string(7) "m-66998" Burnt Hickory Baptist Church

Sermons

← back to list

Mar 30, 2025

The Way, The Truth, and The Life | Power and Promise

The Way, The Truth, and The Life | Power and Promise

Passage: John 14:1-11

Speaker: Matt Petty

Series: Power and Promise

Category: Sunday Sermons

Keywords: baptism, absolute truth, john 14:6, christian identity, spiritual journey, bride of christ, knowing jesus, christian basics, finding direction, troubled hearts, upper room discourse, father's house, growing in faith, christian obedience, purpose in christ, next steps in faith, jesus i am statements, believer baptism, jewish wedding customs, the way truth life, preparing a place, relationship not religion, first step of obedience, eternal savior, disciples confusion, marriage imagery, jewish bridegroom, last teachings, faith decision

Ever wondered if Jesus is just showing us a path, or if He's something more? This sermon explores Jesus' bold claim in John 14:6 that He is "the way, the truth, and the life" - not just a guide, but the destination itself. Through the lens of Jewish wedding customs, Pastor Matt reveals how Jesus used marriage imagery to describe His relationship with believers. When Jesus tells His disciples He's "preparing a place" for them, He's using language that would resonate deeply with their cultural understanding of a bridegroom's promise to his bride. If you've been treating Christianity as a set of rules rather than a relationship, you'll discover that from your first step of faith to your final breath, following Jesus isn't about religious performance but about "knowing, growing, and walking closer with Jesus, our eternal Savior." You'll walk away understanding that Jesus doesn't just offer direction, reality, and purpose - He IS these things!

You know, what I've started to realize is that Michelle’s story that we just watched, represents a whole lot of people's stories in this room. You might not have walked through the exact events, you might not have had all of the tragedies. Michelle's story is the same as all of our stories in that there's moments of our lives, even those of us who have given our hearts to Jesus, where we feel like we're far away. We feel like we're lost. We feel like we have been removed from even the family of God. We feel like we're in despair.

But yet, even in those moments, the Lord is faithful and good and loving and kind. And the Lord reaches down into our souls and just even nudges us a little while farther to say, I'm here. I don't know where you're at in your faith journey. For some of you man, quite frankly, you need to give your heart to Jesus to have what Michelle has. Now, for some of you though, you're right where she is. Maybe you have given your life to Jesus, but you have never taken that next step of baptism. Man, I just want to ask you this morning, what's holding you back? The Bible tells us that baptism is a public display of what has already happened in our heart. It is a public moment displaying what Christ has done for us. And the Bible tells us that baptism is not about how you feel. Christ took care of that when he was baptized. And then right after his baptism, he looked at us and said, go do likewise. Yes sir.

I can feel the tension in the moment. Matt, what if I'm not ready? Oh, if you've given your life to Christ, you're ready. But the question is, will you be obedient now? Michelle's story represents so many of the “I am” statements, even the one that we're going to look at in just a minute, but also in some of your lives this morning. I pray that wherever the Lord has brought you from, he's brought you to the point today to say, I need to take that step. I want you to take out your phones this morning. Go ahead and open up the Burn Hickory app. The sermon notes are in there. It'll get you ahead for just a minute. And in there is a button called Next Steps. Listen, today, if you've given your heart to Jesus, but yet you've never been baptized as a believer, let me ask you something today. What's holding you back? What's holding you back after that story? I can tell you that your life will take on a whole new meaning when you step into the first act of obedience in this Christian walk. And that's baptism. Under next steps, the second button down says, Be Baptized. If that's where you are and you've never taken that step as a believer, man, click that button. Let somebody call you from our team this week and talk about this with you, about what it means and what it can look like for you to receive the freedom you can have when you walk in obedience.

If you have a copy of scripture today, I want you to go ahead and turn me to John chapter 14. Launching out of that video, we are going to see yet another place today where Jesus takes on this “I am” name that God claimed in the Old Testament as Yahweh.

