Behold the Lamb

Hebrews 9.22 says that, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Without

the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. We know that. We have heard it before.

If blood is not shed, then sin is not forgiven. Remission just means forgiven or canceled.

Before we do anything else, we need to define what sin is because we often say stuff like

shot coming and stuff like that. That's not what we are talking about here. Let me define sin.

One way of defining sin is that sin is an insult. There's a duck walking on my—it's not showing

there, right? Okay, but on my screen there's a duck walking across. Sin is an insult. It's

sparked itself on sin. How do I get rid of this duck? It's walking all over the place.

Shoot it? Okay. Can you take care of that duck? Oh, it went away. Thanks.

Okay, so sin is an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness and glory of God.

So we are starting with this idea of Hebrews 9, 22, which says that sin must be

remitted or forgiven. If sin needs to be remitted or forgiven, you have to shed blood

because life is in the blood. Sin must be punished. There must be shedding of blood for sin to be

forgiven or sin to be remitted. That's in Hebrews 9, 22. So we need to define sin because very often

we use words like shot coming or mistake. It hardly speaks of what sin really is. So sin is

an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness of God, which means only an unholy God,

only an unholy God can forgive sinners. Only an unholy God can forgive sinners

as though sin were insignificant.

A God who's holy would not be able to tolerate it. Only an unholy God

can forgive sinners as though sins were insignificant. A holy God on the other hand

would have to deal with the sin

and deal with the sinner.

This is important, guys. These are things we don't pause to think of. To think of sin is

a God who's so tremendously holy that he is brighter than the noonday sun. You can't handle

his holiness. Nobody can approach his holiness. That's the kind of holiness he has. So what is

sin? Sin is an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness and glory of God that you and

I wouldn't be able to handle. So when it comes to forgiving sin, only an unholy God can forgive

sinners as though sin were insignificant. So sin is a God who is so tremendously holy that

as though sin was no big deal. Only an unholy God could do this. But a holy God would have to deal

with sin and he'd have to deal with the sinner also. And if a holy God is a violent God, then God help us.

But if a holy God is a God of goodness, of mercy, and kindness, then he has a problem because he

can't lash out. And so if you want a title for today's teaching, it's Behold the Lamb. Behold the Lamb.

And so one of the things that happens is the, you may have heard this said before, but the blood of

the lamb deals with your sin. The death of the lamb on the cross

deals with the sinner. Each of these sentences are almost like Sela sentences, as in

stop, pause, wonder. So the blood of the lamb deals with the sin, as in it pays for it, it

cleanses it, covers it. But the death of the lamb on the cross is what deals with the sinner.

And that's why he's a holy God because he has to deal with the sin and he has to deal with the

sinner because he's so holy that it is impossible for him to tolerate anything that is unclean,

impossible. It would be like you having an amazingly, I mean, these are such terrible

analogies. You're having an amazingly white carpet or a white sheet and someone comes and throws dirt

on it. Or you're having an amazing dish, caviar and this and that, loaded with every most expensive

ingredient you can find. And then someone throws the back end of a cockroach into it.

I mean, how do you go and then continue eating it? Do you say it's only the back end of a cockroach?

That's absurd. And these analogies fail by a million miles. But we can't understand how

holy this God is. It's intolerable. Intolerable. Which is why he has to deal with the sin

and the sinner. And if you go to Leviticus 16, you find the very same thing

that God is doing there. Leviticus 16, Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8. Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

Leviticus 16:7 Leviticus 16:7

You read about two goats. Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

Leviticus 16:7

Leviticus is like a camping manual. You only use it when you don't know how to put up the tent.

Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

Leviticus 16:7

Verse 7 and 8. Reading.

Then Aaron is to take two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of

the meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats. One lot for the Lord and the other for the

scapegoat. The scapegoat was otherwise, the Hebrew that was used for the scapegoat was the word called

Azazel or the scapegoat. And then you had another goat that was picked by lot and this

goat was for sacrifice. So just as we talked about this, now we see that even in the Old Testament

there was provision for this. Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at

the entrance to the tent of meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats. One lot for the Lord

and other for the scapegoat. And then go to verse 15 and 16. Go to verse 15 and 16.

