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How do I get to Heaven? | Jason Martin

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  25. it is something that we might be familiar with, but

  26. God has probably revealed a bit more. Even as I

  27. was studying this and I hope to share it with y'all. Again,

  28. I'm letting the Holy Spirit just flow because I'm not

  29. sure how I'm gonna land this. Okay, I'm not sure

  30. I'm gonna how I'm gonna land this, but God is

  31. in control.

  32. Okay.

  33. So this week, earlier this week, there was something that

  34. happened in the world which nearly everyone was watching.

  35. A lot of people were watching. What was it, anyone? Yes?

  36. It was Donald Trump's inauguration. Okay, so you know, yeah,

  37. maybe some people watch. Some people didn't watch. But even

  38. if you didn't watch, and if you're on social media,

  39. you would have seen.

  40. A lot of thoughts about it.

  41. You had heard a lot of opinions and stuff like that. Okay,

  42. so the inauguration, some people were happy, some people were sad.

  43. It was like end of the world, right, But the

  44. funny thing that struck out to me was the people

  45. who were happy and the people who were said, both

  46. of them were supposedly professing Christians. You know, both were Christians,

  47. but both had although they were Christians, those camps. Both

  48. of them were Christians, but somehow there was so much

  49. of disagreement, and that got me thinking, I was like,

  50. how come when we worship the same God, how come

  51. we have so different opinions that it has caused so

  52. much of friction instead of unity. All right, So that

  53. got me thinking on Monday and Tuesday. So because you know,

  54. I'm not sure what there you saw? There was a

  55. bishop who was compassionately asking Donald Trump to be compassionate

  56. to a certain group of people. Okay, if you're not sure,

  57. you can go back and check it out. So anyway,

  58. both were supposedly both professing Christians, but they had so

  59. much of different opinions. And based on what happened there

  60. when I opened social media and I saw some of

  61. my friend's feeds or other people's feeds from us, right,

  62. whether you were for Trump or you were against Trump,

  63. both were using Bible scriptures to stand for what they

  64. believe in. So I was like, whoa, how is this possible?

  65. How come both sides seem to be right and both

  66. sides say the Bible is citing them.

  67. You know. So then it got me thinking even further.

  68. I was like, okay, it seems like now we are

  69. using the Bible to justify what we believe in, rather

  70. than believe.

  71. In what the Bible tells us.

  72. So Okay, so today I have one question which may

  73. or may not come out during your Chinese New Year

  74. reunion dinners depending on your families and stuff like that,

  75. but it might come out with your friends as well. Okay,

  76. So I'm going to start with this, Uh, how do

  77. I get to Heaven? How do I get to Heaven?

  78. Okay?

  79. So this is the title because if you're a Christian,

  80. and especially if you go back to a family where

  81. more majority are non Christians and stuff like that, Right,

  82. and then they say, hey, every Sunday you go to church.

  83. Why why every Sunday you go to church? Or what

  84. do you believe in Jesus? You know, why is it

  85. so special? And then you say, oh, I believe in

  86. Jesus so that I will get eternal life, I can

  87. go to heaven. And then there's a second question that

  88. will come out, which nowadays is quite prey. All religions

  89. lead to God. So if somebody says, right, comes up

  90. to you and say, hey, but all religions also will

  91. lead you to heaven, how would you answer that?

  92. How would you answer that?

  93. Because this is the basis of our faith.

  94. This is the basis of our faith.

  95. For example, because I had friends ask me before, Hey,

  96. what's so special about Christianity?

  97. All religions? Also you do good so that you go

  98. to heaven?

  99. So why only why y'all say that Christianity is the best.

  100. So how would you answer that? How would you answer that?

  101. Because right now, if you aren't say the way it's

  102. supposed to be answered, it's supposedly offensive, right of course, Yeah,

  103. so it is.

  104. Sometimes then you are.

  105. Because we are scared to offend people, we don't say

  106. the truth. We just say that, oh yeah, I mean

  107. it's what you believe. So if you believe like that,

  108. then it's like that, you know, but this is what

  109. I believe.

  110. You know, and we try and water it down and

  111. change the topic.

