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A Memorial to the Lamb

Veterans day we remember people who serve and served our country and fight for our freedom and defend our borders.

But memorial day we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

In April 1863, in Columbus, Mississippi, after decorating graves of her two sons who died representing their beloved south-land, an elderly woman walked to two mounds of dirt at the corner of the cemetery to place memorial flowers there also.

“What are you doing?” friends shouted, “Those are the graves of two union soldiers.”

Softly that compassionate mother said, “I know.

I also know that somewhere in the North, a mother or a young wife mourns for them as we do for ours.”

That loving deed set in motion our celebration which has become known as Memorial Day.

We honor the war dead once a year, but their sacrifice is evident every single day of the year!

Today, we want to honor the memory of all those who have sacrificed their lives on the altar of freedom.

Those thousands of sacrificed lives were not given in vain!

Because of their sacrifice, we are free today and have the right to assemble ourselves together and worship our God.

Think of the numbers of those who died to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today:

If we do not remember the people that paid their life for the freedom we have than we will not hold it dear we will not appreciate it and we will not take advantage of it and we will give it up to the political winds that blow

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

We will not be destroyed from the outside if we falter and lose our freedom it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham lincoln

John Adams said “Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom!

I hope you will make a good use of it.

If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

And in America most young people do not know who hitler was.

They do not know what the wars we fought were over.

As a result we are losing our freedom very fast.

And this memorial day for most americans will be about beer and bbq.

And for most people there will be no profound sense of gratitude or appreciation.

The Lord knew that the coming generations would appreciate their freedom so he had them set up a memorial day

But when we Look in the bible we see some spiritual memorials he wanted his people to set up to remember what he had done for them.

Here is a memorial day he wanted them to observe once a year for the rest of their lives and he wanted their children to celebrate this memorial day as well.

The Purpose of the Memorial ,,,

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.

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.

Remember this was your independence day

I brought you out of bondage this day this is the day you were set free from being slaves in egypt

You were not always free

Bahamas This holiday, on the first Monday in August, celebrates the emancipation of slaves in the British colonies in 1834

I want you to remember it was me that set you free

Do not forget you were slaves you were in bondage and because of this day what I did here you were freed.

Do not forget your history or you will repeat it and in order not to forget you do this every year as a memorial

Things you should add to your faith

2Pe_1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Never forget what the Lord did for you personally he set me free

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?

God designed children to ask questions.

Thousands and thousands of them.

And he knew this memorial day would have thousands of children in the nation of Israel asking questions why do we do this ?

And you teach them

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.

You tell them this is the Lord's passover and it was a sacrifice

Why is that important

You see because those kids were not there

They were not there when the death angel passed through

They did not hear the great cry that came out of egypt when every house woke up to at least one dead person.

They did not know that the reason they were there and the reason their parents lived to see the day was because of the Lord's passover.

They did not see the Lord's miracles.

Those kids did not see the plagues and the crossing of the red sea

But it was an important part of their history and if their kids forgot that special part of history than they would not live like they were different if your children so not believe they are different than the world around them then they will live just like everyone else.

My dad would tell me do not get to chummy with the locals you are not from here you are not like them you are different.

You have a different background you have a different up brining you will not understand them and they will not understand you what they believe it means to be a christian and what you believe it means to be a christian are not the same thing.

He wanted them to know that story.

He wanted them to celabrate that memorial.

Now how are we going to do that we are not going to take a lamb and kill it

But you know who this is talking about

The Lord Jesus it is the Lord's passover.

1Co_5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.

For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

Where did moses write of christ.

Here he wrote of him here and many other places.

The purpose is to pass on what christ has done and for a hundreds of thousands of fathers to tell hundreds of thousands of their sons.

Let me tell you what happened on the dark night when all the egyptians oldest sons died I could see the death angels shadow but it came to the door and passed over.

All i had to do was believe that i was doomed and it was coming and trust the blood of the mab to cover my soul.

Have you told your children about the time you got saved?

Do they know the story well?

Do they know that you were not always free that you were once a miserable sinner like they are?

Do they know that if it was not for the passover lamb that they would not have a good mom or dad ?

The purpose lest we forget lest a generation forget and than a nation forget.

Lest a generation should arsise that knew not joseph nor the works which the Lord did.

The Preparation for the Memorial

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

You see they had to take a lamb without blemish

That is, this lamb was to be so perfect.

they were to examining that lamb to make sure there was not a blemish on the skin—

not a flaw, and not a crooked limb.

They were examining the ears to see if the ears had not been torn.

They would at the hooves to see if they had not been slit or battered in any way.

They would look inside the mouth of that lamb.

They would examine the eyelids of the lamb and the nostrils of the lamb.

That lamb had to be a spotless lamb, a pure lamb, because that lamb pictured the Lord Jesus.

The Bible calls Him “a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

And so we see the character of the lamb

Perfect in every way.

Full of beautiful of potential.

That lamb was innocent Like a little baby.

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 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.

Can you imagine that little lamb