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JESUS THE LAMB OF GOD – THE SON OF GOD
/“The Third Witness of John the Baptist”/
John 1:29-34
 
! Introduction – /The Christmas Story/
 
Greg Laurie – (/Everyday with Jesus/), p. 17
 
“Long before their was a planet earth, long before a man named Adam and a woman named Eve ate of the forbidden fruit in a garden named Eden, long before Bethlehem was founded…a decision was made in eternity that Jesus Christ would come to this earth as a man and walk among us, die on the cross, and rise again on the third day.
The stunning truth is, God designed the Christmas story to make provision for our sins and failures even before there was a you & me.”
Revelation 13:8 makes this clear: “The Lamb [was] slain from the foundation of the world.”
C.S.Lewis explained, “The Son of God became of man that men might become sons of God.”
Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden did not surprise God; even before the creation of the world, God knew that He would have to make provision for our sins.
The Scriptures say why Jesus came to this sinful, corrupted world, where He would be ridiculed, mocked, beaten, & murdered on a Cross at Calvary, the reason is as Paul stated,
 
                “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” 1 Tim.1:15
I.
Christ is the Lamb of God—1:29
 
/The Lamb is a picture of Christ our Passover who was sacrificed for us./
For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
(1 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV)
 
A.
Historically—refers back to the time when God delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage (Ex.11:1ff.).
The Tenth Plague: Death Announced to the Firstborn (Exodus 11:1-10).
Instructions for the Passover (Exodus 12:1-14)
                The Participation in the Passover (Exodus 12:21-28)
 
1.
God had pronounced judgment upon Egypt, to take the first born.
2.       Those who believed God were instructed to kill a pure lamb and sprinkle its blood over their doorposts.
3.       The blood of the /innocent lamb/ would serve as a sign that the coming judgment had already taken place.
4.       Seeing the blood, God would pass over that house & those in the house would be saved.
5.
Those who did not believe did not apply the blood to their homes and their firstborn were killed.
Incidentally:
In participating in the Passover, Jew’s would think back when God told them to take a lamb, slay it, and put the blood on their doorposts.
Many Jewish homes would take this lamb into the house as a pet.
Can you imagine having to sacrifice your dog?
Or your favorite cat?
They intentionally had to do this so that the real affection would develop between the people and the lamb, thus heightening the sense of loss when the animal was finally killed
                They would feel the pain of it and realize the pain God felt when they sinned against Him.
There is an interesting progression in commands about the Passover lamb (/see /Exodus 12:3-5)
 
1.
First God said take “a lamb” (v.3)
2.       Then “the lamb” (v.4)
3.       Then “your lamb” (v.5) thus, moving from the impersonal to the personal
 
 
This is how we come to know God
 
1.
We realize there is a God out their – A Lamb
2.       We realize He is “The Lamb of God”
 
Not just a god but The ONLY TRUE & LIVING GOD – THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO THE FATHER.
3.
Then I realize He is “my” Lamb – I take Him as my own.
Is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God your God?
 
B.
Symbolically—the Passover pictured the coming of Jesus Christ as the Savior.
The Lamb without blemish pictured His sinless life (John 1:29 cf. 2 Cor.
5:21)
The blood sprinkled on the door posts pictured His blood shed for the believer.
Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave /it/ to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.
"For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(Matthew 26:27-28 NKJV)
 
1.
This was a sign that the life & the blood of the innocent lamb had been substituted for the firstborn.
2.       The eating of the lamb pictured the spiritual nourishment gained by feeding on Christ, the Bread of life
 
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life (John 6:48).
We must “let the words of Christ dwell in us richly” (Colossians 3:16).
3.
The unleavened bread (bread without yeast) pictured the need of putting evil out of one’s life & household.
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares /us/, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (Hebrews 12:1 NKJV)
 
The Point of the Passage
 
                It was the shedding of the blood, the blood of the lamb that saved the people.
1.
The lamb was a substitute for the people.
2.       The lamb symbolized Christ our Passover who was sacrificed for us.
3.       If we believe and apply His blood to our hearts & homes He saves us.
4.       If we do not believe & apply His blood to our hearts & homes, we will be destroyed
5.       It was the lamb of God (Jesus) who was sacrificed for us on our behalf
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It is His blood that saves us.
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”
 
/The Lamb is a picture of the precious blood of Christ, which redeems us./
/ /
We have victory over Satan through the Blood of Christ (Revelation 12:11)
 
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
(Revelation 12:11 NKJV)
 
We have been redeemed and purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ!
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit /who is/ in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV)
 
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, /like/ silver or gold…but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
(1 Peter 1:18-19 NKJV)
 
 
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Historically - two lambs were sacrificed “day by day continually…the one…in the morning; and the other…at eve”
 
Exodus 29:38-39
 
1.
Symbolically, the sins of the people were placed upon the two animals.
2.       Symbolically, they bore the judgment of the peoples sin, which was death, the shedding of blood.
3.       They were sacrificed for sin, & by their death, they symbolically set the people free from their sins.
Note the Critical Point.
It was not the deed that caused God to remove the sin, but the /faith /of the person in God’s Word /that He would remove the sins./
B.
This is a picture of Christ…Jesus Christ is…
 
–         The perfect Lamb of God, without sin (blemish or spot).
–         The One upon whom the sins of the people were placed.
–         The One who bore the judgment for sin, which was death.
–         The One who was sacrificed for sin
–         The One whose death sets people free by redeeming them.
–         The One whose blood is counted precious both by God and believers
 
It must be noted:
 
1.
Jesus Christ willingly offered Himself as the sacrificial Lamb, as our substitute & sin bearer.
2.       God willingly accepted the offering & sacrifice of His Son on our behalf.
3.       God is satisfied with the payment for sin that Christ made on our behalf.
"Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.
"No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
This command I have received from My Father."
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