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EDITORIAL STAFF
Gilbert Cangy
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Jonatn Tejel
EDITOR
Hiskia Missah
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Maria A. Dunchie
LAYOUT & DESIGN, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Erica Richards
COPY EDITOR
DEPARTMENTAL ADVISOR
Armando Miranda
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
Magulilo Mwakalonge East-Central Africa Division
Stephan Sigg Euro-Africa [email protected]
Kasap Gennady Euro-Asia [email protected]
Benjamin Carballo Inter-American [email protected]
Louise Nocandy Inter-American Division
James Black North American [email protected]
Manny Cruz North American Division
Nakk Hyung Kim Northern Asia-Pacific [email protected]
Bevan Mark Jenneke Northern Asia-Pacific Division
Areli Barbosa South American [email protected]
Busi Khumalo Southern Africa-Indian Ocean [email protected]
Nickolas Kross South Pacific [email protected]
Jobbie Yabut Southern Asia-Pacific [email protected]
Ravindra Shankar Southern Asia Division
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John Enang Western Africa [email protected]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Debbonnaire Kovacs has been writing since
she could hold a pencil, and sold her rst story to Junior Guidewhen she was eleven years old. By her twenties, she recognizedthat writing and speaking were not just what she loved to do,
but what God wanted her to do. She has written off and on formost of her life, but has been writing full time since 1990, havingwritten twelve books including the rst, second, fth, and
sixth grade Bible textbooks used in Adventist schools in NorthAmerica, and over 150 stories and articles for all ages. She speaksat camp meetings, womens retreats, and other events, and also
does copyediting. She urges everyone to take their dreams toGod and see whether they are more than just dreams. They maybe assignments from the King of Heaven.
You can contact Debbonnaire at:
www.debbonnaire.com or [email protected]
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on the web : gcyouthministries.com
When yo travel by air,the rst procedre togo throgh when yo arrive atthe airport is to go to the chec-in service conter to hand overyor baggage and to receive a
boarding pass. At that time, yowill be ased to present yorID, or IDENTIFICATION card,which has yor pictre, name,
date o birth, and address on it.When yo proceed to the sec-rity checpoint, again, yo haveto present yor ID and boardingpass. When yo arrive to yordestination in another contry,yo have to present yor IDcard and passport beore yocan leave the airport.
Does someone really needan IDENTITY? Is it necessaryor yo to have an IDENTITY?The answer is, it is absoltelynecessary. Yo have to have anIDENTITY. I yo dont haveyor IDENTIFICATION, yowold not be allowed to travel
by air or by sea. IDENTIFICA-TION is a reqirement or alltravelers.
Yo and I are travelers,and we are on or jorneyto Heaven. We mst have anIDevidence o WHO WE ARE.
What is yor IDENTITY as aSeventh-day Adventist yoth?
IDENTITY can be dened asdistinctiveness, niqeness,particlarity, character, or in-tegrity. Ths by its denition,Seventh-day Adventist yothshold be distinctive, niqe,have a noble character, anddemonstrate integrity.
The year 2011has been desig-nated as The Year o Identityor the Seventh-day Adventistyoth arond the world. TheEncarta Dictionary denesIDENTITY as the name oressential character that identi-es somebody or something.
So in this context, or identityis ond in the name o orchrch, Seventh-day Adventist.Yo are a Seventh-day eeper,or in other words, yo are aSabbath eeper. An Adventistis someone who believes in andwaits or the Second Advent,the coming o Jess Christ.
So or identity as a chrch isa grop o people who placestheir hope in Jess, eagerlyawaits the Second Coming,
and eeps all o His command-
ments, inclding the Seventh-
day Sabbath.
In Selected
Messages, boo
2, p. 384, EllenWhite wrote, We
are Seventh-day
Adventists, and
o this name we
are never to be ashamed.
My dear yong people, yo
have yor nameSeventh-day Adventist; yo have yorIDENTITYa child o God;eep it p, hold it tight, raise itp throghot the year. Be atre and aithl Seventh-day
Adventist, not on the seventh-day only, bt throghot allseven days.
This year the world chrchhas been challenged to pray 7days a wee, at either 7 in themorning, or 7 in the evening.I invite yo to become a 777yoth! My prayer is that wemay all board the vehicle bondor Heaven one day soon, and
that we will strive to discoveror IDENTITY in Christ on thisearth and contine to shine orHim.
Hisia MissahGC Associate Yoth Director
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ywop3 Editorial6 Read This First11 Jesus, The Light of the World19 Jesus, The Door31 Jesus, The Bread of Life
41 Jesus, The Good Shepherd51 Jesus, The Way, The Truth, and The Life63 Jesus, The True Vine75 Jesus, The Resurrection and The Life
83 Jesus, The Great I Am
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identitykNOWING WHO YOu ARE IN CHRIST
Who are we? Regardless o or earthly relationships and or national/cltral loyalties, weare sons and daghters o God. This act calls or a ind o loyalty and living that lits yongmen and women above the crowd to stand tall or God. Bt in this hor it means more than
jst being loyal to God.
The prpose o this special wee o prayer and spirital emphasis is to encorage yo toreexamine who yo are as a Christian. Yo mst now who yo are and what yo standorwhat it means to be a Seventh-day Adventist yoth. The sermons are written as aconversation yo wold have with a grop. Yo will see instrctions, sch as when to havescriptres read alodthese are always in italics and placed in bracets. When there are
specic qestions to as they appear nder the section,Discussion Questions,
which areopen or discssion, so they have no sggested answers.
BE PREPARED
The most important thing yo can do is read over the part yo are spposed to do severaltimes in advance, ntil yo become amiliar with it. DONT READ!! Yo can eep yor parton a podim in ront o yo and reer to it when necessary. Mae lots o eye contact, movearond, spea with expression, and mae it yors.
For the anecdotal stories, yo may want to invite someone to help yo role play these. It willmae them more interesting and give other people a part. These will sally reqire only twopeople; each person can read his or her part.
WhAt thE symBols mEAn
Whenever yo see this symbol yo are at the beginning o the aalget someone to role play with yo.
