Amen, the part of the chapter we're going to focus on this morning is found in John
chapter 1 and verse number 29 where the Bible reads the next day John seeth Jesus coming
unto him and sayeth behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world and
again in verse number 36 it says in looking upon Jesus as he walked he sayeth behold the
lamb of God and the title of my sermon this morning is Jesus Christ the lamb of God Jesus
Christ the lamb of God and if you would go with me if you went to Revelation chapter number five
Revelation chapter number five I'm going to read to you from Acts chapter number eight
the Bible says in Acts chapter eight verse number 30 this passage in Acts chapter eight
is very familiar scripture that we would use in reference to salvation when we're witnessing to
someone it's a great scripture to basically emphasize this matter of just believing on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and we can use this for that but I want you to notice
something in Acts chapter eight verse number 30 says and Philip ran thither to him and heard him
read the prophet Isaiah and said understandest thou without readest and he said how can I
except some man should guide me and he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him
and the place of the scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep before the slaughter
and like a lamb dumb before his shearers so open he not his mouth and one thing do you notice
throughout the Bible that Jesus Christ is always referenced as the lamb of God okay look at
revelations chapter number five verse number six we're going to look at a lot of scriptures in
Revelation the Bible says and I be held and low in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts
in the midst of the elders stood a lamb capital L by the way as it had been slain having seven horns
and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth and he came and
took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne and we had taken the book the
four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having every one of them
harps and golden vows full of odors which are the prayers of the saints and they sung a new song
saying thou are worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and
has made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth and I beheld and I heard
the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beast and the elders and the number of
them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice
worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and
glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying blessing and honor and glory and
power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the lamb forever and ever one interesting
thing about revelation of course Jesus Christ's reference has been or his name is Jesus Christ
and of course there's a false doctrine out there that's teaching that Jesus in the book of
revelation or in the end times is not going to be called Jesus his name is going to be called
Yeshua right and it's interesting because and they say well you know that's the Greek word for
for for Jesus and and you know you guys got to be able to reference him as Jesus as Yeshua and
in the New Testament well it's funny because I led a guy who was a Greek to the Lord okay and when I
led him to the Lord by the way previously I actually actually witnessed to a Jew and he
rejected it but then the Greek got saved amen to the Jew first and also to the Greek but the Greek
is actually the one who actually got saved amen but I witnessed to this guy and I said I have a
question for you I said you have a bible and he says yes I have a bible it's in my language he
had the the the the Texas Receptus New Testament and then I said how do you say Jesus in Greek
and he said Isus I said you don't say Yeshua he goes no he said it's Isus now he had a thick
accent he says Isus I said so nowhere is like Yeshua found in the he said no he said Isus
like I said I don't believe is Yeshua I'm just asking I said because I've heard people say that
and he goes no no no it's Isus he said now but one interesting thing to note in the book of
Revelation is that he's actually referenced not as a name but he's referenced as the lamb
more times than he would be called Jesus Christ why because he's the lamb of God who should take
away the sins of the world now go to revelations chapter number seven revelation chapter number
seven verse number nine the bible says after this I beheld and lo a great multitude which no man
could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues by the way this is referencing
the rapture okay and stood before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes and palms
in their hands and cried with a loud voice saying salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne
and unto the lamb go to verse number 13 and one of the elders answered saying unto me what are
these which are arrayed in white robes and whence came they where do they come from I said unto him
sir thou knowest and he said unto me these are they which came out of great tribulation and have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb therefore are they before the
throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth on the throne shall
dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore neither shall the sun
light on them nor any heat for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and
shall lead them into living fountains of waters and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
go to revelation chapter number 12 revelation chapter 12 so we see over and over again Jesus
Christ's reference to being the lamb verse number 11 the bible says and they overcame him by the
blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they love not their lives unto
death you don't have to turn there but I'm gonna turn I'm gonna read to you from revelation chapter
13 and verse 8 where the bible reads and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world
and again in revelation 14 verse 1 and I looked and lo a lamb stood on the mount science so it
goes without saying Jesus Christ is the lamb amen and it's a wonderful thing and if you're to ask and
if I were to ask any one of you or if you'd ask anybody who has any knowledge in regards to what
this is talking about you would say yeah Jesus Christ is the lamb because he came to take away
the sins of the world he's a fulfillment of the old testament sacrifices and amen to that but
there's so much that goes into that concept right there and that doctrine you see as we read as we
read in John chapter 1 he's referred to the lamb because yes he took away the sins of the world
and just as the lambs the bullocks and the rams of the old testament were sacrificed
that's what Jesus Christ he was the direct fulfillment of those sacrifices in the old
testament now let me say this is that you know those who worship the creature more than the
creator hate the fact that the lambs and bullocks and rams are sacrificed in the old testament
okay you're like why did God have to kill all these animals well simply because the animals
are not here to just like be worshiped they're here for us all right and to eat and by the way
and for this specific specific scripture they're there to picture what Jesus Christ was going to do
now there's a false doctrine out there called dispensationalism okay and I hate dispensationalism
I will always hate it it will always be rejected in this church but dispensationalism teaches that
people were saved by works in the old testament and they were saved by grace in the new testament
but one day it's going to go by by be by works once again well what they're referring to is the
sacrifices being the lambs being sacrificed in the old testament that's how people were saved
