Behold The Lamb of God

John chapter 1. I have a message today for everybody here, young and old, believer and unbeliever, strong or weak, the faithful, the believer. I have a message for everybody here. So give me your attention. It's the most simple and at the same time the most profound of all messages and is fire, the fire out of the store. I thought about changing my message to something to do with God's providence. But only briefly, I'm convinced this is the message. The message you need to hear. The message you need to hear for the saving of your soul. The message you need to hear for the talking of your soul. My text is John chapter one and verse 29. and sayeth, Behold the Lamb of God. Now that's the message. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Let me tell you two or three true stories with regard to this verse of scripture.

In 1857, 28, 21 years old. God greatly blessed his ministry and while they were building their place of worship. gathered inside and outside and the place was just jam-packed to hear a man preach the gospel of God's free grace. I mean preach the gospel. It wasn't entertainment like modern religious crusades. This was a preaching center.

The Spurgeon went the day or two before the place was open for their services and he was going to just test out the acoustics of the building and so he stood where he thought would be the best place for the platform and he He said, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

And he didn't know it, but there was a man up in the galleries, a carpenter, doing some final work up in the galleries. And that carpenter heard that message and was smitten in his heart. He dropped his tools, went home, and began to call on the name of the Lord and in this old man's deathbed, and that man said that message, that one word from God Almighty struck life in my son. Oh, may it do that for you today.

Roger Clark, one of the English martyrs, when he was burned at the stake, sealed his testimony and sealed his life with these words, Behold the man of God. What a way for one man to begin life, what a way for another one to end it. Behold the man of God. Several years ago, before we had fiber optic networking and digital telephones, when it was just the telegraph system in operation, there was a young telegraph operator who had been struggling with his seeing. and just kind of half alert, and he heard the tapping of that cross wire, and he was astonished to hear what he heard. He jumped up and wrote it down.

This is what Telegraph said. From H. Winnbeard to J.D. Wordworth, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, And he wrote it back this wire. And when this young man heard the message, God took the word that was intended for somebody else and gave him life eternal and faith in Jesus Christ.

Oh, and I've got some specific folks in mind in preaching this message today. But I don't care who hears it. And I'll be real happy if everybody here will behold the life of God. So without introduction, other than that, let me get to my message. It's important and it's delightful.

First, who is this lamb? Of course, you who are sitting here and regularly attend the ministry of the word here, you know who he is, but you won't mind me telling you one more time. This lamb of God is himself God our savior. He says, this is he of whom I say. He said, I told you, there was one coming after me, who is preferred before me. He's standing right in your midst, and he doesn't before me. This lamb is a man, a man who is himself the eternal God, who from eternity is the self-existent one.

He is the preeminent, highly exalted, highly favored God incarnate in human flesh. manifest what? In verse 34 John says, I saw, and by record, and tell you that this is the Son of God. This man and woman is God himself. of somebody. He is called the Lamb of God and is constantly portrayed in scripture as a lamb because he is the sacrifice appointed, demanded, and accepted of God the Father for the saving of his people.

Now under the Old Testament law, you remember, that anyone who sinned was required of God to bring a reign. They were required to bring a sacrifice. As they brought a sacrifice, they offered up blood atonement for their sins upon the altar to God. And thus, by the typical sacrifices of the Old Testament, the justice of God was satisfied. Now only in time, only in ceremony, The blood of those sacrifices could never put away sin. The blood of those sacrifices could not satisfy the justice of God. The blood of those sacrifices could never purge the conscience of the sinner.

But by time, by ceremony, by picture, they portrayed what Christ would come to do, and that is to satisfy justice. Tabernacle and in the temple. At the close of every day, as the sun was going down, they offered sacrifices in the tabernacle and later in the temple. And then once every year, the high priest, and the high priest alone, took the blood of Paschal Mary into the Holy of Holies, and there he sprinkled blood upon the mercy seat, which covered the birth and lay of God, and God came down and met with man. to save sinners through Jesus Christ the Lord. All those sacrificial lambs proclaim one thing clearly and they proclaim it constantly. No sacrifice, no salvation. Now you need to understand that. You can't be saved without a sacrifice. You can't be accepted of God without blood atonement. Without the shedding of blood is no remission. Why is that?

