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I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life

Text: John 14
22 October 2011

REVIEW

1. I am the Bread of Life John 6:35, 48, 51, 58

2. I am the Light of the world John 8:12; 9:5

3. I am the Door John 10:7, 9

4. I am the Good Shepherd John 10:11, 14

5. I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25

I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

1. The Context

a) Towards the end of the earthly ministry of Jesus

b) Jesus prepares His disciples for His imminent death

c) The heart of His disciples were troubled

i) His suffering was foretold i

i) His death was too painful to dwell upon

2. The Promise of Jesus

a) He goes to prepare them a place in His Father’s House

b) He will come again

c) He will take them to be there with Him forever

THE STRUGGLES OF THE DISCIPLES

1. Thomas
We do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way? John 14:5

2. Philip
Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. John 14:8

THE RESPONSE OF THE LORD JESUS

1. In response to Thomas

a) I am the Way

i) He had taught His disciples His way of life

ii) He had exemplified what that way of life was

b) I am the Truth

i) taught the Truth

ii) He lived out the Truth

iii) He is the truth

c) I am the Life

i) In Him is life i

i) He is the Giver of life

2. In response to Philip

a) He who had seen Jesus had seen the Father John 14:9

b) He is in the Father and the Father is in Him John 14:10a

c) The words of Jesus are the words of the Father John 14:10b

d) The works of Jesus as the works of the Father John 14:10c

3. Encouragement to believe

a) In Jesus

b) In His words

c) In His works

QUESTIONS

1. Do we thank God that Jesus shows us the way to heaven?

2. Is there the affirmation in the Lord’s promise that He has prepared a place for us?

3. Arc you focusing on Jesus as the way in life?

4. Do you believe in what we see in Jesus is also that of God?