The Way, The Truth, The Life

Well, we’re going to get into the Word this morning. I’m going to have you turn to John chapter 13 and 14 this morning. John 13 and 14. And I wanted to just kind of ask: who here is good at following driving directions? We got some. Let me ask you this: who’s good without GPS?

Rerouting

So I grew up and I got my license and there was no GPS. It didn’t exist. So I’m dating myself there. Then you got this thing called MapQuest, where you could print out directions to where you were going, but you had to check off as you were going on the piece of paper that you made the turn. And if you made the turn, you’re like, “Did I miss it?” And you’re counting down miles, right, to make sure you don’t miss a turn.

Then GPS comes around, and I’m still always amazed to this day by people where you might say, “Hey, where’s this at?” And they’ll be like, “Oh, it’s two blocks south.” And then you go north, and I’m like, “What?” I have not been gifted with that sense of direction where you can say, “Go north for two blocks and then go west.” And I’m like, “That way?” You know what I mean? And so it’s one of those things that if you don’t have the gifting, it can be very easy to get lost.

I’m sure some of you have seen it, but The Office episode where they’re following the GPS, and he’s so dedicated to following the GPS, he turns right into a lake, right? He’s like, “It says turn right.” And he goes into a lake. I think that’s where some of us end up. When I talk to the students that I coach, it’s like, “Yeah, I don’t go anywhere without GPS, even in my own hometown.” Everything is GPS. You just have to be gifted with this sense of direction.

And I think if you have a modern car or if you have a smartphone and you’re using directions, you can pull up in your maps exactly where you want to go, and it really can be anywhere in the world, and it will give you step-by-step instructions, and there will be this voice that assists you along the way. And the voice always makes me chuckle a little bit, because it’s a very patient voice. You can be driving and you can miss the turn five times in a row, and what does it say? “Rerouting. Rerouting.” And then it just gives you the next command: “Turn left.” And then you miss it, and it says, “Rerouting, rerouting, rerouting,” right?

I love that word, because what it means is you are off course, and so here is a new way to get back to where you’re actually trying to go. And the voice never yells. It never scolds you. I think it’d be funny if the AI or the computer voice would sometimes be like, “I thought I told you to turn left,” right? Gets a little frustrated. But it never does. It’s patient, and it always helps you find the way back.

But sometimes — how many of you know — there are things in life where you can feel lost, and there is no GPS that’s going to help you find your way back. Where you get off course and there’s not a clear answer. And in fact, there’s hundreds of answers, hundreds of voices telling you what you should do, but there’s not this way that’s settled in your spirit or settled in your heart of how do I find my way back home.

And what most of us do when we’re lost is we just pick a road and we just trust it. Right? “I don’t know where I’m supposed to go. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. So I’m just going to do this.” And oftentimes we’ll pick the safest option. We might lean on our education. We might lean on money, right? So we’re just going to make as much money as we can, and then we kind of always have a way out. Or we might lean on a relationship. There are lots of directions in life that we can go, but they never actually fully get you home.

And so I want to talk today — and we’ve been talking over the past several weeks, we’ve been looking at Jesus’ “I Am” statements. And He’s been answering in different ways an ache that we all feel in some way. He’s the bread for our hunger. He’s the light for the darkness. He’s the door into the safe place. He’s the shepherd who doesn’t run from the wolf. And last week we talked about how He is the resurrection and the life, from the things that we fear most.

But this morning I want to look at how He answers probably one of the questions we ask most often in the daily life of the believer: “Where do I go now? What am I supposed to do?” And what I love about Jesus is He doesn’t just give us self-help. How many of you know church and sermons are not about self-help? They’re not just good values. We’re digging into the Word of the Lord and where God is speaking to us. Jesus doesn’t just give us directions. He doesn’t just hand us the instructions. He gives us something so much better. He gives us Himself. And that’s the most precious gift. Isn’t that everything we were singing about? Amen.

We’re going to spend most of our time in John 14 this morning, but before we get into the Word, I just want to pray. Lord Jesus, we thank You for Your Word. Lord, it is food for us. Lord, it’s what we need. Even when we don’t really feel like it, Lord, it’s exactly what we need. And Lord, You know where every person in this room is at. You know the things that we face. You know the decisions at hand. And Lord, I pray that You would speak to us today. Speak to every heart by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Lord, that You would speak a word so clearly that it would be settled in us. Lord, that it would be faith, that it would be food, that it would be nourishment, and Lord, that it would be wisdom for our lives. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

And so if you have your Bibles, go to John 13 and 14, and we’re going to lead up into chapter 14 this morning, because in order to really feel what Jesus says in John 14, we have to first know where He’s saying it from. What is His posture? What is He just coming off of? And for those of you that don’t know where this is in the book of John, this is the night before the cross.

