Address—A.M. Barry
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And God has in his.
Ways poured out a flood of old because of the wickedness of man. He showed his wrath in connection with the world of sin. And God's character hasn't changed. God is still holy and he must judge sin. So when Isaac said, behold the fire in the woods.
He was thinking of what was there was being.
Carried to consume the offering.
The judgments, as it were, that was to was to be shown there when the lamb that was to be sacrificed was to be offered up. But how touching the story is.
All that Abraham said, my son God shall provide himself a lamb.
Well, God has provided himself a lamb, as we know.
Few types in the Word that carry us as far as the type we have before us, as to God the Father giving up his own Son to die and to suffer for our sins on the cross.
We think of the Lord in communion with his father and guest family.
Pouring out his heart to his father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, and then surrendering, saying, not thy will, but not my will, but thine be done, Just the Father and the son, as it were going together.
Beloved, all that had a trial there before the High Priest and before Pilate the Father there.
In company with his son and then the journey there to Calvary where he is suspended on the cross.
Oh, let God the Father was there, so close to his son, but all beloved. No type can complete the story, because if Abraham had actually plunged that knife in the heart of Isaac, we know just how God the Father felt.
When his son became a sin bearer in those dark hours.
God had to turn his face from His Son and forsake him in the most solemn experience He ever passed through, or ever will pass through, when He became.
An offering for our sins all the time fails there.
For God must forsake the Son of his love. But God permitted Abraham to go so far as to take the knife.
To slay his sons. I was thinking of something else to leading up to this.
That Isaac doubtless was familiar with his father, offering sacrifices many lambs. Had Isaac seen his father slay and lay on the altar? Because wherever Abraham went, you know he built his altar.
Was familiar sight to Isaac to see his father offer a lamb.
But it was a strange circumstance, no land and yet going to offer a sacrifice there on that mountain.
But how the heart of Abraham must have felt, what sorrows must have been run from that tender heart who loved that son? As he said, My son, God will provide himself the lamb.
And we know, according to this account, that he did.
Provide we might say, not a lamb, but what took the place of a lamb? What is related to the lamb?
For God the Father always had special.
Types in view of his son. So when the Angel called Abraham out of heaven, and said, Lay not thy hand.
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He said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him. For I now I know that thou fearest God, seek thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold a ram caught in a thicket by the horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering.
Instead of his son.
Why was it that he didn't find a lamb to offer on that occasion? Well, there's always a reason in scripture. And you know, the ram was the ram of consecration. When the priest was consecrated. The ram was the victim to for that occasion.
Will we think of the Lord in His perfect consecration to do His Father's will?
And that holy consecration took him to the cross. Sometimes, you know, we have the tree mentioned in connection with the death of our Lord, but here it's in a thicket. Or I think the Spirit of God would basically tell us.
Of the character of that death.
No other.
Water condition, things are in when there's a thicket, everything.
Tangled and everything.
And and dismay, as it were, and confusion, oh, the Spirit of God would tell us something.
With all that awful character, what his consecration led him to, he was caught there by the horns, and the horns speak of power, that is the power of his consecrated light. Let him to that death.
There, as it were presented by the kits in which the RAM is found when Abraham turns and looks.
Oh, what a beautiful scene it is.
When Isaac and his father together see that Ram consumed instead of Isaac, who had been bound and laid on that very altar on that occasion.
You know, Abraham said to his young men.
He left them with the *** and said that the lad and I will go Yonder and worship, but he said something else and return. So if we have the father and son going together to the mountaintop, we have the father and son returning from the mountain top.
Oh, what wonderful communion there was.
As they returned from that solemn ordeal that sets before us that which has given God an opportunity to remove all our sins forever from His holy sight.
You know, there's something rather interesting when God told Abraham to take his son, He says thine only is Isaac, whom thou lovers, that that's the first place in the Bible where you get the word love, and it has to do with the Father's love for his son. Well, as we think of the sacrifice and we think of the love of the Father.
Father's heart for his son. It gives you and me just a little understanding.
Of how great and how immense the salvation of our souls really is, beloved friends.
Well, they went down from the mountain together.
And the thought of worship, you see, was on the heart of Abraham. And the 17th verse of the 11Th of Hebrews tells us that by faith Abraham offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice.
Then by faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered of Isaac, and he that had received the promise, offered up his his only begotten son. Now I may not be quoting it exactly, so I'll turn to Hebrews 11 for a moment, and the 17th verse.
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Offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promise offered up his ownly begotten Son.
