When I See the Blood

Good Friday 2025 Sermon Outline: “When I See the Blood”

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Introduction: The Need for Remembrance

Opening:

One scholar has said: “Remembrance belongs among the chief virtues of Judaism.”[1]

GOD’S ACTS

GOD’S LAWS

Reference: “TASSELS” in NUMB./DEUT.

Key Point: DISTRACTIONS/BUSYNESS/MISPLACED PRIORITIES...

..... HAVE BEEN a PROBLEM for MILLENNIA!

**EVEN for the PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED GOD’S ACTS**

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Contemporary Connection:

TRUE THEN?? HOW MUCH MORE NOW!

**SETTING TIMERS/REMINDERS on PHONE**

PEOPLE of GOD—NEED TIMES of REMEMBRANCE

DAILY DEVOTIONS/PRAYER

SUNDAY WORSHIP

SPECIAL SERVICES

TIMES WE RE-TUNE FOCUS to WHAT MATTERS MOST...

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Purpose: TONIGHT = SPECIAL TIME of REMEMBRANCE— LENS of PASSOVER...

JESUS’ CELEBRATION of the Passover.

The BACKGROUND of the Passover.

The REINTERPRATION of the Passover through the TRUE PASSOVER LAMB...

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Transition: BOUNCING AROUND,, LOTS of SCRIPTURE,, PRAY BENEFICIAL

BEGIN W/ GOSPEL of LK… CH. 22...

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I. Setting: Preparing for the Last Supper (Luke 22:7-13)

Luke 22:7-13—Jesus instructs Peter and John to prepare the Passover.

Luke 22:7–13 (ESV)

7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

8 So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.”

9 They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”

10 He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters

11 and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

12 And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.”

13 And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

PREPARING for “LAST SUPPER”

Takeaway: LAST SUPPER —> PASSOVER CELEBRATION!

**WE’LL BE LOOKING @ PASSOVER ACCOUNT.

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II. Background: The Passover (Exodus 12)

Context:

ISRAEL in EGYPT— THROUGH JOSEPH

400 YRS— PHARAOH FORGOT JOSEPH

ISRAELITES = SLAVES

PEOPLE PRAY to GOD—GOD SENDS MOSES

“LET MY PEOPLE GO”

10 PLAGUES

RED SEA.

PASSOVER = PLAGUE 10,, JUST PRIOR to RED SEA...

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Scripture: Exodus 12:1–13 (ESV)

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.

4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,

6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

Key Points:

SPECIFIC DAY/SPECIFIC ANIMAL

GOD WAS BRINGING DESTRUCTION to EGYPT

***(V13) PROMISE— BLOOD on DOORPOSTS/LINTEL = “PASS OVER”***

NO DESTRUCTION WOULD BEFALL THEM...

Transition: And after the INITIAL INSTRUCTIONS...

…NOW DESCRIPTION—FUTURE COMMEMORATION

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Scripture: Exodus 12:14–20 (ESV)

14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.

15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.

18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.

20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

Key Points:

THIS = BACKGROUND for LAST SUPPER

MEMORIAL DAY & FEAST (UNLEAVENED BREAD) to BE KEPT FOREVER!

NO LEAVEN = SYMBOL of HASTE—DEPARTING from EGYPT

Background: LEAVEN//LIKE YEAST— MAKE BREAD RISE OVER TIME

**NO TIME to WAIT for BREAD WHEN ESCAPING from SLAVERY**

Transition: INSTRUCTIONS were GIVEN to MOSES...

…NOW MOSES TAKES to PEOPLE...

WOULD THEY OBEY???

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Scripture: Exodus 12:21-28

21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.

25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Key Point: OBEDIENCE in FAITH

PASSOVER HADN’T HAPPENED YET.

WOULD THEY TAKE GOD @ HIS WORD???

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THANKFULLY—THEY DID.

Douglas Mangum: “The blood on the doorposts and lintel was a sign that the people living in that house were trusting in Yahweh for deliverance”[1]

RIGHT AWAY A PERPETUAL STATUTE…

…YOUR KIDS WILL KNOW THIS STORY!!

Scripture: Exodus 12:29-32

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said.

32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

Outcome:

PEOPLE TRUSTED GOD…

&& GOD KEEPS WORD— FAITHFUL to HIS WORD...