Jesus and His disciples had just eaten the Last Supper together. They did not necessarily know that this was the Last Supper, even though Jesus was making it very plain. But in John 13:30, Jesus hands Judas a piece of bread. Judas takes the bread, and then it says that he, “having received the piece of bread, went out immediately. And it was night.” And the men who were left with Jesus, His remaining disciples, are about to have the worst night of their life, and Jesus knew it. He knew what they were about to go through. He knew what He was going to go through, but He also cared about what His disciples were about to go through. Somebody say amen.

A few verses later, Peter, who loves Jesus — he gets a bad rap sometimes because he speaks out loud quite often, but how many of you know Peter loved Jesus? He loves Jesus, and he asks Jesus the question that the whole room had been sitting on. He says, “Lord, where are You going? You keep saying that You’re not going to be with us. You keep saying You’re going somewhere. Where are You going?”

And Jesus looks at Peter in verse 38, and I want you to look at this. John 13:38. Jesus says, “Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times.” Jesus tells Peter, “Where I’m going, you can’t go.” And Peter protests, saying, “Lord, I will lay my life down for Your sake.” And what does Jesus respond with? He says, “Will you actually lay your life down for Me? Most assuredly” — “verily, verily,” some translations say. He’s saying this is as sure as it gets — “I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied Me three times.”

Now, I want you to just stop right there, because this is the last verse in chapter 13. How many of you know in the original Bible there were not chapters and verses? Those were put there for our benefit so that we could study Scripture, so that we could follow along. And for the most part, it’s actually done very well. But there was no break between the last verse in chapter 13 and the first verse in 14. And so Jesus is saying the rooster will not crow till you have denied Me three times. And I want you to notice the very next words out of Jesus’ mouth — to a man that He just said would deny Him, to a room that includes the one who’s going to doubt Him and the ones who are going to scatter.

Let not your heart be troubled

I want you to notice Jesus’ words in verse 1. He says, “Let not your heart be troubled.” I love that, because Jesus doesn’t go to Peter — if I knew someone was about to betray me, I’m going to be a little bit bothered. Has anybody been betrayed before? Lied about? Right? Nothing hurts worse than when someone betrays you. And here’s Jesus. He’s not looking at Peter and saying, “Peter, you’re going to deny Me. I am certain of it, you are going to deny Me.” And I can only imagine what Peter senses in that moment — the one who loves Jesus, by the way. “What do You mean?”

And Jesus looks at Peter and says, “Let not your heart be troubled.” He could see Peter’s heart breaking in front of Him, because Jesus was speaking the truth. This is going to happen. But let not your heart be troubled. He’s saying, “When you deny Me, don’t let it take you out. Don’t let it get you off course. That’s not what I want for you. You are going to betray Me. You are going to let Me down.” But what does He say? “Let not your heart be troubled.” Not, “Get it together, Peter. How dare you, Peter? You should be ashamed, Peter.” He says this statement, “Let not your heart be troubled,” to a room that was about to betray Him, that was about to fail Him — the ones that He was closest to. Jesus says, “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.”

I love how Jesus does not scold them for being troubled. I think sometimes, especially in the charismatic circles, we can feel a little bit guilty when we feel unsettled. When we feel shaken, we feel like our faith isn’t strong enough, our faith isn’t good enough. But I love how Jesus doesn’t scold them for feeling troubled.

The Greek word for “troubled” here means to be stirred up. It means to be agitated, like the waters in a storm. Have any of you ever been out on a canoe or a kayak in rough waters? I remember taking a trip up to the Boundary Waters with my dad, and it was so windy. And wouldn’t you know, we’re trying to get to our campsite, and the whole way the water’s just beating against us. And you’re rowing and you’re rowing, and your canoe’s full of your stuff because we’re going to be out in the middle of nowhere for the next seven days. I remember getting to the campsite, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more exhausted. And we were all just trying to get the fire going so we could get some calories in our body.

To be stirred up means it’s like angry waters, unsettled. And Jesus knows exactly this feeling, because the exact same word is actually used for Him in the book of John. Scripture says that Jesus was troubled at Lazarus’s tomb. We talked about that last week. He was stirred up. He was feeling troubled, agitated. He was troubled in spirit at the very table where they had their last meal together. So He’s not commanding a feeling that He’s never had. When He says, “Let not your heart be troubled” — how many of you know there were times where Jesus felt troubled?

