Introduction

     As in a search for anything, certain steps must be taken in order to find what one is looking for.  The classic quest leads the knight down paths of loneliness, roads of darkness, and trails of doubt before he finds the light of the eternal city.

     So it is with all of God’s sons and daughters.  We are walking through “the valley of the shadow of death.”  We must find the truth before we die.  The fleshly limitations of our earthly bodies are winding down, tick-ticking like a clock.  Our time is running out here on earth. 

     We as humans are careening to our graves.  We are mortal and desperately need to be saved from certain physical death.  We have got to get the antidote that will neutralize the spiritual poison of our flesh.  We need life, eternal life, and we need it now.  The clock is ticking. 

     But we have heard of a savior who can fix everything—one who can deliver us from the sting of death.  From childhood we have heard of the man from Galilee. We’ve seen artist representations of him in flowing white robes and long brown hair.

     As we learn more about him we discover that instead of it getting easier to understand about him, it gets more difficult.  Many contradictions arise.  No one is in absolute agreement about the man from Galilee.  No one really has a sure word concerning his true nature and existence.  There are as many concepts of him as there are people.

     So, most gravitate to a position of just simply accepting  that  he  existed—that  he  died  for  our sins.  This is especially meaningful  when  we are caught one day at a church somewhere in our younger years, and we are made to feel sorry for the bad things that we’ve been doing.  And the preacher says that we are going to hell if we don’t start going to church.  So we in a heated moment “accept” him as our personal savior.  This, we are told, is the “born again” experience. 

     And so we start to church and go fairly regularly.  But something begins to happen.  We begin to do and feel like we used to.  The spiritual thrill is gone.  Then one of two things happen.  We “backslide” and go back to the old life, or we keep on in the church, hoping that by going, we show ourselves as good Christians, thereby escaping the clutches of hell.

     And that is about it.  Most churchgoers are not taught the deeper things.  And so they dry up.  They have taken out an insurance policy called “going to church.”  By paying the weekly premiums of going to church and giving offerings, they hope that God will allow them to go to heaven.

     There is only one thing wrong with this scenario.  It does not agree with what is written in the Good Book sitting on everyone’s shelf at home.  It does not agree with the walk that the prophets, apostles, and the Savior Himself wrote and said that we could and should do. 

     The authors of the Bible, inspired by the Spirit of God, wrote about a Savior who is not only life-changing, but whose plan includes life itself—a deliverance from the bondage of this mortal prison we call death.

     Many  are  gambling  by  accepting  a   shallow, puny interpretation of who this Savior is.  They have wagered their lives on accepting a surface concept of the Savior, of who He is and how He works.

     We are admonished by Him to “dig deep and put our house upon the rock.”  Many are the winds that will blow against our experience with our concept of salvation.

     He said that the way of truth is narrow and that there would be few who would find it.  He also said that the way to destruction is wide and easy, and many would walk that way.

     This book digs deep. It goes beyond the modern surface footings of Christendom.  It questions everything we were told; it seeks to “prove all things.”  It is not for those who think that they have all truth already.

      This book is the road to the true Savior who is The Road to Immortality.  It by-passes traditional concepts about the Savior that detour us from the strait and narrow way.  It shows us road signs that clearly spell out His true nature.  It discovers what His real Hebrew name is and what His purpose is for us.  It also shows us how to get started and what some of the pitfalls are that hinder us from “walking in the light as He is in the light.”  This book explores our destiny with Him as outlined by His apostles and prophets.

     The Savior said, “Seek and ye shall find.  Knock and the door shall be open.  Ask and it shall be given.”   He also said, “You will seek me and will find me when you search for me with all your heart.”

     We  will  be  going  down  a  certain  path in our search for immortality.  “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD.”  This book is a series of steps that our Maker has directed us to take to find Him, which is finding a life everlasting. Now for the first step on the road.