Profound Insights of Jesus	December 19, 1998
Jesus profound lasting insights into life attest to His deity.  Below are highlights from the Gospels arranged chronologically as they occurred.
"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Jn 2:19
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jn 3:3
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Jn 3:6
"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light; for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, for fear that his deeds will be exposed." Jn 3:19-20
"Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." Jn 4:13-14
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Jn 4:24
"I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." Jn 4:38
"Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe." Jn 4:48
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Mt 4:17
"Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." Mt 4:19
"Son, your sins are forgiven." Mk 2:5
"It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means, 'I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Mt 9:12-13
"Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you." Jn 5:14
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that testify about Me." Jn 5:39
"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me." Jn 5:46
"Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven." Mt 5:16
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill." Mt 5:17
"You have heard that the ancients were told, 'You shall not commit murder' and 'Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.' But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell." Mt 5:21-22
"But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." Mt 5:44-45
"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Mt 5:48
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven." Mt 6:1
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Mt 6:19-21
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." Mt 6:24
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things will be added to you." Mt 6:33
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Mt 7:7
"In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." Mt 7:12
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." Mt 7:13-14
"The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart." Lk 6:45
"I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants." Mt 11:25
"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Mt 11:28-30
"For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." Lk 7:47
"Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself shall not stand." Mt 12:25
"He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Mt 12:30
"Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come." Mt 12:32
"For whoever has, to him shall more be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him." Mk 4:25
"A prophet is not without honor except in his home town and among his own relatives and in his own household." Mk 6:4
"Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows." Mt 10:29-31
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." Mt 10:34-37
"I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst." Jn 6:35
"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." Jn 6:56
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." Jn 6:63
"Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men. You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition." Mk 7:8-9
"It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." Mt 15:11
"If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it." Lk 9:23-24
"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mk 8:36-37
"The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men; and they will kill Him, and He will be raised on the third day." Mt 17:22-23
"If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all." Mk 9:35
"Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Mt 18:3
"So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish." Mt 18:14
"Truly I say to you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst." Mt 18:18-20
"For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Lk 9:56
"No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Lk 9:62
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." Jn 7:24
"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'" Jn 7:37-38
"I am the light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life." Jn 8:12
"If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." Jn 8:31-32
"Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." Jn 8:34, 36
"It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." Jn 9:3
"For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." Jn 9:39
"I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Jn 10:9-10
"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven." Lk 10:20
"Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see, for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them." Lk 10:23-24
"Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness. You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also? But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you." Lk 11:39-41
"Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers." Lk 11:46
"Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering." Lk 11:52
"But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. Accordingly, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed upon the housetops." Lk 12:2-3
"And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last." Lk 13:30
"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Lk 14:11
"He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?" Lk 16:10-12
"I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" Jn 11:25-26
"If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me." Mt 19:21
"Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Mt 19:23-24
"With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Mt 19:26
"You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them. But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." Mk 10:42-45
"Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Lk 19:9-10
"Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they shall be granted you." Mk 11:22-24
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal." Jn 12:24-25
"For many are called, but few are chosen." Mt 22:14
"Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's." Mt 22:21
"Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to Him." Lk 20:38
"The foremost is, 'Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Mk 12:29-31
"On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets." Mt 22:40
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others." Mt 23:23
"Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the contributors to the treasury; for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on." Mk 12:43
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away." Mt 24:35
"The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born." Mt 26:24
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." Jn 13:34-35
"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." Jn 14:15
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." Jn 14:27
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned." Jn 15:4-6
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." Jn 15:13
"These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." Jn 16:33
"Keep watching and praying, that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Mt 26:41
"Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword." Mt 26:52
"You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been given you from above." Jn 19:11
"These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem." Lk 24:44-47
"Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed." Jn 20:29
"Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." Acts 1:6-8