Le sang parfait de Jésus
I. Un sang parfait
A. Dans l’Ancien Testament, un Agneau se devait d’être parfait - . À la Pâque, il devait être parfait.
B. Dans le Nouveau Testament, Jésus était l’Agneau parfait. -
II. Un sang précieux
A. Le prix a été la mort de Jésus sur la croix -
B. Les agneaux et les boucs ne pouvaient pas pardonner le péché -
C. Jésus l’Agneau de Dieu -
D. Rachetés par le sang de l’Agneau -
III. Un sang qui prévaut
A. Purifie de tout péché -
B. La vie est dans le sang -
C. La paix est par le sang -
D. Purifie la conscience -
IV. Un sang puissant
A. Guéris par son sang -
B. Pardonnés par son sang -
C. Justifiés par son sang -
D. Sanctifiés par son sang -
E. Rachetés par son sang -
F. Rapprochés par son sang -
ILLUSTRATION 187
SAVED BY THE FLEECE
Topics: Adoption; Atonement; Blood of Christ; Gift of Righteousness; Rescue; Salvation
References: John 1:29; Romans 8:15–17; Galatians 3:27; Ephesians 4:22–24; Colossians 3:9–10; 1 Peter 1:18–21
If you go to Scotland or anywhere there are a lot of sheep, sooner or later you will see a little lamb running around the field with what looks like an extra fleece tied onto its back. There are little holes in the fleece for its four legs and usually a hole for its head. If you see a little lamb running around like that, that usually means its mother has died.
Without the protection and nourishment of a mother, an orphaned lamb will die. If you try to introduce the orphaned lamb to another mother, the new mother will butt it away. She won’t recognize the lamb’s scent and will know the new baby is not one of her own lambs.
But thankfully, most flocks are large enough to have a ewe that recently lost a lamb. The shepherd skins the dead lamb and makes its fleece into a covering for the orphaned lamb. Then he takes the orphaned lamb to the mother whose baby just died. Now, when she sniffs the orphaned lamb, she smells her own lamb. Instead of butting the lamb away, she accepts it as one of her own.
In a similar way, we have become acceptable to God by being clothed with Christ.
—Peter Grant, in the sermon “In What Way Is Jesus Christ Different?”