John 14. And we know how the disciples
were troubled, their hearts were full of questions and doubts
and fears, and our Lord being the compassionate, merciful Savior,
He's comforting them, ministering to them and He's ministering
to us. And He says here in John 14, He spoke of going away and
he said, whether I go you know and the way you know. In verse
5, Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where thou goest,
how can we know the way? And Jesus said unto him, I am
the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. I read that and I was thinking
about this statement our Lord made. Think of the countless
hours that religious men have spent writing out creeds and
confessions of faith. Huge documents full of run-on
sentences and hard to be understood. And nobody ever gave such a concise
and clear declaration of what it is God's people believe, as
this statement right here. Our Lord said, I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. You ask God's child, what is
it you believe? That sums it up. Christ is the
way, He is the truth, He is the life. No man comes to the Father
but by Him. Now last time we looked at Christ
the way, and I probably should have taken all three of these
in one message, but I want to go back now and look at Christ
the truth and the life. And this is a mighty Big subject. You'll wade out in the ocean
and get over your head really quickly. Christ the truth and
the life. Now, along with declaring He's
the way, the Lord said, I am the truth and the life. No man
cometh to the Father but by Me. I am, He said. He is the great
I am. He is God. He is the truth and
the life. To know Christ, to really know
Christ is to know the truth. To really believe on Christ is
to have eternal life. To have Him is to have eternal
life. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
gospel. He said, I am the truth. He is
the gospel. No man comes to the Father but
by Him. And when Christ is the truth
in our hearts, it's because Christ is the life. in our heart. And he's the life we look forward
to, eternal life. Now, the Lord Jesus said he is
the truth and the life. That is, he's the truth himself
and he's the life himself. There is no other. Note that
definite article again. He said, I am the truth and the
life. The same as there are not many
ways to God. There's just one way. It's Christ
the way. So there are not many truths.
There's one truth. It's Christ. And there is one
life. And it is Christ. Just one. Exclusive. We know that the Son
of God has come, John said, 1 John 5.20. He said, we know that the
Son of God has come and has given us an understanding. This is
how we know the truth. He gave us an understanding.
That we may know Him, that is true. And we are in Him, that
is true. In His Son, Jesus Christ. This
is the true God. He said, I am the truth. This
is the true God and eternal life. He said, I am the life. The Pharisees
taught that the law of Sinai, keeping the law of Sinai was
the only truth, keeping that law was the only way, and that
was the only way to eternal life. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
declaring here, He is the way. He is the truth. He is the life. Everything the law declared.
We're speaking of Him. He declares you and me guilty.
He declares us to be liars. Let every man, let God be true,
and every man a liar. And the truth of the law declares
to you and me, we can't come to God by the works of the law.
The Lord Jesus Christ, though, declares what the law also declares
when you have spiritual discernment. He's the way. He's the truth. He's the life. No man comes to
the Father but by Him. The Lord Jesus, I want to look
at two things here, creation and the scriptures. Now first
of all, the Lord Jesus is the truth and the life declared in
creation. He's the truth and the life.