He then shall slaughter the goat for the sin offering of the people and take its blood behind

the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood. He shall sprinkle it on the atonement

cover and in front of it. In this way he makes atonement for the most holy place because of the

uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites. Whatever their sins have been. So that's what

he does with one goat. He actually takes care of the sins of the people. He takes care of the sins

of the people. And then go to verse 21 and 22. Verse 21 and 22. Look what he does there.

We're starting at verse 20. When Aaron has finished making atonement for the most holy place,

the tent of the meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. He is to lay both

hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of Israel

and all their sins and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the desert

in care of a man appointed for the task. The goat will carry on itself all their sins

to a solitary place and the man shall release it in the desert. So one of the things this God

really wants to do is one, he wants to cancel the debt of our sins. Two,

the Lamb of God, this is what the Lamb of God does. The Lamb of God takes away

the sin of Jacob, or you can put whatever name you want in there. And the third thing he does,

is the Lamb of God bears the wrath of God against sin and sinners.

Just marvel at this, eh guys? There's no other religion in the world that does this. There's no

other being, be it spiritual or physical, that has the logic to take care of this. Just think

of that for a second. Think of all that is happening on a day like this. Think of all the years

through which the Old Testament was written leading up to a day like this. Three things have to

happen. Otherwise we end up struggling against, struggling under one or the other. He has to

cancel the debt of sin. When someone breaks the law, there's a debt that has to be paid to the

government. There's a fine. He removes that, he cancels that. I mean one of the things that's

seriously lacking in Christians is that we don't walk around like forgiven people.

We walk around like people carrying the guilt of sin, the debt of sin. We don't walk around

like forgiven people. If you had a $120,000 debt because of going to TW or UCW or any one of those

universities, maybe UBC, you have a $120,000 debt and Dhillna comes along and says, hey,

I'll pay for it. Your debt is forgiven. Imagine what it feels like to have that removed from your

shoulders. Restored people are a pretty happy people.

Buffering, buffering. So that's one of the things he does. The second thing he does is

the Lamb of God takes away sin. He takes it away. He doesn't let it linger. He doesn't let it have

any kind of hold on you. He takes it away and he goes into the wilderness with it and he dismisses

it. It's no longer a part of your equation. We don't realize this. I've talked about this when

we do Christ's life. Let's assume John was my slave and he's supposed to come and get me coffee

in the morning and bring me breakfast and I always have it at seven in the morning and he's not

turned up and I'm upset that my slave isn't working the way he should be working. I go find

him and he's on the floor sleeping and so I take a whip off the wall and I start whipping John

and I'm expecting him to get up and respond and say, I'm so sorry, master. I'll do your bidding.

Instead as I whip him, he still lies there and he isn't moving so I grab him by his neck.

When I grab him by his neck, I realize there is no pulse.

John died last night and in dying last night, he's forever escaped my mastery. I can never make him

do anything for me again. In his death, he has escaped my mastery. This is what Jesus does

when he says that the Lamb of God takes away sin. What he does is put the sins on himself,

takes away the power of sin to ever affect me again. I can choose to but it does not hold me

because in Christ's death, I escape the mastery of sin. It does not, cannot make me do its bidding.

I can choose to do its bidding. It cannot make me do its bidding. A Christian can never again say,

I could not help it. It is impossible for a Christian to say that. It's not biblical.

And the third one is the Lamb of God bears the wrath of God. As in God is

wrathful when it comes to sin because sin and him have nothing in common.

The book of Revelation, when you read from chapter 14 onwards, you'll find that the book

of Revelation is the wrath of God against those that refuse him, reject him, even though he is

offering himself to the world. There is the wrath of God. And one of the things the Lamb of God does,

he takes on the wrath, he bears the wrath of God. And therefore, you have these fancy words

in Christianity and the Lamb of God defines all those words. Words like atonement, which means

someone who covers you and takes the beating upon themselves, sacrifice,

and another big word, propitiation. These are words that basically mean these three things.

