed to be living precious stones for God’s building.
May we open to the Lord day by day in prayer, coming to Him, a living stone, so that we as living stones may be built up into the dwelling place of God, His habitation.
Christ is the Living Stone, the Foundation Stone, the Cornerstone, and the Topstone of God’s Building, and we are being Transformed into Living Precious Stones
In 1 Peter 2:4-5 we see that Christ is the living stone and we are also living stones. In many other portions in the Bible, however, we see that Christ is the foundation stone, the cornerstone, and the topstone of God’s building (1 Cor. 3:11; Isa. 28:16; Acts 4:11; Zech. 4:7; John 1:12-13, 42; 1 Pet. 2:5-7; 1 Cor. 3:12; Matt. 16:18).
Christ is the stone in God’s building, and He is making us living precious stones for His building.
After we believers in Christ have been born of God, we are being transformed into living precious stones for the building up of the church as the spiritual house of God.
According to Acts 4:12, Christ is the stone in whom we can be saved; He is the Stone-Saviour; He is solid, strong, reliable, and saving.
In Zechariah 4:7 we see that Christ is the topstone, and God brought Him forth with shouts of, Grace, grace to it!
The unique material for God’s building is Christ. He dispenses Himself into us to first regenerate us, then renew us, sanctify us, and transform us to make us into living precious stones for God’s building.
In ourselves, we are not living stones; we are made of mud, clay, and we need to be transformed. Hallelujah, the Lord Jesus today is the stone!
He is not only the Lamb to redeem us, and the Lion to defeat the enemy but also the stone! He removed the iniquity and defeated all the enemies, and now He is building up the church as the spiritual house of God.
This is why, in His last visit to Jerusalem, the Lord Jesus indicated that the Jewish buildersrejected Him as the stone, the cornerstone.
He came not only to redeem us and to defeat God’s enemy but even more, to be the Stone-Saviour to make us into living precious stones for God’s building. The Jewish builders rejected Him, but God made Him the head of the corner.
There is salvation in no other name under heaven but in the name of Jesus, the Stone-Saviour.
When we are saved, when we call on the name of the Lord and are saved, we become a living stone; we are made into a piece of stone for God’s building.
We need to know who we are as believers in Christ: we are living precious stones for the building up of the church as the spiritual house of God. We are being transformed for God’s building, and we are becoming buildable living stones.
For the building up of the church, Christ is the rock; He builds up the church upon Himself as the rock. He is the foundation stone of the church.
We today live not only in the age of grace, the age of redemption, and the age of overcoming, but also in the age of building, the age of the stone.
Christ is now the Lion-Lamb-stone who has redeemed us, has overcome the enemy, and is making us living precious stones for God’s building.
Christ is the stone upon which are the seven eyes of Jehovah, the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God for the completion of the rebuilding of God’s temple (Zech. 3:9; 4:7-10; Rev. 5:6).
He is the topstone to complete God’s building. Amen, Christ is the unique building material for God’s building!
He is a stone in three aspects: the foundation stone to uphold God’s building (Isa. 28:16; 1 Cor. 3:11), the cornerstone to join together the Gentile and Jewish members of His Body (Eph. 2:20; 1 Pet. 2:6), and the topstone to consummate God’s building.
As we come to Him, He infuses us with what He is, He constitutes us with Himself, and we become living precious stones for the building up of the church.
We are being transformed from clay into precious stones that are living and are suitable for the building up of God’s habitation.
Lord Jesus, we praise You as the living stone for God’s building! Hallelujah, God brings forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it! Amen, Lord, grace to You as the topstone, for You as grace are the One who consummates God’s building! Thank You for being the rock on which the church is built; we are all built as the church upon Christ as the rock! Thank You for being the Stone-Saviour who not only redeemed us and defeated God’s enemy but even more, is making us into living precious stones! Hallelujah, by coming to the Lord again and again, He is transforming us from clay into living precious stones suitable for the building of God’s spiritual house! Amen, Lord Jesus, we come to You. We open to You. Dispense Yourself into us. Constitute us with Your stone element. You are the foundation stone to uphold God’s building, the cornerstone to join us together, and the topstone to consummate God’s building! Amen, Lord, make us into living precious stones for Your building today! Amen!
Christ as the Stone has Seven Eyes, Signifying the Seven Spirits of God, for Judging, Enlightening, and Infusing us
In Zechariah 3:9 and 4:10 we see that Christ as the stone has seven eyes, which signify the seven Spirits of God, the sevenfold intensified Spirit.
This is very interesting and also very significant.
On the one hand, Christ the stone for God’s building, and as we come to Him, we are transformed to be living precious stones suitable for God’s building.
On the other hand, on Christ as the stone there are seven eyes, that is, He has been processed, consummated, and even intensified to be the sevenfold intensified Spirit of God for God’s building. Wow!
The stone has seven eyes and the Lamb has seven eyes; these seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God. They are the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God.
We may think that this is all a typology with much symbolism, but in reality, this is how we can experience Christ as the stone subjectively.
How can we experience Christ as the stone so that we become living precious stones for God’s building? It is by means of the seven eyes of the stone, the seven Spirits of God.
The function of the lamps is to enlighten, search, expose, judge, and burn, and the function of the eyes is to infuse (Zech. 4:2-6, 11-14). It is by means of the seven eyes that we are infused with all that the Lamb-stone is into our being to be made into His golden lampstand.
