08/23/2026
“The Exclusivity of Jesus Christ” Sermon
John 14:6 NKJV
[6] “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Today we open our message from God's Word in the Gospel according to John, and once again we read these very controversial words spoken by the Word that became flesh, the pre-existing, second person of the Trinity, the prophesied Jewish Messiah, the propitiation for our sins, the Savior of the world: the Biblical Jesus Christ.
If you recall, a few years ago I delivered a series of sermons based on this singular verse as a means of encouraging discipleship among the Body of Christ here in this battle station of a church.
I pray that as a result of those messages we were all more motivated and further equipped to continue fulfilling the Great Commission of sharing the Gospel with non-believers and making disciples of new believers, because again, since eternal life is on the line for non-believers, there is nothing more important that we could be doing in this life.
Today, however, we return to this verse to discuss its literalism and its exclusivity, and how it is being criticized by my favorite cult of counterfeit Christians known as progressive Christians, who are famous for embracing the red letters only - but just so happen to reject these specific red letters, labeling them as non-inclusive, problematic and politically incorrect.
If you don't already know, these are not just words that they are rejecting, this is the Inerrant, Inspired and Authoritative Word of God that they are rejecting.
In a sense, these Godless liberals who cosplay as Christians may be right, this verse might just be the most non-inclusive and politically incorrect statement ever made by anyone, much less our Lord and Savior, but as a born again believer, The Holy Spirit within me fails to see how His words are problematic.
What I do see as problematic, fatally problematic is worshiping another Jesus, just as these progressives worship the Woke Jesus, the methamphetamine messiah, the saccharine savior, the illegitimate lord of this wicked and adulterous generation who isn't the exclusive path or any path to salvation because he isn't God in the flesh, and because he never sacrificed himself for our sins and therefore never resurrected, leaving humanity on their own to face the righteous judgment of God.
It must be thoroughly exhausting trying to force your own will and find another way to Heaven without respecting the sacrifice that only the Biblical Jesus Christ made for mankind, because He loves us and because He is indeed God.
And because He is indeed God, He is indeed the one and only gatekeeper to Heaven.
If Jesus Christ were not God, these criticisms against Him wouldn't be blasphemy, but He is and these examples that we will discuss shortly are indeed blasphemous.
And in full transparency, I have seen more and more satanic attacks on our introductory verse in this last year than I ever have.
This is most certainly a sign of the times which indicates that we are racing toward the end of the church age and setting the stage for the rise of the Anti-Christ during the Tribulation after the rapture of born again believers.
Because when he is revealed, the Anti-Christ will indeed perpetuate the lie that Jesus isn't the only way to Heaven, and at that point, there is no coming back.
While context always matters, a verse like our introductory verse honestly needs no setup because it is not metaphorical, it is not a parable, it simply says what it says.
Still, for a better understanding of the background of this verse, it should be noted that at the time Jesus spoke these words He was nearing the end of His ministry and preparing His disciples for the dramatic conclusion of their three plus years together.
In the previous chapter, Christ had just celebrated Passover with His disciples, and after sharing their Last Supper together, He washed their feet and announced that one of them was about to betray Him which led to Him once again alluding to His death, resurrection and imminent return as chapter fourteen begins:
John 14:1-5 NKJV
[1] “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. [2] In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. [4] And where I go you know, and the way you know.” [5] Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
Even at this point, many of the disciples still hadn't quite figured it out, like Thomas who states “Lord, we do not know where You are going,” and then asks "and how can we know the way?”
However, His disciples had still been taught the Gospel several times over and had at least figured out the essential components like sin, repentance, grace, faith and love, and they had a basic idea of eternal life.
Hence, as Christ answers Thomas by declaring “I am the way, the truth, and the life” He reveals the most essential and non-negotiable component of the Gospel which is His divinity, which confirms and completes the final component of the Gospel: eternal life.
In the Greek language, the two words put together, “I am" is a rather intense way of referring to oneself, and combining their knowledge of the Torah, the Jews at the time would have understood it to be a reference to God Himself.
