{"id":26071,"date":"2026-03-06T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=26071"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:35:37","slug":"i-am-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2026\/03\/i-am-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Way, The Truth And The Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been thinking about the \u2018I am\u2019 sayings of the Lord Jesus as recorded in John\u2019s Gospel and today we come to this trifecta of qualities found exclusively and uniquely in the person of our Lord Jesus. Although conceivably these attributes might be taken separately to highlight independent aspects of the Lord\u2019s character, they are usually brought together, as the Saviour seems to have intended, in a single statement of Christ\u2019s distinctive role as Mediator of the covenant of grace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Access and entry<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

The principal message conveyed by the phrase \u2018I am the way, the truth and the life\u2019 is that the Lord Jesus Christ is Himself the sole means of access into His Father\u2019s presence and the sole supplier of all the essential requirements for acceptance with God. Thomas, with the other disciples, had heard the Lord speak of His imminent departure from them and His planned return to His Father\u2019s house. Thomas\u2019 first reaction was to assume Christ was preparing to travel to some distant, though accessible location and a few appropriate directions would bring them all together again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A heavenly view<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

However, the Lord was not speaking about an earthly location but a heavenly home in His Father\u2019s house; comprising mansions and such places as are suitable for His people\u2019s eternal glory and happiness. By His departure He was referring to His death on the cross and thereafter His ascension and entrance into heaven. With His own blood as an offering for sin the Lord was about to enter His Father\u2019s presence as our Great High Priest and open a door of access for all His redeemed people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our matchless Saviour<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Christ\u2019s words to Thomas are a summary-statement of His work of salvation. They encompass everything the Lord has done to secure the deliverance of His people from sin, bondage to Satan and the curse of the law. They reveal the essential role the Saviour performs to accomplish reconciliation between God and man. The Lord Jesus does not merely point the way to heaven He is Himself the Way by the things He suffered and the death He died. He is not a way but the Way. He is the entire, God-appointed means of salvation for sinners.<\/p>\n

Resting in Christ<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

The Lord\u2019s prophets of past ages spoke truthfully to their generation as they revealed God\u2019s will and declared His gospel. However, our Saviour, Jesus Christ, does not merely tell the truth; our Saviour is Himself the truth. He is God who is holy, righteous, wise and good. He is a man without sin and impeccable. Everything in Christ\u2019s person, character, walk, words and dealings with God, and man, is honest, upright and truthful. His doctrine is reliable, dependable and worthy to be accepted and believed. We may rest in peace upon the Lord Jesus, He is ever-faithful and completely trustworthy.<\/p>\n

Author, Giver, Sustainer of life<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

The Lord Jesus Christ is the source of all life; natural, spiritual and eternal. As the eternal Word it was Christ who breathed life into Adam and it is Christ who gives physical life to all men. He has appointed the day of our physical birth and the day of our physical death. He is the author and giver of life. He upholds the natural order, preserves and sustains all that live and breathe in our world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Spiritual and eternal<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Yet, more than this the Lord Jesus is the sole source of spiritual life and eternal life which is His own life in His people. By His death the Lord Jesus gave Himself for our life and secured everlasting spiritual life for all for whom He died. We already know Christ in the new birth as the Resurrection and the Life. He brings spiritual resurrection and gives spiritual life to His church. This, he tells Thomas, is the eternal life that His people will possess in the mansions of His Father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

The only Way<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

By bringing these three attributes together in this single \u2018I am\u2019 statement the Lord Jesus is telling His church and people that He is the true and exclusive way to heavenly glory and eternal life. He, Himself is the way of salvation. This strikes a blow against the self-righteous who try to use the law, and good works as a way to obtain peace with God. Only in Christ who is the way, the truth, and the life can any come to peace with God, \u2018for\u2019, says He, \u2018no man cometh unto the Father but by me\u2019.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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