Christ endured the shame of the cross for our sakes-and we celebrate that shame and count it a noble thing for the saving of His people whom He loved!
Even as we embrace Christ's shame, so too we are astounded that He is our Lamb.
A lamb is not the ideal picture that lost men would choose as a symbol of a deliverer. Lambs are helpless, foolish, and simple. In that way and others, lambs are a picture of poor lost humanity.
Indeed, Scripture describes us as God's sheep, and He the shepherd. Christ claimed that role, making Himself out to be God indeed! The metaphor of Christ as shepherd and we his sheep matches our expectations of Messiah.
But when He began His ministry, He was declared to be God's Lamb that takes away our sin! No doubt this puzzled His disciples. Every time Christ explained His duty to die for His people, His disciples bristled against it.
But Christ went all the way through as our Lamb, dying on the cross as our Sacrifice. His people thought all was lost, for how can a dead man save His people? But as our Lamb, He took away our sin and made us right with a Holy God.
Even as His shame is His honor, so too His being God's Lamb is forever the basis for His place in Glory and our Worship.
Even as He takes to Himself His rule and power in the Revelation, He's seen by His people as the Lamb. King of Kings and Lord of Lord, yet He's forever Our Lamb!
For we were sheep gone astray, so our Savior had to be made like us, a Lamb, to take our place in the judgment. He was made like the lost sheep He would deliver!
No matter how lowly a creature, forever He shall always be Our Lamb. No wonder the Lamb is all the Glory in Immanuel's Land!
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John Pittman Hey
Forever Our Lamb The Lion of the Tribe of Judah Grace Bible Church
John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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