When you have spiritual discernment and He makes you be able to behold
that He created everything, all things were created by Him and
for Him, and He gives us an understanding to behold things, you begin to
see how creation illustrates Him. He created it for Him, for
that purpose. Romans 1.20 said, The invisible
things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead, so that men are without excuse. Now I just
want to consider three things under this heading of creation. Three things that we need. Three
things that are essential for us. That's light and water. and bread. We need these three
things to live. And in those three, those are
all created by our Lord. And in those three things alone,
we see Christ is the truth and the life. Go back over with me
to John chapter 1. I said this Thursday, in creation,
Genesis 1 tells us, God said, let there be light and there
was light. But it was on the fourth day
that God created the sun. So when He said, let there be
light, He wasn't talking about the sun. What's he talking about? Our Lord said, I am the light
of the world. Look here in John 1, 1. We're
going to read a lengthy portion here, but I just want you to
see this. Verse 1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not
anything made that was made. In Him was what? Life. Christ said, I'm the life. In
him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light
shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. There was
a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a
witness to bear witness of the light that all through him might
believe. He was not that light but was
sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light. Christ said, I'm the truth. I'm
the truth. If we're going to have life,
we've got to have light. He said, I'm the true light,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew
him not. We're the darkness that comprehended
him not. Sinner's fallen. We're the darkness. We're what's pictured in creation
when darkness covered the face of the deep, and the Spirit had
to move upon it. This is us. We didn't comprehend
Him. He came unto His own. His own
received Him not. They had the Word. They had the
oracles of God, and they didn't recognize the way, the truth,
and the life when He came. But as many as received Him,
to them gave He power, the privilege to become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on His name. And here's how we received Him,
which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." He
said the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. He is the truth and He is the
life. We see it in the light. Now,
when He created the Son on the fourth day, He created the sun
and it illustrates our Lord Jesus. Many times in the scripture you
have the sun declaring he is, it's a picture of Christ. And it illustrates Him. He's
called the Son, S-U-N, of righteousness, who arises with healing in His
wings, healing in His rays. That's what Christ does. He's
the way, the truth, and the life. He's the day star. And it's only
by His light that we know the truth and that we have life.
The light It illustrates that Christ is the truth, that He
is the life. Christ is the truth declared
throughout creation. Now, consider water. We have to have water. We can't
live without water. We have to have water. Well,
we don't have any life without Christ. We have to have Christ
the life. And not just any Christ, not
just some other Jesus that's not another. We have to have
Christ the truth and the life. That's the only way we can come
to the Father. Now, when He created the water, He didn't create any
more water than He created in the beginning. Everybody's worried
about the world, you know, falling apart if we don't take care of
it. Listen, God created one water and He sustained that water and
provided that water from the beginning. It comes down, it
circulates through the earth, and it evaporates back up, and
it's purified, and it comes back down. He keeps doing the same
process, but just one water. Why? There's only one Christ.
He is the way, the truth, and the life. And without Him, He's
the water of life. And without Him, we don't have
life. He's the truth, and He's the life. So He only created
one water. He said in Revelation 21.6, It's
done. It is done. He said, I am Alpha
and Omega. I'm the beginning and the end.
It's done. It's done. He said, and I will
give the free gift of His grace. I will give unto Him that is
a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He is that fountain. Now all
sin is due to the father of lies. The devil entered the garden
and he told Eve, has God said that in the day you eat of that
fruit you shall die? You will not surely die. God
knows in the day you eat thereof, your eyes are going to be open.
You're going to see. You're going to have light. You're
going to know the truth then. You'll be as God's. But it was
a lie. and sin entered and death entered
by sin. And so we come into this world
ignorant. We do not know the truth. We
come into this world spiritually dead. We do not have life. How
are we going to have the truth? How are we going to have the
life? The only way God's elect are saved is by Christ the truth
and the life, giving us the water of life, making us to know He
is the truth. And until He does that, here's
our sin. Here's our sin. This is the way
of all religion in the world, men in religion, men out of religion,
until He gives us an understanding, makes us to know the truth, Christ
the truth, and gives us life, making us alive by Christ's life,
until He does this. We're talking about water illustrating
Him as the life, and that one water. Here's what we do until
He does that. He said, My people have committed
two evils. They have forsaken Me, the fountain
of living waters. And they've tried to hew them
out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. We don't
have the truth, we don't have life, the water of life, until
Christ the truth and the life enters in and makes us to know
Him. Makes us to know Him. All God's
elect come into this world sinners. Where did the water come from
in the wilderness? We've got to have water. We've
got to have the truth. We have to have the life. That's
the only way we're going to know He's the way. That's the only
way we're going to come to the Father. Where did the water come
from in the wilderness? the smitten rock, that's where
it came from. Our Lord Jesus Christ came into
this world with one preeminent purpose, and that was to justify
his people, to declare God just in justifying his people, to
show he's merciful and he's just, and to show how he can be both
by laying down his life on the cross. And so our Lord Jesus
Christ took the place of all God's elect people. And when
he went to that cross and bore the sin of his people, God smote
him. God smote him with the justice
we deserve. God's holy, and every sinner
shall and must die under the justice of God, every one. And
we died. All God's elect people died in
the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's tree. Our body of sin was destroyed
in Him. We were crucified in Him. It's
not like we were. We were. I am crucified with
Christ, Paul said. And Christ arose. And He is the
life. And He is the truth. And He is
the way. And when He reveals this in our
hearts, that's when the water of life flows in. That's when
you have the truth. That's when you know the way.
