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"I am the way the truth and the light" – Jn 14:6
"Whoever has seen me has seen the Father"
"I am in the Father and the Father is in me".
If you know me you would have known the Father".
"From now on you know Him and have seen Him".

 

Bold statements.

 

Jesus knew where He came from.
Jesus knew the Fathers heart for Glory – name / reputation / majesty / splendour / wonder / joy – all good things – return to Eden.
His, the Fathers Glory.
Jesus' own Glory.
The Glory of His People – you and me.
On that basis He could proclaim He was the Way, He was the Truth & He was the light.

 

And we will KNOW the truth & the truth shall set us free: Jn 8:
Truth – corresponds to fact or reality – Jesus is our reality.
He being the Truth – all of him being the reality that brought us Life.
And His words and way keep us in, in the Spirit, in the Truth – in Him are the works of the enemy destroyed – sin, lies, theft, guilt, …...

 

Free – is free, is free….not controlled, regulated, restricted.
By sin, law or spirit (demon / dark).
This is the Good News Jesus came proclaiming:

 

Heb 2: 2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, 4 while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

 

The New Covenant and the certainty of it: Jer 31:31-40.
Nature – "…law…write it on their hearts…I will be their God…they will be my people…for they shall all KNOW me, from the least…to the greatest, DECLARES THE LORD.  For I will remember their sin no more."
The ongoing assurance based on: ver 15-37.
When you see the sun rise – His covenant still stands.
When you hear the ocean roar – it is telling you the Good News still stands.
WOW!!!

 

Fifty Reasons Why Christ Suffered and Died – The Real Good News:

1.To Absorb the Wrath of God. (Gal 3:13, Rom 3:25, 1 Jn 4:10)

2.To Please His Heavenly Father

(Is 53:10, Eph 5:2.)

3.To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected.

(Heb 5:8, Heb 2:10)

4.To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead

(Heb 13:20-21)

5.To Show the Wealth of God's Love and Grace for Sinners.

(Rom 55:708, Jn 3:16, Eph 1:7.)

6.To Show His Own Love for U.
(Eph 5:2, Eph 5:25, Gal 2:20)

7.To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us
(Col 2:13)

8.To Become a Ransom for Many
(Mk 10:45)

9.For the Forgiveness of Our Sins.
(Eph 1:7, MATT 26:28)

10.To Provide the Basis for Our Justification.
(Rom 5:9, Rom 3:24 & 28)

11.To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness.
(Phil 2:8, Rom 5:19, 2 Cor 5:21, Phil 3:9)

12.To Take Away Our Condemnation.
(Rom 8:24)

13.To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation.
(Gal 5:11, Gal 6:12)

14.To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful.
(Mk 14:24, Jer 32:40)

15.To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect.
(Heb 10:14, Col 1:22, 1 Cor 5:7)

16.To Give Us a Clear Conscience.
(Heb 9:14)

17.To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us.
(Rom 8:32)

18.To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness.
(Is 53:5, Matt 8:16-17)

19.To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him.
(Jn 3:16)

20.To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age.
(Gal 1:4)

21.To Reconcile Us to God.
(Rom 5:10)

22.To Bring Us to God.
(1 Pet 3:18, Eph 2:13)

23.So That We Might Belong to Him.
(Rom 7:4)

24.To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place.
(Heb 10:19)

25.To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God.
(Jn 2:19-21)

26.To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest.
(Heb 7:23-27, 9:24-26, 10:11-12)

27.To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest.
(Heb 4:15-16)

28.To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry.
(1 Pet 1:18-19)

29.To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin.
(Rev 1:5-6., Heb 13:12)

30.That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness.
(1 Pet 2:24)

31.So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God.
(Rom 7:4)

32.To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves
(2 Cor 5:15)

33.To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting.
(Gal 6:14)

34.To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him.
(Gal 2:20)

35.To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning.
(Eph 5:25)

36.To Create a People Passionate for Good Works
(Titus 2:14)

37.To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love.
(1 Pet 2:19-21, Heb 12:3-4, Phil 2:5-8)

38.To Create a Band of Crucified Followers.
(Lk 9:23, Matt 10:38)

39.To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death.
(Heb 2:14-15)

 

40.So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death.
(1 Thes 5;10, Phil 1:21,23, 2 Cor 5:8)

41.To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead.
(Rom 6:5, 2 Tim 2:11)

42.To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities.
(Col 2:14-15, 1 Jn 3:8)

43.To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel.
(1 Cor 1:18, Rom 1:16)

44.To Destroy the Hostility Between Races.
(Eph 2:14-16)

45.To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation
(Rev 5:9)

46.To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World.
(Jn 11:51-52, Jn 10:16)

47.To Rescue Us from Final Judgment.
(Heb 9:28)

48.To Gain His Joy and Ours.
(Heb 12:2)

49.So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor.
(Heb 2:9, Phil 2:7-9, Rev 5:12)

50.To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good.
(Acts 4:27-28, Gen 50:20)

What a great Salvation – What a Good News!!!!