Christ is All

if God’s people would once again
turn to the Gospel of John particularly to John Chapter 14 where we began
last Lord’s Day and really we saw that we were picking up in
the midst of a section that was well underway. It is a continuing
interaction with the disciples on a subject that had already
come up in Chapter 13 namely the Lord’s departure. Well, this
bleeds right into chapter 14. There is no hard break here.
And the first thing that Jesus does is really deal with Peter’s
question. Peter asks a question and really
wants to know where is the Lord going. Jesus responds to that
and along comes another question from another disciple. Thomas wants to know how. How
on earth can we follow you if we don’t even know where you’re
going? Jesus knowing the hearts of all people, knowing especially
the hearts of these apostles, really primes them by the statements
that he makes. And the statement that he makes
in verse 7 prompts another question, this one by Philip. Not only
where and how, but who. Who is the father? Show us the
father. Another question is prompted
by statements he makes down in verses 18 through 21, and that
prompts a question by Judas, not Judas Iscariot, but this
is a question about what? What has happened in this plan?
Why are things changing so rapidly? That’s kind of a forecast of
the days and weeks to come. I want to go back, however, to
verse 1, by way of review, we’ll course down through verse 7 and
tackle the verses before us this Lord’s Day. Verse 1, do not let
your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also
in me. 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. 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. And you know the way where I
am going.” Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you’re
going. How do we know the way? Jesus
said to him, I am the way. and the truth and the life. No
one comes to the Father but through me. If you had known me, you
would have known my Father also. From now on, you know Him and
have seen Him.” The context, as I already explained, is really
chapter 13. There isn’t a hard break here. And we come into these passages
that are so familiar to us, so beloved, so rich in truth, so
comfortable to us as we think of heaven and that Christ himself
has gone to prepare a place for us. Peter had been stunned, really
bewildered. And we noted that these are the
last words of Peter here in chapter 13. until we get all the way
to chapter 18. Peter falls stunned at what the
Lord says and Jesus does everything that He can and should to comfort,
to guide, to instruct Peter. Jesus has spoken of His departure,
a departure to a place where they cannot follow Him. And so for Peter, for all of
his companions who had left everything they had to follow Christ. This
is surprising, even shocking news. We started here in verses
1 through 4, last Lord’s Day, and we looked at the practical
discipleship that Jesus renders to Peter and the others. He’s
answering questions, and that’s essentially what discipleship
is. We all have questions. Believe me, the scriptures are
full of answers to those questions. But essentially what we discovered
last Lord’s Day is that what Peter and what the rest of the
disciples lacked was a spiritual confidence. They were fearful
that perhaps things were coming apart at the seams and this so-called
Messiah that in whom they had placed their trust was now going
to be killed. that they were going to perhaps
be scattered, that there was really nothing to this messianic
kingdom. Jesus moves to build their spiritual
confidence. You remember this? Last Lord’s
Day we looked at verse 1, that spiritual confidence is built
first and foremost on the tenacity to refuse doubt. This is a mindset
that Jesus was admonishing them to take up. Do not let your heart
be troubled. not only a mindset, but a dynamic,
multifaceted faith. Believe in God, believe also
in me. We talked about the structure of that passage and I believe
that they’re both imperatives there. You should cultivate a
hearty faith in Almighty God and you also should cultivate
a hearty faith in the Lord Jesus Himself. Not only a tenacity
to refuse doubt and a dynamic multifaceted faith but spiritual
confidence is built on the hope of eternity in heaven. In my
father’s house are many dwelling places not as we saw mansions
as the King James has it. If it were not so I would have
told you one of the most uncouth things you can even imagine would
be for Jesus to lead these disciples along, all the while believing
that there was something more at the end of their life, something
beyond death, only to discover that that’s
all there is. Jesus said, if it weren’t so,
I would have told you, which is another way of him saying,
believe me, there is eternity. Eternity is in view, and I am
going to prepare ready a place for you. We also have our spiritual
confidence built on the promise of Jesus Christ’s return. He
says, look, if I go, I’m coming back. If I go to prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you to myself. The final
element of building our spiritual confidence is a sure means of
salvation, and this is what prompts the next question. Look at verse
4, you know the way where I’m going. It’s a sure way. It’s an absolute way. And Jesus
