"The Lamb of God"

"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world !" (John 1:29) Marianne loves to cook, and every year for Easter Sunday, we would always have the family over for a Easter feast, and she would always bake a cake in the shape of a Lamb. The Lamb of God was able to do for us what we could not do for ourselves, take away our sins! When John spoke about Jesus being the Lamb of God, his reference was being made to a lamb for sacrifice, but this Lamb was provided by God. The word used by John for Lamb is 'amnos', which means Lamb for sacrifice, and is used only four times in the New Testament to describe who Jesus was (John 1:29, 36; Acts 8:32; 1 Peter 1:19). The other uses of the word Lamb which are found, such as in Revelation, is the word 'arnion' which means more of a sacrificial death, or slaughter. The Lord Jesus is called the Amnos of God because He sacrificed Himself at the time of the Passover; thus John the Baptist was likening the deliverance for sinners to the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. The lamb during the Exodus was the means of sparing the people, and on account of it, destruction passed them by. In like manner, Jesus is the means for deliverance for sinners that are willing to apply His blood, so that the judgement of God may bypass them. This word 'Amnos' designates more often the sacrifice of the Lamb, referring to the Lamb and His sacrifice given in the service of God. In Acts 8:32, we see Philip reading to the Ethiopian from the Book of Isaiah, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. In his humiliation his judgement was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth". The word used for "his judgement" is a word that means opinion formed or expressed; which, for a lack of a better word, it means that He no longer had a say in the matter. It is this expression for the way He gave of Himself, which is the point of what I was trying to say: He had no say in the matter, because the Will of the Father was being played out! Likewise, we who are led by the Spirit of God, also must have this same type of humility when it comes to being led by the Spirit; we no longer have a say in the matter!!!