the Bible teaches us that the part of us that is dead toward God which is true of everyone before they meet Christ that deadness becomes alive and the Bible says it’s not just life it’s Abundant Life I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 10:10 Jesus Christ did not come into this world simply to invigorate our old sin nature he did not come to just refine the ugliness in our life Jesus came into this world to give us a whole new life where there was deadness that
we might know God and come alive spiritually I don’t know any better way to describe what happens to a person who accepts Christ they just come alive spiritually we see it in the testimonies in our baptistry we read it in the emails in the letters that come and tell us what happens they were dead toward God and then something happens and receive Jesus Christ and all of a sudden the way toward God is opened in our age of pluralism and tolerance the question is there only one way to God is the most toxic and volatile question you could ever ask on
the night of his arrest Jesus addressed this very question he was gathered together in the upper room eating and drinking with his chosen disciples and he spoke to them about a number number of troubling things that would soon take place and then he comforted them with these words which are known to us he said to them let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father’s house are many mansions and if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place
for you I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also and where I go you know and the way you know well when Jesus said that to his disciples that the way to God was certain and knowable doubting Thomas one of his disciples spoke up and he said to Jesus in verse 5 he said Lord we don’t know where you’re going and how can we know the way obviously Thomas hadn’t been listening to what Jesus said he got it all wrong he didn’t understand that Jesus had just got done telling him that
