At a time when our gaze is fixed on a world crisis – when our attention is focused on all the questions about how to avoid getting sick – or at least, how to slow down the disease so as not to overwhelm the healthcare system, John tells us to look at Jesus.
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! Our shorter catechism rightly says that the "fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery." Sin and misery is our estate – our condition – our inheritance.
We have inherited a condition of sin and misery. Notice that is a singular estate. Sin and misery are not two different conditions. We have a singular condition. Our affliction is not simply that we are sinners. We are miserable sinners!
In our misery we sin. In our sin we are miserable.
But Jesus came as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Or, as John says in verse 34, "I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."
He is the one who brings us out of the estate of sin and misery! He is the Son who has inherited the kingdom of God – and thus those who trust in him receive righteousness and salvation.
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