Jesus comes along in the New Testament and claims it for himself. He claims it to meet us in our needs, but he also claims it, to show us that he is not just a miracle worker, he is not just a good teacher. Jesus takes on this name to show us that he's God. So far over the last couple weeks we've walked through five of the I am statements. Jesus has said, if you feel empty, I'm the bread of life. If you feel like you're in the dark, I am the light of the world. If you feel like you're attacked and uneasy, I am the door that brings life and protection. He said, if you feel like you're alone and lost, I am the good shepherd. And then last week he said that if you are feeling disappointed, even in the shadow of death, when you feel like nobody else has your back, Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life.

Each one of these I am statements attaches to an incredibly big need in our life. And even more so the statement this morning attaches to the ones that we've walked through, but also it attaches itself to the biggest human need on this planet. And that is the need for us to submit our hearts to Jesus as our Savior and as our Lord. Today in John chapter 14, the promise of Jesus, the claim of Jesus actually comes out of one of the most famous verses in all of John's gospel, John 14:6. So every week I've read the claim over us and then we've worked our way back through the claim to see exactly what Jesus does and is offering for us.

So here's the claim this morning, John 14, verse six. Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Listen to me. This is not hyperbole. In that verse is the most life giving phrase that we can ever read because Jesus steps onto the scene and he tells us what it means to have life in him. But in order to see it clearly, I need to give you some context. We skipped a couple of chapters from last week into the message today. In John 14:6, Jesus is actually meeting with his disciples, and these guys that have been following him for the last three years.

He's in the upper room. It is the night before he is betrayed. It's the night before the cross. Jesus gives the upper room discourse (if you want to sound really smart at lunch today, use those words), in these chapters surrounding chapter 14. Jesus is looking at his disciples in the upper room. He's speaking clearly and passionately, and Jesus is leaning into his last pep talk, the last moments before he goes back to the Father. But the more Jesus talks, the more the disciples get confused, the more they get scared. And rightfully so, because when we read it, we kind of know the end of the story. But these guys have been living with Jesus the Messiah for these last three years. They've given their life to him. They've given all of their promise to him. They've left their families, their vocations.

And now Jesus is saying words to them they never thought they would hear Jesus say. Jesus is looking into these guys' hearts, looking into their lives and telling them what is going to happen when he goes away. Now this blew their minds. Because in this very moment, Jesus the Messiah, the one that they thought was going to do all the things that the Messiah was going to do. He's looking at them and saying, wait a minute, I'm going away. To of give you the gravity of the moment, I’ll go back and read a couple of verses from John chapter 13. Jesus says this, my children, he's talking to his disciples.

I will be with you only a little longer. You'll look for me. And just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now where I'm going, you cannot come. A new command I give you love one another as I've loved you. So you must love one another. And by this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. They've been hearing this. We actually preach a lot of messages on it, but that's not the command that they have the problem with. It's the one that we have the problem with. We have a little bit of a love problem, but for these guys, it wasn't the love command that threw them into disarray. It was the fact that Jesus is now looking at them, their savior, their Messiah, and saying, I'm going away.

That's what was shocking to them. I mean, after all, they had been jockeying for positions in this new kingdom Jesus was going to set up. But then Jesus right here in this moment, he gives them this love command and watch what Peter says in verse 36. He breezes right past the love command. Simon Peter asked him in verse 36, Lord, where are you going? Jesus replied, where I'm going, you cannot follow now, but you'll follow Later. Peter asked, Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay my life down for you. Then Jesus answered, will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly, I tell you before the rooster crows Peter, you will disown me three times. Now we look at that a whole lot, but I want you to see this talk of Jesus going away.

This is what's really thrown them off. And now if the leader of the group, Peter is struggling with this, if he is going to crack, if he is going to lose his faith, they're all looking at this moment and they're saying, man, what is happening? We are sunk. Now, they don't say this out loud, but at this moment, if you get into the disciple's minds just for a minute, they're thinking with each other. They're going, man, did we make a mistake? Did we follow the wrong guy? Did we bet on the wrong horse? Have we given these last three years of our life for nothing? Is Jesus not going to deliver us? Is Jesus really going to just desert us? Is he really just going to leave us with this little command? Just go love people. Now that's what they're thinking. And here's the thing about Jesus.