tells the disciples that they know it. Those are the things that make
for the building of spiritual confidence, refusing doubt, cultivating
faith, looking to eternity in heaven. expecting Jesus Christ
to fulfill His promise of return, and knowing in our hearts that
we have a sure way of salvation. Well, if anyone, if any 11 should
have known this way, it was the apostles themselves. And yet,
here’s one. who falters even in the moment
where he should be strong. Look at verse 5. Thomas said
to him, Lord, we do not know where you’re going. How do we
know the way? We don’t even know where you’re
going. Thomas is an interesting character. We’ll come to Thomas in a moment,
but I want to lay the groundwork. I want to tell you why this is
such a crucial passage. Verses 5 through 7. Because what
Jesus is dealing with here is the very gospel of Christ. He’s dealing with the way of
salvation. And Thomas claims that he doesn’t
know, even though Jesus has laid out the way of salvation on many,
many different occasions. You see, the problem is And it
starts with a problem. The problem is mankind is in
a desperate situation. In the garden we had communion
with Almighty God. Romans 1 says it this way. Pardon
me, Romans 5. Just as through one man sin entered
into the world and death through sin, so death spread to all because
all sinned. That’s not the way it started.
According to God’s providence and after the counsel of His
will, He purposed to create humanity and He created Him declaring,
let us make man according to our image in our likeness. And
when God made man, remember He declared it very good. It was
very good. God created humanity free of
sin. and free of a sin nature, whose
purpose was to exercise dominion over all of God’s creation, and
to glorify God in everything that they did. Thomas Watson, faithful Puritan
pastor, said it this way. He paints such an incredible
word picture. See what a glorious condition
man was in when he entered into covenant with Him? He was placed
in the garden of God. Now, I was out in mine yesterday. Weeds, you know, plants that
just did nothing all summer long. Such is my garden. But if you
can imagine God’s garden What an incredible place, what an
incredible image. He was placed in the garden of
God which for the pleasure of it was called paradise. He had
his choice of all the trees, only one accepted. He had all
kinds of precious stones, pure metals, rich cedars. He was a
king upon the throne and all creation did obeisance to him.
Man in innocence had all kinds of pleasure, that might ravish
his senses with delight, and be as baits to allure him to
serve and worship his maker.” Do you get the picture? God placed
him in the garden, and if he would only open his eyes and
look, everything around him would prompt him to praise God. He was full of holiness. Paradise
was not more adorned with fruit than Adam’s soul was with grace
He was the coin on which God had stamped his lively image
light Sparkled in his understanding so that he was like an earthly
angel and his will and his affections were full of order Tuning harmoniously
to the will of God. He was God’s man literally So
was Eve Adam was a perfect pattern of sanctity. Adam had intimacy
and communion with God. He conversed with him as a favorite
one with his prince. He knew God’s mind. He had his
heart. He not only enjoyed the light
of the sun in paradise, but the light of God’s countenance. What an incredible picture. But
we know the rest of the story, don’t we? Adam and Eve sinned. Adam and Eve in their sin, just
as Romans 5 describes, brought not only a sin nature upon themselves,
but they brought death. They brought separation to all
humanity. Death entered into the world. Death came because of sin. I think I probably review these
maybe once every year, maybe once every couple of years. And
there isn’t a time that I’ve ever reviewed them where somebody
doesn’t come to me at the door and say, could you go through
those four things one more time? Four effects of the fall. This is why it’s so important
to have this backdrop for John chapter 14, verse six. Four effects
of the fall. From the moment Adam and Eve
fell, Mankind became inherently sinful. Psalm 14.3 says, They
have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt. There
is no one who does good, not even one. We became from that
moment inherently sinful, prone to sin. We have a proclivity
to find new ways to sin against God every single day. Otherwise,
Why would His mercies be new every morning? Not only are we
inherently sinful, we are temporally vexed. If you haven’t heard,
flip on the TV when you get home. There’s a massive hurricane ravaging
Florida even this day as we speak. Those are the effects of the
fall. As long as we’re on this world,
we’re going to have weeds in our garden. We’re going to have
pain in our childbirth. Cursed, God said in chapter 3
of Genesis. Cursed is the ground because
of you. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
Inherently sinful, temporally vexed, physically dying. This is where death came. From time to time you hear that
so-and-so, Uncle Ned, died of natural causes. Don’t believe
it. It wasn’t natural. It wasn’t how God planned it.
