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Passover themes

Luke 22:1
Mike Baker April, 16 2023 Audio
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Mike Baker April, 16 2023
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The sermon delivered by Mike Baker focuses on the theological significance of Passover, as introduced in Luke 22:1. The key arguments presented highlight the preordained nature of Christ’s sacrifice as the ultimate fulfillment of the Passover, drawing on various Scripture references including Exodus 12, Hebrews 12:22-24, and 1 Peter 1:18-20. Baker emphasizes that the Passover themes illustrate God's sovereign authority in salvation, portraying Jesus as the Lamb who takes away the sins of His people. Furthermore, the practical significance of this teaching reflects the Reformed understanding of grace, election, and the necessity of Christ’s atoning work, where faith is not the means of salvation, but the channel through which believers receive the benefit of the finished work of Christ.

Key Quotes

“The great theme of how that all of sin, the remedy for that, all of sin had come short of the glory of God.”

“He provided Himself the lamb. Not just provided a lamb, He provided Himself the lamb.”

“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”

“For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves.”

Sermon Transcript

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So we're beginning chapter 22
of the book of Luke this morning. We found in our past lesson Jesus
being in the temple teaching and kind of coming and going between
the Mount of Olives and the area around Bethany and back to the
temple and teaching every day. In chapter 22, we're introduced
to a subject that's the theme of the whole Scripture,
the theme of the whole Bible, and that will be the name of
our lesson today. It's called Passover Themes. So beginning in Luke 22, and
we'll read through verse 13, Now the feast of unleavened bread
drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests
and scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the
people. Then entered Satan into Judas,
named Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he
went his way and communed with the chief priests and captains
how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad and
covenanted to give him money, and he promised and sought opportunity
to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. Then
came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed.
And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the Passover
that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where
wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, Behold,
when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet
you, bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house wherein
he entereth in. And ye shall say unto the good
man of the house, The master saith unto thee, Where is the
guest chamber? Where shall I eat the Passover
with my disciples? And he shall show you a large
upper room furnished. there make ready." And they went
and found as He had said unto them, and they made ready the
Passover. Boy, every word of this Scripture here is just filled
with wonderful things and momentous occasion. So we'd like to just kind of,
we're going to spend a little bit of time on Judas. We don't
want to spend too much time there, but mostly on the Passover today. So, you know, our attention is
called here to an event which was ordained really before the
foundation of the world. Long before Abraham was, the
Lord said, I am. Long in time before Exodus was,
I am that I am. The Lamb of God for ordained
to be slain. It tells us from the foundation
of the world. Who would lay down his life soon.
In this text, a ransom for the people whom God gave him from
all eternity. And then the Spirit of God effectually
applying the gospel of that sacrifice, that truth about His Son through
faith applied in the Lord's people. Good article in your bulletin
this day by Horatio Bonar about Faith is not what saves us. Faith is what we have to believe
in the thing that actually saved us. So it was a good article
there, a little paragraph. But our scripture today deals
with this theme of this Passover. We find that the gospel is applied
to the Lord's people. As the Lord looks down and tells
the disciples certain things and tells them what's going to
happen and what to look for and how things are going to be, it's
not that he just has a really good crystal ball. He's just,
I am that I am, the eternal Lord who's always in the present, who's always
carrying out in time our redemption. And in verse 10, there's a special
word given to the disciples in preparation for the Passover.
When I read that, it just struck me, and I just read it over and
over and over again and pondered it. And in Luke 22.10, He said
unto them, When you are entered into the
city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where
he entereth in." Isn't that interesting He's directing all things according
to his purpose and will. It's not just when you go into
town you'll see a certain guy and then you just kind of follow
him along. This man was going to meet them. He said, there
shall a man meet you. That man was looking for them. And they were looking for him.
And it's interesting that he would be doing something that
would be considered unusual in that period of time, in that
culture, where men didn't normally do that kind of work. Carrying
a pitcher of water was not considered a man's work. It normally would
be women's work. And there's many allusions to
That in the scripture when the Lord went to Jacob's well and
he met the woman at the well, she was there drawing water and
all that that went on with that. And then we find back in even