EGYPT = UNDER JUDGMENT

ISRAEL = SPARED,, DISTINGUISHED from EGYPT.

PHARAOH RELEASES PEOPLE...

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EVERY YEAR—JEWS WOULD COMMEMORATE:

GOD WAS FAITHFUL & MOST HIGH ABOVE ALL gods...

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Transition: THIS = WHAT JESUS & DISCIPLES CELEBRATED...

TURN BACK to N.T....

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III. Reinterpretation: Jesus as the True Passover Lamb (Luke 22:14-20)

Scripture:

Luke 22:14–20 (ESV)

14 And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him.

15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

16 For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

17 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves.

18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Key Points:

JESUS = EAGER to EAT W/ DISCIPLES...

LAST MEAL: UNTIL EATING AGAIN in KINGDOM (SEE RV. 19)

PASSOVER CELEBRATION = REINTERPRETED...

—>> NEW COVENANT <<—

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Exodus Ch. 24— Covenant = ratified w/ blood

NEW COVENANT = ratified w/ BLOOD of CHRIST...

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CHRIST BECAME OUR PASSOVER LAMB

CELEBRATING PASSOVER

JESUS DIES NEXT MORNING—PASSOVER

((JEWISH DAYS = EVENING to EVENING))

Supporting Scripture:

JOHN 19— NO BONES BROKEN

1 COR. 5:7— CHRIST = PASSOVER LAMB...

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Transition: What does this mean for us tonight??

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IV. Contemporary Connections

Israel’s Deliverance:

PASSOVER COMMEMORATED DELIVERANCE from EGYPT & SPARED from DESTRUCTION...

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Our Greater Deliverance:

Colossians 1:13–14 (ESV)

13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

WE’VE BEEN SET FREE—NOT from EGYPT— BUT from SIN/POWER of SATAN

BETTER HOPE—NOT of CANAAN but of HEAVENLY LAND!

OUR HOPE, OUR SALVATION, OUR DELIVERANCE = FAR GREATER—COMING from TRUE PASSOVER LAMB!

WHEN HE SEES BLOOD WE’LL BE SPARED...

DO WE TRUST HIM?

HAVE WE RECEIVED HIM?

WILL WE RESPOND in FAITH?!

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For THOSE who have RECEIVED HIM:

1 Peter 2:9–10 (ESV)

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

JUST as ISRAEL = CHOSEN NATION

CHURCH = CHOSEN PEOPLE— CALLED to PROCLAIM EXCELLENCIES of HIM...

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Closing:

TONIGHT— COMMUNION = BUILDING on PASSOVER TRADITION

SAME GOD:

FAITHFUL to ISRAEL 3,000 + YEARS AGO

FAITHFUL in CHRIST 2,000 YRS AGO

HE is FAITHFUL TODAY

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DELIVERED ISRAEL from EGYPT

DELIVERS US from SIN

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DELIVERED from DESTROYER

WE WILL BE DELIVERED from WRATH & JUDGMENT of GOD...

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Call to Action:

THESE THINGS DEMAND:

REMEMBRANCE

CELEBRATION

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Close:

WHEN HE SEES the BLOOD of the TRUE PASSOVER LAMB—

WE’LL BE SPARED on that FINAL DAY

&& WE WILL HAVE PERFECT COMMUNION in THAT HEAVENLY KINGDOM

THIS = WORTH CELEBRATING & WE SHOULDN’T FORGET IT...

Close in Prayer

!! PREPARE for COMMUNION… !!

Through Christ, we are delivered from the domain of darkness and sin (Col. 1:13-14).

We are a chosen people, called to proclaim God’s excellencies (1 Pet. 2:9-10).

Call to Action:

Our greater salvation demands regular remembrance and celebration.

Communion tonight continues the Passover tradition, honoring the same faithful God.

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Conclusion: Communion and Celebration

Summary:

God’s faithfulness spans from Egypt (3,000 years ago) to the cross (2,000 years ago) to today.

The blood of Jesus, our Passover Lamb, ensures deliverance from future judgment.

Exhortation:

Communion is both remembrance and celebration of Christ’s sacrifice.

We live with assurance under His blood, proclaiming His love and faithfulness.

Closing Scripture:

Luke 22:19 – “Do this in remembrance of me.”

Action:

Prepare hearts for communion, reflecting on God’s unchanging love and the hope of salvation.