There's Only One Way Home

". . . No man cometh to the Father but by Me"(John 14:6)

More than messages on temperance, more than

messages on church discipline, is the need for the

message of God's way of salvation.

Thank God, there is a way of salvation, there is a

way home, but there is only one way home to God. I

remember C.O. Johnson telling about a man who drove

into a town and stopped to ask a local boy the way to

the Post Office. The boy seemed quite confused, but he

began, "Mister, you go down this way three blocks and

turn to the right and go one block and turn left. . .No

sir, you can't get there that way. "He tried again, "Go

down this street four blocks and turn right, and go two

blocks and then turn left . . .No sir, you can't get

there that way." A third time he began, "Go down here

six blocks and turn right and go about four blocks and

then turn left . . . No sir, I'm sorry, but you just

can't get to the Post Office from here."

The world's greatest ignorance is on this subject:

How to get home to God, how to be saved and be sure you

are saved.

God has tried to make it simple in His Word, but

because of man's sin and depravity, he refuses to

receive the simple way. Therefore, we have a multitude

of confusing man-made ways of salvation. But, still,

there is only "one way home."

There are three reasons why men are so confused..

The devil wants you to be confused and works to that

end. Don't forget that the devil is the author of

confusion and doubt. He is the "father of lies." The

devil wants you to believe a lie and be dammed.

False ways are advertised and publicized more than the

true way. The writer of A Sunday School quarterly makes

the statement, "There are many ways to God." The writer

of a column in the Louisville Times says, "Nothing is

free, not even salvation, for one must be good to be

saved." Even in a child's Bible picture book the false

ways are advertised; commenting on the story of Lazarus

and Dives, it is said, "By and by the rich man died,

too. But the angels did not come to carry him to heaven

They paid no attention to him at all because he had not

been kind to others while he lived."

Now, let us see the evidence of the Word.

I

By Picture and Type The Old Testament Says, "There Is One Way Home To God."

I will give you three or four illustrations.

There was one door to the ark. "And the door of the

ark shalt thou set in the side thereof" (Gen.6:16).

This one door was a symbol of the one way of salvation.

The ark was approximately 547 feet long, 91 feet

broad, 54 feet high. It had over two acres of floor

space. By conservative estimate the ark cold carry

5.600 men and provisions. There were only "eight souls"

aboard, and the rest of the space was for animals. But

with all of its size and space, there was but one door.

The ark was a place of salvation and there was one

door in. When they were all in, God shut the door.

There is a picture of salvation and security.

There was one way of escape from the death angel

when he passed over Egypt (Ex.12). That was by putting

the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts of

the door. The first born of the Egyptians were slain.

The Jewish first born lived. "When I see the blood, I

will pass over you."

When the tabernacle was built at God's direction,

there was one gate to the tabernacle. Again God speaks

of the "one way home." This one gate gave the

Israelites a means of approach to God. There was no

other way.

There was one "altar of sacrifice in the tabernacle.

There was no approach to God save by this altar. There

is now but one altar of sacrifice. It is the place

where He Himself purged our sins. And in these few

examples we are merely touching the evidence of the Old

Testament.

II

By Pungent Statements The New Testament Writers Declare, "There Is One Way Home"

Call the roll of the inspired writers; hear Paul in

Romans 10:9 ". . . if thou shalt confess with thy mouth

the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that

God hath raised Him form the dead, thou shalt be

saved."

"For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that

not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works,

lest any man should boast" (Eph.2:8,9).

"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all

acceptation, that Christ Jesus come onto the world to

save sinners; of whom I am chief"(1 Tim.1:15).

The writer of Hebrews declares, "Neither by the

blood of goats and calves, but by the His own blood He

entered in once into the holy place, having obtained

eternal redemption for us"(9:12).

Hear John as he says, "He that hath the Son hath

life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not

life"(1 John 5:12).

Hear Jude: "Now unto Him that is able to keep you

from falling, and to present you faultless before the

presence of His glory with exceeding joy"(v.24).

Hear the apostle Peter: "Who His own self bare our

sins in His own body on the tree, that we, bring dead

to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose

stripes ye were healed"(1 Peter 2:24).

Our whole Bible shouts with a voice of thunder, "One

way home." And that is the way of salvation by grace

through faith in Christ.

Every other so-called sacred books of the world has

one refrain, salvation by works, whether it be the Veda

of he Brahmans of the Koran of the Mohammedans. Our

Bible is a protest against this from beginning to end.

We believe in good works, but they are the outcome

of a grateful heart. Good works are the fruits of our

faith.

Other books may have some good teachings and

philosophies, but God's Book declares that the way home

to God is by Christ Jesus who came into the world to

save sinners!

III

By Positive Declaration Jesus Says, "One Way Home" To The Father

"No man cometh unto the Father but by Me."

By Jesus we come to our eternal home. We come by

Christ, who said, "I am the door; by Me if any man

enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out,

and find pasture"(John 10:9).

We come by Christ, who said, "I am the good

shepherd; the good shepherd giveth His life for the

sheep"(John 10:11).

We come b Christ, who said, "I am the resurrection

and the life, he that believeth in Me, though he were

dead, yet shall he live" (John 11:25).

We come by Christ, who said, "I am come a light into

the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not

abide in darkness" (John 12:46).

If will avail you nothing to stand and knock at

Heaven's door if Jesus is not with you. He alone has

the key to admit you to the presence of the Heavenly

Father.

Whether rich or poor, educated or ignorant, cultured

or crude, Jesus must be your Saviour if you are to come

home. Whether you are a drunkard or a total abstainer,

whether moral or immoral, whether church member or

non-church member, there is only one way home, Jesus.

In His first coming He came to prepare us for the

place; in His present work in Heaven, He is preparing

the place for us; when He comes again, He will take us

to the place prepared.

Do you remember the story of John Howard Payne?

"Overtaken by misfortune, poverty, and sickness, John

Howard Payne went staggering down the streets of Paris

toward the garret where he slept. Darkness had fallen.

The sleet drove against his face and the cold pierced

his thin cloak. Suddenly, a door opened, and the light

streamed forth upon the street, the flow and warmth

perfuming all the air. Into the arms of the man who

stood upon the threshold, happy children leaped, while

the beaming mother held forth her babe. In a moment the

door closed, the light faded into darkness, and the

youth stood again in the sleet and cold, little

dreaming that what he was learning in suffering, he was

to teach in song. That night, shivering beside his

table, the youth lighted his candle, and though the

tears fell upon the paper within, like the rain upon

the street without, his heart went bounding across the

seas, for he knew there was no place like home. He saw

the old home stead again, crossed its sacred threshold,

saw again the warm smile of the mother long since dead,

heard his revered father's voice, heard the voices of

dear companions ringing across the green and felt the

home that once was behind him was now before him in

that Heaven where he should meet again those whom he

had loved and lost. And so, with streaming eyes and

leaping heart and shining face, he saw the vision

splendid and exclaimed, "There is no place like home,'

and sang of home

and Heaven.

"Mid pleasures and palaces tho we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,

Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met with

elsewhere.."

Receive Jesus now as your Saviour! He is the way home.