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THE LIVING GOD #LAMB

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from Barbara's Bible

Our first born daughters’ favorite #toy was a stuffed lamb.   She learned at a very young age that the lamb was #comforting to her.   We would put the lamb on the #shelf where she could see but not touch; however, that was not the same as holding it.   Through the years that stuffed lamb was not as pristine or white, but showed the results of many hugs and tears.   (Just between us, I think that lamb is still around with her keepsakes)  That was just a toy, a replica of a real lamb.  Thirty years later on our farm, we raised real sheep that had precious lambs, but surprise, they didn’t stay pristine white either after all they were grazing in our red Georgia clay fields.  Now why would I be talking about a lamb?  The Bible does…in Jer,22:29 “Hear the word of the LORD”  John 1:29  John was baptizing and saw Jesus coming and said, “BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD”  Why a lamb?  Why God’s lamb? What’s a lamb got to do with removing sin before God?  The Lord instructed Moses as recorded in Exodus 12 to kill an unblemished lamb, place it’s blood on the doorposts and lintel, then roast with fire and eat it in haste  while standing so the LORD would PASSOVER all who whose entrance was covered by the blood of the lamb.  This miracle of our Lord has been commemorated each year since then.  Would you believe God’s perfect timing?   In Jerusalem at the same time that  people were taking the sacrificial lambs to their homes to observe Passover — Jesus (the Lamb) was being carried on a colt into Jerusalem – no coincidence!  Each individual had to partake of the lamb and recognize the saving blood covering them from the death angel that night in Egypt.  Today each of us can accept Jesus Christ sacrifice for our individual sin before our Heavenly Father by asking the spotless lamb to cover our sin.  Remember the sacrificial lamb!    Don’t put the LAMB OF GOD on a shelf, but hold Him and feel His comforting love then “the LAMB in the center of the throne shall be their SHEPHERD and shall GUIDE them to springs of the water of life, and God shall wipe every tear from their eyes” Rev.7:17

THE LIVING GOD #LAMB

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‘Away in a manager’ was the Christmas song my precious  two yr. old would sing as she lay on the floor looking under our lighted tree at baby Jesus on the hay surrounded by Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds.  She always wondered why the shepherds were there.  We would say the Bible tells us in Luke 2 that the angel of the Lord came and His glory shone all around the shepherds in the field  while watching their sheep.  The Angels told them to fear not but have great joy, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  You will find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  .  . As the angels were gone back into heaven, the shepherds said, Let’s go into Bethlehem and see what the Lord has made known to us.. With haste they came and found Mary, Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.  After seeing Him they returned, glorifying and praising God and told abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child.”  Many years have passed since our child asked us about those shepherds and what were they doing there in the manager next to baby Jesus.  Today after years of reading and digesting God’s Word, I have learned more about the shepherd/lamb connection.  When a lamb is born who is there to attend to the birth?  The shepherd is the overseer!  Did you know there was only one field (and it was located in Bethlehem) where the sacrificial lambs were raised, kept, and prepared for the Jerusalem Temple to be sacrificed for the sins of the people.  In John 1:29 he says,  “Behold the LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.”     Rev.7:17 “the LAMB in the center of the throne shall be their SHEPHERD, and shall guide them to springs of the water of life; and GOD shall wipe every tear from their eyes.”