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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Behold the Lamb
Publishing Date: 2026-04-03T03:04:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/behold-the-lamb/

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Hebrews 9.22 says that, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Without

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the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. We know that. We have heard it before.

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If blood is not shed, then sin is not forgiven. Remission just means forgiven or canceled.

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Before we do anything else, we need to define what sin is because we often say stuff like

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shot coming and stuff like that. That's not what we are talking about here. Let me define sin.

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One way of defining sin is that sin is an insult. There's a duck walking on my—it's not showing

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there, right? Okay, but on my screen there's a duck walking across. Sin is an insult. It's

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sparked itself on sin. How do I get rid of this duck? It's walking all over the place.

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Shoot it? Okay. Can you take care of that duck? Oh, it went away. Thanks.

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Okay, so sin is an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness and glory of God.

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So we are starting with this idea of Hebrews 9, 22, which says that sin must be

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remitted or forgiven. If sin needs to be remitted or forgiven, you have to shed blood

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because life is in the blood. Sin must be punished. There must be shedding of blood for sin to be

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forgiven or sin to be remitted. That's in Hebrews 9, 22. So we need to define sin because very often

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we use words like shot coming or mistake. It hardly speaks of what sin really is. So sin is

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an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness of God, which means only an unholy God,

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only an unholy God can forgive sinners. Only an unholy God can forgive sinners

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as though sin were insignificant.

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A God who's holy would not be able to tolerate it. Only an unholy God

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can forgive sinners as though sins were insignificant. A holy God on the other hand

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would have to deal with the sin

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and deal with the sinner.

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This is important, guys. These are things we don't pause to think of. To think of sin is

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a God who's so tremendously holy that he is brighter than the noonday sun. You can't handle

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his holiness. Nobody can approach his holiness. That's the kind of holiness he has. So what is

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sin? Sin is an insult-filled violation of the infinite holiness and glory of God that you and

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I wouldn't be able to handle. So when it comes to forgiving sin, only an unholy God can forgive

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sinners as though sin were insignificant. So sin is a God who is so tremendously holy that

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as though sin was no big deal. Only an unholy God could do this. But a holy God would have to deal

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with sin and he'd have to deal with the sinner also. And if a holy God is a violent God, then God help us.

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But if a holy God is a God of goodness, of mercy, and kindness, then he has a problem because he

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can't lash out. And so if you want a title for today's teaching, it's Behold the Lamb. Behold the Lamb.

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And so one of the things that happens is the, you may have heard this said before, but the blood of

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the lamb deals with your sin. The death of the lamb on the cross

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deals with the sinner. Each of these sentences are almost like Sela sentences, as in

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stop, pause, wonder. So the blood of the lamb deals with the sin, as in it pays for it, it

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cleanses it, covers it. But the death of the lamb on the cross is what deals with the sinner.

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And that's why he's a holy God because he has to deal with the sin and he has to deal with the

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sinner because he's so holy that it is impossible for him to tolerate anything that is unclean,

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impossible. It would be like you having an amazingly, I mean, these are such terrible

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analogies. You're having an amazingly white carpet or a white sheet and someone comes and throws dirt

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on it. Or you're having an amazing dish, caviar and this and that, loaded with every most expensive

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ingredient you can find. And then someone throws the back end of a cockroach into it.

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I mean, how do you go and then continue eating it? Do you say it's only the back end of a cockroach?

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That's absurd. And these analogies fail by a million miles. But we can't understand how

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holy this God is. It's intolerable. Intolerable. Which is why he has to deal with the sin

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and the sinner. And if you go to Leviticus 16, you find the very same thing

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that God is doing there. Leviticus 16, Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8. Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

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You read about two goats. Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

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Leviticus is like a camping manual. You only use it when you don't know how to put up the tent.

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Leviticus 16, verse 7 and 8.

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Verse 7 and 8. Reading.

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Then Aaron is to take two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of

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the meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats. One lot for the Lord and the other for the

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scapegoat. The scapegoat was otherwise, the Hebrew that was used for the scapegoat was the word called

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Azazel or the scapegoat. And then you had another goat that was picked by lot and this

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goat was for sacrifice. So just as we talked about this, now we see that even in the Old Testament

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there was provision for this. Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at

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the entrance to the tent of meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats. One lot for the Lord

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and other for the scapegoat. And then go to verse 15 and 16. Go to verse 15 and 16.