and they'll pull out scriptures how they made an atonement for the for the sins of the people
through these sacrifices well these people obviously are not reading the entire bible
okay because you can't just take all your doctrines from old testament scriptures
and base your foundation off of those scriptures you know you got to read the entire thing
obviously they didn't read hebrew chapter 8 and hebrew chapter 9 where the bible says that these
things were a shadow of things to come well what is a shadow it's not the direct image of what
you're looking at it's a it's a shadow of it okay my shadow is right it's somewhere around here
it's below me all right my shadow is not me okay it's a shadow of the actual image which is me
and the bible says that the sacrifices of the old testament were a shadow of these things no no no
they had to sacrifice in order to be saved they have to keep the commandments well you know the
bible says that it is not possible not possible let me explain what that means that means
impossible in case you didn't know what that meant not possible that the blood of bulls and
of goats should take away sins so dispensationalists or what i like to call them dipsticks
you need to read hebrew chapter 10 where it says it's not possible okay that was a shadow of things
to come now we will say this is that the fact that they were shed the blood was shed that was
a picture what jesus christ was going to do why because the bible says that without the shedding
of blood there is no remission remission means part it means forgiveness and so they were looking
forward to what christ was going to do of course we look back to what christ did why because he
shed his blood and because of that we receive remissions of sins it's a beautiful picture of
now go to hebrew chapter number nine hebrew chapter number nine
but they like to hold on to this thing where it's just like you know well they have to do
the sacrifices you know jesus christ once he was crucified he sacrificed once and for all
the bible says okay and and that's for the old testament that's for new testament hebrew chapter
nine verse number seven says but in the second went the high priest alone once every year
not without blood which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people
the holy ghost is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing which was a figure for the time then present
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices look what it says that could not make him that
did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience so he even says right there when
those priests would go in there and they would offer the sacrifices they couldn't make them
perfect okay it was impossible for those sacrifices to impute righteousness
unto those priests and unto the people why because they were a shadow of things to come
it was a picture now go to genesis chapter 22 you see the sacrifices it is a beautiful now
i'm to be there i mean how many you've ever seen a animal be killed live okay pretty gruesome
i remember i remember to Guatemala my um my aunt she had prepared swine a big uh pig for us to eat
and uh he was nice and fat and just like ready i mean they kept them like in that stall so he
wouldn't move around or anything like that so he's just building up that fat and he's just
well when we came i mean she hired these butchers and stuff like that and it was gruesome i mean i
remember they tied a rope around his neck and they brought him out they grabbed the axe and
with the butt of the axe they just whacked him across the head and he just all you hear is just
like screaming and but he didn't knock out you know so they had to hit him again and he fell over
then they came to grab the knife and they stuck it in his throat and there's just blood just
all over and i'm like i'm like i just go to the drive-through and just order my food i don't see
all this going on you know but i saw the entire process it's a very gruesome thing to behold but
this is something that was done yearly in israel with the sacrifices okay and and here's the thing
there's no nice way to kill an animal okay all right you know you say well they could have done
it a better way you know okay i remember one time my aunt my other aunt how my aunts are kind of
weird now that i think about how they do these things you know she when i was like eight years
old she brought me to the window and she was about to make um caldo you guys know what caldo is okay
all the hispanics do it's soup chicken soup is what it is but with like real chicken you know
and and she actually she grabbed the chicken and uh i didn't know she had the chicken but she's
like bruce come here come to the window and i'm like yeah i walk over there and she she has the
chicken by the neck and she grabs the knife and just goes and i'm like you know all this blood
and the body falls and it's like trying to run it was traumatizing to be honest with you but you
know what there's no good way to kill even a chicken okay but you know what these sacrifices
in the old testament they're very gruesome if you read leviticus you read the process of how they did
this it was a very gruesome process but you know what it was the picture the gruesome death of the
lord jesus christ okay and and and it goes to show what we deserve right for our sins what we deserve
to pay because of our sins now obviously the the the instructions of the sacrifices were instituted
in the levitical law when moses came but sacrifices were done even long long before that okay and in
fact look at genesis 22 verse 7 says and isaac spake unto abraham his father and said my father
and he said here am i my son and he said behold the fire in the wood but where is the lamb for
a burnt offering and abraham said my son god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so
they went both of them together now the immediate thing that abraham was talking about was the fact
that he knew that god was not going to allow him to literally sacrifice his own son he had faith or
even if he did sacrifice he had faith that he would bring him back to life right but you see
even after the story there is a ram caught in the thicket and they used that to burn a sacrifice he
understood that god would provide himself a sacrifice but the secondary application there
is a prophecy of what was going to take in place in the future why because god will provide himself
a sacrifice right through jesus christ and so this is something that was told even in the old
testament now go to genesis chapter number three genesis chapter number three today we're going to
look at just the similarities between jesus christ and the lamb and i think just as i preached this
sherman as i read this it just gave me a greater appreciation for my salvation it gave me a greater
appreciation for the sacrifice that jesus made for us first and foremost what is the first
similarity that we see in the bible well he provided a covering okay jesus christ provided
a covering look at verse number 18 thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and now
shall eat the herb of the field and the sweat of thy face shall not eat bread till they'll return
into the ground for out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust thou shall return
and adam called his wife's name eve because she was the mother of all living and unto adam also
into his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothed them now if you remember in the
beginning of genesis chapter number three adam and eve sin and what happens they sewed fig leaves
together okay and this is a picture of someone trying to work their way to heaven okay to try
to cover up their sins by sewing aprons together and as we mentioned before an apron just covers