Whenever yo see this symbol yo are at the start o the lesson, l
applahow the Bible text and story can be applied to or daily lives.
read this first
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WhAt I mEAnsI, in these lessons, is yo, the speaer. The
writer didnt se I mch, becase shes not yo,and she doesnt now what yo might say. Iere i a I aee a de f ,
ae i i de. I ave a pera
experiee r ii a wrk beer a
e ive, e i. y are e peaker. Behmoros. People remember things they laghabot, and laghing together maes them eel a
sense o belonging and amily.
nAmEs
This is important. I the names o people inthe stories are the same as someone in yoradience, it wold be a good idea to changethem. Remember, these are composite stories,and the names can be changed to anything yo
lie. Jst eep them diverse and international, or
mae them appropriate or where yo are.
DIscussIon QuEstIons
There are some discssion qestions at theend o each section. These are better i sed insmaller grops o abot 3-8 persons, bt i need
be can also be sed with the entire grop, i itisnt too big. They can also be sed as individal
thoght qestions or or jornaling.
scRIPtuRE READIngs
Within each presentation there are scriptrepassages. The speaer can read them, especiallyi yo are in a large room, lie an assemblyhall, bt when possible, call on other people toread the texts, or or longer passages tae trns
reading a verse or two at a time.
Another good idea is to mae posters o theeightLie Identity Principles and hang the
corresponding one each night. I yo do that, onthe last night yo can have all eight o them inront o the grop as yo review the principlesdring the presentation. Here are all eight othem:
lie Idei Priipe #1.
Becase Jess is the Light o the world, I canbe a candle, lighting others paths to Him.
lie Idei Priipe #2.
Becase Jess is my Door, I can be a dooreeper,welcoming others into Gods amily.
lie Idei Priipe #3.
Becase Jess is the Bread o lie, I can be agrain o wheat, giving mysel to eed others
His Word.
lie Idei Priipe #4.
Becase Jess is my Shepherd, I can be alamb that ollows aithlly, and also an nder-shepherd, helping to care or other lambs.
lie Idei Priipe #5.
Becase Jess is the Way, the Trth, andthe Lie, I can wal in His Way, hold p HisTrth, and share an abndant, ll lie withthose arond me.
lie Idei Priipe #6.
Becase Jess is the Tre Vine, I can be ablessed branch, drawing my norishmentrom Him and gloriying God with mch
rit.
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stARt A PRAyER JouRnAl
Nothing is greater or yor personal spirital
growth than time spent in prayer. Yor yothgrop will grow as yo grow. Prayer jornalingwill help yo enconter God in new and excitingways. Yo will be able to trac yor wal withGod as yo go bac and review answered prayers,see how He has lead yo, step by step, each day.New, resh, ideas will come to mind as yo spendtime in His presence jornaling yor prayers.Yo can nd many ideas online on starting andeeping a prayer jornal. Jst go to http://www.
google.com and type in the words starting aprayer jornal.
FoRm A WEEK oF PRAyER DEVEloPmEnt/
REVIEW tEAm
Depending on the size o yor chrch, this gropcan be or to eight persons who will go throgh
all eight days readings with yo. Inclde onyor team only interested and committed yongadlts and yoth ministry leaders (Pathnder,Sabbath School, etc., yor pastor/s); this isimportant becase it gives ownership to theentire grop, rather than jst yo and yorassistant. As the grop to commit to meetingor at least ve weesat least one wee or two
lessons, and an extra wee to wrap things p. Besre to identiy the goal and direction yo wantto go, preerably at the rst meeting, and choosea yong person to spea or each day.
FInD A mEntoR
This year we want to encorage yo to dosomething yo may not have done beorend
a mentor. Find an experienced yoth leader,
lie Idei Priipe #7.
Becase Jess is the Resrrection and the Lie,
I can rejoice in His newness o lie now andtrst Him or lie eternal.
lie Idei Priipe #8.
Becase Jess the Great I AM is, was, andalways will be, becase He lived ot a Treand Complete Lie here on earth, I can be mytre and complete sel in Him.
scRIBE
It is really good to have someone serve as ascribemaybe a dierent person each nightandeep notes on a white board at the ront. Some othe lessons are better sited to this than others,
bt whenever yo can inclde short commentsor sggestions rom the adience, thats always
helpl.
stARt youR PlAnnIng ImmEDIAtEly
We now that leadership sometimes changesat the end o the year; bt please, i yo will no
longer be the AY leader next year, do not let thatstop yo rom planning or this special wee. Startyor planning, develop yor target, get yor team
together, and mae sre yor pastor is a part othat team.
choosE A thEmE song
Involve yor yoth choir; i yor chrch does nothave a yoth choir, this is the perect time to getone started. Pic ot songs that yo all lie, andwhich t the topic o each evening or choose a
song or the entire wee.
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to serve as volnteers. Involve some o thesevolnteers in yor development/review team.
scREEnIng thE VoluntEERs
While we may not lie to admit it, the chrch isnot a perect place, and all volnteers mst bescreened. Develop yor own screening process,as the togh qestions. Please contact yor localconerence/nion/division and get inormation/gidelines on screening volnteers in yor area.
tAKE A suRVEy
Find ot who yor yong people are. Establisha core grop among the yong people in yorchrch, even i they are not attending the yothmeetings. Share yor plans and goals or theWeek o Prayerwith them. Start slowly, start
small, bt begin early.
PlAn A Re-EncountER PRogRAm
use the last Sabbath to lanch an annal Re-enconter program, spanning three months,clminating in a Homecoming Sabbathcelebration. Start a prayer list or all inactiveyoth.
PlAn A communIon sERVIcE/AgAPE
FEAstA commnion service on Friday evening towardthe end o the service or on Sabbath morningis a great idea. There are many ways yo cando this to mae it memorable or yor grop.For more ideas on the Agape Feast visit: www.
gcyouthministries.org
one yo can trst to be honestsomeone whowill have the gts to tell yo what yo need to
change, what yo need to eep doing, or whatyo need to totally do away with in yor ministry.Mae sre yor mentor is also someone who canhelp gide yo spiritally, someone yo can trnto or spirital gidance, who will as yo thetogh qestions and will help yo wor throghproblems. Also, this mentor shold be someonewho will help yo eep Christ at the center o
yor plans and hold yo accontable.
