Jesus as the Way

Jesus as the Way

The Father draws to Jesus, and Isaiah prophesies about John saying, “Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” Isa. 40:3; Luke 3:4. John baptized for the forgiveness of sins. He cleared the way so that the people could receive Jesus. This is a work that we also have.

When we ask someone to get converted, we usually hear many “ifs and buts” from that person. We must help the person to clear all that out of the way so he can receive Jesus. First of all, he has to acknowledge his sin and have a desire to be converted. Jesus says, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:26. “So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.” V. 33.

Here we can see what binds people and hinders them from coming to Jesus. Clearing this way to Jesus is difficult work, for those who come to Jesus to be His disciples are very few. People come to receive help, but not to follow Him.

Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6. Jesus is the way to the Father. This is the new and living way which He has consecrated for us into the Holy Place that goes through the veil, which is His flesh. Heb. 10:19-20. The Father condemned sin in Jesus’ flesh. Rom. 8:3. The way to the Father is the way to light, and light is judgment. Jesus was born of the seed of David according to the flesh and learned obedience by the things He suffered, and when He was perfected, the fullness of the Godhead had come to dwell in Him bodily. Heb. 5:7-9; Col. 2:9-10.

Jesus is the way and the truth. If we are to walk on the way, we must bear the truth, which is judgment and light. That is the way to the Father. Without sanctification, no one shall see God. We must forsake everything and become a member of Christ’s body in order to come to Jesus and go the way to the Father. Then we have been set free from sin and have entered into the ministry of righteousness. Rom. 6:22.

“Every sin that a man does is outside the body . . . .” 1 Cor. 6:18. A person is not going on the way to the Father when he is sinning; but if he acknowledges his sin, he gets to see Jesus as his atoning sacrifice. When a person has sinned, he has given in to sin in the flesh, and then sin comes out of the body. But if he hears the voice of the Spirit in the hour of temptation, sin is condemned in the flesh. Then sin is not born. Jas. 1:15. The result is victory, and he will get to see the Father.

Those who are in Christ have been made free from the law of sin and death. Rom. 8:2. They go from light to light. They are on the way to the Father. On this way their human nature is illuminated, judged, and surrendered into the death of Christ. We keep this death with us in the body (2 Cor. 4:10), for no one can see God and live. We will see the Father when judgment and death are allowed to do their work with our human nature. Then we will partake of divine nature. 2 Pet. 1:4. That is why no one can come to Jesus and follow Him to the Father unless he hates his own life.

“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus . . . .” 1 Tim. 2:5-6. No one can come to the Father except through Jesus. He is the Mediator, and He has given Himself as a ransom for all. Regardless of how great a sinner a person is, Jesus can redeem him and give him the right to be a child of God—a right to go to the Father. Such a newly saved person cannot bear much of the Father’s light. However, Jesus is the Mediator; He is the author and finisher of the way. He can mete out the Father’s light to the redeemed sinner little by little as he is able to bear it. We can partake of everything that is in Christ. Col. 2:2-3.

Jesus sat down at the Father’s right hand. Heb. 12:2. The person who is going to sit at Jesus’ right or left hand will have had to bear a great deal of light and judgment in the days of his flesh. There is a great difference amongst those who are in Christ who race toward the light—the Father. Therefore there will also be a difference in the resurrection.

Only those who have partaken of sanctification will see the Father. They are the bride—God’s tabernacle that will be with men. Rev. 21:1-3. They can bear the light from God and from the Lamb. They, in their turn, will be a connecting link, and the nations will walk in the light of the city. Rev. 21:22-24.

God will create a new heaven and a new earth. There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies, and there is a difference in their glory. 1 Cor. 15:40-44. It was important for the apostle to make this clear to us as the work which God is doing in and with us in the days of our flesh is of the utmost importance.

Blessed is he who has received enlightened eyes of the heart and walks on the way to the Father. The glory that will be revealed in him cannot be explained. Rom. 8:18.