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Are You Living the Way?

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Are You Living the Way?

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There is an old saying that "all roads lead to Rome." We may have also heard that "there are many ways to Heaven." Are there really? Let us explore what the Scriptures have to say about the way.

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 A PARTIAL List of Scriptures used:

Act 9:1  Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Act 9:2  and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Act 22:3  "I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers' law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.

Act 22:4  I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
Act 22:5  as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.

Act 19:23  And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.
Act 19:9  But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Act 24:9  And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
Act 24:10  Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: "Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,
Act 24:11  because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
Act 24:12  And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
Act 24:13  Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
Act 24:14  But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Gen 2:7  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Gen 2:8  The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
Gen 2:9  And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Mat 7:12  Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Mat 7:13  "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Mat 7:14  Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

MOVIE:  LOST HORIZON...

God's way is not a straight shot, not an easy way. MOST people go in the Broad way...

HOW should we live to walk in THE WAY... in THE TRUTH?
Follow Him Who IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE.

Jesus Christ is THE path, THE way... and NO one can go to the Father but by HIM and NO one can come to Christ but by the Father's calling and direction.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Mat 11:27  All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

Eph 2:18  For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Joh 8:32  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Joh 8:33  They answered Him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, 'You will be made free'?"
Joh 8:34  Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
Joh 8:35  And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.
Joh 8:36  Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

1Pe 2:21  For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
1Pe 2:22  "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH";
Gal 2:20  I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Joh 15:1  "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
Joh 15:2  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Joh 15:3  You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4  Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
Joh 15:5  "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7  If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
Joh 15:8  By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Joh 10:10  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Joh 15:9  "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
Joh 15:10  If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
Joh 15:11  "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

Want to have the full JOY of God, abide in THE WAY!!!

Rom 5:8  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Joh 15:13  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
Joh 15:14  You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
Joh 15:15  No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Joh 15:16  You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
Joh 15:17  These things I command you, that you love one another.

Gal 5:13  For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
Luk 4:15  And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
Luk 4:16  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

The Sabbath is a sign of GOD's people. First sign is: Are they keeping the Sabbath? Second, are they keeping THE FEASTS of God?

Joh 7:6  Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Joh 7:7  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Joh 7:8  Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Joh 7:9  When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
Joh 7:10  But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
So HE WENT... but wisely as HE knew they were looking to snuff Him out.

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

He kept the entire Feast.

He prayed during the night... at least one occasion: THE ENTIRE NIGHT!!! His people Pray.

Luk 11:1  And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luk 11:2  And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Luk 11:3  Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk 11:4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

He sacrificed everything for mankind. We also are to sacrifice.

Therefore there aren't many "roads to heaven". There is but ONE way, THE WAY He has revealed to you, The Ancient Path that leads to the Kingdom of God and Eternal Life.