Monday, April 23, 2018


The way, the truth, and the life.

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." - John 14:6

Jesus is the Father.

"If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." - John 14:7

Jesus is the way.

The Father put on a fleshy, human body and dwelt among His creation for the purpose to die for the sins of the world. It is by His death, burial, and resurrection that we are able to once again come to Him.

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Romans 6:23

Sin separated us from the Father, so that we could no longer have communion, as Adam and Eve did in the beginning.

"But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear." - Isaiah 59:2

By paying the price of our sin by His sinless body on the cross, Jesus removed this gulf of sin that separated us.

"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:20

By repenting of our sins, and burying them by water baptism in the name of Jesus, our sins are washed away so that we can be filled with His Spirit.

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." - Romans 6:4

The Father that was in Christ reconciled us to Himself.

"To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." - 2 Corinthians 5:19

He made peace with us by His cross so that we could return to Him.

"For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;" - Colossians 1:19-23

Jesus is the truth.

"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," - Ephesians 1:13

The truth and the gospel of our salvation is that Jesus died for our sins, He was buried, and He was resurrected. We obey the truth – the gospel – by becoming dead to sin by repentance, buried with Jesus by water baptism in Jesus name, and resurrected to new life in Jesus by the infilling of His Spirit, the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues as His Spirit gives us the utterance. (1Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 6:1-14, Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-7)

Jesus is the life.

By the infilling of the Holy Ghost, we have eternal life in heaven, and an abundant life on earth, walking with Him in His Spirit.

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." - John 10:10

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