The Way Of Truth

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Jesus Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life. The truth will make you free. Truth is defined as that which is fact. You can go no higher than truth. You can go no higher than Jesus, He is truth. Everything else is below Him. He is truth personified. He is truth in word and deed. The truth is absolute, complete, absent of any falsehood, pretense, or inaccuracy. 

Truth is pure, free from the smallest inkling of an error. It is exact, precise. If we are to attain truth, we must build our pursuit on truth. The truth is the Word. Truth is every jot and tittle in its place. The God who has kept the word – kept His word.

 

Who is the Father? How would we describe him? A search of the entire book would yield two defining characteristics: He is the Holy one of Israel. He is Holy and He is a Spirit. Would it be correct to call Him a Holy Spirit? Yes. He is the ancient of days. Is it true the trinity is three co-equal persons? Jesus said my Father is greater than I. He was simply saying; my Father is a spirit, and the body I have taken on is flesh. The Spirit of God is greater than a fleshly temple.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent Me.

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God is an invisible spirit that fills the universe. He fills the heaven of heavens. At what time He chooses, He has manifested Himself in the form of angels and light. Jesus said, “I am the Way the Truth and the Life. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Mark 8:36 What would it profit a purpose driven man to have his best life now and lose his own soul? You can absolutely, unequivocally , undoubtedly count on the Lord Jesus Christ to do everything He says He will do. He is Logos. He is the Word of God. He is our father. Malachi 2:10 says have we not all one Father? He is the everlasting Father full of grace and truth. 

His word fails not. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail…Isaiah 34:16 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke 16:17. He will not fail. (tittle= the tiniest bit--A small mark used in printing and writing such as an accent or punctuation mark.

 

He is the Chief Shepherd. He is the lamb of God. There is no office He does not fill. He is the high priest that offered Himself as the sacrifice. Truth, do you want it? Truth, do you have it? He is the spirit of truth. He is the way the truth and the life. There is only one true church. That church was founded on the day of Pentecost. If we are brothers, truth binds us. There are no cousins in this church. 

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Jesus said it was His church. On this rock I will build my-(singular possessive pronoun) church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The bible is one book written by one God.

 

The bible was written by 40 different writers, over a period of 1600 years. The single most important event outlined in the Holy Book is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The reason He came was not to live, rather He came to die. The culmination of the sacred thoughts of God were finally finished. When did it begin? He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. It was not written back then, but it was in the mind of God. He would one day manifest himself in flesh and be crucified for you and me. 

The event of the ages has taken place. 2000 years ago Jesus Christ of Nazareth died on Mt Calvary. He was buried in a borrowed tomb. He arose on the third day.

 

He is God. He is God alone. There is none like Him. None can be compared to Him. None can give Him counsel. He will not share his glory with another. There is only one thing He does not know; another God. His breath is our life. Our lives are in the palm of His hand. In Him we live and move and have our very being. He made us a living soul. There is only one perfect, Holy, God breathed book in the entire universe. Let God be true and every man a liar.

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He is Logos. He is thought. But his thoughts are much higher than ours. If He thinks it, it was already there. He does not discover truth, He is Truth. He does not increase in knowledge. His thoughts are perfect. He does not think before He speaks. He doesn’t ponder, hesitate, wonder, experiment, He is perfect. He is complete. He is God. Every adjective fails to come close to matching his Glory and splendor. He is the only true and wise God, Jesus Christ our savior.

His ways are higher than ours are. He is beyond finding out. Our wisdom is foolishness with Him. There is only one thing to do. Worship Him. He is Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last, and beside Him there is no God. Who has given Him counsel? None. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels. Jesus Christ was born a man. His name shall be called Emmanuel. He was in the world, and the world was created by Him. He reveals Himself to select ones. He won’t slip trip or fall, and He doesn’t wear safety shoes. 

 

If you know who He is, there would be no necessity of a revelation. No man can say Jesus Christ is Lord except by the Holy Ghost. This is the crux of the matter, the hinge point of Christianity. Do you know who Jesus is? He is God, Spirit, Holiness, and manifested in the flesh. He is not the second person in the trinity manifest. Not the son of a father. Answer these questions if you can. What form was the Son in the beginning? What form was the Father in? The Spirit? There was no form, there was no manifestation there was the thought of God which is invisible, the Spirit which is invisible. The Spirit, the Word are indivisibly one. Jesus said the words I speak are spirit and they are life. The Father, the Word, the Spirit are inextricably linked together.

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In the beginning was a throne? No. In the beginning was the heavens and the earth? No. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. In the beginning was the Word. In what form? A bible? Written words? None of these. The very essence of God is what makes him God; His mind. Logos.

