The Way, The Truth and the Life
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“Let not your hearts 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 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. 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?” 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.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
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?
He Has Prepared a Place for you
Picture of the McCallister House
5 bedrooms and 4 baths little over 4200 sq ft
Audio Adrenaline Big House
Big, Big House with lots and lots of rooms.
Big, Big Table with lots and lots of food
A Big, Big Yard with where we can play football.
A Big, Big House, it’s my Father’s House
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.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
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.”
We cannot go where He is at now, but we will get there. I always remember this verse whenever I think about Death or people on their deathbed.
And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Thomas questions the Way
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 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.”
He is the Great I AM
I AM STATEMENTS
These are strong statements about ourselves. When we say I AM we need to make sure we stand behind it wholeheartedly.
I AM A SINNER
I AM LOVED
I AM SAVED
I AM A CHRISTIAN
But Jesus says I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE
THE WAY
We are lost. We are wandering around trying to find something right.
Jesus uses I AM THE WAY to distinguish Himself as ‘THE ONLY WAY’ to Heaven
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.”
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.
We talk about this last week. Thats it. That’s what it take to be saved.
He is
THE TRUTH
God will never deter us from reaching our destination. Satan will tell us lies that the only way we can achieve our destination by good works. We stay in the word and hear God telling us the truth
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
He is
THE LIFE
Jesus had been preparing his Disciples about His death and state he is the source of all life.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Jesus has told us what He has done for us, He has given us the instructions so what do we need to do.
OPEN OUR EYES
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.
We need to Seek HIM
Jesus was God as man. Philip walked with Him, ate with Him, talked to Him on a daily basis yet Philip still says Show us the Father.
When we open our eyes and heed his call
We Believe
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
When we believe, we will follow Jesus, we will see the truth, and we will have eternal life with Him.
We believe in God the Father
We believe in Jesus Christ
We believe in the Holy Spirit
And He’s given us new life
We believe in the crucifixion
We believe that he conquered death
We believe in the resurrection
And He’s coming back again