John 14:6 (NLT)
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one can come to the Father except through me.
Here Christ tells gives us the statement of His purpose,
He is the way to eternal life, He provides the truth about God the Father and
He is the life we should follow. Fallen man must come to God as a Judge, but
cannot come to him as a Father, otherwise than by Christ as Mediator.
Someone once asked the question, “Are you more aware of
other’s sins than your own?” I’m afraid sadly there would be many of us who
would say – Yes. It becomes easy for us to see the sins of others, but we fail
to see our own faults, our own prejudices and our sin that God so despises.
Amazingly God’s heart is gracious towards us. For God
gave His only Son, Jesus Christ to become a sacrifice for our sin. Although we
deserved God’s wrath, because of God’s love, mercy and grace towards us he
appointed Jesus Christ as King of Kings, Ambassador, a Divine Mediator between
man and God.
In stories about Sparta, we find there were more than one
king at Sparta, who governed by joint authority. A king was occasionally sent
to a neighboring state as a Spartan ambassador. Did this king cease to be a
king of Sparta, because he was also an ambassador? No, he did not divest
himself of his royal dignity, but only added to it that of public deputation.
So Christ, in becoming man, did not cease to be God; but He still continued to
be King of the whole creation and served as the voluntary Servant and Messenger
of the Father.
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