Ask the Lord to bless His Word. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month They shall
take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house. And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according
to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without Blemish a male of the first year you shall take
it out from the sheep or the from the goats and you shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening and They shall take of the blood and strike it on the
two side post and on the upper door post of the houses Wherein
they shall eat it And they shall eat the flesh in that night,
roast with fire, and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs
they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden
at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his
legs, and with his pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing
of it remain until the morning. That which remaineth of it until
the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it,
with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. And ye shall eat it in haste.
It is the Lord's Passover. 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 all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgment. I am the Lord, and the blood
shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt. Bless your word that we have
read. Let us see Christ in these scriptures afresh. Lord, let
us worship you this morning in spirit and in truth. Let thy
presence be among us. Help me to rightly divide the
word of truth, to preach in the power of thy spirit. Lord, help
us to gather to listen, to listen and to receive the message that
is in this portion of scripture. Thank you for your mercies, Father.
They are too numerable to reckon up in order. Help us to walk
in this life in a way that's pleasing in your sight. in a
way that does not bring reproach upon your name. Lord, put a watch
on our tongue. Help us to realize that we are
ambassadors. We are ambassadors of the God
of heaven and earth. Help us to remember these things.
And we pray for those father who are sick in this congregation,
those who are under afflictions, trials, heartaches, Lord, you
know, you know, them one by one. We pray for them. We pray for
that children throughout this world, father, and that servants
who are standing this morning, Lord help us. We are not sufficient
for these things in Jesus Christ name. We pray and amen. Now we have seen, looked at Christ
in Genesis. We have seen him in the seed
of the woman. We have seen him in Abel's offering. We have seen him in Noah's ark. We've seen him in Sarah and Hagar
law and grace. We've seen him in Abraham and
Isaac going up to the mountain. The Lord will provide, Abraham
said to Isaac. We've seen the Lord in that portion
of scripture. We've seen him. We've seen him
In a bride for Isaac, when he sent the servant to get a bride
for Isaac, we've seen Christ in that in the church. We've
seen him in Bethel, the house of God, when he made himself
known to Jacob there. We've seen him in Peniel, however
you say that, the face of God. We've seen him in that. We see
God in the face of Christ. That's where we see God. It's
the only place where you and I can look upon the face of God
and live is in the face of Jesus Christ. When we see his glory
in the face of Jesus Christ, we've seen him and Joseph opening
the storehouse, we've seen him and Joseph dealing with his brethren,
and now we're going to see him, I think, in the clearest picture
given in the Old Testament of the Lord Jesus Christ, of His
person, the Lamb of God, His sacrifice, His blood, the blood
of atonement. Christ, our Passover, Paul said,
is sacrificed for us. The clearest picture of Christ,
I believe, is in the Passover, the sacrificing of the Passover
lamb. I think the clearest portion
of Scripture where Christ is preached as our substitute as
our sacrifice is in Isaiah 53. That's the clearest portion of
scripture. Some call it the gospel according to Isaiah. It's the
gospel in a chapter. You know, the gospel in a verse
is 2 Corinthians 5 21. For he hath made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. That's the gospel in a verse.
The gospel in a chapter is Isaiah 53. The gospel in a picture,
the clearest picture is the Passover. It's the Passover. Now the Lord
brought Israel down to Egypt as he foretold to Abraham. Remember, he told Abraham he
was gonna do this. And they're gonna be there 400 years. They
was there about 430. I think they were in slavery
about 400. And they grew into a great nation while there. And
Pharaoh that knew Joseph died. And another Pharaoh arose that
did not know Joseph. And he became afraid of Israel
because they had multiplied so much. And so what did he do? He made them slaves. You know,
God, it said that God turned their heart against his people.
You know, the Lord brought them, I was thinking about this, the
Lord brought them down to Egypt and for them to go into servitude
and to go into great bondage, and to deliver them for this
purpose, he's gonna give us this picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's gonna institute the Lord's
Passover. Jesus Christ is the Lord's Passover. He is the Passover lamb. He's
the Lord's Passover, he is. But he gives us a picture here.
God has given us in the Old Testament so many examples. And so many
pictures. I was looking at a picture yesterday.