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He then shall slaughter the goat for the sin offering of the people and take its blood behind

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the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood. He shall sprinkle it on the atonement

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cover and in front of it. In this way he makes atonement for the most holy place because of the

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uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites. Whatever their sins have been. So that's what

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he does with one goat. He actually takes care of the sins of the people. He takes care of the sins

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of the people. And then go to verse 21 and 22. Verse 21 and 22. Look what he does there.

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We're starting at verse 20. When Aaron has finished making atonement for the most holy place,

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the tent of the meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat. He is to lay both

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hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of Israel

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and all their sins and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the desert

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in care of a man appointed for the task. The goat will carry on itself all their sins

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to a solitary place and the man shall release it in the desert. So one of the things this God

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really wants to do is one, he wants to cancel the debt of our sins. Two,

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the Lamb of God, this is what the Lamb of God does. The Lamb of God takes away

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the sin of Jacob, or you can put whatever name you want in there. And the third thing he does,

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is the Lamb of God bears the wrath of God against sin and sinners.

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Just marvel at this, eh guys? There's no other religion in the world that does this. There's no

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other being, be it spiritual or physical, that has the logic to take care of this. Just think

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of that for a second. Think of all that is happening on a day like this. Think of all the years

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through which the Old Testament was written leading up to a day like this. Three things have to

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happen. Otherwise we end up struggling against, struggling under one or the other. He has to

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cancel the debt of sin. When someone breaks the law, there's a debt that has to be paid to the

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government. There's a fine. He removes that, he cancels that. I mean one of the things that's

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seriously lacking in Christians is that we don't walk around like forgiven people.

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We walk around like people carrying the guilt of sin, the debt of sin. We don't walk around

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like forgiven people. If you had a $120,000 debt because of going to TW or UCW or any one of those

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universities, maybe UBC, you have a $120,000 debt and Dhillna comes along and says, hey,

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I'll pay for it. Your debt is forgiven. Imagine what it feels like to have that removed from your

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shoulders. Restored people are a pretty happy people.

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Buffering, buffering. So that's one of the things he does. The second thing he does is

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the Lamb of God takes away sin. He takes it away. He doesn't let it linger. He doesn't let it have

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any kind of hold on you. He takes it away and he goes into the wilderness with it and he dismisses

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it. It's no longer a part of your equation. We don't realize this. I've talked about this when

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we do Christ's life. Let's assume John was my slave and he's supposed to come and get me coffee

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in the morning and bring me breakfast and I always have it at seven in the morning and he's not

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turned up and I'm upset that my slave isn't working the way he should be working. I go find

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him and he's on the floor sleeping and so I take a whip off the wall and I start whipping John

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and I'm expecting him to get up and respond and say, I'm so sorry, master. I'll do your bidding.

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Instead as I whip him, he still lies there and he isn't moving so I grab him by his neck.

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When I grab him by his neck, I realize there is no pulse.

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John died last night and in dying last night, he's forever escaped my mastery. I can never make him

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do anything for me again. In his death, he has escaped my mastery. This is what Jesus does

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when he says that the Lamb of God takes away sin. What he does is put the sins on himself,

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takes away the power of sin to ever affect me again. I can choose to but it does not hold me

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because in Christ's death, I escape the mastery of sin. It does not, cannot make me do its bidding.

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I can choose to do its bidding. It cannot make me do its bidding. A Christian can never again say,

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I could not help it. It is impossible for a Christian to say that. It's not biblical.

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And the third one is the Lamb of God bears the wrath of God. As in God is

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wrathful when it comes to sin because sin and him have nothing in common.

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The book of Revelation, when you read from chapter 14 onwards, you'll find that the book

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of Revelation is the wrath of God against those that refuse him, reject him, even though he is

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offering himself to the world. There is the wrath of God. And one of the things the Lamb of God does,

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he takes on the wrath, he bears the wrath of God. And therefore, you have these fancy words

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in Christianity and the Lamb of God defines all those words. Words like atonement, which means

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someone who covers you and takes the beating upon themselves, sacrifice,

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and another big word, propitiation. These are words that basically mean these three things.

