All right, if you'll take your
Bibles now and turn with me to Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 11. We'll be looking at verse 28
this morning. Hebrews 11 and verse 28. It would be helpful if I got back to my
notes. And I would title this message, True Faith Keeps the
Passover. All true faith keeps the Passover. Look at this in verse 28 of Hebrews
chapter 11. It says this, Through faith he,
speaking of Moses, kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Now, as we've seen in our study
of true faith, I know this is the heart of every believer in
Christ, is to desire this, to know this. Do I have God-given
faith? There is nothing more essential.
There is nothing more desirous to know that the believer truly
trusts in Christ. And that's what this, what we
call the hall of faith is given for, because it gives us examples
of what true faith looks like. And here we're going to see that
true faith keeps the past. But we've seen this faith of
Moses in our recent study, that the faith of Moses and the true
faith in Christ, all true faith repents from sin. All true faith
repents from self-righteousness and turns to Christ. Now you see this in Moses' faith
here when he says in verse 24, by faith Moses, when he has come
to years, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
choosing rather to suffer the afflictions with the people of
God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. All true
believers refuse to be numbered with Adam's race. We turn from
all hopes of self to salvation. Like Moses, we refuse earthly wisdom and to
remain a son of Pharaoh's daughter. True faith. True faith. Beholding the Word of God, Moses
was willing to choose rather to suffer with the people of
God. Now God told Abraham a long time before this that his people,
his seed would be held captive for 400 years, and that he would
keep them in Egypt there, but that he would deliver them not
by the power of the throne of Pharaoh, but rather by his own
arm. Therefore Moses refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Consider the reasoning here.
He could have reasoned and said, Well, if I'm Pharaoh, then surely
I can help out my people better. But no, he remembered the prophecy.
He remembered that God would deliver them not by the throne
of Pharaoh, but by the power of his own arm. Therefore, he
esteemed the riches of Christ. greater than the treasures of
Egypt and the sins of Egypt. So what did true faith do? It
forsook Egypt. What does true faith always do? It forsakes this world. It forsakes
itself and sin and turns and chooses the riches of Christ. This is a unifying testimony
of every true believer. We were by grace made to see
the vanity of this world. We see by the power of God the
vanity of works religion. We see that the law of God only
can condemn us and not save us. It cannot show mercy or leniency. And remember, when the grace
of God came to us in power, it revealed the vanity of these
things. But it also then, in grace, revealed
the gospel to us. The Spirit of God revealed the
gospel of Christ. The promise of God to deliver
captives, not by the power of man, but by the power of His
Spirit. And His reward, Moses, the Scripture
says this, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater than the riches
and treasures of Egypt, For he had respect under the recompense
of the reward. You see, he knew that there was
a reward of Christ was greater than the rewards of Egypt. And we know this by grace that
his reward, the reward of Christ, is not a fleeting treasure of
Egypt. The treasures of Christ are spiritual. Therefore they're eternal, never
ending. Consider this, righteousness. There's the reward of Christ,
righteousness. Atonement for sins, redemption,
wisdom, holiness, peace with God. These are not fleeting riches. These are eternal riches. So
compare the riches of the world and compare the riches of Christ
And which is greater? The riches of Christ are far
greater than the riches of this world. Therefore, one quickened
by the Holy Spirit. Choosing Christ is not a choice
at all, is it? You have a man dying of thirst. Give him water or sand. Which
will he choose? Well, it's not a choice at all,
is it? He will take the water or die, give a man starving to
death food or stones. Which would he choose? Well,
it'd be foolish to think he'd choose anything but the food.
And so it is with Christ. So it is with true faith. We
are made willing in the day of His power. We are given a new
nature. A new heart that longs to be
found in Christ, having no confidence in the flesh. Remember that Canaanite
woman who came to the Lord, and he seemed to ignore her. Disciples
said, Lord, send her away. She crieth after us. She wasn't
crying after them. She wanted Christ, and she would
not be silenced until she had Christ, and so it is with true
faith. True faith longs for Christ rather
than the riches and treasures of Egypt. You see how the faith
of Moses then relates to true faith. He rejected the things
of Egypt, even so does true faith reject the things of this world.
