Jesus, Son of Man,
Lamb of God.
All men,
according to the Word of God, are made and continue to be made in the image of
God.
But this
does not mean any man IS God. Genesis 9: 6 Colossians 1: 15
Jesus was
sent by God out of the realm of the heavens and was birthed as A MAN. John
3: 13.
God by
His Spirit overshadowed Mary and all that was necessary to create Jesus as a
man, in the image of God, was placed in a body prepared by God. Hebrews
10: 5-7 Isaiah 7: 14-16.
Jesus’
Blood, that was his Life, was supplied by God The Father Himself and not by the
one called Joseph.
Jesus
lived as other men in the presence of Death but in his blood were no
defilements of any sort, because God had supplied his blood.
(God
‘supplied’ the blood but it can not be said it was literally God’s Blood for
God is not flesh and blood but Spirit.)
Due to
this fact Jesus would not be hindered by that which would normally hinder men,
i.e. ancestral bondages, hereditary sicknesses etc.
Jesus
came to be The Son of Man, the one who when created by God into the womb of
Mary was to be the second Adam, through whom all mankind can escape if they
choose to from death and enter life.
1 Corinthians 15: 20-22 Galatians 3: 22
He was
the child, who was to be of the House of David, Romans 1: 3
He was
The Son whose name means THE MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER IS PLANNING
GRACE. Isaiah 9: 6 Hebrew Tanakh
He was to
be A MAN and by his death and resurrection, God would break the yolk of the
curse of the Law of Sin and Death that all mankind are born into.
He would
give his body. Colossians 1: 20-22, he
would shed his blood by God’s demand.
A MAN
whom God called His Son.
A MAN who
was to shed God’s blood.
A MAN as
God’s Lamb and to be His Burnt Offering.
Genesis 22: 8 (Tanakh)
God was
to die. Acts 20: 28
Jesus was
to be God’s Lamb according to the O.T. regulations and stipulations of
sacrifice.
Just as the
men in the Old Testament killed their lamb and it was in place of them dying so
Jesus was God’s Lamb in place of God’s dying!
So Jesus
was GOD’S SUBSTITUTE, because Jesus was God’s Lamb.
THE
VICARIOUS WORK WAS FOR GOD – AS JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD - IN GOD’S PLACE.
This was
to fulfil God’s CRITERIA of mans total redemption where it required A MAN, by
which God’s blood be shed. Genesis 9: 5-6 Acts 20: 28
(See
Criteria Of The Blood)
Jesus,
God’s Lamb as A MAN had to learn to choose between good and evil, Isaiah
7: 15.
He grew
in wisdom and stature and in favour WITH GOD and MAN. Luke 2: 52.
He
learned obedience through suffering. Hebrews 5: 7-10.
He calls
us brothers and those Baptised with Holy Spirit are Sons of God, who are
co-heirs with Christ. Those for whom he
was made perfect through suffering and this was not just on the cross and going
into death but in his total life as The Son of Man. Hebrews 2: 11 & 18.
He would
have gone to the temple and sacrificed as God demanded in His Law.
He had
been circumcised according to God’s Law.
Luke 2: 21
At the
age of 30 he was brought into public ministry at the time when he was Baptised
with the Spirit of God Himself when he received God’s fullness, to fulfil the
words of the Prophets that his name should be called Emmanuel, meaning ‘God with us’. Colossians 1: 19 1 Peter 1: 10-12.
He was
anointed by God. Acts 10: 36-38.
He was
God’s Word, he preached every word according to what and how it was to be
said. John 12: 47-50.
He
continues to be God’s Word. Revelation 19: 13.
It is his
Name.
He was
what God expected of him. He was God’s
Word of expectation.
The
Father Himself several times spoke to Jesus confirming THE SON OF MAN AS BEING
HIS SON.
But in
regard to him being in the “position of The Son of God”, as Christ and Lord and
High Priest of the order of God’s priesthood, i.e. Melchizedek, it was not
until his resurrection that he entered into the POSITION of what the Son of God
was and is now. Romans 1: 3-4.
God
declared this, Hebrews 5: 5-6.
Jesus AS
THE SON OF MAN WAS God’s Lamb, God’s Word and to be The Way for mankind, from
Death to Life for those who would trust in the work of God’s shed blood and be
reconciled to God through the giving of his body unto death.
Colossians 1: 20-22 Galatians 3: 22.
THE MAN
who ‘MUST’ die as God’s substitute because God cannot die. God cannot enter death, but it was being
called for that God shed His Blood.
The
question is how
can God die? And how does it come to be
that it is the requirement of God Himself, to shed His blood and that by A MAN?
The
answer is because
of His own CRITERIA which is His rule or standard for mans full redemption,
whether under the Old Covenant or the New Covenant.
He made
this in Genesis 9: 5-6 to Noah after the flood, which was for all
people of the earth. There is to be an
accounting for the shed blood of a man, and not only of mankind, who are in the
image of God, but every animal.
According to God’s Word which is irrevocable. N.B. Animals which were the sacrifices given by men to die in
their place.
