Mountains of PROTECTION - Passover
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Summary – Personal participation with God’s revival provides providential protection!
Jesus saved us from eternal death so we can live for Him
History – from a “mountaintop” perspective
Moses climbed Mt Sinai and met with God through the burning bush and accepted the call to rescue God’s people from slavery.
Moses left the mountain to return to Egypt to confront Pharoah with God’s WORD and God’s POWER
God supported Moses by performing nine plagues against the Egyptians
The 10th and final plague would occur on the night of Passover –
10 plagues, sometimes revival has to be fought for. Are you willing to fight for revival? Do you take the freedoms of others seriously have to press through regardless of the cost?
PROMISE of Revival = Encouragement
PROMISE of Revival = Encouragement
1 While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the Lord gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron:
The Gospel is the Good News of freedom!
Even while still in Egypt, God’s PROCESS of revival starts with the PROMISE of revival
· God would deliver the nation of Israel on the last night of their 430th year in Egypt.
· Like the children of Israel, you may have been in bondage to sin that has enslaved you for years, such as addictions or anger, but let God bring you out!
· How do we obtain freedom? Not by good works, but by God’s grace of substitution.
PROVISION for Revival = God’s Part
PROVISION for Revival = God’s Part
3 Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household.
5 The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.
· God KNOWS what you need for revival – deliverance
· God HAS what you need for revival – a deliverer
· Jesus is the lamb of God, our substitute (John 1:29).
· He is the only person in the human race who has ever lived a sinless life.
· The rulers of Jesus day continually look for some fault and what Jesus would say or do, but no sin was ever found.
· All we must do is accept God’s free gift of salvation by giving Him our sin.
PARTICIPATION in Revival = Us
PARTICIPATION in Revival = Us
7 They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the animal.
22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning.
Life is in the blood
· Sin causes death, and blood must be shed to pay for it
· Since we cannot pay for our own sin with our own blood, we must rely on a substitute.
o In the Old Testament, the substitute for sin was a sacrificial animal.
o In the New Testament, our substitute is the Son of God himself.
Participation
· Even though God FULFILLED His part, our revival will never be complete without PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT.
· It is not enough to simply read about revival, we must do our part and become actively involved, both in God’s planand process of revival.
· The Hyssop branches represented the bitterness of slavery. The top and sides of the door frame re a type and shadow of the cross of Calvary, on which Jesus, the Lamb of God, would shed His sinless blood for all of humanity once and for all.
· Personal salvation – like the Israelites of old, we too must apply the blood of the sacrificial lamb of Jesus to the door posts of our heart. No one else can make your decision for you. Personal revival begins with a personal responseto God’s leading.
PREPARATION for Revival = Urgency
PREPARATION for Revival = Urgency
11 “These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed, wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the Lord’s Passover.
· “Your instructions” – WE must be prepared for revival!
· Dressed, wear – prepared to GO – different clothes for different purposes – active wear vs sleeping wear
· Carry walking stick – prepared for the journey of revival, regardless of its length
· Eat – eating the lamb of God makes us prepared with energy for revival.
· Urgency – People have suffered long enough!
o God has announced that it is time for action!
o The prayers of God’s people have reached their fullness.
o Moses has obeyed God’s message and commands.
o Now the fullness of deliverance is upon an entire nation!
o Revival often begins quickly!
o Let’s live every day as if today is our day for revival.
· Passover = “to spare”
· Israel’s cooperation with God’s revival resulted in them being spared from the death and destruction in and of the world around them.
o In these last days, God will again spare His people from the end time wrath that is coming upon the Egyptian system of human bondage in our generation.
12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the Lord!
· Revival ends the last night of misery!
PROTECTION of Revival
PROTECTION of Revival
23 For the Lord will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the Lord will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.
Yeast
Yeast
19 During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
50 So all the people of Israel followed all the Lord’s commands to Moses and Aaron.
51 On that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.
Our Turn
Isn’t it wonderful how God used a fearful fugitive to free the families of Israel?
If God could use Moses, he can use anyone willing to carry out God‘s plan for revival in our generation.
Moses personal revival took him into Egypt. Israel’s public revival brought them out of Egypt. Corporate revival not only set free individuals, but also marriages, families, communities, even the entire nation.
The necessity for revival cannot be stressed enough. Its far-reaching effects can transform masses of people in a very short period. Haven’t we lost enough already? Has not the church had enough defeat and delay that we will not use this time to press through to victory? The church needs to see people through the eyes of our Father. As God saw the hurting masses under the brutal end of Egyptian taskmasters, so should today’s church see our society through eyes of compassion to the point of intervention in the form of intercession for those held captive and exercising spiritual authority over the forces of darkness that will try to keep generations in bondage.
REMEMBER the Revival = All Generations
REMEMBER the Revival = All Generations
17 “Celebrate this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation.
Last Supper = Remembers our Passover Revival
Last Supper = Remembers our Passover Revival
7 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed.
19 He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
20 After supper he took another cup of wine and said, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
Christ our Passover Lamb
Christ our Passover Lamb
7 Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
8 So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread of sincerity and truth.
Today, we remember Jesus as our sacrificial lamb when we take communion.
Jesus’ shed blood has given us mountains of protection from the enemy’s destruction through sin.
Jesus’ broken body has given us mountains of provision through healing.
Jesus is our personal revival from spiritual death!