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I Am the Way
How many roads are there to heaven?
Most people want to get to heaven. They don't want to die and suffer forever.
How do you get to heaven?
Are there many roads? Do they all lead to the same place?
Or are you just crossing your fingers, hoping you're on the right one?
Jesus says there is only one road to heaven. "I am the way and the truth
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
How arrogant! Arrogant?
You have a friend. Your friend asks you for directions to your home. Road
construction has closed the normal routes. There is only one road which will
bring your visitor to your house.
Is it arrogance to share the one open path with the one you love? You give
your friend directions to the one open road because you don't want your
friend to be frustrated, confused, or lost.
Jesus doesn't want you to be frustrated, confused or lost. He doesn't want
you to live your life driving down a dead end. He doesn't want you to live
imagining that your good actions will be enough to earn life forever. God
expects perfection, not a good try. Working hard to earn heaven by human
action earns hell.
Jesus doesn't want you to be frustrated, confused or lost. He doesn't want
you to live imagining that anything calling itself "god" really is
God. Any religion which denies that Jesus is true God is a false religion. It
may be a road. The road leads not to heaven, but to hell.
Jesus loves you. He doesn't want you to live imagining that all spiritual
roads lead to the same place.
Only one road leads to heaven.
Arrogance? No. The ultimate in love. If there is only one way, we need to
know it.
Jesus is the only way. Why? Because he is the only one who died to pay for
your disobedience. Without Jesus, you will stand before God guilty. Without
Jesus, you will stand before God afraid. Without Jesus, you will stand before
God deserving punishment.
Covered by Jesus' blood, you will stand before God innocent. Covered by
Jesus' blood, you will stand before God at peace. Covered by Jesus' blood,
you will stand before God certain of eternal reward.
Without Jesus' blood, the road is a dead-end.
Through Jesus' blood, the road leads straight to heaven.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me."
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