Because you know Christ. You know Christ. We have to have
Christ. Just like we have to have light,
we have to have water. And the creation every day, every
day, you're going to see the sun come up, you're going to
partake of water. And we ought to, every time we
see that sun come up, we ought to be reminded, Christ is the
way, the truth, and the life. If it wasn't for His light, I
wouldn't have life. We've got to have water, and
every time we take a sip of water, we ought to remember He's that
one water of life, Him alone. What else do you need? We need
bread. You've got to eat. You've got
to have something to strengthen and sustain your body. Well,
how is bread made? In the way He created bread,
even the way bread is harvested and made, we see a picture of
Christ. Everything He created is to illustrate Him. How is
bread made? Our Lord said, verily, verily,
I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground
and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth
much fruit. You take a corn of wheat, it's
going to have to go into the ground. And when it goes into
the ground, it's going to die. And from that is going to come
forth a vine, and there's going to come forth fruit from that
vine. Christ is that corn of wheat. He came into this earth
and laid down his life. He died under God's justice,
and he rose again, and he's the one producing the fruit, his
people. Well then, that bread, that corn, once it comes forth
and it's in the ear, you harvest it, and then you take it, and
what do you have to do? You have to grind it to powder. to make
the bread. And that's what Christ went.
He went and endured the mortar of God's justice on the cross
and was ground on the cross, his body beaten black and blue
and worse under the justice of God. That's what he did for his
people. And he came forth from that grave and he is the bread
of life. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
look back at John 6. Let's look at this. John 6. John 6.32. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth
you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. They said
unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said unto
them, I am the bread of life. What did He say in our text?
I am the life. He said, ìI am the bread of the
life.î He said, ìI am the truth.î He said back up there, ìMy Father
gives you the true bread from heaven.î He said, ìI am the truth
and I am the life.î ìI am the bread of life. He that cometh
to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst.î Brethren, believe on Christ. Eat this heavenly
manna. through faith in Him, believing
on Him. This is how He is feeding us
right now, through this Gospel. And when you are out and about
in the world and you see creation and you look about creation,
He promised this, our Lord said this, He said when He gives His
child the truth and gives you spiritual understanding, makes
you alive by Christ the truth, He said the mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing. And all the
trees of the field should clap their hands. And I'll tell you
one thing that means. You start seeing in His creation,
He made it to glorify Him. And you start seeing different
ways in this creation that He's the way, the truth, and the life. He is the light of life, the
true light, the water of life, the true water. He's the bread
from heaven, the true bread, our life. Now let's go to the
scriptures and think about how all these scriptures are given
to declare Christ. The truth of true doctrine is
Christ. He said, I am the truth, I am
the life. He said to the Pharisees, these
scriptures are they which testify of me. That's what he said. So
all true teaching, doctrine just means teaching, and if we have
true doctrine and true teaching, it's coming from Christ. He's
the prophet. And He's the only one that can
teach a sinner in our heart and make us alive and make us hear
and know the truth. Doctrine just means teaching. And now the teaching of the gospel
is described singularly as the doctrine of God. The false gospel
is called in scripture the doctrines. the doctrines, plural. Now, there's
many teachings that make up the doctrine of God, but it's singular
because of this reason. Christ said, I am the truth. There's only one. In all doctrine,
everything he teaches us gets all its It's truthfulness from
Him, all it's like from Him, and the only way you're going
to understand the doctrine and know the truth of the doctrine
is for Christ the truth to be formed in your heart. This is
a work He has to do first. Then you understand the true
doctrine. when Christ the truth becomes
your life, when He's formed in our hearts. There's only one
gospel. There's only one life. He said,
I'm the truth. I'm the life. There's only one.
