Good morning. I bring greetings from mom and dad and from everyone at Wheelersburg. I ask you, go ahead and open your Bibles to

1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1, and we'll just look down here at verse 18. Verse 18 says, 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 without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was made manifest in these last times unto you, redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb slain."

It says foreordained, that means chosen before the foundation of the world. Before man sinned, before man needed a redeemer, Christ was the Lamb slain. We're redeemed by His blood. His blood.

And I read this outline maybe a year ago, and a man gave seven scriptures and a description of each one that point to the Lamb slain. And for just a minute this morning, I'd like for us to look at each one of those and just read those scriptures and just listen to what God has to say.

And the first one, it comes from Genesis chapter 4. Genesis chapter 4. These are all familiar passages of Scripture this morning. And the title of this first one was, The Lamb Typified. And that word typified it means given as a picture, right? The lamb pictured.

Let's look here at Genesis chapter 4 verse 1. It says, And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel, and Abel was the keeper of the sheep, but Cain was the 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. But look here at verse four. It says, And Abel, he also brought the firstlings of his flock, a lamb, and the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. It says, But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

The picture, the picture of what God would accept, it's given right here. It says, Cain brought the fruit of the ground, that he had worked on, that he had tilled, that he had made, he brought that unto God, and it said God didn't have respect unto that. But it says, Abel, He brought a lamb. He brought a lamb. And I just imagine, I just think, that back there in the garden, when Adam and Eve sinned, and it says, God slew an animal to cover that sin, I just imagine that they passed that down unto those boys, and they told them, if you're gonna approach unto a God, you gotta have a lamb, you gotta have a sacrifice. And that's what Abel brought. It says he brought the firstlings of the flock, and God had respect unto that. Not unto our works, not unto what we had done, but unto the Lamb. And that's what we read first, the Lamb typified. It's given as a picture. If we're going to approach unto God, we've got to have a Lamb.

Turn over now to Genesis chapter 22. Genesis chapter 22. The title of this one is The Lamb Prophesied. A prophecy, it's a promise that's guaranteed to be fulfilled. The lamb promise.

Look here at verse 1. That's one of my favorite portions of scripture. 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 thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. He says, and Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he claved the wood for the burnt offering, and he rose up. And he went unto the place which God had told him of. Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you.

Notice, this involves only the father and the son. This work that's about to be done, it's between the father and the son alone.

Verse 6 says, And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and he laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand, and he took a knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and he 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 a burnt offering? Where is the lamb? Somebody once said, every time we hear a message, we ought to ask ourselves that question. Where is the lamb? At work, I often hear people talking about what they're doing for Jesus, and they're talking about going to these Christian concerts, and all these different things, and youth groups, and basketball clubs. That's not the question we're to ask. Where is the lamb? Where's the lamb?

Read on here. Verse eight.

And Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And they went both of them together. He said, my son, we don't provide the lamb. That's not our work. God provides. God will provide the lamb. He provides the Lamb for Himself because He's the one that the sacrifice is owed to. And He provides Himself as the Lamb.

I heard this song sung a few weeks ago. It's called, A Ransom Was Found. I like this verse of it. It says, As poor wretched sinners, no God and no hope, it seemed there was no one to help. But God in His mercy salvation supplied, emptied heaven and he came down himself. He is the lamb. He provides the lamb and he is the lamb. Isn't that good news? That's the gospel. We don't provide the lamb, God provides it.

Read on here, verse 9. It says, and they came to the place which God had told him of And Abraham built an altar there, and he laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar of the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and he took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called upon him out of heaven, and he said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine 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 his thicket by his horns. And Abraham went, and he took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said to this day. and the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen.

God will provide, the Lord will provide. He saw that ram and he took it and he sacrificed that ram in the place of his son. The lamb prophesied, the lamb promised. God said, I'll provide that lamb, that lamb that you need, I'll provide it, I'll provide it.

Turn with me now to Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12. The Lamb typified, the Lamb prophesied, and here in Exodus chapter 12 we have the Lamb slain and the blood applied. The Lamb slain and the blood applied.

We'll read here in verse 1. It says, And the Lord spake unto Moses, and Aaron, and 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 an house. And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of souls. Every man, according to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb.

Your lamb shall be without blemish. A male of the first year, you shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. whole assembly, 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 upon the upper door post of the house, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

eat not of it raw, nor sodden it all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, your staff in your hand, and ye shall eat it in haste. It's the Lord's Passover.

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 Israel, of the gods of Egypt, will I execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Verse 13, get a hold of this. And 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. And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. Here we read, because of sin, death is coming to every house in the land of Egypt. Israelite or Egyptian, it don't matter. Death is going to happen in every house because of sin. We read that in the scripture. The wages of sin is death. But God said, when I see the blood, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. When I come in wrath, when I come to slay, when I see that blood, I'll know that death's already been here, and I'll pass over you. Could there be a greater promise in the scripture? When I see the blood of that lamb slain, I'll pass over you. When I come in judgment, I'll show you mercy. When I come in wrath, I'll show you grace. When I see the blood, I'll pass over you." We read that scripture to open up the message. You know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. As of a lamb, without blemish or spot. The blood, it's the blood.