the front it doesn't cover the back okay and the back parts is what the bible calls nakedness so
you may be able to fool people from the front but you won't fool them as soon as you turn around
okay with your fig leaves aprons okay so what did god say no no that's not going to work
we you need coats of skin and that leads to show that he sacrificed an animal to make those coats
of skin and that's a beautiful picture of what jesus christ did why because before christ we were
of course the bible says that there's none that do with good no not one but what happened when we
got saved god covered us with the righteousness of jesus christ okay we were no longer naked before
the lord our sins were no longer there what happened the bible says that our sins were
separated as far as eases from west now go to isaiah chapter 64 isaiah chapter 64
see it was necessary for a lamb to be sacrificed in order to provide covering for adam and eve
and you know what the same goes for us it's necessary that jesus christ had to be crucified
had to go to hell for three days and three nights had to resurrect in order to provide a covering
for us as well look at isaiah 64 verse number six but we are all as an unclean thing and all of our
righteousness are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind
have taken us away so we see here that the correlation the filthy rags is is is synonymous
with the fading of the leaf just like the leaves that adam and eve had they just fade they're not
going to last forever the bible says here that our righteousness before christ were as filthy rags
they're as leaves fading the bible says what happens when it fades it's no longer there and
our nakedness is shown okay go to joe excuse me go to galatians chapter number three galatians
chapter number three i'm gonna read to you from joe 31 verse 33 where the bible says if i covered
my transgression as adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom you know what we have today we have
a lot of people unbelievers who are simply hiding their sin by their own righteousness okay whether
it's their works they're they're using the fact that they're going to church that they read the
bible that they you know pray to hell mary they did all these righteous works supposedly but you
know what the bible says they're righteous and so are as filthy rags and not by works of righteousness
which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us the bible says you know yesterday when we
went out sowing i was privileged to lead three people to the lord yesterday and two of those
people was a daughter and a mother and when i when i was speaking to him and they got saved
you know i i talked to the girl and the daughter her name was liz and she basically she she
basically said this she said you're right i am trusting in myself to be saved because when i
asked her i said what do you have to do to get to heaven or why do you think you're going to heaven
she said because i'm a good person you know and i do good things and i believe that you know
um i believe that i do good things and good works and therefore i should be allowed into heaven
because i i think i'm a good person well after i showed her all the scriptures i said you know
i gave her the definition of what believing means means to trust right in jesus christ i said now
why does god say that we have to trust in jesus christ to be saved because you're trusting in
yourself and if you're trusting in yourself you're not really trusting in jesus christ
she laughed and she said oh you're right i am trusting in myself you know because i felt like
i can keep the commandments i'm a good person but the but the bible clearly shows i can't trust in
myself i need to trust in christ and she got saved amen but you know what there's a lot of people out
there that are still trusting in themselves they need the covering the righteousness galatians
chapter 3 verse 26 the bible says for a year all the children of god by faith in christ jesus
for as many of you as have been baptized into christ have put on christ what happens when we
get saved we put on christ go to romans chapter number four romans chapter number four i'm gonna
read to you from isaiah chapter 61 verse number 10 where the bible reads i will greatly rejoice
in the lord my soul shall be joyful in my god for he hath clothed me with the garments of
righteousness he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness excuse me garments of salvation
he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels romans chapter four and verse number five this is
a great chapter to use in your gospel presentation here look what the bible says in verse number five
but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted
for righteousness even as david also described the blessedness of the man unto whom god impudeth
righteousness without works saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins
are what covered blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute sin that's a wonderful thing
to know that when we got saved our sins were covered and just as god covered adam and eve
with the coats of skin the bible teaches is that when we got saved we were clothed with
the righteousness of jesus christ our sins are covered they're forgiven they will never be
exposed ever again you know there's a teaching that says well you know one day god is going to
show you all your sins on a panoramic screen l uh what do they call it the lds screen or something
like that he's going to show all the things that you've done he's going to shame me before everyone
lying that's they will never be shown what sins are you talking about i don't remember them
anymore from the book of life they've all been torn out i don't remember them anymore praise the
lord for that okay now obviously we're going to get judged according to our works for rewards
right whether they be good or whether they'll be bad the bible says but our sins will never be
remembered ever again they will never be shown to our face why because when god looks at us
he sees us through the righteousness of jesus christ he does not see us through our own
righteousness now go with me if you would to psalms 85 psalms 85 so we see here that the
similarity between christ and the lamb is the fact that he provided a covering just as the lamb that
was slain for adam and eve provided a actual physical covering he provides the spiritual
covering psalms 85 verse number two the bible reads thou has forgiven the iniquity of thy people
thou has covered all their sin that was taken away all thy wrath thou has turned
thyself from the fierceness of thine anger and by the way the bible teaches us that
if we believe on christ we have everlasting life if we choose not to believe we shall not see life
but the wrath of god abideth on him right so what happens when we get saved we have everlasting life
the bible says that the wrath of god is turned from us we will no longer suffer the wrath of god
specifically talking about hell now go to exodus chapter number 12 that's an awesome picture right
there and i'm thankful that i'm clothed the righteousness of jesus christ just as the lamb
did in the old testament in genesis chapter 3 jesus christ has covered us with his righteousness
but not only that but jesus christ so jesus christ covered provided a covering but he was also without
blemish okay look at exodus chapter 12 in verse number three the bible says here speak ye unto
all the congregation of israel saying in the 10th day of this month they shall take to them every
man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamp for in house and if the household be too
little for the lamb uh let him and his neighbor next unto him or 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 your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year he shall take it out from the
