Jeus Gives His Disciples Further Instructions Series

And as much as I hate to admit it, there are many believers today who live and act the same way. They’ve been exposed to the word since they’ve been knee high to a grass hopper but they completely miss the point of the gospel. They talk as though the rewards Jesus offers believers are simply for the here and now and they say things like, if you’re faithful to God He’ll bless you and that way the unsaved can see the value of having faith. Or, if you’re faithful in your giving God will bless you and that way the unsaved can see that you’re really a believer and that God prospers all those who give. It makes me wonder where people get these crazy ideas.

Now listen, I don’t doubt that God prospers some people and not others but I don’t think it always has an awful lot to do with their faith. Do you realize that there are times when having a lot of money can actually be a curse while having nothing can be a blessing? There are people like in our world like Hugh Hefner who owns Playboy magazine and he has more money then he could ever spend while at the same time there are missionaries on the foreign fields of this world who don’t have half the things that we do. But, none of us would ever claim that either of them are to be evaluated spiritually on the basis of what they own. So, we would never look at someone’s riches or their poverty and assume that this is a measurement of their spirituality.

Now, before we look at verses 7-14 I want to go back and look at verse 6 again because I feel that I went over this a little too fast and I missed a few good points. Verse 6 says, “Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life and no man cometh unto to the Father but by Me.”

Now, it says Jesus is the way and I believe we can assume that He’s talking about the way to the Father and this means that He not only is He the way but He is the only way. He’s the only one who can span the distance between heaven and earth. Man has always tried to find his own way to get to heaven by good works, prayers, tears and a thousand other ways but as Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto man but the end thereof are the ways of death.” In other words, Jesus is the only way. And if anyone is going any other way, they’re going the wrong way.

And then He says that He is the truth and this means that He is the absolute truth or the full and final revelation of God. And whenever someone claims to know anything of a spiritual nature but they don’t acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ then you can be sure he is a liar.

And then it says He is the life and we know that His life is eternal life and that tells us that He is everything for us that anyone could ever need. And what I mean by this is that everything we ever lost in Adam we got back when we came to Jesus.

He is the way and if we’re not going his way, we’re going the wrong way and He is the truth and everyone who claims to have truth but doesn’t know Him is a liar and He is the life and apart from Him there’s nothing but death.