Jesus knows that they're thinking this, but in our minds, you have to think that Jesus is getting frustrated at this point. The Bible doesn't say that he's frustrated, but if this is the best of the best, if this is the cream of the crop of Christians on the planet at the moment, and now they're looking at Jesus with the this, he's going away comments with this idea that we followed the wrong guy. You've got to think in Jesus's mind that he's getting so frustrated at this moment, not to mention he's about to go to the cross, not to mention it's the most stressful moment of any person in eternity's life on this planet. And now his disciples are looking at him going, you're going to desert us. That's what's happening right here. But Jesus, thank goodness, doesn't get frustrated with them, just like he doesn't get frustrated at us when we have questions.

Jesus doesn't get mad at him. Jesus pauses in the moment. He clarifies who he is, he speaks his love over these guys and he actually speaks his love over us in this incredible command. So, really quick, for the rest of the time I have left, here's what I want to do. I just want to give us a few reminders from Jesus about Jesus for this incredibly important claim that we just read. Let me read you the verses here. Add to John chapter 14 and just watch what Jesus says.

John 14, verse one through 10 says, do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. My father's house has many rooms. If it were not so would I have told you but I'm going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come back and I will take you to be with me so that you also may be where I am.

Can I get an amen, right? Amen. Look at verse four. Jesus says, you know the place where I'm going, verse five, Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you're going. So how can we know the way Jesus answered - here's the claim - I am the way and the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me. Now that's where we normally stop, but we're overachievers. So let me read you these rest of these verses. He says, if you really know me, you will know my father as well. From now on, you do know him and you have seen him. Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and that'll be enough for us. Jesus answered, don't you know me, Philip, even after I've been with you for such a long time, anyone that has seen the anyone that has seen me, has seen the Father, and how can you say, show us the Father? Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? These words I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father living in me who is doing his work.

Now, all this language, particularly in the backside of this passage, we're going to get to the front side in a minute. All this language here is this whole father's in me and I am in the Father. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Jesus is pointing to the idea again that he and the Father are one, that they are one, they are not two, they are of the same substance. And so what Jesus does multiple times from different angles, from different approaches, he's looking at his disciples over and over and over again and he is saying, I am God. It's almost like in this passage that Jesus is like, really? I can't say it anymore clearly.

Listen, believer, never let anybody challenge you that Jesus is not God. Never let anybody look at you and say that he was just a good teacher. He was just a good person, he was a sage, he was a prophet. He might've been all of those things. But all of those come under the banner that Jesus is God. God is Jesus. They are not separate beings. They're of the same essence. It's what he's saying in this passage, and I love how he says it. He looks at them and he is like, I am in the Father. The Father is in me. We are one together. The writer of Hebrews says it like this, the son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being. That word, exact representation in the Greek is the word caricature.

Don't think Disney. It's this idea of the tool or the inscription on a stone of what someone wants you to know. In other words, what God is saying is that Jesus is the 100% inscribed nature of who he is in flesh. He's God. He's God. So Jesus is making this point from all of these different angles in this whole different series, but he goes one step farther in verse 11 that he hasn't gone to yet. John 14:11. Jesus says, believe me when I say that I'm in the Father and the Father is in me or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Now, I want you to notice what Jesus does here. He actually frees you up. He gives you an apologetic here that you can grab hold of.

Jesus looks at them and he looks at us and he says, look, if you don't believe me for my words, in other words, if you don't believe me for what I've said, for what I've been saying to you over these last three years, Jesus looks at him and says, at least believe me for my works, for what I have done. I don't know if you've ever thought about this before, but write this principle down. Jesus has given us his words and his works to lead us to him as God and Savior, his words and his works. Here's what that means. Both Jesus' words and his works always operate in unison. They never dispute each other. They never oppose each other. They always paint a perfect picture of who Jesus is. And actually Jesus is the only human being on this planet that can say that 100% of the time.