He's the one. We're dead, we're ignorant by
nature, and the only way we're going to know the truth is for
Christ the truth to be formed in our heart, to be the life.
We're dead by nature to be our life and to be our teacher and
to teach us the truth. Life and true understanding only
comes from Christ. And then, when He gives you discernment
to understand the Scriptures and start seeing the Scriptures,
that's when you really have the key of knowledge. That's when
you really start... Before that, we didn't look for
Christ in these Scriptures. We went to these Scriptures looking
for something we could do to be saved. Something we could
do to inherit eternal life. Isn't that what the rich young
ruler said? What have you ever done to receive an inheritance?
You don't do anything to receive an inheritance. An inheritance
is free. But we're so backward. What must I do to receive an
inheritance? Christ has to teach us the truth,
so that we look for Him in these Scriptures. And when you see
Him, when you start seeing Him, and you start hearing of who
God is, the very being of God, and all the attributes of God
that are declared in these Scriptures, Christ said here, just right
a few verses later, He said, I am the Father of one. He said,
if you've seen Me, you've seen the Father. And so when you know
Him in truth, when He's your life, you start seeing that everything
this book declares about God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit is all manifest in Christ. It's all manifest
in Christ. The omnipotence of God, Christ
was all powerful when He spoke and made the waves cease. He spoke and took just a few
loaves and fishes and created enough food to feed a multitude
of people, thousands of people. He's omnipotent. He's all-powerful
God. He's omniscient. I think maybe another time you
could notice it when you're home studying, but you just look at
these questions that they asked the Lord here during this time.
Before they asked the questions, the Lord brought up the subject.
He knew what was in their heart. He knew what they were thinking.
He knew what their trouble was. He led them into the questions
they asked by bringing it up before they ever even asked the
question. And He's omniscient. He knows
the hearts of His people. He's God. He's God. He's the wisdom of God, the love
of God, and the grace of God, and the faithfulness of God,
the long-suffering of God, the mercy of God. Where do you see
all this? You see it in Christ. The only
reason God didn't destroy the world before Christ came, why
was He long-suffering? Because He chose a people in
His Son. And His Son was the surety for
His people. Why is God merciful to sinners
like us who've done nothing in ourselves but sin against Him?
How could He be merciful to us? For Christ's sake. You see the
mercy of God in Christ. How could He love a worm like
us? Because He loves His Son. You
see the love of God in His Son. He's the truth and He's the life
of God. The fullness of the Godhead in
the body. John said in 1 John 1 verse 2,
the life was manifested. And we've seen and bear witness
and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father
and was manifested to us. He and the Father are one. Christ
is the truth and life of all true doctrine. Let's just take
election. You take the doctrine of election.
I said this Thursday. I'll repeat it. Christ is the
truth of the doctrine of election. He's the first elect child of
God. God chose his son. He chose his
son. He said, Behold my servant, whom
I uphold, mine elect, and whom my soul delighted. He's elect
and precious to God, to God the Father. And God the Father blessed
his people with every spiritual blessing, all spiritual blessing.
How? According as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world. That's what makes you
know. That's the only way you know the doctrine of election.
Men reject the doctrine of election. They say it's not fair. They
hate it. They despise it. And the only way you can hate
the doctrine of election and despise the doctrine of election
is to hate God's first elect. That's Christ. He chose His Son. And when you find that out and
you find that He put it all in the hands of His Son to save
a chosen people by His grace, that's when He's made you have
the life of Him in your heart and made Himself to be the truth
to you, made you behold Him. We stop arguing against doctrine. We delight in it and rejoice
in it because this is all our salvation. Christ is the truth
and the life of God's gracious adoption of His children. He's
the life. He's the truth of the gracious
adoption of children. If you're God's child and you
are brought to faith in Christ, you've been adopted by God. You're
His child. Christ is the firstborn Son among
many brethren. That's the whole purpose of everything
we preach. Christ is the firstborn Son,
the only begotten Son of God. The whole purpose of this thing
of God predestinating His people unto the adoption of children,
ordering everything that comes to pass in this world, working
it all and bringing it all to pass according to His purpose.
