"My words shall not pass away"

These were spoken by Christ, clearly telling us how important and indispensable his words are to us. (cfr. Lk 12,33) They are living words that while spoken ages ago will always give us something new. As one saint would put it, Christ's words are both old and new.

- Fr. Roy Cimagala

To be sure, Christ's words are not just an idea, a doctrine, an ideology. They are not just a strategy, a culture or a lifestyle. Of course, Christ's words can involve all these, but unless we understand Christ's word as God himself, the God who became man to reveal to us all that we need to know, all that we need to do to be God's image and likeness as God wants us to be, we would miss the real essence and character of Christ's word.

We have to realize that the word of God cannot be separated from God himself. That's because God is so perfect as to be in absolute simplicity. As such, God has no parts, no aspects, no quality, or property distinct from his very being. His word and his being are just one. There is no distinction at all in him.