in the Old Testament where Abraham says, I need a wife for my son. And he sent his servant to go
and look for a wife among his kinsmen. And he says, look for
a woman that's drawing water, and she'll offer to give you
water and water your camels as well. We all know how that went,
but that's kind of a theme that we find in the scripture. So
we have a man here performing a task not usually associated
with men and a man that's not named. And you know, you think,
well, he's the Lord God Almighty. Why didn't he just say, well,
when you get into town, go over to Joe's house and there'll be
a place set up for you. Just go to 111 Fourth Street
and go upstairs and there you got it. He said, there'll be
a man that meets you bearing a pitcher of water. And you know,
in Acts chapter 9 even, we have where specifics are given according
to the Lord's purpose. In Acts 9.11, the Lord said unto
him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, gives
him the name of the street even, and inquire in the house of Judas
for one called Saul. Tells him where to go, who to
talk to, their name, There'll be one there called Saul of Tarsus,
for behold, he prayeth. He knows what he's doing. So
sometimes, according to the Lord's purpose, we have specifics. But
here, I think it's according to His purpose that we don't
have specifics. We have one that's not named.
A nameless man would be their guide. And a couple of scriptures which
may help us understand that verse in John 16, 13 says, how be it when He, the Spirit of truth
has come, He will guide you into all truth, for He shall not speak
of Himself. But whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come." So
this nameless man is going to guide them into a room where
they're going to participate in the last official Passover, one that was of the Lord. And he would show them this thing. And water is quite often used
as a metaphor regarding the Holy Spirit and also in the work of
the Trinity in redemption. In John chapter 3, as the Lord
is addressing Nicodemus, He's trying to explain these things
to him that have been a principle from the foundation of the world.
He says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born
of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God. And in 1 John chapter 5, speaking
of the Lord, in 1 John 5 verse 6, This is He that came by water
and blood, even Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is the Spirit that barest
witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that
bare a record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost. And these three are one. And there are three that bear
witness in earth, the spirit, the water, and the blood. And these three agree in one.
And of course, that agreement has to apply to the redemption
of the church and how they work in unity to accomplish that.
And so it seems like Jesus seems to supply himself and all the
truths, you know, the scriptures tell us that. Search the scriptures. For in them ye think ye have
eternal life, and they are they that testify of me." And so every
little thing that happens somehow is associated with Christ and
the redemption of the church and testifying about what He
has done. And so He seems to supply in
Himself all the truths that this metaphor, this type, this shadow,
this man bearing a pitcher of water that will meet them, and
then guide them to where they are to be. He's going to take
them and show them exactly where they are supposed to be. He doesn't
just wait for them to come. He goes and meets them. It's
kind of like that father that ran out to meet the son. He ran to meet him. When we think
of all these things, when we consider this man with a pitcher
of water, in Hebrews 12, 22 through 24, it says, but you
are come to Mount Zion. and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and unto an innumerable company
of angels, to the general assembly of the church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, And to God, the judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect. And to Jesus, the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling
that speaketh better things than that of Abel. So all those things
kind of pictured in this disciples going and this man coming out
to meet them and direct them and show them where to go and
carrying this pitcher of water. I always tell Norma, it could
have been like at the airport where they always have a sign
up waiting for somebody with that
name on it to come over and say, that's me. So as we move on, the great themes
of the Passover. had their beginnings long before
that which was recorded in Exodus 12. He's the lamb slain from
before the world was even created, before the foundation of the
world. The great theme of how that all of sin, the remedy for
that, all of sin had come short of the glory of God. The great
theme of being justified freely by His grace through the redemption,
that full payment that is in Jesus Christ. The great theme
of how through His Son, Jesus Christ, He declares imputed righteousness
by means of this propitiation, this payment, this atonement.
which would bring reconciliation between sinners and God who's
angry with sin every day. People just have such a warped
view of the person of God the Father and His holiness and His
righteousness. He's just more of a Santa Claus
kind of a person, and if you mess up a little bit, well, we'll
overlook that. Well, he is holy and just and
righteous, and every sin must be remedied and reconciled and
taken care of. And really, that's the theme
of the Passover is how He could be holy and totally just, and
at the same time, the justifier of them that believeth in Jesus,
the Scriptures say. The great theme of the innocent
being sacrificed in the place of the guilty. Why would we have
