Sitting at the Feet of Jesus: I AM the Way, Truth, Life
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What do I believe God wants them to know? Jesus it the Way, Truth, Life
Why? We all want to know the truth, the way, and how to have life
What do I believe God wants them to do? Follow Jesus
Why? He’s the Way, Truth, Life
ME/WE
Have you ever had one of those times with a FAMILY MEMBER, FRIEND, CO-WORKER....maybe out to eat or on the phone and they say “I have good news” and I have “Bad news”
Anybody ever been there?
Sometimes when they say it this not “good news, bad news, its just bad news”
After church aunt Hilda is going to have us over for lunch, great! Bad news uncle Steve is cooking the lunch....Uncle Steve’s hamburgers are like
Some of have this… “I am cooking dinner, no not good news”
other times it is just equal
Bad news I am not going to hang out this Saturday because my daughters high school band did so well yesterday that they made state! And the state band competition is this Saturday…so let’s reschedule for the following Saturday.
other times it is better
I have some bad news, you know how my work gave us upper deck tickets to the Browns game against the Steelers? Well they had to take them back and give them to another cilent…(aww man!)…Good news is they gave us tickets to their corporate box seats with all you can eat food!
This is not BAD NEWS BUT GREAT NEWS
TENSION
Why do I mention this? This is where at in the STORY of the next I AM Statement of Jesus is at with His disciples
FAREWELL DISCOURSE…John 13-21…it is the last week of Jesus’ week before His death and resurrection....Jesus is giving a FAREWELL Speech....they don’t know this is what is happening and we come to find out Peter is very, very against it!
Jesus is in John 13 is going to tell them some Bad news then in John 14 give the greatest News of all to the GREATEST NEWS OF ALL, for not just them BUT ALL MANKIND
Where are at in the story?
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
SHOW PICTURE
Jesus is the having the last supper before His death
BAD NEWS:
1. I want you to know, you disciples who followed me daily for three years, seen me work miracles, me bless you, teach the scriptures and the....One will betray me…that’s horrible! what are the disciples thinking
It is you? Is it me?
I love what John writes…Peter then tells motions to the one Jesus loves, who is John…ask Jesus who is to betray him
Jesus says John 13:26
Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Sell Jesus out for 30 pieces to the chief priest and elders that will lead to unjust trials that lead to His unjustified Death.
2. Jesus’ is leaving....wait, wait??? You are supposed to over throw Rome and the religious leaders...
3. It is at this moment that Peter says not on my watch anybody say this to God before…Not on my watch
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
The disciples are have to be thinking at this moment…this is the worst last meal ever!”
Judas is going to betray Jesus
Jesus’ is the leaving but we don’t know where that is
Peter is going to deny Jesus
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Haven’t we had days like this?
We have bad news days, weeks, months,
God says....don’t let your hearts be troubled
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
What’s their to hope in???
Why should they not be troubled?
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Where’s Jesus’ Father? Heaven
I am going to heaven to make rooms for you in God the Fathers house....the Kingdom of God is about the family of God....do you know the size of the house? It is the size of a square moon
And you know the way to where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Wait Jesus, we have no IDEA…wave hands
Have one of those moments before?
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Jesus’ says you want to know the way back to Father? To connect with ABBA dad?
it is through me....
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Well to do that you have to follow all the laws and commandments…you best be good enough…that when you get to the perilly white gates
NO
1. There is no amount of good or bad you can do to get your in or out....It is faith, belief, in Jesus as Lord
2. This rhetoric of all roads lead to God, heaven sounds nice but it is dead wrong
- there are many highways that lead to hell and one road that leads to life
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
How does this new life happen? (The disciples didn’t know how it would happen)
And the way we have life is because Jesus laid down his life for us
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
SATIFIES THE PAYMENT OF SIN AND DEATH and we get life
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Jesus lays down His life and we have LIFE
No only do we rise to new life…we are whole new creation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Not only God give you eternal life
Jesus is the way and the truth and the life NOW
When I grew up in the 80s and 90s it was about how to get people into heaven....get them saved
The Good News of the Gospel is not just how do we get people into heaven, how do we get into heaven, but how do we bring heaven down to earth to THE WORLD and to US
HE’S THE WAY NOW
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
How do I grow in my trust and and knowledge of God
How do I know what to trust?
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
The curse of the law death has been satisfied for those who believe in Jesus but there is still consequences for breaking the law of God
But what if its not specifically in the Bible
should I take this job or that job
how should I handle this situation, specifically
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
CHURCH
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
TRUTH
Post-truth
We all crave for TRUTH…you crave for TRUTH?? Why TRUTH BRINGS LIFE, HEALING
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
YES SAVED, BUT I AM GOING TO GET THEM TO LIVE NO LIFE NOW
Sadly, the world we live in is post-truth, but
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Who is the father of lies
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
SOMETHING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE TRUE TO BE REAL
LIE TO YOU ABOUT WHO GOD IS AND WHO WE ARE
Why? because he doesn’t want you to be free and walk in power
He wants you chained down by lies
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
YOUR HORRIBLE FOR SINNING
STORY OF MY LIFE
I broke the tape records
and said no I am a child of God
I am a royal priest
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Overcome it by sitting at the feet of Jesus
reading the Word
listening to the Holy Spirit
and communining with others