Barbra Odle Service

English Standard Version Chapter 14

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

“Let not your hearts be troubled.” This is written in red letters and for much of the world that may mean absolutely nothing, but to me it means that Jesus said these words. Believe in God, Believe also in me. These too are the words from the Son of Man. To those who believe these are some of the most important words that we believe in and this is why.

2” 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? 3 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. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jn 14:2–4.

The first part of this message is a redundant message and not easy to believe in especially if you are not sure in what you believe. 2” 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? As the world knows all too well it is easy to be deceived, as people of the world tell us what they want us to believe. So, Jesus tells us that He is going to prepare a place for us-that in this place there are many rooms-then He tells us that if it were not so would he have told us so. To believe in this statement we must believe that Jesus is no liar.

Now some may ask, who was Jesus talking to and so I confess that in this passage He was talking to his disciples. Jesus was trying to comfort them after word of His death became known. The second part of this passage is, “ 3 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. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” So once you make up your mind he is going, which is truly for you to believe, Jesus tells his Disciples that he will return to take them with him. Now notice that the Disciple Thomas is confused about this message and confronts Jesus about where he is going. “5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jn 14:5.

Jesus never told the Disciples that they had to find the place where he was going, but that if they believed he would come again and take them there. 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jn 14:6–7. You know how many times I have had people tell me that there has to be another way? Well if I had a dime.

Imagine then how disappointing it would be for his disciple Philip to say to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Jn 14:8–9.

I Am that I Am-13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ex 3:13.

English Standard Version (Chapter 3)

14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.