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Is There Only One Way to God?

Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah

September 9, 2020

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In this message; Dr. Jeremiah shares what Jesus says about the way to God in John 14:6.

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Dr. David Jeremiah: Is thereonly one way to God?
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That isa controversial question.
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Hello, I'm David Jeremiah,and welcome to "Turning Point."
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Today, tolerancehas replaced truth
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as the highest value in society.
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So, when Christians say thatJesus Christ is the only way
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to God, we are quickly labeledintolerant and narrow minded.
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But what if it's the truth?
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That's the subject of today'smessage on "Turning Point."
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Is there only one way to God?
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This question is oneof ten challenging questions
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I am answering in our currentseries which is entitled,
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We are looking only one placefor answers,
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and that's the Word of God.
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Dr. Jeremiah: In our ageof pluralism and tolerance,
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the question, "Is there onlyone way to God?"
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is the most toxic and volatilequestion you could ever ask.
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On the night of his arrest,Jesus addressed
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this very question.
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He was gathered together in theupper room eating and drinking
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with his chosen disciplesand he spoke to them about
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a number of troubling thingsthat would soon take place.
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And then he comforted themwith these words
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which are known to us.
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He said to them, "Let notyour heart be troubled.
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You believe in God,believe also in me.
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In my Father's houseare many mansions
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and if it were not so,I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for youand if I go and prepare a place
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for you, I will come againand receive you to myself
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that where I am, there youmay be also and where I go,
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you know, and the way you know."
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Well, when Jesus saidthat to his disciples,
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that the way to God was certainand knowable,
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Doubting Thomas,one of his disciples,
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spoke up and he saidto Jesus in verse 5, he said,
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"Lord, we don't knowwhere you're going,
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and how can we know the way?"
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Obviously, Thomas hadn't beenlistening to what Jesus said.
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He got it all wrong.
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He didn't understand that Jesushad just got done telling him
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that he was gonna go to heaven,he was gonna prepare a place,
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and he was gonna come backand get them and take them
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to the place where he was.
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Thomas obviously thoughtJesus was talking
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about going someplacein Israel and hiding out,
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and he wanted to know howwould he be able to find Jesus,
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and how would he get thereif he didn't even know
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where he was going?
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How would he ever know the way?
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He was looking for some sortof earthly map
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to where Jesus was going.
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You see, Thomas's problem washis mind was on earthly things.
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Jesus was trying to communicatesomething spiritual,
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and the answer that Jesus gaveis the question
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that we're talking about today.
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The answer that he gave isjohn 14:6 listen,
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these are the words of Jesus.
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"And Jesus said to Thomas,
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"Thomas, I am the way,the truth, and the life,
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and no one comes to the Fatherexcept through me."
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In that powerful statement,Jesus declared himself to be
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the answer to the three greatestquestions of the human heart.
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To the first question,"How can I be saved?"
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He said, "I am the way."
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The second one,"How can I be sure?"
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He said, "I'm the truth."
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And the third,"How can I be satisfied?"
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He said, "I am the life.
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I'm the way, the truth,and the life."
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And Jesus claims thathe is the answer
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to life's greatest question bypointing to himself and saying,
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"I, I only, am the way to God."
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We are like Adam and Eveafter they were thrown out
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of the garden.
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We keep looking and lookingfor something to satisfy us,
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and we can't find it.
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There's this emptinessin our lives.
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But here is the good news,when Jesus Christ came,
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he came specifically to fixall of the things
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that were brokenbecause of the fall.
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He came to be the one who wouldrestore our fellowship with God.
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He came to be the truthabout God in his very being,
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and he came to give us life,not just in heaven someday
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by and by, but life in the hereand now that's better
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than anything you will ever findit anywhere.
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In reality, Jesus iscommunion restored,
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he is truth recovered,and he is life regained.
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Notice, first of all,he is communion restored.
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He said, "I am the way."
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Apart from Christ,you are barred from communion
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with God because of sin,but Jesus says that he came
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to remove that barrier.
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The Apostle Paul saidit this way,
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"There is one God and onemediator between God and man,
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and it's the man Christ Jesus."
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He came to be the bridgeto open up the way again
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so that we could have fellowshipwith God.
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He has come to be the way.
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Now, we believe, all of us,that Jesus is the teacher
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of the way.
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We accept the fact that he isthe guide along the way,
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but that's not whathe is saying here.
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He is saying herethat he is the way.
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He saying, "I am the way torestore communion with God."
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Now, if you've come tothis church for very long,
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you have probably heardthe rumor that your pastor is
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directionally challenged,that I spend at least
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a few moments every weektotally lost.
