Red Letter Day

Attribute/Name of God ~ Lamb

  John the Baptist was preaching and teaching at the Jordan River…people came out from the towns and cities to hear him.  On one of those days, John saw Jesus:
(NASB) John 1:29 “The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

Jesus was compared to a lamb by John as Isaiah the prophet compared Messiah to a lamb:
(NASB) Isaiah 53:7 “He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.”

A lamb was used in many of the sacrificial rites established by God as an offering for sins.  (See Exodus and Leviticus)  The LORD God prepared a picture of Messiah through the sacrifice of a lamb.

Jesus became that Lamb…sacrificed for your sins and mine.  (NASB) John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17 ‘For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 ‘He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Each and every person will be judged by what they choose to believe…belief in the name of Jesus as Savior from their sins…or…not.

Yet to come is the Revelation which John received:
(NASB) Revelation 5:11-13 “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands,
12 saying with a loud voice,
‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.’
13 And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying,
‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.’ ”

When you pray, do you declare that Jesus is worthy as the Lamb of God “to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing”?