LESSON 23 The Lamb of God Note to the Teacher This lesson is a revision lesson about the animal sacrifices which God required to cover over people’s sins during the Old Testament times. Make sure that the students clearly understand that this was only a temporary way until the Deliverer came. Scripture verses for the teacher to study before giving the lesson Leviticus 1 vs. 1-3 Leviticus 1 vs. 10 John 1 vs. 19 - 31 Hebrews 9 vs. 11 - 14 Hebrews 10 vs. 1 - 10 1 Peter 1 vs. 18 - 21   Revise questions from the last Lesson with the Students   Teach this part to the students ! One day as John the Baptist was baptising people in the Jordan River, he saw a Man walking towards him. John said some very strange words..... ! He said:- “Look here comes the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” ! Who was John talking about and what did he mean by those words? ! Remember long ago after Adam and Eve had listened to Satan lies, God chased them out of the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to Him. ! All people born after Adam and Eve are born sinners and are also separated from God, including us. We are controlled by Satan. ! God is holy and perfect and He separates himself from all sin. ! God must punish all sin by death. ! Because of God’s great love and mercy, He promised that He would send someone, a Deliverer, who would destroy Satan’s control over people, take the punishment for their sins and make a way for them to come back into God’s family. ! Until the time when the Deliverer would come into the world, God gave the people a temporary way to come to Him to have their sins covered over. ! This temporary way was that the Israelites had to sacrifice a perfect male animal, like a lamb or goat, allowing it’s blood to run out and to give it’s body as an offering to God. ! If the person agreed with God that they were a sinner and should be punished by death and they came to God in the way which God had told them to, then God accepted the death of the lamb as a covering for their sin ! Abel came to God in this way, so did Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, king David and others. ! When God gave His laws to Moses in the desert, God gave instructions that the high priest had to sprinkle the blood of a perfect male lamb between the two statues of angels in the Tabernacle. ! The blood of the lamb was accepted by God as a covering for the Israelites sins for one year. The high priest had to repeat this year after year after year. ! So why did John the Baptist now say that here was a Man who was going to take away the sin of the world? ! In the following lessons you will learn more about this Man and why John called Him – “The Lamb of God”.   Memory verse to teach the students after the lesson, using the creative methods John 1 vs. 29   Review Questions 1) What strange words did John the Baptist say? “Here comes the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” 2) Why are people separated from God? Because we are all born sinners. 3) How does God punish sin? By death. 4) Who did God promise to send to take the punishment for sin? The Deliverer. 5) What kind of animal did the high priest need to sacrifice? A perfect male animal. 6) If you kill an animal and offer it to God, will He be pleased with you and forgive your sins? No, He will not!