Thank you. So I was asked, where'd you get
the piano player? Well, Eric Floyd came to town
and brought his own piano player. I asked him if I could borrow
him. He said, sure, as long as I get
10% of whatever he makes. No, he didn't say that. I'm kidding. Good evening, everyone. Good to have you folks joining
us this evening. I'd like to begin tonight's service
with the reading of scriptures. Please stand with me if you would,
or Brother Mike Gialotti will read and lead us in prayer. Our scripture reading for tonight
is taken from the book of 1 John, chapter 5. 1 John chapter 5, Don Fortner was
up here preaching once and told a story about this lady came
to him and said, she was trembling and said, how do I know that
I'm saved? How do I know that I'm saved?
And he said, whosoever believe it that Jesus is the Christ is
born of God. That's how you know. Whosoever believe it. And every
one that loveth him, that begotten loveth him, also that is begotten
of him. By this we know that we love
the children of God. When we love God and keep His
commandments. For this is the love of God,
that we keep His commandments. When His commandments are not
grievous. For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world.
And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith. Who is he that overcometh the
world? But he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God.
Our dear Heavenly Father, we thank you so much that you've
provided for us this opportunity to hear gospel message after
gospel message, Lord, that just glorifies your Son and what He's
done, what He's doing, what He did. Pray that you prepare us
for the messages to come, Lord. Open our eyes and our ears to
the scripture. Help us to believe, Lord. Help
us to understand. Bless these pastors, Lord, with
boldness and utterance when we ask these things in Jesus' name.
Amen. Amen. You may be seated. Let's turn on our hymn books,
if you would, to 521. Join me in singing Redeem, 521. I I Redeemed, redeemed Redeemed by
the blood of the Lamb Redeemed, redeemed This I am, forever I
am I think of myself to redeem I think of Him all the day long forever I am the king in whose law I delight,
who lovingly guarded my footsteps and given me solace in my night. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed,
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed. His child and forever You want to sing with me? I'll sing the wonders only of the Christ to
die for me. How He left His home and glory
for the cross of Calvary. Yes, I'll sing the wonders I was lost but now I'm found His loving arms around me threw
me right into His way It was as if the wondrous glory of the
Christ could not ever be Seen Him in the saints in glory Yet I'll sing the wondrous story
of the Christ who died for me. He will keep me till the river
runs its waters at my feet. He'll lead me safely home from
where the land of my crime shall be. Yes, I'll sing. Amen. Thank you. Well, once again, we have one
of God's ministers, man's end of God, to sing the wondrous
story, the wondrous story of our Lord Jesus Christ. Come,
Brother Luke. Luke Coffey. I said last night I spent much
of my childhood worried that someone would ask me to quote
a scripture, but I think about the only thing worse I can think
of is someone looking down and asking me if I want to sing with
them. I appreciate you all's hospitality.
I know there's more to come, but I won't get a chance to say
it, but my wife and I have been treated like royalty and fed
It's been a blessed weekend already so far. If you would, open your
Bibles to Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12. I had planned to read this first,
but let me say this real quick before we read these 13 verses. the Lord speaking to Moses and
Aaron, giving them the directions of the Passover lamb. As we look
at this, consider, because this is what we're going to do, consider
this, these directions and these descriptions as a comparison
that we'll look at the Lord Jesus Christ, our sacrifice, who died
on the cross for us. So let's start in verse one of
chapter 12 of Exodus. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron, And the land of Egypt say, 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. Ye shall take
it out from the sheep or from the goats, and ye shall keep
it up until the fourteenth 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 posts, and on the upper door post of the house,
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 the pertinence thereof. And he shall let nothing
of it remain until the morning. and that which remaineth of it
unto 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 you 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." Look back at chapter 11 and let
me read a verse or two here real quick. Verse 1 of chapter 11,
And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one more plague
upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterwards, he will let you go
hence." These plagues that the Lord brought
upon the people of Egypt, everybody knows about them. These plagues
that He brought, and each one went through the same process.
Moses went to Pharaoh and said, let my people go. And Pharaoh
wouldn't. God hardened his heart. And then
the Lord brought a plague upon him. And Pharaoh repented, said,
get him out of here. Get rid of this plague for me.