This is what the Lamb of God did. Why did we interrupt worship and do the teaching in between

and then say we'll go back to worship? Because worship is much more meaningful when we understand

why. Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. The more we know him, the more we'll be in awe of him,

the more we'll marvel at a day like this and say, you did all this for me?

And so I really want to spend time just us worshipping God for all that has been achieved.

And it's a long list, man. We're shortening it as much as possible.

Imagine this. Imagine if this wasn't there, then you carry the debt of sin.

Do you know what guilt can do to someone? Ask a husband, ask a wife, ask a child,

ask someone who has done something terrible and you carry that guilt.

Do you know what it is to know that someone is angry with you?

Do you know what it is to know that someone is angry with you?

How we'll stay angry because there's nothing you can do about it.

Do you know what it is to never have to deal with certain things because they were taken away?

We look at some of the things taken away.

In Isaiah 53, verse 4 and 5, there are some words used. One of the words is pierced.

Isaiah 53:4

The other word used is crushed. Some translations have made it bruised.

Bruised hardly explains it. To be crushed is to be pulverized.

To be pierced is to be, is excruciating in terms of torment.

But these are the words used in Isaiah 53, verse 4 and 5.

Isaiah 53:4

He uses this to tell us that, hey, I have healed you.

I am giving you my peace.

So if you want to take a moment and just think quietly for a second of the fact

that on a day like this, there was a person who was really pierced and beaten to pulp,

pulverized, and that healing is actually something that he thinks should be given to you,

was given to you, belongs to you.

And can you just receive it right now?

Don't go down the road of is it the will of God. Go down the road of looking at the wealth on his back.

Looking at the wealth on his back.

As you look at the wealth on his back,

begin to know that it is his desire, it is his will.

And begin to receive it into different parts of your body so that the Spirit can do what Jesus said is finished.

You know, a lamb really cannot die in a human's place. A lamb cannot die in a human's place.

It's only a perfect human that can die

in another human's place.

But we don't have any perfect humans, so what if the human was God? If he was God, he could die

for all men and women.

Now do you understand why the word had to become flesh?

The word became flesh because otherwise he could not die.

Think of that for a moment.

The word became flesh so that if the word didn't became flesh, if God

did not become flesh, he could not die. Just think of that for a second. Think of the math and the logic behind what he's doing.

How long can you offer lambs and bulls and goats? It's only goes so far.

Where can you find a perfect human that can die in a human's place?

How long can you offer lambs and bulls and goats? It's only goes so far.

Where can you find a perfect man to die for one man?

But what if God became a man and came down to the earth? Now you have a perfect man who can die for the entire universe.

We read in John 1, 1 that

in the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God and the word became

flesh. He must become flesh because otherwise he cannot die.

This is the enormity of what Jesus is taking on. We can't understand it. We can try comprehending it. We cannot understand it.

How does the one who fills the universe?

We are lauding

four astronauts who are doing a

spin around the moon.

The universe extends far behind. A God who cannot be contained in this universe decides that I must become flesh.

Otherwise, I cannot die and if I do not die

then

it's huge what he's done, man.

And so he becomes flesh so that in an odd way

God the Son can die.

Some other things that we don't really put into words. He suffers

not just for my sin

but in

my place

and bears it away

so I don't have to

labor under it.

He just doesn't suffer for my sin. He suffers in my place

and he bears it away. He takes it away so that I don't have to labor under it.

Sometimes check your life to see if there are things that you are struggling with and laboring under the crisis already taken away.

It's not right.

It's not right.

I mean, how would it be if

your wife has cooked a meal and you know she's cooking a meal and she's worked hard on it and then you come with a

Big Mac and some fries.

You know she's cooked, but you'll come home with a Big Mac and a fry. Those things are insulting.

