For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 28:15-17
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place. Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
Psalm 118:22
The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:19-20
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
1 Peter 2:4-8
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
As stated yesterday, regarding 1 Corinthians 3:10, there is only one foundation on which the gospel is founded and that Foundation is Jesus Christ. Christ is not only our Foundation, but the Chief Cornerstone on which we, God's house, God's dwellingplace, God's temple, are built.
Being born again is more than believing it's knowing. Faith in God through salvation in Jesus Christ is stronger than mere faith in God. Mere faith in God believes God is real but refuses to live according to His Word. Faith in God through salvation in Jesus Christ compels a born-again believer to live according to the Word. We are not forced into doing so, we do so because we love Him who first loved us and proved it by dying on the cross in our place.
The Lord Jesus Christ is my Foundation, my Rock, the Cornerstone of my faith, of what I believe. Can you say this? And if you can't, wouldn't you like to? All you have to do is believe that Jesus Christ is LORD. And live that belief according to how God's Word says to live in Christ and Christ live in you. Simple faith.
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