01262020 Look The Lamb of God Al Robertson

good morning church wow thank you for that last song especially hmm god bless lorry day all right some good stuff all right we got a young man here Jonathan Spence and he's looking quite dapper I might say I like the way you're dressed Jonathan of course sings some up on our praise team he is a home school junior and he's going to share our verse with us today the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said look the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world then John gave us testimony I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remains on him thank you brother yeah how about a round of applause I never tire of hearing young people read and speak the words of God it's what gives them the discernment that they will need as they live their lives for the king so I'm proud of these young men and women that have been sharing God's word with us a couple of things today as we get started first of all I want to mention the the life March we that got stuck somewhere and we weren't able to mention is today from 2:00 to 4:00 so today's the first time we've announced it very great event I talked to the guy that organized it yesterday and he told me that Monroe has the largest march out of all the cities in the state's around around the state of Louisiana which I take is a great blessing that means we're committed to life here last year we had about 3500 in the March I think mom spoke at the end of it today Lisa and I are going to speak starts at the parking lot of first west and we're gonna March you say well but what if it's a little misty and raining well in the words of coach Eadie Zirin of the LSU fighting tiger national champions we come in we come in all right so we're going we're going March because this is one of the most important issues in our culture and our country and I want you guys to support it not just the March but also our life choices back but in life in general I saw recently that we have the lowest abortions that we've had since roe v-- wade and i take that as a praise to Almighty God that maybe the message is getting out there in our culture praise him for that one of the things that's helping with that is now our technology we're able to look inside the womb much more clearly and it's in its showing us what we knew all along that's a life and we want to protect that life at all costs oh praise the Lord you know I'm glad we got some leadership now this life friendly as well so we want to keep that going I do want to mention Lindley I appreciate the job she did in our announcements and we want you guys to get those tickets for Emma and M as an amazing young woman it's probably all the training that I gave her here Debbie Farah swai she turned out so well it's and her mom Amanda for sure but she's a great blessing she's speaking all around the country she's really an inspiration for for women and young women especially so be sure and sign up for that and the marriage retreat as well we're gonna feed you but we've got to know you're coming so get get online or get on the app and sign up for both of those so I want to be able to give praise where praise is due the Bible says we should do that a couple of weeks ago when I was up I mentioned that Mike and I were a little more girthy then then our young Trent you know who's all muscly you know and fit and so you know I came across some video first I was shocked by it but then I thought well this is really good because Khalid is committing himself so I got just a short snippet of video and I'll tell you right now it's pretty shocking and it's from the 80s party that the church had last week so guys can you run that video of Mike at the 80s party I gotta say Kellis never looked better and it was a bold choice to go as Richard Simmons so you know hats off to Cal it I wish he could have been here today cuz I but I didn't want to embarrass him so so be sure when you see him to congratulate him how great he looks so we're talking about our 20/20 vision that's what till we started at the first Sunday of the year and it's called now I see and we talked about the Apostle Paul and those scales that he had over his eyes and here was a guy who was a terrorist who was after our brothers and our sisters but when the scales fell off he became an amazing instrument of the Almighty God and so that's what we want in our own lives and so we've started to the book of John because we want to make the case for Christ and we want to show people that you know Christ really does rule and when our eyes and our vision are firmly on him and he motivates everything we do we are unstoppable as to what we can do for the kingdom of God in you know John the reason I love the book so much it's just filled Jays column bumper sticker moments there all throughout the book and you know he just kind of dives right into the ministry where the other gospel is a little bit different you know kind of laying out their chronology of Jesus life and events but John just goes for it in fact he said in John 21:25 which was the is the last verse in the book look what he said about what he's written and what he didn't write Jesus did many other things as well if every one of them were written down I suppose which so he's going to let you know there's a little hyperbole coming I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for books that would be written in other words he saw some amazing things in that three years amazing in redneck language he would have said hold my fermented grapes and watch this does this really something powerful about what Jesus Christ has done so much so that I can't even write it all down in fact none of us could that's how amazing it was to be able to witness and so that's why we went to this book and today we're gonna capture one of those moments and I agree the worst of silence today so beautifully blended zactly what we're gonna be talking about this moment captured in time and it was a moment of moments don't ever doubt it and it's still reverberating and impacting us to this very day so the conscious should get a little context for the moment we're gonna go to Matthew chapter 3 if you're reading along on your iPhone or on the screen and and I'm gonna give you the actual event and what happened because John the Apostle John is gonna pick it up sort of after that and he's gonna let John the Baptist's describe what this looked like to him and why was so momentous but we're just gonna read it first from Matthew chapter 3 verse 13 then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John so this is at the very beginning Jesus at this point is is fairly unknown to people outside of his family he's 30 years old he's about to begin his ministry that God sent him to do he and John you remember from when they were their mother's met when they were both pregnant with John the Baptist and with Jesus they're related some kind of cousins and so they know each other you know because they're family but this is a surprising moment for John the Baptist because John the