Those are deliberate acts of insult or displeasure. Forget the wife and the

husband and the family. Go back to what Christ has said. There are certain things I must look out in my life where I labor

under

things that Christ has already paid for.

And I labor under it like a martyr.

Oh, I'm just betting it and hanging on in faith. Now there should be certain things you know.

He has paid it. You want to find out where he has paid it. Read Isaiah 53.

But Jacob, if I go down that route, isn't it cheap grace? I might do it again and again.

Anyone who knows the value of what Christ has done will only

seize the opportunity to do it.

He will only seize from it, not plunge into it.

Once you know

that Dylna has paid off all your debts,

you won't dislike him. You will only

like him.

Any questions before we go on?

So,

some people say there's a ransom

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when we look at the

Lamb of God, we look at propitiation,

atonement and sacrifice.

When we look at

Jesus as a master,

setting a slave free, then he pays his life as a ransom to redeem the slave of the block,

freeing him from his previous master and embracing him, not even as a slave first, but as a son first, and then as a servant.

So depending on

whose

perspective we are looking through, it changes and it's all-encompassing. But when you look at the lamb, oh my God,

the lamb is a sacrifice. The lamb

is a rat-bearer and the lamb is a

remover of

what I should

go through. So that's the idea of propitiation. It's in 1 John 2, verse 2.

1 John 2:2

Any other questions?

Yep.

Yeah, things that we labor under. Let's turn to Isaiah 53 and we'll have a quick look at

the things that we labor under. Isaiah 53.

Yeah, he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows,

familiar with suffering. It is one thing to suffer for Christ, but to walk around in sorrow and suffering

as some kind of punishment you are

carrying is not something that I should do because Christ has...

We're not talking about being triumphalistic,

but we are talking about in all humility saying, oh God, you've carried my sorrows.

I am not going to labor under this burden of sorrow. I'm getting so used to it that it has become my song.

You go down further in verse 4. He took up my infirmities, carried my sorrows.

He took up as in if these were my infirmities,

he took up my infirmities and he carried my sorrows.

He did.

For me to then labor under it for a second,

we've gotten so used to some of our infirmities and sorrows that we won't even deal with it for the first 20 days.

He took up our infirmities and sorrows.

Then he goes on to say,

he was pierced for my transgression. Sin, breaking of law, immediately run to God.

You know the strange thing the devil has managed with Christians?

When we sin, we run away from God instead of running to him.

When children do wrong, they run to their parents instead of running away from their parents.

When grown-ups do wrong, they run away from God instead of running to the only one who can solve it.

He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought peace. When I lose peace,

why is it that I try to solve it myself?

When was the last time you were able to get peace because you solved it?

When was the last time you found a solution for your lack?

How long did it last?

This is when we spurn the sacrifice of someone who's done it for us.

I was trying to ask you a few days ago and I was saying salvation is the end of self-determination and the beginning of

abject dependence.

Salvation is the end of self-determination and the beginning of helpless dependence.

As you go to Isaiah 5553, as you go to Isaiah 61,

you will find things that I labor under that I should not be laboring under.

In Eden,

in the beauty of Eden, in the lap of delight, that's what Eden means, in Eden,

the child as an Adam rebelled.

Relationship was disrupted.

Justice was offended.

Justice was offended.

And the body was diseased.

This is in one garden.

There's another garden where there's a man waiting and he's sweating blood.

And it's in Gethsemane.

In that garden, he begins to repair things.

You know when you go to Isaiah 1 4 to 6, Isaiah 1 4 to 6,

you will see the condition of humankind. Israel personified it. Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

Isaiah 1 4 to 6. Ah sinful nation,

a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers,

children given to corruption.

They've forsaken the Lord, they've spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion?

Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness.

Only wounds and welts and open sores,

not cleansed or bandaged

or soothed with oil.

You can see Isaiah 53 now is almost a remedy for Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

What you read in Isaiah 1 4 to 6 is what Jesus remedies in Isaiah 53.

The question is, what can atone for your past?

What can cleanse the wounds?

What can deal with the sores?

