Archive for April, 2007

John 14:6 - “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.’”  

THE LIFE – Jesus is the LIFE.  He gives us Life from Himself, for by his own existence He is the LIFE.  Before anything else existed, He was there (this is one reason it does not make much sense to celebrate his birthday, or the day he died – because he was alive before the world began, and is still alive today).  Everything else that exists does so only at His will, depending on Him for life each moment.  “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”  (Colossians 1:17).  “For in him we live and move and have our being.”  (Acts 17:28).  God has a project for man, since the beginning of creation, and this project is to give every person eternal life.  Jesus is the means by which God wants to reveal this eternal life to all of those who believe in him.  

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John 14:6 - “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.’”    

THE TRUTH – Jesus said that he is the TRUTH (John 14:6).  He did not come to give us philosophy or good ideas; rather, he spoke only words from the Father in heaven.  (See v. 10 – “the words I speak are not my own; rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.”).  

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John 14:6 - “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.’“   

At the Last Supper, as Jesus was trying to prepare his disciples for the fact that his betrayal and death were imminent, he reassured them that he was “going to prepare a place” for them.  He then said something a little challenging to them: “You already know the way to the place where I am going.”  (John 14:4).   continue