sheep or from the sheep goats now go to malachi chapter number one so here we see that god says
the lord is instructing israel says look get a lamb and you guys can share but here's the
requirement it needs to be without blemish okay now what is a blemish a blemish is basically an
imperfection okay you cannot bring a handicapped lamb yeah okay well that's mean man what you know
what if you know gmos and that person you know steroids and no blemish okay now here's the thing
you say well you know why is it that the lord didn't accept you know maybe an imperfect lamb
because you got to remember it was picturing what christ did and let me say this anytime the
symbolism in the old testament was defiled god was ticked off i mean if you don't believe that
read about moses and how he smote the rock when god said just to speak unto it and he said you're
not even going to go into the promised land you're going to die right here and by the way moses meekest
man that ever lived he was i would consider him to be a friend of god amen he had god's favor he
had god's power he had a good relationship with the lord yet god even executed uh punishment upon
him why because he defiled the symbolism of the old testament of what christ was going to do for
us in the new testament was very important even to the point that he allowed him to die him and erin
to die before they reached the promised land and so this is very important that's why he said look
a lamb without blemish why because this is picture what my son's going to do in the future okay now
look at malachi chapter one and verse number six the bible says a son honoreth his father
and a servant his master if then i be a father where is mine honor and if i be a master where
is my fear saith the lord of hosts unto you o priest that despise my name and ye say wherein
have we despised thy name ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar and you say wherein have we
polluted thee and that we and that you say the table of the lord is contemptible and if you offer
the blind for sacrifice is it not evil and if you offer the lame and sick is it not evil offer it
now unto thy governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person saith the lord of hosts so
he received that these people were guilty of bringing like their worst animals and keeping
the best for themselves right they're the ones that are bringing in the the lambs of blemishes
they were lame the bible says they were blind maybe they're like missing an eye or something
like that like just give you know the refusal to the lord we'll keep the best right and by the way
this this reminds me of pastors today okay where they want jesus christ the lamb of god without
blemish they want the right type of salvation but they could care less of what the congregation gets
they don't care if the people believe in a in a lamb of blemish right where you have to repent
of your sins or do some sort of work and they're just a little off yeah but you believe the right
salvation you want the lamb without blemish yeah you're allowing your congregants to believe on a
lamb that has blemishes that's lame that's not christ at all okay and that's wicked no if it's
good enough for us it's good enough for everyone else okay and god requires a lamb without blemish
go to first peter chapter number one first peter chapter number one and bible says that's evil
it was an evil thing to do but this is a wonderful picture because jesus christ what it was and is
perfect okay he is without blemish look what the bible says in verse number 18 of first peter
chapter number one for as much as you know uh brother david thank you for as much as you know
that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation
received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of christ as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was
manifest in these last times for you you see jesus christ was the only one who kept every
single commandment in the bible okay he was perfect he was with without spot without blemish
and in fact even when he was arrested and came before pilot pilot said of him i find no fault in
him okay and the bible would say that what they testified against christ they agreed not to they
did their their their uh testimonies they didn't even agree with one another why because they had
to lie about him okay he was without uh reproach the bible says that he was without blemish and
without spot go to hebrews chapter number four now what do we mean that he was without blemish
and without spot look what the bible says in hebrews chapter number four and verse number 14
it says seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens
jesus the son of god let us hold fast our profession for we have not a high priest which
cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but was in all points tempted as
we are look what it says yet without sin so why was he without blemish why was he without spot
because he was without sin okay i remember one time we went when i was out soul winning we were
in a heavily heavy heavy catholic area and uh i love witnessing to catholics but i specifically
like what's in witnessing to the backs living catholics okay the ones who really don't go to
church or whatever you know because you can win them over a lot easier but this place was like
these people went to mass okay and uh i remember i talked to this one or excuse me i was with
another guy and he was witnessing to this man and he's like look i believe in the virgin mary you
know that's like their famous go-to card right virgin mary you know and um my friend he showed
him the scriptures where you know she even she needed a savior you know where he kind of like
like corrected his own mother right he was showing her he was showing this guy the scriptures
and he said and he said do you think like jesus christ was wrong and obviously it was like a
rhetorical question he wasn't expecting him to answer this because you think jesus christ you
think he sinned by by reprimanding his mom he's like yeah he was wrong for that he's uh he sinned
i freaked out i never heard anybody say that in my life and he's like because that's the virgin mary
you know and he sinned he should not he should not have done that i mean
that guy's reprobate in my opinion now you know what i mean when you say that jesus christ sinned
and he did wrong i mean i've run into some pretty staunch catholics and they won't even tiptoe
around that they won't even go near that yeah i mean they would just plainly take the correction
and say yeah no you're right yeah he did correct you know because because catholics they'll say
they believe the bible and they actually if you show them from the word of god they'll actually
believe i'm talking about the the ones who are who are sincere okay not the ones who just want
to be deceived okay but this person said that and no that guy's wrong he was without sin
there's no sin found in him go to leviticus chapter number one leviticus chapter number one
the bible says in leviticus chapter number one and verse number one the lord called
unto moses leviticus chapter one and verse number one and the lord called them to moses and spake
unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying speak unto the children of israel and say
unto them if any man of you bring an offering unto the lord ye shall bring your offering of
the cattle even of the herd and of the flock if his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd
let him offer a male without blemish he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation before the lord skip down to verse number 10 and if his
offering be of the flocks namely of the sheep or of the goats for a burnt sacrifice he shall bring
a male without blemish by the way i like what it says his own voluntary will i believe that's a
