Top 10 Names Of Jesus
INTRO: I was reading in Isaiah the 9th Chapter and noticed Isaiah ripped 5 names for the the messiah was to come...
It would have reminded them of the lambs used in the daily sacrifices for the sin offerings (Lev. 14:12, 21, 24; Num. 6:12), and of the Messianic lamb led to the slaughter (Isa. 53:7). More than anything, Lamb of God would have recalled the Passover lamb (Exod. 12; John 19:36) and evoked the image of Israel’s deliverance from bondage.
In saying that Jesus was the “Lamb of God,” John was declaring that Jesus was the substitute sacrifice provided by God
Jesus stated that he was God-with-them. In a way that fulfilled yet surpassed an important aspect of Israel’s life—he was God’s true shepherd-king.
Under the Old Covenant God, the shepherd of his people (Psalm 80:1), led and cared for them by means of ‘shepherds’ like Abraham, Moses and Joshua (Numbers 27:15–19). In particular, however, God appointed a king, a man after his own ‘shepherd’s heart’, the young shepherd David (2 Samuel 5:1–4). God’s great concern was that his people would not be like ‘sheep without a shepherd’ (1 Kings 22:17).