Since the very beginning God established Christ to be the sure foundation that would stand the test of time! Throughout many generations man has sought to build other buildings yet the Rock on which we stand has been created for all eternity. (1 Corinthians 3:9-17). For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Jesus never hid the fact that He was not just a babe in a manger, but was God in the flesh and walked among men and was with His Father long before the earth was even created at the foundation of the world! He is a foundation every one of us can stand upon without reservation! When the hour had come and Jesus was to be lifted up His prayer spoke of the work He was sent to fulfill and to give eternal life to all who would believe on Him! (John 17:1-9). These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Jesus is the Lamb who was slain since the foundation of the world, the one who has sacrificed all including Hid own life to save the soul’s of men. (1 Peter 1:18-21). Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 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.
Jesus is the sure foundation and chief cornerstone we as believer’s can put our complete faith in. Together through the spirit are we built as a habitation where God dwells! (Ephesians 2:18-22) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
‘On Christ the solid Rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.’
Thanks, Julia. 🤗🌷
Great song Sally. May you be strengthened in your walk with the Lord!
Julia
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