On the last evening before His crucifixion, the Lord walked with His disciples from the upper room to the Garden of Gethsemane. At that time He exclaimed, 'I am the True Vine.' Here is the necessity of gaining life from Him, and what it accomplishes.

Christ the Saviour does not merely guide us to eternal life, He is personally the road that leads there. Here is what He did to be the only true and certain way, and why only He can impart life to our souls.

In His fifth great 'I AM' statement, the Lord uses the future bodily resurrection as an illustration of the spiritual resurrection which must take place in one's life in order to know Him, and have eternal life.

Each of Christ's 'I am' sayings shows an element of His saving work. 'I am the Good Shepherd' points to the love and mercy of Christ as He reaches out to and calls individuals. Here are the feelings and actions of the 'lover of souls'.

'While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.'

The door to God and heaven is for ever closed to all who never want or seek Him. But to all who want to find Him the door stands open. Christ is Himself the door, and this is how He enables us to enter.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

At the feast of Tabernacles, when the Temple was illuminated with additional giant lampstands, and torchlight processions passed through the evening streets, Christ proclaimed Himself as light to the world, and the light of life. Here is the meaning of His momentous claim.

While on earth, Christ made seven astonishing claims, using the words of God to Moses 'I AM that I AM'. The first claim 'I am the Bread of Life,' describes the work of Christ as Saviour, securing pardon and life for all who believe in Him.

The Lord's parable of the vineyard labourers tells us that our reconciliation with God is an event initiated by God, in which people in every age-group renounce their hostility and resistance to Him, and trust in the work of Christ for acceptance and new life.