Sermon Tone Analysis

***                                                    **The Way,  the Truth, and  the Life**     *    2~/17~/08 P.M.

                                                                 *Jn 14:6*  

*Jn 14:6*   6 Jesus said to him, “I am  the way,  the truth, and  the life.

 No one comes to the Father  except through Me.

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*1**way* \ˈwā\ n

[ME, fr.

OE /weg;/ akin to OHG /weg/ way, OE /wegan/ to move, L /vehere/ to carry, /via/ way] bef.

12c

*1*     *a*      *: **a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to place*

     *b*      *: **an opening for passage* 〈this door is the only /way/ out of the room〉

*2*      *: **the course traveled from one place to another* *: *route 〈asked the /way/ to the museum〉

*3*     *a*      *: **a course* (as a series of actions or sequence of events) *leading in a direction or toward an objective* 〈led the /way/ to eventual open heart operations —/Current Biog./〉

     *b*     *(1)* *: **a course of action* 〈took the easy /way/ out〉

          *(2)* *: *opportunity, capability, or fact of doing as one pleases 〈always manages to get her own /way/〉

Merriam-Webster, I. (2003).

/Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary./

(Eleventh ed.).

Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, Inc.

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*Jesus is the Way*

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*Jesus is the** opening for passage;* *The only way the God the Father*

*Jn 14:6*   6 Jesus said to him, “I am  the way,  the truth, and  the life.

 *No one comes to the Father  except through Me.** *

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*Jesus is **the** course**; Christianity is the true teaching/,/ the /manner of life/ demanded by God *

 *Jn 6:68*   68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? *You have the words of eternal life.

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*Jesus is the** course of action;* *The way to eternal life *

*Mt 7:13-14*    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.

14*** Because narrow /is/ the gate and difficult /is/ the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

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*Jesus is the Truth*

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*truth* \ˈtrüth\ n

/pl/ *truths* \ˈtrüṯẖz, ˈtrüths\ [ME /trewthe,/ fr.

OE /trēowth/ fidelity; akin to OE /trēowe/ faithful — more at true] bef.

12c

*1*     *a*      /archaic/ *: *fidelity, constancy

     *b*      *: *sincerity in action, character, and utterance

*2*     *a*     *(1)* *: **the state of being the case : fact*

          *(2)* *: **the body of real things, events, and facts : actuality*

          *(3)* /often cap/ *: **a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality *

     *b*      *: *a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true 〈/truths/ of thermodynamics〉

     *c*      *: **the body of true statements and propositions*

*3*     *a*      *: *the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality

     *b*      /chiefly Brit/ *: *true 2

     *c*      *: **fidelity to an original or to a standard *

*4*           /cap/ /Christian Science/ *: *god —*in truth* *: *in accordance with fact *: *actually

\\ Merriam-Webster, I. (2003).

/Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary./

(Eleventh ed.).

Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, Inc.

 

*Jesus is **fidelity to the original or to the standard-The ONLY Begotten Son of God-sinless *



*Jn 1:14*  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.

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*Heb 4:15*  15 For  we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but  was in all /points/ tempted as /we are,/  /yet/ *without sin.

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*Jesus is the** transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality-Truth is a person-Jesus Christ*



*Jn 5:22-23*   22 For the Father judges no one, but  has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father.

 He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.



*Jn 5:28-29*  28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will  hear His voice 29  and come forth—  those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

*Jn 12:48*  48  He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—  the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.



*Php 2:9-11*   9 Therefore God also  has highly exalted Him and  given Him the name which is above every name, 10  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and /that/ every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ /is/ Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

*Jesus is **the state of being the case : fact-Jesus is the way it is*



*Jn 8:58*  58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was,  I AM.”

 

*Jesus is **the body of true statements and propositions-Jesus is the Spoken Word of God*  

* Jn 1:14*  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.

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*Jn 17:17*   17 Sanctify them by Your truth.

 *Your word is truth.*

*2 Cor.

11:10  *   the truth of Christ is in me

 

*Jesus is **the body of real things, events, and facts : actuality-past, present, future, spiritual, physical, mental, love, joy, peace, happiness, and hope*

*Eph.

4:21  *the truth is in Jesus:

 

 *Eph 6:14*  14 Stand therefore,  having girded your waist with truth,

 

*1 Pe 1:13*  13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and *rest /your/ hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;*

 

*Jesus is the Life*

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*1**life* \ˈlīf\ n

/pl/ *lives* \ˈlīvz\ [ME /lif,/ fr.

OE /līf;/ akin to OE /libban/ to live — more at live] bef.

12c

*1*     *a*      *: **the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body *

     *b*      *: **a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings*

     *c*      *: *an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

*2*     *a*      *: **the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual*

     *b*      *: *one or more aspects of the process of living 〈sex /life/ of the frog〉

 

 

*Jesus is** the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body*



*Lk 12:23*  23 Life is more than food, and the body /is more/ than clothing.



*Jn 1:4*   4  In Him was life, and  the life was the light of men.

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*Jn 3:15*   15 that whoever  believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.



* Jn 5:26*   26 For  as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have  life in Himself,

 

*Jn 5:20-21*   21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to /them,/  even so the Son gives life to whom He will.



*Mt 10:28-33*   28  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.

But rather  fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

29 Are not two  sparrows sold for a copper coin?

And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

30  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

/(as opposed to death)/

*Re 21:7-8*   8  But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in  the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

*Jesus is** the principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings*

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*Jn 1:3-4*  3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

4  *In Him was life*,



*Col 1:16-17  *16 For  by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or  dominions or principalities or powers.

All things were created  through Him and for Him.