The Passover

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The Purpose of the Passover The Power of the Passover The Pinnacle of the Passover Jesus was and is our Passover Lamb Believe and you are part of the Fam

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Our Text is Exodus 12:1-14

The Passover

Introduction

When we look at the OT, we often get hung up on all the rules and regulations.

Those rules don’t apply to us like they did then.

There are truths that we can derive from them and there are some that apply to us as NT believers.

If you get hung up on some kind of rule, just remember these were given to the Israelites to make them separate.

Let me give you an example: do you know what another name for a football? a pigskin

You might hear someone say - if you want to follow god’s rules, then you better wear gloves when playing.

So the Israelites weren’t supposed to eat pigs or touch them.

What do we say to them?

We only follow what the NT writers and Jesus told us to follow

A football was never made out pigskins - it was a pig bladder covered by leather.

Pigs haven’t been used in a football for over 150 years.

When we take ideas too far, we are going to get into trouble

We bought a recliner to go in our bedroom a few days ago. The other recliner we have is just about dead.

My hips are hurting so bad that I can’t sleep so we bought the new one.

Rose furniture saw that I was in pain (I had to stop every 40 feet or so), so they said they would deliver today even though they were booked.

I sept on it last night, but then I shifted my weight up. I took it too far. It flipped to it’s back and there I was stuck somewhat upside down. Somehow, this didn’t even faze Cristy.

The skeptic is taking the commands the wrong way.

If you look at the Sermon on the Mount, you will see Jesus talks about the law and his big point is that it’s the spiritual aspects of the law that are important, not the literal points.

When it comes to the feasts and the sacrifices, the spiritual aspect is that they point to something else.

We are going to be talking about one of those sacrifices and feasts today.

The Passover.

Exodus 12:1–14 NKJV

Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 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. 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. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 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. 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. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. 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. ‘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. 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. ‘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.

The Purpose of the Passover

We need to understand the predicament Moses and the rest of the Israelites were in.

For 430 years, their people had been in Egypt. As first they were respected. Then they were enslaved. They were slaves for hundreds of years.

They were ready to be free and go to their own land

Next, we need to understand what they had to do:

Each household took a male lamb into their household, and 4 days later they would slaughter it at twilight

The blood from the lamb would then be brushed on the door frames

The families would roast the lamb and eat it with bitter herbs and unleavened bread

They were to do this dressed and ready to go

Lastly, need to understand what was about to happen.

God was about to pronounce judgment on Egypt.

Exodus 12:13 NKJV

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.

When he saw the blood, God’s Angel of Judgement would pass over.

Exodus 12:29–30 NKJV

And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck 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 livestock. So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

God’s judgement came to bear on the Egyptians, but

The Purpose of the Passover was to show God’s mercy to those who trust in Him

That’s the purpose of the Passover, so what’s the power of the Passover

The Power of the Passover

What we need to understand is that the passover was just the start of an ongoing tradition that continues to be celebrated

That’s what it says in:

Exodus 12:14 NKJV

‘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.

The Passover defined their year and set into motion their system of sacrifice.

All of this system is designed to keep those following it righteous before God

But if they didn’t keep it:

Numbers 9:13 NKJV

But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

Do you get the idea? They will bear their own sin.

The Power of the Passover is that God would pass over them when judgment came for them

But that’s not the ending

The ending is that all of these things are point to:

The Pinnacle of the Passover

According to Paul, Jesus is our Passover Lamb

1 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV

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.

John the Baptist said this as well:

John 1:29 NKJV

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

This is where Jesus is baptized and starts his earthly ministry.

Peter said he was without blemish or defect:

1 Peter 1:19 NKJV

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

That means we have a perfect sacrifice, a sacrifice that doesn’t just roll our sins forward a year, but one that forgives all of our sins.

Paul tells us in:

Colossians 2:13–14 NKJV

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

The writer of Hebrews steps through what everything means.

Jesus is our High Priest and King

We have a New Covenant

Blood is required for the remission of sins

Jesus is our new sacrifice

His death perfects us

He concludes by saying:

Hebrews 10:11–14 NKJV

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Jesus, who was without sin, died so that we could be without sin

Jesus was what the passover was pointing toward

Conclusion

I want you to think about the imagery of what happened that last week:

We need to go back to Palm Sunday.

He was selected as the Passover Lamb

He lived in the household of Israel for a few days

He was brought forth and nailed to the cross

At the same the passover lamb was tied to alter for sacrifice

At twilight, as the passover lamb was slain, Jesus yelled “It is finished”

The veil was torn

When that happened, the veil that was in the Temple between the Holy Place and the Holiest of Holiest was torn.

That means we have access to the Father through the sacrifice of Jesus.

If you want to be free of your sins then apply the blood of the Passover Lamb to the doorposts of your heart

If you repent and trust in the sacrifice of Jesus, you will be saved

Jesus was and is our Passover Lamb Believe and you are part of the Fam

Do you believe that?

Do you Jesus as your savior?

Believe and be saved

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