Jesus Christ The Only Way To Heaven Jesus Christ The Only Truth Jesus Christ The Only Life

By Grace Dola Balogun

Jesus Christ The Only Way to Heaven: The Scripture Reveals: "Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first born from all creation, for by him all things were created, things in heaven and on the earth visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers of rulers or authorities; all these were created by Him and for him.He is before al

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Jesus Christ The Only Way: The Only Way to Heaven By Grace Dola Balogun

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true Son of God, full of truth and righteousness, abounding in love, forgiveness and full of mercy.

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven. In His death by being crucified on the Cross, He died and was buried; yet, on the third day, He rose victoriously from the dead, and ascended into Heaven. Jesus Christ is the Lord of all, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the light of this world. He is the true light that shines forever and no darkness can comprehend it. Jesus Christ is the One and only who came down from Heaven and gave His life for us so that those of us who live, do not live for ourselves, but live for Him forever.

I also dedicate this book to all those who will take the time in reading this book to gain great knowledge of how God the Father Almighty put everything in Heaven and on this Earth in the hands of Jesus Christ. Christ has the supremacy and preeminence over all the creations in Heaven and on this Earth. In reading this book people will come to know Jesus Christ in a more intimate way, will be encouraged to read the Holy Scriptures daily, and they will also give their life to Him in spirit, soul and body forever.

Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven, believe in Him and you will have eternal and everlasting life; live with Him in a new earth and a new heaven where righteousness will dwell.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. (Matthew 6:9-14)

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Before the Foundation of the World

CHAPTER TWO

Jesus Christ is the Only Way

From the Garden of Eden

CHAPTER THREE

Christ the Only Way to Heaven –

Jesus Christ the Word of God

CHAPTER FOUR

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Came down from Heaven

CHAPTER FIVE

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Incarnate Son Not Created

CHAPTER SIX

Jesus Christ the only Way

By Prophet Isaiah

CHAPTER SEVEN

Christ the Only Way to Heaven

Jacob’s Dream Illustrates

CHAPTER EIGHT

Jesus Christ the Only Way

The Father Committed All Things to Him

CHAPTER NINE

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Healed Diseases

CHAPTER TEN

Jesus Christ the only way

He offered Forgiveness of Sin

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Christ the Only Way

Crucified, Dead, Buried, Raised to Life

CHAPTER TWELVE

Jesus Christ Proved the only Way

By His Resurrection and Ascension

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Jesus Christ the only Way

Seated at Right Hand of God

Interceding for Believers

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Father’s Glory Son Forever

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Jesus is Coming Back to Judge the Dead and the Living.

SUMMARY

Prayer

CONFESSION OF SIN

Apostolic Creed/Nicene Creed for All

Denominational Churches

THE LORD’S PRAYER

SONGS OF PRAISES

Biblical Indexes

Bibliography

Behold, I am coming soon. My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what He had done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last the beginning and the end. (Revelation 22:12)

The emphasis here is on the entire congregation of believers as God’s temple and the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. As believers are the temple of God in the midst of a corrupt society, God’s people are not to participate in the evils prevalent in the world, but they are to reject all forms of immorality. God’s temple must be holy because God is holy.

PREFACE

The Scripture has revealed: Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me, (John14:6). The truth of Christianity is completely based on the person of Jesus Christ, the only incarnate Son of God. The gospel of God was written by the accounts of all those who were present at the time of Jesus Christ’s earthly ministry as eye-witnesses; they are witnesses of Jesus Christ’s life and works.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said that He is the way; He alone is the way to the Father, and there is no salvation through anyone else but through Him. Jesus Christ alone is the true revealer of God, the Father. God, the Father, said from the beginning after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden where He first mentioned that: Jesus Christ was appointed by the Father to be the only way to the people of this world to reach to Him. When the Lord God Almighty created the Earth, He made it holy and consecrated it, and sanctified it. It was created so that all people can worship and be of service to God the Father.

The Scripture says: So God created man in his own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground, (Genesis 1:28). Created means an activity that only God can do; it also means that at a specific moment God Almighty spoke and called the Universe into existence everything on the Earth God called them into existence.