As time
continued men shed their blood and that through the killing of an animal WHICH
WAS THE MAN’S SUBSTITUTE FOR HIS LIFE BLOOD.
Both the
man and the animal were accountable and by God’s DEMAND which is the condition
for accountability.
They shed
their blood on the demand of God, by God causing them to shed their blood
through the SACRIFICES (Leviticus
Chapters 1 to 7 Genesis 15: 9-18) and CIRCUMCISION (Genesis 17: 9-14) which they did in obedience to God because of
their LOVE for Him. (This was very
important.)
These men
were seen as holy men and credited righteousness by God. Genesis
6: 8, 9, 27.
They were
given Promises by God, through the shedding of blood. Not only forgiveness of sins and maintaining redemptive care in
their daily lives but promises of an eternal city and gaining entrance into
it. Hebrews 11: 13-16, 39.
When
these men died they did not go to heaven, but Paradise, yet He still knew and
remembered them. Deuteronomy
33: 2-3 John 3: 13.
1. They could not enter heaven because of God’s
own unchanging word regarding the curse of the Law of Sin and Death. Genesis
2: 16 & Genesis 3: 21-24.
AND
2. The Testator (God) could not die, which was
the requirement under the Law for anyone to inherit what is Promised them. Hebrews
9: 16.
This is
why God was to shed His Blood and how He came to be in the position to have to,
because it was according to His Own CRITERIA, His Own Word which was
accomplished according to the O.T. stipulations and regulations by His plan.
So that
all righteous mankind who desire to believe God could go straight to Heaven and
enter where no one had entered, up to the time of Jesus coming as the Son of
Man.
John 3: 13 Ephesians 2: 6.
Why did
God need to shed His Blood?
Because
of His love for those to whom He had made promises of an eternal city.
Hebrews 11: 13-16.
He needed
to make a way for man to come to Him, to be delivered out of the Realm of Death
and its law of Sin, by which no man could know life eternal but only its
judgement. Revelation 20: 11-15.
The Holy
Ones were righteous before God in spite of the Curse.
It’s
the promises that were blocked by the Curse.
So it was
required that God’s own Word regarding the curse be revoked, so that it
be possible for all men to be saved.
The
condition being that man chooses God’s Way of Salvation.
Galatians 3: 22.
So by
shedding His own Blood He could deliver mankind as they choose to be
delivered from death and bring them not only into life itself but to
spiritually sit them in the heavens, while a man is still physically
alive. To know God, to ask of Him, and
be taught by Him.
John 16: 13-15 1 Corinthians 2: 10 Ephesians 2: 6 Colossians 3: 1-3
This
CRITERIA was a wonderful intricate plan of God the Father.
For God
to shed His Blood for a world he loved was at great cost to Himself, in sending
His Son, the one who came in loving obedience to His God and Father.
Jesus to
be God’s Lamb and Burnt Offering for the total purposes of God. All was planned by the operation of the
CRITERIA of God. Genesis 9: 6.
However
to the prophets He did not reveal all. 1 Peter 1: 10-12.
The
CRITERIA that to many was vague and without knowing the connection to the
shedding of blood through animals. But
God’s love and faithfulness is predominant always so that we see the cross as a
DEMONSTRATION OF JUSTICE.
Romans 3: 25, so that for all who would be
righteous before God before and after the cross, where God would shed His Blood
through His Son, could enter into the Promises of God.
Acts 20: 28 Hebrews 8: 8-12 Hebrews 10: 10-18
Hebrews 9: 15.
Jesus
died – shedding God’s Blood as God planned,
IMMEDIATELY THE HOLY ONES WERE RAISED just as the Temple curtain was
torn from top to bottom.
For God’s
own CRITERIA had been accounted for.
Matthew 27: 51-53 Hebrews 9: 15-16.
That is
He who had demanded that MAN shed their blood, figuratively, in lieu of God’s
promises, He shed His Blood by His Lamb.
This made it possible for the Promises to be received.
Because
God’s Word regarding the curse of the Law of Sin and Death was revoked by the
death of him who was God’s Word, i.e.
Jesus. Romans 8: 1-2.
Jesus as
God’s Lamb and Word accomplished God’s CRITERIA by his death.
That is
in giving himself to be God’s Lamb. John 1: 29 Isaiah 9: 1-6
He was
‘The Child – The Son’ whose name
meant “The Might God is planning
grace; The Eternal Father, a peaceable ruler”.
Hebrew Tanakh.
At the
cross by the shed blood, Jesus did a VICARIOUS work. HE WAS GOD’S SUBSTITUTE
- GOD’S LAMB.
Dying for
mankind however, Jesus gave his body and having died he went into death and was
raised out of it by His God and father.
1 Peter 3: 18-19 Ephesians 1: 19 Galatians 1: 1 Colossians 1: 20-22.
This is
where Jesus descended into death and it is here he is MANS SUBSTITUTE.
By going
into death so that we, like Jesus could be raised out of death by God Himself.
