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The Way Out



John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

On a recent family trip to London, England our family spent a lot of time riding the tube (train) to different sights in the city.  I noticed at each train station the signs did not read “exit,” but read, “Way Out.”  I began to think about how Jesus is our “way out.”

Jesus is the “way, the truth, and the life.” He is the way to salvation and deliverance.  In Acts 4:12 Peter revealed, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”  In Luke’s Gospel we learn of Jesus mission, “for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Jesus is our way out.  The moment you receive Christ you are born again.  You experience forgiveness and a way out of guilt and shame. In Genesis 3:8, Adam and Eve hid from God when He came to the garden in the cool of the day. Proverbs 28:13 reads, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”

Sin brings condemnation. Romans 8:1 reads, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”  The word “condemnation” is a judicial term.  When an individual is condemned in a court of law there is an expected penalty.  The Commentary Notes on Romans 8:1 from the Full Life Study Bible reads, “freedom from condemnation, victory over sin, and fellowship with God come through union with Christ by the indwelling Holy Spirit."[i]

Jesus is our way out of the bondage of sin.  We learn in John 8:34, “Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.”  Jesus is our way out of the bondage sin produces.  John 8:36, “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”  Paul wrote to the Galatians, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”  How do we experience the way out of the yoke of bondage?  Jesus is the way out.  Romans 10:13 instructs, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

The sign at the London train stations read, “Way Out.”  Remember Jesus is the “way, the truth, and the life. No one comes the Father except through Me.”


[i] Stamps, Donald, Editor, Full Life Study Bible, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1985, Page 1742

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