Behold The Lamb of God - Jason Schrock

Christin greeting sweet you on this morning. I'm happy to

be together in the name of Jesus. It's already been mentioned,

and it is him that we have come to worship

and commemorate, appreciate the songs that have been sung devotional

that has pointed this out to us. This morning. I'd

like to use as a text John chapter one, verse

twenty nine. And these here are the words of John

the Baptist that we'd like to build our thoughts on.

Here this morning. I'll read that at this time John one,

twenty nine. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto

him and saith, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh

away the sin of the world. And I've entitled the

messages this morning Behold the Lamb of God. We know

that John the Baptist came as a voice crying in

the wilderness. I'm not quite sure what all that meant.

I believe it was meant that he lefted up his voice.

He let people know about the need for repentance. He

let the people know about their sins. He let them

know that there was coming a day, and it was

almost tear when there was going to be some great

things take place. You know, John didn't seek out the

religious leaders of the day and try to to work

with them. But he preached out away from the towns,

away from the hustle and bustle of society. And it

says he was in the wilderness. Whatever that means, I'm

not quite sure how the top top top ophography would

have been there. But there was something riveting about his

preaching and his message. And the crowds went out of

the towns to hear him. Says out of Jerusalem and

out of Judea did they go out because he was

a strange looking man. He was not attired in the

finest of clothing. His clothing was made of camel's hair,

which I guess would be fairly rough. I don't know

that I've ever seen anything made of camel's hair. He

had a girdle of leather. He didn't sit down and

have great feasts with the elite of the day. His

diet was locusts and wild honey. But he had a message,

and his message was straightforward, and he told her the

people to repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

I'd like to read from Matthew three verses five to twelve.

We find here just a nutshell of his to the

people Matthew three Versus five, and following then went out

to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region

round about Jordan, and were baptized of him, and Jordan,

confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the

Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said, under them,

O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee

from the wraths, to come, bring forth therefore fruits meet

for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves we

have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you

that God is able of these stones to raise up

children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid

under the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which

bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast

into the fire. I indeed baptized you with water and repentance.

But he that cometh after me is mightier than I,

whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall

baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, whose

fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge

his floor and get gather his wheat into the gardener,

but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

I suppose that John the Baptist offended some people. Here

were the religious leaders of the day, the Pharisees and

the Sadducees, and they came to John to see what

he had to say. He said, you snaked, and I

don't know how they responded that, but he told them

just the way it was, and he said, now the

axe is laid to the root of the trees. And

so the people sensed through the preaching of John the

Baptist that there was something that was changing. It seemed

that something of great magnitude was about to take place.

And there was a message, and there was a messenger,

and so they begin to wonder, is this a messiah

that we've been waiting for? And they asked him, who

are you? He said, I'm not the Messiah. Well are

you Elijah or that prophet? Now what did they mean

by that prophet? I think that prophet meant, you know,

Moses had said that he was going to that God

was going to raise up a prophet that was greater

than him, that would be I forget just how that

was worded there but that prophet, and they knew that

a greater prophet than him would come. So John told

them there's one coming that is mightier than he was.

He said, I'm not even worthy to tie his shoes.

And he said, the one you are asking about, the

one you were wondering about, he's here in your midst

But they didn't know who it was. And you know,

neither did John know who it was. He too wondered.

He too knew that there was a great event about

to take place. He knew that God was on the

brink of revealing the long await of Messiah. God had

told him that the one you see the spirit descending

and remaining on him is the Son of God. And

John wondered, who could this be? Then John saw the

spirit descending like a dove and resting on the head

of Jesus. And what was John's response? He says, Look,

the Son of God that takes away this end of

the world. It says in John in our text, there

behold the Lamb of God. Strong's concordance says that behold

is an interjection that denotes surprise. It was almost like he, yeah,

he just didn't realize that this man here was the

anointed one of God. Now why did John classify Jesus

as a lamb? Behold the lamb of God. You know,

the lamb was the principal animal of sacrifice and Jews,

the lambs were often all offered on the on special days.

Each morning and each evening there was a lamb that

was sacrificed. Uh the first day of a new moon,

each day of the Passover feast, and many of other

special days there were lambs that were offered to the Jews.