Of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting, that God was able to raise him even from the dead. From whence also he received him in a figure wonderful faith that Abraham possessed, that he could say, the lad, and I will return.
That is, God had made all his promises in Isaac, and Abraham said, if I take his life, God of necessity must raise him from the dead. So Hebrews 11 speaks as though.
Abraham went to the full extent of offering up his son, for from whence also he received him in a figure.
Well.
It's wonderful, beloved Saints, to think.
That God has provided himself a lamb, and may the preciousness of knowing Christ as the Lamb of God keep us near to his side and keep us because from going our own way. And to me, we often remember what it costs God.
In order to provide a full salvation.
Where you and me and our need. I was thinking also of other places where we have the lamb.
In in the.
In Exodus.
The 12Th chapter we are all familiar, I'm sure, with a Passover lamp.
And how that the children of Israel, that terrible night when the Angel of death was to pass through Egypt, and all the first born in Egypt were to die?
They were given.
Israel were given a way of escape from that judgment, because they were to take a lamb and lamb for a house, and they were to shed the blood of that lamb and put it on the doors of their houses, the upper door post and the two side posts. And Jehovah said, When I see the blood, I will pass over you.
Now what we were considering in connection with Isaac.
Is very touching the person of God's beloved Son taking our place and suffering in our stead. But how full is the Word of God, especially in connection with this precious lamb? For when we read about the Passover.
It's the blood of the lamb that is so prominent there, because Jehovah said when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
And we know that when Peter is recounting his thoughts about why he rested upon, he said that we were all redeemed, not with corruptible things, as with silver and gold from our vain conversation, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
When we think of John standing at the cross of Jesus.
And seeing that Roman soldier pierced his side.
John's heart was so unraveled with feelings of love and devotion.
It seems that he left out in his account what other writers gave. He doesn't tell about the Lord's being forsaken. He doesn't tell about the earthquake, which must have been.
A tremendous upheaval. And the rocks rending and the darkness that covered the land. Oh no.
His heart was riveted on that one he loved, on whose breast he had leaned his supper, and to see his side pierced, and to see that blood flowing down there. So he says that he that sought their record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he sat true that we might believe. Oh, if beloved friends, are you all?
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Sheltered by the blood of the Lord Jesus, have you trusted your soul to that blood?
That was shed there at Calvary, and of which the same writer says that the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Well, there are many connections in which the Lamb of God is brought before us, and sometimes not only in connection with the sacrificial fewer things. But I was thinking of a place in First Samuel 7.
And the ninth verse. And Samuel took a sucking lamb.
And offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord.
And Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him. And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near the battle against Israel. That the Lord flundered with a great Thunder soul that day upon the Philistines, and discomforted, discomforted them, and they were smitten before Israel.
Well, now the lamb there was specially expressive of the lower and humble position that Israel were taking. You know, they went out against the Philistines when half nine Phineas carried the ark, and they made a great shout, great noise. They were absolutely defeated.
And they lost the ark and went into the camp of the Philistines.
Later was returned, but now we see a humble people and we find that they took water and poured it on the ground. That is to express how absolutely helpless they were. And it was then that Samuel, feeling the special need for the people, took this sucking lamb.
A little helpless lamb, and offered it for a full word, offering unto the Lord.
Well, beloved, our Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, is the one that has put away our every sin, but He's also the one who has left us an example that we should follow in His steps. And on this occasion, we get a picture of the brokenness and humility that should characterize those who belong to the Lord.
That little sucking lamb told of how helpless God's people were as the Philistines were drawing near and victory seemed to be on their side. You know that shot there when they carried the ark into the camp was a hollow shout, but when Jehovah.
Bunred. There was nothing shallow about that, nothing hollow about that sound, and it broke up the Philistine when they drained a mighty victory.
That time I was thinking to how John the Baptist in his day. In the first chapter of John, we find that John the Baptist had been preaching in the wilderness of Judea. He was calling upon the people to repent. He said repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Repentance is a very important subject. Love it, friends.
Our dear old brother Potter used to say that repentance is no savior, but there's no salvation without it. The Sinner that repents and takes sides with God against himself is the one who receives the gospel to his salvation. But now lovely, after having called upon the whole nation to repent.
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But why the need of repentance?
If there is no remedy for the sin that they were confessing there at Jordan, so when John presents the blessed Lord to them, he explains, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. There's the remedy as it were, John says, the Lamb of God.
That will take those sins that you had confessed.
And put them away forever.
In connection with the lamb too, I was thinking of.
Revelation 5, which was also read this morning.
Revelation 5.
But before we come to Revelation 5, we have Revelation 4.