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I have so many storiesI could tell you
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of how I have lost my way.
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One of the most profound onesthat I thought
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of this week was when I wasa pastor in Fort Wayne.
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On one occasion,I was conducting a funeral,
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and I was in my car followingthe hearse to the graveyard.
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And I was talking to a friend ofmine about a church that we were
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trying to help over here andinstead of following the hearse,
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I took the right turn,and went to the church.
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The hearse went to the funeral,and I didn't know
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where the cemetery was.
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It took me a while to get thereand when I got there,
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they were waiting for me.
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And I'm telling you the truth,from that moment on,
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that funeral director wouldnever let me conduct a funeral
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unless I promisedto ride with him.
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That's how bad it is.
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And, of course, now we haveall of these wonderful devices
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that are supposed to help usfind our way.
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I have two, I have onein my car,
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and one in my phone.
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But what I've discovered isthat they don't always agree.
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So, here I've got the voicesof two women I've never met
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telling me where to go,and half the time
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they get me more lost thanif I would just try my best.
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It's so bad for me, friends,that oftentimes when I get
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to a place where I haveto make a decision,
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if it seems right to go right,I go left.
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Suppose I were to go to anothercity and I was visiting there,
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and I needed to find a place.
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And I would go up to a manand say to him,
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"I need some directionsto this location."
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And he were to say to me,"Here's what you need to do,
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Pastor Jeremiah, take the firstright and then the second left.
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Cross the shopping mall bridge,go to past the church
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and take the third right."
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I'm in trouble right there.
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I can't listen fast enough oreven write fast enough to hear
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what this man is saying,and I will probably too proud
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to ask him for any questionsto be answered.
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It's happened to me so often.
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It's like a recurring dream.
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On the other hand, supposethat men were to say to me,
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"Look, I have a little timeon my hands today,
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and I know exactlywhere you want to go.
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Let me help you.Let me be your way.
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I'll take you there."
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And suppose he were to getin my car and ride with me,
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or maybe he would ask meto scoot over
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and he would drive in the car.
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Or perhaps, he would lead mein his car so that
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I could follow him.
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That would be a dream come true.
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It's never happened to me.
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I doubt if it ever will happento me.
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Even though I might pray for it,it's never been a prayer
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that's been answered.
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But that is what Jesusis talking about here.
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Jesus is saying, "I want to beyour way.
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I don't want to give youdirections to the way.
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I don't want you to followthose directions.
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I am the way, I will take youto God and restore communication
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with him."
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Jesus Christ is the way.
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Do you know thatin the early church,
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they didn't callthe early Christians,
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Christians or disciples?
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They called them peopleof the way.
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They called the church the waybecause that was the unique
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message that they had a wayto God through their Savior.
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So, Jesus is communicationrestored.
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"I am the way."
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He is also truth recovered.
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He said, "I am the truth."
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In John 1:14 we read,"And the Word,"
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which is the word for Christ,"And the Word became flesh
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and dwelt among us,and we beheld His glory,
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the glory asof the only begotten
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of the Father, full of graceand truth."
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The Bible says thatJesus Christ is the Word.
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He is God's message to us.
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He is who God is livingin a human body,
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perfected in his holiness,walking on this earth,
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showing us what we can knowabout God.
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We can never know everythingabout the Father
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because he's a Spirit,but in his condescension to us,
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Almighty God poured himselfinto a human body and allowed
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that body to walk on this earthfor 33 years and his life
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to be wonderfully recordedby the gospel narrative.
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And in that body, he livedas if God were in that body
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because God was in that body.
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He was God walkingaround in a body.
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He was the truthabout God in a body.
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He was the Word.
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On one occasion, someonecame to Jesus and said,
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"Show us the Father."
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And you know what he said?
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He said, "If you have seen me,you have seen the Father."
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So, Jesus Christ is not onlythe way to God,
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Jesus Christ is the truthabout God.
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And thirdly,he has life regained.
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Jesus is the absolute oppositeof death.
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Jesus is life, he is the life.And Jesus said, "I am the life."
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John 1:4 says, "In him was life,and the life
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was the light of men."
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Jesus said to her, "I amthe resurrection and the life.
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Who believes in me,though he may die,
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he shall live."
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Jesus Christ is the one whocame to free us from death,
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and I'm not talking here aboutphysical death because we all
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know that if the Lord doesn'tcome during our normal lifespan,
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we will die, all of us.
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I mean, the statistics on deathare 100% last I knew.
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So, death is a reality for us,physical death.
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He's not talking here aboutthe separation of the soul
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from the body.
