Stay In The House - Passover
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Stay In The House - Passover
Stay In The House - Passover
For the first time in my life time (37 years), we are not gathering for Easter Sunday Service.
No Easter plays
No Easter suits, dresses and Easter Hats
No Easter egg hunt for the kids
No Easter Speeches
No Easter Baskets
I’m not in a church house but I’m in my house
But it’s interesting that we are in the place where it all started “The House.”
I want to begin this sermon about some misconceptions of the blood of Jesus:
#1 The blood of Jesus does not make you exempt
It’s very important to understand in Biblical observations - “ifs and Thens” statements
saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
It’s very important to understand in Biblical observations - “ifs and Thens” statements
The blood doesn’t make you exempt from sicknesses / poverty / trouble / corvid 19 / sorrow / laid off from you job / family issues
#2 The blood is not a weapon
I know we plead the blood and rebuke - The blood of Jesus
I know we make statements like “Satan The Blood Of Jesus Is Against You”
Both statements are no where in the Bible
Honestly the blood of Jesus in not against Satan but against ME!
Wait!!! Before you crucify me... let’s deal with why the Blood is sooo much more than using it to rebuke the enemy!
For 400 years Isreal had been in Slavery - But God sent a deliver
But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
Pharoah did not w
God sent 10 plagues upon Egypt and against the gods of Egypt.
Water into blood / Frogs / Gnats-Lice / Flies / Disease on livestock / Boils / Hail & Fire / Locusts / Darkness / Death of the first born
Why death of the first born?
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”
“Israel is my firstborn son” - God has adopted Israel as His son (). That is the way in which God works, not ‘according to the flesh, but to the promise’ ().
God wanted to dwell with his People.
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
Exodus 25
God begins to give Moses instructions concerning the 10th plague - Death of the first born
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. 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. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 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.
The people had to single out from their flocks the handsomest, healthiest looking yearling.
Then the family had to watch it carefully for four days before the passover to make it was perfect in every way.
“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.
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.
Two doorpost and the lintel -
Basin - The basin is not like containers used today. It is taken from the Egyptian concept of sap, meaning the threshold or ditch which was dug just in front of the doorways of the houses to avoid flooding. The people placed a container in the ditch to prevent seepage.
The Israelites killed their passover lambs right by the doors, and the blood from the slaughter automatically ran into the depression of the basin at the threshold.
Two doorpost and the lintel
By doing this the door was “sealed” on all four sides with the blood of the lamb, because the blood was already in the basin at the bottom.
Exodus Chapte
Types and Shadows
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
Eat the flesh roasted on the fire - Fire is symbolic of God’s judgement! A picture of God’s fire of wrath of Judgement
Unleavened bread -
Leaven in the Bible is almost a symbol of sin. The putting away of all leaven is a picture of the sanctification of the child of God.
Hebrew word for leaven means bitter or sour. It is the nature of sin to make people bitter or sour. Leaven causes dough to become puffed up so that the end product is more in volume, but not more in weight.
The sin of pride causes people to be puffed up, to think of themselves as far more than they really are.
Hebrew word for unleavened mean sweet without sourness.
The putting away of leaven symbolized breaking the Old cycle of sin and starting out afresh from Egypt.
God was giving them a fresh new start! Isreal Was Not A Perfect Generation
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Bitter herbs - Not only does it represent the bitterness of the Israelites slavery in Egypt, but it may also represent the bitterness experienced by Jesus both in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross.
And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 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.
Exodus 12:10
In this manner you shall eat it: Belt fastened / Your sandals on your feet / Your staff in your hand / You shall eat it in haste
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.
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
“If any man is in Christ he is a new creature old things are passed away”
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. 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.
“For I will pass through the land of Egypt” - Very Important “I will pass through” / “I will strike all the first born” / I will execute judgements” / I am the Lord
This is why the blood is so important. “The blood doesn’t protect me from the enemy… It protects me from the “I am”
“And When I See the Blood”
The verb “passover” has a deeper meaning here than the idea of stepping or leaping over something to avoid contact.
Its connected to the Egyptian term for “Spreading The Wings Over And Protecting” (Show the sheet)
We all deserved God’s judgment - Wrath
God’s wrath is eternal separation from Him!
But God!
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
Great is the mystery of Godliness that God was manifested in the flesh!
He takes on the form of a man!
even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
Jesus becomes our Substitution!
Our Redemption - We have been bought with a price
He met the righteous demands of a holy God - Propitiation
We have forgiveness of sin
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Because of the blood we are Justified - Declared righteous!
The blood is more than a covering it’s security!
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
Hebrews 9:12
Jesus makes an eternal sacrifice
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
When God see’s me his only see’s the blood
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
I have a Hope!!!!
*** One more reason why God doesn’t dwell in building mad by hands*** Because a building can’t praise him! Let Every Thing.............