  112. How many of y'all like if somebody asked you this

  113. question and you're like, all right, man, I'm ready for

  114. this conversation. I waited all life for this conversation. If

  115. it were me, honestly, I will try and change the subject. Hey,

  116. the traffic very better, what the rain very heavier? You know,

  117. I will try and brush it off as as because

  118. I am I will not really or I do not

  119. know how to answer this question well enough, so that

  120. first of all, I explain what I believe in. Second all,

  121. I do not want to offend people, you know, so

  122. I will try and change the subject. But today I'm

  123. not changing the subject. Okay, because right now, in this

  124. time and age is it's when we as Christians especially,

  125. we need to know what we believe in. We need

  126. to stand up for our faith.

  127. Okay.

  128. So the scripture that I wanted to go through today

  129. is this next line, John fourteen. Okay, John fourteen, So

  130. let me read it. Don't let your hearts be troubled.

  131. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is

  132. more than enough room in my father's house. If this

  133. were not so, would I have told you that I'm

  134. going to prepare a place for you. When everything is ready,

  135. I will come and get you so that you will

  136. always be with me where I am. And you know

  137. the way to where I am going? Then verse five, no,

  138. we don't know, Lord, Thomas said, we have no idea

  139. where you are going, so how can we know the way?

  140. So Jesus was telling his disciples that he's preparing for

  141. them a place in heaven, and he says that you

  142. will know the way to where I Am going. But

  143. Thomas said, we have no idea where you're going. So

  144. this morning, do you have an idea of where you

  145. are going? Because, same as Thomas, sometimes we are asking

  146. where are we going? So first, if we know where

  147. we are going, then we will try and figure.

  148. Out the way.

  149. So how did Jesus respond? Next life? Jesus responded, Jesus

  150. told him I am the Way, the Truth, and the life.

  151. No one can come to the Father except through me.

  152. If you had really known me, you would have known

  153. who my father is. From now on, you do know

  154. him and have seen him. So the answer to the

  155. question that I had in my title, how do I

  156. get to heaven? The straightforward answer is this, Jesus. The

  157. only way we get to heaven is through Jesus. So

  158. let's establish that first. If you are a believer, a

  159. follower of Christ, and you want to get to heaven,

  160. the only way you can get to heaven.

  161. Is true Jesus.

  162. So Jesus says, I am the Way, the Truth, and

  163. the life. No one can come to the Father except

  164. through me.

  165. Okay, but then.

  166. Your friend comes and tells you again, Hey, how come

  167. I thought all religions ask us to believe in God.

  168. All religions asks to believe in God. All religions also

  169. pointing us towards God. How sure are you Christianity is

  170. the only or why do you believe that Jesus is

  171. the only way?

  172. Okay?

  173. But this as Christians, because we have a relationship with Jesus,

  174. we believe that the Bible is the Word of God. Okay,

  175. and whatever it says from the world, word of God

  176. is true and living. But I wanted to give y'all

  177. an illustration. Okay, next life back. Okay, So there's only

  178. three points today. The first point is Jesus is the way.

  179. Second point is Jesus is the truth. Third point Jesus

  180. is the life. Easy remember not so the memory verse

  181. for today, Jesus says that from John fourteen, verse six,

  182. I'm the Way, the Truth, and the life.

  183. No one comes to the Father except tru me.

  184. This needs to be our core, one of the core

  185. beliefs of our faith.

  186. Okay.

  187. So the first thing is Jesus is the Way. So

  188. I put this picture for a reason. Every picture that

  189. I put I will try and drive a point through.

  190. So what picture is this bowling ball? Okay, it's an airport. Okay,

  191. it's an airport, all right? I tell you by writing

  192. there is covering the people with their luggages and stuff

  193. like that, But.

  194. Basically it's an airport. Okay. How many of y'all have

  195. been to an airport thousands of times? Okay? How many

  196. of y'all have.

  197. Flown overseas or phone on an airplane before?

  198. Okay?

  199. So before you fly, what do you need to buy?

  200. You have to buy your ticket. You have to buy

  201. your ticket right, and your ticket. Once you get your ticket,

  202. you go to the airport. What do you need to

  203. look for? I think if we got a lot of

  204. people were missing luggages. Luggage seems to be coming up

  205. very often.