picture of jesus christ thank you i believe that's a picture of jesus christ who he gave himself
voluntarily right he chose to sacrifice himself for us obviously the father sent him but he chose
out of his own will to give himself a ransom for many go to deuteronomy chapter number 17
deuteronomy chapter number 17
in verse number one the bible says thou shall not sacrifice unto the lord thy god
any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish or any evil favorness for that is an abomination unto
the lord thy god so he even says no evil favorness no thing that you can look at and say there's a
blemish there's a spot there's a wrinkle there's something wrong with this sacrifice no no evil
favorness and the bible says in first peter 222 who did no sin neither was found excuse me neither
was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he
threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously who his own self bear our sins
in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin shall live unto righteousness by whose stripes
ye were healed now go to first john chapter number three so we see that the similarities between the
lord and the lamb of the old testament is that obviously he provided a covering but not only that
he was without blemish he had no sin he was he was perfect first john chapter three in verse number
five says and he know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin now it's
interesting that these modalists right they want to act like they're defending the deity of jesus
christ right but when you probe them more and more eventually it comes out that they're taken away
from the deity of jesus christ to the point where he just becomes just a regular man with no divinity
and here's the thing the reason this is dangerous as far as modalism is concerned
is because it tricks people into thinking oh these guys are revering they're just uplifting
the divinity of christ no they're not they're taking it away they give it to take it away
okay no he was a man who had no sin the bible says now go to go with me if you would to
leviticus chapter 16
now the first thing that makes modalism suspect to me is the fact that it comes from pentecostals
i mean just that alone should raise a red flag to say okay there's something wrong with this
this comes from the tongue-flapping weirdos we probably shouldn't adhere to this this doctrine
that's being that's being understood here okay now look as far as i know i've been a christian
for 11 years and i've been an independent baptist independent baptist for 11 years
i've never heard this before i have aunts and uncles who would believe in this stuff but we
just disregard them as being right because there are pentecostals to begin with and the pentecostals
believe that you could lose your salvation so that means guess what they're not saved right
so if an unsafe person is trying to explain the intricacies of the trinity that's a wrong person
to get your theology from why because the bible says that the natural man receiveth not the things
of the spirit of god neither can you know him for they are spiritually discerned okay what are they
going to do they're going to pervert the teachings okay they're going to add their own twist to it
the devil's twist to it now as we mentioned that jesus christ was a good picture it was a great
picture of the lamb why because he provided a covering a righteousness but not only that but
he was without blemish he was without spot but here's one of my favorite things about this matter
of picturing uh the lamb is that he was our scapegoat okay now the word scapegoat is only
found once in the bible multiple times but in one specific scripture chapter that's in leviticus
chapter 16 now this is great as i begin to study this i mean it just it just reinforced a lot of
my personal beliefs in regards to what we're going to look at but before we read leviticus 16 i'm
gonna read to you from from uh the the writings of ellen g white okay don't stone me yeah i'm not
for what she's saying here this lady's obviously she's burning in hell today okay but she is the
founder of the seventh day adventist okay now i didn't know this until someone mentioned this what
they believe regarding the scapegoat how many have you ever heard what they believe about the
scapegoat is very strange doctrine it says here the identification and eschatological meaning of
a scapegoat of leviticus 16 has generated much discussion in academic circles here's problem
number one within jewish tradition by the way it goes like this it goes if you're pentecostal
don't follow it if it goes jewish really don't follow it okay the scapegoat was always seen as
a demonic being but since the post-apostolic period many christians expositors have tried to
identify it with christ and his sacrificial death seventh-day adventists have stressed a clear
distinction between the goats considering the one for the lord as a type of christ and the one for
the scapegoat as representing satan this is also the view expressed in ellen white's writing so
what they're saying is we're going to read leviticus in just a moment but in leviticus
chapter 16 god gives the instruction to aaron to sacrifice or excuse me to bring two lambs right
two goats they grab two lots and basically they cast them before the goats one of them is
sacrificed as a burnt offering the other one is they lay their hands on on that goat and symbolically
the sins of the people come upon that goat then by a fit man they take them into the wilderness
and they let them go and we're going to explain why is that in just a moment but they're saying
that the one the scapegoat the one who's they lay the sins on that's actually satan
now here's the interesting thing about this doctrine this false doctrine is that most
false doctrines always have they always have to relate jesus christ to satan somehow i mean the
mormons do that the jehovah witnesses do that and sort of the seven-day advances they have this
obsession with making jesus christ the devil and that's wicked and i don't even i mean just by
reading that i i i mean leviticus 16 i don't know how you get oh yeah that's definitely satan right
there and by the way if you read it niv that'll make perfect sense to you right because they
always try they they flip around the terms and stuff like that to make jesus christ look as
he is satan himself right now go to leviticus 16 verse number four the bible says here verse
number four he shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his
flesh and shall be girded with the linen girdle with the linen mitre shall he be attired these
are the holy garments therefore shall he wash his flesh and water and so put them on and he
shall take of the congregation of the children of israel two kids this is not referring to children
by the way okay two kids are the calves of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt
offering and erin shall offer his bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and make
an atonement for himself and for his house and he shall take the two goats and present them before
the lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and erin shall cast lots upon the
two goats one lot for the lord and the other lot for the scapegoat so what is it saying
lots was basically a system by which they would determine a specific outcome okay if they don't
know exactly what to do they would simply cast lots you have two goats which one should we
sacrifice well let's cast lots and whoever the law falls in that says offering that that's the
one we're going to do for the offering that's basically what it was and erin shall bring the
goat upon which the lord's lot fell and offer him for a sin offering but the goat on which the lot
fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the lord to make an atonement with him and
