John 1:29 NKJV
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
“Behold”
Right standing with God is now achieved by how you SEE Jesus.
“The Lamb of God”
– The animal killed in the Garden of Eden to cover Adam and Eve’s rebellion was symbolic of Jesus and set the course for salvation through sacrifice.
– The lamb God provided for Abraham as a substitute for Isaac was a foreshadow of Jesus being our substitute.
– The lamb for the guilt offering in the Levitical sacrifices represented Jesus’ future sacrifice.
– Jesus is the Passover lamb chosen to die for His people.
“Who takes away”
A reference to a feast day that deals with sin being taken away.
“The sin of the world”
Which one?
Romans 5:18-19 NKJV
18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
John 19:30 NLT
When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Matthew 27:51 NLT
At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart
Hebrews 10:9-10 NLT
9 Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.
10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
Hebrews 10:14-17 NLT
14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
16 “This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
Hebrews 10:19-24 NLT
19 And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
20 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
21 And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
Understanding the finished work of Jesus disarms the old system that magnified sin and focused our attention on what we were not.
Now we place our attention on a new life-giving way that empowers us in righteousness and focuses our attention on what we are - forgiven and loved with the capacity to love.
II Peter 1:3-10 NKJV
3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
TIFAW
Jesus’ sacrifice has given me so much!
I’m holy and sanctified, walking in His divine nature with the capacity to love others and never stumble.
SOZO life is amazing!