In the Gospel according to John, it is recorded in a series of seven times that Christ uses the “I am” statement, again for the purposes of proclaiming that He is indeed God, and each time he made those ‘I am” statements He either referred back to the writings of the prophets in the Torah or he used Old Testament imagery that the Jews would have been familiar with in order to better their understanding.
As much as this drew certain people to Him in faith, these “I am" statements also infuriated the Jewish religious leadership of the Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes of the time who perceived Him as a threat to their established power and hence used His claim of divinity against Him, accusing Him of blasphemy, eventually convincing the Romans to crucify Him.
Again, note that Jesus didn't say “I am a way, a truth, and a life.”
Rather, He said “I am the way, the truth, and the life” as in, the only way, the only truth and the only life.
Therefore, combining the “I am” statement with the definite article, Jesus distinguishes Himself as “the only way” since again, disciples like Thomas had expressed their confusion about where He was going and how they could follow.
As He had told them from the beginning, Jesus was again telling them at this moment, just as He is telling all of us right now through His Word: “follow me.”
There is no other path to Heaven, no other way to the Father, and there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Acts 4:12 NKJV
[12] “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Next, when Jesus refers to the truth, just like He refers to the way, again He uses the definite article to emphasize Himself as “the only truth.”
Again, since He is God, the truth is manifest in the literal, physical person of Jesus Christ: the Author and Finisher of our faith.
Hebrews 12:2 NKJV
[2] “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Additionally, as God, Jesus is also the Author and Finisher of Scripture.
II Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV
[16] “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, [17] that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
Therefore, the truth is defined as the Word of God written in the flesh of Jesus Christ:
John 1:14 NKJV
[14] “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”
And the truth is also defined as the Word of God written in The Holy Bible, meaning that there is no other truth in this world than God's Word because it is not of this world:
John 17:17 NKJV
[17] “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
And just the same as the way and the truth, Jesus once again uses the definite article to establish Himself as “the only life.”
Again, at the time Christ delivered our introductory verse, He had just been preparing His disciples for His impending death - all the while claiming to be the source of all life.
Notably, earlier in John, Jesus declared that He was going to lay down His life for His sheep, and then take it back again, and what He was declaring was the authority over life and death that had been granted to Him by the Father.
John 10:17-18 NKJV
[17] “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. [18] No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
And a few verses ahead of our introductory verse in John chapter fourteen, after He once again reveals Himself as God in the flesh and promises that soon He will send the Helper, The Holy Spirit in His place, Christ gives the disciples and all believers everywhere in every generation the promise that “Because I live, you will live also.”
John 14:19-20 NKJV
[19] “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. [20] At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”
Of course the life that He was referring to is eternal life, which again is immediately imparted to every believer in this life by the grace of God the moment we place our faith in Jesus Christ.
John 5:24 NKJV
[24] “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”
Hence, as Jesus confirms His divinity by declaring “I am,” He reveals Himself as the only way to Heaven, He reveals Himself as the only truth in a world of lies under the influence and rule of the devil, and He reveals Himself as the only life, as in the only source of eternal salvation which begins through our faith in Him in this life.
And again, He stakes these claims because He is indeed the image of the invisible God, He is indeed the God of Creation, He is indeed the God of Abraham, He is indeed the God of every born again believer, and He establishes this baseline so the disciples would be empowered to face the dark days ahead and carry forward fulfilling the Great Commission of sharing the Gospel with non-believers and making disciples of new believers.
Of course, we know from Scripture that the disciples were still struggling with understanding His divinity, even after the resurrection, and it took up until after the ascension of Christ to shake them out of their disbelief, and this was finalized once The Holy Spirit began His ministry and indwelt them on the day of Pentecost, leading them to the truth, at which point they began to spiritually transform and the world has never been the same.
For those who have ears to hear, Christ confirmed His divinity by declaring “I am” during the first half of our introductory verse as a set up to the second half of the verse which is like a grand slam upon delivering it: “No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
This proclamation, this statement of ultimate authority, as I mentioned earlier, is gaining traction in today's world as the most non-inclusive statement ever, which it is indeed.
And that was the entire point.
