If we love Him we will keep His words, His commandments. This is how Christ becomes the Way to the Father. He becomes the Way from within us. He grows in us, transforming us, teaching us, cheering us on. On to what? On to our eternal abiding in the Father and the Father in us.

Beginning Christians are to imitate Christ, as God gives us grace through the Holy Spirit. But after a season, Christ enters us in greater measure. We are able to receive more of the fullness of God. The blessings and activities of the Christian life are scaffolding—helps along the way. They are necessary until Christ Himself comes to us and lives His Life in us.

"I am the Truth." Adam and Eve, our ancestors, believed a lie. The world spirit is a lie. Every human being on the earth is surrounded with the lies of Satan. The world is the valley of the shadow of death—death caused by lies about the Person, will, ways, and eternal purpose of God.

In Christ there is Life. That Life is the Light, the Truth that releases mankind from the death, the darkness, the lies of Satan and the world.

The Way in us, as well as the Scriptures and the ministries given by the Holy Spirit, leads us to Christ who is the Divine Truth from God. The Truth that Christ is sets us free from sin, from Satan, from the world, from self-seeking—free from every spirit and every thing that is false. The Truth destroys the lying works of the devil.

"I am the Life." As we are being released from sin by the Truth, Life enters us. Eternal Life is the Substance, the Presence, the favor, the knowledge of the Father and Christ.

Sin is the eternal enemy of life. When we are committing sin we are abiding in death. When the righteous and holy Nature of Christ is working in us we are abiding in eternal, incorruptible resurrection life.

The wages of sin is death. The gift of God, Christ, is eternal Life.

When Christ is living in us we possess all we need in the world and throughout the ages to come. We must allow Him to live fully in us. He dines with us and we with Him. He loves us and we love Him.

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:10)

Here is the true and eternal House of the Father. As Christ lived on the earth it was the Father living on the earth in Him. God became a man and lived among people for a season.

Christ is not the Father, He is the eternal dwelling place, the house, the abode of the Father.

It was the Father who spoke through Christ the words all mankind admires.

It was the indwelling Father who performed the works that still are the most marvelous of all history.

To be continued.