to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness skip down to verse number 20 and when he hath made
an end of reconciling the holy place in the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar
he shall bring the live goat and erin shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat
and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of israel and all their transgressions
and all their sins putting them upon the head of the goat and shall send him away by the hand of
a fit man into the wilderness and the ghost shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not
inhabited and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness skip down to verse 24 and he shall
wash his flesh with water in the holy place and put on his garments and come forth and offer his
burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make an atonement for himself and for
the people and the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar and he that let go the goat
for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in the water and afterward come into
the camp so here we see this large process taking place of what they do with both goats now
why is jesus christ the scapegoat okay well simply for the fact obviously if you read in matthew 27
when jesus christ was crucified he cries out eli eli lamech sabachthani that is to say my god my
god why hast thou forsaken me and we understand when christ was crucified the sins of the whole
world he bore them on himself and he became sin for us the bible says okay who knew no sin the
bible i'm gonna quote it to you it says for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin
that we might be made the righteousness of god in him now jesus christ didn't sin all these sins
that were that he bore himself he didn't commit any of them just like the goats was not at fault
for all the iniquities of the people but guess what they were blamed scapegoat simply means a
person was blamed for something that they didn't did not do right now here's the thing and this is
a wonderful picture here because in leviticus 16 you see that one offering was given for what
burnt offering what is that picture jesus christ dying and going to hell right but here's the thing
he ascended but what is it that he first descended into lower parts of the earth the bible says
but we obviously know that he told the the the thief today thou shall be with me in paradise
what did he say in that into my hands i can i command my spirit right so not only did he go
to hell but just as the scapegoat was given to the alive before the lord that was a fulfillment
as well because when jesus christ went to hell he also was in heaven alive before the lord
why because anybody who's in heaven is alive obviously right so what is it what is it it's
a picture of both okay the scapegoat pictures the fact that he was in heaven as well why because
he is god himself right and so the burn offering pictures the fact that he went to hell for three
days and three nights the scapegoat pictures the fact that the blame was placed on him but he was
alive before the lord it's a wonderful picture of both it doesn't picture the fact that he's satan
or that he's a devil no it pictures the fact that he bore our sins upon himself
even though he committed no sin and that he was alive before the lord right now go with me if
you would to uh let's see go with me if you would to where's the scripture i had here go to matthew
matthew chapter 27
for sake of time we're not going to read this entire you could just write it down
this is the story of barabbas okay now this is a great picture of what took what takes place in
leviticus 16 why is that because in matthew excuse me yes in matthew 27 we see a man by the name of
barabbas and who was released for the people barabbas was well the bible says that barabbas was
was guilty of committing insurrection he was a murderer and luke the bible says that he was he
was guilty of sedition and murder and john says that he was guilty of robbery so this guy was a
really bad guy and matthew 27 says he was a notable prisoner so people knew yeah this i know
who this guy is he committed all these crimes yet who was released barabbas was who was punished
for the robbery who's punished for the murder for the sedition insurrection jesus christ was
you know so they placed the blame on christ and they allowed barabbas to go free okay which is
picture of what the scapegoat okay which is exactly what jesus christ did for us the bible
says then released he barabbas unto them and when he had scourged jesus he delivered him to be
crucified you know who was worthy of being crucified was barabbas not jesus but because
he's the scapegoat the blame went on him and he suffered that consequences for the sins of the
whole world right go to isaiah 53 isaiah chapter 53 a wonderful picture of the scapegoat is the
fact that jesus christ took our blame but he was also alive before the lord now we're going to
mention the fact that jesus christ went to hell for three days and three nights and just a bit
because that's also a picture of what the lamb did right the lamb was burnt but isaiah 53 verse
4 says surely he had borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten
of god and afflicted 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 all we like sheep
have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all he was oppressed he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to
the slaughter and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth he was taken
from prison and from judgment who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land
of the living just as the scapegoat was released into the wilderness right land of the living for
the transgression of my people was he stricken 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
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 he shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied
by his knowledge shall my righteousness my righteous servant justify many for he shall
bear their iniquities therefore will i divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide
the spoil with the strong because he has poured out his soul into death and he was numbered with
the transgressors and he bared the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressor so this is
a beautiful scripture of the fact that he was the scapegoat excuse me scapegoat he bore the sins
of many go to hebrews chapter number nine hebrews chapter number nine hebrews chapter number nine
i'm reaching from romans 15 verse 3 says for when even christ pleased not himself but as it is
written there were approaches of them that approached thee fell on me look at hebrews 9
verse 27 says as it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment so christ was
offered uh was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he
appear the second time without sin unto salvation so we see here one of the similarities of the lamb
in christ he provided a covering he was without blemish he was our scapegoat he took the blame
for us now go with me to exodus chapter number 12 we'll briefly go through this point
but it's worth mentioning he shed his blood which is what an atonement okay exodus chapter 12 verse
number three now when i was in bible college no rocks tomatoes okay when i was in bible college
i was taught falsely that salvation in exodus was actually when they parted the red sea and they
went through on dry land on dry ground that's what we were taught okay we were taught and the
reason why is because there's a verse within that scripture that says behold the salvation of the
lord okay but looking at it in context obviously he was referring to the salvation of the physical
bodies okay salvation of the lord the sea opens up they're able to cross through safely salvation