Works religion, rejected. Self-salvation, rejected. Why? We have recompense of the
reward. We know the reward of Christ is far greater. Therefore,
we choose rather to suffer with the children of God than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season. Now then, look at your text now.
We're going to see this faith of Moses again. And see what
else the Holy Spirit reveals to us. He says, through faith
he kept the Passover. The first thing mentioned of
his faith here is the keeping of Passover. Now the Lord God
delivered to that nation of Egypt nine plagues before the Passover. Nine plagues. Two of which, only
two of those plagues had any effect on the children of God.
That was the lice and the river of blood. Those are the only
two things that had any effect. The other seven plagues were
separate. They only affected the Egyptians. They didn't affect God's people. But this one, this last one,
was the greatest and most awful plague that God poured out on
that nation. For that night, The scripture
will tell us, and I want you to go over to Exodus chapter
12, if you will, because we're going to be reading from here
most of the rest of the time. So Exodus chapter 12. This last
and greatest plague, God says in the night, in that night,
the night of the Passover, the angel of the Lord is going to
go through all the land of Egypt and kill the firstborn of man
and beast. He's going to go into every house,
not just the Egyptians' houses, but those who are the nation
of Israel. Every house. Every house. Yet, I want you to see this.
God made provisions for His people. He made a way by which their
firstborn should be spared from death, and that was this offering
of Passover. Look at verse 12. Chapter 12. He says I will pass through the
land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt both man and beast and Against all the
gods of Egypt. Will I execute judgment? I am
the Lord and The blood now this is the
provision that he has already set forth the blood of the Passover
lamb is to be a token of upon the houses you are in. And when
I see the blood, only when I see the blood will I pass over you
and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite
Egypt. Now Moses was commanded of God
in this provision to take a lamb, a lamb, not just any lamb. It
was a very specific lamb. that must be taken. It must be
a spotless lamb. It must be a lamb without blemish.
It could not be crippled. It could not be maimed in any
way. It could not have any blemish in its hair. You know, going
over with a fine-tooth comb, you've heard that. This comes
from those Jews when they would inspect the Passover. They would
take a comb and go through the lamb to see if there were any
blemish. It had to be spotless. It must
be a male. It must be of the first year. It must be taken from every house. Every house that had enough people
in it to eat that lamb, they were to take that lamb from that
house. And if your house was too small,
you couldn't eat a lamb, you couldn't finish it all together,
then you would go to your neighbor's house and you would partake in
that lamb with them. And this lamb was to be taken
from among the sheep and the goats. Now this lamb then was
to be set aside for four days. For four days this lamb was to
be set aside to make sure of its purity. This lamb was to
be killed, its blood must be shed, not in secret, but in front
of the whole congregation. In front of the whole congregation.
Look at this. Let's go ahead and read what
I've just I've just said here He said in verse 3 Speak you
to the congregation of Israel saying in the tenth day of this
month You shall take every man a lamb According to the house
of their fathers a lamb for an house if the household be too
little for the lamb Let him and his neighbor take next unto his
house Take it according to the number of souls Every man, according
to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb. For the lamb
shall be without blemish, a male of the first year, and you shall
take it from the sheep and from the goats, and you shall keep
it until the fourteenth day of the same month. That's four days.
They take it on the tenth day, and from the tenth day until
the fourteenth day, they inspect it. And then the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And then they're going to take
this blood, and they're going to spike the doorpost and the
upper doorpost, wherein they shall eat it. Then they're going
to eat the flesh that night. They're going to roast it and
eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall
eat it. And don't eat it raw or sodden with water. Roast it
with fire, his head with his legs, and with the pureness thereof. And you shall
let nothing of it remain until the morning. And that which remaineth
of it in the morning, you shall burn it with fire. And thus shall
you eat it with your loins girded, and your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it with haste. It is the Lord's Passover. It is the Lord's Passover. And
then we see this, when God comes through that night, He says this,
When I see the blood, only when I see the blood will I pass Now
then, let us see the faith of Moses in keeping this, in keeping
this Passover. I've got a question. How could
the blood of a little lamb satisfy or sussate the justice of God? How could the blood of a little
lamb make such a difference? How could the helpless creature
be sufficient to keep at bay the judgment of God? That's a question. Now, I want
you to know this. If God killed everyone, He would
be just. If God went through Egypt and
made no provision, God would still be just because all were
sinners. All were sinners. There was no
difference between the seed of Jacob and the seed of the Egyptians
because they were all sons of Adam. They were all sons of Adam. Yet here we see Moses trusting
God. Moses believed the promise of
God concerning his just judgment. And concerning the deliverance
of Israel. So he in faith He in faith kept this Passover.
