Worthy Is The Lamb

Q: What does the Bible say about the Lamb of God?

The Bible describes Jesus as the Lamb of God who was slain for our sins, fulfilling God's promise of salvation. The depiction of Jesus as the Lamb of God is woven throughout Scripture, particularly in Revelation 5:11-13 where heavenly beings proclaim His worthiness. Jesus is identified repeatedly as the Lamb, from Genesis where the concept is first introduced with Abel's sacrifice, to Revelation where He is celebrated as the Lamb who redeems mankind. Significant passages, such as Isaiah 53, portray Him as one who bears our griefs and carries our sorrows, showing that this sacrificial lamb is central to God’s redemptive plan.

Q: How do we know Jesus is the true Lamb of God?

Jesus is affirmed as the true Lamb through prophetic fulfillment and His sacrificial death as depicted in the Scriptures. Jesus’ identity as the true Lamb of God is confirmed through various prophetic scriptures and His fulfillment of those prophecies in His own life. For example, in Genesis 22, Abraham's statement that 'God will provide Himself a Lamb' indicates a divine provision which finds its ultimate fulfillment in Christ. John the Baptist explicitly calls Jesus the 'Lamb of God' in John 1:29, reinforcing His unique role in God's salvific plan. This theological foundation is supported throughout the New Testament, indicating that Jesus does not merely represent the sacrificial lamb; He is the ultimate Lamb, without blemish, who bears the iniquities of humanity.

Q: Why is the concept of the Lamb important for Christians?

The concept of the Lamb as a sacrifice is crucial for Christians because it represents the core of the Gospel and our redemption from sin. The significance of the Lamb in Christian theology cannot be overstated; it encapsulates the Gospel message of redemption through Christ. The Lamb signifies sacrificial atonement, which is evident in the Passover narrative of Exodus 12. Here, the blood of the lamb spared the Israelites from judgment, foreshadowing Christ's sacrificial death that provides believers with salvation. This theme is echoed in Romans 5:9, stating that we are justified by His blood. The recognition of Jesus as both sacrificial Lamb and High Priest underscores the complete work of redemption, enabling Christians to approach God confidently, assured of their salvation through faith in Christ.

Good morning. Open your Bibles back to Revelation chapter 5. Revelation 5 and look back at verse 11. My subject this morning is this. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the lamb. Look here at verse 11. It says, and I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such are as in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne. and unto the Lamb forever and ever." Worthy is the Lamb.

If you go back and you read this whole chapter of Revelation, you'll see the Lord Jesus Christ referred to as the Lamb over and over again. Look back at verse 6, it says, in the midst of the throne stood a Lamb. In verse 12, they cry, is the Lamb. They fell down before the Lamb. And we read that over and over again through God's Word that the Lord Jesus Christ is this Lamb.

He's the Lamb of God. We read over in Revelation 13, it says, He was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. But before God created this world, before God made man, before man fell, He was the Lamb slain for all of eternity. He's the Lamb slain. And I came across this outline five or six months ago, and a man gave six scriptures that point to this, the Lamb of God. And it's been such a blessing for me to look at these. And that's what we're gonna look at here this morning.

We're gonna turn, and we're gonna read these scriptures, and that'll be our message. And the first one, it's back in Genesis, Genesis chapter 4. Turn there with me. Genesis 4, we'll look at verse 1. And this man, he gave a description of each scripture, and this one is the, it's the lamb typified. And that word typified, it means set forth. It means the lamb pictured. Look at Genesis chapter four, verse one. It says, and Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I've gotten a man from the Lord.

And she again bare his brother Abel, and Abel was a keeper of the sheep. But Cain was a tiller of the ground, and in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel also, he brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof, and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect."

And here we have We see the lamb. The picture of what God would accept, it's shown right here. It says Abel, he was a keeper of the sheep, he was a shepherd, and he brought the firstling of the flock, the best lamb that he had, and he brought that unto the Lord, and he slew its blood, and that's what he presented unto God, and it said God had respect to that.

He accepted it as a sacrifice for sin. Abel said, my sins deserve death. You remember back there in the garden when Adam and Eve sinned, it said, God slew an animal and he covered them. The wages of sin is death. And that's what Abel was saying. He said, this is what my sins deserve. And he brought that lamb and it said, God accepted it. And it said, Cain. Cain brought that he had produced, that he had worked for. And it said, the Lord didn't have respect for that.

And we think this is a long time ago, but it's the same today. Men come to God one of two ways. We either come by what God did, we come by the Lamb slain, or we come based on the things that we do. We see that in our everyday life. As a teacher, we have church youth groups for these kids, and every Monday they come in and they tell me about some Christian concert that they went to over the weekend. And all these things, they talk about leading people to the Lord, and all these works.