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This is what the Lamb of God did. Why did we interrupt worship and do the teaching in between

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and then say we'll go back to worship? Because worship is much more meaningful when we understand

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why. Worship the Lord in spirit and in truth. The more we know him, the more we'll be in awe of him,

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the more we'll marvel at a day like this and say, you did all this for me?

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And so I really want to spend time just us worshipping God for all that has been achieved.

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And it's a long list, man. We're shortening it as much as possible.

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Imagine this. Imagine if this wasn't there, then you carry the debt of sin.

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Do you know what guilt can do to someone? Ask a husband, ask a wife, ask a child,

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ask someone who has done something terrible and you carry that guilt.

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Do you know what it is to know that someone is angry with you?

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Do you know what it is to know that someone is angry with you?

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How we'll stay angry because there's nothing you can do about it.

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Do you know what it is to never have to deal with certain things because they were taken away?

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We look at some of the things taken away.

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In Isaiah 53, verse 4 and 5, there are some words used. One of the words is pierced.

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The other word used is crushed. Some translations have made it bruised.

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Bruised hardly explains it. To be crushed is to be pulverized.

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To be pierced is to be, is excruciating in terms of torment.

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But these are the words used in Isaiah 53, verse 4 and 5.

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He uses this to tell us that, hey, I have healed you.

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I am giving you my peace.

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So if you want to take a moment and just think quietly for a second of the fact

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that on a day like this, there was a person who was really pierced and beaten to pulp,

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pulverized, and that healing is actually something that he thinks should be given to you,

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was given to you, belongs to you.

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And can you just receive it right now?

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Don't go down the road of is it the will of God. Go down the road of looking at the wealth on his back.

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Looking at the wealth on his back.

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As you look at the wealth on his back,

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begin to know that it is his desire, it is his will.

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And begin to receive it into different parts of your body so that the Spirit can do what Jesus said is finished.

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You know, a lamb really cannot die in a human's place. A lamb cannot die in a human's place.

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It's only a perfect human that can die

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in another human's place.

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But we don't have any perfect humans, so what if the human was God? If he was God, he could die

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for all men and women.

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Now do you understand why the word had to become flesh?

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The word became flesh because otherwise he could not die.

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Think of that for a moment.

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The word became flesh so that if the word didn't became flesh, if God

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did not become flesh, he could not die. Just think of that for a second. Think of the math and the logic behind what he's doing.

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How long can you offer lambs and bulls and goats? It's only goes so far.

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Where can you find a perfect human that can die in a human's place?

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How long can you offer lambs and bulls and goats? It's only goes so far.

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Where can you find a perfect man to die for one man?

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But what if God became a man and came down to the earth? Now you have a perfect man who can die for the entire universe.

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We read in John 1, 1 that

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in the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God and the word became

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flesh. He must become flesh because otherwise he cannot die.

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This is the enormity of what Jesus is taking on. We can't understand it. We can try comprehending it. We cannot understand it.

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How does the one who fills the universe?

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We are lauding

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four astronauts who are doing a

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spin around the moon.

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The universe extends far behind. A God who cannot be contained in this universe decides that I must become flesh.

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Otherwise, I cannot die and if I do not die

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then

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it's huge what he's done, man.

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And so he becomes flesh so that in an odd way

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God the Son can die.

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Some other things that we don't really put into words. He suffers

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not just for my sin

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but in

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my place

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and bears it away

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so I don't have to

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labor under it.

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He just doesn't suffer for my sin. He suffers in my place

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and he bears it away. He takes it away so that I don't have to labor under it.

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Sometimes check your life to see if there are things that you are struggling with and laboring under the crisis already taken away.

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It's not right.

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It's not right.

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I mean, how would it be if

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your wife has cooked a meal and you know she's cooking a meal and she's worked hard on it and then you come with a

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Big Mac and some fries.

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You know she's cooked, but you'll come home with a Big Mac and a fry. Those things are insulting.

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Those are deliberate acts of insult or displeasure. Forget the wife and the

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husband and the family. Go back to what Christ has said. There are certain things I must look out in my life where I labor

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under

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things that Christ has already paid for.

