A Star of Hope

[Thompson, Darryl]

A Star of Hope 

     Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1:29.  

     To fallen man was revealed the plan of infinite sacrifice through
which salvation was to be provided. Nothing but the death of God's dear
Son could expiate man's sin, and Adam marveled at the goodness of God in
providing such a ransom for the sinner. Through the love of God, a star
of hope illumined the terrible future that spreads before the
transgressor. Through the institution of the typical system of sacrifice
and offering, the death of Christ was ever to be kept before guilty man,
that he might better comprehend the nature of sin, the results of
transgression, and the merit of the divine offering. Had there been no
sin, man would never have known death. But in the innocent offering
slain by his own hand he beheld the fruits of sin--the death of the Son
of God in his behalf. He sees the immutable character of the law he has
transgressed, and confesses his sin; he relies upon the merits of the
Lamb of God. . . .  

     In becoming man's substitute, in bearing the curse which should
fall upon man, Christ has pledged Himself in behalf of the race to
maintain the sacred and exalted honor of His Father's law. . . . God has
given the world into the hands of Christ, that He may completely
vindicate the binding claims of the law and make manifest the holiness
of every principle. 

     The sacrifice of beasts shadowed forth the sinless offering of
God's dear Son, and pointed forward to His death upon the cross. But at
the crucifixion type met antitype, and the typical system there ceased.
. . .  

     The Son of God is the center of the great plan of redemption which
covers all dispensations. He is the "Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world" (Rev. 13:8). He is the Redeemer of the fallen sons and
daughters of Adam in all ages of human probation. "Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).  

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