Comments on: BBG Sneak Peek of the Day http://danielleshroyer.com/2009/09/30/bbg-sneak-peek-of-the-day/ Thoughts about God, hope, life, and love. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danielle http://danielleshroyer.com/2009/09/30/bbg-sneak-peek-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-145 danielle Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:52:19 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=217#comment-145 Glad you have found your way to the blog, Johan! Thanks Chad! Glad you have found your way to the blog, Johan! Thanks Chad!

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]]> By: Johan van der Merwe http://danielleshroyer.com/2009/09/30/bbg-sneak-peek-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Johan van der Merwe Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:11:53 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=217#comment-143 I have just come across your Twitter page and there found the link to this page. The Gospel of John is my favourite book in the Bible and I think you have succeeded in echoing an important thought in John 10 in a way that is both true and fresh. Re the priests serving at the temple it is somewhat unnerving to remember that in actual fact one would not regularly have seen them in beautiful white garments, as is usually depicted in children's Bibles, etc. On a typical day at the temple a priest's garments would have been smeared by the blood of the slaughtered sacrificial animals. So, you're quite right: Jesus could never have been a gatekeeper. He is the gate. And He is the gate because He is also the high priest covered in blood - his own blood. Because he has given his life so that we may have abundant life in Him. But the abundant life in which we share, is not a life of material wealth, but precisely the Christ-life, a life of abundantly serving God and our fellowmen in Christ's love, his sacrificial love. I have just come across your Twitter page and there found the link to this page. The Gospel of John is my favourite book in the Bible and I think you have succeeded in echoing an important thought in John 10 in a way that is both true and fresh.

Re the priests serving at the temple it is somewhat unnerving to remember that in actual fact one would not regularly have seen them in beautiful white garments, as is usually depicted in children’s Bibles, etc. On a typical day at the temple a priest’s garments would have been smeared by the blood of the slaughtered sacrificial animals.

So, you’re quite right: Jesus could never have been a gatekeeper. He is the gate. And He is the gate because He is also the high priest covered in blood – his own blood. Because he has given his life so that we may have abundant life in Him.

But the abundant life in which we share, is not a life of material wealth, but precisely the Christ-life, a life of abundantly serving God and our fellowmen in Christ’s love, his sacrificial love.

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