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And I labor under it like a martyr.

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Oh, I'm just betting it and hanging on in faith. Now there should be certain things you know.

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He has paid it. You want to find out where he has paid it. Read Isaiah 53.

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But Jacob, if I go down that route, isn't it cheap grace? I might do it again and again.

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Anyone who knows the value of what Christ has done will only

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seize the opportunity to do it.

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He will only seize from it, not plunge into it.

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Once you know

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that Dylna has paid off all your debts,

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you won't dislike him. You will only

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like him.

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Any questions before we go on?

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So,

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some people say there's a ransom

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when we look at the

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Lamb of God, we look at propitiation,

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atonement and sacrifice.

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When we look at

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Jesus as a master,

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setting a slave free, then he pays his life as a ransom to redeem the slave of the block,

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freeing him from his previous master and embracing him, not even as a slave first, but as a son first, and then as a servant.

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So depending on

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whose

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perspective we are looking through, it changes and it's all-encompassing. But when you look at the lamb, oh my God,

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the lamb is a sacrifice. The lamb

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is a rat-bearer and the lamb is a

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remover of

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what I should

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go through. So that's the idea of propitiation. It's in 1 John 2, verse 2.

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Any other questions?

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Yep.

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Yeah, things that we labor under. Let's turn to Isaiah 53 and we'll have a quick look at

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the things that we labor under. Isaiah 53.

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Yeah, he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows,

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familiar with suffering. It is one thing to suffer for Christ, but to walk around in sorrow and suffering

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as some kind of punishment you are

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carrying is not something that I should do because Christ has...

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We're not talking about being triumphalistic,

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but we are talking about in all humility saying, oh God, you've carried my sorrows.

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I am not going to labor under this burden of sorrow. I'm getting so used to it that it has become my song.

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You go down further in verse 4. He took up my infirmities, carried my sorrows.

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He took up as in if these were my infirmities,

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he took up my infirmities and he carried my sorrows.

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He did.

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For me to then labor under it for a second,

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we've gotten so used to some of our infirmities and sorrows that we won't even deal with it for the first 20 days.

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He took up our infirmities and sorrows.

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Then he goes on to say,

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he was pierced for my transgression. Sin, breaking of law, immediately run to God.

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You know the strange thing the devil has managed with Christians?

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When we sin, we run away from God instead of running to him.

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When children do wrong, they run to their parents instead of running away from their parents.

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When grown-ups do wrong, they run away from God instead of running to the only one who can solve it.

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He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought peace. When I lose peace,

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why is it that I try to solve it myself?

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When was the last time you were able to get peace because you solved it?

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When was the last time you found a solution for your lack?

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How long did it last?

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This is when we spurn the sacrifice of someone who's done it for us.

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I was trying to ask you a few days ago and I was saying salvation is the end of self-determination and the beginning of

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abject dependence.

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Salvation is the end of self-determination and the beginning of helpless dependence.

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As you go to Isaiah 5553, as you go to Isaiah 61,

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you will find things that I labor under that I should not be laboring under.

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In Eden,

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in the beauty of Eden, in the lap of delight, that's what Eden means, in Eden,

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the child as an Adam rebelled.

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Relationship was disrupted.

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Justice was offended.

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Justice was offended.

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And the body was diseased.

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This is in one garden.

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There's another garden where there's a man waiting and he's sweating blood.

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And it's in Gethsemane.

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In that garden, he begins to repair things.

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You know when you go to Isaiah 1 4 to 6, Isaiah 1 4 to 6,

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you will see the condition of humankind. Israel personified it. Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

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Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

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Isaiah 1 4 to 6. Ah sinful nation,

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a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers,

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children given to corruption.

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They've forsaken the Lord, they've spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

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Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion?

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Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

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From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness.

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Only wounds and welts and open sores,

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not cleansed or bandaged

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or soothed with oil.

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You can see Isaiah 53 now is almost a remedy for Isaiah 1 4 to 6.

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What you read in Isaiah 1 4 to 6 is what Jesus remedies in Isaiah 53.

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The question is, what can atone for your past?

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What can cleanse the wounds?

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What can deal with the sores?

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What can destroy the infection?

