Revelation again, chapter 14. In our song books, we often sing
Amazing Grace. And the writer of that is John
Newton. He didn't write the fourth stanza.
That was written by somebody else when we've been there 10,000
years. He didn't write that, but he
wrote the other three. And he wrote those verses. That's
the rest of the great song, Amazing Grace, and that is so exalting
to our God and His amazing grace to us unworthy sinners. So I'm thankful for those good
words. Let me speak to you this morning
on the subject, the Lamb of Redemption. That's our subject, the Lamb
of Redemption, once again from Revelation chapter 14. But I
would begin this way. In the last chapter, that is
chapter 13, John saw two beasts. We've studied those, so I'm going
to review very much on this. The first beast, the governments
and the rulers of this world. These, John saw that men worshipped
and adored them and gave honor to them. I think about back in the book
of Daniel, one of the pagan kings, Nebuchadnezzar. He built a great
image, as you will remember, of gold. It stood something like
90 feet in height. nine feet wide or something like
that, and all men were commanded to worship this altar that he
built to honor himself. And we know that there were three
men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bend the knee
at that great statute or altar to Nebuchadnezzar. This is basically
what John is saying regarding this first beast that he sees. It is a hideous beast. It represents,
though, the governments, the heathen governments, pagan rulers
of this world who lead people to worship them, to honor them,
leaders who bring people to To look at things this way, they're
the answer to our problems. And that's what we tend to think.
That's what people tend to think today. They look at the government,
they look at our government, and they say that this is the
answer. This is the answer to all of our problems. No, the
government isn't the answer, because the government is anti-God. The rulers are against the Lord
Jesus. They stood up against the Son
of God, as is evident in the second Psalm. The rulers of this
world, they took counsel against the Lord and against His anointed
one, the Lord Jesus. It was the governments of the
world who ganged up on the Lord Jesus, the governments and the
religious leaders, but the governments first of all, the pagan leaders
of government, they were against the Son of God. And they were
the ones who not only persecuted the people of God, but they ultimately
crucified the Lord Jesus. John sees this beast. It's an
awful beast. It's an ugly beast. It's a beast
that demands worship. It's a beast that demands that
you give to them your attention. and you look to them for everything. Listen, the government is not
the answer to our needs. The Lord is the answer. The Lord
is the one we need. The government is run by those
who don't believe the gospel. And not believing the gospel,
that means no matter what their beliefs are, they're anti-God
and anti-Christ Jesus. The one we need is The Lord Jesus
Himself. We need His sacrifice. We need His grace. We need His
mercy. We need His leadership. We need
Him to rule over us and lead us in the very paths of righteousness. But in chapter 13, John saw this
first beast and he said it was an awful looking beast. Absolutely
frightening. Frightening. And he said, this
beast persecuted the people of God. They persecuted the body
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that what Herod did? He, first of all, martyred James. Had his head cut off. Look at
all the martyrs, all the apostolic fathers, most all of them with
the exception of John, they died a martyr's death at the hands
of wicked governments that were against the Lord. And John here,
he sees this first beast. It was a very frightening beast
that took delight in persecuting those who didn't worship the
beast, those who didn't bow down to the beast, those who didn't
kiss the beast, those who didn't give homage to the beast. And
then he sees another beast. This is a lamb. It stood for
false religion and John says of this lamb, of this false religion,
it's very deceptive. It deceives people. It keeps
people in spiritual error. And as John looks at these, these
two beasts, We could well understand that he would be somewhat distressed. This is an awful situation because
actually in Revelation chapter 13, there's virtually very little
good news. Oh, there is the message about
the Lamb and the Lamb's Book of Life, but it's really set
forth in a negative way because it's those whose names were not
written. They were not written in the
Lamb's Book of Life who died, who was slain before the foundation
of the world. And other than that, almost everything
in Revelation chapter 13 is of a negative thing. And then when
John gets to chapter 14, he gets a blessed sight of the Lord Jesus. And oh, what a relief to see
the Savior. With all of this fresh in his
mind, here are the pagan governments, here are the religious leaders
who set themselves against God. In fact, they set themselves
up as gods. As gods. And then John sees,
he sees all false religion and how deceptive they are. Then God in His mercy shows John
something else. In chapter 14 verse 1, And I
looked, and lo, he said, A Lamb. A Lamb stood. Lamb, capital L,
stood on Mount Zion. And with Him, 144,000 having
His Father's name written in their foreheads. In other words,
here's what John sees. He sees the Lord Jesus with His
people. With His people. For those of you who belong to
our God by His sovereign effectual grace, by the irresistible drawing
of the Spirit of God who's brought you to believe Christ Jesus,
have you not found that the Lord is ever faithful to especially
reveal Himself to you in those seasons of difficulty, trouble
and trial. And it isn't that He's not with
you always. He said, I'll never leave you
and I'll never forsake you, but there are times when we don't
perceive Him to be with us and there are times when He's just
not in our thoughts. And then we face a situation,
we get in a position where we see opposition, or we see danger,
or we have to go through some trouble, and then the Lord, in
the very mercies of His great Person, reveals Himself to us,
and it just soothes the soul. That's the way it was with John.