This shows the power of the Word of God. From the beginning to the end, the Scripture revealed to us: God’s Said. The Scripture describes God’s creation; the Earth was formless, the Earth was empty, and the Earth was covered with darkness (Genesis 1:2). When God spoke and said, Let there be light, the light appeared, and darkness disappeared. God continued to speak and filled the Earth with the power of His Word.

The Scripture revealed: In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways. But in these last days He has spoken to us by his Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven, (Hebrews 1:1-3). Jesus Christ the Son of God radiates God’s glory because He shares God’s nature and essence. Whatever God is in His character and nature, Jesus Christ is the exact representation.

God’s revelation of Himself is no longer fragmentary and incomplete, as it was in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ the Son of God, the revelation of God the Father is full and complete. God has spoken and has revealed Himself to mankind through His Son Jesus Christ in a full and complete way. Jesus Christ is supreme over all things; God’s Word through Him is full, final, and complete, transcending all.

The entire Trinity were present during the time that God created the Earth into existence because from the beginning, before the creation, the Scripture said, The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters, (Genesis 1:2).

The Spirit of God was moving upon the face of the waters; the Spirit of God begins immediately to work, and if the Spirit of God works, who can hinder Him? God created the Universe by His Spirit, and by the same mighty work in the creation of the Earth. God is the author of all life and being; He is the fountain of life, and the spring of motion. This is the reason why God can wake up the dead to life again because He is the life. Therefore, since God the Father is the source of all that exists in Heaven and on this Earth, we human beings, to include nature, are not self-existent, but we owe our existence and our being to the continuance of our being belonging to Him.

The Spirit of God hovering is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, the Father, in the Spirit of God the Son – that is why God is the Holy Trinity and He said in plural, Let us make man in our own image. A Spirit that will be connects with the Spirit of God. Furthermore, God’s plan from the beginning of the creation of the Universe, He will thus carry it out to completion with the power of His Word - The Word of God is God.

All the existence of life is good, if it is directly related to God and completely dependent upon Him. Life and creation can be eternally meaningful and very purposeful as well. God Almighty Father has all the Sovereign rights over all creations because He is the Creator. We can clearly and easily see that this was accomplished through the power of His Word by the work of redemption through His Son, Jesus Christ. There is no prior Word of God going out from Him; God’s creative word went out of His mouth and the Heaven and the Earth came to existence. The entire Trinity, not just God the Father only, had rose in the work of creation, just as all the Trinity had a role in the work of redemption.

The Son is the powerful Word through whom God the Father Almighty created all things. Jesus Christ was revealed as the eternal Word of God. The Scripture says: In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning, (John 1:1-2). John, the apostle, begins his gospel by calling Jesus Christ the Word. John presented Jesus Christ as the personal Word of God, as well as indicating that in this last days, God has spoken to all of humanity through His Son.

This particular verse should make it clear and precise that Jesus Christ is the only way to God; there is no other person, no other way, no any other means by which people of the Earth can reach out to God but through His Son, Jesus Christ. Scripture reveals that in a simple and straight-forward way, that there is no other name that anyone can be saved, but through the name of Jesus Christ. As the apostles knew the lord Jesus Christ, and all the believing Christians knew the lord Jesus Christ as the way, they knew the Father, the Father is the end; believing in God the Father as the end of all things and believing in Jesus Christ as the only way.

Jesus Christ said, No one comes to the Father but by me, Jesus Christ is the way; in Him God and man were reconciled together, and they were brought together by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only way to the tree of life; we cannot get there on our own. We can only get to the tree of Life through Jesus Christ. Following and believing in Christ Jesus, we will never miss the road to Heaven; Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and man. He is the only way to Heaven.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22:1-6)

The river symbolizes the life giving abundance of God’s blessing and provisions that flows from His throne in the eternal state. The tree of life refers to the eternal life given to all who populate the new city. The healing leaves shows the absence of anything that brings physical or spiritual harm to the people. The ultimate goal of redemptive Word of God is that God will live among His faithful people on Earth, the saints will see and live with Jesus Christ and they will see His face, Who is the Lamb of God, Who through love, redeemed people of this Earth by His death on the Cross.