InVolVE youR PAREnts As VoluntEERs
I served as the AY leader o a chrch, whereone year, the pastor challenged s to dosomething dierent or the Yoth Wee oPrayer. The committee decided to incldedrama in their Wee o Prayer. Every night there
was dramatization beore the actal sermons.Everyone made sre they came ot early; they didnot want to miss anything, and neither did theirparents, who ater taing them to the rehearsalswanted to see what the big day wold be lie.This way, the pastor involved the parents in hisplanning, and the yoth involvedthe parents
by having them bring them to the rehearsals.So, parents can become yor greatest ans and
expand yor ability to reach more people.Many times adlt volnteers do not realizehow mch the yoth loo p to them, so i yoinvolve more parents, who already now manyo the yoth, they will be more than willing toserve since they already connect with some othe yoth in yor grop. Try and nd at leastve adlts that most o the yoth loo p to,
then challenge specic yoth to as those adlts
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somE ActIVIty IDEAs
Activities to go along with this series will mae it
even more interesting. We tend to do this sort othing only or children, bt adlts are still visal,aditory, and inesthetic, and we need hearing,seeing, and doing to help s remember thingsand mae them a living part o s. Yo and yorriends will be able to thin o others when yoread the lessons. Here are some ideas:
le 1. Get votive or small candles and
paper candle holders. Have a large candlep ront that is already lit, which representsJess, the Light o the World. Trn o theoverhead lights. Choose one person (who iswilling to sing alone) to tae his or her candleand light it at the big candle, singing This
little light o mine. This person lights twopeoples candles, and they join in singing.
They each light two more and join in singing.Contine this pattern o lighting someoneelses candle. Soon everyone will have a lightand be singing. The whole room will light p,not only with physical light, bt with the lighto God, as people sing together to His glory.
le 2. use a real door or an imaginaryone to role play some o the ways doors are
sed, both positively and negatively. Forexample, one person cold be nocing, andanother cold say, No! Yo cant come inhere! Yo arent _______ enogh! Then oneperson cold noc and another cold openthe door and say, Welcome! Come in! Im soglad to see yo! Try to thin o and share realways yove seen these attitdes played otin yor lives or in the lives o those yo now.
le 3. Bring some really good homemadebread to share with everyone. Tal abot the
process (steps) o baing this bread.
le 4. Find a video clip online o ashepherd and sheep to watch and thendiscss. (Visit http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/ten-commandments/the-shepardor sable clips.)
le 5. use a concordance to nd all the
places in Proverbs that say in the way. Yollbe amazed! Yo cold mae posters or listswith what yo nd, or act them ot.
le 6. This one is old, bt still good. Bringcelery or Qeen Annes Lace blossoms andpt them in water that has ood coloring init. Tal abot which parts o the plant absorbthe colored water and how that relates to the
lesson.le 7. Write stories or poems or drawpictres o what yo thin it might be lie inthe New Earth. (Yes, yo can. Pretend yore10 again i it helps.)
le 8. Mae a poster o all theI Amstatements, lie the one the ids in the storymae. Or have a discssion in small grops,perhaps longer than sal, on individalanswers to Who are yo really?
PRAy A lot! hAVE Fun!
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Wen Chng glowered at the Organic Pineapple Banana Dessert Smoothie sitting on the table
in ront o him. He barely noticed the waitress stopping by his table.Something wrong, Wen? Is yor smoothie oay?
Wen started. Oh, hi, Andrea. Sorry, I didnt see yo. Realizing belatedly what she had said, helooed blanly at the tall, rosted glass, seeing it or the rst time. Oh, yeah, yeah, its ne. To tell thetrth, I havent even tasted it yet.
Andrea glanced arond the small ca and then sat down across rom him. Its not bsy yet. Whatsp? Something trobling yo?
Wen met her concerned eyes. This was the sort o thing that made him lie Andrea. He smiled orthe rst time that morning. Yore amazing, yo now?
Andrea looed srprised. Me? Why?
Yo have so many worries o yor own. Three ids, two jobs, an absentee hsband . . .
Yada yada, said Andrea, fapping a hand. I ased what was p withyou!
Thats my point, said Wen. Yore always the rst person to notice someone else in troble. Dontyo have enogh trobles o yor own?
Jesus said, I am the Light of the World
the Light of the WorLd
Life identityPrinciPLe #1
Because Jesus is the
Light o the world, I can
be a candle, lighting
others paths to Him.
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Maybe thats why I notice,said Andrea with a grin. Other
peoples trobles are way moreinteresting than yor own,havent yo ever noticed? Comeontal to me! The doctor is in,and the cloc is rnning.
Wen grimaced. Well, orone thing, Im thining abotchanging my majoragain! Im
in my second year o niversityalready, and I dont now whatI want to do when I grow p, i Iever do!
Andrea grinned again. Thetric might be to as yorselwhat yod want to do i yonever did grow p!
What, yo mean besidesreman, space alien, ormillionaire sotware designer?Wen started to lagh, thenstopped. He pased a second.Hey, thats a really goodidea! I have to thin abotthat! He stirred his smoothie
absentmindedly.Well, said Andrea, that will
be $250! Ill bill yo. She startedto get p, bt Wen stopped her.
Oh, no, thats the least o myworries!
Andrea sat again.
Proessor Ellison gave s this
iller homewor assignment.Yoll never believe it. We have
to write a 10-page essay onWho Am I? Tenpages!! Canyo believe it? I coldnt sep 10 words on that qestion!
Who am I? Its one o thegreat qestions o lie, maybethe greatest qestion o all.We can spend or entire lives
trying to gre ot the answer(or answers) to it. Some neverdo gre it ot. Some donteven try.
I somebody ass, Who areyo? what do yo say? Themost obvios answer, o corse,is yor name. Bt thats jst
what yore called. It doesntreally tell anyone who yo areinside.
What are some otheranswers? Which o thesepossibilities cold yo say?
Im a woman.
Im a man.
Im so-and-sos son ordaghter.
Im a sister or a brother.
Im a mom or a dad.
Im a certain race.
Im rom a certain state.
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Im a Christian.
