Jesus: Our Lamb Led to the Slaughter

"As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." (Romans 8: 36)

The Psalmist wrote this passage:

"Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen." (Psalm 44: 11)

and also

"Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." (Psalm 44: 22)

Today, we have a Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep:

"11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (John 10: 11)

and then

"14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep." (John 10: 14-15)

We are not led to the slaughter, because Jesus went for us:

"He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth." (Isaiah 53: 7)

This testimony helped convert the Ethiopian eunuch in the service of Queen Candace:

"The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:" (Acts 8: 32)

Reminder: this is Jesus led to the slaughter for us. Let us get over this idea that we need to face any kind of slaughter or setback in order to prove something to Him.