CAN WE KNOW THE WAY?
"WITH so many different churches and — religions, how can a person
know the right way to heaven?" This is a very old question, and millions are
still asking it.
There was a man in the Bible who asked this very question. His name
was Thomas, and he asked, "How can we know the way?" (This is found in John
14:5). Our Lord answered him: "I am the way . . no man cometh unto the
Father but by Me."
Two Ways
There are really only two ways — man's way, and God's way. Man's
way consists of theories and opinions; Christ is God's way. He said in John
10:1 that if anyone tried to climb up some other way, "the same is a thief
and a robber."
Under man's way you trust in your own merits, or in your religion,
or your moral standing. There are variations of this way, but it is always
some kind of trust in self, in good works and deeds. But God does not accept
any of these human ways. He says, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12). He says also
that salvation is "not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph. 2:9).
"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to
his own way (man's way); and the Lord hath laid on Him (His Son) the
iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6).
Under God's way, you trust wholly in the finished work of the Lord
Jesus Christ for you on the cross, knowing that you have no merit of your
own but that the precious blood of Christ paid for all your sins. Under
God's way, we learn that salvation must be received as a free gift from God,
"for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
"But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Two Men
Two men once came into the temple to pray. One came in man's way,
and the other came God's way. This account is in Luke 18:9-14. The one who
came in man's way was a good man, according to human standards. He was not
dishonest, nor unjust, nor immoral. As to religious standing, he fasted
twice a week, gave tithes, and he was thankful that he was "not as other men
are," that is, he was better than the average. It all sounded reasonable,
but it was the human way, and God will not receive a sinner on that basis.
“The other man came God's way, as an unworthy sinner, crying: "God
be merci ful to me a sinner!" And the Lord Jesus said this man went home
"justified," or saved. The man who came in his own way will spend eternity
with the lost.
Two Gates
"Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat" (Matt. 7:13).
"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it" (Matt. 7:14).
Friend, are you in the right way? Have you entered the right gate?
Are you trusting completely in God's Son for your salvation, or are you
trusting in yourself? Remember that the "GIFT of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts
16:31). "As many as received HIM, to them gave He power to become the sons
of God."
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life" (I John 5:12).
“Faith Alone on Christ Alone = Salvation”
Read: Paul's Gospel
http://www.paulsgracemessage.org/PaulsGospel.htm
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