{"id":23893,"date":"2025-01-01T21:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=23893"},"modified":"2025-01-01T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:27:46","slug":"behold-the-lamb-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/01\/behold-the-lamb-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold The Lamb Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBehold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.\u201d\u2014John 1:29<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing can make poor sinners truly happy, but that which taketh away the cause of all misery, sin. This is effected: the Lamb of God hath taken away all sin, by his sacrifice for us. When, by the eye of faith, we behold this Lamb, then all sin is taken away from our conscience. When a soul thinks, \u2018Sin has condemned me before God; the law accuseth me daily; it works wrath in my conscience continually; and I am often ready to cry out, oh wretched that I am, who shall deliver me?\u2019\u2014Thanks be to God for a precious Redeemer. The Lamb which God provided, hath done it for ever. All our iniquities were laid upon him. \u2018He bare in his own body on the tree,\u2019 the sin, the whole of sin, every sin of all that shall believe in him, to the end of the world. By the sacrifice of himself he put all away, out of the sight of God, as one puts away an offensive thing. He bore it away into a land of forgetfulness, as a thing that is hurtful. So then saith God the Father, to all his children in Christ, \u2018Your sins and your iniquities I will remember no more.\u2019 Jer. 31:34.<\/p>\n

But one is often ready to say, how can this be true? I daily see that I am a sinner; the remembrance of sin is before me, in my thoughts; though for a season time may efface sin from my memory, yet it recurs afresh upon my conscience. It may, it will do so, oh soul; and nothing can effectually take it away but this, \u2018Behold the Lamb of God.\u2019 He taketh sin away now, this present moment, every moment. At what time soever thou beholdest Jesus by the eye of faith, all the sin which troubles thee, thou wilt see it all laid on him, and he taketh it away from thee. Oh how sweet to have no more conscience of sin!<\/p>\n

Continually to behold this Lamb of God is life to our souls, and death to our sins. Sin cannot terrify with its guilt, cannot prevail in its power, while the heart is looking to this Lamb of God, for he says, \u2018Look unto me, and be ye saved.\u2019 Astonishing mystery! but this is God\u2019s truth. Thus to behold is to be happy: thus to look is to be holy. May this, oh my soul, be thy daily employ below, till thou beholdest the Lamb in the midst of the throne above. Thanks to the gracious Father for the gift of this precious Lamb; thanks to this holy Lamb for bearing and taking away sin; and thanks to the loving Spirit, for showing this Lamb to poor sinners and to me. \u2018God forbid I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u2019 Gal. 6:14<\/p>\n

If sin most rile to me appears,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What must the Omniscient see;<\/p>\n

But, God beholds us in his Lamb,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From sin for ever free.<\/p>\n

This is the truth by which we live:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By faith beholding Christ,<\/p>\n

Our consciences from guilt are freed;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then unbelief resist.<\/p>\n

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Nothing can make poor sinners truly happy, but that which taketh away the cause of all misery, sin. This is effected: the Lamb of God hath taken away all sin, by his sacrifice for us. When, by the eye of faith, we behold this Lamb, then all sin is taken away from our conscience. When a soul thinks, \u2018Sin has condemned me before God; the law accuseth me daily; it works wrath in my conscience continually; and I am often ready to cry out, oh wretched that I am, who shall deliver me?\u2019\u2014Thanks be to God for a precious Redeemer. The Lamb which God provided, hath done it for ever. All our iniquities were laid upon him. \u2018He bare in his own body on the tree,\u2019 the sin, the whole of sin, every sin of all that shall believe in him, to the end of the world. By the sacrifice of himself he put all away, out of the sight of God, as one puts away an offensive thing. He bore it away into a land of forgetfulness, as a thing that is hurtful. So then saith God the Father, to all his children in Christ, \u2018Your sins and your iniquities I will remember no more.\u2019 Jer. 31:34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1230],"class_list":["post-23893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-redemption"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23894,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions\/23894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}