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JESUS THE MESSIANIC LAMB OF GOD
MONDAY, APRIL 21
John 1:19-34

1 John 2:15-17

 

“…Behold the Lamb of God…”

 

JESUS THE MESSIANIC LAMB OF GOD
 
Jesus is “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” The lamb sacrifices of the Old Testament were never able to take away sins. “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. …For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Heb 10:1, 4). All the Old Testament animal sacrifices merely foreshadow the Real Sacrifice to come, namely, the Messianic Lamb of God — the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
 
The believers of old were saved not by the blood of the many lambs they had sacrificed, but by the blood of the Lamb of God alone which effectively takes away the sin of the world. Abel, for instance, was saved not because he trusted in the lamb he offered, but in that lamb he saw by faith, the Lamb that God Himself would provide. This Lamb is Christ — the Seed of the woman — who will crush the head of Satan — the serpent (Gen 3:15). That is why it is recorded, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh” (Heb 11:4). Peter likewise wrote, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pet 1:18-19).
 
Jesus saved us by His perfect obedience as the Lamb of God. His obedience is seen in His willingness to offer Himself as a Sacrifice to appease God’s wrath against sinners. His obedience is also seen in His being without spot and blemish, absolutely sinless under the Law’s holy demands.
 
THOUGHT: The Lamb is also our Shepherd.
PRAYER: “To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.”

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