”Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. ” (John 1:29).
The “Lamb of God” bore our sins in that He suffered the eternal consequences for them. Therefore, as a sacrifice, He suffered and died for the sins of all humanity. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
(Rom. 5:8).
And so it is with Christ, as the perfect sacrifice, Jesus became the sin substitute for our sin as we all are guilty of breaking God’s Holy law. The evidence that we are the people of God is repentance of our sin and faith in the “Lamb of God” as our sin substitute. “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.”
(1 John 2:2.)
The scapegoat in the book of Leviticus, “Lamb of God” not only bore the sins of His people, but he also took their sins away. The scapegoat (Leviticus 16:8-26), dramatically displays how Jesus takes Our sins away. The sins of Israel (who were the people of God in the Old Testament), were placed upon the head of the scapegoat, and the goat was led into the wilderness to die. In this way, Israel’s sins were taken away, never to be remembered again.
Hebrews 10:17 tells us that “… their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” God will remember our sins no more because Jesus paid it all. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” (Ps. 103:12).