Death is now inevitable, but it wasn’t natural. It wasn’t
what God designed. Chapter 2, verse 17 of Genesis,
God threatens death. The day that you eat of it, you
shall surely die. He hints at death in 317. In toil you shall eat of it all
the days of your life. Adam had never had his days counted.
And now the clock is ticking. And then God declares death. In 319, by the sweat of your
face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground. It’s
coming. Death is coming. Death is coming to all people.
It is appointed, Hebrews 9, 27, it is appointed for men to die
once and after this comes judgment. Inherently sinful, temporally
vexed, physically dying, spiritually dead. Genesis 2.17, and the day that
you eat from it you shall surely die. The problem is Adam lived
for another 930 years. So what did we miss? Was God
just bluffing? What God meant was that at that
point Adam severed humanity’s communion with God. He destroyed
that innate ability to please God. and he left him at odds
with his holy God. One pastor said it so clearly
that spiritual death and in consequence eternal death is the chief and
appalling feature of the fall of man. That’s the main thing. Forget about weeds in the garden.
Forget about the pain of childbirth. Forget even about the fact that
one day you will physically die. The real problem The real problem
is the fact that you are perpetually separated from God. And you have
no inclination to get back to Him. You have no inclination
to make it right. Jesus Christ was sent by His
heavenly Father, not to remedy some of those curses, but all
of them. See, we are estranged from God
because of our sin, our fellowship with Him. has been broken, and
though we know that there’s a God, we are completely incapable of
mending our relationship with Him. Nothing we can do or say
can restore that relationship. Our sin, because we are inherently
sinful, continues to heap itself up upon itself, an impossible
account, We know that there’s a God, but we have no way of
knowing how to fix things. We try. How can we restore fellowship
with a holy God? And in short, we just don’t know
the way. We don’t have the means to appease
a holy God’s anger against us. But further, we now find our
perspective of God tainted, don’t we? We’ve completely obscured the
Bible’s picture of God and we’ve created one of our own. And it
ranges either from an affable and bumbling grandfather-like
figure to this violent and bitter being who is completely unapproachable. Those are the images that we
have of God. We don’t really know who God
is or what he’s like, but it’s worse yet. You see, our sin has left us
dead spiritually. And so we really don’t even know
or care about God. We know that He exists. We can’t
argue that fact. But to us, He’s an irrelevant
nuisance if we’re not in Christ. We know that He’s there somewhere,
but He doesn’t do enough for us, so we think. Our hearts are
cold and even dead toward Him. That’s why John 14, 6 is such a crucial
passage. Thomas asked a simple question.
And we could side with Thomas and say, you know, it was an
innocent question, honest mistake. You know, it’s upsetting circumstances. He was emotional. Thomas said to him, Lord, we
do not know where you’re going. How do we know the way? You see,
Thomas, he’s an interesting character, as I said. We saw him in John
chapter 11. Remember, Jesus is purposing
to go and threats have been made. And so Thomas suggests, you know,
let’s pack up and we’ll go with you so that we can all die. Kind
of a mixture of boldness and morose, you know, resignation. referred to him there as Gloomy
Gus. He’s usually known as Doubting Thomas. We see him again in John
chapter 20 at the end of this great gospel. Thomas, one of
the twelve, called Didymus, not with them when Jesus came. The
other disciples were saying to him, We have seen the Lord! Can
you imagine that meeting? You got your other ten guys coming
and saying, We found Him! He’s risen! No, He’s not. He
said to him, unless I see his hands, the imprint of the nails,
and put my finger into the place of the nails, put my hand in
his side, I will not believe. I need proof. So there’s this kind of this
funny thing with Thomas. He always wants facts. He needs
to have the picture laid out. He needs to know exactly what
the plan is all the time. He’s got to be on the inner circle.
