The Lamb That Would If He Could

Or The Lamb That Could But Wouldn’t

Pastor Fred Rogers

Midland SDA Church

March 19, 2011

Intro: Today in this country many people are becoming a people of no sacrifice. When I was a young boy parents would die for their children. Today we have parents taking the lives of their children. When people become a selfish people something happens that changes everything about them. Rev. 3: 17 talks about a selfish people. They say they have need of nothing, but they are fooled. They don’t even recognized what a miserable state they are in. This is talking mostly about their financial state, but God is talking about much more. He wants them to consider their spiritual state more than anything. What if God was selfish, where would we be.

I. Read Isa. 53: 1 – 7.

A. Vs. 3. He is despised of men and rejected.

B. We hid our faces from Him.

C. Can you see the selfishness of men.

D. Jesus did all this for us and most people still reject Him today.

E. Christians reject Him by not “hearing His Words and doing them. Matt. 7: 24.

F. Our selfishness, our blindness has made it so 

      difficult for humans to see God’s Goodness                                  

    He has to do extra ordinary things to reach us.

G. This is one of the reasons that God instituted

the sacrificial system, so He could get peoples attention.

II. Wouldn’t if get your attention today if you still

had to take a little lamb down to the alter and take it’s life.

A. Lets look at the sacrifice and try to put our self  into this picture.

B. Lev. 4 gives a number of different examples of the sin offering.

C. Lets put our self into one of these examples of the sin offering.

1. Go to the flock and get the animal.

a. Tell about Olsen lamb.

2. Take it to the sanctuary

3. Place your hands on the head of the animal and confess your sins.

4. Then the priest hands you a knife.

5. You must take the life of the animal.

6. You don’t like this part.

D. You may say I don’t like this sacrificial offer-

ing.

1. If you say this you don’t understand

the offering.

2. You haven’t grasp the meaning of the offering.

III. To gain this meaning we must go to the Cross of Jesus.

A. Jesus is brought to the place of execution and

nailed to the cross.

B. No complaint come from His lips as the nails

are driven through His hands.

1. Isa. 53: 7. Read.

C. He is placed high upon that tree to be despised of all.

D. And while all this is happening to our Lord

what is happening at the temple.

1. Yes a lamb is about to lose it’s life.

2. Can you imagine the Lamb of God the Son of God is hanging on the tree and priest making a sacrifice for sin.

E. Tell what happens as the priest is about to kill

lamb.

F. Run Lamb Run

IV. Now we must follow Jesus to the cross.

A. Jesus has ministered to the people for 3 ½

years.

B. The time has come for Him to make the

ultimate sacrifice.

C. It is not easy even for the son of God.

D. He retires to the garden to pray He needs

strength to endure, He needs to pray.

E. He needs the prayers of his disciples.

F. He asks them to pray with and for Him and goes into the garden alone. Prays for the cup to be removed if possible.

G. Returns and finds the disciples asleep.

1. Are the disciples worth dying for?

2. Then the mob comes for Jesus.

H. Tell the story of the mob.

I. RUN LAMB RUN

V. Jesus could have called ten thousand angels, but He died alone on Calvary’s Tree.

A. He didn’t have to die. He was the Son of God.

B. But He wanted to die, He wanted to make the

sacrifice.

C. Why, because we had to have that sacrifice in

order to live. To have the opportunity of eternal life.

VI. What have we sacrificed for our Lord?

A. I am ashamed of my sacrifices compared to

the one that Jesus made.

B. What have I done in comparison?

C. Yet Jesus asks us to become a sacrifice for Him.

D. Romans 12: 1,2.

1. The sacrifice that Jesus asks of us is not something that hurts.

2. This sacrifice only makes us better people.

Take the lamb to the sanctuary service and he runs away when the priest releases his grip.

Take Jesus to the cross via the garden to Gethsemane He will not run in the garden He will not run at the cross.

He asks us to become a living sacrifice Roms. 12.