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Both of sin and of your physical body and that's when Jesus comes in.

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Both of sin and of your physical body and that's when Jesus comes in and Jesus has taken the

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infected welts

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caused by the whip.

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Jesus has taken the infected welts

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so that

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ours

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can

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be

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healed.

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Guys, just look at this sentence. See,

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Jesus has taken our infected welts on himself so that ours can be healed.

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Don't doubt whether it is God's desire to heal you. Don't doubt it. There's too high a cost that has been paid.

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You can question the delay. You can question why it's not happening.

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You can look at others and see things happening and you don't understand why things are not working out.

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All that is legit, but don't question whether it is his desire or will.

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The father subjected his son to great cruelty,

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excruciating pain, pierced, pulverized.

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Nobody does that to one's son if one is not determined in his will to provide you something in exchange.

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Question why it doesn't happen, but don't question whether it is the will of God or not.

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That's not fair.

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Not after what we know.

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And don't listen to theologians who come up with Greek and Hebrew to

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rationalize why it's not happening. Question why it's not happening.

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Be Job. Spend 36 chapters questioning it.

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36 chapters questioning it.

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Jesus has taken the infected wealth

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that I had.

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He took it upon himself so that I can be healed. And this I believe and I will see to the end of my days.

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There should be no question on this.

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It doesn't matter what happened to your grandfather or grandmother, father or mother, at the end of the day, what do you believe?

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Here's the thing guys, you will find that you cannot believe something when you turn 70.

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What you believe at 70 is usually the result of what you believe for 30 long years and have developed in your heart,

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in your spirit and your mind.

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I just want to

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You know

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Isaiah and Ezekiel saw visions of heaven

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in that chapter 6 in Ezekiel many times.

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But you know one thing they never saw?

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They never saw the lamb.

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And so in a sense,

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their visions are incomplete. They never saw the lamb. Who sees the lamb?

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John.

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I want us to look at some scriptures, eh? Because the slain lamb

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is the central song today

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of the universe.

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Of the universe.

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The slain lamb is the central song of the universe.

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Go to revelations 5 verse 9 and 10 and we'll conclude with these scriptures. Revelations 5, 9 and 10.

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Revelations 5, 9 and 10.

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It says

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It says

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Worthy are you

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to take the scroll

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and this is sung when the work of the lamb is complete. Worthy are you to take the scroll and open it seal for

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you were slain?

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This goes to what Mr. Dhillon was saying. Your blood

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ransomed people

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from

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ransomed people for God.

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You ransomed them from every tribe. Just look around you and you'll know that he did this language,

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people,

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nation.

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Then you made them

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kings and priests

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and you will have them reign with you.

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Look at what the lamb does just in one song. This has become the central song of the universe. The song of the lamb.

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The song of the lamb. When we sing songs of the lamb know that the entire universe is filled with it.

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This is from the book of Revelation.

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It says the completion of the work of the lamb.

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What a work he's done.

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Worthy are you? Of what? You were slain lamb of God. What else?

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Your blood ransomed people brought them back, back to the father. What else?

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You did not stop at Israel. You went through every tribe, every language, every people, every nation. What else?

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You just don't ransom them. You make them kings and priests. What else? You will have them reign with you. Just one man doing this.

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And this song begins to fill the universe.

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Revelations 5. Let's look at some other scriptures from Revelation.

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Where you'll see that heaven warns the song of the lamb to resound in the mouth of the redeemed.

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And not gently, not quietly, loudly.

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Go to Revelation 5.12.

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Revelation 5.12.

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This was in Revelation 5.9 and 10. It is a declaration in heaven of what the lamb has done. And now millions and millions of angels join in.

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This was a declaration in front of the elders and the 24 elders and the creatures that are there.

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This was the declaration. And once the declaration is made, millions and millions of angels that actually populate the earth,

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invisible, they join in. And what did they begin to sing? Worthy is the lamb who was slain. Back to the lamb who was slain.

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It's a foundation of everything we are.

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Worthy is the lamb who was slain.

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For what? So that he may receive power.

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Wisdom

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might

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honor

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the lamb who was slain.

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Honor

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glory

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blessing. What's the meaning of this? That he

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Worthy is the lord who was lamb who was slain to receive. Guys, all this belonged to him.

