The Way The Truth The Life
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• Search ——> Mess / Frustration / Emptiness.
• ! Not lost bc no answer... lost bc wrong direction!
• CLTR: Relativism / Plurality / "No bad ideas."
• Denial of RLTY: To say "no truth" is a truth claim.
• JN 14:1-7.
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. You know the way to where I am going.”
“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
: X stands against tolerance/blended faith
• ! Not WHAT am I made for... but WHO.
THE WAY — OUR ROUTE (DRCTN —>)
• CONTEXT: Halakhah (The Path of Life).
• TORAH: Describes Way ——> X: Embody Way.
• SCRIPTURE: JN 1:1-3 (The Word/Incrntn).
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.
• Life ≠ random; it's a journey. Needs DRCTN.
• X ≠ "Show way" — X IS WAY.
• PWR: Thomas ≠ when asking for drctn... standing next to them!
• ! Outside X = Detour. Xtnty ≠ concept... it's a Path. its drctn —>
• Stop searching — THE WAY is in front of you.
THE TRUTH — THE SCANDAL (PRCSN)
• CONFLICT: Culture shifts; X doesn’t. "Yr truth" vs THE TRUTH.
• CLTR: Hates "Only." Narrow-minded: 1WY2 HVN. Exclusive
• RLTY: X ≠ narrow-minded; He is HONEST.
• ! X ≠ fit into truth; TRUTH fits into X. Eph 4:21
assuming you heard about him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
W T L - States. True False
• STD: God is the standard. Perfect/Whole/Complete. Take away, ≠complete
• [ILLUS: HERSHEY BAR]: Missing pieces? ≠ Buying it.
• Cltr/Church edits X, takes verses out, fashion to our IMG——> No, I’m not buying it.
• [ILLUS: BRNG BLDG]: ≠ "Diversity of opinions" on exit. Need the DOOR.
• ! Precision ≠ Prejudice; Precision = PROTECTION.
• GD PPL out there..Mean Well. Sincere pilot vs. specific coordinates.
• SCANDAL: Invite is limitless; Entrance is singular. Wide arms / Narrow door.
• CSL (FORK IN RD): Lord of ALL or not worth following at ALL. Dont figure it out. Surrender. Wash over u.
THE LIFE — OUR REASON (PRPS)
• Living 4 something - ≠enough. Pouring temporary things into eternal hole.
• THLY: DEUT 30:19
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
(Choose Life). Law pointed; X delivers.
• ! You don't build a life without Him... you borrow breath!
• REV: If it can be taken from you, it was never meant to complete you.
• ! X IS LIFE. ≠ find life by chasing thngs. Find life by surrendering to Him.
• CONN: Way bc Truth. Life bc BOTH.
• Not yr Truth ——> wont b yr Way ——> wont xprnc his Life.
WHY IT MATTERS (THE STACK)
• Every path leads somewhere... 1 leads HOME. X = path, What mean for yr life?
• X = WAY (Stop wandering)
• X = TRTH (Stop searching)
• X = LFE (Start living)
• ! No other option, voice, path, answer...You need the One who is the answer for ALL life.
[ALTAR]
• Stop searching / wandering / substituting.
• The One you've been looking for is calling your name.