He sees in the 13th chapter the enemies of the gospel. He sees
the governments. He sees false religion. And that,
if you just focus on the opposition, that can be absolutely overwhelming. But then the Lord says, but John,
look. Look. And he said, Lo, I saw
a lamb. I saw the Lamb of God. Oh yes, if there were ever reasons
for John to be greatly concerned and saddened, it was the view
afforded to him in chapter 13. But now, another sight arrests
his attention. And all of a sudden, he's not
focused on the governments of the world that are anti-God. All of a sudden, his attention
is not drawn toward false religion with their deception and with
their false gospels. There's another sight that has
got his attention. It's the Lamb of God with His
people. This is the way the Lord works. He reveals Himself to His dear
children just when we need Him most. In fact, there is a song
that goes, Just when I need Him, Jesus is near. Just when I need
Him most. I think about the Lord's disciples
after the feeding of the 5,000 men in John chapter 6. And that
was women and children were also fed and our Lord Jesus perceived
that the people would take Him and make Him king and so He left
and His disciples went down to the sea and they got in a ship
and they set out to cross the ship, to cross the sea in this
ship. And it was dark, and the Scripture
is very specific. It says in John 6, it was dark
and Jesus was not with them. It was dark and Jesus was not
with them. All the sea, the sea, the waves
arose, the wind started to blow. So when they had rowed on and
on, getting nowhere. They saw Jesus walking on the
sea, drawing near unto them, and they were afraid. They were
fearful. But He said unto them, It is
I, be not afraid. And you who are God's dear children,
beloved of the Lord, The Lord sometimes puts you in a ship,
and it's dark, and a storm comes up, and you begin to kind of
lose your way. Then He comes to you to reassure
you that everything's okay. And He says to you, what He said
to these disciples. It is I. Be not afraid. Here in Revelation chapter 14,
the Lord is seen by John. Much to his great relief. I'm
sure it was a great relief to him. And isn't this the way it
is so often with the Lord? Much to our relief. He reveals
Himself to us. For whatever reason, maybe we've
taken our eyes off of Him. And we know He's with us because
we're assured of that in the Word of God. But, you know, we're
not always thinking about the Lord. And if, you know, every
once in a while somebody will say to me, well, the Lord is
always on my mind. You're deceived, or else you're
just a lie. Don't lie to me, because you're
my same stuff I am. We got so much congestion in
our heads, and I'm not talking about from sinus trouble. I'm
talking about all the things that are going on. There's a
great congestion within us. There's a lot going on within
us, and the Lord is not always on our minds, but we are always
on His mind. Isn't that wonderful to know?
And just when we need Him, the Lord makes Himself known to us. But I want you to notice the
way in which the Lord revealed Himself to John as a lamb. a Lamb, capital L, as a Lamb. Remember, the Lord Jesus has
already offered Himself to be the sacrifice for the sins of
His people. He's offered Himself to the Father.
