In order to understand what “I am the way, the truth, and the life” means, which was said by the Lord Jesus, we must first be clear that only God can express the truth, grant people life, and show people the way. I believe everyone is familiar with these words but perhaps there are not many who truly understand their real meaning. Before the Lord Jesus said He Himself was the truth, no other person had ever said he himself was the truth, and no person could express the truth. Only the incarnate Lord Jesus said that He was the truth and moreover He could express the truth. Just as it is recorded in the Scriptures, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us … full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
The Lord Jesus is God incarnate, that is, God’s Spirit clothed Himself in the flesh as the Son of man to work in the human world. He appeared to be an ordinary, normal human from the outside, but He was Christ incarnate and God Himself and He possessed a divine essence.This is how the Lord Jesus could express God’s disposition and what God has and is, and could express the truth and perform the work of saving mankind based on...