“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6 KJV).

The third verse of Jack P. Scholfield’s classic 1911 hymn, “Saved, Saved, Saved,” the truth of our Salvation.

“When poor and needy and all alone,
In love He said to me,
‘Come unto Me and I’ll lead you home,
To live with Me eternally.’”

Religion has ingrained in people’s minds, from birth to death, the lie… that they can do something religious so God can declare them righteous before Him.

Lost people take Bible verses that apply only to Christians, and they try to follow those life principles hoping to make Christians out of themselves.

We cannot make ourselves into Christians and… No religious group makes us into Christians, either.

God’s intention in giving Christians living verses was not for everyone to follow in order to become Christians; He gave those verses for Christian people to follow. Without Christ’s “Spirit of life” within our human spirit we cannot live the Christian life.

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” Colossians 1:27 (KJV)  

Thus, lost people can only imitate the Christian life, but they will always fail. And God is not the least bit fooled; He sees straight through the artificial Christianity that pervades most of Christendom today.

Considering our text, without Jesus Christ, we literally have nothing!

• The Lord Jesus Christ is the way to Father; without Him, we have nothing but a one-way path to the ultimate hellfire of Gehenna!
• Jesus Christ is the truth; without Him, we have nothing but Satan’s lies!
• The Lord Jesus Christ is the life; without Him, we have nothing but death in our trespasses and sins!

We do not come to Him for “help” in doing good or being good; we come to Him for everything! As Paul wrote to “the church the body of Christ” - “Christ is ALL and IN YOU all”

Most assuredly, we in ourselves are poor, needy, and all alone. So, God sent His Son came to this sin-cursed planet. We were not looking for Him; He was looking for us, to turn us to Him as “Father God.”

Christ Jesus was obedient to His Heavenly Father, all the way to Calvary’s cruel tree. He reaches out with a nail-scarred hand and offered to lead us to heaven, to enjoy forever the same fellowship that He had with His Father from eternity past.

Friends, may we take His hand by faith and be “Saved, Saved, Saved!”

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”