He wouldn't say it if He didn't mean it, or if it weren't true, or if He weren't God.
Hence, it's very, very simple.
If “No one comes to the Father except through Me” is problematic for you, simply put, you are the problem.
And here's another on the spot litmus test, if you call yourself a Christian and you take issue with these literal words of Jesus Christ: “No one comes to the Father except through me,” you are not a Christian.
That self-inflicted conflict with Christ's words is the very pavement on the path of self-condemnation.
Christ literally died for those words, but that's only half of their true meaning.
What brought those words to life was His resurrection, literally.
And He is the only person in history to ever achieve anything like that, again because He is God.
We are all appointed to die in this life in the flesh, just as Christ did.
And after that, if we haven't met God in grace in this life, we will meet Him in judgment in the next, hence if we want to avoid that judgment tomorrow we need His grace today through our faith in Jesus Christ who resurrected after His sacrificial appointment with death to show us that He is indeed the only way to defeat eternal death.
To deny the exclusivity of Jesus Christ is to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ, which again, is exactly what the Jewish religious leadership of the time did and they crucified Him for their lack of belief.
Think about that for a moment because this is really heavy.
Christ was charged with blasphemy, but they crucified Him because they rejected Him as God.
And anytime a so-called Christian denies the exclusivity of Jesus Christ, they are crucifying Him all over again.
To deny the exclusivity of Jesus Christ is also a denial of the inerrancy and spiritual inspiration and authority of Scripture.
Again, the first step of rejecting the Word of God written in the flesh of Jesus Christ is rejecting the Word of God written in The Holy Bible.
The serpent's first lie in the garden was in the form of a question: “Did God really say that?”
Which is a loaded question because it is a question of God's authority.
And as soon as we question the authority of the Word of God in The Holy Bible we diminish the authority of the Word of God in the flesh of Jesus Christ.
And if our egos take us to that point, it would be a safe assumption to say that we do not have The Holy Spirit within us, much like the examples we are about to discuss.
The exclusivity of Jesus Christ is the literal core of the Gospel message.
You cannot have the Gospel without the main component of the Gospel: Jesus Christ.
Far too many churches and Pastors today are disputing the exclusivity of Jesus Christ and rejecting our introductory verse, and as a result they are deceiving people to Hell faster than Satan himself because they are effectively preaching another Jesus and a different Gospel.
II Corinthians 11:3-4 NKJV
[3] “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. [4] For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!”
Well, that subtle serpent has been loosed from the garden and has indeed corrupted many minds away from the simplicity that is in Christ by repeating the same first lie he deceived Eve with.
Again, that first lie came in the form of a question: “Did God really say that?”
And again, the answer is always Yes, Jesus really said that He “is the way, the truth, and the life,” and He wasn't speaking metaphorically, He was simply being literal because He is literally God.
Now, as a real Pastor who gives his blood, sweat and tears to preach the Gospel and who suffers for Christ who suffered for me, these following examples sicken me and I pray that God has mercy on these people, because I am fresh out.
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The following excerpt is from a sermon entitled: “Walk This Way: We Know The Way Enough” by Rev. Becca Messman, the Senior Pastor and Head of Staff at Burke Presbyterian Church in Virginia, delivered May 3rd, 2026:
“Let not your hearts be troubled.” That's what Jesus said to the disciples who probably didn't think that they were the ones letting this trouble into their hearts.
I mean, who starts their day saying, you know, today I plan on doing some errands, catching up on emails, and then really freaking out for a while?
I think this part of John it's important to remember that it happened in the upper room. And so no doubt their cortisol was spiking.
And so, how could he say, "Let not your hearts be troubled?" Well, then come some of the most beloved words in all of scripture.
Jesus speaks about preparing a place where they could be with him forever. Jesus had washed their feet. He had mentioned to them that there was a betrayer among them and then he had said that he was going away.
But his friends admit that they're baffled. "We don't know the way," they said.
“And he said I am the way, and the truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me.”
Now to our great detriment many interpretations just stop right there.
I know many of us hold this verse very close and rightly so, if there is something so true and precious in it.