Colossians 2: 9-13 Romans 6: 3-14 1 Corinthians 15: 20-22 1 Peter 3: 18-22
This work
is EFFICACIOUS. That is, what it
accomplished, is what was purposed by God, and it is a VICARIOUS work for man,
because it is here MAN DIES and it is NOT when he comes to the cross BUT at the
time of being Baptised with Holy Spirit,
Galatians 2: 20, Romans 6: 3-14, sure to produce the desired effect if
trusted in.
Matthew 3: 11-12 (Mark 16: 16 but
condemned if not trusted in, - this verse is not speaking of water baptism
but Spirit).
Jesus
made the Way of deliverance out of death so when we are raised out of
death by God Himself, it is said we have been spiritually circumcised of
death and are now in Life. Which
then results in us being Baptised with Holy Spirit.
We are
redeemed by the work achieved by the cross.
(Jesus died IN ORDER THAT WE QUALIFY to receive the Baptism with Holy
Spirit where I die, FIGURATIVELY.) Galatians 3: 14
We are
then to continue to die to self and alive to God’s Will – for real – so that
God’s criteria is operative.
Matthew 7: 21-23 Galatians 2: 20 Galatians 3: 14
Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2:
9-14 Matthew 3: 11-12 takes place, Romans 8: 1-2 is the result.
Jesus
paved the Way out of death according to God’s purposes so that we can come, out
of death, to God Himself. Romans 8: 1-2, John 14: 13-17.
The
Baptism with Holy Spirit is to be asked for as evidence of our love for Christ
and the keeping of his commandments. Acts 1: 4-5 John 13: 34
And by
this we have received the Promise of the shed Blood of God by Christ.
Hebrews 9: 22 Hebrews 10: 22.
Both the
work of the cross and the Baptism with Holy Spirit are only received and
operative for us as WE CHOOSE to believe and act upon what wonderful work both
God and Christ have done for us.
Galatians 3: 22 Galatians 3: 14 John 14: 13.
After
Jesus’ resurrection he ascended into Heaven to His God and Father. Acts
2: 31-36.
With him
went the Holy Ones who are now present as the foundation of the Spiritual
Temple of God, of which Christ is the Cornerstone.
Christ
went through the heavens and the Holy Ones understood at last the wonderful
Salvation God had planned and how He did it.
1 Peter 1: 10-12 Ezekiel Chapters 40 – 47 Hebrews 9: 24****
(Matthew 27: 51-53) Ephesians 4: 10 Ephesians 2: 18-22 Hebrews
12: 22-24
The
criteria operated even for Jesus. John 17: 5 Acts 2:
33-36.
NOTE: Finally.
It was God’s initial purpose in making man to fill the heavens and the
earth but due to the curse of the fall, this was curtailed, Isaiah
45: 18.
Jesus
ascended to heaven in order that he fill the whole universe. Ephesians
4: 10 so that men in the image of God who are called the Church, that is
those IN CHRIST, (Baptised with Holy Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12: 13-18), are
to be the manifold wisdom of God to all rulers and authorities in heavenly
realms. Ephesians 3: 10-12.
The
Church is what God shed His Blood for.
He shed His Blood on behalf of the Holy Ones of the Old Testament. The Church, are those who God has made to be
Holy and Blameless through His shed Blood by Christ and the PROMISE OF THE
BLOOD is the Baptism with Holy Spirit, which is to be Baptised into God’s
Spirit and that by Christ.
Acts 20: 28 John 1: 29-34 Galatians 3: 14 1
John 2: 2 1 John 4: 7-18.
The
CRITERIA is still to be seen as operative by those who are Sons of God, while
continuing on and knowing all the while God’s Covenant Promise to Sons of God,
of Him writing His Laws on our hearts and in our minds, and being our God.
Hebrews 8: 10-12 Hebrews 10: 15-18 John 16: 23-28.
We are to
continue to die to our own will and self purposes – in doing this we are
figuratively shedding our blood. We are
to do God’s Will and then the Promises of the CRITERIA as Sons of God shall
work for us, in that we shall inherit and rule with Christ.
Romans 12: 1-2 2 Corinthians 5: 10 Matthew 7: 21-23 Revelation 2: 27-29
Revelation 20: 6.
We shall
finally enter the Eternal City, only after Christ has fulfilled his role as
King for a 1,000 years on David’s Throne and God has accomplished all
judgments. Revelation 20: 11-15
Consider Colossians
1: 23 and Hebrews 10: 29-31.
Jesus
came for the purposes of God out of Heaven and came as the Son of Man.
All the
while he was The Son of God, but did not come into this full position and all
that it meant until his resurrection and returning to heaven to a glory BEYOND
THAT GLORY WHICH HE HAD BEFORE HE CAME as the Son of Man. The CRITERIA also worked for him. That was God’s plan. Amen.
John 17: 5 Acts 2: 31-36.
Also the
titles of the Churches in Revelation speak of Christ’s present glory, with Revelation 19: 11-21 and
Daniel 7: 13-14 Daniel 7: 27.
By the
Blood of God shed by Christ vicariously and by the Spirit of God into whom we
are Baptised we are to know THE NEW COVENANT PROMISE:
Hebrews 8: 10-12 Hebrews 10: 15-18.
Note warning promised to Israel
– but it is for all mankind and by their choice they shall know judgment,
according to their choice of who is their God.