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In the 1976 movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood plays the role of Josey Wales, who rides into a Comanche camp to make peace.

After hearing Wales, Chief Ten Bears said: “There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death.”

In the movie, both Josey Wales and Ten Bears chose to live in peace instead of killing each other. Choosing life over death is always wise, especially in the eternal realm.

“The words of the Father came through Jesus,” says Daniela, 10. “His words said that whoever believes in the Son will have eternal life. Jesus came into the world as light. We were filled with darkness, which means we were filled with sin.

“Jesus will light us with his word so that we may believe in him and have eternal life. If someone rejects his word, then he is rejecting the Father, and there isn’t any other way to be saved than through his word.”

Thank you, Daniela, for your excellent explanation!

Words have consequences, especially when God speaks them. In Genesis, we learn that God spoke the universe into existence. Scientists call this the big bang.

At the beginning of the Gospel of John, Jesus is presented as the Word, who brings all things into creation. He is the incarnate Word. The New Testament was written in Greek. The Greek word for “word” is “logos.” In the Greek language and world, logos is the granddaddy of everything.

Greek thinker and philosopher Zeno from the 3rd century BC, defined logos as “the active rational and spiritual principle that permeates all reality.”

If Jesus is the incarnate word or logos, his words not only carry iron as Comanche Chief Ten Bears declared, they are ultimate reality. If Jesus can speak this world and universe into existence, I think he can speak authoritatively about the one requirement to experience his life forever after this short life where we occupy bodies that decay and die.

“Jesus said that he did not come to judge the world, but to save it,” says Enoch, 10. “His words judge people because he said that if they reject him, they will be judged by God.”

Bible scholar Warren Wiersbe writes, “The very Bible that men reject today will be part of the evidence against them at the judgment.”

The good news is that Jesus came to bear the judgment we deserve. He did this by bearing our sins on the cross in his own body.

“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed,” (I Peter 2:24).

Think about this: This world is full of words that contain empty promises. Jesus came into this world to speak only what he heard from his heavenly Father. His words are ultimate reality.

Memorize this truth: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life,” (John 5:24).

Ask these questions: Do you believe the words of Jesus, who is the incarnate Word or the logos of this universe? If not, whose word are you believing?

(Kids Talk About God is designed for families to study the Bible together. Research shows that parents who study the Bible with their children give their character, faith and spiritual life a powerful boost.)