God Has Provided For Us

God Has Provided For Us! What We Learn 1. When Pilate asked the crowd, “What do you want me to do with this man, Jesus?” They shouted, “Crucify him.” 2. Each person, today, has to make the same choice Pilate and the crowd made. You must decide if you believe Jesus is the guiltless, perfect Son of God or not. Genesis 22; Luke 23:18-49 August 25, 2019 The Big Idea: Throughout the Bible, we are taught that one day God would send a “substitute” who would take the punishment we deserve for our rebellion against our Creator. God sent His Son, Jesus, to receive the wrath of His Father for our sin and to be our Savior if we would receive Him into our lives. Genesis 22 (ESV) 22 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 8 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 13 What We Learn 1. God does not want humans to be sacrificed for sin. 2. When God provided a substitute sacrifice for Isaac, it was a picture of what He would do one day in an even larger way. John 1:29 (ESV) “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” What We Learn 1. Remember Isaac’s question: “Where’s the lamb?” Jesus’ cousin, John the Baptist, answers that question. 2. God’s Son is fully God and fully man. He lived a fully human life and was completely obedient and righteous in all He did, so that He was qualified to be the Perfect Sacrifice for sin. Luke 24:4 Pilate, after questioning Jesus, tells the crowd of people, “I find no guilt in this man.” Luke 23:39–43 (ESV) One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 And he [Jesus] said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” 39 How can God say, to anyone, “You are pardoned. Your sins are forgiven. You can come to heaven?” 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Isaiah 53:4-6 speaks of the coming Lamb of God: 4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 1 Peter 3:18 says, “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,” John 1:12 says, “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,” On the cross, God treated Jesus as if He lived your life so He could treat you as if you lived His life. That’s the Gospel. That’s substitution.