Psalm 87: The Church has One Foundation! Psalm 87:1-7

Text: “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, 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.”

1 Corinthians 3:10-11.

Good morning, wise faith-building Christian! The Lord God in His Sovereign grace to your soul and to mine has ‘quickened’ us, made us Spiritually alive who were Spiritually dead; breathed Spiritual life into our dead spirits, by His Holy Spirit; granted us faith to believe; and repentance from all our sins; and recreated us ‘…new creatures in Christ…’.

“And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, Thou knowest.  Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord. Thus sayeth the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.”  (Read Ezekiel 37:1-10)

“And you hath He quickened (made alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins…Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved).” (Ephesians 2:1;5)

The Foundation of our Salvation was, is, and shall always remain: Christ, and Him Crucified for our sins.  We have no Saviour but the Lord Jesus Christ.  We have no Eternal security outside of His full Atonement Sacrifice at Calvary’s Cross.  We are nothing without Christ in our lives, and we can never be redeemed from sin by anything other than His precious and sinless Blood, shed to cover us from all our vile sins and trespasses against our Holy Father God. 

Jesus Christ, God the Son, is the only Foundation for Eternal Salvation. Fact.

“Neither is there Salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

“Jesus saith unto him (Thomas), I am the way the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” (John 14:6)

Verse 1. “His foundation is in the holy mountains.  Not on the sand of carnal policy, nor in the morass of human kingdoms, has the Lord founded His church, but on His own power and Godhead, which are pledged for the establishment of His beloved church, which is to Him the chief of all His works.”  (C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, page 366)

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”             (1 Corinthians 3:11)

The sure Foundation of all we born again, Bible-believing, Christians are and can ever be is based on the solid Rock of God the Son, the risen Lord Jesus Christ.  All else outside Him is mere ‘churchianity’ and dead religion. 

Our faith is built on nothing less, than Christ and His full righteousness; His full Atonement (at-one-ment) Sacrifice on that cruel Cross; and upon His fully proven bodily resurrection from the dead.  Up from the grave He arose! Hallelujah! Victory in Christ Jesus, our sure Foundation Rock!

Jesus said: “Whosoever cometh to Me, and heareth My sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: he is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.”  (Luke 6:47-48)

"The Church's One Foundation" is a Christian hymn written in 1866 by Samuel John Stone. This hymn describes the church's relationship to its "foundation" being Jesus Christ. The church is represented as the collective Christian fellowship of the earth as it is wholly united by its saviour, the son of God.”  (Godtube online) 

1 The church's one Foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord;
she is His new creation,
by water and the Word;
from heav'n He came and sought her
to be His holy bride;
with His own blood He bought her,
and for her life He died.

2 Elect from ev'ry nation,
yet one o'er all the earth,
her charter of salvation,
one Lord, one faith, one birth;
one holy Name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with ev'ry grace endued.

3 Tho' with a scornful wonder,
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping,
their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song… (More verses)

Do our Spiritually regenerate hearts (entire essence) not melt with love for Christ when we sing such a clear and doctrinally sound hymn? Praise God for our ONE FOUNDATION!

“God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son…Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He (Jesus Christ) had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” (Hebrews 1:1-3)  Lord Jesus, we worship Thee alone!

Thought: True Christian faith is built on one Foundation – Jesus the risen Christ!