Eighth and ten. Eighth to ten. Isaiah thirty-five, eight-two. Reading the Alpha Biden version. You know, there's no truth in the New Testament that you can't find references to in the New Testament. In the Old Testament the New Testament lies head, but in the New Testament the Old Testament lies open. And over in Isaiah thirty-five verses eight to ten you read these words. And the highway shall be there, and the way, and it shall be called the holy way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed, the wayfaring man. Yes, the simple ones, even foolish, shall not err in and lose their way. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast come upon it. They shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk on it. and the ransoms of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall be away. And Job makes a reference to this way. In Job twenty eight, seven, eight, there is a path which no Carl Lewis and which the vultures I have not seen and the lion's wealth have not forgotten it. nor the fierce lion passed by. And now our New Testament text in John Fourteenth, taking up these dialogues in John chapter Fourteenth. John Fourteenth and verse one. Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me, and my father's house are many mansions. If that were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. But where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, you know, and the way you know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And how can we know the way? Now notice this verse. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. He had known me. He should have known my Father also. From henceforth ye know me. He know him, and has seen him. There are four dialogues in this chapter. It begins at the end of chapter thirteen. Peter is the one who... takes up the first dialogue with the Lord Jesus Christ. And then you have Thomas in verse five, and then later on you have Philip, a dialogue between Philip and the Lord, and then you have Jews and his dialogue with the Lord. So this morning we'll come to the dialogue between the Lord Jesus and the Thomas. We may refer to what we were talking about last week, because we didn't fully take up the subject of the faith, the dialogue between the Lord and Simon Peter as to the place. There were two places. He was going to the cross first, and then he was going back to heaven and to establish the many mansions, Moses' profit from the first. His death on the cross would benefit eternally from the second of the many mountains. If I remember correctly, we spoke of four conditions of heart last week. There was a quaking heart. Do you remember Moses at Mount Sinai when he saw the justice of God displayed? He said, I exceedingly fear and quake. And friend, if you were trying to get to heaven by the law, The Ten Commandments you might well quake. You'll never get to heaven by way of Sinai. No one was ever saved of Sinai. They are condemned of Sinai, having broken the law that under the curse of the law, that should make you quick. Then we notice the Christian heart. You have these quickened who were dead in trespasses and in sin. When a person convicted of their sin and the curse under the law comes to Christ, for the law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. When a person accepts Christ, he is trickened into a new feature in Christ Jesus. He has experienced a trickened heart. Send a qualified heart. If your heart has been trickened, you're qualified for service here. and for heaven's hereafter. You cannot qualify to serve the Lord here. You may teach them a Sunday school, sing in the choir, you may even stand in a pulpit. But unless you've been tricked in by the Spirit of God, you are not qualified to serve the Lord. Only those who are saved can serve, shall glorify God and benefit men. So you have the qualified heart. Then we spoke about the quiet heart. Let not your heart be troubled. In other words, don't worry. That's what the Lord is talking about. Don't worry. My, we're living in days of worry at the present. But he says, worry not. Don't worry about your condemnation. Because Christ has come. So Lord Jesus came into this world to bear your condemnation. And he will, and he did bear it at the cross. He'll make it good to you if you'll acknowledge you're a lost and guilty sinner. So worry not about the condemnation that hangs over you. He that heareth my word and believeth on him that set me half everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation. But it passed from death unto life. So you need not worry about that condemnation that you've come to Christ. Worry not about your sins, for Christ has borne them. Christ has suffered for your sins. Worry not about death, for Christ has risen. Worry not about your weaknesses and failures. For Christ intercedes for you at God's right hand. Worry not about your future, for Christ is coming. everywhere you go. While in Canada this summer in the northern part of the United States, there are questions on everyone's mind, what do you think is going to happen? What do you think about the future? How is it all going to end yet? They've all right to worry. For the end, for this poor sheen is not bought off on its land, unless you know Christ. You don't have to worry about our monetary system collapsing. You don't have to worry about the shifts of certain national politics. You