Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
– John 14:6 NIV
When I first heard this in 1985 I was up late, drunk, watching a tele-evangelist on TBN.
How exclusionary! I muttered to myself,,,I was enraged, my thoughts were somewhere along the lines of “what a bigoted narrow-minded statement that guy is making”! How dare this man say that everyone who doesn’t believe in this Jesus, doesn’t get to Heaven/God…if in fact there is a Heaven and a God.”
I took my anger out on the man on the TV but he was only quoting Holy Scripture the words of Jesus Himself,
who in turn was not even speaking or acting on just His authority (which is more than enough)-
but on the authority of God-Adonai-Himself:
“For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—
what to say and what to speak.” – Jesus the Messiah, John 12:49
In this post-modern world it is politically correct to embrace all diversity. If you are seeking a job position it doesn’t matter what race or sex, etc. you are, what belief system you embrace. Spiritual movements are flush with universalists and others who simply can’t grasp the idea- the reality – that there is only one way:
“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.” Matthew 7:13
Without having the “mind of Messiah” a worldly mind simply can’t grasp this truth, no matter how many diplomas they might have hanging on their wall:
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” – 1Cor.2:14 NASB
If you are irritated by this post then examine your heart and the Bible. The Lord God, King of the Universe, did not send Yeshua (whose very name means salvation) to be a doorman or a bouncer to keep people out; rather He sent His only Son to draw us- all of us- through this narrow gate-meaning only one way in- while there is still time.
One day this Opportunity, the Doorway to receive the greatest gift ever offered mankind will close forever.
Don’t miss it.
“…everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved” – Acts 2:21