Only One Source

“Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68)

The Lord Jesus said some things that were hard for His followers to understand and accept. In John, chapter six, He spoke about eating His flesh and drinking His blood. He obviously did not mean that His followers would become cannibals who would eat His body. He was speaking about eternal life and faith in Him as the Savior. But when people misunderstood His words they stopped following Him. When they stopped following Him they cut themselves off from the only source of life and truth. As Peter said, Jesus alone has “the words of eternal life.”

The Word of God has for us a unique place and performs a unique function as the only existing revelation of God’s mind and will. Scripture is the only revelation of the mind and will of God available to us. It is only in and through scripture that we have any knowledge of or union with Christ, who is the image of the invisible God. In the days of His flesh the disciples had no understanding of Jesus, or faith in Him apart from His spoken word. In the same way we are wholly dependent upon their witness, which was anticipated and foreshadowed in the Old Testament, and was recorded in the New.

Without scripture we have no knowledge, faith, or fellowship with Him who is the brightness of the Father’s glory and the image of His being. We are as destitute of the Word of life as the disciples would have been if Jesus had not revealed Himself through His spoken word. We would be deprived not only of the knowledge, faith, and fellowship of the Son, but also of the knowledge and fellowship of the Father and the Spirit. Our dependence on scripture is total. We depend upon the message of scripture for every doctrine of our faith, for the redemptive truth that illumines our minds, and for every hope against the needs of time and eternity.

Scripture is absolutely unique. It is unique because it is the only way we come into relationship with God and enjoy His gracious redemption. We have no encounter with God, with Christ, or with the Holy Spirit in terms of saving and redeeming grace apart from scripture. It is the only revelation to us of God’s redemptive will.

Why do people seek to know God from other sources? Some imagine they can know God through their feelings and experiences. God can be experienced and felt, but how are you to know it is God that you are feeling? We human beings were made to experience God but how can we know what we are experiencing is God? People imagine that if it makes them feel good or happy it must be God. But sin makes the sinner feel good. Is sin God? Obviously not. The fact that people do not like what Jesus says does not mean that they can find God somewhere else. God can only be found in the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Holy Scriptures. Do not think you can find Him anywhere else.

To whom do you go?