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But now the angels are recognizing that in his death and in his resurrection, he actually deserves it.

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This belongs to him and this comes from him.

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The very things that belong to him are the very things released to us.

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The authority, to us.

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To us meaning who? To the church.

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What is being released to the church?

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For from you are all things and to you are all things.

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Everything begins and ends with the Lamb of God.

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And it is open for anybody. Come, eat, do not pay.

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This is free. Isaiah 55. Are you thirsty? Come and eat.

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Hell is not a place where God wants to send people.

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Heaven is a place he is inviting them to, paying the cost, saying, come eat for free.

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You have to be deliberately, intentionally someone who rejects the offer to choose another portion.

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Jesus only wants you in.

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Let's look at another one. Millions of the angels join in and they begin to sing this song.

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I don't even know what tune this is.

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We've created tune after tune for these words. And rightly so.

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When you think, oh, there are too many songs saying worthy are you Lord.

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Oh my God, this is the central song of the universe.

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Next, Revelation 7.10.

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Revelation 7.10 is now creation hearing and joining in.

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And now it says in Revelation 7.10, a great multitude that not creation,

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the ones that are believers before him.

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Revelation 7.10, a great multitude that no one could number, cried out with a loud voice.

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Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb.

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Now you know why we sing these songs.

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Revelation 13.8.

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It talks about the fact that there is not a person sitting here who has received Christ,

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who does not have their names actually written in the Lamb's book of life.

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There is a book called the Lamb's book of life.

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Your names are inscribed on it if you have received Christ.

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If your name is not found in that book,

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then you suffer what is called a punishment.

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Punishment, and what is that punishment?

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The punishment for rejecting Christ is very simple.

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Spiritual alienation from God.

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That's what it is at the end of the day.

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Spiritual alienation, never seeing the face of God.

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It's a cruelest punishment you can give someone.

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It's like taking a baby away the moment it is born,

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putting it into a dark room where it will never be touched, never be felt,

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never know what it is to be loved, forever and ever and ever and ever.

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That is spiritual alienation.

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You know, if your name is written in the book of life,

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now you know why you can overcome the devil

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by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony,

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and you will not love your life even unto death.

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Anybody who has their names written in the book of life

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should not be afraid of death.

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Anybody whose name is written in the book of life

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should not be afraid of death.

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And if you are not afraid of death,

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now even in hostile circumstances,

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the word of your testimony as in what Jesus has done in your life

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and the blood of the Lamb that cleanses you

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gives you the boldness to speak.

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Sometimes boldness should come because of a reason,

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not just because of an anointing.

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An anointing is good, but an understanding is even better.

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Sam said an anointing, it didn't get him very far.

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Paul had understanding, it got him very far.

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One more scripture.

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Revelation 5.13.

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This is when, this is at the end of everything,

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at the end of time when creation, all of creation joins in,

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and listen to it, eh?

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Then, guys, we will be there,

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and we can't even imagine this, but try.

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Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth

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and under the earth and on the sea

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and all that is in them singing.

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I don't know how dolphins and whales and things like that will sing,

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but then I heard every creature,

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and it's not just talking about humans, it's talking about creation.

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Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth

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and under the earth and on the sea

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and all that is in them singing.

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To him who sits on the throne

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and to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever.

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And the four living creatures said amen, and the elders fell down in worship.

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Do you know that there's a song called the Song of the Lamb in the Book of Revelation?

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Turn to Revelation 15, verse 3.

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Revelation 15, verse 3.

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Revelation 15, verse 3.

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Revelation 15, verse 3.

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I'll start at verse 2.

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I'll start at verse 2.

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Guys, when these kids come here and they play their little tambourines

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and shake their little legs,

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and we sing one of these songs, you have no idea what happens to God.

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You have no idea what happens to God.

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Glorious songs of the Lamb.

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This song is called the Song of Moses, his servant and the Song of the Lamb.

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If you notice, where is it happening?

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Where did the Song of Moses happen in Exodus 15?

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By the Red Sea.

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Where is this song happening?

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By a glassy sea that has fire over it.

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And who were the people singing the song in Exodus 15?

