September 18, 2022
Aynsley Younker teaches that Jesus is the only way because He did the work—by dying on the cross for everyone in the world for eternity. While we address this pivotal question in faith, we stand on the truths of who God is, believing that the Bible is true and that He is real.
Key Takeaway
God is real. The Bible is true. He is who He says He is.
- God is real.
- The Bible is true.
- He is who He says He is.
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- Jesus is the Messiah.
- Jesus is the only way.
Scripture References
8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God
; believe also in me.
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My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
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You know the way to the place where I am going.”
5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6Jesus answered,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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If you really know me, you will know
my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9Jesus answered:
“Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
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Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
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but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
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At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,
8“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
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At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
10Jesus straightened up and asked her,
“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
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“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,”
Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
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Dispute Over Jesus’ Testimony
12When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said,
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”
14Jesus answered,
“Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
15You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
16But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
17In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.
18I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”
19Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”
“You do not know me or my Father,”
Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.Dispute Over Who Jesus Is
21Once more Jesus said to them,
“I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”
22This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says,
‘Where I go, you cannot come’
?”23But he continued,
“You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”
25“Who are you?” they asked.
“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,”
Jesus replied. 26“I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”
27They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. 28So Jesus said,
“When you have lifted up
the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”
30Even as he spoke, many believed in him.Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are
31To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said,
“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
34Jesus replied,
“Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
38I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.
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39“Abraham is our father,” they answered.
“If you were Abraham’s children,”
said Jesus, “then you would
do what Abraham did.
40As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
41You are doing the works of your own father.”
“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
42Jesus said to them,
“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
47Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Jesus’ Claims About Himself
48The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
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“I am not possessed by a demon,”
said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
50I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
51Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
52At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. 53Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?”
54Jesus replied,
“If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.
55Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word.
56Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”
57“You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!”
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“Very truly I tell you,”
Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.19“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
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“Woman,”
Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
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God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26Then Jesus declared,
“I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
Aynsley Younker
Aynsley Younker is a Jesus follower, lover of the word, wife to Brett, and mom of three to Anna Jeane, Shiloh, and Johnny. She graduated in 2020 from DTS with a Master's in Biblical Studies and is passionate about studying and teaching the Bible because it contains our truest reality in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and is the way we know God and his love for us. When she’s not nerding out, she loves to think about her next meal or outfit, go on a walk, and hang out with family and friends.