And the moment the plague was gone, the process would start
over again. His heart would be hardened,
he would keep the people, and it would go over again. Now we
spoke about his purpose last night. And it's very interesting
to me that this first line of chapter 11 says, And the Lord
said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one more plague upon Pharaoh
and upon Egypt. Afterwards he will let you go
hence. Our Lord knew the whole time how many plagues He was
going to have and which plague would have what effect on Pharaoh.
All of that, by His purpose, by His design, by His perfection,
all led to this Passover lamb. I don't pretend to know the purpose
of all these things happening together, but I do know that
the Passover lamb is one of the greatest pictures and types of
Christ. And all of this together, all
of this combined, brought all the people of Egypt and Israel
to this one moment, this one place, about midnight, when the
Lord would come through and judgment would fall upon the firstborn
of every single house. Now all of these plagues, it's
very clear, every time these plagues would come, they would
come upon the people of Egypt. The people of Israel didn't have
these problems. Which is amazing to think of
what the Lord brought in the people of Egypt. He brought a
wind and locusts by the billions came upon. and that somehow that
wind didn't happen to hit upon the houses of the people of Israel.
But all of these had the effect on one, but not the other. But
this plague, this one, the judgment of God was coming upon everyone. Amen. And there had to be a difference
brought out. This one type of Christ, the
Lord preached to the Jews here, the whole doctrine of the gospel
in this one time. He taught them the choice of
the sacrifice. He taught them the characteristics
of the lamb, the one who would be sacrificed. He showed them
the death of the lamb and the sprinkling of the blood that
was necessary. He showed them the eating of the lamb and the
faith to rest in that lamb. He showed them the grand results
of it, that the people were delivered and that God was glorified. What
an amazing thing, all in one time. Turn with me to Hebrews
9. Hebrews 9. Look at verse 11 of Hebrews 9. being come and high priest of
good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood,
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkled the unclean,
sanctifies the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God?" Christ became a man to be the sacrifice
for His people. And there are many ways to look
at this Passover. But what I want to spend my time on is comparing
this lamb, that blood was shed to put on the side posts in the
door, to save the firstborn, to our Lord and Jesus Christ. How many parallels there are.
And I hope we can see a little bit of this. I went back and
forth between titling this message, When I See the Blood, and The
Difference is Christ. And I kept going back and forth
until all of a sudden it hit me, it's the same thing. You
know, the difference in someone who the firstborn died and the
firstborn lived was the blood of Christ. It was that lamb that
he pictured. Christ is the difference. Throughout
all of these plagues, there was an obvious thing that was brought
out to everyone. Every Egyptian and every Israelite
knew something. There was a difference between
these two people. There had to be. How else can
you explain it? Frogs don't choose where they
go. You know, all these things that
happen, boils, these illnesses, the water, all these things,
they just affected one and not the other. The call, the chosen
people, the children of God, because of Christ, They don't
have to have these things. They don't have to have eternal
death. The Lord Jesus Christ satisfied
all of these things for His sheep, for His children. So let's jump
in, go back to our text here, and to save a little time, I'm
just going to list these things. There are 11 different things,
and we don't have to read through it, but I'm going to go through
them and say these things that were word for word written in
this passage. The first was the Lamb was to
be without blemish. The Lamb had to be perfect. There's
a lot of reasons for this. The Lamb had to be absolutely
perfect, sinless. That's who our Lord is. The sacrifice
had to obey the law. I mean, there's a reason we can't
satisfy the law. There's a reason we had to have
a sacrifice. Because we couldn't do it because of our sin. In
2 Corinthians it says, 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 lamb had to die to get the
blood to put it on the door. In order to atone for our sin,
He must have no sin of His own. It doesn't satisfy the law to
have one guilty person take the blame for another guilty person.
