The Sacrificial Lamb
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Jesus is the Lamb
INTRODUCTION
ILL- Abraham and Isaac
Abraham tells Isaac, "God will provide a lamb"
1900 years later the final lamb was provided.
John the Baptist was a prophet sent to prepare the Jews for the coming of the Messiah.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
4 Reasons Jesus, The Lamb, is Superior
4 Reasons Jesus, The Lamb, is Superior
1. The Lamb is God
1. The Lamb is God
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
2. The Lamb is Permanent
2. The Lamb is Permanent
"take away the sins of the world"
No longer a need for continued sacrifice. This Lamb removes completely the sin of the world.
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Died once for all.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
3. The Lamb is Available
3. The Lamb is Available
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Story-- You must be born again. (Nicodemus)
Story-- You must accept the living water. (Woman at the Well)
4. The Lamb is Alive
4. The Lamb is Alive
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John was the first of the Apostles to see the empty tomb.
He outran Peter when Mary Magdalene reported him missing.
ILL- me running up hill and Abel walking next to me.
Jesus does more than just forgive sins, He completely removes.
He provides life, eternal life.
11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
It is through the sacrificial Lamb that we receive life.
Proved he has authority over death by his resurrection.
He was raised.
The lamb can give life because he is alive.
We will be raised
Victory over death.
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
CONCLUSION
Have you accepted the gift of the Lamb?
The Passover Lamb
Reminder of the need for a sacrificial lamb since the Exodus from Egypt.
Blood had to be applied.
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
