My Word – The Importance of the Words of Jesus Above All Others
John 14:22, “Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.”
2 Peter 1:20, “… knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”
Hebrews 1:1, “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, …”
Deuteronomy 18:18, “I will raise up for them a Prophet like you* from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.”
Matthew 21:35, “And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect [and hear and heed the words of] my son.’ ”
The words out of His mouth about His own words (In Chronological Order)
Matthew 4:4, “But He answered and said, It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
John 5:24, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”
John 5:39, ”You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.”
John 5:46, ”For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 6:63, ”It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Matthew 7:24, ”Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: … 26But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: …”
Mark 8:38, “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man* also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
John 8:30, “As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. 31Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:37, “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.”
John 8:42, “Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
John 8:51, “Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”
John 10:27, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
John 12:44-50, And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”
Matthew 24:34, “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.”
John 14:10, “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.”
John 14:23, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.”
John 15:7, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
John 17:6, “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. … 14I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. … 17Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
John 18:37, “Pilate therefore said to Him, ‘Are You a king then?’ Jesus answered, You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
(After He had risen) Luke 24:44, “Then He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me. 45And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.”