Im a Seventh-day Adventist.
Or yo may answer by sayingwhat yo do:
Im an artist.
Im the scientic type.
Im a compter gee.
I wor at XYZ company.
Im an athlete.The best answer wold be,
Im a child o God, bt whatdoes that really mean? Does itmean we loo a certain way or
behave a certain way? Can yoalways tell or sre i someone is
living as a child o God, jst by
looing at them? Can yo evennow or sre i yo are living asa child o God yorsel?
It seems obvios that thebest way to gre ot what thatwold loo lie is to loo at the
lie o the Qintessential Childo God, Jess o Nazareth. And
thats what were going to dodring this Wee o Prayer.
Thin abot the ways inwhich Jess new who He was.This is amazingly interestingwhen yo get into it, becasewe all sort o thin Jess, asthe Son o God, jst knew. Well,
yes, He was the Son o God. He
was both hman and divine(and nobodys going to get that
one gred ottheyve beentrying or centries!) Bt still,as a hman, He started lie hereon earth as a child, the sameas we did, right? He grew and
learned as a child. Im sresome old Jewish grandmothersor rabbis pinched His chee andased Him what He wanted to
be when He grew p! What didHe say? What did He say abotwho He was already, even whenHe was yong? Im Marys son,Im Josephs son, Im a Jew, Imrom Nazareth, Im a carpenter.
One o the ways we nowwho we are is the stories orparents and grandparents tells. Jst imagine the ones Jessheard! When yo were a little
baby, angels sang over yo,and one o them told me yowere going to save yor peoplerom their sins! Can yo evenimagine how it wold eel as a
10-year-old to hear stories liethat?
Bt how did Jess nowwho He really was? Thats theqestion were going to loo atdring this Wee o Prayer. Not
jst what did His parents tellHim, or what did He learn when
He stdied the prophecies, bt
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darness cannot overcome it,which is eqally tre. So its
Jess lie itsel that is the light.Jst by existing, Jess, theFather, and the Holy Spirit, bring
light into the niverse. Maybethats why its the rst thingThey made at creation.
Then in verse 9, John callsJess the tre light, who gives
light to everyone. To everyone!Not that everyone nderstandsor accepts it. Bt thats the basicpromise. Jess comes into theworld to live as a hman beingand to bring light to everyone.His lie is the light, so jst by
being here, Hes going to bringthis light.
Now lets loo at where Jessactally maes the statementclaiming to be the Light o theworld. Trn with me in yorBibles to John 8:12. When Jesusspoke again to the people, hesaid, I am the light o the world.
Whoever ollows me will neverwalk in darkness, but will havethe light o lie.
This is a very amiliarsaying, bt a lot o people dontrealize what was happeningwhen Jess said it. Its qitesrprising. What is the story
that precedes these words o
how did He really know, deepinside, who He was and what
He was sent to do? I we loo atthose qestions and some o theways He answered them, maybewe can nd ot some ways wecan answer, too. Maybe well
learn some things abot who wereally, trly are on the inside.
In the Gospel o John,
there are seven amos I Amstatements that Jess made.We will stdy all seven o themthis wee, and then well spendsome time on what that whole I
Am thing is abot. As a name oGod, yo have to admit its morecreative than most o the onesthe gods o this world claim!
What does it really mean?
The rst I Am statementwe want to loo at is I a eli e wrd.
The rst time in this gospelthat Jess is called the Lightcomes in the very rst chapter.John the Beloved, the yongesto Jess 12 apostles, is mostamos or calling Jess theWord here, bt he also calls Himthe Light. Read verses 4 and 5with me: In Him was lie, andthat lie was the light o men. Thelight shines in the darkness, butthe darkness has not understood
it.Other versions say the
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Jess, and in a way serves asintrodction? Its the story o
the woman who was caght inadltery. The leaders wanted tostone her, bt Jess orgave her,and told her to Go and sin nomore. We have all been caghtin sin, whether its big or small,a ew times in or lives. AndI hope that we have all gone
to Jess or orgiveness andcleansing. Thats hard enogh,yet its the easy part. Whatyo do next is the hard part.Go and sin no more. How?Literally or goodness sae,how on earth can we go and sinno more?
Most o the time, when thisstory is told, people stop rightthere. I orgive yo, now goand be good! And what do wego and do? Sin again!
Yoll notice Jess didnt stopthere.
Consider verse 12 again.
Isnt that a strange thing tosay right here? It seems lie acomplete change o sbject! Iam the light o the world. Whatdoes it have to do with go andstop sinning?
Dont yo thin the very rst
thing we need, beore we do
anything at all, is light to see by?Yo can hardly even get dressed
or eat withot at least a littlelight. So how can we now howto live as children o God i wedont have spirital light to see
by?
That woman who committedadltery probably did not
behave that way becase she
jst wanted to be bad. She mightnot have even done it becaseshe was only interested in herown pleasre and didnt careabot what was right or wrong.Most liely, she did it becasewhat she most wanted is thesame thing every single hman
being craves, and thats to eelloved. People try all inds othings to mae themselves eelgood, worthwhile and loved,and one really common oneis to hang ot with somebodywho tells yo nice things andcompliments yo, and so yopretend they really love yo
when in yor heart yo nowthey dont care a thing abotyo. Have yo ever done that?It eels good or a little while,
bt not or long, right?
Jess was saying to thislonely woman, Follow Me, andyoll live in the tre light o
My love. I now who yo really
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truly are, deep inside, and I loveyo! I dont love yo or what I
can get ot o yo, or becase Iwant to control yo. I love yo
becase yo are yo and yoare Mine. I am the light o thiswhole world. Come ollow Me!
How did Jess now thisabot Himsel? As we noted
beore, He was God in hman
fesh and new all inds othings, bt the Bible says He
learned, and we now thatMary told Him the storiesabot His birth and theannoncements the angelsmade. We also now thatwhen He went to the templewhen He was 12, He watchedthe sacrices and began tonderstand lly what Hismission was in this world.(Can yo imagine gringot a thing lie that at 12years old? When I was 12, Iwas more interested in whatthe next cool game was.) We
now Jess spent a lot o timestdying the scrolls o the OldTestament and praying all byHimsel ot in the elds withHis heavenly Father. It seemsto me that, since He promisedthe Holy Spirit to s, and sincewe now the Spirit came on
Him in power at His baptism,
Then He said, Follow Me.Live in the light. God loves
yopass it on!So ar, there havent really
been any srprises. We all nowJess is the Light o the world,and we all probably agree that
love is another name or thatlight. Bt here is where it getsreally nexpected.
