Statement six... part 1...

We're almost to the end of this, the second portion of this long and fruitful study, and we are coming to quite the ending, indeed!  We have been blessed to be free of the fears of hunger, darkness, being lost, being unprotected, and death, and now we are going to learn a fundamental and profound Truth about our lives... and that Truth is another layer of Who Jesus really IS!

"Jesus told him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"

John 14:6, HCSB

Wow... you know there are few passages in literature that make men tremble in awe, but this one has to be among them.  What a Statement!  At this moment, reading through the Gospel of John, it is appropriate to seek the truth behind whether Jesus is crazy or correct.  Clearly, you know that I believe and know Him to be correct in all things, this Statement definitely among them.  However, can you try and picture what reply or response you would have if anyone else in the history of history were to utter these words about themselves?  Think about it...

We learned in a prior Statement that Jesus is the door or the gate, and here He clarifies that He is "the way."  You know, in my studies I have found that any time something is repeated in Scripture, it is something that should be paid great attention to.  Therefore, since He has already said that He is the door, and now He is the way, then is there any other path or doorway or threshold or gate or passage or any other such pass-through that will suffice? 

No. 

Later in the New Testament, we will see echoes of this repeated again in Acts 4:12 which reads, "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved (HCSB)."  Jesus IS the way, and there is nothing that can stand against that.  His path is the one to follow, because He walked it.  And His example is the one to follow, because it is His.  To put it another way, His way is the only way to consider, because He is right and righteous, and if He went through a certain way, then we should, as well.

No other way matters... no other way is right... no other way yields fruit of any kind... it's like those silly puzzles on the back of the children's menu at your favorite restaurant (whatever it may be), in that there is only a single route that is successful from beginning to end.  You could also compare it to any puzzle you have ever put together, from two pieces to ten thousand, in that they only fit together one specific way.  Trying all the others is pointless, because they will fail.  Believing in any other is pointless, because it is foolish.  There is ONE WAY, folks, and all of the "enlightened" people who subscribe to anything different are carrying ever-dimming torches as they exhaust one possibility after another. 

It's like a dear friend of mine said one day: we are discovering facts and truths that fit our beliefs, supporting the Truth that Jesus is the only way to the Father... those opposed to this view are constantly rearranging their beliefs to fit the falsehood they claim to be the truth, whatever the case may be.  Think about that for a while, and when you recognize that there is only ONE WAY, and that the way IS Jesus Christ, He will be waiting for you.

God bless you all!!!