Justice must be satisfied. God Almighty cannot and will not tarnish his law to send him a man. God cannot and will not lend his justice to accommodate for the man. God's justice must stay if he serves the soul. Sin if it shall die, and die we must justice must be satisfied.

Either in him or in the substitute. Either in the man who has sinned or in the sacrifice that God demands and God accepts. But the only lamb whose blood could satisfy the justice of God, the only lamb whose blood could put away sin, is this lamb whom John says is God the Son. The apostle is persuading the Hebrews how that the gospel is better than the sacrifices of the Old Testament.

And he says in verse 1, the law having a shadow of good things to come. That's what those types of pictures were, just a shadow. They were just a shadow of good things to come. The shadow approaching means there's somebody following. And the pictures say there's someone coming of whom the picture speaks. But it is not the very image of those things.

And therefore, it can never, with those sacrifices which they offered, year by year continually make their comings down to perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered, because that the worshipers, once purged, should have had no more conscience of sin. Now this is Paul's argument. He says if the law and the sacrifices of the Old Testament could have put away sin, then they would cease to have been offered, because once sin was put away, there was no need for a sacrifice.

Restricted. But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. In other words, every time that high priest came into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled blood on the mercy seat, he stepped out and lifted his hands and said, the Lord bless thee and keep thee. And when they left the camp, they said, boys, we'll see y'all next year. We'll see you right here again next year, because this has got to be done again.

The blood of the pastoral lamb cannot take away sin. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin. Wherefore? That is, this is the reason Christ came. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, a body hast thou prepared me. And the Lord Jesus Christ comes in a human body to suffer as a man on the behalf of guilty men, because only as a man who is God could he put away sin for his people. This Lamb then is himself God Almighty.

You remember when Abraham and Isaac were going up to Mount Moriah? Isaac turned and looked at his father who was carrying the fire, the burnt offering, on his back. And he said, Father, we have the fire. And we've got the wood. Where is the lightning?

That young man learned what few fellows learn in our day from their daddies. He learned from his father that you can't worship God without blood. You can't come to God without blood atonement. You don't dare approach the holy name of God, a sinful man, without a sacrifice.

And so he said, daddy, where's the sacrifice? And Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering. Not God will provide for himself, but God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And that lamb is Jesus Christ the Lord. He is God manifest in the flesh.

He is God sacrificed for sins. This was the land slain in the purpose of God before the world began. He is the land who was slain typically in all the sacrifices of the Old Testament in the morning of creation. And he is the land slain actually in the last time in the end of the world when he has come to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

And notice John does not say, behold a lamb of God. That is not what the text says, is it? But rather he says, behold the lamb of God. It is not merely a sacrifice which we are to behold, but the sacrifice which God has offended. The sacrifice which God has obeyed. The sacrifice which God has accepted. Men somehow get the foolish notion in their heads that if we would just come to God and whatever he would bring, we would just come to God and bring whatever he was able to bring, God would accept that. God would look at us and he would say, this is sincere, they're good folks after all, they just don't know any better, so I'll take what they bring.

Oh no, oh no, a thousand times no. God would not even accept the sacrifices of the Old Testament that he required. They couldn't put away sin. God would never accept the blood of guilt to put away sin. He would never accept the blood of guilt to put away sin. He would never accept the guilt of an innocent man to put away sin.

Not when you're alive. Having to become the God. Behold the Lamb is only one. Is only one. And that Lamb is Jesus Christ the Lord. He is the sacrifice which God demands, and the sacrifice which God gives. The sacrifice which God requires, and the sacrifice which God accepts.

Turn back to Isaiah 53. Here the prophet Isaiah is describing this land. He's telling us all about the land. In chapter 53 verse 6, the prophet says, all we like sheep have gone astray. That's what we're good at. We've turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Verse 10. It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his sin.