What can destroy the infection?

Both of sin and of your physical body and that's when Jesus comes in.

Both of sin and of your physical body and that's when Jesus comes in and Jesus has taken the

infected welts

caused by the whip.

Jesus has taken the infected welts

so that

ours

can

be

healed.

Guys, just look at this sentence. See,

Jesus has taken our infected welts on himself so that ours can be healed.

Don't doubt whether it is God's desire to heal you. Don't doubt it. There's too high a cost that has been paid.

You can question the delay. You can question why it's not happening.

You can look at others and see things happening and you don't understand why things are not working out.

All that is legit, but don't question whether it is his desire or will.

The father subjected his son to great cruelty,

excruciating pain, pierced, pulverized.

Nobody does that to one's son if one is not determined in his will to provide you something in exchange.

Question why it doesn't happen, but don't question whether it is the will of God or not.

That's not fair.

Not after what we know.

And don't listen to theologians who come up with Greek and Hebrew to

rationalize why it's not happening. Question why it's not happening.

Be Job. Spend 36 chapters questioning it.

36 chapters questioning it.

Jesus has taken the infected wealth

that I had.

He took it upon himself so that I can be healed. And this I believe and I will see to the end of my days.

There should be no question on this.

It doesn't matter what happened to your grandfather or grandmother, father or mother, at the end of the day, what do you believe?

Here's the thing guys, you will find that you cannot believe something when you turn 70.

What you believe at 70 is usually the result of what you believe for 30 long years and have developed in your heart,

in your spirit and your mind.

I just want to

You know

Isaiah and Ezekiel saw visions of heaven

in that chapter 6 in Ezekiel many times.

But you know one thing they never saw?

They never saw the lamb.

And so in a sense,

their visions are incomplete. They never saw the lamb. Who sees the lamb?

John.

I want us to look at some scriptures, eh? Because the slain lamb

is the central song today

of the universe.

Of the universe.

The slain lamb is the central song of the universe.

Go to revelations 5 verse 9 and 10 and we'll conclude with these scriptures. Revelations 5, 9 and 10.

Revelation 5:9

Revelations 5, 9 and 10.

It says

It says

Worthy are you

to take the scroll

and this is sung when the work of the lamb is complete. Worthy are you to take the scroll and open it seal for

you were slain?

This goes to what Mr. Dhillon was saying. Your blood

ransomed people

from

ransomed people for God.

You ransomed them from every tribe. Just look around you and you'll know that he did this language,

people,

nation.

Then you made them

kings and priests

and you will have them reign with you.

Look at what the lamb does just in one song. This has become the central song of the universe. The song of the lamb.

The song of the lamb. When we sing songs of the lamb know that the entire universe is filled with it.

This is from the book of Revelation.

It says the completion of the work of the lamb.

What a work he's done.

Worthy are you? Of what? You were slain lamb of God. What else?

Your blood ransomed people brought them back, back to the father. What else?

You did not stop at Israel. You went through every tribe, every language, every people, every nation. What else?

You just don't ransom them. You make them kings and priests. What else? You will have them reign with you. Just one man doing this.

And this song begins to fill the universe.

Revelations 5. Let's look at some other scriptures from Revelation.

Where you'll see that heaven warns the song of the lamb to resound in the mouth of the redeemed.

And not gently, not quietly, loudly.

Go to Revelation 5.12.

Revelation 5.12.

This was in Revelation 5.9 and 10. It is a declaration in heaven of what the lamb has done. And now millions and millions of angels join in.

This was a declaration in front of the elders and the 24 elders and the creatures that are there.

This was the declaration. And once the declaration is made, millions and millions of angels that actually populate the earth,

invisible, they join in. And what did they begin to sing? Worthy is the lamb who was slain. Back to the lamb who was slain.

It's a foundation of everything we are.

Worthy is the lamb who was slain.

For what? So that he may receive power.

Wisdom

might

honor

the lamb who was slain.