John has set this forth. He's talked about back in the
first chapter. We've been washed in the blood
of the Lord Jesus. He's made us kings and priests.
unto God. He has offered one offering forever
for our iniquities to make us sanctified in the very presence
and sight of God. He has set forth in this book
and throughout the Word of God that justification has already
taken place. Our sin debt has already been
paid in full. the redemption that God demanded,
the ransom. Our Lord Jesus has rendered that
to the justice and to the law of God. For He has lived and
died and arose again for the salvation of His people. We're
made the righteousness of God in Him. His beauties have been
given to us. We're robed in His righteousness. That one who faced the vengeance
of God in our stead and forever settled the issue of our salvation. The bridegroom drank to the very
last dregs all of the damnation of God for all of his people. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus. And now, you might have thought
that the Son of God would appeared to John being seen by John in
a manner other than a lamb. Because as the Lamb of God, He's
already died. Perhaps we would expect Him to
reveal Himself to John again as He did in the very first chapter. There he revealed himself as
the son of man who had a garment down to his feet. He had a belt
around him. His feet were like fine brass
burned in a furnace. He had eyes that were like fire
burning out. And it was such a frightening,
frightening scene that John fell at his feet like a dead man.
But the Lord didn't appear to John that way on this occasion. Maybe we would have thought that
the Lord would have appeared to John as He did again later
in the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 19, as the Word of God. Who has a sword, the sword of
the Word of God coming out of His mouth. Here He is the King
of kings and the Lord of lords. The one who is going to take
vengeance on His enemies. who puts fear in all those who
dare to oppose Him. But He doesn't appear to John
that way either. Or maybe we would think that,
okay, now John will see Him as the Lamb or as the Lion of the
tribe of Judah. That's the way it was seen back
in the 5th chapter. You remember when John saw in
the right hand of the One who sat upon the throne? He saw a
book written within and without on the backside. It was absolutely
filled, sealed with seven seals in the very hand of God. That's
all the decrees of God. And nobody was found worthy to
take that book and open the book, much less exercise all of the
decrees of God within the book. But then one was found worthy.
Lion of the tribe of Judah who said, He has prevailed, He has
conquered and He maintains the cause of God. You would have
thought perhaps that John would now see Him as the Lion, the
victor, the great conqueror in His majesty, in His royalty,
in His regal glory as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But he doesn't see him that way
either. Because that isn't the sight
of the Lord Jesus that John needs to see at this time. He sees
him instead as a lamb. As a lamb. In fact, we've said this, the
word lamb is used in the book of Revelation 26 times. 26 times. And whenever you see
the Lord Jesus as He set forth as a lamb, immediately, immediately
there should come to your mind and to your heart the subject
of substitution. There's the Redeemer. There's
the Savior. There's the one who was smitten
for all of our transgressions. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. He's the one who went forth and
gave himself a sacrifice unto God for our sins, who laid down
his life. He's the Lamb of God, John the
Apostle. He sees what John the Baptist
had been saying throughout his ministry. Behold the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the world. This is the character
in which John sees the Lord Jesus and this is always the character
we need to see the Lord Jesus as that one sacrifice for our
sins. You see, this is the most important
thing. This is the very theme of the
Word of God. The sacrifice, the substitutionary
death of the Son of God. It's always before us. It's always
before us. Yes, there are times when He's
set forth as that glorious One who goes forth to conquer, as
in chapter 1. There are times when he's set
forth as the Word of God. John sets him forth as the Word
of God in John the first chapter. And also in his first epistle
of John, he's set forth as the Word of God. In the beginning
was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word
was God. He's the everlasting God. But
the everlasting God had to be the Lamb of God in order to save
us. This is what is kept before John's
mind. the subject of redemption, of
the bloody sacrifice. In this day in which we live,
where there is much, much false religion around us, it is the
blood that must be kept in the forefront. For without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission of sins. And therefore, John's
attention is once again focused on the Word of God as that lamb. He's the lamb. You see, there
is really only one basic truth that will bring peace to the
heart of God's people, and that is this, all is well between
me and God because of the work of the Lamb of God on my behalf.
And that means whatever happens, it doesn't make any difference.
