Chapter 11, continue our study
on true faith. Hebrews chapter 11, this morning
our text will be found in verse 28. The title of the message
is, True Faith Keeps the Passover. True faith keeps the Passover.
Look at this in verse 28. Through faith, Moses kept the
Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed
the firstborn should touch them. Now, we have seen by faith, the
faith of Moses, that true faith in Christ repents from sin. This was our last encounter with
the faith of Moses. We saw this in verse 24. By faith,
when Moses was come to years, he refused to be called the son
of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer the affliction
with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for
a season. We who believe on Christ, we
refuse We refused our nature. We reject our nature, which tells
us that salvation is by works. That's just natural. If you want
to know the natural religion of a man, it's works. By nature
and earthly wisdom, salvation is by works. But when a man is
saved, when his faith comes from God, he rejects that notion. He completely turns from that
notion that works of the flesh or obedience to the law have
nothing to do with salvation. Just as Moses refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter, so we refuse the treasures of
Egypt. We refuse the sin of the flesh,
the religion of nature. We refuse it. We reject it. And we would choose rather to
suffer with the people of God. We choose rather to suffer for
the cause of Christ. We choose rather the treasures
of Christ than the pleasures of sin. True faith does that. True faith by God does that.
You remember Moses, he told his people, God told his people through
Abraham, he said, 400 years you're going to be in Egypt. And I am
coming to deliver you. I'm going to destroy. I'm going
to destroy your captors and bring you out with great substance. See, Moses, when he rejected
to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, I want you to see this.
He refused the wisdom of the world. Wouldn't it be the worldly
wisdom to think, well, if I'm Pharaoh's son, then if I inherit
the throne, I'm better suited then. I'm more capable to deliver
Israel if I'm Pharaoh. Now, that's earthly wisdom. But
you remember God's word wasn't, I'm not going to deliver you
by a Pharaoh. I'm going to destroy them. And so Moses, he sees this, he
says, well if I become Pharaoh then I'm going to be destroyed
with Pharaoh. Therefore he willingly forsook
being Pharaoh. Because God said, I'm going to
deliver you by power, therefore esteeming the riches of Christ
greater than the treasures of the sin of Egypt, listen, He
willingly, choosing rather. You see, faith has to do with
will. We do not deny that faith has to do with will. We just
deny that faith is the product, is not the product of the will.
The will is involved. Who among you believe on Christ
by force? Oh no! No! We need Christ! We must have Christ! We choose
freely to believe on Christ. But I know this, this was not
natural. This was supernatural that God made us willing in the
day of His power. We esteem the riches of Christ
greater than the treasures of the world. By grace we are made
to see the vanity of this world. We see by the power of God the
vanity of works, religion, and self-salvation. We see the law
of God only can condemn us and offers no means of mercy. We see that there is no use to
plead before the law. Isn't that right? There's no
use to plead before the law. The law can do nothing but condemn
us. The law offers no leniency. It is the Spirit of grace that
exposes our guilt and reveals to us the gospel of Jesus Christ. The promise of God to deliver
the captives by His arm and by His strength, which is Christ.
And His reward is not temporal. You see, Moses rejected a temporal
reward of Egypt. That was temporary. That was
going to be destroyed. Moses recognized this. And so
we too, as believers, we recognize that all this world is going
to be burned up. There's nothing here that's going
to last. This is not our treasure. I love
my children. They're not my treasure. They're
just not. Either I'm going or they're going,
but we're not going to stay. We're not staying. This is temporal. This is just a time and it's
over. It's just for a season and it's
done. Therefore, we esteem those things as dung that we may win
Christ and be found in Him. We esteem those things as only
temporal. Our blessings, our treasures
are eternal righteousness, atonement for sin, redemption, holiness,
peace with God, union with Christ. These are our treasures. This
is my treasure. I'm in union with Christ. That's
my treasure. God is my portion. And you know what the amazing
thing is? I'm His portion. I'm His portion. I'm His inheritance. Is that not something? I'm His
treasure. You're His treasure. Therefore,
when one is quickened, the choice is really not a choice at all,
is it? Trash or treasure? There's no choice! It's not a choice! No comparison. You give a man dying of thirst
a choice. Water or dirt? Give him a choice! You choose! There's no choice. Give a starving man bread or
a rock. There's no choice. He must have
the bread or he dies. He must have the water or he
dies. You listen, I must have Christ or I die. There's no choice
in this matter. Treasures of Egypt are fleeting. The treasures of Christ are eternal. Far greater reward and glory
awaits us in heaven. And so it is with true faith.