His words and his works are always congruent. They're always in a line. You can always trust both. So listen to this apologetic. Listen to this defense of who Jesus is. Jesus looks at them and he says, listen, believe me for what I say, believe me, for what I say, what I say carries a lot of weight. And he also says to them, but if you don't believe that, believe me for what I do, believe me for the miracles that I have, because you've got both of those to hold onto. So listen, if Satan ever tries to get you to believe that Jesus didn't say what he said, do what he did, just remind Satan of what he did. God has given us both of these to hold onto on top of the fact that in three weeks from now we’ll celebrate that he rose from the grave, for goodness sakes.

So he's looking at these guys, he's getting them ready for the next moment of their lives and he's saying, listen, nobody else can make this claim. How many miracles did Gandhi do, Buddha do, Muhammad do Confucius do: none. They didn't do any but Jesus, his words plus his works, plus who he was, plus the fact that he rose from the grave, gave us the significance of John 14:6.

When he says this, Jesus answered, here's how you know you can trust him. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life and no one comes to the Father except through me. Next time somebody pushes back at you and says, how could Jesus make that claim? It's so exclusive. Yeah, you're right. And his words and his works and his resurrection and the fact that he is God backs all of it up.

So Jesus makes this claim in an incredible way. Now, let's drill down into how he makes the claim. Remember, Jesus is talking to his disciples. He's looking at them and he's saying, listen, I'm going away. This thing's about to end. My ministry's about to end. I'm about to hand my mission off to you. It's about to end. Jesus is telling them, I'm about to be crucified. I'm about to raise from the grave. I'm about to go back to the Father and Jesus knows all this. He knows this is coming. And so now Jesus looks at them and says, Hey, I am going back. I'm going back to heaven. You can't come now, but you can come later. But Jesus looks at them and says, trust me, in this relationship that we have, trust me, because of where we've been these last three years, he looks at them and says that I will come back for you.

But even in the middle of that, Peter pushes back and Philip pushes back and Thomas pushes back. To which Jesus, he keeps going back to this fact that this whole walk with him is not about all these peripheral things. It's just about an intimate relationship with him. Listen, let me just remind you that, that the longer you walk with Jesus and the longer you're in this thing called Christianity, the more you're going to begin to realize that this whole life is about one thing and that is about just snuggling up beside the Savior that can save you. That's what it's about. So many of us try to put Christianity in this little box that's just some rules or some regulations or some principles and listen, yeah, Christianity has principles, but that's not what it's about. Christianity at its core, Jesus is saying, is the fact that we have a savior that is going to prepare a place for us and that he is the way and he is the truth and he is the life and no one comes to the Father except through him.

That's what Jesus is saying here. But he says it in an incredible way. He actually goes back, Jesus does in these first verses and he pulls up some Jewish wedding language. Now in verses two through six, you might not have seen it because it's kind of hard to grab hold to if you're not Jewish. Jesus pulls this life-giving, intimate-relationship-with-him message into the context of a Jewish wedding.

I know we've talked about this in the past, actually talked about it in the series. If you are a Jew during this time, if you and a girl caught each other's eyes, decided that y'all were the ones, you would have to go to your respective fathers and ask them to have a meeting, you would have a meeting the fathers to determine if this thing could work.

Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just telling you how it worked. The fathers would get together, they would strike up a contract. I know it sounds weird. They would decide a price for the bride. A dowry if you would. They would decide a price, and if the price was right, everybody agreed you would come together. You would sign an agreement as a couple. I'm not kidding you, this is how it worked. You would stand before a priest and you would say your vows. You would have a wedding ceremony on the front end, and then you didn't get the bird seed and the sendoff at that point, and then you actually had to go back to your respective family's houses for the next year or so.

During that year under contract, the lady would get herself ready. The bride, she would go on a diet. She would get all the beauty treatments. I don't know about that, but you're following it, right? She would get ready and the groom would go back to his family's compound and actually build a place for you guys to live. He would build a place onto the father's house. And here's the interesting part. The groom wasn't the one that decided when the time was right. When the groom went to go get his bride, it was the father of the groom who did. If I'm a dude and I know my wife's waiting on me, I mean I can do a cardboard box and a poster on the wall, right?

