John 1: 29-31

The Gospel According to John, Part 3

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Review

R1: What did God do on the seventh day? He rested

R2: The first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, are called The Law.

R3: The first four books of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark Luke and John, are called the Gospel and tell us about the life of Jesus.

R4: What was the “law of Moses”? The Ten Commandments, and the rules by which the Isralites were suppose to live.

R5: Who does grace come by? Jesus

R6: Who is the “Truth"? Jesus

R7: What was John the Baptists calling? (Luke 1:17) Prepare the way of the Lord

For today’s study we are going to read through the scriptures to help us understand:

1: How we know Jesus is the Lamb of God

2: Why there had to be a Lamb of God

John 1:29-31

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

 ³⁰ This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

 ³¹ And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

Lets start by seeing why a lamb was so important.

The events leading up to our next passage are:

• God promised Abraham would be the Father of a great nation - Genesis 15:1-6

• Abraham had Issac - Genesis 21:1-8

• Issac had Jacob - Genesis 25:19-34

• Jacob had 12 sons - Genesis 29:31-35, Genesis 30:1-24, Genesis 35:16-26

• Jacob's name changed to Israel - Genesis 32:24-32

• Jacobs favorite son, Joseph, was sold into slavery by his brothers - Genesis 37

• Joseph became the second in command only under the Pharaoh of Egypt - Genesis 41:14-53

• Famine came to the land - Genesis 41:54-57

• Josephs was reunited with his brothers in Egypt - Genesis 42-45

• Joseph had his father and all the family moved to Egypt - Genesis 46

• Joseph died and the Pharaohs forgot what he had done for their country - Exodus 1:8

• The children of Israel (Jacob) became slaves in Egypt - Exodus 1-12

• God raised up Moses to be their deliverer - Exodus 2- 4

• God sent 10 plagues on Egypt - Exodus 7-12

  Now keep in mind, this is a quick glance of the first book and a half of the Bible.

As we begin reading in Exodus, we find ourselves just before the 10th plague.

Exodus 12:1-14

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,

 ² This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

 ³ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

 ⁴ And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

 ⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

 ⁶ And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

 ⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

 ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

 ⁹ Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

 ¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

 ¹¹ And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.

 ¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

 ¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

 ¹⁴ And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Here we see the importance of the Lamb. If it were not for the Lambs blood the Children of Israel would have lost all their first born.

Now lets turn over to Isaiah.

Isaiah 53

 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

 ² For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

 ³ He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

 ⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

 ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

 ⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

 ⁷ He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

 ⁸ He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

 ⁹ And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

 ¹⁰ Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

 ¹¹ He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

 ¹² Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

1: Who was being spoken of in Isaiah 53? Jesus (1 Peter 2:21-25)

2: Who is the Lamb of God? Jesus

3: Why did there have to be a Lamb of God? To take away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

Genesis 3

3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

⁵ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

⁹ And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

¹³ And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

¹⁶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁰ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

²² And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

²³ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

4: Did the woman add to God's command from Genesis 2:17? Yes

This is when sin entered the world. It is interesting how mankind has been adding (and taking away) from God's word from the beginning of time.

5: How did the man and the woman try to cover their shame? By sewing fig leaves together.

6: How did God cover their sin? By making coats of sin. This is the first blood sacrifice.

7: Did God Know where Adam was? Yes

One of God's attributes is Omniscience. This means all knowing.

8: If God is all knowing, why do you think he asked Adam where he was?

What if, in God's loving mercy he was giving Adam a chance to use his free will to admit the wrong he had done.

9: What did Adam do instead of admitting his guilt? He blamed God and the woman.

10: What did the woman do instead of admitting her guilt? She blamed the serpent.

Throughout Scripture we will see a double narrative. One is physical and one is spiritual.

In this case the physical is God cursing the serpent saying, "upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."

The spiritual is, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

11: With this in mind, who is the spiritual being God was speaking to when addressing the serpent? Satan (Revelation 12:9)

12: Who is the Devil/Satan and where did he come from?

Isaiah 14:12-15

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

 ¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

 ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

 ¹⁵ Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Ezekiel 28:12-17

¹² Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

¹³ Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

 ¹⁴ Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

 ¹⁵ Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

 ¹⁶ By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

 ¹⁷ Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Luke 10:17-20

¹⁷ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

 ¹⁸ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

 ¹⁹ Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

 ²⁰ Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

2 Peter 2:4-9

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

 ⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

 ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

 ⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

 ⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

 ⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

It is a common misconception in today's world that Satan fell before creation.

There are even Bible commentaries that say Satan fell before creation or at least before creation was completed. However, if we take Genesis literal and trust that God did everything he said he did, then, we cant hold to this belief any longer. In Genesis 1:31 we see God says "And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good, And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

Now we know:

• There is both a physical and spiritual narrative in the Bible.

• Satan is a fallen angel, a created being.

• Satan is the one God is speaking to in Genesis 3:15.

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Genesis 3:15

"Thee" here is Satan and his seed speaks of those who hate God. (John 8:42-47)

13: Who is the seed of the women whose heel is bruised? Jesus

As we read in Isaiah 53:5, Jesus is the one who was "bruised for our iniquity".

Because of Gods Amazing Grace we can become the sons of God through Jesus's death and resurrection.

But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Galatians 4:4-7