We are made willing in the day of His power by the new nature,
a new heart that now feels our need. A new nature that longs
to be found in Christ and has no confidence in the flesh of
His nature, the nature of His birth or the works of His flesh.
We have no confidence. That's what it is to be born
again. Are you born again? How do you know? I have no confidence
in the flesh. My confidence rests in the work
of Jesus Christ alone. Finished. Done. His treasure
is my treasure. His righteousness is my righteousness. His blood is my atonement. His
resurrection is my proof and my justification. Christ is all. To the man born again, it's not
a choice. Christ is a necessity. I must
have Him. And I forsake all. You remember
that Canaanite woman? When she went to our Lord pleading
and begging for a child's life. She's pleading and begging and
the Lord ignores her. Did she give up? She pleaded the more. And the
disciples said, Lord, she crieth after... She wasn't crying after
them. She didn't have any care at all for his apostles, his
disciples. Not one. She was crying for him. And he turns around and he says,
is it me to give the children's bread to dogs? Did that stop
her? See, there was no choice. Christ
was all. And I don't care if he calls
me a dog and truth, I am. Truth, Lord! Whatever you say
is true. May God be true and every man
a liar. Lord, I need the crumbs. No,
she got the whole cake. She got it all. We come for crumbs
and we go away with the whole thing. That's what it is to be
born again. It's to have a need of Christ,
to repent and to turn to Christ. That's true faith in Christ.
And now then we come to this, "...he forsook all, not fearing
the wrath of the king, seeing him who was invisible." Now,
through faith he kept the Passover. Now let's look at this aspect
of faith. True faith repents, true faith chooses Christ above
all. And now then, listen, true faith
keeps the Passover. When I first came here, There
was a church down the street and I thought it would be kind
to introduce myself and so forth. And a couple of men were outside
talking. I said, Hi, how are you doing?
They were at the seminary. And they started talking about
the Passover. I was interested. I wanted to hear about this.
I wanted to hear what they had to say about the Passover. Come to find out, they were literally
fixing to have the Passover. They were literally fixing to
take some bread and to have the Seder. That's what they called
it, the Seder. And they were literally going to have... And
I said, Why are you doing that? Christ is the Passover. Christ has already accomplished
what Passover only typified. Why are you keeping this Passover? It's useless. And besides, there's
no blood in their Passover. I said, where's your blood? If
you're going to keep the Passover, you need blood. You need a lamb.
You have no lamb? You went down to the Kroger's
and bought a lamb. And you've cooked it in the oven. That's
not the Passover! What does it mean by keeping
the Passover? I don't mean you're going to go out here and keep
this and kill a lamb and have a Passover. What does it mean?
True faith keeps the Passover. In other words, we believe Christ
is our Passover lamb. And Moses kept this literally.
And it was a picture, a type of Christ. And as we see this
type unfold, we keep this by faith, looking to Christ. When
we read the Passover, we always look to Christ. So as we go through
this, we're going to see Christ. That's what I want to see. We
that keep the Passover, we keep it by faith. We trust that Christ
is the Passover. And so as we do this this morning,
true faith keeps the Passover. Look at that. Through faith,
he kept the Passover. The first thing mentioned is
the faith of Moses keeping the Passover. The Lord, God, had
already brought forth nine plagues at this time over the land of
Egypt. This was the 10th. Now only two of those, I think,
affected God's people. The rest, God said, I'm going
to make a distinction among my people and yours. So most of
those plagues weren't even affecting the people of God. I think the
lice was the one that God separated and said, look, I ain't going
to let those lice get into Goshen where my people are. They only
affected the other part of Egypt. But this one, This last one was
to affect everyone. This last one had an effect on
everyone. It was to pass over all the nation
of Egypt, including Goshen. God said, in the night I'm going
to send the angel of the Lord through the land and kill the
firstborn of man and beast. Yet here in his hope, God made
provision for Israel. God made provision for Israel,
for his people. Go over to Exodus chapter 12
and let's see this provision. Exodus chapter 12 and look at
verse 12. He says, for 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 the gods
of all of Egypt will I execute judgment I am the Lord and the blood shall be for you
a token upon your house where you are here's the provision
when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall
not come upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt." This blood, this blood that was to be on the door, this
blood that was supposed to be on the house, that was to save
Israel. Moses was commanded to take a
lamb. Not just any lamb would do. Not
just any lamb would do. It must have been a lamb without
spot and without blemish. If you look at that in verse 4, I'm sorry. Verse 5, And your
lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You
shall take it from among the sheep and from among the goats,
and you shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month.
