The Sacrificial Lamb

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The Sacrificial Lamb!

• Text Heb 1019-25 1Co 1123-26 Selected
• Cross Creek Community Church
• Pastor Dave Martin March 16, 2002
• Gods Word is Powerful, Relevant, and Life
  Changing!

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Sacrifice

• The innocent (Jesus) taking upon Himself the sins
  of the guilty, paying the ultimate price to
  reconcile us back to God.

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The Necessity of Blood

• Leviticus 1711 For the life of the flesh is in
  the blood, and I have given it to you upon the
  altar to make atonement for your souls for it is
  the blood that makes atonement for the soul.'
• Hebrews 922 In fact, the law requires that
  nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and
  without the shedding of blood there is no
  forgiveness.

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The Sacrificial Lamb

• 1. INDIVIDUAL Abel sacrificed a lamb.
• Genesis 43-5 In the course of time Cain brought
  some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to
  the Lord. 4But Abel brought fat portions from
  some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord
  looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5but
  on Cain and his offering he did not look with
  favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was
  downcast.

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The Sacrificial Lamb

• 2. FAMILY Passover Lambs slaughtered.
• Exodus 123 5-7 13 Tell the whole community of
  Israel that on the tenth day of this month each
  man is to take a lamb for his family, one for
  each householdThe animals you choose must be
  year-old males without defect, and you may take
  them from the sheep or the goats. 6Take care of
  them until the fourteenth day of the month, when
  all the people of the community of Israel must
  slaughter them at twilight. 7Then they are to
  take some of the blood and put it on the sides
  and tops of the doorframes of the houses where
  they eat the lambs The blood will be a sign for
  you on the houses where you are and when I see
  the blood, I will pass over you

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The Sacrificial Lamb

• 3. NATION Day of Atonement, once per year.
• Leviticus 1634a "This is to be a lasting
  ordinance for you Atonement is to be made once a
  year for all the sins of the Israelites."

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The Sacrificial Lamb

• 4. WORLD Jesus our Passover Lamb was slain!
• 1 John 22 He (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice
  for our sins, and not only for ours but also for
  the sins of the whole world.
• 1 Cor. 57b For Christ, our Passover lamb, has
  been sacrificed.

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Letting Gods Word speak to our hearts

• 1 John 410 This is love not that we loved God,
  but that he loved us and sent his Son (Jesus) as
  an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• John 129 The next day John saw Jesus coming
  toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who
  takes away the sin of the world!

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Letting Gods Word speak to our hearts

• Isaiah 5214 Just as there were many who were
  appalled at him--his appearance was so disfigured
  beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond
  human likeness
• Isaiah 537 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet
  he did not open his mouth he was led like a lamb
  to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her
  shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
  
• Isaiah 5310a Yet it was the Lord's will to crush
  him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord
  makes his life a guilt offering

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Letting Gods Word speak to our hearts

• 1 Peter 118-19 You were redeemed with the
  precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish
  or defect.
• Romans 325a God presented him (Jesus) as a
  sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his
  blood
• 2 Cor. 521 God made him who had no sin to be sin
  for us, so that in him we might become the
  righteousness of God.
• Hebrews 1012 But when this priest (Jesus) had
  offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he
  sat down at the right hand of God.

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The Lords Supper

• 1 Cor. 1123-26 For I received from the Lord what
  I also passed on to you The Lord Jesus, on the
  night he was betrayed, took bread, 24and when he
  had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is
  my body, which is for you do this in remembrance
  of me." 25In the same way, after supper he took
  the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in
  my blood do this, whenever you drink it, in
  remembrance of me." 26For whenever you eat this
  bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's
  death until he comes.

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AS WE PARTAKE

• Look Back and Remember! (v24) Do this in
  remembrance of me
• Christs body was broken for us.
• Christs blood was shed for us.

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AS WE PARTAKE

• Look Within and Repent! (v28) A man ought to
  examine himself
• Self-examination reveals our sin.
• Self-examination encourages repentance.

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AS WE PARTAKE

• Look Ahead and Rejoice! (v26) You proclaim
  the Lords death until He comes
• In memorial and celebration.
• In hope of His soon return.

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Jesus, The Sacrificial Lamb

• Hebrews 1019-20 Therefore, brothers, since we
  have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by
  the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way
  opened for us through the curtain, that is, his
  body,