<TITLE>10. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Sometime pretty girls, her beauty becomes a curse to her. She--she finds it out; somebody tells her about it. She wants to be like some movie star, or something, instead of trying to pattern her life after Jesus Christ. She builds her whole foundation upon that, not knowing that she's only got five years of real life, from fifteen to twenty; then she starts dying. And you base your whole hopes upon that, knowing that you got to get old if you live. You've got to get old; you've got to break down. And the beautiful face that you have will rot out there in the grave someday and the bugs will eat it up. So there's no eternal foundation on popularity: who you are, what you are. That has no real foundation; it's not there.
It's like some people try to build their foundation upon a building, material. Look at America today and its big building programs. I went up the other night and preached in a church where there's almost a city. And no more than ten or fifteen years ago, I used to squirrel hunt in that woods. And now, it's a big city built in there. I go over to where I used to hunt rabbits. Why, it's housing projects everywhere. It's a building day, and everyone's mad building.

L-36 A man, a certain man, a fine man, that I know of, that went just wild in building everywhere. Got plenty of money, and kept building more and more. He and his wife both, they lit a cigarette in Mexico a few weeks ago, blowed to bits by gas escaping in the room.
And what foundation have you? There's no foundation upon those things; they are hay and stubbles. And they--they cannot be--have a eternal foundation built on them. There's only one true Foundation; that's Jesus Christ.

L-37 Here some years ago, I was standing up here in New York with a Brother Berg. We had passed by a building, and there was a mammoth, big building. Oh, it was beautiful. And the architect had taken so much pains with how he had built it, and its class. And when we got to the building, the surprise, it was just almost completely finished, but it had been left sitting there. No one was occupying it.
And I said, "What's the matter?" to this man that I was with. I said, "What's wrong?"
He said, "That building only served for one purpose." Said, "The contractor was so interested in what he put in the building that he forgot to go deep enough to put it on the right foundation. So it was condemned and most any time that building will rock down. No one will rent it; nobody wants it. No matter how pretty it is, it wasn't placed on the right foundation.
Brother, sister, may I say this in respects of Jesus Christ, I don't care how good you go to church, how well you dress, what good neighbor you are, unless you took time to dig down to that Foundation of Jesus Christ and lay your hopes in that solid rock yonder, your beautiful church buildings, your robed choirs, whatmore which is fine, but it'll rock down some of these days. God will condemn it, because it's not laid upon the Rock, Christ Jesus. He is the only Foundation.


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