He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord And what do those verses tell us? They tell us that this Lamb is the one upon whom God has laid our sins. This Lamb is the one whom God looks upon with pleasure and satisfaction as He bruised Him, He slew Him as our substitute. This Lamb, by virtue of His blood, shall see all those for whom He suffered and died with Him in glory at last.

Jesus. He is the sacrifice. He is the way. He is the door. He is the light. And there is no other. Secondly, what has this Lamb done? Look at that text again. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. When the Lord Jesus Christ was put in our place, when he was made to be our substitute, when he died as our sacrificial lamb, our sins were laid upon him. They were laid upon him. Now sin, like anything else, cannot be in two places at one time. See that here? Bad place.

However good, there's no wrong with that. You say, well that's kind of elementary. I wish folks would understand, the gospel is very elementary. And that's the profound and mysterious about this now. If this thing has been removed from here and laid there, it can't be here. Now I'm telling you that God, no I'm not telling you, God does this. The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. What does that mean? God threw it out of us in, off us. Put it right here. It can't be on me and on Him. If He has burned my sin, I have no sin to bear before God. Moreover, I can never have any sin to bear before God because God will never make another transfer of guilt. He made healing to be sin for us.

This phrase, take of the way the sins of the world, is a robust statement of full effects of the temple. Sometimes we run across words that have But the word has all these shades of meaning. First it means to take up. When the scripture says he taketh away, it means he takes up.

And the Lord Jesus Christ, back in the covenant of grace before the world began, voluntarily took up our sins. Now get hold of that. Get hold of that. He took up our sins. He willingly, deliberately, with purpose of heart, became responsible to God for our sins. He said I will take their debt. I will take their sin. I will take their guilt. I will take their dependency. And he takes it up in his hands. More than that, it means to bear. If you have a marginal translation, the word is translated in the margin here, beareth the sin of the world.

And the Lord Jesus Christ, in his own body, bared our sins on the tree. He took our sins up. And then when he went up to Mount Calvary, he in his own body, bared our sins before God Almighty. The body was prepared him, so that he as a man might be made to be sinned. And for all our sins we made to suffer the penalty of our sins, which only a man could do. And this word also means taking away. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away, taketh away the sin of the world. How can I describe it?

Like, blotting out or erasing a blackboard. When I was a kid, we used to go, when we wanted to get out of class and volunteer to do some work at the same time, we'd volunteer to wash the blackboard. And what happened is the teacher would erase, and erase, and erase, and erase, and erase. And that's why we used to get chalk residue all over that thing. And so we get up, look at the water, and go wash the finger. Just wash it clean. That's exactly the word that's used when God said, Behold, I am thee that watereth out. I translate this. Go! Go! Forever go! Because he took them away.

He has removed our sins from us, as far as the east is from the west. I'm so thankful he said that. It would have been good if he would have said remove our sins as far as the north ends from the south. That would have been good. But I can find the north pole and I can find the south pole. But do you ever hear of anybody finding the west pole or the east pole? No such thing.

That means he has removed our sins from us infinitely and completely so that they're gone, never to be remembered against us again. He's tossed them behind his back. He's buried our sins in the deep sea of Christ's blood so that they are never to be gone again. Our sins are gone. Gone. Pastor, you can't mean that. Oh yeah.

I mean that the Son of God has so thoroughly warned the saints of all who trust him that God Almighty will never ever deal with us on account of our sins. Listen to what Daniel says. Daniel chapter 9 and verse 24. Daniel 9 verse 24. I don't know why preachers can't do it today with all the revelation from the scripture. Daniel got it. Where is that guy in the book of Daniel? In Daniel chapter 9 and verse 24 this is how he describes the work of the Messiah.

He finished our transgressions. Finished them? What's that mean? It doesn't mean He added the final touch to it. It means He put them away. He made an end of our sins. He put an end to them. So that the sins that were charged against us are no more and therefore cannot be charged against us. He made reconciliation for our iniquities. He took us, who were, by nature, enemies of God and children of God, even as others, and he has presented us before God like anxiety.

