This morning for our Bible study, please turn to 1 Peter 1 Peter chapter 1 and begin reading at verse 18. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 18. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb. a Lamb without blemish and without spot. And this Lamb of God, we read about here, was foreordained, verily, truly foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times or these last days for you.

Now, the subject this morning that I want to bring before you and bring a message to you is about the Lamb of God. were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. The scriptures plainly declare that every believer's redemption from all sin was accomplished by the substitutionary, satisfying sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary, were redeemed with the blood of Christ. God's Lamb was foreordained in His wise and eternal counsel, wise and eternal purpose and decree, and manifested and revealed in time in the flesh to make an end of sin. He was manifested in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Now, all through the Scriptures, Old Testament and New, We see the Lord Jesus Christ as the sacrificial Lamb, as the Lamb of God, as that satisfying, propitiating sacrifice for the sin of God's people. Now, I want to mention five different things about this Lamb of God we see throughout the Scriptures.

In Genesis chapter 4, we see the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb in type and picture. or the lamb typified. Now here's a scripture from Genesis chapter 4. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord, and Abel he also brought the firstling of his flock and the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. Abel he brought the blood of the lamb. But unto Cain and his offering God had not respect, and Cain was very angry in his countenance, his appearance, was sad. Abel brought the blood of the Lamb to make an atonement for his sin and to worship God. This picture is a way of grace and redemption from sin by the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We read in Hebrews 2.17, For barely he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore, in all things that behooved him, It became necessary for him to be made likened to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."

In Genesis 4 we see the Lamb typified, and throughout the New Testament we see this Lamb identified and glorified as the only sacrifice for sin. Now again, in Genesis chapter 22, we see him as a lamb prophesied, the lamb that was prophesied about. In Genesis 22, the story of Abraham and Isaac worshiping God. Do you remember? Here's the Scripture. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son, and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. The Lamb of God prophesied, God will provide Himself a Lamb. Isaac knew to worship God there must be a Lamb slain, must be a sacrifice for sin. He asked his father, where is the Lamb for the burnt offering? And Abraham replied, and this is talking about Christ, my son, God will provide Himself And he did, he provided himself a lamb for a burnt offering. God did provide a substitute that day to offer in the stead of Isaac. You remember the ram caught in the thicket? Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of that scripture.

Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said this day, in the mouth of the Lord it shall be seen, or the Lord will provide. The Lord Jesus Christ died as a provided sacrifice and substitute to put away sin, the sin of God's people. He said, I'm the good shepherd, the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He's a provided substitute and only that which God provides will God accept. We read in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21, God had made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. There is a Lamb typified and a Lamb prophesied, all talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, the third picture we see here in Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, we see Him, the Lord Jesus, as the Lamb personified. The Lamb personified. Now, here's a scripture from Isaiah 53. Who hath believed, I report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, for he shall grow up before Him as a tender plant. as a root out of dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. He despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, a man of sorrows, this is a lamb personified, acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, yet We did esteem him, stricken, smitten, and God-inflicted. He was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities, and a chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed."

We learned that the sacrificial lamb would be a real man. Now here's a scripture in 1 Timothy 3, 16. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. He was identified with our flesh. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. He was identified with our flesh as a real man. He did not have the fallen nature of Adam, he had no sin, he knew no sin, and he did no sin, he identified with our flesh, and even as God sacrificed for sin, he identified with our sin when the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all. Peter says in chapter 2 of 1 Peter, he bare our sin in his own body on the tree as the God-man mediator and as our high priest. So there we see the Lamb of God typified, prophesied, personified as the God-man.

Fourthly, in John chapter 1, we see the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God identified. Now the whole Old Testament says that someone's coming. Someone's coming. The New Testament identifies this One who has come to put away the sin of God's people. Here we see in John chapter 1, Listen to these verses. John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me, for he was before me.

Here we see John the Baptist, who knew all about these sacrificial lambs and their purpose. You see, his father was a priest, remember? He grew up around the temple. And he, every year, he witnessed the sacrificial lamb on the Day of Atonement, and here, when it was revealed to him, the Lord Jesus Christ was God's Messiah, he identifies him as God's prophet, as the Lamb of God which taketh away sin.

Jesus Christ accomplished all that He was sent to do. He cannot fail. He is the Lamb of God that was manifested in the end of the age to take away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And John clearly identifies Him as the only Lamb of God, the only sacrifice of God.

Now, fifthly, we see the Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God crucified. In John chapter 19, we read, They cried out, Away with him, and crucify him. And Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priest answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified and they took Jesus and led him away and he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the Place of the Skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified Him and two others with Him on either side and Jesus in the midst.

Here we see the Lamb identified and the Lamb crucified. Now remember this about Jesus Christ crucified at God's Lamb. His death was not an accident. He dies the appointed death at the appointed time as God's sacrifice for sin. Clearly in the Scriptures in Acts 2 verse 23, Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and with wicked hands have crucified and slain the Lord of glory that God raised Him from the dead. God planned the cross. It was not an accident. This is God's way of redeeming His people through the blood of that appointed Lamb to effectually redeem His sheep, thereby satisfying God's holy justice and bringing in and establishing an everlasting righteousness for God's people through the Lamb crucified.

We read in Romans 4, David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without work, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. How are they forgiven? How are they covered? Well, by the blood of Christ, this Lamb crucified, blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. God can't impute the sin unto the Lord Jesus Christ and impute it to me, there is no condemnation to those who were in Christ Jesus. If Christ died for my sin and bare my sin and His own body on the tree, then it is not chargeable to me. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies. It's Christ who was died, yea rather, who was risen again, who was even at the right hand of God.

Now here sixthly we see not only the Lamb crucified, identified, personified, we see the Lamb glorified. All through Scripture talks about the Lamb, the Lamb. In Revelation chapter 5 we see the Lord Jesus Christ as a Lamb glorified. Listen to these scriptures. Saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing.

in glory and throughout eternity, the Lord Jesus Christ will be worshipped in His sacrificial character as the Lamb who died that is risen when He had by Himself purged our sin. He is seated at God's right hand as the Lamb who died, as the Lamb that is risen, and the Lamb that is exalted. The Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever noticed all through the book of the Revelation? Twenty-some times it talks about the Lamb. The Lamb. The book's all about Christ in His glorious, sacrificial character. Now, here's my question to you this morning. You can clearly see from the Scriptures that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only sacrifice for sin before God.

Now, here's my question to you. Is He your sacrifice? Is He your only hope of salvation? Can you say with sinning of old, as He took up the babe in His arms and blessed God and said, Now let thy servant depart in peace according to your word, for my eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people, a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Is Jesus Christ crucified your only hope of salvation? That's exactly what Paul said when he said, I'm determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He's saying the only way of salvation before a holy God is by a suitable sacrifice. And my friend, that only sacrifice that satisfies the holiness of God, the character of God, is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

Peter said again, we're redeemed, not with corruptible things, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of the Lamb without blemish and without spot, who was verily foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.