Behold the Lamb of God Takes Away Our Sin Makes Us Alive Again
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October 25, 2016. Today nosotros'll be taking a look at "My Victory" by Crowder which currently sits at #16 on 20TheCountdownMagazine.
Today's vocal lyric brings us Christ crucified for our sins. It'due south a wonderful song, minus ane squirrely line in the second poetry. Let'southward give it a listen and and then discuss the theology nosotros see in the lyric of this song.
Crowder VEVO (Lyric Video)
Lyrics (via Grand-Love)
Yous came for Criminals
And every Pharisee
Y'all came for Hypocrites
Even one like me
You carried sin and shame
The guilt of every man
The weight of all I've done
Nailed into your handsOh your dearest
Bled for me
Oh your claret
In crimson streams
Oh your decease
Is Hell's defeat
A cross meant to kill is my victoryOh your amazing grace
I've seen and tasted it
It'south running through my veins
I tin can't escape its grip
In you my soul is condom
Yous cover everythingBehold the lamb of God
Who takes away our sin
The holy Lamb of God
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Writer(due south): David Crowder, Ed Cash, Hank Bentley and Darren Mulligan
Discussion
Span. Let's start with the Bridge of the song, considering this is a beautiful quote of John the Baptist's bold proclamation of Jesus equally the Lamb of God.
John one:29 (ESV) The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Allow's look at how the Gospel According to John opens upwardly, noting how the Apostle wrote concerning Jesus and apropos John the Baptist:
John i:ane-13 (ESV) | The Word Became Flesh
In the start was the Discussion, and the Word was with God, and the Discussion was God. He was in the showtime with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not whatsoever affair made that was made.In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
At that place was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness almost the light, that all might believe through him. He was non the light, but came to conduct witness well-nigh the light.
The truthful light, which gives calorie-free to anybody, was coming into the world.He was in the world, and the earth was made through him, yet the world did non know him. He came to his ain, and his own people did non receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his proper noun, he gave the correct to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the volition of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Amen. At present, let's move to the first verse of the vocal.
Poetry 1. Jesus came to salve the world, to take away our sin. Not just those we similar, but for those we don't similar. The Criminal and the Pharisee alike. This song does a great job of leveling out the playing field. Crowder hits the two hardest categories, then extends it to the Hypocrite and then places himself right there in the eye of the sinners.Nosotros are sinners. We sin because we are sinners. Christ died to atone for our sin, to pay a price nosotros couldn't pay for sin that wasn't His, to grant usa Grace we don't deserve. This is a great start to the vocal. I dear that Crowder used the word "guilt" here. Sure, information technology is possible to emotionalize the term to endeavour to soften its objectivity, only our guilt is existent, whether nosotros "feel it" or not. It is the objective pronouncement of the Constabulary upon us… we stand guilty, nosotros are born guilty, dead in our sins and trespasses. It was for our guilt, that Christ was nailed to the cross.
Chorus. The chorus focuses on the redemptive power of the Blood of the Lamb. A wonderful Epistle to spend some time studying both before and after studying the Mosaic Covenant is the volume of Hebrews.
Hebrews 9:xi-xiv (ESV) | Redemption Through the Claret of Christ
Simply when Christ appeared as a loftier priest of the skilful things that have come, and then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves only by means of his ain claret, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews ix:22 (ESV)Indeed, under the police almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
The cross meant to kill Jesus, to silence the threat to Pharisaical rule under Pilate… ends up being our Salvation, through the Redemption bought by His Blood. Indeed, the cantankerous is our Victory in Jesus' Name.
1 Corinthians 2:one-5 (ESV) | Proclaiming Christ Crucified
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come up proclaiming to yous the testimony of God with lofty spoken language or wisdom. For I decided to know aught among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with yous in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my bulletin were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the ability of God.
Poetry 2. Okay, now this verse I recollect gets a footling bit squirrely. The reference to having seen and tasted the Grace of God is most likely pulling from Peter'due south Epistle. For most doctrinally audio Christians, this is a purely spiritual plough of phrase pointing to the Discussion of God. As Lutherans, we see recognize this every bit the Word of God, and also in the Lord'due south Supper as an objective seeing and tasting of the Word, the Body and Blood of Christ. However you lot translate the "seeing and tasting", it'due south of import to see what Peter is instruction hither:
1 Peter ii:i-12 (ESV) | A Living Rock and a Holy People
So put away all malice and all cant and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed y'all take tasted that the Lord is good.
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God called and precious, yous yourselves similar living stones are existence built up equally a spiritual business firm, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices adequate to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture:
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."So the honor is for y'all who believe, but for those who exercise not believe,
"The rock that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,"and
"A rock of stumbling,
and a stone of criminal offence."They stumble considering they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
But yous are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that y'all may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you lot out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God'south people; once you had not received mercy, but now you take received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you lot as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the mankind, which wage war against your soul. Go along your comport among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you lot equally evildoers, they may see your practiced deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Getting dorsum to the second verse of this vocal, it's the adjacent line where I think the theology gets squirrelly and, frankly, I tin can't find a dainty style to correct it other than maxim "no". Christ'southward blood isn't running in our veins. We have been baptized into Christ's expiry and resurrection (Romans 6), we accept been washed by Christ (Eph 5), made alive in Christ (Eph 2, 1 Cor 15)… simply Christ's Blood doesn't run in our veins. Our bodies are still sinful flesh. Notice how Peter wrote of us as sojourners and exiles, encouraging us to abstain from the passions of the mankind. Our flesh is withal sinful. Our hearts are still sinful. But we are as well a new creation in Christ. This is that paradox of the Christian life, being simultaneously justified in Christ and sinners in the flesh. So, while I like this song overall, I do not like this line near Christ's blood in our veins. I recall it is a misstep.
Decision
I've given this song an overall Approval, though I take issue with that one line in the second verse. The song declares Jesus ("Behold the Lamb of God who takes away our sin"), our guilt nether the Police force and the Redemption by the Blood of Christ. Hell is defeated by Christ's finished piece of work on the Cross. There is a lot of good theological meat in the lyric of this song. I'yard very pleased to be calculation some other song to our approved list.
Hebrews xiii:20-21 (ESV) | Benediction
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the claret of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may practice his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom exist celebrity forever and always. Amen.
Amen.
In Christ Jesus,
Jorge
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