And so Jesus is inviting them to bring the storms, to bring the troubled heart, to bring the agitated heart to the right person. And look at the cure that He offers: “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” How many of you know the cure for a troubled heart is not to try harder? It’s not to follow rules. It’s not a technique. It’s not “think positive.” The cure for a troubled heart is “believe also in Me.” And Jesus puts Himself in the same sentence as God. The answer to a troubled heart is a person — with a capital P — that you can trust. Amen.

A place prepared for you

And verse 2 says, “In My Father’s house are many mansions.” He’s trying to bring assurance to them. He’s about to tell the disciples, “This is what I’m going to go do. I’m going away, and where I go, you cannot go right now. So where am I going to be in the meantime?” Jesus says, “In My Father’s house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would not have told you.” Jesus is saying, “I cannot lie. If it was going to be bad, I would tell you, but I’m telling you it’s going to be good.” And notice this last line: “I go to prepare a place for you.”

So first, Jesus is saying, “I’m leaving to prepare a place for you.” The Greek for “mansions” here means dwelling places. It means rooms, a place to stay. The same Greek word shows up a few verses later when Jesus says the Father and the Son will make our home with the one who loves Him. In other words, heaven’s rooms and the home God makes in you are the same word. So Jesus is not just building you a house. How many of you know Jesus is preparing a home for you?

Second, Jesus says, “If it were not so, I would not have told you.” How many of you know this is Faithful and True talking? This is the one who does not lie. He’s saying, “You can stop bracing. You can stop being in fear, because if it wasn’t going to be good, I would tell you.”

So Jesus is leaving. He’s telling His disciples in this difficult moment, where their hearts are breaking because the one that they love is about to leave. And Jesus is saying things like, “It’s to your advantage that I go.” I don’t know about you, but I’d be pretty confused. “You’re the greatest thing to ever happen. How is it to our advantage?” Number one, Jesus said, “I’m going to send My Helper, the Holy Spirit.” How many of you know the Holy Spirit is a sign and a seal that Jesus is on the throne? Amen. But He also said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” His leaving is not abandonment. His leaving is a work that He’s doing. He’s going to prepare a place for you.

Look at verse 3. He says, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again.” How many of you know Jesus is coming again? You’ve got to keep that in mind. “I will come again and I will receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” Jesus is coming to receive you to Himself. Not to a system, not to a cloud in the sky, not to a reward ceremony — to Himself. How many of you know the center of heaven is a person, with a capital P? And the promise is this: that where I am, you will be also.

When I think about this, that Jesus is the one going to prepare a place for me, I can’t help but wonder: if Jesus is the one who has created all things by the word that He has spoken, if He created all things in six days, how much more has He gotten done since He spoke these words? And I don’t know exactly what it’s going to look like, but I do know who He’s building it for. He’s building it for you. He’s preparing it for me. Somebody say amen.

Verse 4 says, “And where I go you know, and the way you know.” I always got so irritated when I would ask my teacher a question in school and they would be like, “You know this.” And I’m like, “I promise you I don’t.” “No, you know this. I want you to think really hard. We talked about this.” And I’m like, “I do not know, otherwise I would not be asking.” And here’s Jesus saying, “Where I go you already know, and the way you know.”

Jesus is correct when He says, “You already know the way.” But they hear this and they’re like, “What are You talking about? I don’t know the way. I thought You were the one with the answers. Aren’t You teacher? Aren’t You Rabbi?” You see, they know the way because they’ve spent three years walking with the Way. The way isn’t just information that you can lose. My family got to the point where they got tired of me losing my things, so now I have these AirTags on things. Jesus doesn’t give us information that we can lose. It’s a relationship that you’re already in. Somebody say amen.

When you are quietly lost

Verse 5: “Thomas said to Him.” You know Thomas — he got the nickname Doubting Thomas from a later scene. But how many of you know Thomas loved Jesus too? “Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where You’re going. And how can we know the way?’” This is a man who loves Jesus, but how many of you know this man who loved Jesus was completely lost in the moment? And he admits it out loud in front of everybody. “Lord, I don’t know what You mean. I don’t want to miss this. Can You tell me the way? Because You’re saying I know the way, but I assure You I don’t know.”

