Lamb of God

 Day 7: Lamb of God 

John 1:19

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

Something about the simplicity and declaration of this verse makes it one of my favorites! Scripture says John was filled with the Holy Spirit from birth. He was divinely aware of what God was up to! John had the huge privilege of baptizing Jesus, can you even imagine???

Quick summary of a few Old Testament relating stories:

Remember the horrific story of Abraham taking Isaac up a mountain to sacrifice him in obedience to the Lord? 

Genesis 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. 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 bunt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together. 

Thankfully an angel of the Lord stopped the sacrifice and there was ram to sacrifice instead. As hard as that story is to hear, we realize God sent his Son Jesus to die a much worse death. God had to turn his face away and the earth went dark. Jesus was the lamb on the cross. 

Also, you remember at the Passover that we talked about a few days ago, God called the Israelies to sacrifice a perfect lamb and put the blood on the doorpost. The placement on the doorpost foreshadowed the shape of the cross- it was to be put on the top and the sides, think about that connecting that and it making the cross. The lamb’s blood on their doorway was the entrance to their deliverance from slavery and the oppression of the Pharaoh. The blood of Jesus frees us from the slavery of being bound to sin to give us freedom to love and serve God!

Skipping to Revelation 5:11-14

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, 

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, 

To receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, 

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb

Be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

And the four living creatures said “Amen1” and the elders fell down and worshipped.

I pray we will remember it was no small thing for God to send his son to die, that we will live in the freedom that the Lamb provided, that we will worship Jesus for being the Lamb of God who saved us from our sin and that we will see and recognize Jesus in our lives with confidence as John did!