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Introduction - the need for taking away
What are you looking for?ExperienceRelationshipEducationPleasureSatisfactionThe bible says this in a tremendous statement.
We need to note - who is saying it and where it is in the gospel.
The Bible says, we need something taking away, because if we keep it, it will kill us.
We can be looking for the wrong thing, and we can be looking in the wrong place.
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What must be taken away
Most of us don’t like things to be taken awayToddler - Evie.Robbery theftBut there are things that do need to be taken away, because they will harm us
Most of us don’t like things to be taken awayToddler - Evie.Robbery theftBut there are things that do need to be taken away, because they will harm us
Joseph Bazalgette and the great stink of 1858.
The pollution of the thames was killing the people.
One man devised a way to cleanse save the people from death and take away that which was killing them - he devised the modern London sewage system.
And the people of London have been gateful ever since!
The Bible tells us that we have something worse than sewage and waste, and it is killing us.
The Bible calls it sin.
Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
Sin is far worse because it won’t just give us cholera and destroy our physical bodies - the bible tells us that it will destroy our eternal souls.
It will cut us off from all that is good and destroy hope.
It is called here the sin of the world.
Not of the physical earth, but of the moral beings who are in the world.
Images bearers of God who fill this world, yet have despised his law and lived in sin.
2. Who takes it away
Who is doing this taking away work?
We need to notice the language of JTB.
Now the word takes away has a sense of lifting up and carrying away.
Now do you see anything strange about what John the Baptist says about who will be lifting it away?
He says it will be the lamb of God.
Now we know JTB is using figurative language, but why does he use the animal lamb?
If it was me, I might have said, behold the horse or the ox, or the elephant or some great and strong animal that is able to carry heavy loads.
But no, John uses the picture of a lamb, a weak, small defenceless creature.
Why does John use the language of a lamb?Because God had promised a lambBecause lambs were animals that were offered up for sin
3. How your sin can be taken away
By looking at the lamb of God.
Not sufficient to look to him as anything else.
It is interesting that John had to point to Jesus.
But there was no beauty that we should desire Him ().
Could you imagine anyone famous today requiring someone to go before them and to point them out?
E.g.
David Beckham?
But all that you have to do to have your sin taken away is to look to the one of
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