In our world today, many believe that there are many ways to God, that all faiths, all religions lead to God. Although this belief has a nice sound to it, there is a reason why there is only one way─a way made possible for us over 2,000 years ago. But a way that was foreshadowed by a cataclysmic event that occurred in our ancient past. It occurred some thousand years after the Fall of Adam and Eve.

A population explosion had taken place upon the earth but the condition of humanity was tragic. The extent of evil upon the earth was so pervasive that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. (Gen. 6:1-12)  Only evil, all the time! And God grieved. He grieved over the extreme evil upon the earth, so a decision was made. A devasting flood would wash the earth clean of mankind’s wickedness.

But there was one man who had remained faithful to God; a man named Noah whom God would use to provide humanity with a fresh start. So, God gave Noah the assignment to build an ark, a vessel of salvation from the destructive flood.

The length of the ark was the length of 1 ½ football fields. Its width was the length of a ½ of a football field. Its height was four stories high. Its volume could contain 450 semi-truck trailers. This ark was immense. But here is what is so puzzling: the ark only had ONE door!

One door by which Noah and his family could use to fill the ark with all the supplies they would need. One door through which all the animals would enter. One door through which Noah and his family would enter. One door!

Even my house, which is nowhere the size of the ark, has more than one entry door. So why would God’s plan for this ark of rescue, an ark that would save them from a devastating flood, why would it have only ONE door? Well, it wasn’t a mistake or an oversight by God. The one door foreshadowed a powerful truth that was revealed in the first century, thousands of years after the flood.

In the flood story we see the judgment of death that sin caused, but also how our compassionate God provided a way of salvation. The ark was an ark of rescue, but the only way that Noah and his family, as well as the animals, could be saved from that destructive flood was to enter the ark through that ONE DOOR.

In the New Testament, we read how in the first century, God provided a way of rescue, once again, this time a way of salvation from eternal death and destruction. God the Father sent His Son, Jesus, who suffered and died on the Cross to pay the debt of death for us, a debt we all owe because we have sinned. But Jesus provided a way of salvation for all mankind, not just one family. He made a way for all to be rescued from a judgment of eternal death and to receive the gift of eternal life.

But just as Noah’s ark, that ark of salvation from a deadly flood, only had one door, so, too, the ark of our eternal salvation, this gift of eternal life, has only one door! And in John 10:9 Jesus declared,

“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, He will be saved. . .” John 10:9 (NKJV)

So many people today want to embrace the seductive thought that there are many ways to God, many doors that lead to eternal life. But there is just one! Because Jesus is the only one who was able to pay the debt of death on our behalf, a debt of judgment that we owe as sinners. It is only blood of Jesus that has the power to remove the stain of our sins.

This is why Jesus is THE door to the “ark of our salvation.” Jesus is the only door, but it is a door that is open to everyone!

. . . whoever believes in Him (Jesus) should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:15 NKJV