The Passover: A Memorial for the Living God
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Intro
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Text - Exodus 12.1-14
1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails.
10 You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
12 ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike 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.
13 Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Background
Background
the Passover
the first feast to be given to Israel
a one year old lamb is chosen - without blemish, male
prepared on the 10th day of the first month of the year
killed and roasted on the 14th day
eaten on that night
the passover became part of the feast of unleavened bread
the passover is first kept on the night before the exodus
the blood is applied on the post and lintel of the houses
the families are to stay inside their homes until morning
the Lord will go through Egypt to do the 10th plague.
the passover is to serve as a “memorial”
14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
memorial - Heb ZIKKARON, a reminder, something to make a person remember something
a memorial is usually built to preserve the memory of a (dead) person or (past) event
monument,
holiday
building
the passover was given as a “marker”
the passover was given as a “marker”
2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
the LORD changed how the Jews will begin the counting of their years
the Passover marks the beginning of a new cycle of years
the Passover marks the beginning of God’s work among His people
Key Points
Key Points
The first passover
The first passover
The first Passover “marks” a significant time
The first Passover “marks” a significant time
the end of Israel’s bondage - servitude in Egypt
The timing of the exodus was significant in the plan of God
40 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
exodus took place exactly 430 years from Abraham
[see TIMELINE - EXODUS 12.40-41]
the exodus marks the end of sojourning
430 years of “sojourning”
sojourning includes the years in Canaan
[see CHART - “SOJOURNING”]
the exodus marks the end of the affliction of Abraham’s seed
13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
400 years of affliction and servitude
The first Passover marks the beginning of God’s working among His people
The first Passover marks the beginning of God’s working among His people
Israel is identified as God’s own people
Exodus 3:7–10 (NKJV)
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
the first Passover hints at a future move of God - the conquest of Canaan
the first Passover hints at a future move of God - the conquest of Canaan
10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.
on this day - the children of Israel crossed over Jordan!
the next day -
manna ceased - marking a changing of dispensation
Joshua is met by the commander of the army of the LORD!
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”
14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”
15 Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
The most significant Passover was the day the Lamb of God died for the sins of the whole world
The most significant Passover was the day the Lamb of God died for the sins of the whole world
Jesus Christ is our ‘Passover’!
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
This Passover marks the end of sin’s dominion to those who believe in Him
This Passover marks the beginning of the sonship of those who believe in Him
the Passover is to be a memorial of God’s faithfulness
the Passover is to be a memorial of God’s faithfulness
God fulfilled His promise to Abraham in Genesis 15.14-16 “14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall return he re, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.””
2 And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.
4 I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
the Passover is to be a memorial of God’s mighty acts
the Passover is to be a memorial of God’s mighty acts
3 And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
on this day -
Egypt’s firstborn sons died in the hands of God
mighty Egypt finally surrendered to God and let Israel to leave!
7 days later - the mighty red sea was parted so that Israel may pass through
God wants to be remembered as the living God - not a deity that once was!
God wants to be remembered as the living God - not a deity that once was!
31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
the “last supper” was introduced to remember was the Greatest Passover… until Jesus Christ comes again!
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
The first Passover marks and identifies the people that belongs to God
The first Passover marks and identifies the people that belongs to God
Illustration - the memorial of a nation’s national hero is built at the center of the nation
the hero of the Bible is God alone!
the first Passover identified Israel as God’s own people
“I have heard the groaning of Israel, I have come down to redeem MY PEOPLE”
Israel’s life revolves around this central activity - the yearly celebration of the PESACH
the Passover time in which Christ died is the focal point of our identity as God’s people
we are God’s children IN CHRIST!
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
The Cross has replaced the first Passover as the centerpoint of God’s works from beginning to end!
Jesus is the beginning and the end
Jesus is the center of God’s work
the past happened for Him
the future is secure because of Him!
The second passover
The second passover
christ our passover
christ our passover
Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
this passover marks the “fullness of the time”
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
a new covenant wad activated - t
Conclusion
Conclusion
Where do our lives REVOLVE today?
don’t let your daily life revolve around earthly things!
if you are God’s people today - make your life revolved around the Cross of Jesus
SONG - The Center of my Life