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Thesis/ Central Idea:
The way believers journey through this world and into the life to come where Jesus Christ himself is the way to live.
Introduction:
Have you ever used a map to get anywhere?
I’m talking about the old books and Atlas that had every State in it, it would even break down the metro areas
(discuss the new maps like Apple, Google, Waze and how they have changed our habits)
Today we need to set a destination for our soul, that is heaven, then we need to follow The Way...
God’s ways
Walking in God’s way
The everyday Christian walks in God’s ways...
We claim all the time how Holy we are
Well if that were true it should be seen and experienced...
See also Ge 18:19; Ex 18:20; Dt 10:12–13; Dt 13:5; Dt 28:9; Jos 22:5; Job 23:10–12; Ps 1:1–2; Ps 18:30; 2 Ti 3:10
The Way is Taught
It should be understood that in order for one to follow the Way, he must be taught...
As one is taught, characteristics should develop and be strengthened...
See also 1 Sa 12:23; 1 Ki 8:35–36; Ps 25:8–9; Ps 25:12; Ps 86:11; Ps 119:30; Pr 6:23; Is 2:3; Is 30:20–21
Characteristics of the way of life include holiness, obedience, trust, humility, joy and peace
Not everyone wants to walk in this way…as a matter of fact no one walks the way he should and is changed into someone who walks the Way...
Ps 16:11; Ps 23:2; Pr 8:20; Je 6:16; Mic 6:8; Ga 5:22–23
Sinners refuse to follow God’s way
We must find the Way before it is too late...
See also Is 56:11; Ac 14:16; 2 Pe 2:15
All other ways end in death
Just as death is the result of not walking God’s way
Life is the result of walking correctly...
See also Dt 11:28; Dt 31:29; Jdg 2:17; 2 Ki 21:22; Ps 1:6; Pr 15:10; Pr 16:25
Those who travel God’s way are blessed
There is a given example of how to walk...
See also Dt 5:33; 1 Ki 8:23; Pr 11:5; Is 26:7–8; Mt 5:3–12
Jesus Christ is the Way to life
Jn 14:6; Col 2:3
In Jesus we find all we need to walk righteously, that is why the church was literal called the way...
See also Jn 8:12; Heb 12:2
“the Way” was an early designation of Christianity, suggestive of the content of the church’s message that Jesus Christ is the way to life:
Ac 9:2; Ac 19:9; Ac 19:23; Ac 22:4; Ac 24:14; Ac 24:22
Acts 9:2 (ESV)
2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 19:9 (ESV)
9 But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
Acts 19:23 (ESV)
23 About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.
Acts 22:4 (ESV)
4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,
Acts 24:14 (ESV)
14 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
Acts 24:22 (ESV)
22 But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”
So the Bible makes plan is there is a way
to enter into that way is to find life...
Entrance to the Way to life
The way to life is not broad...
Entrance is restricted
A life lived as if choices didn’t matter
and personal preferences ruled every decision
then we are going to miss the entrance
what you believe is very important...
See also Jn 10:9; Jn 14:6
Entrance is by faith
this is how chapter on the Hall of Faith reads...
We preach our eulogies everyday we live
I pray we walk as if we have a goal in mind
I pray that goal is heaven as your eternal destiny
I pray you set your souls navigation to that eternal home with God and all the Saints...
See also Jn 3:15–16; 2 Co 5:7; Heb 11:6; Heb 11:13–16
Conclusion:
Consider your Way today
make an adjustment just like our Apple and Google and Waze maps
once we put in our destination it does the best it can to keep us on course
it does it’s best to keep us on The Way...
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