And notice Jesus doesn’t rebuke him. He’s about to give him the answer. He already has given him the answer, but He’s about to lay it out more plainly. But some of you here may have been quietly lost over the past few years, and you’ve never admitted it. You’ve never said it. You’re a believer. You love God. You love Jesus. But for some reason, you feel like you’re a little bit lost. You don’t know what direction to go. You don’t know the decisions to make. You believe that God has a plan for your life, but you don’t know how to get to the plan.

I don’t know about you, but I like it when the instructions are clear. Anybody else? But Jesus doesn’t give us instructions except “believe in Me.” And so, just like Thomas, many of us at times go through life and we feel lost. And we don’t want to admit it, because if you were a real believer, you should know the way by now. But how many of you know the people who find the road are the ones who are willing to come to Jesus and say, “Help me find the way. Lord, help me find You”?

Something powerful that I remember someone brought to my wife and me: we were kind of working through some past hurts, disappointments. And we would picture that moment, and then in that moment, when we were in that dark place, that hurt, that wound, they said, “I want you to pause and tell me: where was Jesus?” And we would be like, “He was there.” Well, He’s always there. Not oftentimes — we began to realize that He was there every single time. That He never did leave. That He never turned His face. That He was there.

And I’m so thankful that we serve a God who doesn’t control us like puppets. And how many of you know, because of that, there are going to be times where people hurt you. There are going to be times where people let you down. There are going to be times where people abuse you because of their own insecurities. But that’s not Jesus’ heart. What He does promise is He says, “Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in Me.” In other words, Jesus is the answer for your hurt. He’s the answer for your wound. And He’s the answer when you feel lost, because He is the way.

The way, the truth, and the life

Notice Jesus’ answer. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” I want to break this down really quickly into three parts, because each one of these statements that Jesus makes answers a different kind of lost.

Jesus says, “I am the way.” He does not say, “I’ll show you the way.” He doesn’t say, “I know the way.” He doesn’t say, “I have a way.” Jesus says, “I am.” There are plenty of times where I can have a map in my hand and I still get lost. The map can be accurate. You can have it in your hands. You can be looking right at it, but you still get off course. But how many of you know a map can’t walk with you? A person can. In fact, before early believers were ever called Christians, they were actually called the Way. The first name the church ever had for itself was Jesus’ own word about Himself: “I am the way.” Hebrews 10:20 calls Jesus “a new and living way.” He is the way.

Jesus says, “I am the truth.” How many of you know Jesus is not a doctrine? He’s a face that you can know. Not long after this conversation that Jesus is having with His disciples, where He says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” — just hours after this conversation, Jesus is going to come face to face with Pilate. And Pilate, the governor, is going to stand in front of Him and say, “What is truth?” And I want you to consider that for a moment: Pilate asked that question to the very face of Truth, and he walked away without waiting for the answer.

We live in a world that sells thousands of versions of what is real, that will sell you thousands of versions of what is true, and a feed that will serve whichever one you’re craving. But how many of you know you cannot swipe your way to what is true? John 1:17 says grace and truth came through the person Jesus Christ. Grace and truth in the same person, which means the truth about you and the grace that’s coming toward you come in together. So when you are in life and you’re confused, and there’s too many voices coming at you and you don’t know the answer, I am telling you, Jesus is saying, “This is the answer. Believe in Me, because I am the way, the truth, and the life.”

Jesus says, “I am the life.” If we just look for a moment at this whole series: He’s the bread of life. He’s the light of life. He’s the door into life more abundantly. He’s the shepherd who lays down His life. He’s the resurrection and the life. And now Jesus is saying, “You know what? I am the life.” Every “I Am” statement has been circling this word. And so this is the answer to the longing of every person’s soul: “Is this really all that there is?” It’s the answer to the person who’s functioning on the outside but is empty on the inside. First John 5:12 says, “He who has the Son has life.” Notice it doesn’t say he who has the Son is going to survive and barely make it through life. No, he who has the Son has what? Life. Say it together: life.

One door, open to whoever

Jesus says, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Some of us hear that, and in the year of our Lord 2026, that sounds like a narrow way of thinking, because many of us love someone who thinks something different. And this verse can feel like the door is being slammed shut on them, because Jesus is saying, “I’m the only way.” And there’s a lot of people that will say, “I don’t like that way.” But that doesn’t change what Jesus said. And aren’t you thankful that He made a way?