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He's talking about the death,which is the separation
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of the soul from God.
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And he says that if you cometo Christ,
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you will never experiencethat death.
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You will come alive, you will berestored in your relationship
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to God throughhis life-giving death.
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You will come alive.
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In the story of the prodigal sonwhen he came back
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from the far country, the Biblesays that his father said,
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"This my son was dead,and he is alive.'
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Well, his son wasn't deadand he had no reason
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to believe that he was.
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He might have been, but hehad not heard that he was dead.
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He wasn't talkingabout his physical life.
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He was talking about the factthat while his son was
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in the far country,he was dead to his family.
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His family didn't know he wasdead to what was going on around
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his family, dead to whathis older brother was doing,
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dead to his fatherwatching for him,
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dead to all of the joysthat were a part of his--
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he was dead to it all.
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But when he came back,he became alive to it all.
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That's what Jesus Christ istelling us that if we come
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to him, we will come aliveto God in the places
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where we were dead toward him.
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The Bible teaches us that thepart of us that is dead toward
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God, which is true of everyonebefore they meet Christ,
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that deadness becomes alive.
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And the Bible says it's notjust life, it's abundant life.
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"I have come that they mighthave life and that
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they might have it moreabundantly," John 10:10.
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Jesus Christ did not come intothis world simply to invigorate
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our old sin nature.
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He did not come to just refinethe ugliness in our life.
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Jesus came into this worldto give us a whole new life
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where there was deadnessthat we might know God
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and come alive spiritually.
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I don't know any better wayto describe what happens
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to a person who accepts Christ,
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they just come alivespiritually.
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We see it in the testimoniesin our baptistry.
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We read it in the emailsand the letters that come
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and tell us what happens.
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They were dead toward God,and then something happens
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and they receive Jesus Christand all of a sudden,
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the way toward God is opened.
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Listen to these wordsfrom the other portions
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of the gospel.
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John 17:3 says,"This is eternal life,
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that they may know You,the only true God,
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and Jesus Christwhom You have sent."
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Here's the best onebeside John chapter 14,
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Acts 4, verse 12, "Nor isthere salvation in any other,
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for there is no other nameunder heaven given among men
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by which we must be saved."
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Did you hear that?How exclusive can you get?
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And 1 Timothy 2:5,I've referenced earlier,
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there's one God and onemediator between God and man,
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the man Christ Jesus.
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And when we talkabout these things,
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and I'm not trying to dodge thisat all but to hit it straight
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on the best I know how.
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Whenever we talkabout these things,
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people are prone to respondin different ways.
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And I've had them say somethinglike this to me, they'll say,
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"Well, Pastor Jeremiah,that's fine for you.
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I'm sure that really helpsyou where you are in your life,
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but I don't believe that."
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And then they smile with a kindof accommodating smile
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that says, "I don't believe it,so it can't be true."
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But I'd like you to try thatapproach on the law of gravity.
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"I don't believe the law ofgravity, so it can't be true."
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If I jump out of aten-story building,
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the same thing will happen tome whether I believe it or not
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because it's a law of God.
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And the principle of comingto God through Christ is
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one of God's spiritual laws.
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How many of you know Godgets to make the rules?
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We don't.
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I didn't make this up.
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I'm not saying this, I'm justtelling you what the Bible says.
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One of my dear friendswent to be with the Lord.
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His name is Kenny Poore, andKenny Poore is in heaven now.
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I always loved Kenny because healways had a way of saying stuff
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that nobody else would say.
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And I remember one timehe told me, he says,
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"You know, people are alwaysfreaking out because
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we say there's only one wayto heaven."
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And then he said somethinglike this,
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"you know," he said,"becoming a Christian is called
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the second birth, the new birth.
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Let's use the first birthas an illustration."
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He said, "As far as I know,there's only one way to get born
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physically, only one, you haveto have a sperm and an egg,
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and they have to uniteand they bring forth birth.
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And it doesn't matter whetherit's in test tube or in a womb.
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It's just there's only one wayto be born physically,
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how narrow minded of God."
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How very exclusive of God tomake physical birth so one way.
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Why then would we be surprisedthat if the law of God
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concerning physical birth isvery similar to the law of God
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concerning spiritual birth?
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There's just one way.
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The principle of coming to Godthrough Christ is one
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of God's spiritual laws,and it cannot be violated.
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You can't change it.
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You might saywith all your heart,
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"I don't believe it," but youwon't change the truth of it
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one bit, and it won't makeany difference
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when you stand before God.
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If you have not believed thisyou can say,
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"Well, I didn't believe itat the time I heard it."
