John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
We have established in the previous section that it is the perfect will of God that all men be saved. Not only that, but we have also established that God has made known to man, through the simple reading of His word, that it is His will that all men should be saved. And so, it would make God unjust and perhaps even cruel, for Him to tell us that it is His desire that all men be saved, and then make no provision for that to happen. But fortunately for us, God is neither unjust nor is He cruel. In fact God is completely the opposite, for God is love. And so, in this section, we want to establish the truth from God’s word, that not only is it the perfect will of God the Father that everyone should be saved, but that He has in fact made provision for exactly that, i.e. God has provided for every man to be saved. And so, in order to establish this truth, I have again quoted four witnesses that all confirm the same truth to us, i.e. that God has provided for all men to be saved. The four witnesses are John the Baptist, the Lord Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul and the apostle John. The first witness quoted above is John the Baptist. In this passage, John by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells us that Jesus as the Lamb of God takes away the sin of the world. In other words, when Jesus died on the cross for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3), He died for the sins of the whole world, which means that no one was excluded. And so clearly from this passage, we see that through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, God has made provision for the removal of everyone’s sins, so that all can be saved.
Michael E.B. Maher
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