9 February 2025
JESUS – THE WAY TO GOD AND HEAVEN
(The Names Of God: TNOG 28)
Jesus said, “I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). This the fifth “I AM” claim of Deity. He said this in answer to Philip’s question, “How can we know the way?” Jesus did not say He would show them a way but that HE Himself is the Way. In other words, there are no options on the way to Heaven and Eternal life— where the Father is. There is only one way, and Jesus is that Way.
Mankind, knowing their sinfulness, seeks to find their own ways to Heaven by various means. But these are futile, for the Bible says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Prov.14:12). The Bible also says that “All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God …and the wages of sin is death” (Rom.3:23; 6:23). God is Holy and Heaven is a holy place where no sin is. Nothing we do, no matter how good or religious, can take away sin. Hence God sent His Son Jesus to be the Savior because of His great love for us: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have Eternal Life” (John 3:16).
Jesus is also The Truth. HE is Truth Incarnate: the ultimate, inarguable, definitive, eternal, and supreme Truth. HE does not merely teach Truth or that His words are true (He does, and they are!), Jesus is Truth Embodied. And His claim means that we are to believe Him, trust Him, and submit every one of our “truths” to His Absolute Truth. Jesus also said that when we come to Him, we will “know the Truth, and the Truth will set us free” (Jn 8:32). He, The Truth, will set us free from every form of bondage of sin, darkness and fear.
Finally, Jesus is The Life. John began his Gospel by saying, “In Him [Jesus] was Life, and the Life was the light of men” (Jn 1:4) and that HE came to “give life and life more abundantly” (10:10b). Jesus is the Author of Life (Acts 3:15), and He came to give His Life for us and to us. He died for us and our sins so that we might be forgiven and have Eternal Life when we receive Him into our life through faith in Him. Hence the Bible says, “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11).
Notice the warning given by the Lord Jesus: “No one comes to the Father except through Me”. The Father is God Who is in Heaven. Unless we have Jesus in our life, we cannot go to Heaven and to be with God forever. Jesus said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has Everlasting Life” (Jn 6:47). This is Eternal Life is in Heaven.
Jesus claims to be “The Way, The Truth and The Life” because He is the Lord from Heaven. The Lyrics of a song says that “Without The Way there is no going; without The Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living”. How very true! Without Jesus in our life there is no hope, no meaning, and no satisfaction. We are all lost and cannot find our way back to God and Heaven. Let us in faith invite Jesus into our life as Lord and Savior and be saved.
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