Do You Know the Way?

Sunday June 8, morning worship

John 14:1-51 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:1-53 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

John 14:1-55 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

Do You Know the Way?• Thomas was not alone.

John 14:5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

Jeremiah 9:23,2423 Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

Jeremiah 9:23,2424 But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

Romans 1:22,2322 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Do You Know the Way?• Thomas was not alone.• Jesus is THE (only!) way!

John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Acts 4:12Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

1John 5:11,1211 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Do You Know the Way?• Thomas was not alone.• Jesus is THE (only!) way! • The early church was called

“The Way”.

Acts 9:1,21 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Acts 9:1,22 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 19:8,98 And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God.

Acts 19:8,99 But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Acts 19:23And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.

Acts 24:14(Paul before Felix) But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Acts 24:22But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.”

Do You Know the Way?• Thomas was not alone.• Jesus is THE (only!) way! • The early church was called

“The Way”.

Galatians 3:26-2926 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Galatians 3:26-2928 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26-2929 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

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