So that God no longer has any quarrel or any reason to quarrel against the soul for whom Christ died. He's put away our sins, if I have no sin. Now listen to me, I'm not talking about in myself. I'm not talking about by my works. Oh, a hundred thousand times no. But if by the imputation of Christ's righteousness, and by the shedding of his blood, I have no sinning, God's got no reason to be upset with me. You understand that? God's got no quarrel with me.

If you should go downtown Danville, and you're a peep at the law of works, and find my name written there, and some crime that I've committed for which I am wronged, for which no satisfaction has been made, for which no punishment has been given, then you come back and point it to me and I'm going to start hiding. I'm going to go start hiding. I'm going to go find out who that darn fool Risco is. One of the two.

I've done nothing wrong. If I have no crimes recorded against me in the book of the law, then there's no reason for me to feel judged. You understand that? There's no reason for me to feel judged. And I'm telling you that Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, has so thoroughly removed my sins that there's no reason for me to feel judged. No reason.

He made an end to sin. He made a reconciliation for our iniquitation. And He bore him everlasting righteousness. Not only has He put away my sin, but He's given to me His perfect righteousness. As God Almighty took my sin and charged it to Him so that it became His. God Almighty has taken His righteousness and charged it to me. Now, I stand before God, in righteousness of God.

You understand that? That's called redemption. But now some of you are probably saying that thinking, well Don, this text is in the present tense. It says here he taketh away the sin of the world. You talk as though it's already done. How can you interpret the scripture now? What does this signify? Does this somehow suggest that Christ's work of putting away sin is an ongoing affair? Oh, no. No, no, no, no. A thousand, thousand times no. The papers offer the mass, every time they offer the mass, every day they offer sacrifice and say redemption is being accomplished.

Oh, no, that's blasphemy. Either Christ finished the work or he didn't. There are multitudes who preach and talk as though somehow or another, now if you want to be redeemed, if you want to have this thing accomplished through you, you do this. No, no, it's not present tense.

The people of God will be redeemed, justified, sanctified, their sins put away when Jesus Christ satisfied the justice of God for us. Understand that, don't ever forget it. We simply receive the finished work of Christ by faith. But why then is the text written in the present tense? Who taketh away the sin of the world? I'll give you three reasons. First, because our Lord Jesus was then in the process of taking away sin.

When he came to John, he had already been baptized to fulfill all righteousness. He comes and presents himself again before John. And as John looked at him, walking through the door as a man, in perfect obedience to God the Father, he sees him as one who was in the process of taking the word said.

You see, the obedience of Christ was as necessary for our salvation as the death of Christ. It was as necessary that he bring in righteousness for Oscar Bailey as that he put away sin for Oscar Bailey. Both were necessary, because Oscar's got plenty of sin to build righteousness.

Jesus Christ comes on behalf of his people, and he brings in righteousness, obeying God perfectly. And he puts away sin by the sacrifice that he's sacrificed. Secondly, the Lord Jesus Christ finished work of redemption. His atonement for sin is an infinite, perpetual merit and efficacy before God.

Though the sacrifice was made once, 2,000 years ago, the merit of the sacrifice is as fresh today as it was 2,000 years ago. Understand that? The merit is as infinite now as it was before the world began. The merit is as effectual now as it was when he died and is finished.

What do you mean, Richard? of us from all sin. Well, you told me you didn't even listen to the third day of famine. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleansed you several years ago from your sin. And He still does. Were it not for the perpetual, infinite, effectual merit of Christ's blood, our sins would be charged to as continually as they're committed. But Christ's blood is of such value, of such infinite value, that it effectually, continually, purges our sins, and God, in his justice, cannot and will not charge us with sin. Thirdly, The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, which removed our sins from the record of heaven 2,000 years ago, is still effectual to urge the conscience of believing hearts today. Some of you are sitting out here, I hope some of you are, with the guilt of sin upon you. And you're terrified Your heart's heavy with guilt.

Now let me tell you, if God by His grace will enable you now, if you can right now, look to Christ the Lamb of God. I'm telling you, if you can trust Him. Because my conscience sees what the Lord God sees. What God sees, the blood of the Lamb says, bless me now. God cannot require more. My sin, all the bliss, all these things. My sin, my impartment, the whole is known to his cross. And I pour that name out. Praise the Lord. It is well with my soul. How about you? It is well with my soul.

