the Garden the cross and beyond pt2
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The passover.
The passover.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Here we have the account of the passover and what it would mean to the children of Israel.
they were going to be free of the Egyptians because God was going to bring the separation.
Egypt is always seen in the bible as an analogy of sin.
God was going to bring the separation from the life in Egypt.
but it was going to take the blood of a lamb painted upon the door posts and lintel of each house to bring protection of death.
explain.
All the time up until the destruction of the temple in ad 90 the children of isreal kept this odservance.
in their wanderings in the wilderness in the tent of meeting and in the tabernacle the passover was kept to its full observence.
today jews still keep the passover but they do not sacrifice a lamb.
They say that this is because they have no temple
but our bibles will show that the passover lamb could only save for a year so would need to remember it every year.
the passover is not the sin offering
passover is only to remember what God did when he brought them out of eGYPT.
But this is important to see how God would want to separate us from sin not just for a year but for all times.
Last week we saw how King David made a sacrifice on the threshing floor of Ornan and said that it was to be a place of big importance for us as christians today.
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
so here we can clearly see the connection with David and also there is a connection with Abraham.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
God doesn’t work in coincidences God deals in divine appointments
That person you bump into in the high street and you prayed for wasn’t a coincidence it was a divine appointment
you miss your bus but while waiting for the next was able to speak kind words to that young person that wasn’t a coincidence it was a divine appointment.
i spoken so many times about dates in the bible they are put there for a reason you may not know now but in time you will.
The passover account that we read reminded us that this passover was to take place in the first month of the year.
new beginnings a new life.
I feel that we have enough stepping stones down that we can take our path from sin to our saviour.
In Gen 3 we see how wonderful the Garden was made but we are reminded that the serpent was more subtil
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
6175. עָרוּם ˓ârûwm, aw-room’; pass. part. of 6191; cunning (usually in a bad sense):— crafty, prudent, subtil.
pass. pass. = passive (voice), passively
part. part. = participle
Here we can see that this serpent was different to the serpents that we see.
Here he can talk unusual we take this to be satan cast down from heaven for trying to cause a revolt with a third of the angels.
These angels are not good beings at all and we come to know them as demons or devils.
Here we see that from the start Satan has tried his best to upset the plans of God in this world.
we find because of sin that Adam and Eve were to leave the Garden
i guess its was a first round to satan.
when God was passing out the penalties for sin we find. that satan or the serpent was the first to be punished
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
then came the woman
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
and to the man
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
there is the curse of sin on the serpent the woman and the man and then we were turned out of the beautiful Garden.
sin had entered into the world and sin had to be atone fore
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Here we see that God who loved them so much gave of a life that there nakedness might be covered.
Blood needed to be spilt to atone foe sin
as they wore their clothes made of skin the blood of the animal that was on the skin would come into contact with their flesh covering their nakedness and sin.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
there was a plan of salvation long before sin entered into the world.
we step to Abraham and his testing
but what about his words to his son.
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
not just in this time but in a time in the future.
place and time are important to God
we need to be in the right place at the right time to bring glory to God.
would Abraham have offered his son ?
I believe he would because he belived that the God that had guided his life up to this point and he had seen what God could do
He had the faith to believe that if death came so would life.
death came in the garden and so came live.
death came on the mountain and so came life.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
The passover lamb we have looked at this morning for the children to live.
what we can see that there has to be blood spilt for sin so we can go free
further down the line of time into the wilderness of sin with the children of Israel They were given by God all the different types of sacrifices for the worship of the children of Israel and one of the offerings was the sin offering it speaks for itself.
but what was significant about this offering was that the Lamb had to be spotless just like the pascal lamb the lamb of the passover but the difference was that instead of the blood being painted on the doorposts and lintals of the home this blood was to be taken into the holy of Hollis to see if it would be accepted of God.
explain the tent of meeting and its con-finds.
this blood if accepted would give covering for the people for another year, the word here is covering.
we move further down in time to king David
and the sacrifice on the threshing floor of Ornan
because of the sin of David he bought the threshing floor of Ornam and offered his burnt offering to God for his sin.
the ground cost him but it was money well spent.
as we have seen that Solomen built the temple of the Lord upon it,
from Abraham- David from David to Soloman the continuity is maintained.
Is that the end no.
sin still happened the blood of the lamb needed to be offered
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
Abraham prophesied about the lamb and i the fullness of time he came
what time of year did Jesus die
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
was this a coincidence or one of Gods appointed times
Here we have the lamb of God Jesus hanging on a cross
Here the lamb of God on a cross dyeing for what he had committed no sin but had become sin for us.
do i believe that he was the son of God YES.
IF HE HAD COME TO TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD HOW DO I KNOW HIS SACRIFICE WAS ACCEPTED.
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Jesus Christ had taken away our sins with his own blood and he had taken this blood into the hoyl of holies an God had shown his acceptance by the vail be torn from top to the bottom
Jesus Blood would not again cover for another year but would was away for Good.
a set of coincidences or divine appointments with God.
how you have a divine appointment with God right now.
Because of death there come life.
passover was the beginning of a new year when you accept Christ your new year begins
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