Follow Jesus: The Way, The Truth, The Life

``I I don't know which way to go. And it's usually at that point you begin to realize that information and data is okay, but the best thing is when you have actual guidance from a person. A person who says, Glyn, I've got you. I know where you're going. Yet not the illegal one, not before the petrol station, after the petrol station. That's where you want to go. You wanna go that way. And we are definitely living in a day, an age like that where we we we overwhelmed by information, which is helpful, but guidance is better. Now here's the thing. Right? We are definitely living in a season and have been maybe for twenty or thirty years [00:57:48] (46 seconds)  #Do you want one hashtag for the entire passage or multiple hashtags for distinct quotes within it? If multiple, please tell me how many hashtags you want or indicate how you’d like the quote boundaries defined (e.g., by paragraph or by sentence).

where where where the the mantra is this, find your own truth. Find your own way. Find your own path. What works for you doesn't work for me, but that's okay. We'll just agree to disagree. And so what's happening is this, is that people are looking and people are searching, and and we're in a in a time and a day where people are are wondering, are are are trying to find the right path, and they're trying to find the right way and the right truth. And the problem is this, is we are actually, factually research backed that we are living in a more anxious day now than ever before in the history of humanity. [00:58:33] (43 seconds)

And in the bible, in the old testament, the old part of the bible, here's what happens, is is god's people had to follow a set of rules and regulations and laws. In other words, Andy, you have to do this, this, this, and this. And if you do that and you hold to it without breaking any of those rules, then you will find the way. But the problem is this. The problem is that way never really reconciled man with God. It was fundamentally flawed because none of us are able to keep the rules and the regulations that point the way to God. [01:02:03] (38 seconds)

And so Jesus steps into the middle of the picture. Jesus comes and Jesus says this. He he doesn't point the way. He doesn't say, I'm gonna give you directions. Go that way. He says, you know what? I am the way. He says, what I want you to do is I want you to to follow me. Follow me because I am the way. I am the one. I am God, and I will take you to God if you just follow me as the way. [01:02:42] (31 seconds)

Listen, church. Make no mistake. Christianity is exclusive. My barber was wrong recently when he says, well, Glyn, all roads lead to God. No. They don't. I gotta tell you that the God of other mainstream religions is not the God of the bible. You have to hear this church. The bible says that Jesus is the way, and it is a narrow road, and it is a narrow gate. But here's what's beautiful about this narrow road and narrow gate. The moment you walk down that narrow road and through the narrow gate, the narrow road, the path which is Jesus, and Jesus who the bible says is the gate and he's the door, the moment you step into that, you step into an expansive field. [01:04:58] (56 seconds)

It's an expansive field of God's blessing and his hand upon your life, and life begins to look different, which is why thousands of you in Audacious Church who become Christians over recent years, I stand on the door, you come up to me. Happened after the last service. Someone came up to me and said, you know, I was broken. I had addictions. I had all these challenges. I tried everything I could in counseling and self help and going to clinics, but it was only when Jesus. Jesus did it. Because he's the narrow road, and he's the narrow gate, which means, friends, get this, the party is not on this side of the gate. In the broad road, where everyone is partying, the party is when you get through the gate. [01:05:54] (54 seconds)

But he doesn't stop there. He also says, I am the truth. Wow. Now we have been living in a time when truth has felt flexible. Truth is up to everybody's own decision making. It feels flexible. Our our truth is dependent on who we follow. Truth is dependent on trend. Truth is dependent on ideology. Truth is dependent on on our emotions and and how we feel at any given moment in time. And the problem is this. Now get this. The problem with truth that is moving is that when truth moves, people get lost. [01:08:33] (50 seconds)

And so what's happening is this, friends, is all of a sudden we're running this way with this truth, and after a while, the feelings kick in or something else happens. And so we run over here with this truth and no read, no wonder the world is anxious. Yeah. Right. Of course, people are upset and worried and concerned and have anxiety going through the roof. It's because what's happened in this journey, friends, is we've taken our eye off the one who is the way and the one who is the truth, and now it's our emotions, it's ideology, it's popularity. All these sorts of things are starting to to lead us. And so the issue that we end up is we end up feeling lost. [01:09:23] (48 seconds)