Baptist unlike Jesus is known everywhere he has been called by the Almighty to go and to baptize people because in his words you need to repent for the kingdom of heaven is near that's the message that he was given and so he's down at the Jordan River and he's baptizing people a lot of peope or stir it up because of what John is doing so Jesus shows up in magic Matthew chapter 3 to be baptized by John now here's what John said but John tried to deter him say I need to be baptized by you and do you come to me now write it from that one statement we understand that John the Baptist he understands the kind of man Jesus is he doesn't know yet who he is but he knows the kind of man he is so much so that he's like hey dude I mean if anybody needs to be doing the baptizing around here it needs to be you so right off the bat we're starting to see something about the character of both men Jesus says let it be so now it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness and then John consented so Jesus gives us a low hint here he says this moment is more than about me being baptized this is about to be a moment you know John still doesn't know what he's talking about he's like okay you said it let's do it as soon as Jesus was baptized he comes up out of the water and at that moment here's her moment heaven was open now I don't even know what that means do you heaven was opened but I know one thing Paul took a little virtual trip up there they wrote about later and he said I looked around and I can't even describe what's going on in that place that's how amazing heaven is and yet in this moment when Jesus comes out of the water it opens now I don't know who all else was on the scene maybe was just John of Jesus maybe there were other people but this would have been something to see heaven was opened that means that we're about to marry heaven and earth and something big is coming we come in and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove not it he wasn't a dove but light is like he he looks like some sort of bird something and alighting on Jesus what does this mean and a voice from kevin said and by the way I imagine this voice more in James Earl Jones than a pee-wee Herman right I mean just that's kind of how you like to imagine I like you know this moments for Ken Dorsey not time here but knoweth no offense Tommy with you with your tenor this is my son whom I love with him I am well pleased do you see why this is such a moment this is the first time since the creation of the earth when God said and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters that we've got the Father the Son and the spirit showing their presence right here on the planet this is a moment this is big and John is now realizing it John the Baptist for the first time all right now let's jump over to John John chapter 1 now we realize because of John's retelling it what it meant to him and ultimately what it means to us so in John 1 19 through 34 there's this whole scene here because remember I told you John's baptizing people but he's not part of the Jewish establishment he wasn't sent out there on a mission you know from the synagogue or the temple by the Jewish leaders so they send some people down to investigate in probably I'm sure they were told as they were leaving if this is not from us you put a stop to all that going on now that we don't know about this John the Baptist camel-hair and locusts and honey sounds like a wild man we can't have him doing all this that's kind of their what they do so they get in John 1 20 through 28 we get a QA it's basically from this leadership on who you are who are you who what is your authority that's one of their favorite who gives you the authority it didn't come from us and we are the authority but they weren't are you Elijah no are you the Messiah no are you the Prophet no are you the Christ no are you Phil Robertson no I added that one but there are some similarities in the two I have to say here's what he said I'm the one who points I'm the witness I'm the neon sign in the desert that says we come in something big is coming and I'm just pointing to that moment so he was the sign he was the one that God prepared for the moment that's why they were the same age and that's they were born in such a amazing miraculous fashion because John was the one that would show Israel the Messiah is here but it wouldn't just stop with Israel it carries forward to this very day what a moment here's John's telling of it in verse 29 the next day after this he had had this Q&A and I remember he's already baptized Jesus he saw Jesus coming toward him and he said look I literally just look all the disciples look the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and how he knows and now they knew and now we know Messiah this is the one I meant when I say it here Jace is one of those bumper stickers this is a statement get ready hold on to your brain a man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me what does that mean that means time me means nothing to this man greatness now I love this phrase I myself did not know it what you told me was you know him you've known him for thirty years he's your cousin oh he knew is a good guy fact he knew he was so good he was like I don't even want to baptize you but he didn't know him he didn't know he was the Messiah he didn't know he was the Christ he didn't know he was the Lamb of God sent here to take away the sins of the world believe it or not that still happens brothers sisters people know about Christ they know things they heard I grew up in church they know about him they know he's good they know they wouldn't want to baptize him but they don't know him as the Christ as the taker away of sin I myself did not know him but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel then he said gave his testimony by the way testimonies important I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him and I myself did not know him second time he said that but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me the man on whom you see the spirit come down and remain as the one who will baptize with that holy spirit I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God Wow that's a testimony and remember we give our testimony the testimony is about pointing to the Christ it's not about us we're telling the Baptist in all this we're pointing we're the neon sign we're the one that says we are now receivers and we are the redeemed because of the power of God so I ask you today what does this mean to you so well that's interesting that's man that's a powerful moment you're right but what does that mean to you today well there's two pictures that come out of John's testimony that I think are very powerful for us not only to look at but also to process in our own hard neurone a lot the first one is Jesus being pictured as the Lamb of God and I think about that that picture of Jesus as the lamb would have meant a lot more in the immediate circumstance he was in because they understood what a lamb meant for us today we're like