It was a picture of my granddaughter, and I was looking at it. Aubrey
had painted a picture of her and gave it to her for her birthday.
And she sent it to me, and I was looking at it. And it's a picture
that I can look at, and I can say, I know who that is. Now,
I know who it is because I know the one that the picture is of,
I know that. And you and I have such a blessing. We know the one that all these
pictures are about. They're clear to us, aren't they?
They're clear to us. I had a man say to me, a young
man, I was a young man, we were both early 20s, 23, I'd heard
the gospel. And his wife said to me that
they were saved in the Old Testament by the blood of those sacrifices,
those lambs, and we are saved now by the blood of Christ. No.
Nobody was ever saved by the blood of bulls and goats. That's
how pitiful the preaching was that she sat under. That's what
that leads to. You sit under false doctrine,
guess what? You believe false doctrine. That's what it leads
to. False peace, false rest, false faith. A false salvation? And when you die, what do you
hear? Depart from me, I never knew
you. And that weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, guess
who that's against? Those who lied to them. But here, a Pharaoh raises
up that doesn't know Joseph, and they're in a bondage, and
then the Lord spoke to Moses, He spoke to him in chapter 11,
verse 1, and he tells Moses, he says, I'm going to bring one
more plague. He brought all those plagues,
and Pharaoh would say, I'm going to let you go. And then it says,
Pharaoh hardened his heart, and it says, God hardened his heart.
God left Pharaoh alone. He let Pharaoh be Pharaoh. And
God said, I'm going to send one more plague on Egypt, and they're
going to let you go. they're gonna let you go. When
this plague comes, they're gonna drive you, they're gonna thrust
you out. And that's exactly what happened. But before they go
out, before they are delivered, here is what God does for Israel. And this is what God has done
for us. There's gonna be a lamb given. there's going to be a
sacrifice made, there's going to be blood shed, and there's
going to be blood applied. You see, blood shed, if it's
never applied, it does not save. It's got to be applied. The blood
that was shed has to be applied. And they apply it to the two
side posts and over the door, over the top of it. That represents
faith. They believe God or they wouldn't
have said, oh, that ain't going to happen. Well, if they had
not put the blood over the door, believe what Moses said, what
God said to Moses, they would have died. You see, the blood
shed also has to be applied. And this is what's going to happen.
So the Passover lamb is given and the whole gospel is preached. The whole gospel is preached
in the Passover lamb. You got the character of Christ.
You got a lamb. You've got a lamb without blemish,
without spot, is what you have. You've got the blood applied,
the blood of sprinkling applied to the door. You've got the eating
of the lamb. You've got the faith in Christ.
If you don't believe on Christ, you know, election, I want to
tell you, election is not salvation. You know this. I mean, a lot
of things I tell you, every week I tell you the same thing you
know. And you'd be glad that I do so. But that blood has got
to be applied, and faith lays hold of the blood of Christ.
It lays hold of the blood of Christ. And we see the end result,
Israel is delivered. They are delivered. We shall
be delivered. We are delivered by the blood
of Christ, and when we die, we shall be delivered into glory
by the blood of Christ. It is His blood that makes us
spotless. He has cleansed us from our sins.
washed us whiter than snow. Can you imagine? Is there anything
whiter than snow? Whiter than snow before God's
presence. Now, let me say a few things
here about the Lamb and see if we can see Christ in these things. There in verse 5, the Lamb, it
says, was to be without blemish. It has to be without blemish.
If it didn't matter, then just a good man could have died. If
it didn't matter, if it didn't matter if I had a blemish, it
has to be perfect to be accepted. Listen here, Leviticus 22, 21. And whosoever offereth a sacrifice
of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill
offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish therein.
I wish we could grab hold of the
perfection of Jesus Christ, that man, the God-man, but a man no
less. and he is absolutely perfect,
we don't know that. We don't know in any way, shape,
or form what perfection really is. We know how to spell it,
but to know it by experience, there's a blemish in everything
we do. There's a blemish in every prayer we pray. There's enough
sin in it. If we understand God's holiness,
there's enough sin in my prayers to cast me into hell. It's the
intercession of Christ. It's Christ who makes our prayers
accepted. It's Him. He does that. So He says here, it must be perfect
to be accepted. And the Lord Jesus Christ, in
order to be our righteousness, He must live a perfect life. He must live a perfect life.
