Building Life on the Solid Foundation of Christ

The absolute necessity of having a foundation to our lives—that's his first proposition. A foundation is the most important thing of all. Now, this is something that scarcely needs a demonstration in a way, and yet, as you look at Modern Men And as you look at the modern world, I think it becomes increasingly clear that this is the thing of all others that needs to be emphasized. [00:06:22]

The Bible is a book that is constantly telling us that what we need above everything else is a foundation to the whole of our life and living. Now, this is something which I think we are ready to recognize most of us in the ordinary Realms of life. For instance, when you're building a house, what's more important than the Foundation? [00:07:36]

The world is well aware of many problems. You can scarcely pick up a newspaper without seeing some problem or another dealt with somewhere or another. The governments of the world are aware of particular problems, the educationalists are aware of them, the sociologists are aware of them. Indeed, our generation, Our Century, has been characterized above everything else by the multiplicity of new institutions and organizations. [00:08:30]

The world is very busy in trying to deal with them, but the great message of the Bible is this: that the world very largely is wasting its time in doing this. Why? Well, for the simple reason that it has ignored the most essential problem of all, and that is the problem of the foundation. [00:10:06]

The tragedy of the modern world is its uncertainty. It's become uncertain about everything. There are no Foundation principles at the bottom of the life of most people. Take it, for instance, in the matter of Truth itself. The world doesn't seem to know where it is. The old categories seem to have gone. [00:11:42]

The problem today is not so much immorality as immorality non-morality, the refusal to recognize that there is such a thing as morality at all. Now, I think you'll agree with this. We've lost our standards again. There's no Foundation. Things that everybody would have agreed about even 20 or 30 years ago as being utterly highly immoral are being defended today. [00:13:32]

The Apostle goes on to a second proposition. He asserts that man himself, and left to himself, is completely incapable of providing an adequate foundation for himself. Other Foundation, he says, can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, this is the most important principle. [00:17:39]

Man himself is totally incapable of providing the necessary Foundation. Our Lord put this in a very well-known word. Do you remember the story of the Rich Young Ruler who came to him? Here was a good young man, an excellent man, a moral man, a religious man, but he'd been listening to our Lord and watching him. [00:18:32]

The son of man is come to seek and to save that which is lost. He came because he had to come because men had failed because men was impotent. Now, this, I say, is the most amazing thing that the human race seems so reluctant to recognize this obvious fact because surely it is a fact. [00:21:22]

The world by wisdom knew not God, and precisely the same is true this evening. In spite of the fact that 1900 years have passed, in spite of all the seeking and the searching, men cannot find him. Can a man by searching find out God? And the answer of the ages is no, he cannot. [00:31:11]

There is only one Foundation, and he needs no help. He needs no Aid. He needs no help even from his mother Mary. He is not a co- RMC. He needs no help from the Saints. He needs no help from the church, from popes nor priests nor anyone else. He is alone the Savior, and he is adequate and sufficient and complete in and of himself. [00:43:31]

The foundation of God standeth sure, and because it is a foundation that has been laid by God himself, it is a foundation that satisfies our every need. What are the things you ask of a foundation? Well, here's the first, isn't it? What material is it made of? Is it sand? No, no, reinforced concrete. [00:49:30]