You Are Worthy Because the Lamb is Worthy

"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." (Revelation 5: 12)

You need to expand your knowledge of the one who loved you and gave His life for you (Galatians 5: 12) How else can you receive all that Jesus has given you unless you both know and believe the love that God has for you through His Son. (1 John 4: 16)

The Old Testament reveals the significance of the lamb sacrifice. Following His instructions to Moses and all of the Israelites in Egypt regarding the First Passover, the Lord then explained:

"And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt." (Exodus 12: 13)

Later, the Lord explained through Moses the transfer of righteous that every Israelite would receive through the sacrifice of the lamb After sacrificing one male lamb, Aaron the first High Priest would designate another lamb to take all the sins of the people:

"And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

"And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

"And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness." (Leviticus 16: 20-22)

During the First Passover, one lamb provided protection for an entire household (Exodus 12: 4). Now, consider Jesus Christ, whom John the Baptist declared before all in Galilee:

"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)

Jesus takes away our sin, all of it for an everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9: 24)! By this Lamb, we are all made worthy:

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

What have we received through Him? Paul writes to the Ephesians:

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace"" (Ephesians 1: 3-7)

We are worthy, therefore, because Worthy is the Lamb:

"As He is, so are we in this world."" (1 John 4: 17)