There had to be someone perfect. Our God is holy. He punishes
sin. That's why our Lord took our
sin. He was made sin. It says that
in that verse. He was made sin. He was not sin. He didn't commit
sin. He was made sin. He took our
sin and pressed it on Himself. It says in Hebrews, For we have
not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. Amen. Perfect. Perfect. The second thing, first the Lamb
was to be without blemish. The Lamb was to be taken out
of the fold. Our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lamb,
was taken from among men. He had to become a man. He had
to be tempted as we are. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 18. Turn to Deuteronomy 18. The lamb was to be taken out
of the fold. Deuteronomy 18, verse 15. The
Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst
of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, unto him ye shall 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 any more
that I die not. And the Lord said unto me, They
have well spoken that which they have spoken. Verse 18, 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. He was the seed of woman,
the seed of Abraham, and made of the seed of David according
to the flesh." Our Scripture says, "...now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds as
of many, but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ." There
was only one, only one sacrifice. The substitute had to be a man. The third thing, the lamb was
to be a year old and was to be killed. A year old lamb showing
that our Lord in His full strength of life had to be put to death. The sacrifice wasn't weak. The sacrifice wasn't, you know,
in the Old Testament it's very clear the details of the lamb
and the sacrifice. Now, sheep, goats, cattle, these
animals that they sacrificed were very valuable to them. That
was their livelihood. And you couldn't go out and find
the weakest of the sheep, the sickly, the one who wasn't really
worth as much. God became a man. God-man. And He was made sin for us. He was
sacrificed. In the fullness, at 33, the fullness
of life. And He had to be put to death.
Why did He have to be put to death? Well, the wages of sin
is death. It wasn't enough to become a
man and obey the law. He had to die for our sin. Not because many men heeded.
He had to die for us. In Hebrews, listen to this. For
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself
now to appear in the presence of God for us. nor yet that he
should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into
the holy place every year with blood of others. For then must
he often have suffered since the foundation of the world.
But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put
away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed
unto man once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that
look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto
salvation." We will all die. All of us. We're all going to
die. But because of His sacrifice, we stand in Him in judgment. Judgment is a very scary thing. Judgment, earthly speaking, is
a very scary thing. Have you ever been in a situation
where something you thought you got away with, all of a sudden
was brought to light? And you realized, I'm going to
have to pay for that? Judgment's coming. It's scary.
And usually these are very small things. Sometimes judgment here
on earth is just you've got to be embarrassed. Or it costs a
little money. But this judgment, this is eternal
life. And because of what He did, We
stand in Christ before a holy God with confidence. I'm jumping
ahead again. Not in confidence because of
us and what we've done or what we have, but in confidence because
of the one that we're in. Because of what he did. Amen. The lamb was to be a year old
and was to be killed. The lamb was to be roasted with
fire. Specific instructions on how
the lamb was to be cooked. Our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified
and endured the fire of God's wrath for our sins. The judgment of God came down
upon Him because of us. Our God, Lord Jesus Christ, He's
perfect. He never sinned. He obeyed the
law. Or how come the wrath of God came upon Him? How come?
because He was bearing our sins. That's the only reason that He
died. Because He was made sin for us.
He did no wrong. He did not deserve it, but He
took our sin in substitution. What a wonderful thing. He took
what we had, what we deserved, and He took it all. And what
He did, what He got, He gave it to us instead. He switched
places with us. The lamb was to be roasted with
fire, and because of that, we don't have to bear the judgment,
the wrath of God. We can't understand what it truly
means, the wrath of God, but there's nothing scarier. There's
nothing worse to face, the eternal wrath of God. Next, the lamb
was to be roasted whole. John, it says, for these things
were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of
him shall not be broken. This is a picture of our Lord.
He was not broken. He was a willing sacrifice, a
whole of perfect sacrifice. Even in his death, everything
was perfect. He perfectly bore our sins. His
death came for every particular sin of His people. Every one. I love to think, and we heard
it with Brother Eric on the cross, and they sat down and watched
Him. Through all of that, everything about His crucifixion, so many
parts of that were prophesied from the Old Testament to now.
This is in Exodus, the story we're reading, and all these
pictures, all these things, these types of cross, these things
that would happen, You know, everybody might not have been
able to see these unless someone showed them to them. We have
the whole picture in the Word that's taught to us here. But
throughout this, we saw so many things that were going to happen
to Him on the cross. And do you know, everyone seems
to try to have their own purpose, their own will be done. Everyone
tries to foil the providence of God, as if that can be done.
And do you know throughout all of time, I'm not sure there was
a better moment to try to show that it could be done than on
the cross. It was prophesied exactly how
that was going to happen. When it would happen, where it
would happen, to whom it would happen. What they would do. They
wouldn't part his garment. They'd cast lots for it. That his bones wouldn't be broken.