But who said, does the Lamb of God take away? He taketh away the sin of the world. Aha! Some babbling free will Arminian says, there you see, Jesus died for everybody. Anybody here read that in that text? That's not what that text says, is it? He doesn't say anything about Jesus dying for everybody. But a lot of people have gone on to say in medicine that some amazing love, we change the words, where it says he bled for Adam's helpless race. He didn't do any such thing. Jesus Christ did not bleed for Adam's helpless race. He bled for all his helpless race. He did not die for everybody in the world. If he did, everybody won't be saved.

If this text of scripture says this, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of all the people in the world, then nobody in the world is going to hell. Nobody's going to. If you haven't got any sin, why are you going to hell? If he took away your sin, what's the basis of judgment? Probably God already sent anybody to hell who has no sin. So obviously the text does not mean that he took away the sins of all people in the world.

Or what does it mean, y'all? It simply means this. Here is a lamb whose blood is shed for God's elect throughout the whole world. Now you write that down in the margin, and I'm gonna show it to you right now. Here's a man whose blood was shed for God's elect throughout the world. Now that's exactly what the text means. You remember the folks who came out and asked John, said, who are you? Who are you? And John said, I'm not the Christ, but there's one coming, he is the Christ.

Behold the land of God. Now, those Jews were perfectly familiar with the lands of the Old Testament. They were familiar with the details required in the Old Testament sacrifices. Do you remember that when God told Moses to give the first house of the land, the sacrifice of that first land back in Exodus chapter 12, He told Moses just go tell the children of Israel.

He didn't even tell Pharaoh about me. He didn't tell him about me because the blood of the lamb was shed for nobody but Jews. That's all. That's all. And when the high priest went in every year and offered sacrifice and atonement, he offered the blood of the Lamb for nobody but Jews. When they offered blood at the beds of the temple every night and every evening, it was offered for nobody but Jews.

But now John says, boys, here's the Lamb, who takes away the sins of God's elect Jew and Gentile wherever they are in the world. There is one sign, one token, by which you may know whether or not Christ took your sins away. Turn over to John chapter three. Look at verse 17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not to be.

Can you take your place there? Can you take your place there? I do. I do. In the teeth of all my soul. In the face of my emptiness, coldness, and heartlessness. The greatest of all my unbelief. Here I stand, sinner, before the light. I don't trust him. Not as author, but trust him. In the scripture it says you don't believe in this, you ought to. He says he didn't believe in it. He's not convinced. He's not convinced. And if you believe him, I'm telling you, Behold the name of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

That was the message of the first Baptist preacher in the world. John the Baptist. That's the message of this Baptist preacher. And it ought to be the message of every Baptist preacher. Regrettably, it's not. It ought to be the message of every man who claims to be a preacher of any kind.

Regrettably, it's not. where on earth got an ocean that land over there more holy land in Kentucky is but they call it the holy land and it's become a real tourist boom you know. Now this is back before folks started going over there and taking pilgrimages over there like Muslims going to Mecca. investigating and touring the area to find out various historic data and so forth like that.

But one time they were showing us a site one night in the evening, the room was darkened. And they were showing us places that they thought the temple was. Jerusalem and the Roman wall and all that stuff. Then they showed a lot of slides and it was about to come to an end.

And somebody sitting out in the congregation And they didn't have anything to answer with. And that's the way I feel when I listen to most of us preach. Where's Calvary? I hear lots of things about a lot of things that are good enough in their way, but where's Calvary?

That's the only thing that matters. I'm telling you nothing matters but the Lamb. Just the Lamb. Look to the Lamb. Behold the Lamb of God who shall take away the sins of the world. Or what are we to do? How can I have part in what in this matter? How can I know that Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, has put away my sin?

The answer is right here in our text. One word, two syllables. Behold. So, behold. There's life for a look at the crucified one. Look unto me and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth cry out God and beside me there is none else. To behold the man of God is to believe on the name of Jesus Christ. It is to trust Him as your Savior. It is to believe God's revelation concerning Him and rely upon Him and Him alone as your Savior. This is the way of salvation. Now, I've got to quit, but there's a whole lot to be said here.

