Power Of The Lamb

CLOSE: I want to close with a story about sheep I read a long time ago. When a female sheep (called a Ewe) dies while giving birth to her lamb - her new-born lamb has a problem. You can’t just give that an orphaned lamb with just any ewe. Every lamb has its own unique scent… and every ewe recognizes her own lamb by its scent. If a lamb doesn’t have the right smell, the ewe will reject it AND THE LAMB WILL DIE!

So, what can you do? How can you save this hungry orphaned lamb? Well for centuries, shepherds have taken the skin of a lamb that has died in birth and wrapped it around the motherless lamb like a sweater. Then the “clothed” lamb would be presented to the mother of the dead lamb, and the ewe would smell the wool of her own child – and recognize the scent – and then accept the new lamb as her own.

The Bible teaches that OUR SINS make it so that we don’t smell right to God. Habakkuk 1:13 tells us that God’s eyes are too pure even to look on evil. Our sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:1-2) and separate us from His love.

But God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son—His sinless Lamb - so that when we believed in Him we might not perish. JESUS DIED FOR US… so that we could wrap ourselves in His righteousness. Galatians 3:26-27 tells us that when we’re baptized into Christ we become clothed with Christ. (David A. Sargent, Mobile, Alabama)

We put Jesus “ON” so we can be accepted by God as His newborn child.

I recently listened to a preacher on the internet explain that many people believe that they’re Christians because of what they DO. They attend Church; Pray; Live by the Golden Rule; Try to keep the 10 commandments; and try to be nice people. And true Christians will DO those type of things… but that’s not WHY they’re Christians.

It's not about WHAT we do... it's about WHO we belong to. Have you wrapped yourself in Jesus? Have you depended on Him for your salvation?