  206. Okay.

  207. After you settle your luggage, everything right, okay, and it's

  208. time for you to go. What do you need to

  209. look for? Yeah, you have to look for your plane, right,

  210. But you can't look for the plane. You have to

  211. look for your You have to look for your gate

  212. wish terminial are you flying from? So you see the

  213. sign boat up there, they will say, oh, you have

  214. to go to D three, or you have to go

  215. to D two, or you have to go to D four. Okay,

  216. So you look at your ticket it says that you

  217. have to go to D four. But then you say, right, hey,

  218. actually this is airport. Any terminial will take me to

  219. where I want to go. So the ticket says DFAU.

  220. I think A one will take me to where I

  221. want to go. So so you go to A one.

  222. Where will you end up? Team Baktu? Maybe Tokyo? Yeah,

  223. for example, you wanted to go to Yeah, you go

  224. to Tokyo. Yeah, you might get lost. And that's the

  225. same way in the airport. Right, there is only one

  226. way to your destination. There is only one way to

  227. your destination when you fly. If flying and getting to

  228. your destination, there's only one way. Why do you think

  229. there is so many ways to reach God? Because actually

  230. every religion has a different belief. Every religion has a

  231. different belief, Every religion has a different God. It is

  232. basically saying every destination is different. And the destination that

  233. we believe in is that we want to reach Father

  234. God who is in heaven. Our Father, who are in heaven. Hello,

  235. bet my name, How do I reach our Father who

  236. are in heaven? Jesus is the way, the truth and

  237. the life. So I need to go to the right terminal,

  238. the right way, and then I will reach my Father. Okay,

  239. so let me read a few verses next. So Romans Tree.

  240. But now God has shown us away to be made

  241. right with Him without keeping the requirements of the law.

  242. So this is Romans Trier. God has shown us away

  243. to be made right with Him without keeping the requirements

  244. of the law. You know what's the requirements of the law.

  245. The requirements of the law is all the laws that

  246. the Jewish people had to follow in the Old Testament.

  247. You know how many laws?

  248. There were.

  249. Six hundred and thirty one laws. And guys, the second

  250. Law is yet to be circumcised, all right, So in

  251. the Old Testament, if you wanted to reach God's standard,

  252. you had to follow six hundred and thirty one laws

  253. and not break any of them. Do you think it's possible? No,

  254. but the yeah, it's impossible. But you see in Romans Tree,

  255. God he has shown us a way to be made

  256. right with Him without keeping the requirements of the law.

  257. As was promised in the writings of Moses and the

  258. prophets long ago. We are made right with God by

  259. placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true

  260. for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. So

  261. last time, the Jews were the chosen people. Only the

  262. Jews can go to heaven if they follow the six

  263. hundred and thirty one laws. But God has found a

  264. way right now that if you put your faith in Jesus,

  265. anyone and everyone who puts their faith in Jesus can

  266. go to heaven. So that's why Jesus says, I am

  267. the way. Next night, this verse be also very famlia,

  268. for everyone have sinned. We all fall short of God's

  269. glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace freely makes us

  270. in his sight. He did this true Christ, Jesus, when

  271. he freed us from the penalty of our sins.

  272. So how do we get to heaven?

  273. Basically, it's impossible, because all of us have sinned. Once

  274. you have sinned means you fall you missed the mark.

  275. How many here have not sinned? If you put up

  276. your hand means you have sinned. Trick questions, all right,

  277. So all of us have sinned and all of us

  278. have fallen. Shot that means no matter who we follow,

  279. no matter what we do, nothing we do can get

  280. us to heaven.

  281. The only way is Jesus. Jesus is the.

  282. Way right, and that leads us to John three sixteen.

  283. For this is how God loved the world. He gave

  284. his one and only son, so that everyone who believes

  285. in him will not perish but have eternal life. God

  286. sent his son into the world not to judge the world,

  287. but to save the world through him. In the Old Testament,

  288. we were judged by the six hundred and thirty one laws.

  289. But in the New Testament verse seventeen, God sent his

  290. son into the world not to judge the world, but

  291. to save the world through him, and.

  292. Jesus is the only way.

  293. Jesus is the only person who can wash away all

  294. our sins so that we are restored again with God.