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Well, that doesn't makeany difference.
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It's true, and it's witnessedto you from the Word of God
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and Jesus Christ himselfmade that claim.
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So, let me stop here for justa moment for those of you
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who want to be more inclusivethan exclusive.
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Don't come to me with anymitigating nonsense about,
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"No, I believe thatthe Christian faith is like
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other faiths, and I acceptall of them."
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No, if you don't accept theexclusivity of Jesus Christ,
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you cannot accept Christianityat all because Jesus Christ said
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he was the only way andif he isn't the only way,
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he's a liar and you do not havethe opportunity to follow him.
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If he is not the one way,he has disqualified himself.
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So, we have this very tolerant,"Can't we all just get along"
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kind of thingin the spiritual realm.
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You can't say, "I believeChristianity is true,
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and I believe these otherthings are true as well."
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Because the headof Christianity said,
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the Son of God said,"I am the only way,"
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that's either true or it's not.
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So really, in the two ways thatpeople try to deal with God,
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one of which is to try to doenough to please him
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so that you can get his favorand go to heaven,
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which is what allthe religions do,
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and the other which is that Godalready has done everything
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we need for us and we just needto accept it.
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Both of these ways arevery exclusive
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in how they are presented.
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And if you want to acceptit this way,
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let me tell you, Christianity isthe most inclusive exclusivity
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there is becauseChristianity says,
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Jesus says, "I am the way,the truth, and the life,
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and anyone who wants to comemay come."
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It doesn't matter whatreligion you came from.
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It doesn't matterwhat you've done.
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It doesn't matter if you havelived at the gates of hell.
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It simply says, "I am the way,the truth, and the life,
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but I'm not just a wayfor good people.
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I'm away for all peoplewho will come."
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And that's how I got in,how about the rest of you, amen?
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Well, I know that this isthe message to those
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who haven't accepted the way,what is the message
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to those of us who have?
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Ladies and gentlemen,if we truly believe
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that Jesus Christ is the wayand that no one comes
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to the Father exceptthrough him, what does that say
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about our complacencyconcerning the gospel?
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What does that say about thoseof us who live and work around
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people who do not know him andsay nothing about it whatsoever?
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You know, men and women, we havebecome such nice Christians.
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We don't ever want anybodyto disagree with us
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and even though we might holdour own convictions about this,
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we don't ever want to tellanybody about them for fear
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that we will offend them.
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And I think maybe it's time forus to stop and ask ourselves,
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"Do I really believe thatJesus Christ is the way,
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the truth, and the life,and that no one comes
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to the Father exceptthrough him?"
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And if we believe that,we ought to start acting
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like we believe it.
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The idea that Jesus is the way,the truth, and the life,
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is not a negative message.
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It's the most positive messagethere ever was because
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without him, there is no way.
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He is the way.
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Without Jesus, we have no hope.
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Without him, we are lost.
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We will never know God,but he came,
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he condescended to put himselfwithin the limitations
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of a human body, livedfor 30 years in a little place
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no bigger than a postage stampon the universal map.
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And ultimately, one day wentto the cross and hung there
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while they nailed him to thatpiece of wood and because
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he was God in a body, he borethe penalty for all of us,
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and he's got the scars to provethat he alone is the way.
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I'm here to tell you,if you want to go to heaven,
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if you want to haveyour sins forgiven,
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if you want to know the truth,if you want to have life,
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there's only one personwho can do that for you
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and that is Jesus Christ.
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That is not the wordof David Jeremiah,
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that is the Word of the Bible.
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That is the Word of Jesushimself the Son of God,
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and I want you to know that anyof us in this room who end up
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in heaven will be therefor one reason,
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and that's becausewe have accepted Christ.
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In case any of you don't know,I'm going to heaven,
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not because David Jeremiah.
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I have nothing to offer.
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I have a Savior who blazedthe trail so that my sin
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could be forgiven andbecause of what he did,
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he's taking me to heaven.
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He's my way.
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I want you to make himyour way today.
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I may never, ever have a chanceto preach on this passage again.
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I think of all the placesI haven't preached
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that I want to preach.
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This, one ofthe central passages,
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in the Word of God, it isthe answer to the question,
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"Is there one way to God?"
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Yes, and his name is Jesus,and I recommend him to you.
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♪♪♪
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Dr. Jeremiah: It is notunreasonable
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for the God of the universeto establish a way for man
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to be reconciled to him.
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I mean after all, if he's Godand we are his creation,
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the means of salvationis up to him,
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Is There Only One Way to God?

Is There Only One Way to God?

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