John
1:29
PUPPETS:
Sally, and Pastor
PROPS:
Little Lamb
Sally:
Good
morning Pastor Craig!
Pastor: Good
morning Sally! I’m so glad to see you in Sunday School today! How are you
coming in your Bibil reading these days?
Sally:
(Laughter)
Just grand! I am reading the go-spell of Street John!
Pastor: What?
Sally:
The
go-spell of Street John! I’m in chapter One, and I have a question for you!
Pastor: Just
a minute: “go-spell”? You must be talking about ‘Gospel’! That means
GOOD NEWS! And ‘Street John’? Oh, you mean Saint
John, one of the Lord’s Disciples! You sure have a time with names don’t
you?
Sally:
Oh
well! Anyway, the question is, why is Jesus called the Lamb of God here in John
1:29?
Pastor: That’s
a good question Sally! The answer is in the ten commandments. Do you remember
the ten commandments?
Sally:
Oh
yes! Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt clean up thy room, thou shalt not kick
thine sister...
Pastor: Well,
uh... Anyway. Can you keep from breaking any of those commandments?
Sally:
No
I cannot! I try, but boy do I mess up! I try not to lie, but I still tell people
things that aren’t true, and I am so sorry!
Pastor: That’s
good Sally - we ought to be sorry when we break God’s commandments. But being
sorry won’t pay for the sin. Right after God gave Moses and the children of
Israel those 10 commandments, He then told them to get a lamb. And when they
broke a commandment, they would have to bring that lamb and ask God by faith to
accept its death in their place
Sally:
Like
a substitute!
Pastor:
Exactly!
Now, when God told them that, He knew that one day, He would send His only
begotten Son to this earth to die in our place
Sally:
Just
like that lamb!?
Pastor: Right!
Jesus became THE Lamb of God that would take your and my sin away just by simple
faith!
Sally:
I’m
so glad He’s my Lamb!
Pastor: Yes,
so am I Sally! So am I!
Pastor: Is
Jesus your Lamb today? Has He taken away ALL your sins, and forgiven you?