And that's what Cain brought. No doubt he was working hard and diligent, but it said God didn't accept that. And that's what set forth the only thing God will accept as a sacrifice for sin is the Lamb. It's the Lamb. The Lamb typified. Turn with me now to Genesis 22. Genesis 22. This is the Lamb prophesied. In a prophecy, it's a promise that's guaranteed to be fulfilled. The Lamb prophesied. Look at verse one with me. These are all familiar texts.

It says, and it came to pass that after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, behold, here I am. And he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom you love, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon which one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and satted his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and he claimed the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place which God had told him of. And then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place afar off, And Abraham said unto the young men, abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again unto you. And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, and he laid it upon Isaac his son, and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together. Look here at verse seven. And Isaac spake unto Abraham, to his father, and he said, my father, and he said, here am I, my son.

He said, behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb? Where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Evidently, Isaac had been taught something. No doubt he'd been taught by his father about Cain and Abel's offering to the Lord. And he asked that question, he said, Behold, the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb? Where's the lamb? And we ought to ask ourselves that question any time we hear a message, any time we sit down and read the Word of God, where is the lamb? God show me that, where is the lamb?

And look at Abraham's response here, look at verse 8. This is so good. It says, And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. He said, God will provide the lamb. He said, it's not our job to go out and find our own lamb. We don't do that. That's not our work. God will provide himself a lamb.

That's God's work. And He did. He provided the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, on the cross. He provided the Lamb. And not only did He provide it, He provided Himself as the Lamb. We read this in the Scriptures, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself. He provided Himself as the Lamb. And that's the gospel. Isn't that good news? That's not our work, that's God's work. He provides the lamb. Read on here, look at verse nine. It says, And they came to the place which God had told him of.

And Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I. And he said, lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took that ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. That ram, if you look that word up in your concordance, it's defined as a mighty man. A mighty man, no doubt, a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says Abraham took that ram and he sacrificed it in the stead of Isaac, his son.

And that's the gospel, that's Christ who takes our place, that death, that judgment that we deserve. That's what that ram got in his place. And that's our message. Christ dies in our stead. The wrath of God that we deserve, it's poured out on the Lord Jesus Christ. The lamb prophesied, the lamb promised. Turn with me now to Exodus, Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12. A little background on this text.

The children of Israel had been in slavery in Egypt for 400 years, and that's a long time. We're about to celebrate America's 250th birthday. And you just think about how many generations in our own families that that would go back, 250 years. And this is 400 years. That's almost twice that amount of time. All they had ever known was slavery. You just think of father, grandfather, as far back as you could think for 400 years, that's all they had known.

And God had promised to deliver them and deliver them into the promised land. But that deliverance is not gonna come until the lamb was slain. You just think about all the plagues that the Lord brought, and it says every time Pharaoh's heart was hardened, but deliverance came when the lamb was slain.

That was such a blessing to me. Look here at verse one. Just keep that in mind as we read this. Exodus 12, verse one. It says, The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house.

Look at verse five. It says, Your lamb, shall be without blemish, a male of the first year, ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening, and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it.

And look down at verse 12. He says, for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. Look at verse 13.

It says, and the blood, the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you." One of the old writers said, that's the greatest promise a man can have from God on this earth. When God comes to deal in judgment, he says, when I see the blood, when I see the blood of that lamb slain, I'll pass over you. He didn't say, when I see you obeying my commandment. He didn't say, when I see you doing this that I've told you to do. He didn't say, when I see your faithfulness. He didn't say, when I see your love for me. He said, when I see the blood, the blood of the Lamb slain, I'll pass over you.

And that's our hope. When God comes to deal with us, with this world, in wrath and in judgment, Our only hope, it's that right there. When He sees the blood of His Lamb, the Lamb of God, when He sees that blood, He'll pass over us. In the plague, it won't be upon us to destroy us. We sing this song, it says, Christ our Redeemer died on the cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due, sprinkle your soul with the blood of the Lamb, and I will pass, I will pass over you. The only thing that stood between God's wrath and the people of Israel was the blood of the Lamb. The only thing that stood between life and death was the blood of that Lamb. And that's our hope. We read this in scriptures. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold from your vain conversations, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb slain. It's the blood. It's the blood.