The purpose of it is that the firstborn Son get all the glory. He's conforming us to the image
of the firstborn Son. He said whom He did foreknow,
who He foreloved, who He foreordained, who He forechosen Christ. He also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the firstborn
among many brethren. It's just like if you have a
house full of children. And you choose the firstborn
son and put it all in his hand to care for the whole estate,
and to save all the children in the house, and to provide
all for the children in the house. That's what God did when he chose
his son. He's the firstborn. And when he's finished, all the
children are going to be adopted into his house, all his elect,
and they're going to be all conformed to the image of the firstborn
son. Everyone. And he's the truth
of how we experience this adoption. Ephesians 1.5 says He predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself. That means Christ is the one
that's going to work everything necessary to bring you into the
experience of this adoption. Christ does it. According to
the good pleasure of God's will, to the praise of the glory of
His grace wherein He made us accepted in Christ the Beloved.
Now how is it that Christ brings us into this adoption? Well,
these children are fallen sinners and they got to be made righteous
or God can't receive us into His house. We got to be made
holy. We got to be conformed to His Son or we can't enter
into this holy house. How is that going to happen?
The righteousness and blood of Christ. Our Lord Jesus came into
this world to be the truth of God, to be the life of God for
His people and He is that life. He went to that cross to put
away our death that we might have life and have it righteously
and justly by Him. The adoption of children is by
Christ Jesus being the truth and the life being the righteousness
of His people. He's the righteousness God's
provided. I just wish we could stop thinking of righteousness
being, and the righteousness God will accept as being something
you and I do. It's not. It is not. It is His
Son. Men that reject the gospel, here's
how they reject it. Paul said in Romans 10, they
have not submitted to the righteousness of God. They're going about to
establish their own righteousness and they have not submitted to
the righteousness of God. Christ is the righteousness of
God. You submit to a person. Christ is the way. He's the truth.
He's the life. He's the righteousness of God.
But see, he had to come forth and fulfill the law entirely
for his people. He didn't give the law for us
to fulfill it. Paul, it seems like the longer
he went in the faith, the more and more Paul spoke on this and
wrote on this more and more. All through Romans, he's telling
us, the law just shuts our mouth. The law just declares us guilty. That's what it was given for. It's holy, just, and good. And
we're not holy, just, and good. And that's what the law is teaching
you and me. But the law is also making us behold the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is holy, just, and good. And in Him, all His people
have been made holy, just, and good by His righteousness alone.
That's what Christ had to do. And for us to be able to enter
into this adoption, that work had to be accomplished. And that's
why Christ came. Go to Galatians 4 and look at
this. And not only that, He's going
to send the Spirit, make us be born again so that we enter into
the experience of this adoption. Galatians 4, 4. I'm just trying
to show you He's the way, the truth and the life of all the
doctrine of God, of everything. He's the truth of who God is. He's the life. God's the life. He's the truth of all the doctrine
we preach. He's the truth of election. He's
the truth of adoption. Look here, verse 4. When the
fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a
woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because
you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, no more in bondage under the law, the curse and condemnation
of the law, but your Son. And if a Son, then an heir of
God through Christ Jesus. Look at Romans 8, real quick,
Romans 8. Romans 8, verse 14. As many as are led by the Spirit
of God, they are the sons of God. You have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear. God is not a perfect love cast
without fear. And God is not giving you a spirit
of fear. He's not bringing you back under
bondage and making you think He's going to cast you out and
make you fearful in that bondage again. You have not received
that spirit. but you receive the spirit of adoption, whereby
we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children,
you are heirs and joint heirs with Christ." You see, Christ
is the truth. He is the life. The incorruptible
seed by whom we are born again is Christ. He is the Word. He
is that incorruptible seed. He preaches the Gospel to us.
It is through the preaching of this Word that He enters in and
creates life and makes you know Him. He is the one true foundation. He's the truth and the light.
He's the only foundation, the one true foundation. He's the
one true peace with God. He came and made reconciliation
for His people and brought us into peace with God. He's the
one true propitiation. He's the one mercy seat where
God will have mercy with His children. He's the one true head
of His church. He's the life, the head. All
your life comes from the head. Where does your knowledge come
from? It comes from the head. He's the truth and the life.
