"I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life..." John 14:6
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is far more than a good man Who lived a long time ago.
He is the Way to live a full and blessed life. He is the Truth of God in Person. He is eternal life in human form. Everything that flows from Him, is Divine; is Truth and it is eternal.
To see one way that that applies to believers, consider Mark 11:22-25. (Please read it.) Remember that it is the Way, the Truth and the Life that is speaking. Neither God nor Jesus Christ are separate from their Words. Rather, their Words reveal them to mankind.
Verse 22 states: "Have faith in God." Verse 23 defines the faith that He intends. Verse 24 is the assured results of such faith.
In some cases, God's power is released to CREATE something. In other cases, it is released to ERRADICATE something. Verse 25 has an example.
Through verse 23, Jesus taught us how to forgive. True, Biblical forgiveness is as extra-natural to mortal man as is the faith of God, unless we grasp it by faith.
How does it work
? Romans 10:10: "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."God's Word bids us to forgive those who offend us. God's Word gives us faith to do it with. Then our mouth says what we are believing in our heart. At that moment the Truth of God causes a miracle!
The offence that we forgive no longer exists, anywhere! The miracle is that something that once existed, DOESN'T exist anymore! It's just GONE! Such forgiveness is divine, eternal life working in us. It takes its nature from God, Who forgives us and blots out our sins if we believe on Jesus. They don't exist anymore, anywhere!
Jesus, the Way, shows us the way to deal with things that non believers can't deal with. They don't know how!
The Life that Jesus gives is marked by freedom from bondage.
Reader, according to Jesus Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, if you say in faith, "I forgive...", YOU create a NEW CONDITION. You have used the faith of God to enter into a Divine experience: the act of forgiving.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. By Him we may gain all of God's blessings if we use the faith of God to enter into them.
People who are unsaved, can use the same power to receive forgiveness of their sins, and to be saved. See Romans 10:9.
In the same way, a sick person can use the faith of God to receive Divine healing from God.
The eternal truth is that Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, redeemed us and took away our sins with His Blood. Col. 1:14; John 1:29; 1 John 3:5.
Now consider the following Scriptures: The power of Christ, as the Way the truth and the Life, is to deliver us from our sins, Rev.1:5. It is to heal our diseases, 1 Peter 2:24. It is to provide for us, Mt. 6:33; Phil.4:19.
My friends, it is God's will for us to learn to use faith in such a manner. Jesus said that all things are possible to him that believes. Mark 9:23.
The Bible tells us that we can build up ourselves on our most holy faith. Jude verse 20.
It tells us to be strong in the Lord, and the power of His might. Eph.6:10.
We can have a life that is far better than the old way of sin and self will that we lived before we were born again. God yearns for us to do it. Will you do it?
"...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, ..." Acts 16:31.
If you 'lock up' on things or conditions of failure, a depressing attitude of failure hinders your vision of hope. That will limit the extent of your faith, and lock you to a "dead end" present.
But faith is the substance and the evidence of things not seen by natural eye sight. Faith gives you purpose and direction and it causes you to press on to ultimate fulfillment.
Energy to press onward rises out of a vision of hope. God's promises are things that we can hope for, and we can receive them by faith. Faith fuels our will and causes the effort needed to gain what God has promised.
I love you.
Pastor Poole