  295. Okay, so do you know.

  296. In the Book of X right what were Christians called?

  297. They were not called Christians. Yet I tell you what

  298. they were called next, all right? So X chapter nine. Meanwhile,

  299. Saul was uttering threads with every breath and was eager

  300. to kill the Lord's followers. So he went into the

  301. High He went to the high priests. He requested letters

  302. addressed to the synagogues in Damascus asking for their corporation

  303. in the arrest of any followers of the Way. So

  304. Christians were called followers of the Way, even people who

  305. didn't belie believe in Jesus called Christians as followers of

  306. the way. The guys, we are followers of the way.

  307. Who is the way? Jesus is the way. And because

  308. of that next night, so the followers of the Way

  309. were people who were changed and changed. People who are

  310. changed by the gospel will change society. So this morning, church,

  311. are we followers of the way? Are we changed people?

  312. Because if we are Christians and we are not changing

  313. our society, are we rarely followers of the way? Because

  314. this was how the first church looked like. Okay, so

  315. now I'm coming to the second point. So the second

  316. point is this, Jesus is the truth. Jesus is the truth. Okay,

  317. So why dire I put this picture? Yes, a phone

  318. to get back home, and home in this case is heaven, right,

  319. So when we want to get back to heaven, God,

  320. we have to listen to Jesus's truth.

  321. His truth and his direction is the only way to heaven.

  322. If we choose to follow our own truth right now

  323. in this world that we're living in, they'll be like, hey,

  324. that's your truth. I have my truth, but Jesus is

  325. the truth. There is only one way and you have

  326. to follow Jesus' way. So when you follow a turn

  327. by turn direction, it leads us closer and closer to God,

  328. which leads us to Heaven. Okay, let me see the verse.

  329. So this is the same verse again. I am the Way,

  330. the Truth, and the life. No one can come to

  331. the Father except through me. Okay, call that all right,

  332. that's slide. So this is two Corinthians one for all

  333. God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding yes.

  334. What does this mean? You know, there are so many

  335. promises in the Bible, but all those promises will be

  336. fulfilled only if we believe that Jesus is the truth.

  337. You cannot say that you believe in all other gods

  338. and claim the promises in the Bible. The promises in

  339. the Bible are there for us to be fulfilled only

  340. if we believe that Jesus is the truth.

  341. When we do.

  342. That, then all of God's promises, whether it's for our health,

  343. our family, our finances, our life, everything.

  344. Is open to us because He is the truth. Okay.

  345. Next John sixteen.

  346. I still have many things to say to you, but

  347. you cannot bear them now. However, when he the spirit

  348. of Truth has come. He will guide you in all truth.

  349. For he will not speak on his own authority, But

  350. whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will tell

  351. you things to come. So you say that, hey, Jesus

  352. is no longer here, So how am I supposed to

  353. hear from him? But Jesus has left us a helper.

  354. And this helper, he is the spirit of truth, has come.

  355. He will guide us in all truth. So are we

  356. living under the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Because if

  357. we are living under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,

  358. then we are living in the truth of Jesus.

  359. Okay.

  360. But if we are not, or sometimes we think we

  361. are living based on our own standards, we are living

  362. on our truth.

  363. So that is why we need to do this. Next line, you.

  364. Have to do a health checkup. How many have done

  365. a health checkup last year? Yeah?

  366. Okay?

  367. How many love health checkups? How many love health checkups?

  368. You go, okay, what's a health checkup? Health checkup is

  369. you go and see the doctor. The doctor will check

  370. everything your heart, your blood pressure, your eyes, your hands,

  371. your feet to see whether you are healthy or not.

  372. Free candy. Then you will fail the health checkup. It

  373. defeats the purpose. But anyway, how many of belief that

  374. health checkup is good? How many have done a health

  375. checkup last year? You see, right, there's a different one.

  376. We all know it is good, but not all of

  377. us do it.

  378. You know.

  379. One of the reasons why when I when I talk

  380. to my friends, and this is me included, me included.

  381. One of the reasons I don't want to do a

  382. health checkup is I don't want to know bad news

  383. or I'm scared. Hey, ignorance is bliss. I don't know

  384. means I'm healthy? Right, you don't know what it means

  385. you're healthy er? So the worst time to do health

  386. checkup is before Chinese neear. I cannot eat, these cannot drink,

  387. these cannot everything, So you don't you don't want to do.

