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A. Gives us the hope that is laid up for us in heaven-this hope is constantly bearing fruit and increasing. B.To encourage them, to remind them there are others all over the world that are like them, bearing fruit and increasing C.&D.They loose the power that God could be in them. They are only going through motions, because they have quenched the Sprit of God.

It is testament to the fact that Jesus is God and God is Jesus. They are jointly sitting on the throne and they are One. Praise be to His Holy Name!

Because Jesus was slain and has redeemed us to God by His blood.

1-The Lamb of God-Jesus, who takes away the sins of the world-The ultimate sacrifice, not an animal, but a human, God Himself in human form. 2-Jesus-standing after His resurrection 3-horns-power,seven-ferfect, perfect power 4-all seeing, all knowing 5-complete, perfect The Lamb has the qualities of God in human form.

These names come from the prophecies about Jesus from the Old Testament. The scriptures from Genesis tells us about Jacob. From his son Judah would come the Messiah. Judah was pictured as a lion's cub or crouching lion. Isaiah tells us the Messiah would come from the Root of Jessie, Davids father. Jesus would be called "the Lion of the tribe of Judah" and "the Root of David".

Wow! What a wonderful thing to look forward to. In my imagination, thinking about when I arrive in heaven, I think about bowing at His feet, casting what crowns I have at His feet, singing praises to His Wonderful Name, but I had forgotten this wonderful scripture. Wow! To partake of the Lord's Supper with Jesus. I am overwhelmed! Praise You Jesus!

The Lord's Supper is celebrating the shed blood of Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. It's all about forgiveness. It can't be one sided.

That statement brings sorrow to me because of what Jesus had to suffer. It brings me tremendous joy because of what His sacrifice did for me. Jesus became the sacrificial lamb that was slaughtered, He shed His blood for the forgiveness of my sins. In Exodus 24, Moses sprinkled blood on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words." In Matthew 26, Jesus revealed that He was the blood of that covenant. What joy that brings my heart. The fulfillment of God's Word.

The Passover meal was truly a meal with different courses, interspersed with three cups of wine. The scriptures read were very specific,they are full in praises of our God. I find it interesting that in those scriptures read, there is the urging of the Gentiles to praise God in Ps.177 and the rejection of Jesus as the chief cornerstone in Ps. 118:22. Our partaking of the Lord's Supper is so abbreviated now. Probably because we do it more often than once a year.

When the destroyer passed over the doorpost of the people of Israel, God would not allow him to enter their homes and kill their first born. This was because they had applied the blood of a sacrificial lamb over their door. When we are saved, God applies the blood of Jesus, the ultimate sacrifice, over us and does not allow the evil one to destroy us.

We, the redeemed have been set free. We have been impowered by the Holy Spirit. God tells us in His Word that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is in us. But we must use that power to be an overcomer.

We are the slave, enslaved to sin and God pays (and has already paid the ransom with Jesus's death)the ransom. Satan tempts us into sin, but he does not make us sin. We sin out of choice. He is the author of sin, but we have to take responsibility for our actions. I have never thought about this subject of who the ransom is given when we are freed and why it is not addressed in the Bible. In the Old Testament when sacrifices were made for the forgiveness of sin, they would be given by the people to God. Would it make sense that when God pays the ransom, it is given to us in the form of the redemption that we are given?

Once we are redeemed, we have a new heart and our old ways we put away, because all things are new. We are transformed by the blood of Jesus. That has got to make a difference in how we do everything. I believe that we have to remind ourselves where we came from, before Christ. When we will daily look at what Christ has done in us and is continuing to do in us, we will daily live our lives glorifying Him.

Jesus is the ultimate Kinsmen-Redeemer. Because of man's nature being sinful, we that believe on Him, will be bought back from the life of slavery to sin. He redeems us not according to what we can do, but because He is the great Redeemer.

Slaves/I think that the analogy of slavery-of one man owning another-is good for Bible authors to give us as an example of the fact we are in slavery to our sin. We are owned by that sin, controled by the sin and not given over to freedom from it until we accept the freedom through Jesus and the sacrifice He made for us.

I am especially fond of John 1:29. John the Baptist,inspired by the Holy Spirit, proclaimed Him as "the Lamb of God". He did not have to have a person tell him who Jesus was.

The Bible tells us that there has to be punishment for all sin. When Jesus died on the cross, He was the sacrifice for sin of those who believe, and He bore our punishment. When all of our sin was laid on Jesus, God had to turn His back on Him, because God can not look upon sin.

God set a standard for us to go by when He gave us the Ten Commandments. It was immediately realized that man could not live up to that standard. Many years later God allowed Jesus to live on this earth and die as a substitution for us, so that when we as believers die, we can go to heaven and live with Him. Man has to take on(believe) that substitutionary death was for them before God will allow us to recieve His eternal life. I believe that God did things in this order so that we would exhibit our free will in this choice.

I see each of the scriptures listed as parts of the fulfillment. I just finished the Precept Isaiah study and it is wonderful to see these scriptures as they are quoted by Jesus.

The group is "all", verse 6 of chapter 53 verifies that. Verse 8 specifically names "His people" as for who He is stricken. Jesus gave His life as a universal sacrifice for our sins, but 53:3 tells us that "He is despised and rejected by men". All do not recieve, for some His sacrifice is wasted.

There has to be a penalty for it. If we were living before Christ, we would have to have known that it was us or the unblemished animal for forgivness. Now we have to see that it is us with eternal punishment or for us to choose Jesus as our Savior as our forgivness. God demands holiness in our lives for Him to be able to look upon us, His nature demands it. Our nature is not able to supply that requirement. So we have to depend on Jesus.

Because of who God is, Jesus, being the ultimate sacrifice was the plan all along. But because of how stupid we are, God had to allow us to see how forgiveness was recieved initially, so that we would appreciate and recieve His ultimate plan. We have to see our sinfulness before we can appreciate His holiness.

He has allowed for us to substitute that for ourselves. We are the one that has sinned, but He lets us substitue. The animal was only adequate because God allowed it to be.

Confession or acknowledgement of sin is a necessary part of the sacrifice. A sacrificial animal is costly to the sinner. Nothing free here. There is a close identification between the sinner and the sacrifice. The imparting of sin by the laying on of hands suggests that the animal becomes a substitute for the sinner. Killing the animal is very personal. It is not done for the sinner by a third party but by the sinner himself. We still need to confess, acknowledge what we have done wrong. Remember the cost that Jesus took on Himself to pay for our sins, and especially have a repentant heart. We do not have to lay our hands on a sacrificial animal and kill him, but we have to acknowledge that Jesus was that for us.

It seems so brutal to us city folks. Maybe someone who lived on a working farm could handle it better. Because of my love for animals, it would be devastating for me to have to live in that kind of environment now.