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Intro
Studying the Gospel, the Good news about Jesus, as recorded for us by John.
John was a disciple of Jesus, one of the three that were especially intimate with Jesus.
He was called the beloved.
Jesus loved him, and he loved Jesus.
John wrote his gospel to the believers in Ephesus, believers that we know from other portions of the bible as being doctrinally sound.
That means, they knew the facts of what the Bible taught, and could teach others.
However, they also lost their love for Jesus.
And, when you lose your love for something or someone, well, life just isn’t the same.
John wrote his gospel to these believers, so that… well in his own words...
He wanted them to know the thrill of Jesus being the one that God promised to the world for so long.
Jesus, who is God himself, and who is in closest relationship with God the Father.
And that by believing in his name, those Ephesian believers would have life!
The kind of thrilling life that God intends for his children.
It is my prayer that you and I will not just know the facts of what to believe, but that we will fall in love with Jesus, the promised one, God Himself, and the giver of REAL life!
Today we continue our study in John 1:29-34.
John opened his gospel with a loaded explanation of who Jesus is!
He is the Word!
The one behind all of Creation.
The powerful Word of God that accomplishes, well, the impossible, creation of everything out of nothing just by speaking!!
He was with God.
He was God!
He explained that John the Baptist came as a witness, to testify concerning Jesus.
That word for being a witness, or to testify is the word from which we get our word martyr.
It is used 3 times in John 1:7-8, again in John 1:15.
We saw it last week in John 1:19.
Today, we are going to see it again in John 1:34.
John knew his mission, his role and he lived it out, fully.
Let’s read the passage for today.
Prayer
"Look, the Lamb of God...”
John has a series of four days in chapters 1 & 2 of his gospel.
The first day, the leaders in Jerusalem sent priest and Levites to ask him who he was.
But in answering their questions, John did not focus on himself, he focused on Jesus!
John let them know, I am not the Messiah.
I am not Elijah.
I am not the prophet.
No, I simply baptize with water.
Among you stands one you do not know.
He is the amazing one.
He is the one in comparison with i am not even the lowliest servant.
I could not even untie the straps of his sandals!
He is the One!
That brings us to the passage today.
The next day, John saw Jesus, and made the declaration, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
Why would John call Jesus the lamb of God?
This was not a commonly used term for the One for whom the Jews were anxiously waiting.
They typically called the One, the Messiah, the Anointed, or, the Prophet.
So, why would John use the term, “Lamb of God?”
I believe it goes all the way back to Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
Lambs have been a part of the imagery God put in place to help us know and understand Him, and what He is doing for us.
Let’s take a moment to go back and look at this imagery.
Adam and Eve.
Sin.
Guilt and Shame.
Hiding.
God seeks.
God confronts.
God condemns.
God promises.
God provides.
The punishment for disobeying God is death, separation from Him. God demonstrated this, and his Grace by killing an animal in place of Adam and Eve.
The text does not indicate a lamb, but in the next chapter, we see Abel offering a lamb, a practice he learned from Adam, who I believe, learned it from God here when he sinned.
God killed a lamb in Adam and Eve’s place.
To show how the guilt would be removed and transferred as another took their place.
God then took the garments of shame, the leaves they had used to clothe themselves temporarily, and clothed them with the skin of the lamb that was slain.
They were clothed in the lamb that died in their place to remove all shame.
Guilt and shame are dealt with through the blood of the lamb!
Where else do we see the lamb?
In Job we read that he would make burnt offerings in case his children sinned.
What did he use for the burnt offering?
Well a contemporary of Job was Abraham.
What did Abraham use for burnt offerings?
Genesis 22. Abraham and Isaac.
Pay attention to verse 7-8.
Isaac asked about the lamb.
That was the norm.
They used lambs for their burnt offerings.
The same is true for Israel when God gave them the law which condemns.
God also gave them the Levitical system which included the sacrifices.
They offered bulls, sheep or goats for burnt offerings.
Rich people, kings used bulls.
Normal people used sheep, primarily.
Anyway, back to the story...
They go to Mt. Moriah, the place God showed Abraham.
Abraham makes the altar.
He arranges the wood.
Then, he takes his son, ties him up and lays him on the altar when suddenly… God stops him, and...
Once again, God uses a lamb as a substitute.
The lamb dies in the place of Isaac.
Guild for sin is taken care of.
Shame is dealt with.
All of this is foreshadowing, which I believe God revealed to Abraham, because the story continues with a commentary by Moses.
It was on that mountain that God did provide, and not just for Adam and Eve.
Not just for Isaac.
Not just for the Israelites.
But for the whole World!!
Isaiah the prophet referred to this in Isaiah 53.
Notice, we were like sheep going astray.
Sheep are not great.
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