The Devotional – Excerpts from the Gospel of John (6a)

The Devotional – Excerpts from the Gospel of John (6)

Comment: We ended this paragraph yesterday with “Even so; Come LORD Jesus” today we will look at the LAMB of God through the text of God’s Holy Word in John 1:29-34, and various other scripture. Sacrifice is one of those words we fail to understand, in addition to that; it is hard for us to imagine how God could allow such an event to happen to His only ‘begotten’ Son. None of us are worthy, not one of us understand, we are all alike since we do not seek after God. We are as the apostle Paul says in Romans 3:10-18; we all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory. Sacrifice or sin or are foreign thoughts in our mind. Yet, when God who seeks us out and justifies us as He did with Abraham and we believe, God imputes His Righteousness to us. This may be the only ‘miracle’ we ever experience; but if you have not yet had that experience, then please look to the God’s sacrifice; the LAMB. See Roman 4:7-8.

Devotional: “Behold! The LAMB of God who takes away the sin of the world!” John the Baptist sole purpose in life was to proclaim Jesus/Messiah to the Jewish nation. The nation was looking for a king, not a sacrificial LAMB. A lamb as they understood was a routine sacrifice, millions of these animals had been a substitionary covering for the sins of the people for the last 2,000 years. Now here is John’s message about a Man, who would not only take away their sin, but also the sin of the whole world. A permanent solution to crush man’s desire to live in darkness; John 3:19 and Genesis 3:15.

This devotional is revised from last Thursday, I re-read what I wrote and did not like some of the wording. 

John 3:29-34 – There is plenty of evidence in the Holy Bible that many of those in Judea were waiting for the Messiah. They were looking for Messiah to set up His kingdom on earth, yet when He does come, He comes to them; FIRST (advent) as a gift from God, a permanent sacrifice for their sin and the sin of the entire world. The SECOND (advent) of Christ/Messiah is yet future, we are in the gospel of John in the first advent as the LAMB who was slain. 

Jesus was not slain by the heart of man’s desire; He was not a sacrifice because some Jewish High Priest changed the atoning methods of the Law. Before sin entered man’s heart to kill his brother and before the Law was given to Moses; God foreordained the sacrifice of His Son, see 1 Peter 1:13-21. The Plan of God regarding the sacrifice of Christ/Messiah was approved by God before the foundation of the earth was laid. Thus all of mankind is accountable to God, even those who reject this truth. Revelation 13:8-9.

There is no excuse for disregarding this truth, while certain events are hidden from both the Old Testament saints and the New Testament saints the Truth of the LAMB of God is plainly preached, taught and proclaimed in both Testaments. In the Old Testament. You see, the death of Christ/Messiah fulfills the will of God to rescue mankind from Satan’s domain of darkness; Hebrews 10:5-18 and Psalm 40:6-8. Also see Isaiah 53:1-12; especially see Isaiah 53:10. This now brings us back to John 1:29-34. The LAMB is Jesus who is the only begotten “foreordained” Son of the Living God. He the Christ/Messiah of God is the only one who takes away the sin of the world and John the Baptizer gives true testimony of this. All one needs to do is “by personal faith, believe the TRUTH.”