I mean, starting with His thoughts. Starting with his love for God.
We can't even start and talk about his outward obedience until
we talk about his inward obedience. He said in the Psalms, I love
thy law. How many times did we read that
going through Psalm 119? I love thy law. I love thy precepts. I love thy judgments. I love
them. And when he kept God's law, God's
judgments and God's preset, when He kept them, He kept them because
He loved them. I mean, loved them. Oh, it's
like, oh, I love doing this. I love doing this. That's what
He did. That's how He kept it, with His
heart. It has to be without blemish,
and that starts within. I was reading this morning, I
believe it was, over in Exodus, you shall love the Lord thy God
with all your soul, all your heart, and with all your might.
He said, love him with all your might. Have you done that? I haven't. I haven't. John Newton said, why am I so
cold? Why am I so lifeless? Why am I so lifeless? He wasn't. Our Lord wasn't cold or lifeless.
I tell you, first thing, he woke up in the early morning hours.
The first thing he did was praise God in prayer. Then went throughout
the day doing the same. And then secondly, there in verse
five, the lamb was to be taken out of the fold. It has to be
one like us. You see, Jesus Christ has to
come from among the brethren. Jesus Christ is our elder brother. He's our elder brother. He really
is. Listen here to Deuteronomy. I
took the time this morning to go through and take all these
scriptures look them up, and then copy and paste them, is
what I did, so of course there's no way we'd have time for this.
But in Deuteronomy 18 verse 15-19, The LORD thy God will raise up
unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me. Unto him shall ye hearken, according
to all that thou desirest of the LORD thy God in Horeb, in
the day of the assembly saying let me not hear again the voice
of the lord my god neither let me see this great fire anymore
that i die not and the lord said unto me they have well spoken
that which they've spoken i will raise them up a prophet from
among their brethren like unto thee and will put my words in
his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that i shall command
him And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words, which he shall speak in my name. Did he not
say, as I hear I speak? Our Lord said that. I will require
it of him. I'll bring him into judgment. And then here in verse five,
the lamb was to be a year old and it was to be killed. Our Lord was to be taken in the
strength of his life, 33 years of age. You know, I look at somebody
now in their 30s, I call them a kid. I said, they're a kid. They're young. They're so young. You're all so young. I tell you,
just, he was to be taken in the youth
of life, the strength of his life, and be put to death. He didn't die of old age. He
gave up his life. He gave up his, he didn't die
of a disease. He gave up his life. I laid down my life for
the sheep. And then the lamb was to be,
there in verse nine, the lamb was to be roasted with fire. You know, he couldn't just come
into this world. He could not just come into this
world and die. Because sin deserves suffering. It deserves suffering. You see,
for me, here, I'll give some thought to this. For me to die
under the judgment of God, God would cast me into hell, and
there I would suffer for eternity, wouldn't I? I could never satisfy
God's justice, that's why there's no end to it. But I would suffer
forever and ever. Well, he had to suffer. He had
to suffer what I would suffer. He has to suffer. So here's such
a good picture. It's got to be roasted with fire. Our Lord was roasted with God's
fire, under the fire of God's wrath. We can't even begin to
comprehend that. It's true. I believe it. I can't
comprehend that. I just can't do it. This shows
the manner of our Lord's death. He was to be tormented. He was
to suffer. He's to be crucified. He's to
endure the fire of God's wrath. That's what it teaches us. Acts 26 22 23 having therefore
obtained help of the God Paul says I Continue into this day
witnessing both too small and great say none other than things
Then things then those which the prophets and Moses did say
should come that Christ should suffer It's been it's been foretold
right go back here to Exodus 12 Christ should suffer and that
he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should
show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. And Festus said,
Paul, much learning has made you mad. You're nuts. That's
what he said. Paul, you're nuts. No, he wasn't. Our Lord died according to the
scriptures. He suffered according to the
scriptures. And then in verse nine, the lamb was to be roasted
whole. It was not to be, it was not to be sectioned out and roasted. It was to be a lamb completely
intact. The scripture says this in John
19, not a bone was broken. Not a bone was broken. The scriptures
are so accurate. They are so accurate. Not a bone
was broken, as the Word of God declares. Not a bone of His was
broken. And then in verse 7, the blood
of the lamb must be sprinkled upon the lentil and the sides
of the door. You see, we got the blood shed,
but now the blood has got to be applied. And this is speaking
here of faith. It's speaking of faith. The Israelites
had to take the blood and put it over the top of the door and
down the two sides. They didn't, now listen, they
didn't put it on the bottom for his blood to be trampled on.