But it was actually the father that said, Hey son, you're ready for your bride. He would tap him on the shoulder and he'd say, go get your bride. And he would. So the father determined it, right? The bride would get ready, the bride would wait. The groom works until the nod from the father. And if you're going wait a minute, that kind of sounds like the New Testament, you're right. Didn't Jesus say, I don't know when the time is the Father does. And in fact, let me read these verses to you again and now in that context, listen to them. It says, do not let your hearts be troubled. John 14:1, you believe in God also believe in me. My father's house has many rooms. If it were not so, I would not have told you that. I'm going there to prepare a place for you.

Jesus is the groom. We are the bride. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I'll come back and I will take you to be with me so that you may also be where I am. You know the way to where I'm going, church, listen to this. Number one, heaven is real. It is the father's compound with a new family. What an incredible picture there. But secondly, look at this. Jesus is saying that we are now living in the moment that he has gone to prepare a place for us. We don't know when Jesus is going to return, right? We don't know that. But nothing else has to happen for that. At some point, God, the Father is going to tap God the Son, the groom on the shoulder to say, go get your bride the church.

You have prepared a place and now it is time for this to happen. Jesus here relates his relationship with his disciples and with us to a marriage relationship between us and him and the intimacy of knowing him. And thank goodness he does. One day we will have the marriage ceremony in heaven. I love this. In fact, write this principle down. Here's what he's showing us from our first breath of faith to our final earthly moment. Christianity is all about knowing and growing and walking closer with Jesus, our eternal savior. That's what Jesus is telling these guys. He's going, listen, this is going to end, but it's not the final. I'm going to prepare a place for you and I am the way. And here's why it's so important.

You can write this second principle down. It's so important because Jesus doesn't just offer them answers. Jesus is the complete solution for both disciples, and for all of humanity's search for direction, reality, and purpose. That's what Jesus in this upper room is saying. And I know we've kind of come a long way around to describe it, but now you can see what Jesus is offering. He's looking at these guys that are confused just like we're confused half of our lives. He's looking at these guys that have walked with him for a long time, just like a lot of us have walked with him for a long time and he's looking at them going, Hey, there's a whole lot of other things in life. There's a whole lot of other messages in life. There's a whole lot of other direction in life. But I Jesus says I am.

Look at John 14:6, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. And no one comes to the Father except through me. That's what Jesus is saying. In fact, write these three things down. Here's the Jesus promise. Number one, Jesus promises us that He is the way. You know why that makes such a big difference? Because that means that Jesus is the one that actually gives us direction. You know what that does for us? It takes it off of me to have to know every step for the rest of my life. Because my job is not to know the rest of the steps of my life. My job is to know the next step following the direction of the Savior that is already there making my path straight. He is the way. This is the question that Thomas asked us in a text, right?

How can I live my life in a way that it points to the right direction? How can I live my life in a way that I can be happy and safe and successful and at peace? The problem is that’s not the question. The problem is that when most people ask that question, they assume that the way, is some location on the map. Give a map. Show me how to get there. But Jesus looks at him and says, it's not a location, it's me. You see, Jesus is the way. He's not the way to something. He is the something. I think so many of us have so many things in our lives that is all about this, where Jesus is standing there going, listen, I am the this.

Just like I've said every other week, he's not just a way, he is the way. It's the directional decision in our lives. Listen, the whole point of the Bible is to tell us that we can't get there on our own, that only Jesus can get us there. Only Jesus is the way.

Number two, Jesus looks at him and says, I am the truth. Now listen, if you have the way, that is incredible. But the truth represents the idea that he is the foundation on which we stand. Knowing Jesus is the only way to know truth. Every other truth that is ever presented to you is only an opinion. Jesus says, I am the truth. Jesus doesn't just speak the truth. He is the truth. He is the true nature of God. He's the representation of God. He's the true human purpose. He is the meaning of all moral absolutes. He is the source of all truth. He is the origin of the universe and he is not just one truth. In the way He is not just a way, he's the way. He's not just a truth. He's the truth. And thank God he is. If Jesus is not the truth, then there is no truth because every one of us gets to determine in the truth. And if we're all determining the truth, then we're all going to hell. That's what he says. He's looking at us going, Hey, let me take this off of you because you can't hold this. It's too big of a burden. Let me take this off of you because I know you don't fully understand this, but I am the way. I am the way and I am the truth. Let me ask you this. Is he the foundation that your life is built on?

