05-16-2021 – “DID YOU ENJOY THE COTTON CANDY”

May 16th, 2021

John 14: 1-10

“DID YOU ENJOY THE COTTON CANDY”

John 14: 1-10
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
3 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 you know the way where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

Absolute Truths

Circles are not squares.

2+2 = 4

Jesus is the only way to heaven.

No other way:

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

No other name:

John 4:12
12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

No other foundation:

1Corinthians 3:11
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

No other mediator:

1 Timothy 2:5
5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Other Absolute Truths

We ar all sinners.

Our sins separate us from God.

We need a mediator to bridge the sin gap between us and God.

Jesus is that mediator.

No other mediator is necessary or possible.

Fable based on Matthew 7:13-14

Matthew 7:13-14
13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
14 For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Jim Shepherd