He did so seeing it as it really was intended. A type and a picture. A type and a picture of how God
saves sinners. Notice this in verse 13. He said,
And the blood shall be to you for a what? A token. A picture. token or a picture
upon the houses where you were in. This was to be a token of
true deliverance. You see, that lamb, we're going
to see this in just a minute, that lamb actually did not remove
the sins of God's people. That blood of that lamb was simply
for this. It was only a token. A picture. The elect of God in this history
are pictured by the nation of Israel. What condition were the nation
of Israel in at this time? They were in bondage. They were
in bondage to Egypt. Even so, are we all born in bondage
to sin? We are born captives. We could
by no means, like Israel, free ourselves. Jesus said this, Whosoever committed
sin is a servant, a slave of sin. Have you committed sin? This is proof of our old nature. It is captive. It cannot free
itself. We all have sinned and by nature
fallen from the glory of God. Thus, all we do, all we do is
mixed with sin. Remember what he said in Genesis
chapter 6 and verse 5, when God looked upon the face of the earth,
he said he saw the wickedness of man was great. That every imagination of the
thought This strikes me because what is the imagination? It's
the thing before the thought. It's the thought before the thought.
He said the imagination, the thought before the thought. Is in his heart only evil continually. And because we have sinned, we
are in bondage, we are in servitude, we are under the law and justice
of God, guilty, unable to satisfy its just demands. How foolish is it for man to
think he can merit his own salvation? How contemptible is his thought
of God's justice? How small is his God to think
he is capable of satisfying such a holy God? It's foolishness
to think a man could merit it by his obedience to the law,
because the law was by no means given for deliverance. Paul says
the purpose of the law was only to expose sin. The law was to shut us up to
guilt. So then in Romans 3, he tells
us, therefore, because we are all sinners, therefore, by the
deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge
sin not by the law is the salvation from sin but it's the knowledge
of sin it's the knowledge of sin that
every mouth may become guilty before God that's the purpose
of the law so then the judgment of God must come upon the sinner
the Lord Jesus Christ when he comes again he will not come
in meekness he will not come in lowliness he will come as
a king and and a judge. When he comes the second time,
he will come as a king and a judge, and he will judge all men according
to their works. And all who are found guilty
of sin he will punish, just as he went through the Egypt that
night of the Passover, and he killed the firstborn of everyone
without the blood. So is it when Christ comes, everyone
without the blood of Christ, everyone who is not washed in
the blood of Christ will be cast into hell forever. Every guilty soul must be punished
and they will suffer the full, just measure of God's wrath eternally. Eternally. So then I ask this,
since all are sinners, is there hope? Well, I wouldn't be here
if there wasn't. We'd be wasting our time. I'll
tell you, there's false religions wasting their time. They're wasting
their time and their money. There's no hope in it. There's
no hope to save themselves. But I'm here to give you hope.
If you are a sinner, I'm here to give you hope by this. There
is a Passover lamb. There is a lamb whose blood,
having been shed and applied to the hearts of men, God will
pass over them. God will pass over them. The only hope for sinners is
a Passover lamb, which was pictured and given here as a token, which
is none other than Jesus Christ. Now Paul declares this in 1 Corinthians
chapter 5. Let me read it to you. 1 Corinthians
chapter 5 and verse 7. He's encouraging believers. He
said this, exhorts us. He said, Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump as
you are unleavened. Leaven has to do with sin, the
old nature. He's telling us to purge out
the old nature, to put off the old man and his deeds, the old
man and his thoughts, which believers constantly do. We desire nothing
of the old man. I know you can't stop him. I
know you can't stop his thoughts. You can't stop his feelings.
