The Necessary Lamb

Josh Owens

Clear Springs Baptist Church

The Exodus • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

Exodus 12:1–11

Blood of Christ

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1) The First Lamb

How was God going to deliver his people from bondage?

He would use a lamb.

defenseless, gentle, weak, they can’t even run very good.

However, if you are hunger you can kill it, if you are cold you can shear it.

A picture of Jesus Christ.

Possible true story: I heard of man who worked in a slaughterhouse and had been slaughtering beef, and they began to process lambs. He said that, when a lamb came through, he wasn’t prepared for it. He lifted the chin, put the knife in, and the blood began to run. That little lamb just looked up at him when the blood spurted on his hand—on the man’s hand—and the lamb began to lick the blood from that man’s hand.

And he said, “I put down my knife and got another job.” He said, “I felt guilty for killing the lamb.”

A. The Lamb’s character (v5)

“without blemish”

Keep that lamb in the house for three days; and all during those three days they were examining that lamb to make sure there was not a blemish on the skin—not a flaw, and not a crooked limb. [Rogers, A. (2017). The Lamb of Promise. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ex 12:1–22). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.]

That lamb had to be a spotless lamb, a pure lamb, because that lamb pictured the Lord Jesus. [Rogers, A. (2017). The Lamb of Promise. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ex 12:1–22). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.]

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

B. The Lamb’s condemnation

You may ask yourself, “How could a precious and innocent lamb be condemned?

Notice verse 6

They would take the lamb on the tenth day and keep it until the fourteenth day for a time of examination.

At three o’clock in the afternoon on the fourteenth day, the father of the house would kill this lamb.

Pull it up close, pull up the chin, take the razor-sharp knife and cut the throat of that lamb.

The blood would spurt out and would be caught into a basin.

The innocent lamb would die!

Notice what God is teaching them...

Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

There are may today who don’t like the idea of the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Some denominations have even removed songs from their worship that speak about the blood.

As we are going to see, the ONLY criteria that would cause the death angel to pass over was THE BLOOD!

He cannot be your example until, first of all, He becomes your Savior.

Salvation does not come by learning lessons from the life of Christ but by receiving life from the death of Christ.

C. The Lamb’s confession (v7)

The only place of safety was within the house! WHY?

It was the entrance of each Jewish home that was to have the blood applied to the frame of the door.

Can you imagine the look on the Egyptians faces? Can you imagine what they were thinking?

They was no doubt where the blood had been applied!

God was saying, “When I see what others can see, I will pass over.”

D. The Lamb’s communion (vv8-10)

Now they were to take this lamb, and after they shed the blood, they were to roast the lamb. That pictures Jesus Christ suffering the fires of God’s judgment. [Rogers, A. (2017). The Lamb of Promise. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ex 12:1–22). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.]

When fire is applied to a sacrifice, it always judgement.

As we will see, a beautiful picture of the wrath Jesus received on the cross.

They also ate it!

They were instructed to consume it according to the number of their house.

All of Egypt had to smell like roasted lamb.

What was happening was these Jews were becoming a people.

They were fellowshipping over the lamb.

When they came out of Egypt, a lamb walked out in them.

A lamb was in every one of them.

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

2) The Last Lamb

A. Jesus’ character

They bred the Passover lambs in Bethlehem.

They were the best lambs, without blemish.

(Palm Sunday) Those Passover shepherds were bringing those Passover lambs into the city of Jerusalem, into the Sheep Gate, up to the Temple Mount to be killed.

On that same Sunday, Jesus Christ was coming through the Eastern Gate into the city of Jerusalem up to the Temple Mount.

Those lambs are coming. God’s Lamb is coming.

Now those lambs began to be examined by the priest. They would look so meticulously, so carefully, over each one of these little lambs, these little Passover lambs.

At the same time, the Lamb was being examined. [Rogers, A. (2017). The Lamb of Promise. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ex 12:1–22). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.]

Notice these passages:

John 7:46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.

John 18:38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.

John 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

B. Jesus’ condemnation

Jewish day began at sundown (6pm)

During the Passover meal Jesus partook with His disciples, He took the BREAD and break it.

“This is my body which is broken for you.

Jewish custom: They carried a bag with three pieces of bread. They always removed the middle piece.

They finally understood how that had represented the TRINITY for all those years.

The chair and the cup that was always presented at an empty chair was now presented to the Messiah.

By nine o’clock the next morning Jesus is on his way to be crucified.

To Mount Moriah. We call it Calvary.

It was on Mount Moriah that God told Abraham what? “God will provide himself a lamb” on that mountain. “God will provide himself a lamb.” (Genesis 22:8)

And, my friend, God was doing that. “In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.” (Genesis 22:14)

That is, in this mount it will be seen. “Abraham, do you want to know where it’s going to happen? Right here, Abraham, where you offered up Isaac and were willing to do that.” “In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.” “God will provide himself a lamb.” [Rogers, A. (2017). The Lamb of Promise. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (Ex 12:1–22). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.]

When Jesus is nailed to the cross those little Passover lambs are there as well.

When Jesus died, the priests cut the throats of those lambs.

When Jesus said, “it is finished,” He was saying, “We don’t the Levites, their knives or those sheep any longer!”

C. Jesus’ confession

I cannot stress enough why PUBLIC CONFESSION is so important.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Matthew 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

D. Jesus’ communion

Remember, they were to feed on the lamb.

Did you know that is exactly what we do (in a representation kind of way) when we partake of the Lord’s table?

You are showing that the Lamb has conquered sin and lives in us.

What a wonderful thing to know that we have Jesus in us.

That is why when we partake of the Lord’s table, we should never approach it like you’re going to a funeral.

Conclusion

(v11) We worship a risen Savior who has promised to quickly come again and rapture His children out of this dark place.

(v13) As the death angel was promised to visit them, so will our appointEd time with death come to us. Only the BLOOD will determine deaths impact on your soul.

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