Here's the last one. He looks at these disciples and he looks at us and he says, I am the life. There's two sides to this. The first one is the one we talked about this whole time. He has gone to prepare a place for us. Hallelujah. That we have a savior that has been for 2000 years, preparing an eternal home for us. He's building onto the family compound. He's building onto the father's house. He's building onto the gates of heaven to give us a home one day. It is in a courtyard. It is surrounded. It is around the presence of Jesus. It is with Jesus in the kingdom of God, in the father's house one day because we are his bride. But on top of that, secondly, it is not just an eternal promise here that Jesus said he's the life. What Jesus does here is he looked at these guys and he is like, it's about to get hard. It's about to get tough. There's about to be persecution. There's about to be just a very few slim of you guys that are going to follow after me. But remember, I am the way. I am the truth. And I am the only one that can give you life right now.

Christianity is not just a future based faith. It is a fulfillment of life right now, faith. Remember John 10:10, a couple weeks ago where Jesus looked at us and said, I may come that they may have life and they may have it abundantly. Listen, I know this is blowing the disciples’ minds at this moment, but Jesus is, going, listen you can try everything else. You can run after everything else that you want, but I alone am the only one that can give you life. You can try whatever you want to stand on, but nothing will give you life like the one that has already given you life. Jesus, he was the one that gave you life to exist. He was the one that picked you up out of the mire and set your feet on a rock at your salvation point.

And he is the one that can give you life even in this moment. That's why I love Michelle's story from earlier. This is all what she has realized in the last couple months of her life. She's realized that so many things have tried to tear her down and get her off the way. So many things that she desperately sought in her life were not filling her. But the one thing that could give her life is Jesus. And here's the cool part about this whole story. This story's not just for the disciples, it's for all of us. So the question today is, do you believe it? The question today is, will you give your life to the one whose works and words always match? To the one who gave his life and rose it back up to the one that is ascended to the Father, that is preparing a place, that promises you he is the way? He is what your soul is looking for, he is the truth. He is the thing that you are desperately seeing that your life needs to stand on. He is the life. He is the one that you have been created to have a relationship with. And until you do, you will never feel whole.

He is God. And here's the offer today, just like a groom that offers the rest of his life to the bride. The question is this. Will the bride say yes? Let me ask you something. Have you given your life to Jesus? Has there been a moment in your life where you have said, Lord Jesus, I know that I'm far from you, but I know you're the way, you're the truth and you're the life and Lord Jesus today, all I can say is yes to your offer of yourself. What I'm asking you today is, has there been a moment in your life where you have confessed with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believed in your heart that God raised him from the dead and walked into a personal relationship with him. If you’re not sure that's happened to you, listen, here's the great part of the offer of today. It's here for you. He's paid the price. Now the question is, will we submit our lives to him?

 

Follow Along with the Message

The Way, The Truth, & The Life

 

March 30, 2025

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 13:33–35
33 “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
John 13:36–38
36 Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.” 37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
John 14:1–10

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work."

Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
John 14:11
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

PRINCIPLE: Jesus has given us His to lead us to Him as God and Savior.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:1–4
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

PRINCIPLE: From our first breath of faith to our final earthy moment, Christianity is about knowing, growing and walking with Jesus our eternal Savior.

PRINCIPLE: Jesus doesn't just offer answers. He the complete solution to humanity's search for direction, reality, and purpose.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
jesus' promise:

1. I AM the .

2. I AM the .

Colossians 2:3
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

3. I AM the .

Colossians 10:10

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Take the Next Step »

Additional Notes

 

Email (To Send Copy of Notes)