In the Sermon on the Mont,Jess said an astonishing thing.Its not ond in John, bt inMatthew. Trn to Matthew5:14. You are the light o theworld. A city on a hill cannot behidden. Neither do people lighta lamp and put it under a bowl.
Instead they put it on its stand,and it gives light to everyone inthe house. In the same way, let
your light shine beore men, thatthey may see your good deeds and
praise your Father in heaven.
What? Who is the light othe world? Me? Yore idding,
right?Wen Chng wold be
really srprised i somebodywaled p to him while he wassitting there worrying overhis major, and this paper hisreligion proessor assigned,and said, Hey, Wen, yo are
the light o the world! Andrea
we can be sre that the sameSpirit was present with Him
as a child and as a yong man,gring things ot by stdyand prayer the same way wecan. Jess saw that in the Bible,God was the Light Bringer, andpromised even as early as to
Adam and Eve that He woldsend a Redeemer to bring bacthe light that sin had dimmed.Jess learned that He was thatRedeemer.
Jess new that the trelight o the world is love. Henew what perect love was
lie, in heaven with His Fatherand the Spirit, and He newhow messed p or ideas o
love are. He new people tendto either go arond thiningtheyre too bad or God to love,or that God owes them love,
becase theyre more lovablethan everybody else. Jesscame to show s what Gods
love is lie. He demonstrated
it every day o His lie. Hetoched people others woldnttoch, healed the ones nobodythoght deserved it, orgavepeople or all inds o things,taled with them, laghed withthem, went to their weddingsand parties. . . He loved them!
And they new it.
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wold probably be even moresrprised, even thogh its
clear to onlooers that she isbsy passing on that light olove every day, despite thediclties in her own lie.
Bt thats what Jess said.Not only did He say to all thethosands o listeners that werethere that day, You are the
light o the world, He went onto say that they sholdnt tryto hide their lights nder bowlsor bshels. They shold ptthem p on lampstands and lettheir lights shine on everyonearond. Doesnt that seem indo lie bragging? Hey, loo atme, Im the light o the world!
Do yo thin thats whatJess meant? Lcily, wedont have to discss what wethink He meantHe tells sright there. He didnt say, Letpeople see yor good deeds andpraise yo. He said, Let themsee yor good deeds and praise
yor Father in heaven!Its ind o lie the sn and
the moon. The sn is brningand prodcing hge amontso light and heat, all by itsel.Nobody eeps eling it orrelighting it. God set it p andstarted it brning, and there
it is, brning ever since. God
is lie that light. He prodceslight and love and goodness jst
by being there.Bt the moon is jst a big,
rond roc. It doesnt have anysorce o heat or light itsel. Soit cant shine or warm anybodyp, and i yo cold go p andas it who it is and what good itis, it might get pretty depressed
and say, I dont nowImjst a worthless hn o roc!Even i themoon coldsee and eeland thin, itwold haveno way onowing that
when thesn shineson it, it glowsin or sy
lie a jewel. On a ll moonnight, there is enogh refected
light to cast shadows on thegrond. Bac beore there was
articial light, people who hadto travel long distances woldpay attention to the phase o themoon so they wold have lightto travel by.
And wold yo believe thatin the snshine, the moonstemperatre can get p to 123
degrees Celsis or 253 degrees
Fahrenheit? As soon as it rotatesaway rom the sn, on the dar
side, it can drop down to as lowas -233 C or -387 F at the poles,where it gets the least solarheating (wii.answers). Thats a
big dierence!
So once we accept that Jessis the Light o the world, severalthings happen. First, we tell
Him, yes, please, we do wantHim to bring His light and lie
and love into or lives. Then wespend time every day basingin His presence throgh Biblestdy and prayer and singing.
Next we practice refecting Hislove and light onto everyonearond s.
We loo to see what Godslight does. It warms people p,it shines, brightens, and cheersall arond. So i we want tonow i were acting lie the
light, we as, do people eel
Wh m I? I n fh g quin f
lif, myb h gquin f ll.
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brightened and cheered whentheyre arond s? We watch
or others that mae s eelwarmed and loved, too, andspend time in their presence,
becase one o the ways welearn Gods love is rom how werelate to each other.
We as orselves qestions,as Ellen White sggests:
Do yo realize that yoare the light o the world?Do yo, in yor words anddeportment at home, leavea bright trac heavenward?[We could add, at work, atschool, wherever we are.]What is it to be the light o
the world? It is to haveGod or yor gide, to havethe companionship o holyangels, and to refect toothers the light that shinespon yo rom above; bt i
yo ail to exercise Christiancortesy, orbearance,
and love in yor amilies,God and holy angels aregrieved away, and insteado being the light o theworld, yo are bodies odarness (AustralasianUnion Conerence Record;November 1, 1904 par. 8).
Bodies o darness! Och! Theproblem is, i we read that andtae it seriosly, we might getinto looing at orselves all thetime, worrying abot whetherwere the light o the world,or bodies o darness. Bt it isalso possible to loo too hard at
orselves. I we spend too mchtime examining orselves andor actions, well be lie themoon rotating away rom thesn and looing at orselvesinstead o Jess. Thats a qic
way to get really cold and dar!When we eep or eyes on
Jess, waling beside Him,looing p at His ace, soaingp His love, then that love willrefect on everybody else. Otherswill notice that we are brightand cheerl, and they may eel
better abot themselves. Maybetheyll as why were so happy,and we can say, Becase Jess
loves me so mch and I jst canthelp being happy abot it! AndHe loves yo, too, yo now.
We are not and cold neverbe a sorce o light to the world,any more than the moon cold
be a sorce o light, heat, or
power to earth. Bt i we letJess shine His light and loveinto or lives, we will be lampsto His glory, and when otherssee s, they will learn to praiseGod, too.
discussion Questions1. Who are you? No, who are you really?2. How do you think the woman elt when Jesus orgave her? Why? Have you ever elt that
way?