You can't stop his, put him off constantly. The old leaven. Why? Because you are unleavened. Because that new nature resides
in you is without sin, without leaven. Now how in the world
is that possible? Tell me, Scott, how in the world
are you unleavened? How in the world does God say
you are holy? Four, even Christ, our Passover,
is sacrificed for us. That's how God passes over you
and sees you to be holy, for Christ is our Passover. Believers are to purge out the
old for this cause, because Christ is our Passover, because God
has made us unleavened. Now, in this type, the Holy Spirit
shows us Christ. And it's my desire that God,
the Holy Spirit, show us the true Passover this morning. You
want to know why God passes over you? His judgment does not condemn
you? When your own conscience does? When your friends and neighbors
can point their fingers and condemn you, How is it that God can still
pass over you? I want you to see that. I want
you to see how God can pass over you, and I want you to see how
he does it justly. He righteously passes over us. It's my heart's desire that every
sinner then may not only see this, but I pray that God apply
it. If you don't have the blood,
I pray that God would apply it. And then you may eat this Passover. I want you to eat this morning.
I want you to eat just like they ate this Passover. I want you
to eat it half by faith. That's how we eat this Passover.
And so, first of all, the Passover lamb. First of all, it says this,
it must be without spot or blemish. Behold Jesus Christ, our Passover
is without spot and without blemish. And we know this because He Himself
is the Son of God, the eternal Son of God, one with the Father
and the Spirit. But in order for us to be spotless,
we must have a spotless Lamb offered. In order for us to be
accepted of God, we must of necessity also be without spot, which cannot
be accomplished by our nature or our works. Therefore, Christ
himself must have assumed our nature in order to become our
representative, in order to be our surety, to be our high priest
and to be our Passover. He himself must take upon himself
our nature. God the Son condescended from
glory and became a man. The lowest of men. The lowest of men. Scripture tells us that as Adam
was our representative. Adam, when he came into the world,
he was the highest. The highest that a man could
be without Christ. Adam was it. But we know this,
he failed. He failed. The highest of us,
the best of us fail. But when he failed, he was not
a private man. He didn't fall just for himself.
He fell for his whole race. In Adam, the Scripture says this,
in Adam all died. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon
all men. He was a representative. So when
Adam all died, even so for us to live and be accepted, Jesus
Christ must become the second Adam. He must become a man. To become a high priest and representative,
he must be made flesh, taken from the race of men. I like
that. When the scripture says back
in Exodus, he says he must be taken from the sheep and the
goats. Didn't make any sense. Where else are you going to find
a sheep? You're going to find him in the middle of the sheep
and goats. What does this mean? Christ is going to be taken from
among men. There are only two types of men, aren't there? Sheep
and goats. Elect and reprobate. Where was
Christ taken from? From Middledam. He was taken
from among men. What a wonderful thing the Holy
Spirit has left us to tell us that Christ should be taken from
among men. And it's here in the flesh that
the holiness of God was made effectual for the children of
God. By the perfection of Christ,
by the obedience of Christ, righteousness itself was formed. Christ had
righteousness all by Himself. He didn't need to become a man
to be righteous. When Christ was obeying the law,
that was just natural. It was His nature. He could do
nothing else but obey the law as a man. It was His. It was
His law. But when He actually did it,
He did it in the stead of us. So when you think of that spotless
lamb, I want you to think of Christ. I want you to see the
beauty of his holiness. The glory of his obedience. As
a man, he suffered and learned obedience by the things he suffered. This lamb was a token, a picture
so that you and I should see the glory and beauty and innocence
Righteousness of Christ that He has made for us. For by one
man's disobedience, many were made sinners. You identify with that? That's
talking about me. By that one man, I was made a
sinner. I don't fight against that. That's
just true. Even so, just the same way, even
so, by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Even the righteousness of God
Himself, obtained by the faith and obedience
of Christ unto all and upon all them that what? Believe. You believe on this Passover
lamb? You rest your soul on the merits
of this Passover lamb? Moses did. He kept this Passover
looking to Christ. And what do you see? He saw a
perfect sacrifice. Perfect righteousness. Secondly,
the lamb must be inspected. When Christ came to this world,
was he not inspected? Constantly was he being inspected.