The lamb represented innocence and gentleness. Now, in the Old Testament,

sacrifices and we sang a song about that this morning,

all the blood of beasts on Jewish elder slain. When

there was a sacrifice under the Old Covenant, each sinner

brought his own sacrifice that he gave. But now we

have something completely different, of greater magnitude. God himself was

supplying the sacrifice. It is the lamb of God, not

the lamb of man. And he taketh away the sin

of the whole world, not just the Jews, but the

whole world. For the lamb to atone for sin, his

blood needed to be shed, it was killed, and the

blood flowed. In the Vitica seventeen, verse eleven, it says,

for the life of the flesh is in the blood,

and I've given it to you upon the altar to

make an atonement for your souls. For it is a

blood that makes an atonement for the soul. And so

God the Father needed to supply a sacrifice that would

be acceptable to him, and he had already said under

the old Covenant that it is blood that makes an

atonement for your soul, and so of a necessity it

must be a blood sacrifice. So how could he offer

his son, who was God? In fact, I noticed there

I just my eyes went ahead there where Joel was

reading in Luke twenty four. Rather interesting there in verse

thirty nine, it says, behold my hands and my feet,

that is I myself, handle me and see, for a

spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me have.

So Jesus was saying a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones.

He also told the woman at the well that God

is a spirit, and so how was God going to

supply a sacrifice? And so he sent his son in

the form of human flesh that human flesh had blood veins,

it had blood flowing through it. And this now was

a sacrifice that was acceptable to God. So Jesus as

the Lamb of God, was prefigured in the description that

Isaiah gave in chapter fifty three in foretelling the sufferings

of the Messiah, he said he has brought as a

lamb to the slaughter. One Corinthians five to seven gives

a clue that the passover lamb prefigured the Lamb of God.

In one Corinthians five seven, it says, for even Christ,

our passover is sacrificed for us. And so we think

of the passover. We go to the story of the

children of Israel in Egypt. And God had told Moses

to go and tell Pharaoh to let my people go,

and Pharaoh refused. So God sent numerous plagues to show

him that he was sovereign, and finally, after reputed refusal,

Pharao would say yes, and then he would say no,

and he would not let them go. Finally, God said,

there's going to be one more plague, and that's the

death of the firstborn. And so in preparation for that,

God instructed Moses to tell the Israelites what they should

do in preparation for their exodus from Egypt. If you

want to, you may turn to Exodus twelve. I'll be

taking a few thoughts from here. This here was where

the passover was instituted. I'm going to read verses three

to five, and now this follows nine plagues that had

not convinced Pharao to let them go. Verse three, speaking

unto all the congregation, visual saying, in the tenth day

of this month, they shall take to them every man

in lamb according to the house of their fathers, a

lamb for a house. And if household be too little

for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto

his house take it according to the number of the souls.

Every man, according to his eating, shall make your count

for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a

male of the first year. You shall take it out

from the sheep or from the goats. So this was

to be a lamb that was taken for the passover meal.

It was to be a male, a one year old male,

and it was to be without blemish. I'm going to

I want to come back to Exodus twelve here, but

I wanting to jump over to Leviticus twenty two, and

see what was how important it was that what was

offered to God was perfect. Leviticus twenty two, Verses nineteen

to twenty two. Ye shall offer it your own will,

a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep,

or of the goats. But whatsoever hath a blemish, that

shall ye not offer, for it shall not be acceptable

unto you. And whosoever offered a sacrifice of peace offerings

under the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a free

will offering in beaves or sheep, it shall be perfect

to be act. There shall be no blemish therein, blind

or broken, or maimed, or having a win or scurvy

or scabbed. Ye shall not offer these under the Lord.

No make an offering by fire of them upon the

altar under the Lord. And so Moses told the child

of visual there you need to take a perfect lamb,

the best of your flock, one year old, and set

that aside. So whenever there was an offering made, it

was not a time to get rid of the scuzsies.

Just what they didn't want an animal with lesser value,

one that was maybe maimed or broken, but it was

to be a male in its prime. First Peter one

eighteen says, forasmuch as ye were not redeemed with corruptible

things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received

by tradition from your father's, but with the brecious blood

of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

And so we see then that they passover lamb prefigured

Jesus Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot.

All right, Now, going back to Exodus twelve, I'd like

to read verse six. Now they were to pick out

this lamb, take it from the sheep or the goats,

and take it. And then verse six says, and ye

shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the

same month. So they were to take this on the

tenth day of the month, and then it was to

it was to be observed. It was to be set

aside for four days. Now I assume I don't think

it implies that they would observe it and make sure

that it wasn't sick, make sure it was prime, that

this was a good a good specimen of animals, and

so it was to be set aside. Is there any

blemish is there any defect, It must be a perfect

sacrifice to God. And so looking at types and shadows.