  388. A health checkup.

  389. But that is actually the of the enemy, because if

  390. we do not do a spiritual health checkup, we are

  391. thinking we are good.

  392. We are good.

  393. You know, we are following God's commandments. We are doing

  394. what we are following the truth of God. But if

  395. we do a health checkup and measure ourselves against what

  396. Jesus has told us, we will see that a I'm

  397. probably living more like the world than living the way

  398. that Jesus wanted me to live. Okay, so these are

  399. some examples. Next, so some of the lies of the

  400. enemy is I am what I have. I am what

  401. I have. That's why everyone wants to get more. He'll

  402. be richer and richer and richer. And that's why society here.

  403. The richer you are, the better people treat you.

  404. You know. Is that the truth or is that a lie?

  405. The truth is, my eternal security is a gift from God.

  406. Everyone in Christ, they are a new creation. Everyone is

  407. a child of God. It's not about what you do

  408. or how much you have, but everyone is a child

  409. of God. Second one, I am what people say or

  410. think of me, so a lot of us. That's why

  411. if you go on social media or you have if

  412. you have good friends, people talk good things about you,

  413. then you will have a good self esteem. If people

  414. say bad things about you, you have a bad self

  415. esteem and that becomes who you are. But the truth is,

  416. I am nothing more or nothing less than what God

  417. says about me. I am a child of God. I

  418. can do all things through Christ gives me strength.

  419. Okay.

  420. Third one, I'm a good person. I only do small sins.

  421. See a lot me included is like that I tell

  422. you I'm not so bad. One, I'm okay on, you know,

  423. compared to this is I'm okay on. But the truth

  424. is I'm only saved because Jesus died for my sins.

  425. There is no such thing as a big sin or

  426. a small sin, for all have sinned.

  427. Okay.

  428. And the fourth one, i am nothing less than my

  429. best moment. This person is like has pride. I'm nothing

  430. less than my best moment. The truth is, I'm not

  431. defined by my success. I'm defined by God's grace. That's

  432. why people who say they are self made men, it's

  433. quite an oxymoron, because someone helped them get to where

  434. they are. The fact that they are breeding, the fact

  435. that they have hands and feet that work, the fact

  436. that they work with other people. You know, it's by

  437. God's grace. The truth is, it's by God's grace that

  438. we are successful. Right, So when we do a health check,

  439. this is just a few. When we do a health check,

  440. we can see that what are the lies of the

  441. enemy that is drawing us for then for their And

  442. that's why when I talked about the inauguration earlier on right.

  443. Although we believe in the same God we are believing.

  444. Some are believing in lies. Some are believing in their

  445. own truth. It is not biblical truth, and that is

  446. the thing that is drawing us for their way. What

  447. is Jesus truth, because that's the only thing that matters.

  448. Okay.

  449. Next verse, Jesus said to the people who believed in him,

  450. you are truly my disciples if you remain faithful in

  451. my teaching, and you will know the truth, and the

  452. truth will set you free. Okay, we have known this verse.

  453. But verse verse thirty three is very interesting as all.

  454. But we are descendants of Abraham. They said, we have

  455. never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean you

  456. will set us free? See, this is very interesting. You

  457. said you shall know the truth, and the truth will

  458. set you free. And most of us think we are free.

  459. And that's what the disciples said. But what did Jesus say?

  460. Next verse?

  461. I tell you the truth, Everyone who sins is a slave.

  462. To sin, a slave is not a permanent member of

  463. the family, but a son is part of the family forever.

  464. So if the sun sets you free, you are truly free.

  465. Is it easier to sin or easier to live according

  466. to Jesus's truth. Yeah, it's easier to sin. Why because

  467. when you are a slave to sin, you're under bondage.

  468. It is very difficult to get out, especially now where

  469. with social media with everything right and you're you're seeing

  470. what other people are doing or you're comparing, and suddenly

  471. everything it becomes easy and easier to sin.

  472. There is greed.

  473. Because you want more, you hurt people, and he becomes

  474. a vicious cycle. And that's why the Jesus said, so

  475. if the sun sets you free, You are truly free.