After the cross, not many days later, Peter speaks to the people who put Jesus on the cross, the ones that yelled, “Crucify Him.” Peter begins to preach after the Holy Spirit was poured out. And in Acts 4:12, Peter says, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Paul says it in 1 Timothy 2:5: “There is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.”

Jesus is speaking to a confused man who just wanted directions. Thomas is asking a very real, a very human question, and the answer wasn’t a lecture. It was Him. And so is there really only one road to eternal life, to true life? And the answer is yes. There is only one way.

But I want you to remember: Jesus is the door. And Jesus said what? “If anyone enters by Me.” Sounds like a pretty wide door to me. Even though there’s one door, how many of you know it’s a pretty big door? Because it’s open to anyone and everyone. It doesn’t matter your background. It doesn’t matter your culture. It doesn’t matter your traditions. All that matters is: will you say yes when Jesus says, “Believe in Me. Will you say yes to Me?” Jesus is the door. He says, “If anyone enters by Me.”

Romans 10:13 says, “Whoever” — everybody say “whoever.” If you’re a whoever, can you just raise your hand for a moment? Okay, great. It says, “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” So let me tell you this: the gospel is not narrow. The gospel is not exclusive. It’s for everyone. All it takes is a heart that says, “Yeah, I believe in Jesus. That He is the way, that He is the truth, that He’s the life — for me to have life now with Him and to have life with Him forever.” Somebody say amen.

We’re going to close in just a moment. But I want you to consider this final thought, because here’s the reality: every road that this world has to offer will tell you to climb. But this is the only road that actually came down. I want you to think about that. Every other religion, every other god is going to ask you, “You’ve got to get higher.” But Scripture says, “God so loved the world” — “I’m coming for you Myself.” There is no God like our God. There is no one like Jesus. Come on, if you agree, say amen. That’s a praise moment. There’s no one like Jesus. There’s no one more wonderful.

You come into His presence — there’s no one more beautiful. When His glory surrounds you and we lift up our praise to the Lord, you can sense the Lord is here. He’s right with me. Scripture says, “Where two or more are gathered, I am there with them.” How many of you know that’s the power of the gathering together of the saints? Because He promised it. Which tells you He wants us to be together. He wants us to gather together, to encourage one another, to pray with one another, to care for one another. Amen? Why? Because He says, “When you do it, I’m going to be right there with you, and I have everything that you need.” Amen?

Have I been with you so long?

Verse 7. Jesus says, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Notice: from now on. Because you know that I’m the way, from now on, you know Him. How can you know the Father? Look at the Son. How can you know God? Look to Jesus, because He is the way, the truth, and the life.

Verse 8: “Philip said to Him, ‘Lord, show us the Father.’” Just do it already. Do you see how impatient we can get? “Lord, just let Your promise come to pass. Lord, let Your blessing just come to my life. Then I’ll praise You. Then I’ll worship You.” How often do we match this tone, where we get impatient with the one who loves us, the one who saves us, the one who cleanses us, the one who gave everything?

And I want you to notice how Jesus answers with a tenderness. In verse 9 it says, “Jesus said to him” — He doesn’t lose His patience. I lose my patience. We all lose our patience. I’d be like, “You ungrateful —” But “Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you still don’t know Me? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. So how can you say, “Show us the Father”?’” If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.

Saying yes to the way

Can we just lift our hands to the Lord? Lord Jesus, open our eyes to see You. Open every eye, Lord, that we would know You, that we would be wrecked by Your love for us, that we would never be the same. Lord, when we see You, everything changes. Lord, our values change, the way we think changes, the way we talk changes. Lord, everything changes, because in You we have life. In You we have hope. In You we have truth. You are the way, the truth, and the life. Lord, You are everything. You are the way that leads home.

And the whole time that we look for directions, the whole time we look for other solutions because we just don’t want to bend, we don’t want to actually yield our lives, we don’t actually want to fully say yes, to fully commit to You — Lord, when we’re panicking, when we’re troubled, You never turn Your face from us. You are the faithful one who loves us with an everlasting love.

Just tell Him right now, say, “Jesus, I love You and I thank You.” Come on, you can’t go wrong saying those words: “Jesus, I love You and I thank You.”

Let’s stand together. Keep our heads bowed. And I just want to bring the invitation this morning. With every head bowed and every eye closed, if you’re here today and you feel lost, and you’ve been too embarrassed to say it, but you know something’s off — “I’m not quite on the right track. I believe in God. I believe that Jesus has saved me, but I haven’t really been looking. I’ve been looking at my own things. I’ve been doing it my own way” — and as a result, you’re lost, because you picked a road rather than going to the Way, rather than following the Way.