a lamb slain before the world was even created? We had a lamb
slain in Christ. a picture of free grace and mercy
beyond our capacity to even really understand completely. We just
rejoice in it, that He's been merciful to us. Christ suffering
for our sins, the just for the unjust, that He might reconcile
us and bring us to God, it says in 1 Peter 3.18. This great theme
pictured and expressed in the garden in Genesis 3 where it
says, unto Adam and also unto his wife did the Lord God make
coats of skins and covered them. They were not seeking that. He
didn't put out a bulletin that says, hey, anybody that messes
up, come on over here and I'll take care of it. Again, he went
to them, addressed the problem, and took care of it. And again,
the picture was the innocent had to die for the guilty. Genesis 22, we find this expressed
again with Abraham, Isaac, and the Lamb of God. I'm sure you're
all familiar with that record where they went up Mount Moriah,
and Isaac toted the wood, and the makings of the fire, and
Abraham had the knife, and the Lord had said, go up there and
sacrifice your son, your only son. And a picture of what he
was about to do himself. And in Genesis 22, 7, Isaac spake
unto Abraham his father and said, my father. And he said, here
am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood, but where's the lamb for a burnt offering? So
they recognized this lamb slain from before the foundation of
the world. They recognized the need of it. They recognized the
symbolism of it. They recognized where that all
originated. And Abraham said in verse 8,
My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
So they went both of them together. Boy, what a double meaning there.
He provided Himself the lamb. Not just provided a lamb, He
provided Himself the lamb. And so they went, both of them
together, and of course, you know, they found the ram caught
in a thicket and sacrificed that and carried out that picture.
And the great theme was, Everything we find in the Scripture
is kind of layered. And we just find deeper and deeper
and deeper and deeper and deeper themes that reveal Christ to
us and everything that's involved. So we come to Exodus and we find
the people have been in bondage. What a picture of our existence
in the bondage of sin. And they've been in bondage for
400 years. the Lord has purposed to free
them from that bondage, and he's chosen to do it in a specific
way. And as Norm brought out in our Wednesday night studies
in Esther's, the specific things that he used Pharaoh for to display
his power and his purpose. And then we come to Exodus 12,
God delivering his people in type and in fact. And, you know,
the people of Israel there in the New Testament, it's called
the church in the wilderness. They're kind of a metaphor, a
picture of the church. And in fact, call that in the
New Testament. And he establishes this great
truth and this memorializing it in the Passover,
the judgment and wrath of God passing over those in whom the
blood of the Lamb was applied. And it's interesting to note
that those persons in the homes where the Passover blood was
applied were not just presented with an opportunity to accept
or reject or to choose whether or not to accept that mercy.
It said, when I see the blood, I'm passing over. And we'll read
those scriptures here in just a minute. But that's what the
sovereign God Almighty says. When I see the blood, I'm passing
over. Our text today brings us to the
point in time as decreed and determined by God that the final
Passover in type and picture would indeed conclude in being
no longer necessary because the true Lamb of God was here to
fulfill that. In 1 Corinthians 5.7 it says,
"...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." So they recognized Christ as our Passover. The Passover
would be prepared for and observed according to the perfect keeping
of the law. He said, go and prepare the Passover.
They were going to have a lamb killed, and they were going to
do all the things that it tells us to do in Exodus 12. They'll slay, they'll have a
lamb that was without spot, without blemish, they'll kill that lamb,
they'll roast it with bitter herbs, and they'll use unleavened
bread, as in the picture of the leaving Egypt. And in the morning,
anything left over was burnt with fire. There was nothing
left over. It was 100% applied. So they did everything according
to the law, as Christ always performed all the law in our
place. But it would be changed forever
from a memorial. In Exodus 12, it says, this is
going to be a memorial forever, this Passover, this picture of
the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. It was
going to be changed from a memorial of someone's coming, as Norm
says, to someone is here. would be someone actually came
and took care of it and did it and satisfied God by fulfilling
all righteousness. And so now the memorial is remembering
what Christ actually did for us. Thou shalt call his name
Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins in Matthew 121.
And our text Then in Luke 22, verse 3, calls our attention
to every detail being determined and accomplished by God in the
redemption, the justification of the church. In our text there
in Luke 22, 3, then brings us to this issue of Judas Iscariot. Then entered Satan into Judas,
surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve." There are some interesting things that
I wanted to spend just a couple of minutes on here. just a few words about the betrayer.
He was who he was, and he did what he did according to the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. You know, it's interesting
that God said, have not I chosen you twelve and one of you is
the devil? So he fully knew and fully understood who Judas was
and what his motives were and what his human behavior would