But we also know when this verse has been used more like a gate than a gift, when the velvet rope goes up and suddenly these words spoken tenderly in a dark room to frightened friends become more of a weapon maybe wielded to tell grieving people that their Buddhist neighbor is not going to make it in. Or shouted through billboards or megaphones. The theological equivalent of a bouncer deciding who is in and who is out.
And here's the cruelty of that kind of reading: it takes the words that Jesus spoke precisely to comfort troubled hearts, and uses them to trouble hearts even further.”
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First off, that excerpt was from an epic 18 and a half minute sermon…
Wow, I hope she had enough time to take care of her other pastoral responsibilities…
Secondly, I'll say it: She's not a Pastor.
And since she is a progressive, I'd be surprised if she's actually a woman, or if she knows what a woman is.
Women are given by God just as important roles within the Church but they are different from men's roles, and Pastor isn't one of those roles.
While women are created by God to teach other women and children, and evangelize, they are not called to teach or have authority over men.
I Timothy 2:12-14 NKJV
[12] “And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. [13] For Adam was formed first, then Eve. [14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.”
No, God is not s*xist for this command, and neither is Paul.
Again, all gifts and roles are equal, just different.
I would submit that God gave the gift of childbirth to women because He knew that men couldn't handle it!
Regardless, she is a false teacher, but not because she is a woman, rather because her word salad is the theological equivalent of this recent epidemic of diarrhea lettuce.
The only flock that she is feeding with sermons like this are the parasites that infect our intestines.
Let's review this following quote from the excerpt we just read, in which she refers to our introductory verse, the words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6 as: “The theological equivalent of a bouncer deciding who is in and who is out.”
Well, I hate playing Captain Obvious but, “Yes! Jesus is indeed the bouncer deciding who is in and who is out!”
BECAUSE HE IS GOD!
BECAUSE HE SAID SO!
And thank God that Jesus does the deciding instead of any of us fallen beings.
And one more thing, she complains that this verse can be used as a weapon “to tell grieving people that their Buddhist neighbor is not going to make it in.”
Well, here's my question:
Did that pot bellied spoiled Indian prince who founded Buddhism while under the influence of the devil ever suffer upon the cross and sacrifice himself for the sins of the world and resurrect from death?
Jesus did not die on the cross just to be “a way” to Heaven.
To argue against the exclusivity of Jesus Christ because you don't want to hurt someone's feelings about their false beliefs that lead them straight to Hell is an insult to the pain that Christ bore, the blood that He shed and the life that He gave - in what should have been our rightful place upon the cross.
And the ultimate insult is that this is coming from a “Christian Pastor.”
Okay, while I reach for my blood pressure medication, here is our second helping of diarrhea lettuce for the day:
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The following except is from a sermon recently delivered by Rev. Nancy Jo Dederer of Circleville Presbyterian Church in Circleville, Ohio, and was posted on X on August 16th, 2026:
“I am the way, the truth and the life. That sounds pretty good. It's that second half of verse 6 that's problematic for some of us.
Jesus says no one comes to the father except through me. Now even though Jesus spoke these words to his closest of followers to give reassurance to them for their coming confusion and grief, that is not always how this verse is used today.
Too many times I've heard that verse in an exclusionary manner, “no one comes to the father except through me,” (spoken with a masculine tone) have you heard it that way? Tone matters, friends.
Many people quote this scripture in a narrow gatekeeping way. If you don't think about Jesus, talk about Jesus, believe about Jesus the same way I do, then you can't possibly be welcomed into my father's house.
You have to have the right language, the right rituals, the right songs, creeds, or when you die you're going to find a big “No Vacancy" sign set out for you at Heaven's gates.
I've even witnessed some people taking pleasure in speaking those words.
“I'm in, you're out.”
You might know some people like that, it's what they're striving for because their minds are firmly set on winning and they can't imagine God wanting anything different from them.”
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I'm literally fatigued by these cry baby liberals.
Note that she says: “Many people quote this scripture in a narrow gatekeeping way.”
What a joke.