don't have to worry about those things. Christ is coming. He says, let not your heart be troubled. He can say that because his war is troubled in Chapter South. Now is my sole trouble. He was thinking of the cross. And so he went from the cross and suffered and bled and died. Now he's in heaven. Now he says, you don't have to worry. I've taken care of those perplexing problems. You don't have to worry. How silly it is to be able to say, I have nothing to worry about. Everything shall. Today, tomorrow, and forever. Let not your heart be troubled. He says you believe in God, believe also in Him. It's amazing in these hours prior to Christ going to the cross, the words he often used in the upper room. He used the word glory, love, peace, and joy. Strange words. If you were to go to a person and they're soon to pass on, and they were talking about the glory, this is true in some cases. godly Christians. They talked about the glory, they stricter their joy and their peace and their love. The Lord did that. He knew what was before him. The agony of Golgotha, he knew it. Yet he could speak of the glory. He could speak of joy. He could speak of peace. He could speak of love. and for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross and he despised the shame. We can endure a lot in the present if we know the future is right. Let not your heart be troubled. He didn't say let not your heart, he didn't use the plural there, use the singular, one heart. For he was speaking to his own, let not your heart be troubled. There's the oneness of God. All loving the same Lord. In the night. All believing the same words, the Bible. All seeking the same thing. All entranced by the same spirit. All going to the same faith. That's what he means. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. You know last week I'm referring to heaven. How can you exhaust this subject on heaven? The glories of heaven have often been portrayed in various terms. What is it called a country? Because of its vastness. It's called a city because of the large numbers will be there. It's spoken of as a kingdom because of its orderliness. Broken of as a paradise. Because of its delight. It's broken off as a father's house. Because of its permanency. Isn't it wonderful? Heaven is home. Home is a wonderful word. Not the house. House is bricks and mortar. Many people live in bricks and mortar. But it's not home. When everything goes well. And that love and harmony. In that house. It is a home. a real home. No sin, no sickness, no sorrow, no distrust, no disappointment, no suspicion, no separation, no separation, no insecurity, no shame. That's home. That's what heaven will be. There'll be no end there. Here we have no continuing city. but we seek one to come, a home that will never end, a home that will be perpetuated throughout the eons of eternity. That's where the Christian is going, the place of many mansions. It's a place of rest. Blessed are the dead which die on the Lord, from henceforth, for they do rest from their labors, and fruit, their reward for all of us. Also, it's a place of light, unsullied light, unparnished light. There'll be no night there. It's a place of adoring worship, where all shall worship one person. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. It'll be a place of blessed realization and relationship to Father's house. What a wonderful place. You know, in Peter's dialogue, He begins life's journey for the Christians with the cross, and he ends life's journey in paradise, heaven. That's the dialogue between Peter and the Lord. What a wonderful beginning. Tell me what a wonderful end the glory. First tree is wonderful. He says, I go. prepare a place for you, and if I go, I will come again and receive you unto myself. How remarkable are those words? If you will read those two or three verses, you'll find the pronoun I mentioned about six or seven times. Here's the blessed person. If I go away, that's the blessed person. I will. There's his power. Come again. There you have us come. And come again. Yes. There's his prospect. We're looking forward to our prospect of coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. To receive you. That's the poor people. Receive you. He's talking with his own. The faith. Receive you. Where I am. That's the place. But there you may be also. That's the purpose. Why all this? That he might have people with him sharing the Father's house throughout all eternity. That's why he came, that's why he died, that's why he went back to heaven, that's why he's living at God's right hand. That's why he's coming against that he might have his own living himself throughout all eternity. When we get to it, I will follow all those who now have given me, be with me, where I am, that they may behold my glory. That concludes Peter's dialogue. Now we come to Thomas, and Thomas is talking about the way, as we notice, in verses five and six. Christ says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but... by me. This is the way to the Father's house. He doesn't say, I am a way, as if there are other ways. He says, I am the way. He says, I am the way. He's the only way. He doesn't say, I come to show you the way. No, he says, I am the way. He is the only way to heaven. And he's all the way. He's not part of the way. He doesn't save you, and later on you lose the way, and you've got to get back on again. He says, I