And the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill it in
the evening. Now this lamb was not to be any
lamb, it was a spotless lamb. So spotless this lamb was supposed
to be a male of the first year. A young lamb. And it was said
to be taken for 14 days to make sure of its purity. Then it was
to be killed, not privately, but publicly killed in the assembly
at a specific time in the evening. And then it was to be taken,
in verse 7, you take the blood and strike it upon the two side
posts and on the upper door post of the house wherein you shall
eat it. So they take this blood of this
spotless lamb and they put it on the door of their house and
they were to take it inside and roast it with fire and eat it. Then they were supposed to make
sure that their loins were girded. In other words, they had these
big robes and they were to take these robes and gird them up, being
ready to get out, ready to go the next day. Shoes on their
feet, staff in their hand, ready to go. God was going to deliver
them after this one event. And what did God say? When I
see the blood, I will pass over you. I will pass over you. When I pass by in judgment, I'm
going to kill the firstborn of everyone without the blood. But you who have the blood, I
will pass over you." Now, let us see the faith of Moses in
keeping this, in keeping this Passover. How in the world could
the blood of a lamb make the difference? There's no precedent for this.
This was the first time. God commanded that this be done.
Now, reason would kick in and say, how? How is it that this
lamb would make a difference between me and the nation of
Egypt? How could this blood of this
lamb save my firstborn? Were they not all sinners? Were not the Israelites just
as vile and sinful as the Egyptians? Yes. There's no difference between
the seed of Jacob and the seed of Egypt by nature. They're all
the sons of Adam. And when Moses told of the promises
of God, you remember when Moses came to them the first time,
how did Israel respond? Did they say, oh, I'm so glad
Moses is here? I'm so glad God is going to do...
God promised. Is that what they said? No. You
remember when Pharaoh rejected his first demand? They got more work. They were
not happy with Moses. They did not like Moses. They
wanted to kill Moses. They were just as vile as Pharaoh
was. No difference in their nature.
But yet this is it, Moses trusted God. Moses did this out of faith
in God's word, in God's promises. So he in faith kept the Passover. Now why did he do this? Because
it was a type and picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who was
to come. Moses did it by faith, looking
toward Christ. This has always been the idea
of the sacrifice from Adam and Eve. When God killed that first
animal, it was a picture of the seed of the woman crushing the
head of the serpent. And the serpent bruising his
heel. It was a picture of God's salvation that would come to
His elect people and deliver us from the bondage of sin and
the judgment of God. The elect of God are pictured
here by the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel was in bondage
at this time. They were in bondage to Egypt. Even so, were we by nature in
bondage to sin. in bondage to Satan, under the
rudiments of the law. We were enslaved under the law
of God, under judgment and condemnation. Our Lord tells us plainly who
is in bondage. You listen, so you're not confused. Whoso committeth sin is a servant
of sin. Anybody confused by that statement? Whoso committeth sin. Who? Anybody? I'm just talking to
myself. Whoso committeth sin is a slave
to sin. Try to stop sinning. See how
far you get. Scripture tells us that all we
do is sin. Genesis 6, verse 5, God saw the
wickedness of man was great in the earth that every... Listen,
imagination of the thought of his heart. You get that? The imagination of the thought
of his heart. See, God's not just looking at
the outward deeds of a man. He looks at the heart. And what
does God see? The thoughts of the imagination
of the heart is evil. How long? Continually. And because we have sinned, because
we are in bondage to sin, we are under the law of God and
unable to satisfy the debt. You listen, any man that says
he's in bondage, he's got to pay a debt to the devil. I mean,
that's how people are so twisted about this, that when I say you're
in bondage to Satan, that they think they've got to pay Satan.
No, you're in bondage under the judgment of God. You owe the
debt not to the devil, but to God. You've sinned against God. How foolishly does man think
then he could merit such acceptance by the law. You see, the law
only has one purpose to condemn. It has no purpose to make you
holy. Paul says to those Galatians,
he said, you that would be under law, don't you hear the law?