Whether it's the pagan governments of this world rising up against
God's people, or whether it's false religion that surrounds
us and persecutes the people of God and deceives multitudes,
that which matters to us is that the Lamb of God has lived and
died and arose again for our justification and all of our
sins have been forgiven us. Oh, the blessed, blessed peace
that comes to the soul in knowing that redemption has been fully
accomplished. This is what the Apostle was
saying. Go over to the book of Galatians. Here the Apostle Paul, he always
keeps before us the subject of the death of Christ Jesus. I
asked our brother to read for us, and he did read 1 Corinthians
2. And you'll remember when he wrote
these words, he said, For I have determined
not to know anything among you Corinthian people, save Jesus
Christ and Him crucified. This is our subject. Yes, he's
presented the Word of God in many characters. But it's this one that must always
be before our hearts and before our minds. If you would have
peace in your heart, if you would have the blessed assurance that
all is well between you and God, you focus on the Lamb of God. That's why all the way through
the Bible, there's a river of blood that flows. We know that. beginning in the end of Genesis,
the third chapter, when God killed those animals and then He took
their skins and then He robed Adam and Eve with them. There's
the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ that comes to us
as a result of Him substituting or taking our place in His death
upon the cross of Calvary and satisfying the justice of God.
And over and over again, the writers of Scripture direct us
to the Lamb of God. That is, they direct us to Calvary. That's what they do. They're
always taking us back to Calvary. Here in Galatians chapter 6,
this is the way the Apostle expresses it. In Galatians chapter 6 and
verse 14, he says, but God forbid that I should glory. Galatians
6.14, but God forbid that I should glory. except in this, except for the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto
the world. Here's what the apostle says,
my sole subject for ghosting and for glory The cross of Christ. He doesn't
mean that beam upon which our Lord hung. He's talking about
the doctrine of the cross. Right? The doctrine of the cross. The doctrine of reconciliation. This was a death that really
reconciled us to God. This was a death of redemption.
A death that really redeemed us. This is a death that brought
in everlasting righteousness. It really made us righteous.
This is a death of propitiation, of satisfaction to God's holy
law and justice. The law of God and the justice
of God barks at us, and it demands our death. And one stepped in
and I said, who is it? Behold, the Lamb of God. He dies
in our stead. And because He died, we will
never die. This is what the writers of Scripture
always keep before us. And John is echoed by the Apostle
in saying, this is what I glory in. I glory in the doctrine of
substitution. I glory in the doctrine of satisfaction. Oh, this is what brings great
calmness to the soul. Sins are forgiven. My sins are
forgiven. Think about the weight of your
iniquities, the weight of your sins. Think of the enormity of
your guilt. And I'm not talking about just
the outward things that you do. See, men judge holiness and most
men judge righteousness by the things that you do outwardly. But sin comes from the inside. It comes from the heart. You're
polluted within. That's the reason you have thoughts
and not honoring God. That's the reason you're so self-centered. You're selfish and so am I. That's the way we are. That's
where pride comes from. You say, well, I don't do this
and I don't do that. But you're an arrogant person
in your heart. You're self-centered in your
heart. You don't submit to the ways
of God, to the will of God. You don't rejoice in whatever
God does in your life. You often grumble, and I do too. We murmur against the ways of
God and the will of God because that's the way we're made. We're
ungodly people by nature. Our sins are monumental against
the Lord. But listen. They're all washed
away. This is the good news. The lamb
has died. God is satisfied. God's not up
in heaven keeping... All right, there's another one.
There's another one. One, two, three, four, five.