so that he can keep following. And so his question is kind of
a little bit melancholy, a little critical, frankly. We don’t even
know where you’re going. You’re talking so fast, throwing
these things at us. We don’t even know where you’re
going. How do we know the way? And perhaps it’s even possible
that in Thomas’s gentle contention here with the Lord, that he’s
fixated on an earthly place. Thinking that Jesus said, I’m
gonna go on a retreat, I’m gonna go over to this place where you
can’t come here on earth. And Thomas is fixated on that. What road do we take? I mean,
that’s how basic this is. They had for so long, thought
of Jesus as this conquering Messiah. That now the very thought that
Jerusalem isn’t going to be the king’s city, it isn’t going to
be the Messiah’s city anymore. Is there another locality, another
palace that we don’t know about? Is there something that we should
know? We don’t even know where you’re going. How do we know
the way? And to this Jesus answers, I am everything. I am all. I am the remedy to all of mankind’s
problems. Inherently sinful, temporally
vexed, physically dying, spiritually dead. Jesus Christ is infinitely
all. In our time of preparation for
the Lord’s table today, I want to look at three infinitely beneficial
natures of Jesus Christ. Three infinitely beneficial aspects
of our Lord Jesus. First of all, the Lord Jesus
Christ is the access to God. He is the only means of reconciliation. Glance if you would at verse
6. Jesus said to him, I am the way. And that pronoun there is,
it’s in the It’s emphatic. It’s as if Jesus says, I am He
and there is no other. There is no other way. There
is no one else that can direct you to the way. At the end of
it, I, the Lord Jesus Christ, am the way. And the pronoun And
the emphasis covers really all three of those declarations.
I and no other person am the way. I and no other person am
the truth. I and no other am the life. I’ve seen it said even more simply
than that. I am the way. Jesus Christ is
the only way. I am the truth. There is no other
truth outside of Christ. I am the life. There is no way
to life outside of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Jesus could very easily say,
you know the way where I’m going, verse 4. He could very easily
say that because He said it all along. John 6.48, I am the bread
of life. John 8.12, I am the light of
the world. John 8.58, before Abraham was
born, I am. All of these I am statements
given to the men to let them know that Jesus Christ is all. There is no other. I am the door,
John 10. I am the good shepherd, John
10.11. I am the resurrection and the life, making the same
point that he makes here. There is no life outside of Christ. I think it was at that time when
I preached that verse, I am the resurrection and the life that
are reminded the saints of a billboard that I had seen as a young man. It was a billboard for a church
that said, life is better with Christ. No, it isn’t. Life is. with Christ. There is no life,
you can’t even call it such, outside of Christ. I am the way. I am the way. I and no other
am the way. For thousands of years, people
have been trying to walk even some of the testimonies we spoke
of a moment ago. That’s the pitfall, isn’t it?
We try to look for a list of things that we can do We want
to earn our salvation. That’s the tendency of humanity. Find some way to please God,
some way to pay Him back, some way to earn His favor. And it’s
not really without warrant. The Old Testament Scriptures,
Deuteronomy 5, you shall walk in all the way which the Lord
your God has commanded you. And so there was the law, there
is the way. There was a pattern of right
behavior. The prophets echoed it. Your
ears will hear a word behind you, Isaiah 30, 21. This is the
way. Walk in it. And so for centuries
upon centuries, people have been trying to find the way, find
the right path, find the right things to do, the right formula,
the right mix of legal observances. in order to appease a holy God. That’s not what Jesus is talking
about here. He didn’t say that he came to
show them a new way, a new way of praying, a new way of going
to church, a new way of following after God. He didn’t say that. He says that I am the actual
means. I am the road on which you walk. I am the bridge on which you
cross from earth to heaven. I am the way. Jesus wasn’t talking
about a new pattern of life. He’s talking about new life.