I was looking in the book that Dan Biler put together,

and he has a little bit on this, and he

said that this tenth day corresponds to the day that

Jesus entered Jerusalem, where they said Hosanna the Highest, and

they had palm branches and they hailed him as king.

But then there were four days of testing to see

if this was the perfect sacrifice to be made. He

was tempted. He was questioned by the religious leaders. If

you want to turn to Matthew twenty two, this is

one place where we find how he was tempted during

those four days. I'm going to just read a few

verses here, starting with verse fifteen. Then went the Pharisees

and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

They were going to take care of this fella. They

wanted to trip him up for sixteen and they sent

out unto him their disciples with the Herodian sing master.

We know that thou art true and teachest a way

of God and truth, where neither carostyle for any man.

For thou regardless not the person of men. Tell us ereher,

what thinkest thou is it lawful to give tribute unto

Caesar or not. Jesus perceived their wickedness and say, and

why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites. And then we know

that he gave the answer, rendering the Caesar the things

are Caesar, and under God the things are Gods. And

verse twenty two says when they had heard these words,

they marveled and left him and went their way. Okay,

so this was the Pharisees. They didn't have an answer back.

They found that this lamb was perfect. Well, then on

the same day the Sadducees, which were the rulers of

the people, and they say there's no resurrection, they came

and told them a little story about a man that

had married and had died and left no children so on,

and wanted to know in the resurrection who's And then

this wife married multiple times. And so Jesus gave answer

there And in verse thirty three it says, and when

the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine. Again,

they couldn't gainsay what Jesus had said. All right, so

we have the Pharisees. We have the Sadducees, verse thirty four.

But when the Pharisees had heard how they had put

the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one

of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question,

tempting him and saying, Master, which is a great commandment

of the law. So then Jesus gave a perfect answer.

Loved the Lord, that God with all the heart and soul.

That's the first, and the second is liking to it.

They shall love the neighbor and thyself. On these two

commandments hang all the law on the prophets. Going down

to the last verse of the chapter, it says, and

no man was able to answer him a word. Neither

durst any man from that day fourth ask him any

more questions. They tried, They tried to put him to silence,

They tried to shame you, they tried to find fault

with him, but they could not. In those four days,

this perfect lamb of God was sinless. He was shown

to be without blemish. It's interesting how on the day

of the crucifixion. I think there's at least five people

that testified to Jesus's perfection. Pilot said three times, I

find no fault in him. Pilot's wife said, have nothing

to do with that just man. Judas Iscariot said, I

have sinned. I have betrayed innocent blood. The thief said,

this man has done nothing amiss. The centurion said, certainly

this was a righteous man. Certainly this man was a

perfect sac that God could give. Now once more, going

back to Exodus twenty, at the institution of the passover,

Exodus twelve, verse seven. Now this is Moses saying, they

shall they were to kill the lamb in the evening,

and they shall take of the blood and strike it

on the two side posts and on the upper door

posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. Then

verses twelve and thirteen. For I will pass through the

land of Egypt this night and will smite all the

firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast,

and against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment.

I am the Lord, and the blood shall be to

you for a token upon the houses where ye are.

And when I see the blood, I will pass over you,

and the plague shall not be upon you destroy you.

When I smite the land of Egypt. I can well

imagine that the Israelites wondered, what is the meaning of

all this? So we're supposed to kill this lamb. We're

supposed to take that blood and strike it on the

little strike it on the door post. And that's supposed

to protect us from the death. Angel did it? Certainly did?

And I think maybe we'll just take time to sing

a song of the passover. If you want to turn

to two for this song is entitled the Blood of

the Lamb.

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Will pass pass over you. Yes, I will pass over you.

Yes, when I see love, I will.

Pass I will pass over.

Sohole, this morning I get a picture of the blood

of Christ on the doorposts of this place in which

we dwell in our hearts that the death angel will

pass over us. There's judgment is coming, But those who

have the blood applied are and so as we think

of the passover, This lamb of God was given as

an offering so that his blood would cleanse us. God

did not present a tree or rock, or the sun

or the moon or the planets, which many of the

heathen worshiped, but he presented his son in the flesh.