There's another one. Like all of these sins keeping
tabulation against us, the Lord says, your sins and your iniquities
will I remember no more. Did He really mean that? Can
it be? Can it be true that all of the
sins that I've committed, sins of commission, sins of omission,
sins of thought, sins of imagination, sins in my dreams, sins that
I don't know anything about, what the Scriptures call sins
of ignorance, Sins of our holy things? You don't have any idea how much
you've sinned since you've been in this place. You don't have
any idea. And I don't either. And somebody says, well, Lord,
if I've sinned today, please forgive me. You can just take
that if out of it. Because I'll tell you this, you
are sinned. Amen. And me too. Hey, we're
all the same. That's why the doctrine of substitution,
the doctrine of the blessed cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is so
very, very comforting to the heart of His people. And here's
John in the midst of all this chaos surrounding. On the Isle of Patmos, and he
sees in a vision all of this persecution against the Lord's
people. He's already known people who
have been martyred for the cause of Christ. He knows many deceivers
have gone forth into the world. He writes that in his very first
epistle. He knows all about these two
beasts. But then the Lord shows him the
Lamb again. And you know, When you see a
Lamb of God, you just go, oh, how wonderful. Oh, how wonderful. How great is this salvation of
the Lord. Notwithstanding, and we're not
like the, we're not burying our heads in the sand and pretending
these This opposition doesn't exist. We're not like that. We
recognize there's opposition. We recognize there's persecution. But we recognize something a
whole lot greater. We recognize the Lamb of God
who gave Himself for us. Here John sees the Lord. He's
with His people. And all of His people, it says
in the end of verse 1, they have their Father's name written on
their foreheads. the father's name written in
their foreheads. One version, one translation
reads, they have his and his father's name written in their
foreheads. What that means is the gospel
has been burned into our minds, into our hearts, into our understanding. There was a time we weren't like
that. There was a time when we were
untaught. We didn't know about the things
of God. We didn't have any real respect
for God. We didn't understand how God
could be just and justify the ungodly. We hadn't been sealed
with the Holy Spirit of promise. Go back, if you would, to chapter
7. This is what was meant back there
in chapter 7, where John sees four angels. Look at chapter
7. Verse 1, after these things I
saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding
the four winds of the earth, judgment, that the winds of judgment
shouldn't blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor in any tree. Can't blow. I saw another angel
ascending from the east. He's got the seal of the living
God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom
he was given to hurt the earth and the sea. And here's what
the Son of God says. This angel is the Son of God.
He says, don't hurt the earth, don't hurt the sea, don't hurt
the trees, till we've sealed the servants of our God in their
foreheads. They've got to learn the gospel.
Well, who are these people? Verse 4, I saw the number of
them that were sealed, there were sealed 140 and 4,000. And
then we get back over here to Revelation chapter 14, and John sees all
the 144,000 sealed in their foreheads with the seal of God. Do you remember the Scripture
in John 6? When our Lord, He was teaching about Himself being
the bread of life. He said, I am the bread of life.
Even before He gets into that much deeper, He speaks about
His own people, those that the Lord had given Him. And He says,
it is written in the prophets, they shall all be taught of God. All of them shall be taught of
God. In other words, we're all going to learn the Gospel. All
of God's people, we're going to have rest into our minds,
into our understanding the Gospel of God's grace, the good news
of redemption, the good news of the work is finished by the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ. John says this in 1 John chapter
5, The Lord has come and has given us an understanding. That's
what this means. We've been given an understanding.
Do you have an understanding that this salvation is all of
grace and all in Christ Jesus? And look at the second verse.
He said, And I heard a voice from heaven, the voice of many
waters, as the voice of great thunder. I heard the voice of
harpers harping with their harps. It was a loud noise, but oh,
how sweet it was. Every once in a while, somebody
will say to me, you know, Jim, I can't sing. I read the words
of the hymns, but I can't carry a tune. I can't carry a melody. Well, the Scripture says singing
and making melody in your hearts to the Lord. Well, I'll tell
you, there's going to come a day when we'll all sing in perfect
melody to the Lord in heaven's glory. And we'll all sing as
though we're one voice. One voice. And you know where
we'll be singing? Look at verse 3. They sung as
it were a new song before the throne. That's where we're going
to be singing. Before the throne of God. All
the redeemed of the Lord. John has already heard this group
singing back in chapter 5. They're singing, Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain, who has redeemed us unto God by His blood. Did you hear what the song is?
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. That's what we sing about here.
And that's what we're going to be singing about in glory. I think most people, not the
Lord's people, but most people misunderstand what heaven is.
It's a place of worship. And everybody in heaven is singing
the same song. But we don't learn the song in
heaven. We learn the song down here. We learn the notes right here.