We get we mock at the Pharisees questions. We mock at their their
they're trying to trip him up. It's kind of it's foolishness
to us. We have the whole counsel of God. We have the whole reveal
word of God before us. So we have something that those
that didn't have in that day. But consider this, those questions
and testings were necessary. In order to fit this picture,
the Passover lamb must be inspected. And what did they find when they
inspected him? His enemy said that... I'm going
to give you what his enemy said. His enemy said, never a man spake
like this man. Never a man spake like this man. Pilate, in his judgment, he said,
I find no fault in this man. They inspected him. And Jesus
himself, he posed this challenge. Which of you convinces me of
sin? That's a challenge. Find one
sin in me. And they found none. I read this
the other day. I don't think I've ever read
this before. You realize that Christ was delivered to the Jews
four days before his death? He entered into Jerusalem four
days before his death. When he came in, that triumph
entry from then was four days. How long the Lamb got to be expected?
Four days. What a wonderful thing the Lord
has left us. You can't mistake that this is Christ. You can't.
Thirdly, the Lamb must be slain. Oh, I want to read this to you.
Remember that passage in Isaiah chapter 28? It says, Behold,
I lay in Zion a stone. What kind of stone? A tried stone. Now, I know this. I want to know
that Christ is able to say, if you're ever going to believe
on Christ, you've got to know He's able, right? The Scriptures have tried
Him. They've proved Him to be the
spotless Passover Lamb. And thirdly, this Lamb must be
slain. And it must be slain in the midst of the congregation.
Go back and look at this. It says in verse 6, He said,
You shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month, and the
whole assembly, The whole assembly of the congregation shall kill
it at a very specific time, in the evening. Though God had promised
deliverance to His people before the Passover, it was not instituted,
not yet. Though it had been ordained before,
also the means by which their deliverance was also ordained,
by the death of a lamb. Now we know the truth that this
lamb was slain, this lamb slain in Egypt, had no power to deliver
them from sin. This physical lamb, right? No
matter how spotless that physical lamb was, it still had no power
to deliver them from sin. Paul said this, it's not possible
for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sin. that we know that
no man was physically delivered without this blood. Without this blood, regardless
of who they were, if they had not the blood, they did not escape
Egypt physically. But what is more vital about
this Passover is who it pictures. that God the Father, who has
chosen His people to be holy and righteous before Him, which
righteousness was accomplished by Jesus' perfect obedience as
our federal head, God the Father also ordained that the sins of
His people, those sins that we have actually committed, that
all of those sins should not be imputed to them. That was the will of God from
eternity, is that your sins, the sins of His people, that
they should not be imputed to you. What mercy is this? That God decreed and ordained
that the sins of His people, rebellious people, The rebellion
of his elect should not be charged to them, and that they should
never be punished for their sins. What mercy! Listen to what David
said. He said this, Blessed is the
man to whom the Lord will not impute iniquity. That's a blessed fellow. That's
a blessed man, isn't it? But how can God be just and be
merciful to the guilty? That is the conundrum that false
religion can't answer. False religion says, well, God
just sweeps them under the rug, or God's like an old grandpa.
He just kindly forgives you without payment. That's not God. That's not God. But how can God
be just and really clear the guilty? How can He justly pass
over these sinners? The only way is that justice
be satisfied, that sin be actually punished. But how can God be
merciful to save us? Behold then the Passover Lamb. It was here we see the doctrine
of substitution very clearly stated, that the innocent was
to die in the stead of the guilty. Therefore Jesus, the Son of God,
was ordained to be that Lamb, in that He was made an offering
for sin. Isaiah 53 and verse 10, It pleased
the Lord to do what? To bruise Him, to crush Him. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. Ah, what did he
see? What did Christ see as he was
being crushed? He saw his seed. God prolonged
his days, and the pleasure of the Lord prospered in his hand.
