The Excessive Life (5 of 10)
Series: Real Jesus
Craig Smith
John 10:1-10
Big Idea: Jesus longs for us to experience life of excessive good.
I. Introduction
Prayer for first responders
How do you tell the real thing?
II. Main
A. The First Part of the Metaphor
''Very truly I tell you Pharisees...'' (John 10:1a)
Let's just pause here for a moment, because there are a couple of things I want to point out:
1. First, what Jesus says here, literally, is '' ''Amen, amen, I tell you...'', which feels a little backwards. We use ''amen'' at the end of our prayers, so we say ''amen'' at the end of what we say to God, but Jesus uses it at the beginning of what he says. Now, ''amen'' means ''truly'', so ''amen, amen'' is ''truly, truly'' which was a way that Jesus emphasized the importance of something he was about to say. Now, since Jesus is the Son of God, pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth is going to fall into the category of important, right? But when he says ''amen, amen'' or ''truly, truly'', what he's saying is: what I'm about to tell you is a really big deal.
2. The second thing I want to point out is that Jesus is speaking here to the Pharisees. That was the same group of religious leaders he was talking to at the end of John 9. So what we're seeing here is a continuation of that conversation. At the end of John 9, he had told the Pharisees that, in spite of the fact that they thought they were eyes-wide-open when it came to God, the truth was that they were blind as bats. Now he's continuing to talk to them about the truth that they're not seeing, that he's the real deal. So he says:
''Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out ...
Series: Real Jesus
Craig Smith
John 10:1-10
Big Idea: Jesus longs for us to experience life of excessive good.
I. Introduction
Prayer for first responders
How do you tell the real thing?
II. Main
A. The First Part of the Metaphor
''Very truly I tell you Pharisees...'' (John 10:1a)
Let's just pause here for a moment, because there are a couple of things I want to point out:
1. First, what Jesus says here, literally, is '' ''Amen, amen, I tell you...'', which feels a little backwards. We use ''amen'' at the end of our prayers, so we say ''amen'' at the end of what we say to God, but Jesus uses it at the beginning of what he says. Now, ''amen'' means ''truly'', so ''amen, amen'' is ''truly, truly'' which was a way that Jesus emphasized the importance of something he was about to say. Now, since Jesus is the Son of God, pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth is going to fall into the category of important, right? But when he says ''amen, amen'' or ''truly, truly'', what he's saying is: what I'm about to tell you is a really big deal.
2. The second thing I want to point out is that Jesus is speaking here to the Pharisees. That was the same group of religious leaders he was talking to at the end of John 9. So what we're seeing here is a continuation of that conversation. At the end of John 9, he had told the Pharisees that, in spite of the fact that they thought they were eyes-wide-open when it came to God, the truth was that they were blind as bats. Now he's continuing to talk to them about the truth that they're not seeing, that he's the real deal. So he says:
''Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out ...
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