The text does not say try to figure out all the doctrines of the Bible. That's not what the text says. Now I realize that men and women are saved through hearing the gospel, and only through hearing the gospel. But don't you try to figure out and convince yourself you've got to figure out and understand all the doctrines of the gospel before you can believe. Oh no, that gets caught before the horse. That gets caught before the horse. You believe, and the mysteries of the gospel unfold in the face of the Lamb.

By things that used to confuse me are so simple now. Things that used to just sit in every scratch in my head wouldn't upset me. Just so plain. Just as easy as nose on your face. What do you mean? Look to the light. And look into the light. You see all things in the clear light. Don't manufacture difficulties for yourself. Just look to the light. I've had a fella call me several times in the last year or two. He talks for a long, long time. I get a little frustrated with him. I have to admit, if he hears this tape, he'll know I'm talking about him.

I get a little upset with him because he talks about seeking the Lord, being concerned about his soul, but he's been so mixed up with religion and so confused with all the nonsense that goes on. He invents difficulties. He read the scriptures. If he read 500 promises and saw one possibility of something that looked like a He would ignore the promises of Abraham the Great. I mean, he's a wise people.

He invents cover for himself. And there are a lot of people just like that. They hear the word, and they say, well, I've heard the word before. And they start investigating. And they start kinds of questions. Now try to answer this for me. If you can't answer this, I don't know.

That's kind of like throwing a life buoy out to a fellow who's drowning. You throw it out there and this fellow is bobbing up and down in the water asking you where'd that thing come from, who made you have to do it? By what food? No, a drowning man just grabs hold of it. He just grabs hold of it.

And I'm telling you, if you ever find yourself lost and helpless There are lots of things I guess you can do with a piece of bread. I've done a lot of stuff with it. When I was a kid, I used to play with it. Used to wad it up. Let it get hard while I was in school and make spitballs for the folks. You can do lots of things with bread. But I know what a hungry man does with it. A hungry man eats it. And the one who eats it gets the benefit of it. Now there's lots of things you can do with this message.

You can talk about it. You can admire it. You can despise it. It doesn't matter which way you look at it. If you don't believe it. All but if you need to play it. Behold. Don't try to decide whether or not you're left. anywhere now. I know that all the elect are going to be saved. But I give you the rule of preachers who preach as though they're scared to death somebody who's not elect might get in on this thing. If you believe, if you trust the Son of God, it was intended for you to do so. Mr. Spurgeon told a story once about one winter time in London. He was saying he saw some robberies out on the frozen ground covered with snow.

He just took the little bread and laid it out on the balcony of his study on the window. A little while, the robber came up and started eating bread. He said, every morning, all winter long, I put a little bread out every morning. The robber came and got a little bread. And it pleased me and pleased the robber. He said, the robber never asked whether or not the bread was intended for her.

She just ate the bread. And in eating the bread, she fulfilled my intention. That's what you ought to do. It quite depends on whether or not it was intended for you. Just take the man. Just look to the man. If you look to the man, he was intended for you. Is that simple enough? That's the truth. That's the truth.

Remember you said that Robin said, I don't know how birds talk to each other. But that Robin told a blackbird. Told that blackbird, there's some birds. The blackbird said he got some birds. And he said, I looked out there and saw the black bird in the bread, and I was pleased with that too. What a secret there's a black bird where the bread is. It calls on you to hear the message of God's free grace. And I'm telling you, anybody who hears and believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, and it's God's intention from eternity that they should look to the Lamb.

The text does not say behold yourself, Too many people spend too much time looking at themselves. This is one of the faults of the Puritans. I read the Puritans and I enjoy reading them. I appreciate their doctrine. I appreciate what they did and how God used them.

But a good many of them spend too much time telling folks to look at themselves to see whether or not they were fit candidates for mercy. If you're a sinner, you're a fit candidate for mercy. Now don't try to look at yourself and see whether or not you have a sufficiently broken heart, or if you're sufficiently repentant, or if you sufficiently feel your need of Christ.