You're not gonna walk on his blood. You didn't put it on the
floor. It was just over the top and
two sides. That's where it's to be applied.
And I tell you this, if they just put it on one side and not
the other, somebody's in trouble. It's gotta be exactly as God
said. His blood is over us. His blood covers us spiritually. Spiritually, it does. The blood
of Christ must be applied. There's no salvation or deliverance
apart from faith, because election itself is not salvation. It's
unto salvation. It's unto salvation. In John
3, 36, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He has it. The evidence of the
fact that you have eternal life, everlasting life, the evidence
of it is this. You believe. You believe the gospel. You believe
it. You believe it with all your
heart. You believe it. And listen, God did not put the blood on
the door. He told them to do it. This is where faith, listen,
faith is a gift of God, it's the work of God, it's the operation,
the scripture says, of the Holy Spirit. But it's not God believing
for me, it's God working faith in me. But the faith is your
faith, it's your faith. And you look and you believe,
you believe the gospel. And you believe that the blood
of Jesus Christ is the atonement for your sin. You lay hold of
it. By faith, you lay hold of it. By faith, it's real to you.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Faith is what makes
it real to you. True God-saving faith, the faith
that God gives, makes everything in this scripture concerning
Christ and salvation and God and yourselves, it makes it real
to you. Other than that, it's just another
book. It's just another book. You just read it and You can
read any other book and nothing's made real to you. But by the
faith that God works in us, by faith, you lay hold of Christ.
You believe on Christ. You believe that his blood is
the atonement for your sin. You believe it. It becomes real
to you. That's putting the blood over
the top of the door and in its two sides, folks. That's what
faith does, it believes God. It says in Hebrews 11 6, but
without faith it is impossible to please God. Now what's the
opposite of that? By faith it is possible to please
God. And faith is, is, believes God
is what it is. It believes God. It especially
believes God concerning Jesus Christ. He is all my righteousness. He's, he's my wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, redemption. Jesus Christ is absolutely everything
I need to stand in God's presence. I don't need anything else. I
can't make it more clear than that. I don't need anything else. Add anything to it and you un-Christ
him. Is exactly what you do. for yourself. And the blood on the door shows
an outward confession, an evidence of faith. When you confess Christ,
and when you confess Him, first of all, we confess Him by believers'
baptism. The Lord said, he that believeth
in Him is baptized, and you say, I want to be baptized. I want
to follow the Lord in baptism. I want to be identified with
Him. I want to be identified with
Him. I want to be identified with His people. I am not ashamed,
as Paul said in Romans, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
which is the power of God unto salvation. Can you imagine being
ashamed of God? I'm the one he ought to be ashamed
of. It just astounds me that at one time I was ashamed. At
one time, I wouldn't confess him. I wouldn't carry that Bible.
I wouldn't carry that Bible anywhere. I didn't want to be seen with
it. That's sad, isn't it? He ought to be ashamed. He's
not ashamed, it says, to call them brethren. He's not ashamed.
And we'd be ashamed of him? We would be ashamed to confess
him? That's a shame. That's a shame. And then in verse 8, the Israelites,
they were to eat the flesh of the land. You see, there's the
blood, there's faith. But faith not only lays hold
of the blood, but faith bleeds on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
here's what faith is. It eats his flesh and drinks
his blood. That's spiritual. That's not cannibalism. You know,
when he told that to the Israelites, they're like, this is a hard
saying, who can hear? And many of his disciples left
him over there. And a lot of them was like, eat your flesh
and drink your blood. You know, that's what, that's
what them Gentiles were into. They were into cannibalism, not
us. He's talking about spiritually.