And there we see the 24 elders sitting on Thrones around the throne.
And we find that out of that throne in the fifth verse of that 4th chapter preceded lightnings and thunders and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
Well, we love it, friends, as we know that today God's throne is a throne of grace, a mercy seat to which we are told to come bold and find grace to help in time of need.
But after wearing glory, the 24 elder represent all the redeemed in glory, the very throne that now we where we found mercy so often has become the throne of judgment. For out of that throne there the mutterings of coming judgment on the earth. But isn't it lovely?
Those glorified ones are not trembling there.
Although everything around them is trembling, they sit there and calm repose. Why such peace and repose, and the very presence of the awful, consuming judgment that's coming upon man? Well, what we read in the 5th chapter gives the answer. And low in the midst of the throne.
And of the four beasts. And in the midst of the elder, stood a lamb.
As it had been slain.
Well, I know, as every instructed one understands, that the reason why the Lamb appears here in this chapter is because there was no one found able to open the book containing those seven seals that were to release the judgment that was going to bring in the Kingdom of Christ.
But could we not also see that the the reason why?
These elders and sit there and perfect peace in the midst of the the roar and the the lightning killing of the soon approach of judgment is coming. They can be at perfect peace there. It's because the Lamb appears.
And it says as it had been slain, just as all that death on the cross had just taken place.
In the 90th Psalm we get that 1000 years in nice fight.
Has but one day and then it says as.
As a watch in the night.
Well, we usually think of the the one day, but if you take it a watch that's only three hours. How long ago since our Lord was on the cross?
God's thinking is only that six hours.
As though you could almost hear.
Hear those shouts away with him crucify as all the darkness inbuilt that scene is scarcely faded from the sky. God would have you and me, beloved Saints.
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Realize that that transaction at Calvary is something so near and so precious.
In his heart, it's just as though there's only six hours ago.
Remember when Isaiah cried, Woe is me for I'm undone that the seraphim took a coal of fire off of the altar and touched his lips and said that thine iniquities are purged and passed away? Like to think of that alive hole.
Freshly burning.
Oh, how we need to keep nearer the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We could think too of in the 7th chapter of Revelation.
About that great company that no man can number. It seems to me that in Revelation, as soon as we're in the midst of a scene of judgment.
That God's precious lamb is introduced.
As the only hope and provision for those who are not judged, and after the church is gone, the 24 elders representing the redeemed are in heaven where we find a great coming that no man can number. What does it say about that great company?
In the 13th verse.
When the elder says, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And he said, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are the which come out of great tribulation, and have voiced their robes and made them white in the blood of the land. I asked. And while they'll be in different circumstances.
And while their portion will be an earthly portion, the Kingdom here in this world, but yet the same means that has brought them into that blessing below that we'll enjoy above the same Lamb. And perhaps we could say that the very fact they washed their robes that they've been through.
Watched the Lamb of God has already passed through.
In his rejection by this world, they have been true and loyal to him when the beast is in power and when they can neither buy nor sell unless they have the mark of the beast. They've been faithful in those days.
If good faithful to Christ, their robes now in which they enter the Kingdom, have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. Another company in the 14th chapter, 144,000.
Just representative company are viewed and it says he saw a lamb.
I'll just turn to it 14th of Revelation.
And I looked at Lower Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him in 140 and 4000, having his father's name written in there for it. So we've come to another scene where judgment is to be poured out in this chapter is engaged with judgment. It ends with the.
With the discriminating judgment of the reaping of the harvest, and then with the unmitigated.
Judgment of the vine when the winepress is filled and the awful wrath of God is poured out. But here is a company in the midst of all I've seen that have been associated in communion where the the land that appears on Mount Zion. I just have one more.
Scripture to call attention to.
And that's in the 19 chapter of Revelation.
In the sixth verse, and I heard, as it were, the voices of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth, let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him.
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For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, For the fine linen is the righteousness says the correct word there of Saints.
Well, that's the the church looked at as his wife. It's right at the end of the book. And then we get the marriage in heaven and we get this wonderful precious thought that has been carried all through the word of the Lamb.
It doesn't say that the king. Oh no, that's something more precious than the thought of being.
United in marriage to the King of kings, and surely he is that. But it says the marriage of the Lamb is come.
Our beloved, we are to be united to Christ in His victim character for all eternity. Will that we get to know more of His love down here as a precious Lamb that has.
Given his life for us, and to know more what it is to follow him, and to have him as the one before us who humbled himself, made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of man, and laid down his life so that we might be his traitor.
And share eternity with Him in His glory.