Are you deaf? Can you not hear what the law
says? that if you are under the law you need to continue in the
law in everything written in the book of the law. Cursed is
everyone that continued not in all things written in the book
of the law to do them. Paul says the purpose of the
law then is to expose sin to shut us up to our guilt and therefore
by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his
sight. As it is written, there's none
righteous, no, not one. There's none that understandeth,
none that seeketh after God. Now whatsoever things the law
saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and the whole world become guilty before
God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. Listen, for by
the law is the knowledge of sin. So then, the judgment of God
must come upon the sinner. This is a picture of God when
He said, I'm going to come over the land of Egypt in judgment. This is a picture of God coming
over all men who have sinned against Him. God will come and
destroy all that have sinned against Him. All who are found guilty of sin
must and will be punished. They will suffer the full measure
of God's wrath for their sins, and not one will escape. So then, where is hope for sinners? Where is salvation for sinners? Is there any hope? The same hope
for sinners is the same hope given to Moses and Israel, who
were in bondage to Egypt. Listen, here's the hope, the
Passover lamb. The blood of the lamb is the
only hope to save and deliver the bond, the prisoners. The Passover Lamb. Paul declares
who this is in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7. He said,
"...purge out there for the old leaven, that you may make a new
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover
is sanctified for us." Who's our Passover? Who is this Lamb
that must be slain? It is Christ, the Passover. Believers are to purge out the
old lump of the flesh. We are to put off the old man for this cause. Because Christ
was sanctified for us. And we are now made holy without
sin in Him, in the new man. Because of this. Christ, our
Passover. in the type of the Holy Spirit
shows us of Christ concerning this Passover. First of all,
the Passover lamb must be without spot. Must be without spot. Behold, Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, by nature, is without spot. Now, we know this because
He's one with God. God is without spot. And we know
this, Christ being one with the Father and Spirit, by nature,
was without spot. But in order to save us, in order
to make us acceptable with God, we too must be holy and without
spot. Therefore, Jesus Christ must
have assumed our nature. For as in Adam all died, even
so, For us to be accepted, Jesus Christ must have become one of
us. You remember what John said when
he saw Him coming? John understood this. He's told
those men, behold, stop looking at me. Behold, the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. He knew who that was.
He understood Christ was the Passover Lamb. And it's here in His flesh that
the holiness was made effectual for His people by His holy obedience. Paul said, "...for if by one
man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive
abundance of grace through the gift of righteousness shall reign
by the life of one." In other words, representation. Christ came to be a representative
man, to accomplish for His people what they could not accomplish
for themselves, which was what? Righteousness. Righteousness
is what God demands. Righteousness is what we cannot
provide. And yet Christ, our Savior, as
the Lamb of God, came into the world to provide it. Now then,
this Lamb was not only to be without spot, He was to be inspected.
This is great. Inspect it. You heard that statement. You've gone over it with a fine-tooth
comb. Right? This came from this idea
of the Passover that the Jews were to go over that lamb completely
inspecting, thoroughly inspecting to make sure it had not one black
hair in it. It would go over it and over
it. For 14 days they must inspect this lamb to make sure it is
spotless. But see, Jesus Christ, the Lamb
of God, He was inspected. Wasn't He? Isn't that what those
Jews did every single day? They heard His Word. They were
inspecting Him. They didn't know what they were
doing. They were doing it for us. I think this is one of the greatest
ones, is when that woman caught in the act of adultery was cast
in the midst of Christ They thought they had him. And I mean, could
you imagine any other way out of this? He had just been called
the friend of sinners. He said, I came to save sinners,
not the righteous. So they find this sinner, this
woman caught in the very act. They throw her down and they
say, okay, the law of Moses says that this woman must be stoned.
She was caught in the very act. She should be stoned to death.
What do you say? Friend of sinners. What do you say? If he had said, stone her, they
would have said, ah, you liar, you said you're a friend of sinners. If he said, let her go, he said,
ah, you would not be a friend of Moses and the law. You would
be a lawbreaker. He get out of that. Heath is without sin among you. Let him cast the first stone. They were all without rocks. They had to leave. They couldn't
do it. They were all sinners. The only
one that could stone was Christ. He was the only righteous one
among the bunch. And yet He reserved mercy for
her because He was going to receive the stone. He was going to pay
for her sin. Her sin was not going to go unpunished.