yeah I mean we got any we got any sheep herders in here you know lambs I don't even think it's very good to eat I mean the little small pork chop eat things are pretty good but the rest oh yeah how much on it right we don't know much about lambs but his audience in that moment they knew they remembered that Israel was brought out of Egypt and saved because the blood of a lamb that was smeared on a door post that said death will pass over this house and so they understood the value of the blood of a lamb they understood and sacrificial worship in the tabernacle and the temple that lambs unblemished once a year were given for the sin of Israel it wouldn't take the sin away guy was just holding on for something greater a lamb that would come and when it came that lamb would be powerful enough to take away the sins of all people those before the cross and all those after the cross the physical Lamb of God Jesus came here and became a human being to be that lamb now the powerful thing about Jesus is he not only was the lamb he was the high priest doing the sacrifice he did everything and he did it all for us to give us the opportunity to have our sins removed the Hebrew writer in Hebrews 9:15 said this for this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance now that he has died as a ransom member this book written in the first century for people to know to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant everyone that had lived up to that moment now an opportunity had their sins removed because of the sacrifice of Christ the Lamb of God in Hebrews chapter 11 in verse 40 after that whole Hebrews hall-of-fame text it gave all these great men and women of the Almighty that by faith by faith by faith by faith great men and women but not cleansed from their sin until the lamb of God would come to take away that sin God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they all those great people of faith up until this moment would be made perfect therefore let us fix our eyes on Jesus do you see how powerful the moment is it's so powerful that it goes back all the way to the first man and woman and it's still going on this side of the cross - right here in January of 2020 what a moment I mean that excites me to think about that he can take away the sins of all people I can't even deal with my own sin and yet he deals with all of it what a powerful picture the Lamb of God second picture is the holy spirit returning to earthly waters oh that's exciting that's exciting Genesis 1:2 or just as 1:1 in the beginning God created the heavens to earth and justice 1:2 and the holy spirit was there doing what hovering over the water what was he doing down there about to create God's lifeforce the animation of our God the builder of all things and God said and God spoke and he said and we know from John 1:1 that Jesus was there as well the voice of God once again the whole Godhead there but the spear was hovering waiting for God to give him the go and then God said in Matthew 3 and this picture we see of Jesus being baptized we see the Holy Spirit coming back where to the water saying look this one is going to baptize with the Holy Spirit then he goes on to say later that Holy Spirit is going to be available to live in you waiting that's how powerful this moment was in Acts chapter 2 when God was ready to unleash and unlock the kingdom for all to know and Peter was gonna go in and preach that first gospel sermon before that he said boys you're gonna need the Holy Spirit able to pull this off and so they're hovering over each one's head as a flame but guess who it was Holy Spirit this is fixin to be good and then Peter preaches that first gospel sermon and 3,000 people are cut to the heart and they look and they say what do we do and he says you need to repent and you need to be baptized and you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so where does the Holy Spirit now hovering over the water waiting for a decision to say come on in and then we become sons and daughters of the Almighty God the Holy Spirit of God lives in us it guides us it counsels us it leads us in step so that we live a fruitful life that looks like what God wants us to be that's powerful what a moment that we see in this text so this morning he's hovering waiting when you look back at the moments of your life I'm sure you see some life-changing moments in there I've had so many life-altering moments some life clarifying moments where you had some clarity on some things you didn't know before some of you even to this day I know because I already talked to you you have some life scary moments what you wonder is this it just where I crossed the divide there's only one life-saving moment though that's the moment you submit to the Almighty now along that way there's some moments where we clarify but there's the one where you know and you say today is the day we're gonna do it and the hovering Holy Spirit comes to live and interact with your spirit inside you so when you look up this morning what do you see do you see heaven open wide you can't wait this is gonna be awesome I mean we're running to get there or do you guys see anything rainy morning do you feel the presence of the Holy Spirit's descent into your heart and life to guide you and to lead you or do you do is pop warned you not to do do you quench him and hold him at bay and leave him someplace we can't do his work it happens for humans sin is powerful evil one is powerful he sells the line we believe it that his way is better than God's way but the holy spirit says no do you hear the voice of the almighty calling this is my son this is my daughter and whom I am well-pleased that's the voice I want to hear this morning I want to hear God speaking that powerful into my life because if I'm a confident son of God realize that I'm a sinner but knowing that he's pleased with me I can run through any wall for anybody or anything nothing will stop me nothing oh the culture so bad what are we gonna do we're gonna keep being light and life and love and we're gonna show what Christ has done in us we are powerful people that don't have the Holy Spirit don't even know what we're talking about which is why we got to tell them if you answer no to any of those questions I pray this morning your vision can be clear that you allow God to take those cataracts of sin or whatever it is that's holding you back off and you can see clearly we want to give you an opportunity this morning to come to our family this is our family response time one of my favorite times of the week where people can just share burdens maybe spiritual burdens maybe physical burdens ask for prayer we love it this is that family time if you have a need at all this morning why don't you come while we standing while we sing thank you so much for being a part of our live stream family if you have any questions or if you want to continue this conversation please contact us at info at wfr Church dot org have a blessed day

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Published: Tue Jan 28 2020