Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

The next day – The day after the Jews made inquiry whether he was the Christ. John the Baptist saw Jesus coming towards him and shouted out, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”St. John 1:29.

Behold the Lamb of God – A “lamb,” among the Jews, was killed and eaten at the Passover to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt, Exodus 12:3-11. A lamb was offered in the tabernacle, and afterward in the temple, every morning and evening, as a part of the daily worship, Exodus 29:38-39. The Messiah was predicted as a lamb led to the slaughter, to show his patience in his sufferings, and readiness to die for humanity, Isaiah 53:7. A lamb, among the Jews, was also an emblem of patience, meekness, and gentleness. On all these accounts, rather than on any one of them alone, Jesus was called “the Lamb.” He was innocent 1 Peter 2:23-25; he was a sacrifice for sin the substance represented by the daily offering of the lamb, and slain at the usual time of the evening sacrifice Luke 23:44-46; and he was what was represented by the Passover, turning away the anger (wrath)of God, and saving sinners by his blood from vengeance and eternal death, 1 Corinthians 5:7. Jesus knew his destiny as he said to Pilate, “for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice,” John 18:37b. Jesus was born that man no more should die; he was born to give all us the second birth, but only when we put our trust in him! What a saviour, what a man, the Lamb of God.