So, if you read "To Tell the Truth" on page 16 of the May issue of ec, you’ve heard what Bruce Willis and Bill Maher, representatives of our culture, have to say about spiritual matters. But what about Jesus? What does He have to say?

• “Jesus said to them, ‘I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am’”(John 8:58).
• “My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand” (John 10:27-28).
• “ . . . If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink! The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him” (John 7:37a-38).
• “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31-32).
• “ . . . the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me” (John 15:26b).
• “He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments’” (Matt. 22:37-40).
• “I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world!" (John 16:33)
• “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it. What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?