We have been studying (in our “Evening Meditation” Bible Classes) John chapter 6. It contains a total of 71 verses, and a lot of red ink in my Bible! (Which expresses all the Words of Jesus in that bright color, to mark them as vitally important.)

Come to think of it, John chapters 3 and 4 and 5 are loaded with “red” as well! As will be (our next chapters to study, the Lord willing) John 7 and 8 and 9, etc. (Nearly the rest of the Book of John until Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion.)

Jesus’ very Words!

I say Jesus’ Words, but He said … “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me.” John 14:10, so God the Father’s Very Words!

But what about those Words?

Why a Lesson on the Website (“I forgot to say”) about their significance? These “red Words?”

Something Paul wrote one day.

In 1st Timothy 6:3 he called Jesus’ Words “wholesome words!” The adjective here (spelled in Greek “hugies”) gives us the common English word “hygiene!” And it does mean “wholesome,” but in this sense … “sound” or even “healthy!” 

This at least identifies Jesus’ Words (though all the Bible is divinely Holy-Spirit inspired) as particularly “helpful.”

But Paul says even more in 1st Timothy 6:3 … “Wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness.”

Wow!

Now our Lord’s Words are both “wholesome” and prone to produce “godliness” in our lives!

Doubly powerful!

They are here said to both keep me clean (on the outside) and keep me holy, godly (on the inside)!

That’s why, two reasons anyway, Jesus’ Word are often (in many Bibles) distinguished in some visible way.

I though this point was well worth making, since I forgot to say it in our current video Bible Study!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

What a Saviour we have!

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