Easter Friday | Francois van Niekerk | 18 April 2014
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Behold the Lamb – a Good Friday message that invites us to look at Jesus as God’s perfect Lamb and our victorious Lord.
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Easter Friday | Francois van Niekerk | 18 April 2014
- 3. John 1:29 (NKJV) “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
- 9. THE LAMB: BRUTAL TO GENTLE
- 11. JESUS MY LAMB JESUS MY LORD
Editor's Notes
- Sermon: Behold the Lamb!Theme: Easter 2014 Date: 18 April 2014 – morning servicePreacher:Pastor Francois van Niekerk
- IntroductionOn Good Friday I invite you to take a good look at Jesus, the Lamb of God.
- Text: 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 the Lamb!Allow the Lamb of God to arrest your attention today.Stop, pause and look. I trust the Holy Spirit will once again give us a clear view of the Lamb of God and what He has done for us.
- Main pointsThe Lamb: promised ‘And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.’ (Emphasis added)Genesis 22:8 (NKJV) God did supply the Lamb – His own Son!This prophetic picture was not only fulfilled on that day when Abraham was ready to sacrifice his son, but was also literally fulfilled as Jesus, the Son of God, became the Lamb who was slain for us.
- 2. The Lamb: qualificationsIn Old Testament times, the lambs that were sacrificed for the sins of God’s people had to be spotless and perfect according the demands of Jewish law. This also pointed to the Lamb of God.Jesus was born spotless (virgin birth) and lived spotless and sinless in order to qualify to be the ultimate sacrifice.
- See the picture of a perfect little lamb prepared to be offered: ‘He never sinned, never told a lie, never answered back when insulted; when He suffered He did not threaten to get even; He left his case in the hands of God who always judges fairly. He personally carried the load of our sins in His own body when he died on the cross …’1 Peter 2:22-24 (NLT) It is a picture of the innocent suffering for the guilty, the just for the unjust.Let’s humble ourselves and realise how desperately we need the sacrifice of Jesus.
- 3. The Lamb: purposeWhat awesome power this sacrifice of Jesus holds – powerful enough to take away the sin of the whole world once and for all!The sacrifice on the cross had a threefold purpose: to pay the price for the sin of the world – ultimate strength clothed in weaknessto take away the sin of the world, andfor the Lamb to be raised from the dead and give eternal and abundant life to all those who believe and receive Him. ‘For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.’ (Emphasis added)Hebrews 7:26-27 (NKJV) This once for all sacrifice of His blood achieved the following for us: It wiped out all charges against us and disarmed the devil’s accusations against us. ‘And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.Havingdisarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.’Colossians 2:13-15 (NKJV) It delivered us from darkness and transferred us to His own Kingdom. ‘He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.’Colossians 1:13-14 (NKJV) It now presents us holy and blameless to God the Father. ‘For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight …’Colossians 1:19-22 (NKJV)
- 4. From brutal to gentleOn Good Friday we consider not only the brutality and pain of the Cross, but also that Jesus speaks to each heart in the gentle tone of a lamb!Jesus, the Lamb of God, speaks gently and tenderly to us.
- Let the Lamb’s gentleness minister to you. Let the victory bought by His blood – and conquered sin – become your victory. That is what He intends. ApplicationNo one is excluded from the benefit of His sacrifice. It is for all people! ‘“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”’John 3:36 (NIV) When John says, ‘“Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”’ he doesn’t mean that every person in the world is saved. He means every person in the world will be saved if they believe in Jesus and follow Him. If they believe, their sin has been taken away by the Lamb.If they believe, God’s wrath has been removed by the Lamb.No race, nationality, ethnicity or socio-economic status is excluded. To as many as receive Him, who believe on His name (John 1:12), their sins are taken away (John 1:29, 1 John 3:5), the wrath of God is removed (John 3:36, 1 John 2:2) and they are made the children of God (John 1:12) and given eternal life (John 3:16).
- Jesus is both our Lamb and our Lord.Everyone is deserving of God’s judgment, for we have all sinned.There is only one way to have our sins taken away and to find favour with God. It is not working for God or cleaning up our lives first. That comes later – it’s fruit, not root. The only way is to believe in Jesus as the glorious Lamb of God.Jesus said: ‘“… unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”’John 8:24 (ESV)