6-7 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.”
This is why I could say that you know the Way, because I am the way and you know me. You can get to the Father by way of me, by going through me. I give you access to the Father. There is no other entryway or door. That is why it is vitally important that you know me. If you by-pass me and seek another way to the Father you will miss Him and will not ever get to where He is. If you want to live in His many rooms then you must enter by the door that He has designed which is me.
Not only am I the way but I am also the Truth and the Life. I am the embodiment of all that is true. I am truthful through and through so you can bank on what I’ve told you. You can put your troubled minds and hearts at ease because I tell you the truth about all that concerns you. I am incapable of deceiving you or misleading you in any way. If I had been untruthful with you in the past I could understand your worry; but I’ve always told you the truth because that is who I am. I am true to my nature which is truth.
Not only am I the way to the Father and way to Heaven, and the final and ultimate truth regarding all spiritual matters, but I also am the Life. I am eternal life. I have the power over death. Death can never conquer me or overcome me. I will lay my life down as a ransom, as a LIVING sacrifice, but I have the power to take it back up again, and I will do so. Death has no hold on me because I am 100% pure life. I am the creator of life and the sustainer of all that exists. (See Jn 1) The words I speak are Life and Truth. They are life-giving. Without me there would be no life because everything is held together by the power of my word. I alone have the words of life. I will voluntarily submit to death when I identify with the guilt and sin of all mankind. I willingly taste death for you. But because I am greater than death, because I have always been eternal life, I have no beginning and no end. I created time. I am before, above and over all time. I am before, above and over death. I created the universe and all that is in it which includes death. Death cannot stop me. Death submits to my authority because I possess the keys. Death is punishment and separation from life, which I will bear so you will not have to, though you deserve to die and I do not. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Me.
A relationship with me is the portal through which you must pass to enter the presence of the Father in a literal physical way in the future, and also in a spiritual way in the present. While you remain on earth your relationship with me is synonymous with a relationship with the Father.
When you really know me you know the Father as well. Your relationship with the Father must rest on me and the work I do on your behalf; bringing together and reconciling Holy God and sinful mankind. You know the Father through your knowledge of me for now. You will know the Father face to face later because of the relationship you with have with me now. Whether future or present, the only access a person has to the Father is by way of a relationship with me.
I am the only Source of Life. He who has the Son has Life, and he who does not have the Son does not have Life. Nothing has life apart from me. If you actually recognize me for who I really am, you’d know my Father also. From now on, consider this to be a fact- because you know me you do know my Father. Knowing me is identical and equal to knowing the Father. Not only do you know Him by knowing me, but you also see Him by seeing me. It is one and the same. When you look at me you are looking at the Father.
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