is in exodus okay the picture of it but it's in exodus chapter 12 verse number three where the
bible says speaking unto all the congregation of israel saying in the 10th day of this month
they shall take them of every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for in house
and if the household be too little for the lamb let him and his neighbor next unto his his house
take it according to the number of the souls every man according to his eating shall make
your account for the lamb your lamb shall be without blemish a male the first year and he
shall take it out of the sheep or from the or from the goats go to verse number 12 for i will
pass through the land of egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of egypt
both men and beasts against all the gods of egypt will i execute judgment i am the lord
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 man that's that's awesome so basically all you have to do is see the blood and the judgment
would pass over them they wouldn't suffer the consequences okay if the blood was not there
the angel would destroy them okay and that is a picture of salva of salvation right there why
because when when the lord sees the blood there's a song we sing right how does it go when no no
there's another one when i see the blood when i see the blood when i see the blood i will pass
i will pass over you i don't remember how the tune goes all right maybe we'll see it tonight
it's a great song to picture salvation okay it's simply when you pass when god sees the blood of
the lambs now obviously look that wasn't the blood that wasn't the blood of christ
but it was a shadow of what was taking place okay look at verse 21 then moses called for all the
elders of israel and said unto them draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and
kill the passover he shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and
strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin and none of you shall
go out at the door of his house until the morning for the lord will pass to smite the egyptians
when he seeeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts the lord will pass over the
door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you now go to hebrews
chapter number eight i know we're using a lot of scripture but amen hebrews chapter 10
wonderful picture but again it's a shadow look at verse number one says for the law having a
shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices
which they offered year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect for then will they
not have ceased to be offered because that the worshipers once purged should have no more
conscience of sins paul's telling the dispensationalist here look if if they had to be safe to the
sacrifices why do they keep doing it every year if the sacrifices could save you you would only
have to do it once because then they would have no more conscience of sins the bible says verse
three but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year so it's it's to
remember he said verse four for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of ghosts should take
away sins now go back to exodus chapter 12 we're going to spend the remainder of of the sermon
there in exodus chapter 12 so he provided a covering he was without blemish he was the
scapegoat okay but not only that he made an atonement with his blood but also he offered
his flesh to be eaten okay now the catholics will hold to this weird doctrine i used to be catholics
i know what i'm talking about right where when you take communion the wafer that it turns into
the literal flesh of christ that's called cannibalism okay that's that's weird i don't
know how they even and they use john chapter six to try to prove their point okay now we'll look
at that in just a bit but exodus chapter 12 and verse number six the bible says here and
ye shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation
of israel shall kill it in the evening and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two
side posts and on the upper door post of the house wherein ye shall eat it so obviously the
sacrifices of the old testament by the way amen you could eat it right god was for eating meat
in fact it pictures salvation amen when we eat the meat it's picturing what christ did for his wife
because he gave his body for us okay now go to john chapter six hold your place there in exodus
chapter 12 go to john chapter number six now this weird doctrine is called i think it's called
transubstantiation right they even got a weird name for it how many syllables are in that one
word good night and basically what it means is that that wafer literally transforms into flesh
as soon and by the way it's for their salvation as well okay but they have but they do it every
single sunday right john chapter 6 verse 53 says then jesus said unto them barely barely i say
unto you except ye eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you
whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life and i will raise them up at the last
day for my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh
my blood dwelleth in me and i in him as the living father had sent me and i live by the father
so he that eateth me even he shall live by me the bible says now obviously if you read the entire
chapter he's also talking about the manna why because he's the bread of life as well but it
also pictures the this fact of eating this matter of eating the sacrifices because he's talking
about his flesh now it doesn't talk about eating his literal flesh okay by the way that's a whole
lot of meat to go around you understand that if we're if the catholic churches all around the
world are eating the flesh of christ i mean he would have been gone a long time ago that's a lot
of flesh to go around no this is a picture this he's signifying what the sacrifices were in the
old testament when they would sacrifice the lamb they would burn it and they would cook it they
would eat it right they would eat it it was it was a picture they were foreshadowing saying one
day christ would give his body for us okay he will sacrifice his own body for us and this is
a reminder of us that one day he will do that for us okay now go to go back to exodus chapter number
12 i'm out of time but we're just going to go over these last points this is the last point right here
so he provided a covering he was without blemish he was a scapegoat
he shed his blood he gave of his flesh and lastly he was a burnt offering
what does that mean when jesus christ died the bible says that he went to hell for three days
and three nights the exodus chapter 12 verse number eight says and they shall eat the flesh
in that night and roast with fire and leaven bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it
eat not of it raw nor saudent at all with water but roast with fire his head with his legs and
with the pertinence thereof that means everything else everything in it and he shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn
with fire now go to act chapter number two now i'm going to be a little transparent with you today
okay i think i'm transparent with you every sunday but more so today um this was a doctrine that i
did not accept until recently within the last couple years and i remember even when when like
alex was at our church and i'm like man that just sounds weird to me and the reason why is because
i had to filter through a lot of false doctrine that i've been taught okay there's a lot of
conditioning of false doctrine that i was taught throughout the years and even and here's the thing
the reason i believe i came to the conclusion that this was correct was because i had the
foundation that i was king james only i think that is essential to believing a lot of these doctrines
