
Tract-Behold The Lamb Of God! (Pack Of 25)
Jesus willingly died so we could live. He chose to die in our place for love. We see multiple moments in the Hebrew Scriptures that prefigure the exchange of Jesus’s death. In the first chapter of John’s Gospel, John the Baptist sees his cousin Jesus and declares, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!†(John 1:29). To us, this claim makes little sense. We understand calling someone “the GOAT†but not “the Lambâ€! But John’s first Jewish hearers would have understood. The first time God used a lamb to save his people was at the very start of their story. Abraham and Sarah were old and childless. But God promised to make Abraham into a great nation, and eventually Sarah gave birth to their son, Isaac. Some years later, God speaks these devastating words to Abraham: “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you†(Gen. 2