I really tried to get two messages out this week but was less than fortunate at getting the Tuesday addition to you until today. With that, yet another week of a single word of the day and with just a few more expository words in this same verse. I pray as we feebly attempt to pierce His words that He pierces our hearts and presses in them by His Way, His Truth, and Life through His Son.
Extra Credit: It most likely shouldnt surprise me but it does that in reading some of the old time preachers that their concerns and comments on the church ring true today. This seem to be no more present than in many of Ralph Barnards messages. This is a call to the churches in 1954 that is Still true Today.
Jhn 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me
- What is meant by the Life?
"He is the Life. Christ is the Emancipator from death. The whole Bible bears solemn witness to the fact that the natural man is spiritually lifeless. 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, but is dead to heavenly things. The one who is out of Christ exists, but he has no spiritual life. When the prodigal son returned from the far country the father said, This, my son, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found (Luke 15:24). The one who believes in Christ has passed out of death into life (John 5:24). He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life (John 3:36). Then turn to Him who is the Life." Taken from the Exposition of the Gospel of John by A.W. Pink(Acts 4:12)
For the sinner to come to Christ that he might have life, he must first realize the awful danger of his present situation. – T. L. Daniel
