Scriptures for centuries—by Isaiah and other prophets—but they rejected it, as Peter reminds us again (1 Pet. 2:6–8). Every human philosophy, religious system, and code of ethics is doomed to failure and destruction, because it has no foundation. There is only one foundation, and, no matter how he may try, no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. God’s kingdom is built on Jesus Christ, and every individual life (“each man,” v. 10) that pleases God