We have received the same question from a number of listeners through email over the past

few weeks, and this is the question, Pastor John, is Jesus the only way to be saved?

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.

So Jesus himself is saying there isn't any other pathway to the Father except through

me.

And then Peter, later in the book of Acts, picks that up, he says, in Acts 4, 12, there

is no salvation in anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men

by which we must be saved.

And so Peter is taking Jesus' words and he is carrying them forward into the mission

of the church and saying, there isn't any other name out there on which you can call

in order to be saved.

And another amazing way Jesus addresses this, it seems to me, is that he makes the embrace

of himself as the crucified and risen Messiah, the litmus test of other religions.

So if you are talking with somebody who has their set of religions and you want to test

to see whether they have saving faith, what you do is you put Jesus and His fullness out

on the table for them to see and see if they will embrace Jesus because Jesus said, you

know neither me nor my Father.

If you knew me, you would know my Father also, if you knew me, you would know my Father

also.

In other words, knowing me is the condition of truly knowing my Father, namely God, the

creator of the world.

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