CHAPTER ONE

Jesus Christ the Only Way

Before the Foundation of the World

The Scripture reveals, He is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation. For by him all things were created, things in Heaven and on earth visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers of rulers or authorities; all these were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

(Colossians 1:15-17)

A postle Paul writes with his deep love for the Lord Jesus the invisible God; Christ is the image of God as well as the Son. The image of the Father, Christ, has a natural likeness of the Father. He is the firstborn of every creature, begotten, but not created. He is representing God in eternity; Christ has the dominion over all things that were created.

As a child of the King, Jesus Christ is the heir to the throne and the Lord of all things. Christ has His being before the Universe was created. He existed from all eternity. The entire creation was kept together by the power of the true Son of God and made to consist in its proper frame. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, and the head of vital influence, as in the natural body because all grace and strength are derived from Him. Jesus Christ has the preeminence above the angels and all the power in Heaven.

It pleases the Father that all the fullness should dwell in Him in abundance, as well as in abundance to those who gave their life to Him and followed His Word. Jesus Christ is the only way; He was the heir, the supreme – Jesus Christ is the heir and the ruler of all creation as the eternal Son of the Father. All things were created by Him through the creative activities of Jesus Christ before the foundation and after the foundation. All things, in Heaven and on Earth, both material things and spiritual, they owed their existence to Jesus Christ’s work as the active agent in creation.

All things were held together and they were sustained in Jesus Christ: The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being; sustaining all things by his powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the majesty in Heaven, (Hebrews 1:1-4). God communicated Himself and His will through His prophets in the Old Testament; they were people chosen by God and qualified by Him, revealing the will of God to the people. Many times, God opened up to the people of Israel about the Redeemer who is the Messiah. God changed His method of communication in the New Testament in these last days. God’s new revelation is now coming to us through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit also helped the believers to understand what God is revealing to us or has revealed to us.

This is the revelation which God has made of His Son Jesus Christ and it is the final revelation. Christ is the One and Only, the most excellent messenger, which by God was sent to this Earth. By Jesus Christ God made the Earth, both visible and invisible in Heaven and in this Earth, and both old and new creation, are by Him. He rules and governs all His creations by the word of His power. Jesus Christ is the glory of God the Father shining with the true divine splendor. Jesus Christ manifested in the flesh as the person of the Son. He is the true image and character of God the Father; beholding the power, wisdom and goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ. We behold His glory of the Father, the fullness of the God-head that dwell in Him. The Son is the exact representation, only appearing in the New Testament it refers to the mark that an engraving stamp leaves on wax seal; the correspondence between the engraving stamp and the engraved impression is exact. Jesus Christ the true Son of God that radiates God’s glory because He shares God’s nature and essence. Whatever God is in His character and nature, Jesus is the exact representation.

Therefore, God’s revelation of Himself is no longer fragmentary and incomplete as in the Old Testament times but in Jesus Christ, the Son, the revelation of God the Father is full and complete. Jesus Christ provided the forgiveness of our sins by His death on the Cross. He took His place of authority at God’s right hand. Christ’s redemptive activities in Heaven involve His ministry in Heaven as a divine mediator, our High Priest, our great intercessor and the baptizer in the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the only way because He is superior to the angels and to the prophets because Jesus Christ is the true Son of God; therefore, He is superior to the angels, which had played an important part in the giving of the Old Testament Covenant.

The Scripture said, What, then, was the purpose of the Law? It was added because of transgressions until the seed to which the promise referred had come. The Law was put into effect through angels by a mediator, (Galatians 3:19). The children of Israel were sinners and disobedient to God the Father in the Old Testament just has other people in the world. Therefore, God gave them the Law to convince them of their sins and disobedient activities. The Law was also given to reduce and teach them from committing more and more sin. It was given to them as a teacher before Jesus Christ the Messiah arrived in human flesh. The Law was to guide them, take away their transgressions before the fullness of time comes; and the Law was supposed to stop when Christ came to the world. It was to lead them from the bondage and terror of Old Covenant, so that the people may see the need of the promise, showing them their sin and to point them to the Messiah, the Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

The goodness and the faithfulness of God by giving the Law to the people of Israel is to furnish them with sufficient help to direct them in their duty to God, as well as encourage their hope in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Law refers to all the direction and the teaching, as well as the Ten Commandments, and all the sacrificial systems in the Old Testament. It was given by God because of transgressions to also show that sin violates the will of God and also to awaken all the people of the Universe for the sense of their in need of God’s mercy and forgiveness, grace and salvation in Jesus Christ.

