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The goal of fallen man is self-deification, to be as God (Gen. 3:5), whereas the goal of redeemed man is to be God’s covenant man. Christ’s perfect humanity is our standard, not his deity. We cannot have Christ as our God if we will not have him as our true man, as our federal head. In the first Adam, we are born into sin and death; in the last Adam, we are born into justice or righteousness and...

The next day (v. 29), John sees Jesus coming to him, and he declares, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Here, John refers to Isaiah 53:7, the prophecy concerning God’s plan for the atonement of sin by the Redeemer-Servant. “The iniquity of all” is laid upon Him by the Lord (Isa. 53:8), and He atones for “the sin of the world.” By “the world,” John means that Christ is the Savior for all peoples, all nations and races, not every man individually. Every morning and every
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