The holy of holies sermons Author:Alexander Maclaren Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. Gbe Map, unknown anb i?et well fenown. " And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; an... more »d how can we know the way 1 Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life ; no man Cometh unto the Father, but by Me. If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also : and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him."—John xiv. 4—7. UR Lord has been speaking of His departure, of its purpose, of His return as guaranteed by that purpose, and of His servants' eternal and perfect reunion with Him. But even these cheering and calming thoughts do not exhaust His consolations, as they did not satisfy all the disciples' needs. They might still have said, " Yes; we believe that You will come back again, and we believe that we shall be together; but what about the parenthesis of absence ?" And here is the answer, or at least part of it: " Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know " : or, if we adopt the shortened form which the Revised Version gives us, " Whither I go ye know the way." When you say to a man, " You know the way,"you mean " Come." And in these words there lie, as it seems to me, a veiled invitation to the disciples to come to Him before He came back for them, and the assurance that they, though separated, might still find and tread the road to the Father's house, and so be with Him still. They are not left desolate. The Christ who is absent is present as the path to Himself. And so the parenthesis is bridged across. Now in these verses we have several large and important lessons which I think may best be drawn by simply seeking to follow their course. I.—Observe the disciples' unconscious knowledge. Jesus Christ says : " Ye know the way and ye know the goal." One of them ventures flat...« less