It's from Him that He fitly joins us together, compacts us together
and gives us nourishment and life is through Him. He's the
one true refuge. He's the one you flee into. He's
the one defender, the one shield of His people. He's protecting
His people. And He's the one true provider,
the supplier. Look what He's given us spiritually.
He gave us life. He gave us the truth. He's opened
the way, put us in Christ the way, and He's bringing us to
the Father. He's provided everything we need
spiritually. We are accepted in the Beloved. You are complete
in Him. And He's providing everything
we need from here to there. And you're not doing without
anything. Right now where you're sitting,
You are not doing without anything that you truly need. If you needed
it, if you need it, He will provide it. But if He hasn't provided
it, we don't need it. We don't need it. Contentment
is knowing He provided all you need. He'll never leave you nor
forsake you. He's our need. He is our one
need. And He provided all we need. So what does He tell us
to do, brethren? He says, buy the truth and sell
it not. Come to Christ. That's what He's
saying. He says, believe on Him and abide in Christ our life.
In John 5, verse 26, He said, as the Father hath life in Himself,
so He's given to the Son to have life in Himself. And He told
them there, He said, you won't come to Me that you might have
life. But He's telling you and me, come to Me that you might
have life. Come to me. John tells us why
he wrote all this gospel. The Spirit of God gave him a
heart to write this, and he wrote it down, everything Christ said,
and here's why he did it. John 20, 31 says, these are written
that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you might have life through His name. believing the truth, Christ is
the truth, and that believing you might have life through Christ.
This is life eternal. Christ said this in his high
priestly prayer in John 17. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou
hast sent. Here's what the Lord teaches
us through this gospel. Seek Him while He may be found.
Make that your whole endeavor. Come to Him, partake of this
living breath, rest your troubled heart in Him, abide in Him, continue
in Him. We can't do anything without
Him for this period. Abide in Him. Follow His examples,
stay near to Him, watch and be ready for His return. and be found in Him, not having
your own righteousness, but the righteousness which is of God,
the righteousness that's by the faithfulness of Christ given
to us freely through faith in Him. This is the record. God has given to us eternal life
and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. when Christ is
the way and the truth and the life in our heart. Now hear this,
when He is the way, the truth and the life in our heart, the
loss of anything in this world is no loss. Because having Christ as your
all, you have all. Is He your life? Is He the life,
your only life? Then when you lay this life down,
you will have lost nothing. Because He is your life. Is He
the truth to you? If He is, you will abide in Him. Because you know, outside of
Him, I don't have truth. I don't know truth. There is
no truth. He's the truth. He's the gospel.
I found the pearl of great price. He's the truth. He's the gospel.
And He's the way. He's the way. No other way but
Him. No other way but Him. Paul said
he prayed that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom in the revelation
and the knowledge of Him. The eyes of your understanding
being opened, Christ said, I'm the truth. That you may know
what is the hope of His calling, He said, I'm the life. That's
the hope of His calling. He said, I'm the life. You have
eternal life now and you shall have eternal life with Him. And
that you might know the exceeding greatness of His power by which
He called us to Him. This is the power by which He'll
keep us. Christ is the way. He's the truth. He's the light.
No man comes to the Father but by Him. Believe Him. Amen. Father, thank You for this gospel. Thank You for Your Son. We have no other way but Christ's
way. We are dark. polluted, corrupt, undone in
ourselves. We need Christ to be the light,
the life, the truth. And Lord, we're thankful You've
given Him, Your Son, and that You're bringing Your people to
You. Make us now to truly know this exceeding great power You've
worked. Make us to have this spirit of
revelation and knowledge of Him. Make everything else foolishness
to us, Lord, that we might abide in Christ and not be looking
for anything else, not be listening to anybody trying to turn us
aside to anything or any other way. Lord, keep us looking to Christ,
the way, the truth, the life. Thank you, Father, that you provided
Him. Forgive us our sins. Forgive us our unbelief and our
going our own way. Keep us in Him, Lord. We ask
it in Christ's name. Amen.