I teach piano lessons, and I have a little student, and she's five years old, and she goes to church with us. And we've been taking lessons with her for about a year now. And I asked her, I said, what song would you like to play? And she says, well, we sing this song in my Sunday school class, Nothing But The Blood, and I'd like to play that. I said, that sounds like a good choice to me. So I went home and I printed off the music and next lesson I had it ready to go. And she ran in the living room and hopped up on the piano bench. And I said, before we start this, I want to play it for you so you can hear what it sounds like on the piano. And as I started playing, she started singing. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And I thought, she's only five years old. And she don't know much, but what more? What more do we need to know than that right there? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

That's the third one. Turn with me now to Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53. We've had the Lamb typified. You've got to have a Lamb. We've had the Lamb prophesied. God's going to provide that Lamb. We've seen the Lamb slain, the blood applied. That Lamb that God provides, it's got to die. And here in Isaiah 53, we have the Lamb personified. Personified. Look here at verse 1. It says, Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, says, 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 a man. We don't read We don't read, it is despised and rejected of man. This lamb, this lamb that we gotta have, this lamb that God's gonna provide, it's a man. It's not a lamb, it's a man.

Read on here, verse three. He is despised and rejected a man. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. These next few verses, just put your name in here, make it personal. Surely He hath borne my griefs and carried my sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded for my transgressions. He was bruised for my iniquities. The chastisement of my peace was upon Him, and with His stripes I'm healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he openeth not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before horseshoes is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

This lamb This lamb is a man, this lamb that we got to have, this lamb that God has provided, this lamb that's got to be slain and the blood applied unto us. It's a man. It's a man.

Well, who is he? Where is he? When will he be? Turn with me to John chapter one. John chapter one, look in verse 19. This is the lamb identified, identified. Verse 19 says, and this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou? And he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, what then, art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, no. Then said they unto him, who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him and said unto him, why baptizes thou then? Thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet. John answered them, saying, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you whom ye know not. He it is who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoes latch it I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Beth-Abrah, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing."

Verse 29. The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. That's who he is. That's who this Lamb is, the Lord Jesus Christ. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. If we don't know Him, we don't know God. If we don't come to Him, we can't come to God. He's the only sacrifice for sin. He is the Lamb of God. All that that we've read so far, it points to Him. It points to Him.

Well, what happens next? Turn with me to John chapter 3. The Lamb typified. The Lamb prophesied. The Lamb's blood slain, the blood applied. The Lamb personified. He's a man. That Lamb identified. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. And here in John 3, look at verse 14. We have the Lamb crucified. Crucified. It says, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved."

It says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, we all know that Old Testament story, the fiery serpents that were sent unto Israel, and Moses got that brass serpent and he lifted it up on the pole, and when everyone looked, and they beheld that serpent of brass, they lived.

" And here we read, as that serpent was lifted up, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so must the Lord Jesus Christ be lifted up. And if you get time this evening, go read John 19, the scripture that tells us of the Lord being crucified. And His last recorded words in John were, it is finished. It's finished. Everything that we've read, all these Old Testament pictures, all that we've read, He finished that work. That work wasn't ours to do. It's His work. He had to be crucified. He had to come and save His people. For this cause I came into the world. That's what we read.

When Abel brought that lamb, And it says, God had respect unto the lamb. That lamb slain, that points to Christ. That points to Christ. When Abraham, he took Isaac up there on Mount Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice. And that angel appeared unto him and said, spare your son. And there was that ram caught in the thicket. And that ram, it took Isaac's place. and it died in his stead, so he didn't have to. That points to Christ. That's a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When the Passover lamb, that lamb that had to be without spot and without blemish, that had to be slain, that the blood had to be applied. That's Christ. That's what every one of these things is pointing to. He was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised. By His stripes, we're healed. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why when John saw Him, he said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. And that's how he took away the sin of the world. He came and he took our place. He took our sins and he died in our stead, just like that ram for Isaac. And it's by his stripes, it's by what happened to him that we're healed, that we're saved. If we're in him, we're saved.

That's why Paul said this, I've determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified. And turn with me to our last Scripture, Revelation chapter 5. Revelation chapter 5. We've had the Lamb typified. If you're going to approach unto God, you've got to have a Lamb. The Lamb prophesied. God's going to provide that Lamb. We've had the Lamb slain, the blood applied. That Lamb that God's going to provide, it's got to die. The Lamb personified. That Lamb is a man. The Lamb identified. That man is the Lord Jesus Christ. And He was crucified for our sins. And here in Revelation chapter 5, we have the Lamb glorified.

Look here at 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 backside 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, nor under the earth was able to open the book, neither to 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 said unto me, Weep not. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, 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, 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 he 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 twenty 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.

Verse 9, And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. and hath made us unto our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth."

And I just try to picture this in my mind, verse 11. It says, And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand 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 as are 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 twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth forever and ever. Where is the lamb? He's on the throne. And that's who we'll worship, and we'll thank, and we'll praise forever and ever.

We sing this song, all glory and praise to the Lamb that was slain, who hath borne all our sins and cleansed every stain. Hallelujah, behind the glory. Hallelujah, amen. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Amen.