Names of Jesus Advent: Our Sacrifice (December 2)
This advent blog series will help draw you closer to the Person of Jesus, the lover of your soul.
December 2: Our Sacrifice
“But Christ came…Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood…He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”
Hebrews 9:11,12,26 (NKJV)
In Genesis, we read that Abraham is elderly, and His aging wife has been barren from the earliest days of their marriage. Yet, even in his old age, God has given them a son, Isaac. God then asks Abraham to sacrifice his son. His only son.
Abraham went to offer Isaac as a sacrifice and said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” Abraham knew that Isaac was a promise, and he wouldn’t die (and even if He did, God would raise him from the dead.) It was at that moment that God provided a ram, not a lamb, to spare Isaac. This is crucial to understand. The Lamb of God was yet to come.
Genesis 22:16-18 records God’s response to Abraham’s faith.
“By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Furthermore, Galatians 3:16 clarifies this promise by reading, “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.”
Think about when John the Baptist saw Jesus. What did he say?
“BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD!”
Isaac was a shadow of the ultimate sacrifice. The coming lamb. Our Jesus.
God Himself would take on the form of a man to become the promised lamb of God. Through Him, and Him alone, are all the nations blessed. He is our sacrifice! His blood alone has blotted out our sins.
This Advent season, may we contemplate the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus.
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