Honor

glory

blessing. What's the meaning of this? That he

Worthy is the lord who was lamb who was slain to receive. Guys, all this belonged to him.

But now the angels are recognizing that in his death and in his resurrection, he actually deserves it.

This belongs to him and this comes from him.

The very things that belong to him are the very things released to us.

The authority, to us.

To us meaning who? To the church.

What is being released to the church?

For from you are all things and to you are all things.

Everything begins and ends with the Lamb of God.

And it is open for anybody. Come, eat, do not pay.

This is free. Isaiah 55. Are you thirsty? Come and eat.

Hell is not a place where God wants to send people.

Heaven is a place he is inviting them to, paying the cost, saying, come eat for free.

You have to be deliberately, intentionally someone who rejects the offer to choose another portion.

Jesus only wants you in.

Let's look at another one. Millions of the angels join in and they begin to sing this song.

I don't even know what tune this is.

We've created tune after tune for these words. And rightly so.

When you think, oh, there are too many songs saying worthy are you Lord.

Oh my God, this is the central song of the universe.

Next, Revelation 7.10.

Revelation 7.10 is now creation hearing and joining in.

And now it says in Revelation 7.10, a great multitude that not creation,

the ones that are believers before him.

Revelation 7.10, a great multitude that no one could number, cried out with a loud voice.

Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb.

Now you know why we sing these songs.

Revelation 13.8.

It talks about the fact that there is not a person sitting here who has received Christ,

who does not have their names actually written in the Lamb's book of life.

There is a book called the Lamb's book of life.

Your names are inscribed on it if you have received Christ.

If your name is not found in that book,

then you suffer what is called a punishment.

Punishment, and what is that punishment?

The punishment for rejecting Christ is very simple.

Spiritual alienation from God.

That's what it is at the end of the day.

Spiritual alienation, never seeing the face of God.

It's a cruelest punishment you can give someone.

It's like taking a baby away the moment it is born,

putting it into a dark room where it will never be touched, never be felt,

never know what it is to be loved, forever and ever and ever and ever.

That is spiritual alienation.

You know, if your name is written in the book of life,

now you know why you can overcome the devil

by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony,

and you will not love your life even unto death.

Anybody who has their names written in the book of life

should not be afraid of death.

Anybody whose name is written in the book of life

should not be afraid of death.

And if you are not afraid of death,

now even in hostile circumstances,

the word of your testimony as in what Jesus has done in your life

and the blood of the Lamb that cleanses you

gives you the boldness to speak.

Sometimes boldness should come because of a reason,

not just because of an anointing.

An anointing is good, but an understanding is even better.

Sam said an anointing, it didn't get him very far.

Paul had understanding, it got him very far.

One more scripture.

Revelation 5.13.

This is when, this is at the end of everything,

at the end of time when creation, all of creation joins in,

and listen to it, eh?

Then, guys, we will be there,

and we can't even imagine this, but try.

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth

and under the earth and on the sea

and all that is in them singing.

I don't know how dolphins and whales and things like that will sing,

but then I heard every creature,

and it's not just talking about humans, it's talking about creation.

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth

and under the earth and on the sea

and all that is in them singing.

To him who sits on the throne

and to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever.

And the four living creatures said amen, and the elders fell down in worship.

Do you know that there's a song called the Song of the Lamb in the Book of Revelation?

Turn to Revelation 15, verse 3.

Revelation 15:3

Revelation 15, verse 3.

Revelation 15:3

Revelation 15, verse 3.

Revelation 15:3

Revelation 15, verse 3.

Revelation 15:3

I'll start at verse 2.

I'll start at verse 2.

Guys, when these kids come here and they play their little tambourines

and shake their little legs,

and we sing one of these songs, you have no idea what happens to God.

You have no idea what happens to God.

Glorious songs of the Lamb.

This song is called the Song of Moses, his servant and the Song of the Lamb.

If you notice, where is it happening?

Where did the Song of Moses happen in Exodus 15?

By the Red Sea.

Where is this song happening?

By a glassy sea that has fire over it.