3. Do you agree that love is the light o the world? Why is that so important? Why do we
lose track o it so easily?
4. Share some ways God has shone light and love into your lie lately.
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Andrea saw the startled loo on Wens ace as she waled toward him to tae his order. She startedtaling beore she even got to his table. I now, I now, I loo lie a domestic abse case!
Everybodys staring. Yo see that swinging door over there? She pointed, and Wens gaze movedto the door to the itchen area and bac to her ace. He grimaced with dawning comprehension andsympathy. Let me give yo a little tip. Those doors are made that way so that yo can see somebodycoming toward yo. They dont wor as well i two people are waling toward them rom opposite sides,
both with their arms loaded, and both looing bac over their sholders to say something to someone!
Ow, said Wen, his rond ace comically wrinled.
Andrea tried to grimace bac, then winced. Ow is right. She toched her chee. It loos almost asbad as it eels. Doors are my crse this wee! Yesterday morning my toddler gate broe, and I ond the
dog and Minnie, my 3-year-old, in the itchen easting on dry cereal togetherrom the foor! Wen waslaghing, and Andrea rolled her eyes at him. Its not nny! So, what wold yo lie this morning?
Well, yo now me and the smoothies, said Wen with a grin. Its my personal mission to try themall. So today I want that Banana Crnch Breaast Smoothie. And do yorsel a avor, pleasego throghthe door carelly! Dont worry! said Andrea.
When she got bac with Wens smoothie, he had his laptop open and was bsily typing away. Helooed p and thaned her as she set down the tall glass. And not or jst the smoothie, either, he
added. Yo jst helped me with a paperagain!
Jesus said, I am the Door
the door
Life identityPrinciPLe #2
Because Jesus is
my Door, I ca n be a
doorkeeper, welcoming
others into Gods amily.
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What, yore writing abotclmsy women?
No, bt Proessor Ellisonis all abot doors this wee.Lie what are they or, do theyeep things in or ot, and whatdoes it mean that Jess is theDoor? He said something Idnever thoght abot beore.In Revelation, where it tals
abot Jess nocing at thedoor, its not in the contextwe always tae it or, the dooro the individal heart, its inthe context o the chrchspecically, to the chrch oLaodicea. What do yo thinthat means?
Andrea thoght abot it, btonly or a second. There wasa large grop coming into theca. Yo mean, Hes nocingat the chrch door and cant getin? Wow, thats something tothin abot. Got t-o go, sorry!
The second I Am statement
o Jess that well examine thiswee is ond in John 10:9:I am the gate; whoever entersthrough me will be saved. Hewill come in and go out, and nd
pasture.Some Bibles say door,and some say gate, bt eitherone is ind o strange. For Jess
to say He is the Light o the
world maes sense. We can seethat He brightens and warms
people by His presence. Bt howcan a person be a door or a gate?
Its even stranger when yoloo at the context, that is, thestories and sayings that are rightarond it. The last chapter isa long, detailed story o a manJess healed rom blindness.
Interestingly, He rst repeated,I am the light o the world.Then He healed the man. Thisman had been blind his whole
lie, and some o the peoplethoght God made him blinddeliberately, becase either he orhis parents were sinl. Otherswere all pset becase Jesshealed him on the Sabbath. Canyo imagine? Yore blind yorwhole lie, Jess miracloslyheals yo, and instead o joiningin yor incredlos joy, yorpastor and elders are all rowning
becase it happened on theSabbath?!
At the end o chapter 9, Jesstells the Pharisees they have aproblem with spirital blindness.Then His very next words, inJohn 10:1, are abot robbers andthieves climbing into a sheeppen to steal sheep, rather thangoing throgh the door. He says
that the sheep wont listen to
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scribe write them on a board atthe ront.] It opens and shts. It
eeps people and animals ot.It eeps people and animalsin. It eeps cold or warm airot or in. It can stand open inwelcome, or it can be locedtight. It even shows yo whereto go. I yo want to go in ahose, yo cant jst walthrogh the wall, yo can only
get there throgh the door.(Yo couldgo in throgh thewindow, bt that sally meanssomething bad.)
Does Jess do all thesethings? Lets tae a loo.
op: What are some thingsJess opens p to? ObvioslyHe opens p to love and lightand trth. He always opens pto anyone who wants to tal toHim or to listen to Him. He waswelcoming to Nicodems, whocame in private at night, and Hewas welcoming to the peoplewho ran all the way arond the
Sea o Galilee to nd Him, andHe was even welcoming to thewoman at the well, who didnteven now what she was looingor. Jess is open to anythinganyone ever wants to tell Him,even i its a negative or hrtlthing that Hes going to as the
person to give p. In the Psalms,
people who are not their ownshepherd, bt that they will
listen to Him. Yo can tell Hesworing p to saying He is theGood Shepherd, and He does(well loo at that another day),
bt rst He says Hes the door,or the gate, to the sheep pen.
Its strange. What does Hemean?
Maybe yove heard thatin those days, the sheep oldsometimes didnt have a dooror gate. It jst had an opendoorway, and the shepherd layacross that doorway to sleep,so no predator cold get inand harm his sheep at night. I
anything tried, it wold waehim p, and he wold ghtit o. So i a thie or robberwanted to steal or harm thesheep, he wold have to try tosnea over the wall withotwaing p the shepherd. Aperson cold literally be a door.
What does a door do? Letstal abot that or a second.I Proessor Ellison were yorreligion proessor and yo hadto write this paper, yo coldstart by listing some o thethings a door does. [I possibleand practical, get suggestions
rom the listeners and have a
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David says some really awlthings to God when hes angry
or pset. God doesnt encorageDavid to thin that way, btHe doesnt sht him away andrese to listen to him, either.Have yo ever heard a boss oremployer or pastor say theyhave an open door policy?That means they are happy total to yo any time, and yo
wont be interrpting. Thatshow Jess is.
s: What does Jessclose the door against? Thewhole Bible teaches that oneo these days, God will shtthe door once and or all on allsin, alsehood, hatred, envy,
idolatry, selshness, and pride.People who are clinging tothose sins will get sht ot, too,and thats jst what God doesntwant to happen, so Hes holdingthe door open as long as Hecan, begging people to comein. It began with God reaching
ot to or rst parents as theyhid rom Him ater their dismalailre, and it will continentil the last day that peoplecan choose to join Gods side.Then the door will sht, and sinwill be destroyed orever.