am the way, I'm the only way, and I'm all the way. From the moment you're saved to the moment you arrive in glory. Man lost the way when he sinned against God in the beginning, and he's been seeking a way back ever since. And that's why he's got all these religions in the world. You find over in Isaiah chapter fifty-three, six, all we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned every man to his own way. Here are people's taken their own way. For all have gone astray. We've turned every one to his own way. And think of the thousands, hundreds of thousands of the livings in the world, not sheep. And they're seeking a way back to God. Some of it very weird. Yes, there are many ways. So many things. There is a way that seemeth right unto man. Unto men that be in the lost is the way of death. Man-made ways. But the Lord makes it very plain. There's only one way. And the strange thing is This way is a narrow way. Over Matthew seven, he speaks of the broad way that leadeth to destruction and the many there be with in their life. Sayeth the gate, the narrow is that a wave that leadeth unto life and few there be the finest. I didn't say that. The Lord said it. There are people today that think the majority of people have gone to heaven. Fair and sincere. Oh, yeah, well, let's get there. Only a few are going to heaven, compared to the majority going to hell. The Lord said that. He says, I am Jesus, the truth, and the light. That's a sad thing. Christ is the straight way. He's the narrow way. No crookedness. Or this way. No deception. This way is clear. It's plain. And only a few are on it. No room on this way. It's too narrow for the thieves, the drunken, the liars, the proud, the self-righteous, the unconverted church members, the rebellious, the pleasure-seekers. This way is too narrow for that tribe. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. What characterizes those who are on this way to heaven? Well, I'll tell you what characterizes them. They're born again. They're in Christ. They have the spirit of God. They've been pricked by the spirit, sealed by the spirit. They have everlasting life. Your sins are all forgiven. They have peace. Do you have these things? I'll ask you again. Are you born again? Are you in Christ? Have you been seen by the Spirit? Do you have everlasting life? Are your sins all forgiven? Do you have peace? You say, no, I can't say I have your law. And you don't have Christ. You may have religion. There are only two ways in the Bible, up and down. The way of light, the way of death. There's no neutral pathway. Just two. Which road are you on this morning? There's no neutral ground. It's the one or the other. And there's only one way. That's thought in the Old Testament. The ark only had one door. It didn't have a door on one side or one on the other side and three stories, one at every story. It had one door. That was true then. And it's true now. There's only one door. In Exodus twelve, when the judgment of God fell upon Jesus, there was only one way. The sprinkled grass of the land on the two side posts from the upper door, upper lintel. One way. If you didn't have that blood of lie, that night's judgment fell. The Red Sea, only one avenue through the Red Sea out of Egypt. Only one. So, Jordan, from the wilderness into the promised land, one way through the river Jordan's fraud opened up the way. And you remember, they have one scarlet thread. And she trusted it. Just once. That's it. One serpent of draughts in the twenty-firsts of numbers, when the children of Israel had sinned, and God sent fiery serpents among them. God says, Moldus, erect a serpent of draught. And everyone who looks to that serpent of draughts shall live. And the Lord Jesus refers to that. In John three, fourteen, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. One serpent of that. One thing. One way. Just one. Are you on that one way? Then we come to the next truth. I am the thing the truth. The truth in contrast to error and lies. And I'll tell you both. I found in our world today error and lies. The Lord was brought before Pilate. And the Lord says, I'm truth. He's referred to truth. And Pilate says, what is truth? What is truth? Pilot was looking right at it. Yet he asked the question, what is truth? Christ was truth. You ask me what's the truth today in the midst of worldwide error? And with all these ways, religious ways, which is the true way, Christ? And with all these errors and lies that are circulated, which is the truth, Christ? He's the truth. There's no lie here. The truth. There's some wonderful words in your Bible. Wonderful doctrines behind those words. And there are seven of them. See, doctrine of regeneration. That's when you're crittled into a new creature in Christ's Eve. That's regeneration. Justification. You're cleared of all blame before God. Reconciliation. You've been reconciled to God. to the death of his son. Sanctification set aside for God, set apart for God. Prophesiation, God is appeased and satisfied. Rehensit, he has been bought, purchased, glorification, seven things. All these seven things are found in Jesus Christ. Pauline. Christ is made unto a wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. All these truths are found in Jesus Christ. If you have him, you have them all. That's what the Bible says. How wonderful to know that you have Christ. And you have all