![]() Have you heard that before? – it is a common thought, politically correct, tolerant … and wrong. “As long as you believe in God and try to be a good person, your religion doesn’t matter.” “There are different paths up the same mountain, but they all lead to the same peak.” The Bible is our GPS it also redirects me if I get it wrong and start going the wrong way. I could use a GPS but it doesn’t know the way. What about life – where do I want to go? What’s my destination? Let’s say heaven? How do I get to heaven? I have to know the way. I could use a GPS that gives me directions all the way and if I get it wrong, it recalculates and redirects me back to the way to my destination, into town. How do I get to town? I have to know the way. We cannot perform the duty of coming to God, by repentance and the acts of worship, without the Spirit and grace of Christ, nor obtain the happiness of coming to God as our Father without his merit and righteousness he is the high priest of our profession, our advocate.First of all I decide where I do want to go?- what’s my destination? Let’s say town. Fallen man must come to God as a Judge, but cannot come to him as a Father, otherwise than by Christ as Mediator. The necessity of his mediation: No man cometh to the Father but by me. He is the true way to life, the only true way other ways may seem right, but the end of them is the way of death. He is the true and living way (Hebrews 10:20) there are truth and life in the way, as well as at the end of it. As the truth, he is the guide of our way as the life, he is the end of it. In him we must set out, go on, and finish. Christ is the way, the truth, and the life that is, He is the beginning, the middle, and the end. Secondly, Let us consider these jointly, and with reference to each other. Christ formed in us is that to our souls which our souls are to our bodies. He is the life for we are alive unto God only in and through Jesus Christ, Romans 6:11. (3.) As truth is opposed to fallacy and deceit he is true to all that trust in him, as true as truth itself, 2 Corinthians 1:20. ![]() When we enquire for truth, we need learn no more than the truth as it is in Jesus. ![]() As truth is opposed to falsehood and error the doctrine of Christ is true doctrine. Christ is the true manna (John 6:32), the true tabernacle, Hebrews 8:2. Christ is the substance of all the Old-Testament types, which are therefore said to be figures of the true, Hebrews 9:24. As truth is opposed to figure and shadow. The disciples followed him, and Christ tells them that they followed the road, and, while they continued following him, they would never be out of their way. By Christ, as the way an intercourse is settled and kept up between heaven and earth the angels of God ascend and descend our prayers go to God, and his blessings come to us by him this is the way that leads to rest, the good old way. We could not get to the tree of life in the way of innocency but Christ is another way to it. In him God and man meet, and are brought together. By his doctrine and example he teaches us our duty, by his merit and intercession he procures our happiness, and so he is the way. Christ was his own way, for by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Hebrews 9:12), and he is our way, for we enter by him. ![]() Christ is the way, the highway spoken of, Isaiah 35:8. First, Let us consider these first distinctly.
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