And he shall see of the travail of his soul, and be satisfied. God is never pleased with the
offering and sacrifice of sinners. For the death of the sinner is
only a just reward. That's why hell is eternal, isn't
it? Because it's only just that they die forever. It's only just. It's only right. There's no reward there. But notice we read in Hebrews
chapter 10. Go over to Hebrews chapter 10.
Look at this in Hebrews chapter 10. Look at verse 5. Wherefore he,
the Passover lamb, he cometh unto the world, he saith this,
Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not. In other words, I don't
want your sinful offerings. I don't want your sinful sacrifices.
There's no need for that. What's our hope? A body hast
thou prepared me. And burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin now is no pleasure. Then said I, said the Passover
Lamb, Lo, I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. Isn't that what we're doing this morning?
Taking the volume of the book and showing you how it's written
of Christ. He's the Passover Lamb. It's written of me. To do thy will, O God. Above, when he said, Sacrifice
and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldst
not have no pleasure therein which are offered by the law.
Then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away
the first, he may establish the second. By the which will, I
come to do thy will, by the which will we are made holy, sanctified. How? Through the offering of
the body of Christ Jesus once for all. See then the grace and
love and power of God in sending Christ to do his will, which
is to offer himself without spot to God. And God in justice, God
in justice, imputed your sins to his son. You see, your sins
weren't swept under the rug. In order for Israel to be delivered,
there must be an offering. In order for you and I to be
delivered, there must be an offering. It must be sinless. It must be
spotless. Christ was. But you and I are
not. Where did your sins go? If you
are unleavened, Scott, where did your sins go? To Christ. Hold this morning. The lamb slain in the midst of
the congregation was Christ. This thing was not done in a
corner. This thing was done in the open. Jews, Gentiles, sheep,
goats, all gathered together to crucify Him. And having our sins imputed to
Him, He suffered like no other man. He suffered under the just
weight and measure of God's eternal vengeance. Unmixed with mercy. Hebrews 10 verse 14, For by one
offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. whereof
the Holy Ghost is also witness to us. For after that he had
said before, this is the covenant I will make with them after those
days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts
and in their minds will I write them, listen, and because of
his offering, listen, their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. Now where there is remission,
there is no more offering for sin. Now, people of Israel, they
did this Passover every year as a token, as a picture. It's
like they're preaching the gospel every year they did this Passover.
How many times were they delivered from Egypt? Once. When Christ died, you pay attention,
you were redeemed. You were bought. You were bought
with a price. There is no more offering for
sin. Aren't you grateful that there's
no more offering for you to make? He made one offering, and this
offering was by His blood. Now then, the blood of this Passover
lamb must be applied. I've got to move quickly. God
ordained that to save Israel, this Passover blood must be applied
to the doorpost and to the top of the doorpost. of every house,
of every house in the nation of Israel. Verse 10, he said
to them, make sure I get this, no, I'm sorry, verse 7. He said,
Take the blood, strike it upon the two sides of the post, the
upper post of the house, wherein thou shalt eat it. And he said,
When I see the blood, when I see the blood applied, then I will
pass over you. This is a type. This is a type. That night, if
one household had done all that had been spoken before and failed
to apply the blood, would they be delivered? No. Therefore, what is true of the
type is also true of the real. It matters not if a man intellectually,
mentally, consents to the election of God, acknowledges the righteousness
and blood of Christ as sufficient, If the Holy Spirit hath not applied
this blood to the heart of that man, it will do him no good.
This blood must be applied. In the Passover, it was applied
physically, but how is it applied spiritually? Simply this. It
is done by the power of the Holy Spirit in the regeneration of
the new nature. That's when the sprinkling of
blood takes place. There's nothing you can do to sprinkle this on
yourself. The firstborn was the one in
jeopardy. Am I right? The firstborn of
the house was in jeopardy. It was not the job of the firstborn
to apply it. It was the job of the head of
the house to apply the blood for the firstborn. So it is the
job of the Holy Spirit to apply this blood to the hearts of men.
Do what you will. Pray as much as you want. Weep
as much as you want. Lament as much as you want. You
cannot apply this. It is the work of the Spirit.