That he was going to die. They didn't have to do that stuff.
All these things were thought of. And do you know who was there?
You told us this. the scribes and the Pharisees,
the elders, the people who knew every single word of the Old
Testament. They knew every single word of
it. All they had to do was to say, don't give him vinegar.
All they had to do was say, we just got to break one bone. All
these things they could have done. Nothing can stop the providence
of God. That's right. Nothing can touch
His purpose. They were told what was going
to happen to Him, and yet couldn't stop it. The lamb was to be roasted
whole. And then the blood of the lamb
was to be sprinkled upon the lintel besides the door of the
Israelites. In the same way as the blood
of Christ is applied by faith. Now you brought up great points
about it didn't tell them how they had to do it and all these
things. I typed a bucket, I thought that was great. All these things. But it does say that they had
to put it on the door. It had to be applied by faith.
There is no salvation nor deliverance apart from faith. Now, I admit
that I shy away from saying things like that. I do not like standing
before people and saying things such as, there's no salvation
nor deliverance apart from faith. These verses, listen to a couple
of these. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the
wrath of God abideth in him. Hebrews it says, "...but without
faith it is impossible to please Him. For he that cometh to God
must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek Him." The Scripture is full of commandments
to us that we must do. And I don't like saying it because
it makes me feel like we're doing it. God did not put the blood
on the door. The people put it there because
they believed God. Now, turn with me to Exodus 11. Turn back to our text. And let
me show you something. The blood of the Lamb must be
sprinkled on the door. The blood of Christ is applied
by faith. So look in Exodus 11, verse 6. And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it,
nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children
of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against may our beasts
that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between
the Egyptians and Israel. This clearly states in verse
6 that there will be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt. Verse 7 tells us, but against
the children of Israel, the chosen people of God shall not a dog
move his tongue. Who can possibly stop a dog from
moving their tongue? That will not happen against
man or beast, that ye may know how the Lord doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel. I'm going to make a point with
that, but turn over to chapter 12, verse 12. For I will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn of 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
you 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. Now finally look at verse 26
in this chapter. And it shall come to pass when
your children shall say unto you what mean ye by this service. So the Passover, that you will
continue to have these sacrifices in the future. Why are we doing
that? You're going to tell your children from this day that ye shall say
it is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt. when He smote the Egyptians
and delivered our houses, and the people bowed their heads
and worshipped. And the children of Israel went
away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so
did they." All three of these passages, do you know what they
tell us? They tell us none of the people of Israel died. The judgment that came that night,
it did not touch any of the people of Israel. We already read that
the Lord said that without the blood on the door, at any house,
there was no differentiation there. Every single house, the
firstborn is going to die that doesn't have blood. But yet,
this is all before He comes. So He tells them, when He's telling
Moses and Aaron what He's going to do, before the people even
know anything about the blood, He already tells them, not a
single house of Israel is going to be affected by this because
of what I'm going to do. So, the blood had to be sprinkled
because of faith. Every single person that put
blood on that door did it by faith. But the Lord, before they
even knew they were supposed to do it, said, all of them are
going to do it. They did it because He made them
do it. So when we read these things,
such as, He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,
and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life, He
will make His children believe. And if He doesn't make you believe,
you will not believe. The difference is Christ. It's real simple. There's so
many verses. There's one in the bulletin that
you today, this evening, said, Whosoever there shall confess
Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is
in heaven. So, okay, so wait. I've got to confess the Lord
before men, and that means He'll confess for me in heaven. And
if I don't do that, He'll deny me before His Father. Well, the
only way I'll do that is if He makes me do it. And that gives
me comfort because there's so many of these Scriptures and
I get scared to death when it says it. It says you have to
have faith, you have to believe, you have to trust, you have to
do all these things. And I'm like, I don't do that. But by Him,
we do. We do that. The blood of the
Lamb must be sprinkled. And we ask the Lord, give me
faith to believe. He is the difference. The blood
on the door here denotes an outward confession. We saw that this
morning. An outward confession, an evidence of heart faith. That
blood on the door, the blood from the Lord Jesus Christ in
all our going out, in all our going in, all of it, the blood
of the Lamb is ever before us. You know, when those people left
that house, you don't see the blood when you're walking out.