these things. And you may not understand the meaning of all these words. But if you have Christ, and eventually you study your Bible, you'll understand them all. But over against the truth that's found in Jesus Christ, you have the lies of the wicked ones, Satan. And the Bible says that he's a liar. Over in chapter eight of John, Christ said to those religious men, You are of your father, the devil. And the lust of the father you will do. He's a murderer from the beginning. He's a liar. And he's the father of lies. There's no truth in him. When he speak of the lie, he speak of it himself. Over against the truth being preached in Jesus Christ, you have the lies and the errors of the dead. But all these false cults in the world today, you can twirl your guile and hear them all over the country. Cult, cult, cult. God says people don't want my son. They don't want the truth. And in the latter days, I'm going to send them strong delusions. What substance that they may believe the lie. And the lie is a devil and the coming antithesis, or world dictionary. For when he comes, he'll tell the great lie. I'm the true Christ. What a lie. Jesus Christ was... an apostate, a deceiver. He wasn't the real one. I'm the real one. Jesus Christ was a thief. I'm the real one. And people are going to believe me. They're going to believe. After nineteen hundred years, here in the Gospel preach, and Jesus Christ exalted, They're going to turn from the truth, and they're going to receive the lie. The Bible says that. And you believe in him this morning. If you have in Christ, you're following the lie. Christ is the truth. He's telling you to accept the truth right now. The devil says, don't do it. Put it up. You're listening to the lie, the liar from the beginning. I am the way, he says, and the truth. How wonderful to have the truth and Noah. The lie is going to be personified in a coming man. And to think the world has become so atheistic, so apostatized in the truth, that they'll receive that one, then Satan is going to give all his power. Satan, a liar, is a dragon from the beginning. He's going to give all his power unto the beast. And the world will believe it. And the Lord is believing it today. People will knock at your door and hand with some literature, and you take it, and you read it, and you believe the lie. Unless you know the truth. Unless you know the truth. I am the way the truth. But he says something else. I'm the light. I am the light. How wonderful to know the light. The light that's in Christ is. I am the way, the truth, and the light. Light, eternal. It always has me. Light everlasting. It always tells me. You have this everlasting life before. God wants you there. That if you have Christ, you have this everlasting life. He is the source of life. In him was life, his life, and forever shall be life. He's the source of life. He's the given of life. I give unto my sweet eternal life. They shall never perish. He's the one who sustains life. He that eateth me, even he shall live by me. He's the assurance of life. He that hath the Son hath life. He is also the security of life. Your life spiritually is hid with Christ in God. And he is the abundant life. I am confident he might have life in it. He might have it more abundantly. Inexhaustible life. All this is in Jesus Christ. Man lost the way. He believed a lie and experienced death by following Adam. But when he finds the way, he'll know the truth, and he'll possess the light when he comes to Christ. Think about that. If you're not a Christian here this morning, it just simply means this. You're lost, you're in the wrong way, you're following a lie, and you're going to experience death. Not only physical, but eternal death in the later life. Now that's the one thing. The other thing is, if you come to Christ, you'll find the true way, and you'll know the truth, and you'll possess the life. Jesus Christ. We find reconciliation in the way. We find illumination in the light, truth, and we find regeneration in the light. All this... is in Christ's. If you have Christ, you have everything. If you don't have Christ, you don't have anything. We'll have it. It's all in Christ's view. Christ is the way to walk. Christ is the truth to trust, and Christ is the life to live. Some people try to show their deep spirituality and they say, I'm willing to lay down my life for Christ. I'll tell you something harder than that. Live for Christ. God's not asking you to lay down your life for Christ. He's asking you to live for Christ. Let people know you belong to Christ and manifest the life of Christ which is in you. And as Thomas A. Tempest, that great divine said back in the mid-century, the dark-century, I am the way, beside me, referring to Christ. I am the way, beside me there is no going. I am the truth, beside me there is no knowing. I am the light. Beside me there is no living. How true? Christ says, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man, underline it, no man be he king, poor beggars, rich or poor, educated, or illiterate. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me, all these religions that don't embody the personal work of Christ. Sagamoth, law. