Text:
1 Peter 1:13-20
Topic:
Jesus our sacrificial lamb
This message will be treated with the following sub-headings:
Background
Emptiness
of the life inherited from our ancestors
Who
paid the ransom/was used as sacrifice for our sin and how
What
are Gods reason for this sacrifice
What
are we then to do
Background
The book 1 Peter was
written by Apostle Peter around AD 61-63 during the reign of the Roman Emperor
Nero who would persecute the church, among others the purpose of the letter was
to (in spite of the challenge they are and would go through ) encourage and
challenge them to be faithful to Christ. The book as inspired by God although
calls us to Holiness but it clearly tells one of the major things that made us
sons and daughters in God which is fundamental, foundational and is vantage to
positional sanctification among other privileges therein embedded the sacrificial
death of Jesus Christ this makes us at least owe Him (Jesus) obedience
and a dedicated life in return, may God give us knowledge and the will not to
take this great grace/sacrifice for granted/abuse it in Jesus mighty name.
Amen.
Emptiness
of the life inherited from our ancestors 1 Pt 1:18
The world was made/dignified
and beautified out of this precarious situation (of emptiness) and was never
intended to revert as God is not a magician but a miracle worker and anything
He does or says are not temporary/jokes/trial by error or summarily temporal
Gen.1:2, Matthew 24:35.
Emptiness is the
natural/factory setting display/attribute of the fallen man/nature 1Sam.16:14,
John 15:5, little wonder the Psalmist cried out Ps.42:1.
Emptiness is as a
result of sin Gen.3:1ff, Micah 6:13-14.
Emptiness is also a
symbol of judgment from God Jer.4:23, Lev.26:14-16, Hosea 4:10, Hagg.1:7-9.
Jesus came to empty
himself so that our inherited emptiness can be replaced with His fullness
Phil.2:6-9, have you surrendered your emptiness for His fullness that is the
only solution to our inherited, self inflicted, societal imposed, demon inclined
emptiness etc. Get this correctly, you are
empty without Jesus. Col 2:10, Eph.4:13
Who
paid the ransom/was used as sacrifice for our sin and how
( a) God paid the ransom 1 Pt.1:20, God chose Him(Jesus
the Sacrificial Lamb) long before the world began.
( b ) How the sacrifice/ransom was made: Since the
first Adam was created perfect or without sin, he had the prospect of living
free and forever but lost it to disobedience Gen.3:17ff and passed it on to all
Rom.5:12.
God loves mankind and made necessary arrangement to
salvage men from our self-inflicted emptiness and God’s imminent judgment
Rom5:6-8, John 3:16 this involves but is not limited to all the legal
requirement of a ransom:
·
It is a payment for sin (Jesus did it)
Num.3:36,47,1Cor.6:20,7:23
·
It brings out release (We were made
free)Ex.21:30,1 Cor.15:21-22
·
It corresponds to the value of the what
is paid for (The blood of Jesus was/is/will always be more valuable.) Rom.5:19,1 Tim.2:5-6, 1Pet 1:19 the
emphasis on the Sinless ,Spotless lamb of God
The ransom was paid with the blood of Jesus 1
Pt.1:19, the blood that speaks better than any other blood.Heb.12:24, He
died in our place and for us, halleluyah to the lamb that was slain
A popular song writer has this old song:
The
awful death that I should have died
The
punishment for sins that I should have suffered
All
has been taken away
Thank
you Jesus
You
suffered because of me
What
are God’s reasons for this sacrifice
·
To save us from emptiness of the life we
inherited from our ancestors Vs.18
·
He only has the substance (the blood)
that has the capacity to save humanity. Heb. 10:4
·
All have sinned and were condemned to
death
Rom 3:23,6:23
·
To make us fit for eternal reign with
God John 3:16
·
To end incessant and Old testament
sacrifices
Heb.10:1
·
His incomparable love John 15:13
What
are we then to do
·
Exercise self-control 1Pt.1:13,Heb 13:1-2
·
Be God’s obedient children Vs.14
·
Live in reverent and consistent fear of
God as temporary residents Vs.17,Gen.39:9
·
Live expecting his return Acts 1:11
May God help us to appreciate and
appropriate His great and once for all sacrifice/ransom paid in and with Jesus’
precious, sinless and spotless blood in Jesus mighty name Amen.
Happy Easter and Thank you.
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