Although the Old Testament Law was holy, good and righteous, it was inadequate in that it cannot impart spiritual life or moral strength. The Law acted as a temporary tutor for God’s people until salvation through faith in Jesus Christ came. The Law revealed God’s will for His peoples’ moral behavior. It provided for blood sacrifices again and again to cover the people of Israel sins. It is also pointed the people to Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice death on the Cross. The Law was basically given in order to lead them to Jesus Christ, so that they will be able to be justified by faith in Jesus Christ alone. Therefore, we do not seek salvation through the Old Covenant provisions or including obedience to its laws and the sacrificial system.

Jesus Christ was the first to rise from the dead with a spiritual and immortal body. On His resurrection day Jesus became the Head of the Church. The New Testament church began on the day of Jesus Christ’s resurrection when the disciples received the Holy Spirit. The fact and the truth that Jesus is the firstborn from among the dead implies the subsequent resurrection of all those before Him that He died. Jesus Christ is the only way because He is the full and complete God-head with all that it represents who resides in Christ. Jesus Christ reconciled to Himself all things – all humanity and everything in the world are brought in unity and in harmony under Christ Jesus. We must also know that the person that rejects Jesus’ ministry of reconciliation will remain to be God’s enemy.

The Scripture revealed: Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under Heaven given to men by which we must be saved, (Acts 4:12). The disciples were convinced that the greatest need of everyone on this Earth is the need for salvation from sin and the wrath of God, and they preached that the need of salvation could be met by no one other than Jesus Christ. This truth was revealed in the exclusive nature of the Gospel and the Church’s heavy responsibility of preaching the Gospel of God to everyone on Earth.

If there is another way to salvation, they could have revealed it to the early Christians, and the Church would have known it. But according to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Who said there is no hope for anyone’s salvation except through Him. Jesus Christ is the only way because He is the God in human form Who died as the perfect sacrifice for humanities’ sins on the Cross.

There is no salvation in any other name; there is no other name by which a sinful soul can be saved. Our salvation is not in ourselves; we can destroy ourselves in so many ways, but we cannot save ourselves. It is only in Jesus Christ’s name, which is the only name by which humankind can be saved. It is the name whereby the people of this world must be saved. This name has been given; God the Father Almighty appointed it to humanity. It is a name that is given under the Heaven.

Jesus Christ has all the power in Heaven and in the entire world; the name was given under Heaven to those who are in need of salvation. No one on this Earth can be saved by any other name than the holy name of Jesus Christ. All the favor of God that the believing Christians received from God the Father, it is on the account of Christ Jesus. God sees us through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was obedient to His Father’s commandment to the Cross. He said in the Garden of Gethsemane, Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will but yours be done. An angel from Heaven appeared to him and strengthened him, (Luke 22:42-43). In another Scripture: For this reason He had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high Priest in service to God, and that He might make atonement for the sins of the people, (Hebrews 2:17). Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father in Heaven. He is the High Priest, because a High Priest represents the people, all believers before God just as in the Old Testament a High Priest represented the people of Israel on the Day of Atonement.

In Jesus Christ’s ministry as High Priest, His death on the Cross makes full atonement for our sins; it also removed the wrath of God against those who believe and gave their life to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ became a man that He might sacrifice Himself as an offering to God the Father, an offering that God could accept as a propitiation.

The Devil is the first sinner, and the first tempter; He committed sin and was driven out of Heaven – sin is always the cause of death. The Devil draws all people to sin, sin leads to death. The Devil had the power to death. Jesus Christ came to the world to destroy the Devil and his power of death, so that he will not be able to put anyone under the power of spiritual death. Also, so that he will not be able to draw people to sin.

Jesus Christ was faithful to God the Father, as well as merciful to all the people on Earth. He made reconciliation for the sins of the people. Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven because He is the only man of God ever raised from the dead unto the everlasting life in order to exhibit His power and to confirm that He is God Almighty, and Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God.

He said to me: ‘It is done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and He will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.’ (Revelation 21: 6-8)

God Himself declares who will inherit the blessings