That’s who He is. One single mind. In the beginning, if our finite minds can imagine it, there was nothing. There was only God alone. No heaven, no earth. Only God in his eternal form that never changes. He is the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God. Time was not yet on the clock. There was no light. There was no darkness. There was only God. There was only Logos. There was only a name. A name that would one day be revealed, the name above every name. His name is above every name in this world, and the world to come.

 

Isaiah would come the closest in describing that name. He shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace. His name heals, delivers, sets the captive free, heals blinded eyes, opens deaf ears. His name is the saving name. His name is the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. There is salvation in no other name. Jesus! We must be saved by that name. The salvation is in the name. 

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Who is Jesus? How would you describe him? He is the Word of God. He is the thought of God. He is God. He is all, everything, complete, perfect. He is indescribable. He is the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

He has exalted His word above all His name. His word is the very essence of who He is. He is the Word made flesh. His essence is His character. He is Love. He is the I AM. He is the creator of this universe. He is the creator of all things. He is the saviour of the world. He is the BRANCH. He is the door. He is the lamb. He is the high priest. He has a name and that name is Jesus Christ. He kept us, and died for us before we ever heard the Name. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Before His Name came from our lips, He was calling us.

William James Roop

Apostolic Church History Podcast

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Christ-Centered Principle

Christ- Centered Principle

             In this principle Jesus Christ is shown to be written about and is the center of the entire Bible.  We read of Him in the Gospels, but He is written of throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.  This is a very important principle to keep in mind while reading the Old Testament because Jesus Christ can be found throughout the Bible.

             In the Gospels, Jesus Christ proclaimed this truth about Himself:

             “…in the volume of the book it is written of me…”  (Hebrew 10:7).  This is reference to the Old Testament, the first five books of the Bible.  Jesus Christ had arrived to replace the sacrifices of the Law and be our sacrifice for sin.  Jesus Christ can be found throughout the Law of Moses.

             “Search the Scriptures…they are written which testify of me.”  (John 5:39).  Here Jesus Christ himself tells us to study the Old Testament and look for Him.  The Old Testament testifies of the coming of Jesus Christ, His ministry, His sacrifice and death on the Cross.

             “...believe all that the prophets have spoken:  Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”  (Luke 24: 25-27).

             “…all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”  (Luke 24:44).

             The apostles also said that this is true:

             “To Him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”  (Acts 10:43).  They admit that all of the prophets witnessed about Jesus Christ.  Not some of the prophets, but all of them!  This would include the entire Old Testament!

             “…we have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”  (John 1:45).

 Here the Apostles tell us that Jesus Christ is spoken of throughout the Old Testament.  The Law is a reference of the first five books of the Old Testament and the Prophets is a reference to the rest of the Old Testament.

             “For by him were all things created…And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.…that in all things He might have the preeminence.”  (Colossians 1:16-18).

  Here the Apostle Paul admits that Jesus Christ has created all things, including Scripture and He is preeminent in Scripture.

The Apostle Paul wrote that Jesus Christ considered Himself equal with God.  Being equal with God really means that He was God in the flesh.

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”  Philippians 2:6.

The writer of the book of Hebrews wrote that Jesus Christ is the power and authority of God, which is what this phrase means.

“…sat down on the right hand od God.”  Hebrews 1:3.

The writer again says the same thing but in another way.

“But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God…” Hebrews 1:8.

Jesus Christ, and the Apostles said that He has created all things!

Jesus Christ had made it very clear to the Romans and the Pharisee’s that He was God who had created the world.  If Jesus Christ is the creator of the world, then He is the creator of the Word of God as well.  That would make the Bible Christ centered!

“Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM!” (emphasis is mine) John 8:58.

The Apostle John repeated this in his Gospel of John.

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”  John 1:3.

And again, the Apostle John repeats this thought.

“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”  John 1:10.

Not to be out done, the Apostle Paul said the same thing in his writings to the Colossians!

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominion, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”  Colossians 1:16-17.

Also, later in this same book:

For of him, and through him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”  Colossians 11: 36.

Salvation of man is by Jesus Christ alone:

If this is correct then Jesus Christ is indeed the center theme of the entire Bible since the Bible’s story is centered on the salvation of sinful man!  The Apostle Peter gives us the Plan of Salvation.

 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”  Acts 2:38.

And again, Peter repeats this before the Council of the Sanhedrin.

“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.

John the Baptist also proclaimed the salvation of man of his sins by Jesus Christ as told by the Apostle John in his Gospel.

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.”  John 1:29.

            As we can see from the Bible itself and the testimony of Jesus Christ and some of the Apostles is that Christ is spoken of throughout the Scriptures and is the central theme of the Bible.

William J. Roop, M.A.B.S.

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Apostolic Theological Seminary