It is the work of the Spirit of God to make application of
this sprinkling of blood. But what then is the evidence
that the blood is sprinkled on my heart? I always thought this
interesting. That night, firstborn, sitting
in that house. I'm sure he had a lot of anxiety,
a lot of fear. Dad, are you sure that you applied
the blood? Are you sure? Daddy, are you
sure that that lamb was spotless? Are you sure? Yes, son, I made
sure the lamb was spotless. Did you put it on the top? Did
you put it on the sides? Are you sure it's enough? Did
you put enough blood on the top? He had a lot of questions. How
many times are we like that? That first born. Father, are
You sure He was pure enough? Father, is His blood, is Christ's
blood truly sufficient to save me? To redeem me? Father, am I in the house with
the blood? Is there blood applied to my
heart? I can't see it. I can't see it. You know what? It doesn't matter
if you see it. God says, not when you see the blood, when I see the blood. But how do I know I have it? Verse 8, And they shall eat the flesh
that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, And with
bitter herbs shall they eat it. Everyone who has the blood has
the lamb. And what do we do with this lamb?
We eat it. Jesus said, Whosoever eateth
my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life. She'll never hunger. She'll never
thirst. Never hunger, never thirst for
righteousness. And notice how we eat it. It's
roasted. It's done. Isn't that amazing? It's done. You don't eat it raw. You got to eat it done. How is
our salvation? Is it raw? Do we have to do anything
to it? Do we sodden it or water it down? No, it's roasted. It's done.
Your salvation is done. Eat it. Rejoice in it. And how do you eat it? He said,
you eat it with unleavened bread. That's the same thing Paul said,
when you put it out. Put out all leaven. What is the
leaven? Remember the leaven of the Pharisees? He said, beware
the leaven of the Pharisees. What do they got to put out?
Leaven of self-righteousness. Put it out. Put it out. eat unleavened bread. Christ
said, I am the bread of life. What do we do with that? Eat
it. With what? Bitter herbs. Believer, is this
life not mixed with bitter herbs? I don't know if you found it
out yet or not, but this life is full of bitter herbs. We have common bitterness with
lost men, but I tell you, it's worse for the believer. This world is nothing but full
of disappointments and griefs and sorrows and pains. And notice this, in verse 11, you shall eat it. How
are you going to eat this bread? With your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, your staff in your hand. and you shall eat
it with haste. It is the Lord's Passover. Consider
this. This is exactly what Paul is
saying in Ephesians chapter 6. Ephesians chapter 6. Let me see if I can find Ephesians.
Come on. He said this. Put on the whole
armor of God. Try to find that finally, let's
see. Wherefore taking to you the whole armor of God, verse
13, that you may be able to withstand the evil day, and having done
all to stand, stand therefore having your loins girded. Know
what he just said? Said that thousands of years
before, didn't he? Gird up your loins. With what?
Truth. What do you hold your pants on
with? Belt. Belt of truth. girded up tight. Gird up your loins with the truth.
Having the breastplate of righteousness, something to guard the heart,
the feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, shoes
on your feet, ready to go. Ready to go where? Ready to go
home. Now, where is Israel going? They're
ready to go home to God's promised land. What do you be ready to
do? Go home. Leaning on what? Your staff. What do you lean
on? What do you lean on? You lean
on Christ. Lean on His Word. Staff in your hand. Listen. This
is the Lord's Passover. Who? Jesus Christ. He is the spotless Lamb of God. He was slain in the midst of
the congregation. He obtained righteousness and
redemption and deliverance for Israel. He applies the blood
of Christ, the Holy Spirit applies that blood of Christ to your
heart, and by faith we do eat Him, loins girded, shoes on our
feet, staff in our hand, ready to go. Why? We have been delivered. We have been delivered by the
Passover lamb. Thank God ever keep our eyes
fixed on the Passover lamb. Our gracious father dismisses
with your blessing and your mercies. All that you would fix our eyes
this moment on Christ. We should see him as John saw
him in Revelation. He said, Behold, the lion of
the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to open the book and loose the
seals. And he turned and he saw the Lamb of God as it had been
slain. Worthy is the Lamb to receive
glory and power and dominion and honor forever and ever and
ever. And all who have true faith in
him Say Amen. Amen.