It's still there. It's still protecting them. We
have to just be under the blood. Next, the Israelites were to
eat the flesh of the lamb. This signifies that we must,
by faith, feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me to John 6. John chapter 6. We must, by faith, feed upon
Christ. John 6, verse 55. 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. As the living Father
hath sent me, He that eateth me, even he shall
live by me. This is that bread which came
down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat manna and are
dead. He that eateth of this bread shall live forever." If
we feed on Christ, if that's all we want to consume, we want
to hear of Him, we want to see Him, we want to read of Him,
that's our sustenance. That's what we survive off of.
The child of God cannot survive alone on food and water. We must have Him. We've got to
have Him. Without Him, we have nothing. Absolutely nothing. We'll starve. Truly believing on Christ and
receiving Christ within us is called eating His flesh and drinking
His blood. We have an ordinance that's due
in remembrance of me. with the Lord's table. Next,
they were to eat the lamb with unleavened bread. Leaven is a
picture of evil. It's used multiple times in the
scripture. Leaven changes everything about bread. It changes the size,
it changes the shape, it changes the texture, the taste, all of
it. It changes everything about it.
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. as ye are unleavened. For even
Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us." This is a picture that
we don't have to add anything to our bread of life, to the
Lord Jesus Christ. We don't have to add anything.
We couldn't add anything, but it says don't add anything. Christ
endured the full wrath and judgment for our full justification. And
nothing is to be mixed, added, or joined to Him. We have a perfect
sacrifice. We have a perfect Savior. We
need not try to add anything to it. We didn't bring anything
to it. We don't have anything to offer.
Just on and on. He is our Savior. You know the
definition of Savior is one who saves. Why in the world do we
try to add something to that? You know, it doesn't say that
He's a possible Savior, or He could save, maybe. It says He's
our Savior. He saves His people. Why do we
have to add a word to that? He's our Savior. It also tells us that nothing
of the Lamb was to remain. Nothing. This says that the whole
Christ is to be received and fed upon by faith. We must... Christ in both natures, His divine
and human nature. We must accept Christ in all
His offices, prophet, priest, and king. Christ in all His person,
His work. We can't look at something in
regards to our Lord and not take part. It's all one. It is a complete sacrifice. I
feel like I keep repeating that. It is one sacrifice that is a
perfect sacrifice. We must accept everything. There
are so many things in false religion that you hear someone say something
and you're like, you're right. And then they keep talking. There
are so many things about it. The Lord Jesus Christ is my only
hope. I'm just doing everything I can.
I'm going to do better and all this stuff and then I'll be...
And you're just like, what? And He's not your only hope.
You know, we contradict ourselves constantly. We say so many things
that just don't make any sense. We need to just see what he's
done and then shut up. I mean, really, just be quiet. I find that the thing that gets
me the most in trouble is when I talk. And every word that follows
after the next word, I just take more risk that something's gonna
happen. I was told long ago, and I wish I could listen to
it and heed the advice, but someone said that the more you talk,
the more likely you're to show someone who you really are. And
maybe if you shut up, they won't quite realize how bad you are.
The more we talk, the more we add to him, it's just awful. Okay, two left. They were to
eat the Passover dressed and ready to move out of Egypt. I
love this. This is the Lord's Passover and
it effectually says these people had to be dressed and ready to
go. Now what does this signify? For
one, it signifies that they believed that the sacrifice, the blood
on the door, was enough. And not only did it show that
they believed, that the firstborn was not going to die, but it
also showed they believed that he was going to deliver them
out of Egypt. Now, this was the tenth plague. Nine different
times they had come to this point and it hadn't happened. You know,
nine times Pharaoh said, okay, fine, get out of here. And right
as soon as the plague left, he said, no, no, no, not yet. I'm
sure by the ninth time they were tired of this. They were in bondage. They were slaves. And they were
told after the first plane, get rid of the plane. Your people
can go. Can you imagine the joy, the celebration, the happiness
that they had? We're being delivered. We're
going to be free. Only for it just to go right
away. This is the tenth time. And the Lord told them, be dressed
and ready. And they did it. We don't know
His providence. We don't know His time. if this
moment he's coming back, or if it'll be years and years from
now. We don't know. We have to be dressed and ready
for it. The world, as Egypt is to Israel,
is no longer our home. We live here, but this is not
our home. We are pilgrims, temporarily here, but awaiting his call to
move out and to go home to Canaan, just like these people. We really
should look at this earth in the way that the Israelites looked
at Egypt. They were slaves, they were in bondage, they were miserable. They were in their sin, they
were miserable. That's how we should feel. In our sin, just,
oh, it's just this flesh is just awful. Knowing that soon, soon,
man, there's gonna be a day because of what He did on the cross that
we will be rid of this. And I've had a conversation or
two since I've been here. I had this with loved ones of
mine. That some people are more ready
than others. But we don't know when it's coming. My grandmother,
she's going to turn 101 soon. We just don't know. But again,
His time is perfect. Every single thing. You know,
the Passover would not have been what it was. The parchment being
the tenth place. All the things. Everything came
to this moment. All of it. Alright, finally.
