Jesus : The Way

I have struggled for time & ideas for the blog but this week I'm going to post on one of my favourite sayings of Jesus' - John 14:6

To give a bit of context, here is John 14:1-6...

 "¹ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

    ² In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

    ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

    ⁴ You know the way to the place where I am going.

 ⁵ Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?

    ⁶ Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me."

He is the Way and the Truth and the Life. Jesus appears to distinct the three as separate things so I will blog on each one separately so it is natural to start with the first of the three in the verse, Jesus being the Way.

In John 2 & Luke 2 Jesus speaks of His Father house, but in those passages He is talking about the Temple in Jerusalem, the main place of worship for Jews at that time. Here Jesus is referring to Heaven as He refers to the house as a place 'with many rooms'. The Disciples had already been to the Temple so would have known about the room structure meaning that Jesus couldn't have been talking about that. Why would Jesus go to the Jewish Temple to prepare rooms for them? In Pre-New Testament Israel, the Temple was the place where the Priests could go to meet with God and be in His Presence on behalf of the people. When Jesus died the veil separating God from the people torn showing that Jesus had opened a way for us to be in relationship with God now. Of course, our relationships with God are all works in progress or works waiting to be progressed and the ultimate conclusion to the development of this relationship will come when we get to be with God for eternity.

So I believe Jesus is saying He is the Way to Heaven here.

But, how is Jesus the way to Heaven?

Revelation 21 describes Heaven as a place with no more death or mourning or crying or pain, sounds perfect to me! God resides in Heaven and He is Perfect. Nothing imperfect can go into Heaven because it will spoil it!

As human beings, we have all sinned and are all therefore imperfect but God doesn't like the idea of us not being there with Him because He Loves us.

Christ came to live a perfect live and trade His life for ours, taking the punishment for our sin on the cross so we could have the reward of a place in Heaven, where God will perfect us so we can fit in there :)

Put your trust in Christ today and punch your ticket for the greatest party of all time - Heaven.

Misconceptions - 7. A Loving God would not send people to Hell?

'If God Loved me so much why would He send me to hell'

This is a statement I hear fairly often and it is an interesting point. The Bible makes out that God Loves us so much that He would even be willing to die for us. So why would He send us to hell?

God is perfect in Love, but He is also perfect in Justice.

When you are wronged, you are usually quite passionate about seeing that 'justice' is done and it is indeed the same with God, except God hates all wrong. God hates murder, rape, lies, theft...He hates all He considers wrong (and this is how we know if there is wrong, because God said so...How else do we know? There is no acceptable standard other than one set by a Higher being than ourselves...otherwise it is human opinion vs human opinion and how do you work out who is right? Rant over haha) and He will punish wrong to make it right again.

If someone you loved was raped and murdered, you would be desperate to see those responsible brought to justice and rightly so.

Now I am not accusing us all of being rapists and murderers, but we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and we deserve to be punished for this. As God is such a Holy God and only perfection can stand in His Presence, we cannot go to Heaven. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and this death means spiritual death, in that we cannot be in relationship with God.

I began this post by pointing out that the Bible states that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die for us (John 3:16). This is where it turns around...God wants us in Heaven and He has made a way through Christ.

Romans 10:9
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


God loves us so much that He died to pay the wages of our sin, so that we can go to Heaven. If we fail to take heed of this, is it any fault other than our own?