We learn the words of the hymn of redemption right here on earth. And therefore, when we get to
heaven, we just step right in and say, we're singing the same
song here that we used to sing down 13th Street. We're singing
praises to the Lamb of God. Because that's what we've been
saying. It's as though we've been practicing singing for that
day when we sing before the throne of God. I'll tell you a quick
story. Years ago I had the privilege
of directing a choir and singing portions, portions of George
F. Handel's great Oratorio of the
Messiah. Some of you have perhaps heard
that, heard that song. It's a great It was written,
he wrote it in something like 1742. He was from Germany and
he moved to England and he wrote it. It's all taken out of Scripture. It's all Scripture. He didn't
select the verses. He had a friend of his selected
the portions of Scripture, but he wrote all the music. And I
was privileged to direct, and I loved to direct choirs years
ago, and I directed the Messiah. And we worked on it a long time,
because it's a Joel, you sang that in Bible College, a lot
of people did, and it's quite a masterpiece, and there are
difficulties, there are all four parts, and of course there are
solos, and so forth, starts off with a tenor solo, but anyway,
we worked on this. I had the choir break them down
into sections, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, Pianists go with
them, pound out the notes so everybody knows and knows, put
it all together and we're all ready to sing. When it came time
for our presentation, if when our choir, when the choir gathered,
if they're entered into the choir, let's just say, let's suppose,
somebody that I didn't know, I would have asked him, what
are you doing in the choir? Well, I thought I'd sing with
you. Do you know this song? No. You don't know the tune to
it? What do you sing? Are you a tenor? Are you a bass? Whatever? No. I would say, you can't sing with
us. You don't know the song. Let
me tell you something. Everybody who goes to glory sings
in the heavenly choir. But only those who know the song
already will be there to sing. If you don't know it, you needn't
think you're going to go there and sing. You see, most religions,
don't get offended, but I'm going to tell you the truth here. Most
religions down here, they're singing, worthy is man's will. Worthy of man's works? Worthy
of the deeds of men? They're not singing only about
worthy is the Lamb. They don't know the words. And
most religious people, they wouldn't be happy in heaven if God were
to let them in, which He won't. But they wouldn't be happy in
heaven because they wouldn't know the song. It's a song of
grace. It's a song of redemption. It's
a song of hallelujahs to the Lamb of God. In that great Messiah,
by the way, it divides itself into three parts. The first part,
the prophecies and the birth of the Lord Jesus. The second
part concerns His sacrifice. And that second part concludes
with a great hallelujah chorus, and you've probably heard that
sung. That's when King Jordan II stood,
and it's become tradition now for everybody to stand there
and sing the hallelujah chorus. Third part's the resurrection
and ascension of the Lord Jesus. It's all about Him. You see,
all the singing in heaven is to be about Him. It will be about
Him. And our songs here on earth are
to be no different. We learn that song of heaven
down here on earth by the sovereign grace of God when He effectually
teaches us the gospel. We learn it here. Do you know
the notes? Do you know the words? He said,
by the grace of God I do. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is
the Lamb. What has He done? He's redeemed
us. Look at the very last line of
the third verse. Which were redeemed from the
earth. Which were redeemed from... He didn't redeem the whole earth.
He redeemed some of them from the earth. Oh, we don't believe
in a general redemption. We don't believe that Jesus died
for everybody. That's one of the three greatest
lies I've ever been told. Here they are. The three greatest
lies are God loves everybody without exception. Christ died
for everybody without exception. The Spirit of God is trying to
save everybody, wants to save everybody without exception.
Those are three lies right from hell. You see, if those are so,
What that does, that puts salvation into your hands. Man gets the
glory. It's not that way. God loves
the chosen people. Christ died for those people.
The Spirit of God effectually calls those people. And everybody,
everybody who have the teaching of God in their minds, in their
foreheads, They sing praises to the Lamb of God. Spurgeon talked about it. He said he agreed
with Martin Luther who said, if any man attribute aught of
his salvation to his own free will, he knoweth nothing of grace
or right. And that's the truth. If you think you made the difference,
Oh, may God invade your heart with the truth. Because you're
not going to heaven thinking that you make the difference.
It can't be. It can't be. Everybody in heaven
sings, worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the Lamb. The Lamb
who was slain. He redeemed us from the earth. That means He got the job done.
And this is what gives great peace and assurance to the hearts
of God's people. Our Savior got the job done.
Job well done. And I know it was a job well
done because God raised Him from the grave. And then 40 days later,
after His resurrection, our Lord ascended back to glory and the
Father said, sit here at my right hand until I make all your enemies
your footstool. He's the triumphant Lamb of God. And He so often appears to us
in our great time of need, and He appears to us as the Lamb
who was smitten for our sins, who satisfied justice for us.