“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” —John 14:1-14
Jesus wasn’t caught off guard in his betrayal, as you may remember he pointed Judas out as the betrayer, John 13:27. But even before that, the Bible says that Jesus knew that his hour had come, meaning the hour of his betrayal, persecution and impending death on a cross.
“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” —John 13:1
I Am The Way
This passage starts with Jesus describing heaven. Heaven is simply where God
Heaven is the spiritual realm and God is making room for lots of people there. Jesus tells his disciples, I’m leaving to prepare a place for you in heaven.
“In Heaven, we’ll be at home with the God we love and who loves us wholeheartedly. Lovers don’t bore each other. People who love God could never be bored in his presence.” —Randy Alcorn, Heaven
There is no other way. Jesus didn’t say, I am the way among many ways, or I am one of the ways, he says quite simply, I am THE way.
God is inviting you on a journey.His ways are not our ways. He does things differently than we do.
“…His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.” —Nahum 1:3
The invitation of Jesus will always include
I Am The Truth
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“He is truth because he is the Living Revealer, the very voice and revelation of God. He is the incarnate Shekinah glory of God, the “grace and truth” —Commentary of John: Verse by Verse
People are clearly deceived. Unfortunately “Christians” are deceived as well and we are supposed to be the ones to proclaim the truth. Christians have devolved into this arena of no one agreeing on which truth is actually The Truth.
Rather than finding unity in Christ, we would much rather divide and join in with the enemy, who is called the Accuser of the Brethren (Rev. 12:10). If you find yourself on the side of accusing other Christians, you are on the wrong side. That’s Satan’s name and identity.
Discernment is defined by the Apostle Paul as
“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.” —John 14:16-17
I Am The Life
Jesus says that he is the way, meaning there is a journey to be had. Where does that journey take you? To life. God is the creator of life and the giver of life.
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References - Eph. 5:18, Gal. 5:25, Luke 4:1, Romans 8:14, John 14:26.