What Foundation Will you Build your Life on?

Introduction

Guys and girls full disclosure, we are going deep tonight. Are yall prepared to dig in deep tonight? If so, I need your utmost attention!

Who all wants to live in a big home one day?

How big do you want your home to be?

What kind of things would you want to be in your home?

Why would you want those things?

Who has heard of the Antilia home in India?

Antilia is the world’s largest and second most expensive home.

The house sits at being over 400,000 sqaure feet. If you did not know that is about

The house is said to be valued at 2 billion dollars.

The house is home to the 6th richest man in the world, Mukesh Ambani. He lives in this home with his wife and 3 kids.

Antilia is equipped with 27 stories, and a staff of 600 people who work 24/7 to maintain it.

Antilia has a 2 story recreation center, with a gym, health spa, jacuzzi, yoga and dance studio.

Antilia also has multiple swimming pools including a lap pool, hanging gardens, several guest suites, a salon, ice cream parlour, ballroom, 50 seat home theatre, and a 160 car parking garage.

So who in here is impressed?

What is more crazy is the fact that the owner of this house is living in one of the most poverty stricken areas in India, where more than half of the population lives off 2$ a day.

The house is for sure an impressive one. But what I want to point out most importantly is the impressive architecture. If you will notice, the structure is very dynamic, it has many different angles and offsets that make it look very unique and interesting.

Also, the house is made of so many different expensive materials that make it so fascinating.

But out of all the cool pieces and parts of this house, what do ya’ll think is the most important part, and why?

The Foundation

It is true that out of all the many parts of any house, the foundation is the most important.

Without a strong foundation any house is bound to fall at some point. Especially when the weather begins to act up.

Now we have talked about physical houses, but what I want to submit to you all tonight is that you all have a spiritual house. Do you know what that spiritual house is?

That spiritual house is you and your life.

1 Corinthians 3:9–11 (ESV)

9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Have you ever thought about your own life as a house?

Have you ever asked the deeply important question of what is the foundation of my life?

Often times we do things in our lives without any pre-thought as to why we are doing them or what is causing us to do them.

Many people go through lives with the wrong foundation. Right here in the Bible, we see that the apostle Paul says that the only good foundation that we can have in this life is Christ.

Now when we consider the foundation of physical homes, we often compare the materials and try to identify which ones are the strongest and most reliable.

Those materials that pass the strength and durability test often are the ones we use. Concrete is a popular example of a strong foundation in most modern homes.

If we used sand as the foundation of our home, what do you think would happen?

It would fall in the second it rained, because when sand meets water it tends to collapse inward.

Now that we understand the importance of a proper foundation in a physical home, I will now ask you, how much more important is it to make sure we have a strong foundation in our spiritual lives.

Before we get into this, I want to lead you all with this idea, What if everything you did in your life was a result of your spiritual condition? How much more serious would you consider the status of your spiritual foundation?

The reason I asked you that, is because it is true. We all have a mind and most of the time people will try to say that our minds is what rules our lives, the things we do and say. But that is not 100% what the Bible says.

The Bible teaches that we all have a soul that was given to us by God and it runs much deeper than our mind does. Think of the soul as being the layer underneath the mind, that actually runs the mind.

Throughout the Bible, the soul is often used interchangably with the word heart. For instance in Matthew 12:34

Matthew 12:34 ESV

34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Here Jesus says that out of the heart (soul) the mouth speaks. In other words, here Jesus is making the claim that your soul or heart is the driving force that makes your mouth speak.

In Matthew 15:19

Matthew 15:19 (ESV)

19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Here Jesus makes the claim that it is your soul or heart that makes you think evil thoughts.

So I have shown you all this so that you know that there is more to you than just your mind, you have a soul that runs deeper than your mind that ultimately drives you to do what you do.

Now that we understand this, I want to ask you another question, who in hear knows what homeostatis is?

Homeostasis is any self-regulating process by which biological systems tend to maintain stability. In other words homeostasis is a process of stability that all human bodies strive to maintain at all times. For example right now, there are various chemical processes going on within your body that are trying to maintain your body’s stability. When your body loses stability that is usually when death occurs. For example, when someone gets a deadly disease, what really makes them die is the fact that the disease has interupted the patients status of stability to such a point that the body can no longer function.

Moral of the story, stability in your body matters. So eat more veggies and work out!

Anyway, how does all this relate to the soul, well I will tell you.

Just like the human body tries to maintain homeostasis (stability) the human soul tries to maintain that state of peace and pleasure.

Your soul, the deepest part of who you are is always trying to find peace and pleasure. Often times here is the problem, we have a void within our souls that is keeping us from experiencing that peace and pleasure.

Think of the void in your soul as being compared to a disease in the body that upsets the body’s homeostasis, it is the thing that is upsetting your soul.

As a result of this void, we try to self-medicate ourselves to try and fill this void. The only problem with this is, we run to the wrong things.

Many people run to drugs, alcohol, friends, or family.

For others they may try to feel that void of pleasure by trying to please others and get other people applauds.

Others may try to find peace in hobbies or in a dating relationship.

Others may try to fill the void of pleasure by making a bunch of money so the can buy the things they want.

These things often times sound good, but the problem is, none of then will ever fill those voids. Why? Because they are all temporary and fallen.

Friends can be mean.

Family can fail us.

Girlfriends and boyfriends can cheat on us.

Drugs can kill us.

Alcohol can kill us.

People’s applauds will fade.

Money can go away.

Possessions can get old.

You see why we can’t trust our souls with these things?

Here’s the thing, we all have a soul and we all have a void, or something that is missing. And there is nothing on this earth that can fulfill what our soul longs for.

There is nothing on this earth that can fill the void in your soul.

Now you may be asking, what does all this have to do with houses and foundations?

I will tell you:

What you trust with your soul, is the foundation that your life will be built on.

What you build in this life matters and the foundation that your soul is resting on, matters the most.

Guys, and girls, I know that you all have voids. You have questions in your hearts that you want answered.

I know alot of you have lived through many tragic things. Some of you have empty spaces within your hearts that you don’t understand what to fill them with.

If you don’t get anything else out of this lesson, get what I am about to tell you:

Jesus Christ is the only true foundation that you can trust your soul with.

He is the one who created you. He knows everything that has happened to you, and He wants to help you through it.

Some of you have had bad things happen to you, God is not the cause of it.

Just because God may know everything, it does not mean that he is the one who caused it. Humans cause evil, God is the one who fixes what humans have caused.

Many people run through this life with many wounds:

Not knowing their parents

Having parents who may be divorced.

Being abused as a child

Being bullied

Many will try to self-medicate and find peace from these things, but they will time and time again end up unsuccessful. Why? Because the foundation of those things is sand and are full of promises filled with lies.

1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV

11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Speaking of the foundation in His own words Jesus says:

Matthew 7:24–27 ESV

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

A spiritual foundation must also be based on truth. If something is a lie or a facade, it can’t be a true foundation. That is exactly what the foundations this world will offer you. But Jesus offers you the truth.

John 14:6 ESV

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Conclusion

We all have voids, partly because we live in a fallen in-complete world. But God has sent all of us his son, Jesus Christ to be the true foundation that we can rest all of life’s deep questions on.

So I will ask you, what foundation will you build your life on?