God presented an offering that had blood, and it came

from the lamb of God. It was interesting to look

in the New Testament, you know, really the New Testament

referring to Jesus as a lamb is not found real

often except in the Book of Revelation twice in John Juan,

there where John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God.

In Acts eight, where Philip had the encounter with the

Ethiopian eunuch, he was led as a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb before her shearers. And then I

already gave the testimony of Peter, who had observed his master,

and he said, but with the precious Blood of Christ,

as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. But

then we come to the Book of Revelation, and here

the lamb is mentioned twenty eight times. To give a

little bit of an introduction to that. If you want

to turn to Revelation, we could look at that a

little bit. I'm going to read just several verses from

the first chapter, Chapter one, verses four to six, John,

to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace be

unto you and peace from Him which is and which was,

and which is to come, and from the seventh Spirit

star before his throne, from Jesus Christ, to is a

faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and

the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him

that loved us and washed us from our sins in

his own blood, and has made us kings and priests

unto God and his father to him be glorying dominion

forever and ever. So here talks about him that washed

us from our sins in his own blood. And then

it seems that chapter five is the introduction to the Lamb.

And I think I'm going to just take the time

to read this entire chapter, and would notice a number

of times where the Lamb is mentioned. Revelation five. And

I saw in the right hand of him that sat

on the throne of book written within and on the

back side, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a

strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy

to open the book and to loose the seals are

of And no man in in heaven, nor on earth,

neither under the earth, was able to open the book,

neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no

man was found worthy to open and to read the book,

neither to look thereon. And one of the elders said,

in to be weeped, not behold the lion of the

tribe of Judah, the root of David hath prevailed to

open the book and to loose the seven seals areof.

And I beheld, and low in the midst of the

throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst

of the elders, stood a lamb, as it had been slain,

having the seven horns and seven eyes, which are the

seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

And he came and took the book out of the

right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And

when he had taken the book, the four beasts and

the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb,

having every one of them harps and golden vowels full

of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. And

they sung a new song, saying, now art worthy to

take the book and to open the seals are of.

For thee was slain, and has redeemed us to God

by thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue, and

people and nations, and has made us under our God,

kings and priests, and we shall rade on the earth.

And I be held, and I heard the voice of

many angels run round about the throne, and the beasts

and the elders, and the number of them was ten

thousand times ten thousands and thousands of thousands, saying with

a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb there was slain

to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength, and

honor and glory and blessing. And every creature which is

in heaven and on the earth, and under the earth,

and such as are the sea, and all that are

in them, heard I saying, blessing and honor and glory

and power be unto him that sit upon the throne,

and unto the Lamb, forever and ever. And the four

beasts said amen, And the four and twenty dollars fell

down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever. And

so we see here an introduction to the Lamb, the

one that was slain. I'm not going to take time

to read all the references to the Lamb and Revelation,

but I would like to read just a few more.

Going to chapter seven, verse fourteen says and I said

unto him, sir, thou knowest. And he said to me,

these are they which came out of great tribulation, and

have washed their robes and made them white in the

blood of the Lamb, sins, taking away robes made white,

the blood cleansing. Going over to chapter fifteen, verse three,

and they sing the song of Moses, the Servant of God,

and the song of the Lamb, saying, great and marvelous

are their works, Lord God, Almighty, Just and true are

the ways our king of Saints. Sometimes we sing that song,

the song of Moses the Lamb. What is that song?

I'm not sure what it all is, but I think

it's a song of deliverance. The song of Moses was

after they had crossed the Red Sea and had escaped

the clutches of Pharaoh. And the song of the Lamb

is also a song of deliverance from sin. Then, going

on to chapter nineteen, we have the picture of a marriage,

the marriage supper of the Lamb, verses seven and nine.

Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him,

for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his

wife has made herself ready verse nine. And he said

it to me, right blessed or they which are called

under the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said

it to me, These are the true sayings of God.

If we go to chapter twenty one. We find there

a picture of the new Jerusalem, and it's interesting, you know,

how much of that's literal, how much of its figurative.

I guess that's that's open for consideration. But in that

description the Lamb is mentioned five times. There's no need

of a temple there the Lord God Almighty, and the

Lamb is the temple. There's no need of the sun

or moon, for the Lamb is the light. And then

I'd like to read the first three verses of the

last chapter of the Bible. And he showed me a

pure river, water of life, clears crystal, proceeding out of

the Throne of God and of the Lamb. In the

midst of the street of it. On either side of

the river was there the tree of life, which bear

twelve manner of fruits, and yielder fruit every month. And

the leaves of the tree were for the healing of

the nations. And there shall be no more curse but

the throne of God, the throne of God and of

the Lamb, shall be in it, and his servants shall

serve him. So I'm thankful this morning for this Lamb.