The last one. When I see the blood, I will
pass over you. All these things were directions.
All these things they were supposed to do. And we get to this one
and it says, because of that sacrifice, because of the one
that died, When I see the blood of that, when I see the shed
blood, I will pass over you. That's why the Passover, I will
pass over you. I think oftentimes the Passover,
as a picture of Christ, and as a story, and a plague, all these
things that happen, I don't really enter into what actually was
happening. God said, I'm going to kill the
firstborn of everyone, even the cattle in the field. He had done
nine different things before this. They all had come true
exactly as He said. Think about that. Everything
that He had said had come perfectly to pass. Yet, not one single
Egyptian, not one single Egyptian, let me read this to you. Look
back at our text over here. Let me read this to you, because
I want you to see this. Exodus 11, verse 5. Listen to
this. And all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that
sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant
that is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.
Chapter 12, verse 12. We just did this with Israel.
And we saw how He told them nothing's going to happen to the children
of Israel. Nothing will. But look at these things He's
saying about the people of Egypt. 12, verse 12. 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.
Look at verse 29. And it came to pass that at midnight,
when it's actually happening, The Lord smote all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat
on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the
dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle." If we need a
picture, if we need an illustration that shows that the differences
cross, in all things, this is so good. Look at this. What he said about the people
of Israel, before the Passover happened, not a dog will wag
its tongue at any of the people of Israel. But what did He say
about Egypt? All the firstborn are going to die. Now, what He
said here, if a lamb is slain and the blood is on the door,
I will pass it over to you. That applied to everyone. It
did. It applied to everyone. He said
that. Everything He says is true. So
if one Egyptian had done it, their firstborn wouldn't have
died. And if one Israelite had not done it, their firstborn
would have died. So what's the difference? The
blood of Christ. The chosen people of God. This Egyptians and Israelites,
these two people, is such a picture of the Gentiles and the Jews,
of those that are His children and those that aren't. I mean,
it can't be clearer than that. Before it even happened, He said,
This is a way for every single person can get out of this. He
is providing them with an escape. Now, can you think of, I mean,
I can't think of hardly anything that would be a more, that would
be more impetus to something to do it, right? I'm gonna kill
your firstborn. And it wasn't hard, you know
what I'm saying? It wasn't hard to do what he
said, but zero people that He had not told to do it or made
to do it, did it. And every single person that
He chose did it. That's our hope. We know we won't
do it apart from Him. Yet, the counter to that that's
so wonderful is we know we will do it because of Him. We don't
have a hope otherwise. I will not do any of these things.
I won't do these things, believe on me, have faith, I won't do
any of that. Apart from Him. Apart from Him. Romans says, There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Then it says, In
whom we have redemption through His blood. What's redemption? His blood. The forgiveness of
sins according to the riches of His grace. Our God must see
the blood. And I pray that the Lord would make
that clear to us. And I want us to understand it.
I want us to believe in all that. But you know what? As long as
He called me, as long as He called you, it's going to be okay because
you're going to do it. Christ, Lord, please call me. Please give me faith. Make me
to believe. Give me all these things that
you say I have to have. Don't make me do it. Don't make
me do it. By the grace of God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, His blood will be what is seen on me in judgment. In that day, standing there,
all I have to hope I said, I'm in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
my prayer. That's my hope. Alright, Pastor. Scriptures were given an example
of that by one of the prophets that says this, Turn me, Lord,
and I shall be turned. He's Lord. He's going to do it. It's going to happen, just like
He said.