And who were the people singing the song in Exodus 15?

The ones that were freed from Egypt's bondage.

Who are the ones singing here?

The ones that have been freed from bondage.

And then they begin to sing.

What do they sing?

Here's what they begin to sing.

It's the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

If you haven't been set free from bondage, do not sing this.

It is the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

It is the Song of the Blood of the Son of God.

It is the Song of the Blood of the Passover Lamb.

Let's read the Song.

They sang the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb.

Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty.

Just and true are your ways, King of the Ages.

Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?

For you alone are holy.

All nations will come and worship before you,

for your righteous acts have been revealed.

It's the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

Do not sing it if you haven't been set free from bondage.

It's the Song of the Blood of the Lamb, of the Passover Lamb.

Do not sing it if you do not know Him.

It is the Song of the Great Acts of Judgment on spiritual and physical tyrants.

There it was Pharaoh, here it's the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Dragon.

If you haven't been set free from powerful spiritual and physical forces, do not sing it.

It is the Song of His Fearful Holiness and His Shekinah presence amongst them.

If you don't think of that as important, do not sing it.

It is the Song of His Powerful Right Hand at Work.

Marvelous acts.

If you haven't seen them, do not sing it.

Just two verses that song is, but there are seven attributes of God there.

Almighty, Just, True, King of the Nations, Holy, Righteous.

He alone is God.

Just in two verses, this is what they sing about Him.

I want to end with this thought.

Surely this song is not for internal consumption.

Surely it's not to be sung in church and then left alone.

Surely this is a song that armies march to.

Surely this is a song that angels sang at the dawn of creation.

Surely this is the song that they sang when Christ was born.

Surely this is a song that the earth must hear.

Surely this is a song that must be heard in Richmond.

Surely this is a song that must be heard in Kalimantan.

Surely this is a song that must be heard in Las Vegas.

This is not a song for internal consumption.

How do you keep this secret?

I was set free from bondage.

There are people around this room who can begin to sing this song.

I was set free from bondage.

I was someone who was caught up in drugs, caught up in things that were impossible to break out of.

But God broke every addiction and He set me free.

These are the songs we sing.

When we sing songs that are put up there, this is what comes up.

You set me free.

I have been set free from physical and spiritual tyrants.

Demonized, possessed, set free.

I'm not even talking about you.

I'm talking about just myself.

But each of you has a story that can be better or worse in some areas.

This is the song of the Lamb.

I have been set free by the shed blood of Christ that redeemed me, that paid for me, that took away my shame, guilt.

It's a song of fearful holiness.

I know that I serve a holy God and I know His presence even now as He rejoices over us.

I've seen His powerful work.

I've seen His right hand raise the dead, heal the sick, bring the lame to walk, blind to see, deaf to hear.

I have seen everything that the Bible has taught.

I have seen.

This is the story of the Lamb of God.

Do you think this is for internal consumption?

No, it is for proclamation.

The song of the Lamb should become the sound of our mission.

This is what armies march to.

This is what angels are willing to announce.

This is not for internal consumption.

As we sing here today, we will sing to the Lamb.

But as we sing here today, know that the Lamb is someone who is no longer...

He bears the marks, but He's no longer someone who is waiting to be slaughtered.

Seven horns, seven eyes, sevenfold spirit.

People began to hide themselves, not from the wrath of the lion, but from the wrath of the lamb.

Crazy.

I'll ask the worship team to come back in.

We'll set up communion here.

At any point during worship, feel free to come and take the bread and the grape juice.

And remember as you do it, that what you're ingesting, what you're taking in,

what you're eating and drinking is the story of the blood of the Lamb.

Behold the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world.

You know, we should be able to progress from thinking of what the blood of the Lamb does for me

to thinking of what I must now do with the blood of the Lamb for people outside.

Do not limit it to yourself.

This is not for internal consumption.

I don't know what they're going to sing, but we'll exalt the Lamb in our midst.

We are taken care of, guys.

Now we have to take care of others who don't know this story.

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