It was going to be punished in Him. And they were testing Him. They were trying Him. And He
was... What was their answer? What was their answer to Him?
The officers went out to capture him and they said, why didn't
you bring him? He said, never manspake like this man. We ain't never hurt anybody like
this. We got nothing to arrest him on. Spotless. What did Pilate say? I find no
fault in this man. What are they doing? I find no
fault in this lamb. No spot, no blemish. And you
remember what Christ said eventually. He got so to a point, He said,
which of you convinces me of sin? Go ahead. Find one sin in me. That's what Christ said. Now
I ain't saying that. You can find something in me just in
a minute. You won't have to look very hard.
In Him they found no sin. They found no sin. See, he was the spotless lamb
and he was the inspected lamb. Thirdly, he was the slain lamb. This lamb must be killed. Not in a corner. Isn't it amazing? That's exactly
what the Pharisees wanted to do. They wanted to kill him in
a corner. They want to take him over in a jail and murder him
in his sleep. They didn't want anybody to know.
Matter of fact, on that very day they were about to crucify
him, they said, let's not do it during the Passover. Ah, guess what? That's what the
Passover's for. God ordained that he be killed,
not in a corner, but in front of both Jews and Gentiles. That psalm we read this morning.
He said, save me from the lion's mouth and the dogs. He's saying
the lions were the Jews, the dogs were the Gentiles. They
were all involved in it. This was not done in a corner.
This was done in the midst of the congregation, in the open. The Lamb was slain. And we know this, that that lamb
that Moses slew was not the lamb that could take away sin. He could not do any of that.
But what this Lamb that Moses slew pictured was the Lamb of
God, Christ. That God the Father had chosen
a people to be holy and without blame, and that Christ should
be the one to save them by His blood, by His death, by His humiliation,
by His offering to God. And there He was upon that tree,
not in a corner, done in the open. And there God took all
of our sin and imputed it to His Son on the tree. Scripture
says He bore our sin in His own body. Now you notice
where? In a very specific place, on
the tree. Nowhere else. On the tree. He
bore our sins. And there the punishment of God
poured out on Him without mercy. It's ordained of God, decreed
of God, that the sins of His people should be paid for by
Him. How can God be just and be merciful? No greater question. Scott and
I were talking in the back about this very matter about substitution. The religion of today, they have
only a God that is sufficient for so much. Christ, the Christ
of this world, His death only accomplished so much. And the
rest must be done by the man. They don't understand anything
at all about true substitution. That our Lord Jesus Christ is
completely the substitute of all the sins of His people. There's no partial in this. Christ
bore our sins, all our sins, and God punished all our sins
in Christ. And you mark it down, God will
never punish His people. That would be unjust. God cannot
demand twice payment for sin. The only way that justice could
be satisfied and sin could be punished and God could show mercy
is through the slaying of the Lamb. The Passover Lamb. It was here we
see the doctrine of substitution completely. The innocent was
to die in the stead of the guilty. Therefore, Jesus, the Son of
God, was ordained to be the Lamb of God and made to be an offering
for sin." You want to know what pleases
God? The death of His Son. It pleased the Lord to bruise
Him. What Isaiah said, it pleased
the Lord to bruise him, to put him to grief. When thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see of the travail
of his soul and be satisfied. Satisfied. And by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. God is never pleased with the
offerings and sacrifices of sinners, for the death of the sinner is
only a just reward for his sin. Therefore we read, "...sacrifice
and offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou hast prepared
for me, and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast
no pleasure." What is this saying? God don't have any pleasure in
your offerings. None. He has no pleasure in your
gifts. None of our sacrifices could
remove sin. He said, Then, lo, I come, in
the volume of the book it is written of Me, to do Thy will,
O God. After above, He said, Sacrifice
and burn offerings, and sin offerings I wouldest not, neither had 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, that
he may establish the second. By the witch will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Christ once for all. Behold the remedy. The remedy
of sin is in the Passover lamb. It is in the blood of the lamb. See, the grace, the love, the
power of God in sending His Son to do His will by the which will
we are sanctified. Therefore on the cross He was
made sin, and God punished our sins in Him. And what does Paul say in Hebrews?
