We are going to continue to look at Jesus’ resume today and see why he alone could say, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

As we turn to page two of Jesus resume, the page is entitled miracles. You do realize that very few of Jesus’ miracles were done without a large audience. Our gospel reading, Mark 5:21-43, illustrates a time when Jesus healed in front of a great crowd and a time when he healed with just a few. (review the account) For the most part, people saw the miracles. They weren’t done in a vacuum, or a hidden closet but in the laboratory of the public eye. Jesus performed the miracle of feeding the five thousand right in front of the five thousand. Jesus changed the water into wine right there at the wedding. These weren’t covert operations. The were examples of love in action.

Part 3. His life. If you look at the leaders of other religions you might be shocked to find such thing as immorality. Like Mohammad marrying a

Part 4 Death of Jesus. It was a horrible death. There was no crime committed but a claim to be the son of God a claim of blasphemy. Don’t you think if what Jesus said and stood for were false, he would have said so. Like maybe when the soldiers were stretching his arms out and getting ready to pound in the nails. Don’t you think he would have said before he went through this nerve wrenching pain he would have confessed and said, “I was only joking. I’m really just a carpenter’s son, a construction worker. Sorry you took this so seriously. This is not a good way to spend a Friday. But he never backed down from the claim.

The final part of the resume is his resurrection. The acid test of deity is to conquer death don’t you think. To conquer his own death. On Easter morning the tomb is empty. Maybe his enemies stole it. Perhaps. But when the disciples started to tell others about the resurrection and people started to follow. Don’t you think the enemies could just the body and squelch this teaching. How about the disciples stealing his body. But history tells us that at left 10 of the 11 left died a martyr death for proclamation of the resurrection. Dying for a life? I don’t think so. At least one of the ten would have cracked. “Let me show you the body.” But it never happened because they didn’t have the body. There were hundreds of eyewitnesses to Jesus after his resurrection. How about the other religions? No other religions founder claims to conquer the grave. Muhammed, Buddha still in the grave. Jesus backs up his claim “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” by the resurrection.

But isn’t it arrogant to say that he is the only way. Maybe some Christians are arrogant by the way the say and act. But Christians have no reason to be arrogant. We are all on the same sinking boat of sin. We are saved by grace, undeserved love. We don’t make the claim, Jesus did. As we review back over the resume of Jesus do we see arrogance? No, we see someone who puts the needs of others before his own. When he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” It was out of arrogance but out of compassion. Our sin separates us from God. For Jesus not to tell us “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” would not be loving and compassionate. He would haven’t done us any favors.

Here is the deal. If all that we needed was a religious system to make us better people that would be fine but you and I don’t need a religious system but a Savior. Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people alive. We are sinners not in need of a system but a Savior but Jesus is unique, a one and only, the Savior with the name above all names. The only name that leads to heaven. Amen.