  476. That means sin will no longer dictate how we behave okay,

  477. next light. And this is a warning. The warning is

  478. this from two Tessalonians too. The man you know who

  479. is a man. The man is the Antichrist. The man

  480. will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit,

  481. power and science and miracles. He will use every kind

  482. of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction.

  483. If we are not saying that Jesus is the way,

  484. truth and the life, we are headed towards destruction because

  485. they refuse to love and accept the truth that would

  486. save them.

  487. If you do not love and accept the truth. And

  488. who is the truth? Jesus is the truth.

  489. You are leading down a path to destruction. So God

  490. will cause them to be greatly deceived and they will

  491. believe these lies. Then they will be condemned for enjoying

  492. evil rather than believing the truth. And that is how

  493. it becomes very enticing. The lies of the enemy appeals

  494. to our flesh, but the truth of God appeals to

  495. our spirit. So even this morning, you know it was raining,

  496. it's raining, right, your bed is very comfortable. You have

  497. to die to self to get up and bring yourself here.

  498. Because the truth is I need to be found in

  499. the House of God on a Sunday morning. But if

  500. we choose to enjoy evil rather than believe in the truth,

  501. that is when we will go down the path of destruction. Right,

  502. and this is my last point. The last point is

  503. Jesus is the life. So what does this mean. It

  504. means that everything else is death. It's as simple as that,

  505. everything else is death. Jesus is the life.

  506. Okay.

  507. So when I was growing up, right, I always like,

  508. I mean, I always had this thought. It's like, hey,

  509. how comer being a Christian? I'm not living my life?

  510. You know, how come all my friends are like, so happening.

  511. You can go do whatever they want, Uh yeah, basically drink,

  512. smoke or whatever.

  513. Isla.

  514. And I always had the perception that, well, being a

  515. Christian is boring, you know, I to follow all these

  516. rules to do this and that. And that was how

  517. many of y'all have had that kind of thought before?

  518. Because right when I think about it, why did I

  519. have this kind of thought, It's because my understanding of Jesus.

  520. Was wrong.

  521. Jesus has come to set us free, and we think

  522. that the lies of the world are more enticing than Jesus.

  523. We think that the path to destruction is funner, right,

  524. we think it's funner, you know, you think wow, But

  525. that's what the Bible says.

  526. We have to take the narrow path.

  527. But the path to destruction is wide, it's easy, and

  528. the devil is out to destroy us. So whether you

  529. know it or not, right, if it's too late and

  530. you go down the path of destruction although you think

  531. it's fun and why it is you thing, but Jesus

  532. is here again to bring us back to our father.

  533. Okay, let me see next light.

  534. So those who hurt Jesus use this illustration didn't understand

  535. what he meant, so he explained to them. So Jesus

  536. gave the example of that he is the shepherd and

  537. we are his sheep. Okay, but they didn't understand. So

  538. Jesus told them, I tell you the truth. I am

  539. the gate for the sheep. All who come before me

  540. were thieves and robbers, but the true sheep did not

  541. listen to them. Yes, I am the gate. Those who

  542. come in through me will be saved. They will come

  543. and go freely and will find good pastures. The thief's

  544. purpose is to steal, kill and destroy. My purpose is

  545. to give them a rich and satisfying life. The lie

  546. of the enemy is to say that my way is

  547. more fun, more exciting, But in actual fact, he is

  548. here to steal and kill and destroy. And we have

  549. to open our eyes. The only way we have to

  550. open our eyes and see is we have to know

  551. the truth. If we do not know the truth, we

  552. have been believing alive. And the only way to know

  553. the truth is to say, Jesus, you are the way.

  554. And that is when all the lies of the enemy.

  555. When we do a spiritual health check and we check

  556. ourselves and say that God why am I feeling this way?

  557. What lie am I listening to? And what is your truth? Okay?

  558. Then next slide.

  559. Then someone called from the crowd, teacher, please tell my

  560. brother to divide our father's estate with me. Jesus replied, friend,

  561. who made me a judge over you to decide such

  562. things as that. Then he said, beware God against every

  563. kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much

  564. you own. This morning, how many of us are measuring

  565. our life by how much we own, because that is

  566. the world's standard. It's to get more and more and more.

  567. But Jesus made it very clear. Life is not measured

  568. by how much you own. Okay, And then same verse

  569. twelve further down, next light, don't be concerned about what

  570. to eat and what to drink. Don't worry about such things.

