I AM the Way, the Truth, the Life

John 13:31–14:6 [One the most important and beloved passages in the Bible]

CONTEXT: Jesus spoke these words on the night before His crucifixion (13:1). Jesus has announced He was leaving and His disciples could not go with Him (13:33-38).

No wonder 14:1 begins, “Let not your hearts be troubled…” The disciples needed some reassurance—“…ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Didn’t the disciples already believe on Him? Yes, but, He was about to be taken from their eye-sight. Like each of us, sometimes we need to have our faith reaffirmed. Faith is the answer to any problem that may trouble your heart. “Faith is the victory that overcometh the world.”

The PROMISE: “I will come again.” Jesus is not sending someone for us. Jesus Christ Himself is coming again! This is sure!

You need three things to get to heaven:
1. You need the WAY. How are you going to get there?

2. You need TRUTH. There are many false ways—Which is the true way?

3. You need LIFE. Without Christ, you are spiritually dead in sin.

I. I am the Way, that you might be SAVED.

• Jesus’ statement is absolutely dogmatic—The media today would call Jesus’ words an example of intolerant bigotry!
• The claim of Christ hits at the heart of our pluralistic society. With one fell swoop, Jesus disintegrates all man’s false hopes of multiple ways to heaven, and asserts Himself as the only way to heaven.

A. Jesus is not one of many ways—He is the ONE and ONLY way. Any other way will lead a person to “the lake of fire.”

B. Proverbs 14:12—“There is A WAY which SEEMETH RIGHT unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

C. Jesus did not come merely to point to the way, but He is come to be the Way. One of the early names for Christianity was “the way” (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22).