One way to Cape
Palliser
Jesus
:“I am the way the truth and the life”
Fiji
Mission Muslim man:
“I must live
consistent with my scriptures.”
Exclusivity
of Christ as the way.
But
the but the more challenging question is how many ways
are there to Christ?
Justine’s
30th birthday bottom of Grand
canyon one way in but hundreds of ways to get to
that road.
“You
search for me and you will find me when you search for
me with all your heart I will be found by you declares the
Lord.”
The
problem with Evangelism is that most often we are more
concerned with trying to prove that we are right instead of allowing
the
righteousness of our lives to shine.
If
we go back to the 2nd verse of todays reading Jesus says in my
Fathers house are
many roms, the King James translates it in my father’s house
are many mansions.
In our Western materialistic
culture we m\might get visions
of opulence, if you look at the art work that depicts heaven we see
Roman
pillars and gold. This is a very popular funeral scripture.
But I don’t think
that Jesus was really talking about the
afterlife in this passage. I think he is actually telling them that he
is going
to the cross and will then go to the Father.
In
my Father’s house the word in Greek is the word:OIKA it
literally means Abode or residence. In other words where my Father
Resides.
There are many rooms, or
mansions, the word here is the word
MONAY which is based on the MENO which literally mean a place to stay.
“So
this verse should probably read Where my Father resides
or lives is a place for you to stay”
The
Father doesn’t live somewhere in the future waiting for
us to die. The Father lives today His Kingdom is a present reality for
those
who have found the way.
We
are invited into this place in through Christ and we
abide with Christ.
John
15:4 “Abide in me and I in you, No branch can bear
fruit by itself it must remain in the vine, so you must remain in
me.”
Guess what the Greek word for
Abide is…”Meno”
Many
Christian rend to focus our mission and our ministry of
reaching out to people based upon what happens to people after they
die. As if
salvation and the Kingdom of God was
simply about
heaven and Hell. When in actuality The afterlife was never really the
point.
Jesus
didn’t say in John 10:10 I have come that they may not
go to hell when they die, did he, No He said I came that might have
life and
life abundantly.
The
point has always been that the Father wants us to live!
In
John 1: In the beginning was the word…
In Him was LIFE and that Life
is the light of men the light
shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it.”
He
is the way the truth and the Life,
The real challenge for us is to
walk in His way, Abide in
his truth and Live his risen life so that every person we meet who is
on one of
several roads to Jesus may finally see Jesus in you and find their own
place to
abide in the father.
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