Foundation Stones (Part 3) – Jesus w/the 12 – The Forgotten Foundation of Christian Life

There are 10,000 things we need to watch in another Christian’s life. We’re really short on Christians to watch. We’re really running short on Christians to watch. We’re almost fresh out of them. Especially a Christian in the church, that’s where it really matters. You can find some godly soul out there to watch who’s out there all alone. Good night. I could be godly if that’s all there were to it. I think maybe not. Well, if you can’t find one, be one.

When you get old, I hope there’ll be some godly Christians to look around to watch. That’s never going to happen if you’re going to get old, and bitter, and cynical, and mean, and resentful because somebody did you dirty, you never been as done dirty as Jesus was or Paul and they handled it really beautifully, and they will be the two people that as I go along here I will say to you they were two men that got watched.

God send the day where we got Christians to be watched. God send the day when we have young men who will watch, and God restore the day when our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. Lord, make this again the foundation of our faith and the foundation of the church and the experience of the young men, and the young women who have been called by You to the gospel. Lord, haste that day. Amen.

If I start with Galatians or Romans or Corinthians to establish my faith and say this is what I am and what I ought to do, and how things should be, I’ve started in the wrong place. The Christian faith is very ancient. It started long before Pentecost, long before Galilee, long before Nazareth, and even before Bethlehem. Now, I have taken you through many, many things up till this point, but I am still. So, you think you’re normal? So you think you’re normal? Have you seen that? Have you, Charles? All right. Well, you’re not normal. You are abnormal, which is normal. And you are fallen, which is the status quo, and these brothers, they’re worse than you think they could have been.

I want to drive a point home to you, the Lord knew this. But He also knew what it was like, what your church was like in your town, or what your next church experience is going to be. Who knows? You don’t know, and Christian people who start out in homes and they’re going to have these wonderful experiences together, underestimate how bad off other Christians are. They ought to go live with Jesus Christ for three and a half years in Galilee, and by the end of those three and a half years, they’d know how bad off they were.

I’ve already told you here are men who pick fights with one another, who drag their mother in to try to settle a fight. Picky over what throne they’re going to sit on, and which throne it’s going to be. Do you think on the day of that eternal day when they assign thrones, you’re going to be measuring yours from there to how far it is to God’s throne? You say, “No, I wouldn’t do that.” Don’t be too sure. What if yours is the very last throne? How will you feel about that? Well, right now I would be very grateful, but I don’t know how I will feel on that day.