He says, He sat down. Sat down. When the Lamb had offered
himself. When Christ had offered himself,
it was done. It's done. It's finished. Paul says the offerings of bulls
and goats could never take away sin, but Christ offered himself
once for the sacrifice of sins and sat down. How many Passovers
do you suppose had taken place since Moses? How many? Hundreds, thousands. Why so many? Because none of them took away
sin. But after Christ had offered
Himself the Passover, what happened to the Passover
ceremony? Where is it now? It's gone. It's gone because Christ accomplished
what that lamb pictured. He did it. Now He has come and offered Himself
to God and pleased God. Therefore behold the completeness
of His one offering. I want to read this to you in
Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 14. It says, "...for by His one offering
He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Wherefore,
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that He had
said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their hearts and
in their minds, and will right them. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more." Listen. Now where remission of sin is,
there is no more offering for sin. You see, after Christ was
offered as the Passover Lamb, how many more sacrifices are
needed? Now you take the Catholic Church, they offer sacrifice
every time the Mass is given. Every time they put that cracker
and wine out there, they say they're offering Christ again.
Why? Because there is no remission
of sins for them. They need a fresh sacrifice. We need no such sacrifice. Where
there is a remission of sin, there is no more need of offering,
no more need of sacrifice. No more need. Praise God for
that. That this Christ, our Passover
Lamb, was slain. And thirdly, the blood must be
applied. In the Passover, the blood of
the Lamb would have done no good to a household if it was not
applied. Must be. This shows us the necessity of
faith in Christ. Necessity. The scripture says, he that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. Faith is a necessity. You must believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ. You must. If you are to be saved,
you must believe personally. In other words, that blood on
the neighbor's house did my house no good. I must have the blood
on my house in order to save the firstborn in my house. And
listen, if you are to be saved, you must have the blood of Christ
applied to your heart by faith in Christ. By faith. But this faith is no act of the
will, mere act of the will. Moses would have never put the
blood on the door had he not believed God. If he didn't believe in the judgment
of God was coming, he wouldn't have done it. And you pay attention, if you
don't believe in Christ because you don't believe God, You don't
believe in the judgment of God. You don't believe that God is
word concerning your sin, concerning judgment, concerning righteousness,
concerning His Son. You don't believe God. And if you die in your sins,
it will be your fault. But you did not believe on the
Son of God. The Scriptures are clear. Kiss
the Son lest He be angry at you and you perish in the way. Believe
on the Son of God. How many times does it say it?
And thou shalt be saved. Believe on the Son of God and
thou shalt be saved. He that believeth on Me shall liveth
and abideth forever. How many times does the Lord
have to say it? And He says it over and over. And yet you will
not believe. But we who know something about
faith, we who believe, understand this. Faith must be a gift of
God. This application of the blood
is something that the Spirit of God must do. And He does it in conjunction
with faith. is a work of God. Jesus said,
this is the work of God that you believe on Him whom He has
sent. It's the work of God. And yet, it is something we no
doubt do. We believe. We trust. Do you believe on the Son of
God? In the application of His blood,
we are confessing that there is no other way for me to be
saved. There is no other hope for me
but Christ and His offering. And I like this. Once the blood
was applied, you know where they were? They were on the inside
of the house. They never saw the blood. From
that point forward, never saw it. Isn't that a picture of our
experience? I can imagine the firstborn in
the house. Dad, are you sure? Are you sure
he was spotless? Dad, are you sure? As you applied
the blood on the post and the lintel, are you sure that the
blood is there? It's not our cry daily. Oh, Christ,
is He righteous? Is He enough? And the Spirit,
the Father answers, yes. Yes, Son. He's enough. I can't
see it. You don't have to, Son. Trust
Me. Believe on me. I killed the lamb. I applied the blood. All is well
with you. Now eat. Isn't that what we do
now? Isn't that what we're doing here?
Eating the Passover. By faith we eat Christ with our
loins girded, our staffs in our hands, our shoes on our feet,
ready to go to be with Him. Ready to see Him face to face.
That's the experience of grace. And as Moses kept the Passover,
we too keep the Passover by faith. We see Christ, our Passover. We eat Christ, our Passover. And we too shall be delivered
from the destroyer. His blood's enough. His righteousness
is plenty. Israel, you're safe. All is well with you. All is
well. May God give us grace ever to
look to our Passover. Pray God will bless you.