Well, even though we already know this, let's test her words against the authority of God's Word which tells us that JESUS HIMSELF IS THE NARROW GATE!
Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV
[13] “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. [14] Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Okay, I'm done with these people, because they aren't people, they are demons hiding behind human skin hiding behind pulpits.
Let's just simplify this and follow the scriptural path and mark and avoid these heretical women, these faux followers, these imposter pastors, these “impastors.”
Romans 16:17-18 NKJV
[17] “Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. [18] For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.”
What these impastors are preaching is the false
Gospel of universalism where everyone is saved even if they don't believe in Jesus Christ.
Far too many people, even people who call themselves Christians, believe that all roads, all religions and all beliefs lead to Heaven, or they consider that God is so full of love and mercy that He will allow all people into Heaven.
This trash theology is simply the result of a vain imagination, a reprobate mind, a hardened heart due to avoiding accountability and running from our responsibility to repent.
God is certainly full of love and mercy because it was these qualities that led Him to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth to die on the cross for us, but that doesn't change the truth that Jesus Christ is the exclusive door, the narrow gate that leads to an eternity in Heaven.
In fact, it reinforces it.
If Jesus were not the exclusive way to heaven, God would not be a loving God, because He wouldn't be allowing anyone in but rather forcing His will upon us all.
Heaven is the most exclusive place ever.
And it has borders.
Everyone is invited but not everyone accepts the invitation, meaning that many are called but few are chosen because few choose to believe in Jesus Christ.
Matthew 22:14 NKJV
[14] “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Again, few choose to believe in Jesus Christ because they want to force their own will, and they especially want to avoid the first step of belief which is repentance.
Mark 1:15 NKJV
[15] “and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
These Presbyterian proponents of the false Gospel of universalism either want to completely bypass Jesus, or they want to worship another Jesus, a less controversial Savior, a Messiah of their own making, the “little g” god they made in their image rather than the “capital G” God who made them in His.
Thus is the issue with these branches of the Presbyterian Church, like the United Methodist Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, they are Godless liberals who call themselves “progressive Christians” who don't believe that God is the same today as He was yesterday and will be tomorrow, and most importantly they say they know Jesus but they deny His divinity and exclusivity, which makes them fools.
Romans 1:20-25 NKJV
[20] “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, [21] because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. [22] Professing to be wise, they became fools, [23] and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. [24] Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, [25] who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
At the end of the day, these perditious pastors are preaching a false Gospel of a false Christ and they have effectively not only cursed themselves but they have also cursed those who congregate within those dwelling places of demons that they call churches.
Galatians 1:6-9 NKJV
[6] I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, [7] which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. [8] But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. [9] As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.”
And of course, by obeying God's Word which tells us to test the spirits, we know that those false teachers who are cursed by preaching a false Gospel of another Jesus who isn't God in the flesh are possessed by the spirit of the Anti-Christ:
I John 4:1-3 NKJV
[1] “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. [2] By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, [3] and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
In closing, the exclusivity of Jesus Christ is not a “clobber passage” for born again believers to use against self-proclaimed non-believers or bogus believers like progressives, it is a literal invitation with very specific directions so that no one can get lost to the greatest event ever, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This verse is the Gospel because Jesus Christ is the Gospel, so please have ears to hear it, eyes to see it, minds to believe it and hearts to receive it.
And for those of us who already know it, again, if it's not us sharing the true Gospel of the Biblical Jesus Christ who is indeed God in the flesh, and who is indeed the only way, the only truth, and the only life, certainly no one else is.
And as we near the end, we must step into our ministries seriously and boldly, for what is coming after the rapture is the prophesied Day of the Lord, a seven year period of Hell on earth, “capital T” Tribulation, and the only escape is the definite article Himself, Jesus Christ.
Hence, in an effort to further equip this battle station of a church, from today forward, for the purposes of encouraging discipleship and continuing on our mission to fulfill the Great Commission, this verse, John 14:6, besides being immortalized in Scripture, will now also be immortalized on our official Stone Corral Community Church T-shirts!
Amen.
God bless you all and please know how much I love you all 🙏 ✝️ ❤️