John 14:5-7 - Homiletics

Thomas's questioning.

It turned upon the ability of Christ to bring the disciples to the end of the way.

I. THOMAS 'S OBSCURITIES . " Lord , we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?"

1. He imagined that the Messiah ' s reign was to be on earth . Where, then, could be the royal home to which the Messiah was about to depart, and into which he was to gather his saints?

2. The question illustrates the peculiar temper of a disciple who is not destined to receive the higher blessing of those who "have not seen , and yet have believed ."

II. OUR LORD 'S SOLUTION OF THOMAS 'S DIFFICULTIES . "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." The answer is larger than the question. To know Christ is to know the goal and the way to it.

1. Jesus is the Way to heaven .

"No man cometh to the Father, but by me."

2. Jesus is the Truth .

3. Jesus is the Life .

4. The Father is the End of the way . "No man cometh to the Father, but by me." Christ's mediatorship is an essential fact in Christianity.

5. The manifestation of Jesus is the manifestation of the Father . "If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." This manifestation will be fuller as the day of Pentecost is at hand, with its shower of spiritual blessings and its wide enlargement of knowledge.