Just look to Christ. That's all. Just look to Him. And the text doesn't say start doing something. Folks, Dale said it all the time now. Well, you need to stop going to church. No, you need to look. You need to start reading the Bible. No, you need to look. You need to start doing good things. No, you need to look. Just look to the man. Just look at him. Look.

There's one blessed illustration of this in the scriptures. When the children of Israel were written with fire to save us. Moses was commanded by God to make a circle of grass and hold it up on a pole. That's the only thing preachers are good for. That's the only thing they ought to be good for, is holding up Christ crucified before them. That's all. Just like Moses held up that circle of grass.

And the Lord promised that every woman who was bitten by a serpent, as soon as he looked, would be healed. Now I can kind of picture what those fellows might have done if they had been in churches today. They'd say now fellas what we need to do is get us a committee established to eradicate serpents and we'll go around talking to all these serpents.

No, that won't work. Just look through certain brands. You take a step back you're going to die. You take the traditions of men you're going to die. But if you look to Christ you're going to die. Somebody might say well I just got a little bite. Just a little bite. After all I'm not a drunk, a harlot, a whoremonger, dopehead, thief, murderer. No I've been a little disordered sometimes. I've, uh, I've had some bad thoughts. I've lost my temper a time or two. But I just got a little bite. You know what you think's a little bite? It's the deadly plague of sin in your soul.

It'll carry you to hell unless you look to the right. Look. Look. Behold the man of God. He's taken away the sin of the world. So why must we look to the way of it? Because there's no other way to be saved. There's just no other way. Even your church on your life. Even you used to baptize folks in the creek. Oh boy, see he'd be baptizing many times a day. Don't know you by your first name. But it ain't gonna help you anyway. The only way you can be saved is to believe. Don't quit. Look to the way of God. And you don't do that by sashaying down front, saying to the congregation, I believe in Jesus, I want to confess my sin. You don't do that by saying the sinner's prayer. Nobody has been saved by that nonsense. Nobody has. I know that's going to offend folks, but nobody has ever been saved by walking down an aisle or saying the sinner's prayer. You're saved by looking to the Lord. That's all. That's all. You don't have to do that. Don't have to say anything. Matter of fact, don't get up. Don't say anything. Right where you sit. Without moving your wrist, without moving your muscle.

Come to God. Or at least look to Him. You must look to Him. Because all who look to Him are assured of this. I'm looking. And soon I'm going to be with him. That's what salvation is. That was looking to Christ. Brother Scott Richardson preached to someone one time and had these three points. He said, he said, this thing we call Christianity, salvation begins in a look. Look unto me, thee save all the ends of the earth. And he said, all the way through this world, it's a look, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. and he's going to end up in a rook.

When we see him, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. For all God help you now to behold the Lamb of God. Amen. Ron, you can listen to him if you want to listen. Number six in the Psalms of grace book. Behold the Savior. Bye! preaching to you on the subject, the name of God and all the scriptures. And we're going to just see how this land is presented in the word of God. If God is giving you faith in Christ and you want to confess and believe in baptism, you see the evil men as angels.

It's possible. Okay. After you see the second verse, I'm Father, we thank Thee for each one that has brought Thee to hear this message this morning. And Lord, make it affectionate in our hearts this message that we just had heard. We know that salvation will be on the end for the Lord Jesus Christ. Give us grace to come to Thee in our hearts. Let us walk in Thy righteousness each day. lead us through the rest of this day and brings back the night. You know that our Lord and Savior has to be gracious and merciful to us. Lord, help each one look to Thee and do Thy will. I'm good. I'm good.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm going to take that out of the way for you. Hey, I've been here for a big week. So tight. But if you want to pay that much money, you can't do that here. I'm not going to charge you anything if you can't pay this. It's going to turn back on you.

What do your brothers' faces look like? He can be a brother. Good job, you didn't have any. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have eight. Eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by five, eight by I'm sorry. I don't know why, I just don't want you to know. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. No, I didn't. I did.

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