Its worth noting, too, that
sometimes Jess shts what
we open and opens whatwe sht. Did yo now that
in the very earliest days oAdventism, even beore thechrch was ocially ormed,some believed that the door inthe sht door concept reerredto in Revelation 22:11,12 hadalready been sht, and thatthere was no possibility osalvation or those who did notgo throgh the original GreatDisappointment. Than Godor orebears were still open toGod and were able to recognizepretty qicly that He didntwant them to thin that way.
And thats a very importantpointare we open to God and
His ways, even i they arentwhat we thoght, or are weclosed to any ideas we didntalready thin o and pt orname on? Are we willing tochange i it becomes necessary?
Are or minds open or sht,and is it possible to be so open-
minded that or brains all ot,or loced so tightly sht Godcant get in?
Keep i i: Sometimesyo want the door sht
becase its winter, and yowant to eep the warm air in.Sometimes yo want it sht
becase its smmer and yo
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want to eep the cool air in.Sometimes yo sht the sheep
gate becase yo dont want thesheep to wander. Andrea, thewaitress, eeps a gate on theitchen opening, not becaseshe doesnt love her ids andher dog, bt becase she does.
At the nrsing home wherethere is a wing or Alzheimeror other dementia patients,
they have to eep the doorloced so that people who cantremember where they are wontget ot and wander away. Theycold get lost, or get hit by acar. Sometimes they are angry
becase they eel loced in,bt the people who love them
want to eep them sae. Doingthis and seeing those yo lovegetting angry when yo aretrying to protect them can be aheart-wrenching experience.
Does Jess sht His lambsin sometimes? Abide with Me,He says. Stay here with Me, let
Me choose the path. Dont rnaway. Sometimes we may eel
loced in to some circmstanceor rle, bt in act, i we sticwith Jess, well be amazedhow ar well go. Well havehigher adventres and widerexperience than we ever wold
have expectedcertainly wider
than the ones who jmped overthe wall and got caght in a
bramble hedge! Bt thats oay,becase Jess goes ater them,too, resces them rom thethorns, carries them bac, andgives them another chance.
Keep i : When itcomes to hot or cold air, yocold loo at it either way. In
the winter months, are yoeeping the cold air ot or thewarm air in? And in smmer,are yo eeping the cool air inor the hot air ot? Yesgatesare lie that, too. When thesheep gate is sht and loced,the sheep cant get ot, bt
also, the hyenas and wolves andjacals and montain lions cantget in to eat them! I dont nowabot sheep, bt I now thereare dierent inds o peoplesome whod rather stay in andsae and never go ot at all, andsome who eel rebellios and
angry and dont want to be shtin everwhere are yo on thatcontinm?
In the Bible, Jess tals abotthieves and robbers who climbover the wall. In this world, letsace it: things are not the wayGod meant them to be when He
created it. There is no perect
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saety anymore. Even with thedoor closed, bad things can
happen. People can brea intohoses and steal things, andthey can brea into hearts andsteal secrity and peace. Thosewhose hoses have been robbedoten say that the worst thingisnt the jewelry or money orTVs they lost. The worst thingis not eeling sae anymore.
Someones been in their room,handling their things. They eel
betrayed and violated. Heartsare lie that, too. Someone yothoght yo cold trst betraysyor riendship and hrts yo,or someone made promises anddidnt eep them.
Jess will never do that. Heisnt jst someone who wont
brea down the doorHe isthe Door. He is the only wayto lie and happiness. He canopen wide and mae yo eelwelcome, and He can closearond yo, snggly, and maeyo eel sae.
We can trst Him.
Sonds simple, doesnt it? Theact is, Jess will never betrayyo, bt sometimes it might eelas thogh He has. Yor prayersmay be answered in ways yodont even recognize, so yo
eel nanswered, sometimes or
a very long time. Can we trstHim even then?
Yes. We can. Really.sw e wa: Jess not
only said He was the door, Hesaid He was the only way tothe Father. Thats in John 14:6,right ater He said He was theWay, the Trth, and the Lie,which well examine on another
day. Some people worry thatthis means all the millions opeople who never heard oJess will atomatically be
lost, bt the Bible doesnt teachthat. God is the perect and treJdge, and He nows whetherpeople are trying to ollow
the Creator or reject Him interms o the nowledge that isaccessible to them [Write text out- Romans 1:18-20]. These peoplewho will receive eternal lieand live orever with God willdo so throgh Jess lie, death,and resrrection, even i theydont now it and never heardo Him. Thats amazing andreassring, isnt it?
Everybody in Gods ingdomwold have gone throghthat door one way or another,whether they new it or not.Jess says those who knowingly
tried to get in another way,
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climbing over the wall, Hecalls it, are thieves and robbers,
and nless they change theirmind and go arond to thedoor, they will be cast ot. Thegreatest blessing is being able tosee that Jess is the Door to lie,and enter into Him by choice.
Lie the Light o the world,this door imagery also goes
both ways. Jess is the Door,the gateway to heaven even orthose who dont now Him andmaybe never hear o Him ntilthey get there. Bt not onlydo we enter into Him, He alsoenters into s. We have doors,too. In Revelation 3:20, Jesssays, Here I am! I stand at thedoor and knock. I anyone hearsmy voice and opens the door, Iwill come in and eat with him,and he with me.
Im sre Wens proessorwold agree that the traditionalinterpretation o this text (Jessasing to enter individalhearts) is also tre. Well loo atit his way shortly.
Despite the langage wehave sed or years, Jesswants to live in or hearts,none o s can really describeand explain what that means
or how it wors. Its a divine
mystery. Children as howJess can get tiny enogh to
live inside o them. They refectthe same ind o thiningNicodems disclosed whenJess told him that he hadto be born again; he asedwhether he had to reenter hismothers womb. Seclar people,even when they are honestlyseeing, can nd those concepts
consing. I were honest, wewill all admit we wonder jsthow it really wors. We saythat Jess, throgh the HolySpirit, lives in s, transorms s,eqips s or service, gides s,and helps s mae choices anddo the right things.
