Come to Me | I am the Way, the Truth, the Life
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Pastor Tim Brown unpacks one of Jesus' most profound declarations — Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life — and gets to the heart of what it means to follow Him. The Christian life is not a transaction with God, a performance for His approval, or a checklist of spiritual obligations. It's a relationship, and there's a sobering difference between knowing about God and truly knowing Him.
If you want to know what God is truly like, look at Jesus. His weeping at the tomb of His friend, His washing a betrayer's feet, His forgiving the condemned. He is a compassionate Father worth following, and worth knowing. Pastor Tim concluded with the most invitation to follow Jesus. In Him is life.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, if you could remain standing for the reading of God's word. |
| 0:05.8 | Today we're going to be in John chapter 14, verse 1 through 7. |
| 0:12.5 | This is the word of the Lord. It says, do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, |
| 0:16.8 | believe also in me. My father's house has many rooms. If that were not so, I would not have told you |
| 0:23.2 | that I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come |
| 0:28.8 | back and take you to be with me that you may also be where I am. You know the way to the place |
| 0:36.0 | where I am going. Thomas said to said to him Lord we do not know |
| 0:39.9 | where you are going so how can we know the way Jesus answered I am the way and the |
| 0:47.6 | truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me if you really really know me, you will know my father as well. |
| 0:57.6 | From now on, you do know him and you have seen him. This is the word of the Lord. |
| 1:04.2 | Upper East Side. Good morning. How are you guys doing? Good. Sounds like it's been an adventurous morning already. |
| 1:12.7 | Man, I appreciate you guys. My name is Tim. I serve as one of the executive pastors here, and it is such an honor to be here |
| 1:18.3 | with you. Recently, there was a man in our church who was baptized in the basement of our Upper West Side |
| 1:24.7 | location, congregation, Rodafshalom. |
| 1:32.4 | And he stood up to share his story of what life was like before he had met Jesus. |
| 1:38.9 | And he started by saying, I'm one of the last people in New York City that you would ever expect to get baptized. |
| 1:45.2 | And as I learned more about his story and saw his life from the outside, I'd have to agree. |
| 1:50.6 | He was a committed atheist, not the half-hearted kind, like the committed atheist. |
| 1:53.1 | Smart guy went to Harvard. |
| 1:55.6 | He landed this incredible career in finance. |
| 1:57.0 | He was intelligent. |
| 1:58.2 | He was driven. |
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