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John 14:23,24; “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. He 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.”
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Jesus gave hundreds of teachings, and each has important lessons in our discipleship to Him. We are not to be hearers only, but doers of His word. Surely Jesus came to manifest the righteousness and truth of God so that we have reason and hope in our faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Micah 6:7,8 we are told:

“Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?”

Surely Jesus came to show us exactly what these things mean: to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God and our fellow man.

John 8: 31,32; “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

What does Jesus mean by ‘If you abide in My word’? In my dictionary the meanings of abide are: to wait for; to endure without yeilding; to bear patiently; to accept without objection; to remain stable or fixed in a state; to continue in a state; to conform to; to acquiesce in. Faith is far more than a profession out of your mouth, church you belong to, spiritual feeling, or the system of religion that you practice. In the opening sermon of Jesus we are told to not just hear His words – if we want our ‘house’ to withstand the storms and floods we are to be doers of what He taught. In the personal aspect of our faith we are told to abide is His words if we want to ‘know the truth’ that sets us free.

“That prophet” spoken of by both Moses and Peter is Jesus Christ *Acts 3:22,23. The apostles were, according to the words of Jesus, to be enabled by the Holy Spirit to remember all that He had taught them and they were told to preach and teach whatsoever He had taught them and be His witnesses to the ends of the earth.