THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE

Mike Geppert

Woodland Church

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

(John 14:1-11, NIV) “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 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? 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. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 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’? 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. 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.”

1. JESUS IS THE TRUTH.

(John 18:38, NIV) “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.”

(John 8:32, NIV) “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

2. JESUS IS THE WAY.

(Acts 4:12, NIV) “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

3. JESUS IS THE LIFE.

(John 1:4-5, NIV) “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”