WAY

False deities and fraudulent pathways to heaven are legion in this multi-cultural, multi-faith world. The Scriptures speak of a popular way that the majority of people think will lead them to eternal contentment, but it actually leads to spiritual death, Prov. 14. 12. Man fashions gods in his own image or in the image of beasts, wantonly demeaning the glory of the true and living God, Rom. 1. 21-23.

There is actually only one Supreme Being, who appoints one way to enter into His presence. It is not a matter of our choice. God is holy, and cannot look upon sin. He hates iniquity and must judge it. Since ‘all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God’, Rom. 3. 23, the way to the Almighty seems hopelessly blocked. Thankfully, there is a way to God that has been opened to whosoever will seek it. In reality, the way is a person - the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus became the way to God, glory, eternal life and heaven, by first taking on Himself human flesh. He entered this world in order to reconcile man to God by the solution of the age-old problem of sin. Man’s wicked heart must be changed and his past unjust deeds removed. God’s holiness and perfectly righteous standard must be upheld. The only means of producing such a wonderful salvation led the Son of God to the cross. There, Christ voluntarily laid down His life as a propitiatory sacrifice for sins. Isaiah affirms that ‘the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all’, Isa. 53. 6, and Peter adds, ‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed’, 1 Pet. 2. 24.

The way to God is thus dependent on the Man who died and rose again for our justification. It is not Christ plus something else; nor even the Lord Jesus pointing us to the way. Rather, He is the way - through faith in His blood man is brought to new life and a peaceful relationship with God. As the early apostles summed it up: ‘Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved’, Acts 4. 12.