Jess never nocs downdoors. He never orces His wayson s. He made or hearts, Hehas called ot to s or entire
lives, and He has every rightand plenty o power over s!He cold mae s pppets iHe wanted to, bt Hes spent
thosands o years maing itclear that He has no interest incoercing s into acceptance andobedience. He never orces Hisway in. He stands politely at thedoor and nocs, waiting or sto answer.
What are some o the
ways Jess nocs on or
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hearts? We might thin o orconsciences. We have somemore Christian jargon or that,all abot seared consciencesand so orth. The act is, most othe time we have a pretty goodidea when we are abot to dosomething we sholdnt. Theresthis little ncomortable bumpinside. Thats a noc at thedoor. Do we answer? Or pretend
we didnt notice? Or come pwith all inds o argments and
jstications or why its oaythis time?
The pastor preaches asermon that particlarly appealsto s and reminds s o eternityand o the powerl lie with
God we cold have; want tohave; will have . . . one o thesedays . . . Do we call, Jst aminte!?
Even a song, or some lovingthing a riend says or does, can
be a noc. Someone dies, andwe thin abot when well seethem again in the New Earth,and theres another noc.
Sometimes we thin, Oh,man! Jess is at the door! Id
better clean p beore I let Himin! I woldnt want Him to seewhat its really lie in here!
News fashHe nows what
its lie in there! And Hes
the only one who can cleanit p, anyway. I we try to getsomehow good enogh rst,well never let Him in. Theresonly one job we have to do, andits plenty hard enogh. EllenWhite pts it lie this:
Jesus says, Behold, I standat the door, and knock. Willwe let Him in? He wouldnot have us stand at thistime, amid the perils o thelast days, in our own nitestrength.... It is our privilegeto walk in the sunshine o
His presence, and to weaveinto the characters we are
orming the golden threadso cheerulness, gratitude,
orbearance, and love. Wemay thus show the powero divine grace, and refectlight rom Heaven amidall the rets and irritationsthat come to us day by day.. . . Then why do we gostumbling along without
light? . . . Our work is toopen the door o the heartand let Jesus come in. He isknocking or entrance.... Will
you open the door? Jesusis standing at the door o
your heart. Let Him in, theheavenly Guest. (Our High
Calling, p. 352.2, 6)
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Did yo hear that? Orwork. Opening and letting Himin is the easiest thing everyo
jst say yes. Then yo get pand start doing the same thingsyo ever did, and yo realizeyo orgot and sht Him otthere again. So yo apologizeand open the door again. Thistime it lasts or abot vemintes, and then somebody
annoys yo, and yo yell, andyo realize, oay, Hes in, btIm not letting Him have anysayIm eeping Him standingin the corner, ot o my way.Its wor! It will tae s the resto or lives, bt its so worth it!Pretty soon, we realize werecooperating with Him, and newthings are happening, and itsexciting.
Then there are dierentinds o nocs or dierentpeople. Tae livelihood. Fromchildhood, we start thiningabot what we want to do withor lives. People sed to as,
What do yo want to be whenyo grow p? When it getsreally embarrassing is i, lieWen, yore two or three yearsinto college, and yo still dontnow. Or, lie Andrea, yodidnt go to college at all andare woring at a job where yo
are not nding great lllment.
Jess still has plans or s. Hedoesnt jst noc once andnever pay attention to s again.He has all inds o great ideasor or lives. I we stic withHim, well start to recognizewhen something as simple asan ad on TV or a job that opensp in or neighborhood might
be a noc rom Him. As wegrow in Him, we will also grow
in nowledge o orselves,especially in the ways that weare individals, and dierentrom each other. Well as whatHe made s to do and listen orthe answers.
The main qestion weredealing with dring this wee oprayer and spirital emphasisis, How did Jess now whoHe was? How did it occr toHim that He was a door or agate? I wonder i one way Jess
learned this abot Himsel isthat He ond Himsel beingprotective. Thats one o themain things doors doprotect
whats on one side rom whatson the other.
In this story in John, Jesshad healed the blind man, andthen the man had actally beeniced ot o the synagoge
becase he maintained thatit was Jess who had healed
him! The Pharisees were saying
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Jess coldnt have the powerto heal blindness, and the man
jst responded, Loo, I dontnow anything abot that. AllI now is, I sed to be blindand now I can see! Then hegot impatient and spoe a littletoo directly to the Pharisees,so they inslted him and saidhed been ll o sin rom
birth, and threw him ot o the
synagoge.
When Jess heard this, John9:35 says He went and ondthe man. He new that Hisprotectiveness was needed. Theman and his amily mst have
been very consed. Here theywereon what shold be the
happiest day o their livesahge miracle has been done orthem, and theyre iced ot othe chrch! Lets see what Jesssaid to the man. [Read or havesomeone read vs. 35-38.]
Jess chose to nd this manand reassre him, and throghhim, his parents, also. It was asi He closed the angry chrch
leaders ot and closed the manand his amily in where it wassae.
It was right ater this thatHe told the story o the sheep
and the gate, and said He was
the gate and His own sheepnew His voice and wold
ignore everyone else. Its a goodthing, too. What i that manhad given in to the synagoge
leaders, hanging his head andagreeing abot how bad hewas? He wold be able to see,
bt he wold have lost someo the blessings. Instead, hestood p or Jess and what he
new had been done or him.His aithlness was richlyrewarded as Jess met him oto the synagoge and revealedthat He was indeed the Son oMan. The blind man who coldnow see became one o the ewpeople mentioned in the gospels
who actally worshipped Jessas the Messiah dring His lieon earth.
Jess is the Door. The Gateto saety. Have yo gone in?
He also stands at yor heartsdoor. Have yo let Him in?
Once these two qestionshave been answered, theres athird. Are there ways in whichwe can be doors or gates, orgateeepers, anyway?
There is a very interestingstory abot doors and
dooreepers that yove heard
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