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The ones that were freed from Egypt's bondage.

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Who are the ones singing here?

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The ones that have been freed from bondage.

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And then they begin to sing.

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What do they sing?

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Here's what they begin to sing.

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It's the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

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If you haven't been set free from bondage, do not sing this.

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It is the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

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It is the Song of the Blood of the Son of God.

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It is the Song of the Blood of the Passover Lamb.

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Let's read the Song.

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They sang the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb.

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Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty.

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Just and true are your ways, King of the Ages.

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Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name?

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For you alone are holy.

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All nations will come and worship before you,

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for your righteous acts have been revealed.

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It's the Song of Deliverance from Bondage.

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Do not sing it if you haven't been set free from bondage.

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It's the Song of the Blood of the Lamb, of the Passover Lamb.

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Do not sing it if you do not know Him.

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It is the Song of the Great Acts of Judgment on spiritual and physical tyrants.

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There it was Pharaoh, here it's the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Dragon.

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If you haven't been set free from powerful spiritual and physical forces, do not sing it.

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It is the Song of His Fearful Holiness and His Shekinah presence amongst them.

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If you don't think of that as important, do not sing it.

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It is the Song of His Powerful Right Hand at Work.

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Marvelous acts.

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If you haven't seen them, do not sing it.

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Just two verses that song is, but there are seven attributes of God there.

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Almighty, Just, True, King of the Nations, Holy, Righteous.

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He alone is God.

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Just in two verses, this is what they sing about Him.

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I want to end with this thought.

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Surely this song is not for internal consumption.

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Surely it's not to be sung in church and then left alone.

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Surely this is a song that armies march to.

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Surely this is a song that angels sang at the dawn of creation.

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Surely this is the song that they sang when Christ was born.

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Surely this is a song that the earth must hear.

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Surely this is a song that must be heard in Richmond.

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Surely this is a song that must be heard in Kalimantan.

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Surely this is a song that must be heard in Las Vegas.

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This is not a song for internal consumption.

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How do you keep this secret?

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I was set free from bondage.

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There are people around this room who can begin to sing this song.

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I was set free from bondage.

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I was someone who was caught up in drugs, caught up in things that were impossible to break out of.

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But God broke every addiction and He set me free.

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These are the songs we sing.

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When we sing songs that are put up there, this is what comes up.

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You set me free.

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I have been set free from physical and spiritual tyrants.

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Demonized, possessed, set free.

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I'm not even talking about you.

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I'm talking about just myself.

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But each of you has a story that can be better or worse in some areas.

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This is the song of the Lamb.

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I have been set free by the shed blood of Christ that redeemed me, that paid for me, that took away my shame, guilt.

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It's a song of fearful holiness.

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I know that I serve a holy God and I know His presence even now as He rejoices over us.

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I've seen His powerful work.

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I've seen His right hand raise the dead, heal the sick, bring the lame to walk, blind to see, deaf to hear.

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I have seen everything that the Bible has taught.

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I have seen.

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This is the story of the Lamb of God.

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Do you think this is for internal consumption?

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No, it is for proclamation.

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The song of the Lamb should become the sound of our mission.

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This is what armies march to.

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This is what angels are willing to announce.

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This is not for internal consumption.

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As we sing here today, we will sing to the Lamb.

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But as we sing here today, know that the Lamb is someone who is no longer...

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He bears the marks, but He's no longer someone who is waiting to be slaughtered.

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Seven horns, seven eyes, sevenfold spirit.

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People began to hide themselves, not from the wrath of the lion, but from the wrath of the lamb.

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Crazy.

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I'll ask the worship team to come back in.

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We'll set up communion here.

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At any point during worship, feel free to come and take the bread and the grape juice.

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And remember as you do it, that what you're ingesting, what you're taking in,

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what you're eating and drinking is the story of the blood of the Lamb.

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Behold the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world.

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You know, we should be able to progress from thinking of what the blood of the Lamb does for me

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to thinking of what I must now do with the blood of the Lamb for people outside.

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Do not limit it to yourself.

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This is not for internal consumption.

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I don't know what they're going to sing, but we'll exalt the Lamb in our midst.

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We are taken care of, guys.

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Now we have to take care of others who don't know this story.

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You