I teach Lynn piano lessons and I have for a couple years now and a little while back I asked her to pick out a song that we could play and learn during our piano lessons and she said okay and she wanted to pick out one of her Sunday school songs that they sing back in the class and she picked out Nothing But The Blood and I thought that that's a good song and I went and I printed it off and I had it ready for her next piano lesson And she ran up the porch and into the house and plopped down on the piano bench and I had her music for her. And before she started learning it, I wanted to play the notes for her so she could hear how it sounded. And as I started playing the notes, she started singing. And she sang, what can wash away my sins?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And I thought, there's a whole lot in God's Word that we can't get a hold of, that we won't understand, but that's it right there. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. That's the only thing that can cleanse us. And that's so simple a child, a child can understand it. Nothing but the blood. Nothing but the blood.

And that's what we read here. The lamb slain and the blood applied. Turn with me now to Isaiah. Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, and this one was titled, The Lamb Personified. The Lamb Personified. Up until this point, we've read about the lamb, and this lamb was an animal. And no doubt, thousands of lambs were sacrificed through the Old Testament. But here we read it, it's not the blood of an animal, it's the blood of a man. It's the blood of a man.

Look down at verse seven. Isaiah 53 verse 7, it says, he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shears is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. If you remember back in Acts, that story of the Ethiopian eunuch, This was that passage of scripture that that Ethiopian eunuch read, and it says, the Lord caused Philip to run up to that chariot.

And he asked that man, he said, do you understand what you're reading? And he said, how can I, except some man guide me? And he asked this question, he said, of whom speaketh the prophet right here? Is he speaking of himself or some other man? And it says, Philip, he opened the word, and he began at the same scripture, and he preached unto him the Lord Jesus Christ." That's who this points to. This lamb that we read of, it's a man. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's God's lamb that he sent. Well, go back to verse one with me. Just keep that in mind as we read this. Isaiah 53, verse one. It says, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed.

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and 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 is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. and we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He is despised, and we esteemed him not.

These next few verses, they answer this question, for whom was this lamb sacrificed? And if God's given you faith to believe this word, and to believe him as the Lamb of God, as our only hope, you put your name in right here, look at verse four. It says, surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes were healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Well, why? Why was this lamb sacrificed? Look down at verse 10. It says, Yet 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 seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." This was God's will. That's why he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the earth. This was God's purpose. He was always the lamb slain.

It pleased the Lord to bruise him. And what's the result? Look down at verse 11. It says, he, God Almighty, shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities." The lamb personified. This lamb, it's a man. It's a man.

Turn with me now to John chapter 1. Just a couple more scriptures. Look down at verse 29. John 1, verse 29. It says, The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. But behold the Lamb of God, That lamb that was pictured back there with Abel, if you're gonna come to God, you gotta have a lamb. The lamb that was promised back there with Abraham, God will provide the lamb. That lamb that was slain in Exodus and the blood applied, the lamb that Isaiah spoke of that he said, that's a man, he's identified.

Right here. John said, behold the Lamb of God. That one that was spoken of throughout the whole Old Testament. He said, right here. Here he is. The Lamb that was picked out by God the Father. He was ordained by God the Father. He was chosen. He was sent by God Almighty. John said, here he is. Here he is. That's God's Lamb. Jesus Christ, every word in this Bible, it speaks of Him. It speaks of Him, the Lamb of God.

We read this in Hebrews. It says, for it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. All those Old Testament sacrifices never took away any sins. But it says, but this man, this Lamb of God, after He had offered one sacrifice For since forever he sat down on the right hand of God, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." John said, here he is, here's the Lamb of God. And just one more scripture, one more scripture, turn back to Revelation chapter 5. And we'll just start here in verse 1.

It says, And I saw in the right hand of him that sat upon the throne a book written within and on the back side sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither unto the earth, was able to open the book, neither to even look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah. The root of David hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof, And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb.

There it is again. Stood a lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, The four beasts and the four and 20 elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them, harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints, and they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for Thou was slain and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. and has made us under our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. And I just try to picture these next few verses in my mind here, what this will be like. One of these days, verse 11, just try to get a hold of this.

It says, and I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beast and the elders, and the number of them was 10,000, times 10,000 and thousands of thousands, sang with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying, blessing. and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever. And the four beasts said amen, and the four and 20 elders fell down and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever.

Worthy, worthy is the Lamb. That'll be the theme of eternity. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, that redeemed us unto God out of every tribe and nation, kindred, and tongue on the earth. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the Lamb. I pray the Lord would enable us to get a hold of that, to see that. Worthy is the Lamb. And give us faith to believe it more and more. Amen.

Worthy Is The Lamb

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Why is the concept of the Lamb important for Christians?

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What does the Bible say about the Lamb of God?

How do we know Jesus is the true Lamb of God?

Why is the concept of the Lamb important for Christians?

Sermon Transcript

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