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh unto the Father, and that means the Father's house of many mansions too. No man cometh unto the Father. But by me, how wonderful that is. No Christ, this morning you are on the stage. You have no Christ, no Father, no Spirit, no hope, no heaven. and no excuse. You have absolutely no excuse for being as you are this morning because you've had the opportunity and yet have the opportunity to accept Christ and know the ways, the truth, and the lessons. This is your chance to refer to those patterns in the Old Testament, those wonderful patterns. And it has a reference to Israel in the future. That wonderful highway of holiness. And it requires that day when Christ is going to come and dispose of his enemies at the Armageddon. Russia hates Israel. The East, the kings of the East, hate Israel. There are millions on the continent hate Israel. Millions of Arabs hate Israel. Millions in the United States hate Israel. And the NAACP, you know what they're doing. finding up to the Arabs against Israel. The world is turning against Israel. And the day is going to come when they're going to try and exterminate Israel. The devil is going to try and dispose of that nation. It ought to drop forth the conqueror of Satan. She's the woman that taught forth a man child according to Revelation twelve. And they're trying to kill the woman. And she wears twelve stars on a crown. As you find that, the twelve tribes of Israel. But in that day when Christ disposes of his enemies and the enemies of Israel, he says there will be a highway. Straight to Zion. And he says the redeemed of the Lord are going to travel it. Straight to Zion. And he says, I'll be with them on it. And I'll give them my fellowship, as they said it. And he says, no lion can see it. No vulture can behold it. Here is a way that beasts and birds don't understand. They don't have that intelligence. We read that in that text. No vulture's eyes can see it. No lying can tread upon us. Are birds and beasts more intelligent than you? In other words, you have intelligent men, and you're not using them. And yet birds and beasts have obeyed the Lord. The Lord shat on a beast with an unbroken coat its submittal. The birds obeyed him when he told them to go and sit there to his servant Elijah. Yes, birds and geese have obeyed the Lord, even though they haven't the intelligence to know the way. You're an intelligent human being. You've got money, brains enough to make money, that you don't have enough intelligence to know what's coming on the world and what your destiny is and the only way to receive it. You haven't seen the way yet. And it's not for birds or beasts, it's for human beings. This is the way. Christ says, I am the way, the truth and the light. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Birds and beasts die and that's the end. There's no thereafter. That's not so with you. You've got a soul that's going to exist as long as God is this, either in heaven or heaven. You say, I know that I believe in enough. You will believe it. One second after you die, you'll believe it. For you'll be in that place where there's reaching and gailing and gnashing of people. If you don't believe that I have... Call Jesus Christ a liar, a fabricator, if there's no later fire. He spoke of it. He was no apostle. He's no liar. He tells you the truth. The people don't like the truth. They don't want the truth. The truth hurts. But he is the way and the truth. And if you don't want the truth, you just don't want Christ. I'm giving you the Bible. You might differ with me on other subjects, all you like. But if you can't differ with me on this subject, I'm giving you the Bible. It's not an argument between you and me. It's an argument between you and God and the Lord Jesus Christ. This is his word. Are you going to believe it? He asked you to come. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Do you want Christ, or are you going to continue, in the long way, in the way of terror and lie, and also the way of death? Or is going to come this morning, and find Christ either way, the only way, the safe way, the satisfying way, the straight way. I want him, and I want the truth, nothing but the truth, and I want the life, the life of God, not human life, the life of God. We are the protectors of the divine nature, all that is in Christ. He is the reservoir of all these wonderful things. Your eternity is wrapped up in one personality, not in a creed or a doctrine, but in a person. That person is our Lord Jesus Christ. He can be yours. He can be yours now. The choice is yours. What will you do with Jesus? What will your answer be? No praise. Our Father in heaven, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, he commences thy treason. He ask thy blessing on thy bird, really joyous, that fills our hearts to be able to tell the truth, and to present thy son, the Lord Jesus, as the only one, the only way, the one who is the personification of the truth. He cannot lie. To thank you, she is the only one who has eternal life. All that men need for happiness here in eternity is found in the Lord Jesus. Oh, that someone at this moment will open his or her heart and allow the Lord Jesus Christ to come in. He stands knocking at their heart's door. Behold, I stand at the door of the knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and supple him, and be with me. Oh, Father and Ace, come on. Yield to that knocking this morning, and swing the heart's door widely open, and bid an emperor while in it. We ask it in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.