The Saving Work Of Christ

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 

John 1:29 

‘…Who takes away the sin of the world.’ What a glorious message! What a grand privilege to declare this message to weary, wounded souls. ‘What? All my sins taken away? All my deep iniquities; wild and wicked thoughts; lusts of the flesh and eyes; pride of life; transgressions of the deepest kind; all taken away by the Sacrifice of this Lamb of God?’ Yes, all of yours, and of your neighbor, and of your friends, and of all God’s elect in all ages and all cultures and all climates over all the world throughout all of history. Here is the grand work which Christ performs. He ‘takes away the sin of the world.’ Every sin that will ever be forgiven by a Holy, Sin-Hating God will be forgiven on the basis of the Merits of Christ, and because of His Atoning Sacrifice. ‘He has made Him to be sin for us Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.’ Here is the Grand Substitution. Christ, the Sinless One, bears away the sins of all His Blood-bought people. ‘Guilty, vile and helpless we; spotless Lamb of God was He; Full atonement! can it be? Hallelujah! What a Savior!’ Let us rejoice today in the Spotless Lamb of God, and in the wonderful, saving work which He has infallibly performed. 

‘Dear Dying Lamb, 
thy precious Blood shall never lose its power, 
and all the ransomed Church of God, 
be saved to sin no more.’ 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning