jesus-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life.txt

Jesus is the Way to the Father

1. The Way the Truth and the Life

youtube.com: 2013 05 26 A I Am The Way Truth and Life Dr Steven J Lawson
526131753512 @time: 9 min 33 sec

Jesus Himself is personally the way to the Father. Religion is not the
way to the Father. Ritual is not the way to the Father. Neither is good
works or church or a church attendance or baptism. But Jesus Christ
Himself is the way to the Father. And when he says THE way he is making
an exclusive claim to be the one and only true way of salvation that
leads from this world into the very presence of God.

Jesus came to actually be the way to provide the way by his life and by
his death.

youtube.com: 2013 05 26 A I Am The Way Truth and Life Dr Steven J Lawson
526131753512 @time: 25 min 28 sec

He who believes in Him is not judged. He who does not believe has been
judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. What is it to believe in Jesus Christ? It is to
believe that you're lost, that you cannot save yourself. It is to
believe that Jesus Christ has come into the world to save sinners. It is
to come to a place where you recognize this, you confess your sin, and
you commit your life entirely to Jesus Christ. It is to come to the end
of yourself. It is to surrender your life to Christ. It is to say I can
no longer direct my life. I can no longer be the one who presides over
my life. It is to surrender and to submit to the lordship of Jesus
Christ. It is to deny yourself, take up a cross and begin to follow
after Jesus Christ. This is the truth concerning how to enter the way.

He who believes in the son has eternal life but he who does not obey the
son will not see life but the wrath of God abides on him.

Please note how believe in obey are used synonymously in parallel
fashion. To believe is to obey Jesus Christ.

Saving faith is always an act of obedience to God who says you must
submit your life to my son Jesus Christ.

Unbelief is disobedience true faith is a step of obedience and this
requirement of faith.

youtube.com: 2013 05 26 A I Am The Way Truth and Life Dr Steven J Lawson
526131753512 @time: 37 min 51 sec

There's now a third and final aspect in which Jesus says I am the way,
and the truth and the life. This is not a multiple-choice. It's not,
"Who here today would like to have one of these three. Who here today
we'd like to have two of these three? The word 'and' joins them all
together that they are inseparably bound, and what Jesus is saying as He
is the Life, that the one who believes the Truth will enter the Way and
all who are on the Way will have the Life, will know the Life, will have
the Life of God within them. They're not just on a path, they are on a
path, which is Christ, but they also have Christ inside of them as they
are on the way they will never travel the way solo. They will never
travel the way by themselves. They will always have Jesus Christ Himself
with them and more than just with them they will have Him in them. They
will have the Life within them.

Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. This third heading
is Jesus is the only life in God, or from God. Those who receive the
truth, receive the life. Those who refuse the truth refuse the life.

  Acts 4:12 - And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no
  other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
  (ESV)

  I John 5:11-13 - And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal
  life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life;
  whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these
  things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may
  know that you have eternal life. (ESV)

  John 17:3 - And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true
  God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (ESV)

youtube.com: 2013 05 26 A I Am The Way Truth and Life Dr Steven J Lawson
526131753512 @time: 40 min 55 sec
Life is to know God. Eternal life is to have God within you, within your
soul, and to commune with God, and to fellowship with God, and to work
to walk with God. Without this life, we are spiritually dead. Without
this life, we are spiritually empty and hollow and have nothing. But all
who believe in Christ are made spiritually alive. They know God. They
love God, they adore God, they respond to God. This is the life that
Jesus has come to give.

2. We are called to follow Jesus

  I Corinthians 1:4-8 - I give thanks to my God always for you because
  of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every
  way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as
  the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are
  not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in
  the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful, by whom you were called into the
  fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:12 - What I mean is that each one of you says, I
  follow Paul, or I follow Apollos, or I follow Cephas, or I follow
  Christ. (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:21 - For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did
  not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what
  we preach to save those who believe. (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:22-24 - For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
  but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to
  Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
  the power of God and the wisdom of God. (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:30 - He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus,
  whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and
  redemption. (ESV)

3. We must come to a place where give our life entirely to Jesus and believe
in Jesus

We recognise we need Jesus. We entrust our soul and our life entirely to
Jesus Christ. We trust in Him. We believe in Him.

  John 9:30-41 - The man answered, Why, this is an amazing thing! You do
  not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that
  God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God
  and does his will, God listens to him. Never since the world began has
  it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this
  man were not from God, he could do nothing. They answered him, You
  were born in utter sin, and would you teach us? And they cast him out.
  Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said,
  Do you believe in the Son of Man? He answered, And who is he, sir,
  that I may believe in him? Jesus said to him, You have seen him, and
  it is he who is speaking to you. He said, Lord, I believe, and he
  worshiped him. Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, that
  those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind. Some
  of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, Are we
  also blind? Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no
  guilt; but now that you say, We see, your guilt remains. (ESV)

  Mark 5:36 - But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of
  the synagogue, Do not fear, only believe. (ESV)

  Luke 14:23 - And the master said to the servant, Go out to the
  highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be
  filled. (ESV)

  I Thessalonians 2:15-16 - who killed both the Lord Jesus and the
  prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
  by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be
  saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's
  wrath has come upon them at last! (ESV)

  I Corinthians 1:17-18 - For Christ did not send me to baptize but to
  preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the
  cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is
  folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is
  the power of God. (ESV)

Date: 2024-09-25 Wed 00:00

Author: Shane Mulligan

Created: 2024-10-19 Sat 22:46

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