Spiritually, you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you feed
on Christ, and you look to Him, and you know that His blood is
the atonement. That's drinking. That's eating
and drinking, eating His flesh and drinking His blood. That's
what that is. If you don't do that, you're lost. It's evident
you're lost if you don't do it. But they fed on Christ, the believers,
to let believers feed on Christ. Listen here in John 6, 55-58,
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and
I in him. That's what happens when you
eat food and drink it, isn't it? It goes into you. You digest it. It goes into you.
It's now part of you. You know what you eat this afternoon
is going to become a part of you. That's what he's talking
about here. As a living father have sent
me, and I live by the father, he that eateth me, and even he
shall live by me. How does your body live? It's
gonna live by what you eat today, isn't it? It's gonna live by
what you eat tomorrow. You know, we are what we eat,
basically. You know, you've heard that old saying, we are what we eat. In
other words, your health does depend a lot on what you eat.
Our spiritual health completely depends on Jesus Christ. Eating
his flesh, drinking his blood, by faith, it does. He that eateth
me shall live by me, just like my body lives by the food I eat. Spiritually, I live by feeding
on Christ. I have no confidence in people
who can show up once in a great while. Now you eat once in a
great while and see how that goes. If God has given you life,
you gotta be with the gospels preached. You gotta feed on Christ.
You have to. You have to. He that eateth me shall live
by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven. Not as
your fathers did eat man and are dead. It didn't help them.
The types don't help. Types don't save. It's Christ
that saves. He that eateth of this bread
shall live forever. Now in verse eight, they were to eat the lamb
with unleavened bread. You know, leaven was a type of
sin. We are to eat it in truth and sincerity without hypocrisy. That's what that is. There's
no leaven in what we do. We're serious. We're serious
this morning. We're serious about it. And then
verse eight, they were to eat the lamb with bitter herbs. That's
repentance. That's repentance. You know,
where there's faith, there's repentance. You can't have faith
and not have repentance. You can't have one without the
other. It's like a sheet of paper. You can't have one side without
the other side. And then the lamb there in verse
9 was to be, the lamb was not to be eaten raw nor sodden with
water. It was not to be boiled, what
they're saying here, boiled in wine or oil or water. It was
nothing to be mixed with, that's what it's saying. No mixture.
You couldn't do that. Christ was to endure the full
wrath of God's judgment for our justification, and there's nothing
to be added to that. We don't add anything for our
justification. You know, quitting something
doesn't make you justified. I don't care if you're the most
outward wretch on the top of this side of this earth. You
can quit everything, and that's not going to justify you. It's
the blood of Christ. It's the obedience, death, blood
of Jesus Christ and His resurrection. He rose again for our justification. And in verse 10, nothing of the
Lamb was to remain. It's either all Christ or no
Christ. That's it. It's just that simple.
It's either all Him, as He's revealed in the Scriptures, or
it's not Him at all. And then in verse 11, they were
to eat the Passover, dressed and ready to move out of Egypt.
They were pilgrims. They're getting ready to leave.
Are you pilgrims? Boy, I've seen people die trying
to hang on to everything. We're pilgrims. I have nothing.
I'm just living in a tent. What you're looking at here is
a tent. My body's a tent. I'm traveling home like a wayfaring
man. I'm traveling home. Just pilgrims. And God said, and I close, verse
13, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. This is a promise. This is a promise. God said,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Lord, let your blood
be propitiation for my sins. I pray that all the time. I do.
I pray that all the time. I pray that nearly daily. Let
your blood be the propitiation for my sins. Because God said,
when I see the blood, my judgment will pass over you because it
already passed onto his son, Jesus Christ. That's the gospel.
That's the gospel substitution. God's judgment passed over me
and fell on him. And now God's mercy and grace
falls on me because of him and through him. And someday I'm
going to stand in glory completely for Christ's sake. Everybody
there is there for Christ's sake, and that's why they're there. Romans 8, 1, There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Ephesians 1, 7, In
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace. All that day, that's
the gospel. Christ, our Passover, sacrificed
for us. All right. I don't know if I
got anything left for the second one.