There’s Only One Way

Written by Christopher Mentzer

It’s not secret that I’m a fan of Pro Wrestling and I always look forward to this time of year.  Football has the Superbowl, Baseball has the World Series and Wrestling has Wrestlemania.  Although it’s held in April, things begin in January with a Pay-Per-View called The Royal Rumble.  Simply put 30 Wrestlers enter the ring and the one remaining at the end gets a Championship Match at Wrestlemania. 

This is reason why the commercial promotes the rumble by saying, “There’s only one way to Wrestlemania, and it starts at The Royal Rumble.  This statement reminds me of what Jesus said to his disciples in John 14: 6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Simply put, ‘There’s only one-way to Heaven and it starts with Jesus.’

Too many people promote the idea that there are several ways into heaven and most of them do not include Jesus in them.  I once spoke to a co-worker about Heaven and she said that she had two out-of-body experiences in which she personally spoke to God and He assured her a place in Heaven.  I asked her about John 14: 6 and she turned her back on me!  The reason, to her at least, was that I limited the entrance into heaven and that she was wrong.

Jesus said in Matt. 7: 13-14, “Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.  For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.” This passage says that there are two paths but only one leads unto eternal life.  The problem is most people that on the broad way think they too are going to Heaven, just in a different style.

Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of all sins of all people, but if you don’t acknowledge Him and what He did, you will be eternally lost.  And to simply believe in Jesus is not enough either.  In Matt. 7: 21-23 Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.  22. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?  23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Too many people profess to do good works in the name of the Lord but if they don’t do His will, then all their works will be for naught.

Others want to simply have the faith but not do the works.  James writes of this in Jas. 2: 17-18, “Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18. Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from `thy' works, and I by my works will show thee `my' faith.” He writes further in verse 24, “Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.”

As you can see it’s not by ‘Faith Only’ nor is it by ‘Works Only’.  You must have both and it has to be ‘The Will of The Father’. (Matt. 7: 21)  To leave Jesus out of the equation is like leaving the key to your front door still under the mat.  Try all you want to get in but without that key, it won’t happen.