And I just want us to ask the Holy Spirit, “Lord, what road have I been trusting more than You? What roads have I been following besides You?” And just sit there and let the Holy Spirit speak to you right now.

What have I relied on? The degree, the paycheck, the relationship, the habit, the version of religion that was given to me, the version of religion that I invented from the parts that I like? If you are lost, know He is the way. He’s the only way. Look to Jesus. He’s there. In your darkest moments, He’s there. And what pains your heart pains His. What breaks your heart breaks His.

And I pray right now over every person that you would know the love that He has for you. The love that is in this room for you. The love that is in this moment saying, “I love you. I gave Myself for you so that you could be with Me. I’m making a place for you in anticipation that you will say yes to Me.”

And then, if you’re here and you’re troubled in heart, I want you to hear today what the Lord is still speaking. It’s the same words that He said to the eleven, to His disciples: “Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in Me.” If your heart is agitated, if your heart is fearful, if there are storms brewing, if there’s anger there, ask the Holy Spirit, “What would it look like to believe Him about this? What would it look like to believe Him about this situation, about this pain?” Not to fix it, but to actually just trust Him with it. Ask the Lord. Come on. “Lord, I believe. Lord, I believe in You.” Thank You, Jesus.

And if you’re here and you’ve never stepped onto the road at all — maybe you’ve been near it, maybe you’ve been around it, maybe you’ve been watching it — I need you to know that this morning the Way is standing right in front of you. And He’s not handing you a map. He’s offering you Himself. Today is the day to say yes to Jesus.

So Lord, Father, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You, Lord, that You don’t hide the road from us. Lord, You sent Your Son to walk the road in front of us, and then You gave us Yourself. Holy Spirit, You’ve been speaking in the quiet these last few minutes, and we ask You to finish what You started, Lord. For the one who named the road that they’ve been trusting more than You, let them feel how gently You’re calling them out of that road. Lord, to the one who is troubled in their heart, the ones whose hearts are broken, the ones who are shaken, Lord, that they would hear Your words: “Let not your heart be troubled; believe in Me.” And Lord, I pray that that would land as peace today, because it’s who You are. It’s what You offer, Lord Jesus. Help them believe You about the things that we cannot fix.

And Lord, for those who have been near You but never stepped onto the road, that have never said yes to the way, to the truth, to the life — this is their moment. Lord, I pray that we would never talk ourselves out of what You are leading us into. Draw them, Father, the way You said You would. Draw them the way only You can draw. You are the way, the truth, and the life.

And for everyone who is here today that says, “I’m saying yes to Jesus. I’ve said yes before, but guess what? I’m going to say yes again.” Maybe, “I’ve not said yes before. I’m going to step in and believe and trust that this is what God has prepared for me, and I’m going to say yes to Him today.” I pray today that each person here would give Jesus their yes. “Yes, I believe in You. Yes, I believe that You are the Son of God. Yes, I believe that You love me. And that doesn’t mean my life’s perfect. This world is broken and full of darkness because of the consequence of sin, but Lord, You are perfect in every way. You’ve defeated death. You’ve offered me new life. I will say yes.”

So can we just lift our hands and just say, “Yes, Lord”? Say yes to Jesus. And just repeat this in a voice loud enough for the person next to you to hear. And I’m going to ask that we pray this in faith, believing in Him — that He is who He says He is, and that in Him we have life.

Just say, “Lord Jesus, I’ve sinned against You. Forgive me. Cleanse me. You are the Lord, the Son of the living God. I believe that You died on the cross for my sin, and You rose from the grave, and that You are alive, and You are coming back. So today I give my life to You. I reject the world. I reject the other roads. I reject the devil, and I declare my heart belongs to Jesus. And I am born again, a new creation, a follower of Jesus from this day forward. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

Thank You, Lord. If you’re here and you need prayer, we’re going to dismiss in just a moment, but we’re going to have people available to pray with you. If you need healing in your body, if you need healing in your mind, whatever it is, if you need provision, let us stand in prayer and agreement with you.

And let me just pray. Lord Jesus, we thank You again. Lord, I pray over every person that as we leave this place, we would leave exalting the name of Jesus, the name that is above every name. Lord, let Your name be the song that we sing, in our coming and in our going, because You are our hope, You are our peace, You are our joy, You are our life. We give You glory. In Jesus’ name. If you agree, say amen.

Transcribed from the message recording and lightly edited for reading.