That He is the way to the Father, to the Father’s house. He’s the
way to the Father. Look at the passage. No one comes
to the Father. but through me.” And what a beautiful thought
that this is. That Jesus Christ is the way. Jesus Christ is the means that
we have to access a holy God. Hebrews chapter 10 says that,
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the
holy place by the blood of Jesus, a new sacrifice has been made.
by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us. And the
way is Christ. The way is Christ Himself and
faith in Him. See, Christ is the bridge. Christ
is the way from a sinner to God. Christ is the way that we get
from a state of deadness and sin to a state of righteousness
and glory in heaven. If we could, we’d build a tower,
huh? We tried that, didn’t we? If we could, we’d build a ladder
to get to heaven. If we could, and man has tried,
we’d find all kinds of ways, some reformation of life, some
list of to-dos, some qualifications, that if we only do those and
live up to those, we would reach up to heaven itself. But it’s
impossible for a sinner to please God. It’s always impossible for
a sinner to please God. And so God remedied that by sending
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the way. And I love the
way one pastor said that he is the
way not only from man to God, he is the way from God to man.
God sent His Son to reveal Himself to us and that essentially brings
us to point two. The infinitely beneficial nature
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is all. Not only
is Jesus Christ the access to God, there is no other. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the trustworthy spiritual guidance. He is the
perfect revelation of God. Jesus said to him, I am the way,
I am the truth. By saying so, Jesus wasn’t talking
about a set of facts as if we have to believe, you know, He
was born on such and such a date and born in a manger. His parents’
name were Mary and Joseph and on and on and on it goes as if
it’s a set of facts that Jesus is calling us to assent to. Not
at all. Those things are truths. But
when he says that Jesus Christ is true, he’s pointing to the
fact that Jesus Christ is God’s full and final revelation to
humanity. He’s it. He is the truth. John chapter 1, we saw it. In
the beginning was the Word. And we remember this was a parallel
to Genesis 1. John 1 looks back in the beginning. In the beginning based on a point
of eternity past, but in John 1, he starts at a point of eternity
and he looks at an eternity future. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the
Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God. Jesus Christ is God’s full revelation
of Himself. A lot of times people go looking
for truth in a variety of different places, don’t they? And some
of our testimonies echo that. We look for truth here and there,
this philosopher and that teacher, this system of belief. But we all discovered and all
will discover in time that all of those things are empty. There
is no system of philosophy that has at its core truth. Truth is in Christ alone. Jesus Christ came not only to
reveal God, but he came to expose us for what we are. That’s the
beauty about Scripture. It doesn’t mince words. Inherently
sinful, temporally vexed, physically dying, spiritually dead. When Jesus said, I and the Father
are one. He essentially said the same
thing. We’re one in essence. We’re one in nature. We’re one
in purpose. We are in every way the same,
except distinct in our personhood. In Matthew’s gospel, this truth
is echoed. No one knows the Son except the
Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and
anyone to whom the Son reveals Him.” That’s what Jesus Christ
came to do. That’s why He’s called the Word. He is God’s message to us. Paul seizes upon this truth as
he writes to the Colossians, which book I hope and purpose
to preach one day. I want you to know How great
a struggle I have on your behalf, Paul writes, for those and for
all who have not personally seen my face, that their hearts may
be encouraged, having been knit together in love, attaining to
all the wealth that comes from the full assurance and understanding
resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is Christ
Himself, in whom our hidden all the treasures of wisdom or knowledge. Jesus Christ alone is truth. Paul goes on in that incredible
chapter and he says, see to it that no one takes you captive
through empty philosophy, empty deception, according to the traditions
of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather
than according to Christ. Boy, if there is one verse that
is so crucial for our day because everybody is just giddy about
anything that anybody has to say. Falling all over themselves. Philosophy, empty deception,
traditions of men. That’s why we look to the Word.