  571. These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers all over the world.

  572. But your father already knows your needs.

  573. Seek the Kingdom of God above all things, and he

  574. will give you everything you need. So a lot of times,

  575. if we say Jesus is the life, but we don't

  576. trust him to provide all our needs, then we say that, hey, Jesus,

  577. you are not the truth or you are not the way.

  578. I need to do it my way, and whether we

  579. are Christians or not right, we have to continuously check

  580. ourselves to see am I doing living a life as

  581. how Jesus wanted me to live? And this is the

  582. last slide, even as I get a band up one

  583. John five, and this is what God has testified. He

  584. has given us eternal life, and this life is in

  585. His son. Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever does

  586. not have God's Son does not have life.

  587. Church.

  588. This morning, even as we just started with a simple question,

  589. how do I get to heaven? Or do all religions

  590. lead to heaven? This morning, I wanted this to go

  591. back to the basics. Do we really believe that Jesus

  592. is the way? Even in the apole, even in the physical,

  593. we go to the specific gate to get to our destination.

  594. But in our life do we follow that Jesus is

  595. the way? Do we follow his truths? Because other than

  596. Jesus's truth, all are lies and sometimes the lies seem

  597. more appealing because we do not recognize Jesus as the way.

  598. And finally, the only way to have eternal life is

  599. true Jesus. That's why he says Jesus is the Way,

  600. the Truth, and the Life. So this morning, church, in

  601. write you to stand even as we just worship God.

  602. Let's just take this moment to just examine our hearts.

  603. Have we been living our lives as putting Jesus as

  604. the Way, the truth.

  605. And the life.

  606. What lies of the world or the enemy have we

  607. substituted Jesus's truth wall What ways of the world have

  608. we substituted Jesus's way? Because we want at the end

  609. of our journey here on earth, we want to hear.

  610. Jesus saying, well done, my good and faithful sermony. Man.

  611. So when i's to worship God, let's just ask God

  612. to reveal.

  613. When there seems STUPI being no way, We're trusting you.

  614. God, you have a final say you are the way.

  615. When there seems to be no way. We're trusting you. God,

  616. you have a final say you are You are the

  617. way when there seems suping no we trust in you.

  618. God.

  619. You have a final save woo the move up, breg

  620. the break.

  621. God.

  622. We believe God.

  623. We belly for it from the impossible.

  624. We'll see your Mary. God.

  625. We belly.

  626. God, be belly for it. Woo, the boats brag the

  627. U break corpo. God, we berny.

  628. God, we belly for.

  629. It from the impossible. We'll see our Mary. God, we

  630. bully God.

  631. We rely hoorried.

  632. Amen a man.

  633. God. Even as your word has gone forth, I pray

  634. that we will repent before you.

  635. Lord.

  636. I pray that even as we do our spiritual health check,

  637. that you will reveal the lives of the enemy that

  638. we have clung through as truth. But Lord, in fact,

  639. that we will search for ourselves. We will search for you, God,

  640. that you are the Way, the truth, and the life.

  641. Lord. I prayed that even as we walk with.

  642. You, we will become people of the Way, that the

  643. whole world will recognize the difference because we follow you.

  644. So God, I pray that you do a new work

  645. within us, draw us closer to You, even as we

  646. reach out to you, love and Church. This morning, I

  647. want to give an opportunity. Even as I've spoken about

  648. Jesus and how he is the only way to heaven,

  649. he is the only way to eternal life, I want

  650. to give you an opportunity. If you have yet to

  651. know of this Jesus, I want to encourage you and

  652. account of three It's as simple as inviting Jesus into

  653. your heart. Because even as the Bible says, right previously

  654. you had to follow six hundred and thirty one laws,

  655. but right now all you have.

  656. To do is have faith in Jesus.

  657. So right now it's as simple as a admit that

  658. we need Jesus. Be believed that he died and rose

  659. again for our sins. See commit and confess that he

  660. is Lord. So the kind of tree with every head bower,

  661. with every eye close. If that's you, and you will say, Jesus,

  662. I want to follow your way. I want to have

  663. eternal life, I want to go to Heaven.

  664. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  667. this week is going to be a good week, a

  668. hit for you. God bless