The other evening, brother Samuel was talking to me, and

he said, as he was looking forward to communion, he

was looking at John six and saw some interesting things there.

So I looked at that, and he's right. John six

is where Jesus fed the five thousand, and then the people,

of course wanted to make him a king because he

fed them. I'm going to read just a little bit

from John six, Verses thirty two thirty five. Then Jesus

said on them, verly, verly, asay to you, Moses gave

you not that bread from heaven. But my Father giveth

you the true bread from heaven, for the bread of God,

as he was coming down from heaven and giveth life

into the world. Then they said, unto him, Lord, everymore,

give us his bread. And Jesus said to them, I

am the bread of life. He that cometh to me

shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall

never thirst. And then going down to verse forty eight,

I am that bread of life. And he goes on

and says talks about the Manna, and then verses fifty

three and following Then Jesus said to them, verily, verily,

I sent to you, except you eat the flesh of

the Son of Man and drink his blood. You have

no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh

my blood hath eternal life. And I will raise him

up at the last day. For my flesh is meat, indeed,

and my blood is drink Indeed, he that eateth my

flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I

in him, as a living Father has sent me, and

I lived by the Father. So he that eatth me,

even he shall live by me. This is that bread

which came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did

eat mana and are dead. He that eateth this bread

shall live forever. And so we have here the picture

of the body of Jesus being bread, and we commemorate

that today with bread. And the blood of Jesus is

likened to the or, I should say, the wine or

the grape juice is likened to the blood of Jesus.

Whoever drinks that will live forever. And so we know

that this lamb's body was broken. We know that this

lamb gave his lifeblood. I could maybe use a little

bit of help on this. I was curious, maybe you

can help it with this. But in the four Gospels

we have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I do not

read in Matthew, Mark and Luke anywhere on the account

of the crucifixion where the blood of Jesus is mentioned.

But John we do, because it talks about his side

being pissed and came forth blood and water. Now we

know that there was blood shed because of the way

Jesus was treated with the with the crown of thorns,

and being scourged and so all that. But just the

mention of blood, I didn't find it there. But we

do know that according to John the Apostle, John was

there at the cross. He was there with the mother

of Jesus, and Jesus said, behold I son, And he

said to John, behold that mother. And John then records

the actual shedding of blood on the cross. But you know,

throughout the New Testament the aspect of the blood of

Jesus is very prevalent, and I found it especially in

the book of Hebrews. Now, when Jesus instant to the

communion service, he said this in Matthew twenty six, twenty eight,

for this is my blood of the New Testament, which

is shed for many for the remission of sins. This

we could the word Testament is also covenant. Let me

read it that way, for this is my blood of

the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the

remission of sins. So God had a covenant with Israel,

and it was sealed with blood in Exodus twenty four,

verses six to eight. And Moses took half of the

blood and put it in basins, and half of the

blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the

book of the Covenant and read in the audience of

the people. And they said, all that the Lord has said,

we will do and be obedient. And Moses took the

blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, behold

the blood of the Covenant which the Lord has made

with you concerning all these words. Now we can put

Testament in there instead of Covenant. Moses took the blood

and sprinkled it on the people and said, behold the

blood of the Testament. So we have the Old Testament

and we have the New Testament. Jesus said, this blood

is the New Testament. It is the new Covenant. In

Jeremiah thirty one thirty one, there was a promise that

there's going to be a new covenant coming. Behold the

day's comes, saith the Lord that I will make a

new covenant with the House of Israel and with the

House of Judah. And so this morning, as we commemorate

that new covenant, we realized it was instituted by the

sacrifice of the Lamb of God that takes away the

sin of the world. Let's kneel together for prayer, our

Father and Heaven. This morning we thank you in a

special way for the lamb that you sent your son,

the only perfect one that could take away our sins.

We thank you for his work upon the cross of Calvary,

and that he went all the way and did not

shun facing the terrible cruel, mocking and scourging and treatment

that he did. And so we thank you this morning

for that shed blood and for that broken body. And

as we commemorate this once more, may it again grip

our hearts what you have done for us. We pray

this all in the name of Jesus. Amen.