The way Christ is producing us to be living precious stones is by means of His seven eyes, the sevenfold intensified Spirit.
As we come to the Lord in His word, on the one hand He is shining, exposing, judging, and burning, and on the other hand, He is infusing us.
As the seven lamps of fire, Christ exposes what needs to be exposed, shines and enlightens us, judges what needs to be judged in us, and burns brightly to make us burning.
As the seven eyes of the stone, Christ is looking at us, searching us, and infusing us. When we look at someone’s eyes, we see what he wants from us, whether he is happy with us or not, or whether he wants to tell us something or not.
The eyes of a person infuse us with his inner being, his desires, and his intention.
When the Lord looks at us with His seven eyes, we realise what He wants from us, we are infused with what He is, and we know His heart’s desire and intent.
On the negative side, we need to be judged and burned, for anything negative needs to be purged from us. We cannot be living precious stones if we still have the natural man, the self, and the flesh; anything natural and negative needs to be removed by burning.
We are not absolute for the Lord; we are wishy-washy, we are natural, and we are even fleshly. How much we need the Lord’s shining, enlightening, and exposing!
He wants to shine and expose our lukewarmness, our darkness, and anything that is natural and negative in us. If we only let Him shine on us and agree with His light, we will be enlightened, burned, and purified.
On the positive side, however, we are under the observing and watching of the seven eyes of the Lamb for us to be infused with what Christ is.
When He looks at us, we understand if He is happy with us or if He is unhappy; by His looking at us, He transfuses all that He is into our being.
The seven Spirits of God are for the imparting of life because, in the Bible, the Spirit is the Spirit of life. The seven lamps are for enlightening, searching, exposing, and judging in God’s move, which is for God’s administration.
After Peter denied the Lord three times, the Lord looked at him; the Lord Jesus was there being condemned and judged by people, but He knew what Peter did, so He turned and looked at Peter.
Most likely Peter never forgot the look the Lord Jesus gave him in that moment; on the one hand, he was exposed and judged, and on the other hand, he was infused.
The way for us to become living stones is to come to the Lord and be seen by Him.
As the Lord enlightens us and judges us, He looks at us and infuses Himself into us for our transformation into His image.
May we all be and remain under the enlightening of the seven lamps, the beholding of the seven eyes, and the life-imparting of the sevenfold intensified Spirit!
May we start in the morning by spending time with the Lord, coming to Him, and letting Him look at us. May we have an unveiled face to behold the Lord so that we may also reflect Him as we spend intimate time with Him (2 Cor. 3:18).
As we behold Him, we also reflect Him.
May we not pretend or better ourselves but just come to Him as we are, asking the Lord to look at us. May we not justify ourselves or think of ourselves of being something we are not; may we come to the Lord and let Him judge us and infuse us with Himself for God’s building.
When Christ as the living stone of the grace of God is constituted into our being through our subjective experience of Him, He becomes our pillow for our rest to make us a pillar in God’s building (Gen. 28:11-12, 17-19a; Zech. 4:7; Matt. 11:28-30; John 1:16-17, 51).
We rest in Him, we experience Him, and He makes us a pillar in God’s building. May the Lord expose our struggling and striving, and may He bring us to rest in Him, allowing Him to look at us, search us, judge us, and infuse us with what He is for God’s building.
Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. Shine on us. Look at us. We want to behold You. Oh Lord, we open to You today. Remove any veils from our eyes so that we may see You. We want to behold You face to face. Amen, Lord, shine on us and shine within us to expose anything that does not match You. Remove by shining and exposing anything that is not suitable for God’s building. Transform us into Your image to make us living precious stones for God’s building. Amen, Lord, keep us beholding You throughout the day so that we may be infused with You. We love to look into Your wonderful face and have Your smile. Oh Lord Jesus, infuse us more with Yourself for God’s building. May we experience the seven Spirits of God as the seven lamps for enlightening, searching, exposing, and judging in God’s move. May we remain under the infusing and transfusing of the seven eyes of the Lamb for God’s building! Hallelujah, we are daily being transformed into the image of Christ to become living precious stones for the building of God’s spiritual house! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Revelation, msgs. 22, 33, and 68, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Believers (1) (2026 July Semi-Annual Training), week 5, “Living Stones and Sheep” – day 2.
- Hymns on this topic:
– The chief Cornerstone Thou art, Lord, / Jewish builders did despise; / God by resurrection placed Thee, / Thou art precious in His eyes. / Through Thee we receive salvation, / And, together built by Thee, / Jews and Gentiles are Thy dwelling, / One new man, in harmony. (Hymns #834 stanza 1)
– Lord, for God’s spiritual building, / Thou art the Chief Cornerstone; / Both of the Jews and the Gentiles / By Thee are built into one. / Lord, Thou art also the Topstone, / Brought forth in measureless grace; / Thou art our cover and glory, / Moving our hearts in Thy praise. (Hymns #199 stanza 4)
– “Seven Spirits” of our God— / Lo, the age has now been turned / To the Spirit with the Son. / For the churches He’s concerned. / Come, O seven Spirits, come, / Thy recovery work be done! / Burn and search us thoroughly, / All the churches are for Thee. / Burn us, search us, / All the churches are for Thee! (Hymns #1122 stanza 1 and chorus)
