Title: The Power Of The Lamb (4)
Series: The Forbidden Chapter
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Isaiah 53:7
(We began the sermon by singing the hymn: "O Lamb Of God")
"Your only Son no sin to hide, but You have sent Him from Your side; To walk upon this guilty sod and to become the Lamb of God; (2nd vs) Your gift of love they crucified, they laughed and scorned Him as He died; The humble King they named a fraud, and sacrificed the Lamb of God. (Chorus) Oh Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God, I love the holy Lamb of God; Oh wash me in His precious blood, my Jesus Christ the Lamb of God."
One day when John the Baptist saw Jesus approaching - he said to his followers "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29
And I got to thinking: why was Jesus the LAMB of God? I mean... lambs are nice and all that, but they're not particularly imposing. They're innocent, gentle, friendly, and vulnerable. By contrast, bulls... now that's a symbol worthy of God. Bulls arebig, powerful and dangerous. You don't mess with bulls (just like you don't mess with God).
Over the centuries, various cultures have worshipped gods they symbolized as bulls. Egyptians worshipped Apis and Osiris; the Canaanites (Baal); Sumerians (Marduk); and there were Hindus; Greeks, Romans and numerous other nations and cultures who had gods made to look like bulls. It seemed like everybody saw bulls as being worthy of their god.
Well... everybody but our God. The Israelites were surrounded by nations who symbolized their gods as bulls. But in the Bible God NEVER portrayed Himself as a bull or ox. Instead, Jesus was presented to us as being the LAMB of God. As portrayed in Isaiah 53, the Lamb of God was not something that would impress us. "He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised ...
Series: The Forbidden Chapter
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Isaiah 53:7
(We began the sermon by singing the hymn: "O Lamb Of God")
"Your only Son no sin to hide, but You have sent Him from Your side; To walk upon this guilty sod and to become the Lamb of God; (2nd vs) Your gift of love they crucified, they laughed and scorned Him as He died; The humble King they named a fraud, and sacrificed the Lamb of God. (Chorus) Oh Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God, I love the holy Lamb of God; Oh wash me in His precious blood, my Jesus Christ the Lamb of God."
One day when John the Baptist saw Jesus approaching - he said to his followers "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29
And I got to thinking: why was Jesus the LAMB of God? I mean... lambs are nice and all that, but they're not particularly imposing. They're innocent, gentle, friendly, and vulnerable. By contrast, bulls... now that's a symbol worthy of God. Bulls arebig, powerful and dangerous. You don't mess with bulls (just like you don't mess with God).
Over the centuries, various cultures have worshipped gods they symbolized as bulls. Egyptians worshipped Apis and Osiris; the Canaanites (Baal); Sumerians (Marduk); and there were Hindus; Greeks, Romans and numerous other nations and cultures who had gods made to look like bulls. It seemed like everybody saw bulls as being worthy of their god.
Well... everybody but our God. The Israelites were surrounded by nations who symbolized their gods as bulls. But in the Bible God NEVER portrayed Himself as a bull or ox. Instead, Jesus was presented to us as being the LAMB of God. As portrayed in Isaiah 53, the Lamb of God was not something that would impress us. "He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised ...
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