Because the Word of God is the full report. of what God has
done in Christ. That verse ends like this, with
a reason. See to it that no one takes you
captive through philosophy, empty deception. According to the tradition
of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather
than according to Christ, for in Him all the fullness of deity
dwells in bodily form. You’ve seen it. God has given
you the truth. He’s given you everything that
you need. Every element of God’s glorious
nature is seen in Christ. Every aspect of God’s pure character
is seen in Christ. And Christ says, I am not only
the way, I am the truth. I’m the only perfect revelation
of Almighty God. But there’s a third infinitely
beneficial characteristic of Jesus Christ. Not only is He
the access to God, the Lord Jesus is the trustworthy spiritual
guide The Lord Jesus, thirdly, is the source of eternal life. Jesus said to him, I am the way,
I am the truth, I am the life. And as we started today, this
is the reason that I took the time to lay out before us inherently
sinful, temporally vexed, physically dying, spiritually dead. We can do nothing about it. We
know that our condition is precarious. We know that we’ve sinned because
we have a conscience. We know that there’s a God. Romans
1 says He’s revealed Himself to us. We know just by looking
up at the sky and seeing His creation. We know. But we also
know that we’ve offended Him. We also know that we’re at odds
with Him. We also know that we cannot possibly figure out how
to get right with Him. One said it this way, the whole
Bible bears solemn witness to the fact that the natural man
is spiritually lifeless, dead. He walks according to the course
of this world. He has no love for the things
of God. The fear of God is not upon him,
nor has he any concern for his glory. Self is the center and
circumference of his existence. He is alive to the things of
the world. He is dead toward heavenly things. And so it takes God. It takes
God to bring life to a deadened sinner. People, this is exactly,
turn over to Ephesians 2 just briefly. We have just a moment.
This is exactly what Paul is pointing to in Ephesians chapter
2. that we have need of what the
Bible refers to as regeneration. We have need of God breathing
life back into our dead bodies. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1, dead in your trespasses and sins. He’s speaking to those who now
find themselves to be in Christ, but he’s pointing back the very
sordid and difficult and horrible state in which they found themselves
outside of God. You were dead in your trespasses
and sins in which you formerly walked according to the course
of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air.
You lived like one of his children. And just in case there are some
that were sitting there that day when Paul wrote this, that
seemed to think that they were exempt having been raised in
a squeaky clean home, among them we too all formerly lived in
the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and
of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the
rest. We’re sinners, dead sinners. My seminary professor used to
call it animated cadavers. It’s all we are outside of Christ. And then the good news, incredibly
good news, but God. But God, being rich in mercy,
not one of us deserved it, because of His great love with which
He loved us even when we were dead in our transgressions. made
us alive. He regenerated us. He breathed
life into us. He brought us to life. No wonder
Jesus repeatedly says, I am life. John 1.4, John the Apostle said
of Him, in Him was life and the life was the light of men. John
5.24, He who hears my word and believes who sent me has eternal
life. Over and over again in John’s
gospel, we’ve seen it. That’s why Jesus could say, you
know the way. You know that I am the way. You
know that I am the truth. You know that I am the life.
There is no life outside of me. And that’s why Jesus can say
so explicitly here, there aren’t many roads to God. It does matter
what you believe. We’ve become so polite that we’re
afraid to admit that simple truth, even to a horrible sinner, just
because this individual has a philosophy or a religion that strikes his
fancy. Because it’s good enough for
him. It’s not what Jesus said. Jesus said, I am the way. and
the truth and the life, no one, not one single soul ever comes
to the Father, but through me. Jesus Christ is all. All will
live eternally. Only those in Christ will live
eternally with God. As one pastor said, to come to
the Father by way of Christ is not simply to accept Him, as
some kind of inspired teacher, to give assent to Him as the
fact that He existed, is to place your faith wholly and completely
in Him. To place your faith in Him as
your all. We’re preparing to do the solas
of the Reformation. Jesus Christ is all. Solus Christus. Jesus Christ is is our only Savior. And it is only by faith, sola
fide, that we have our life in Christ. And we don’t deserve
it. We can’t ever earn it. And so
it’s sola gratia. It’s by grace alone. No wonder
the last of those five. Soli Deo gloria. To God be the
glory alone. Oh, merciful God, we humble ourselves
in your glorious presence. And we thank you and praise you
for sending a savior to our desperate condition. Lord, we were hopeless
and helpless without you. Lost and alone. Lord, we tried,
we tried many things, we tried many ways and nothing worked.
Nothing ever could. Because Jesus Christ is the way,
Him and no other. Jesus Christ is the truth. He
is the perfect picture of Almighty God. Jesus Christ is the life. Jesus Christ is the only one
that can do anything about our situation. That we’re spiritually dead.
Lord, we rejoice in Christ, the Savior that you have provided
for all who have placed their faith in him. We rejoice in this
truth. We know it to be true. Jesus
Christ is the way, the truth, the life. If there are any who
do not know that, may this be the day. It’s in Jesus’ name that we plead.