why because these doctrines can only be found within the king james bible he said well hold
on a second if you're always king james why didn't you believe this doctrine if this doctrine was in
the king james bible because i would read books written by people that were not using the king
james bible okay and that's my fault i mean i made a mistake i was wrong and that was my fault okay
now it came to the point where i had to study it out only using the king james bible and let
me say this if anyone has to prove a doctrine using anything else other than the king james
bible it's a false doctrine okay and if they have to use anything any other language any other books
any other bibles if they have to go back to the greek or the hebrew they're wrong if you can't
prove it using the king james bible it's not there okay oh you know uh yeah but in the older versions
no don't give me that if you're king james only stick to the king james bible
and by the way i don't know if you notice we're king james only church so if you come here and
you say you're king james only but you're trying to teach some sort of doctrine that does not use
the king james bible then guess what you're not king james only king james only means this you're
king james only pretty profound isn't it that means let me just turn it around for you you
use the king james bible can someone help me out can we reward that a different way
to explain that you know and by the way this is the funny thing about this okay
because most people who don't use it who's supposedly a king james only
and they're proven they're trying to prove some doctrine that doesn't use the king james
they always they're always directionally like handicapped okay because you know we'll talk
about the pre-tribulation doctrine right and i remember like recently a couple or a month ago
pastor anderson emailed me he said hey here's some doctrine uh documentaries that i want you
to work on he goes one of them is called the great fallen away he goes you should do a documentary on
the great fallen away and he put in parentheses weird pre-trib teaching i was like weird but what
is that well i looked into it a little bit i didn't really look into it a lot until i had
a conversation with someone who believed that weird stuff where they literally believe that
the great fallen away in thessalonians is referring to the rapture like you're falling up
but here's the thing they can't use the king james bible to prove that you have to use some modern
stupid version of the bible to prove that you don't fall up you say why why are you say they're
directionally handicapped because this manner of jesus going to hell if you read luke 16
what does the bible say about lazarus what do the angels do they carried him
that means he goes up
are they going to like abraham's bosom and by the way here's the things i had to think about
i'm serious these are the things i had to think these are the things that i went over my mind
where was abraham before abraham's bosom or where were the people before abraham
abraham's bosom right right what do they call it what do they what do they need was it adam's
bosom and then he just got like debunked or something like you gotta step down man because
you blew up you messed up you know what i mean just adam's bosom where was everyone else before
that right okay and they're directionally challenged because they're carrying him the
angels carried him the bible says but you know you gotta go i mean the rich man didn't have to
be carried he just opened his eyes in hell so what was i talking about king james okay so in
order this is essential because i remember when i came to the crossroads and in fact i had a
conversation with pastor anderson the day we decided he decided to start the church he asked
me he said is there anything you don't agree with me now by the way this is during the time the whole
tyler baker you know uh him and his false doctrine the heretic when he got kicked out
so obviously this is on his mind now pastor has known me and we've talked about doctrine so he
knows where i stand on a lot of things but he sincerely said is there anything you don't agree
with me on in doctrine and i said there was one thing i said but i already got it taken care of
it was this fact of jesus going to hell and i told him i said i believe he went to hell okay
and this is the reason why x y and z i told him and i said look and i think the the quintessential
essential aspect of why i believe this is because i'm king james only and i've always had this
philosophy if it's in the king james bible i believe it right okay and that shows how unique
our bible is okay look i remember someone said you know you can't be baptists and not believe
that the jews are god's chosen people okay yeah you could be a heretic baptist if you want
you know i mean he said that right the guy said he goes you can't be baptists and i believe that
the the jews are not god's chosen people but here's the thing you can't prove that the jews
are god's chosen people using the king james bible you can prove it all day long using the niv
where instead of seed it says descendants right and in fact i brought that up to someone and they
just kind of tiptoed around it i mean they they do what they do all the time right they just kind
of like veer off into another subject instead because they don't know how to deal with that
okay but this is same thing with jesus going to hell look it says hell you know abraham's bosom
you say well you know it doesn't ask chapter 16 say talk about abraham's bosom bosom's right here
okay and by the way mark come up here real quick and it says that he was comforted you know how
to comfort someone come here mark let's say mark you know went through something he's just like
i'm comforting him right he's in my book okay you're too tall for this
gotta sit down he comforted me more than i covered him but that's how you comfort someone right you
put them in your bosom so obviously lazarus experienced evil all of his life well guess
the reward he gets he gets to hang out with abraham he carried into the bosom
abraham so basically when they carried him into heaven with abraham abraham was already
waiting for him to get there lands and he's just like you're right here with me we're in heaven
now okay everything's all good beautiful picture by the way right and the bible talks about a great
goal fix okay goal fixes we're here this is the great goal fix right here okay and it's not and
here's the thing they'll often tell you and i used to make this argument too but i couldn't back it
up until i was challenged on this is like well i need to i need to read this about this i need
to study the bible on this because i don't want to be wrong i i love the lord i love the bible
and i want to make sure that i'm right on this and guess what i was wrong on it okay and i remember i
studied it out and i was thinking to myself wait a minute where does it say in the bible that there's
a compartment the one doesn't even say that that's weird a compartment now if you study this doctrine
of abraham's bosom or or paradise right what they like to call it is that they say that the
righteous dead are waiting there for judgment now there's a ton of things wrong with that
first of all righteous are not dead even though they die physically the bible says that he's the
god of the living not of the dead right he's not a god of the dead but of the living all right so
anybody who dies to be asked from the bodies to be present with the lord just like the scapegoat
was alive before the lord when jesus christ died he's alive problem number one problem number two
weren't they're not awaiting judgment guess where that stems from catholicism okay there
abraham's bosom is the christianized purgatory is what it is okay you say man