be. And the fact that it says that Satan entered into him and
he went to the, he took it on himself to go to the chief priests
and the elders and say, what do you give me if I turn this
guy over to you? They didn't come to him and they
were afraid of the people says they were trying to figure out
a way to kill him and do away with him. But there was a millions
of Jews in Jerusalem that were pretty well taken with Jesus
and he was pretty popular and they feared the people. They
said, well, if we arrest him. In front of all those people,
there'll be a big riot and the Romans will come in and kill
us all. So we need to kind of do it on the QT. And so Judas
says, well, I can arrange that and I'll arrange a time to turn
him in during a quiet time. Because he usually goes up on
the mountain by himself with the disciples at night. All those
things purposed. So he arranged for the 30 pieces
of silver that we're told about in the Old Testament. I like what Hawker wrote about
him. He said, he was called to be an apostle but not called
to grace. What a telling sentence that describes him fully. You
know, if we look at him, interestingly, he was one of the 12. It says
when Jesus said, one of you is going to betray me, all 12 of
them said, is it I? He was the only one that knew
that it was I. But yet he pretended, he thought,
well, I can pull the wool over the eyes of the Lord God Almighty. And it's interesting, we were
talking this morning about all the things that he witnessed,
all the miracles that he saw, the Lord sent the 12 out and
they healed people and they cast out devils and they did all kinds
of things. He did that too. He did all that and still it
didn't make a difference in his nature. He was still an unregenerate,
lost soul that had a typical warped view of God that he was
smarter than God or could pull the wool over his eyes. All those
kind of things that we see typically in unregenerate people. When
I see God, I'm going to tell him a few things. Or, I'm not
so bad. If he can't accept that, then
it's his problem. All those kind of crazy things
that we hear. But he did all those things, and yet it didn't
make, in the final analysis, it didn't make a difference.
Just like all the miracles that we find very few people that
were converted because of the miracles that he did. The raising
of the dead, the healing of the lepers, The blind being able
to see, the deaf being able to hear, the feeding of the 5,000. That's not what saves us in the
end. It's the Gospel. It's the calling
of us by God. So we find all those things about
Judas. Coming as it was foreordained,
the Son of Man goeth as it is written of him, but woe unto
that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It'd been good for
him if he'd not been born. I speak not of you all I know
whom I've chosen, but that the scripture may be fulfilled. He
that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me."
From Psalm 41, 9. All these things written. My
own familiar friend. Boy, I was just telling Norma,
that's a real grace. To write that from, as I said,
thousands of years. Norm says, well, it was written
in eternity. My old familiar friend. How could
he call him his familiar friend that would betray him like that? But it was all according to his
purpose. Even the price, the 30 pieces
of silver is written about. So even though he'd already betrayed
him, he said, is it I? As if the Lord couldn't discern
that. So back to our main theme here
of the Passover, all these things coming together according to
the determinate counsel of God, all the people and the Gentiles
and the people of Israel and Pilate and everybody gathered
together to do, at this one point in time, all gathered together
to do what he had before determined to be done, the Lamb slain from
before the foundation of the world. So we're back to our theme in
this Passover that brings all these things together kind of
in a more formal way. As we observed, they were being
done in Cain and Abel and Abraham in the Old Testament. Now the
things are kind of more formal. formalized in more detail. There's more layers to the onion
here brought out in Exodus. These people that have been in
bondage for all these hundreds of years. In Exodus 6-5, I have
also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto
the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians." He said, I am
the Lord, and I am going to do that. I am the sovereign God
that is going to cause that to happen. And what a picture of
salvation we have. And I will rid you out of their
bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and
with great judgments. And so we have that declaration
of God of what He will do and how He fulfills that in His Son.
And we have a picture of a sacrifice is needed, a picture of a great
price required to free the people. And it's been pictured again
so many times in Scripture that we just mentioned earlier. And
in Exodus chapter 12 now, where this is instituted, speak you,
unto all the congregation of Israel." And boy, you know the
picture of the church there in the wilderness as the New Testament
says. Saying, speaking 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. So he's speaking to
a specific people here. He's not speaking in a general
term. This was not applicable to the
Egyptians or anybody else in the world. It was specifically
stated speaking to the children of Israel. And as we read in
the New Testament, they are not all Israel that are Israel there,
but Abraham's seed shall they be called. So we have this picture
of the sacrifice established for these particular
people. And when we have the absolute
necessary qualification for the sacrifice to be acceptable written
down in Exodus 12.5, it has to be a lamb without blemish. And
they'll keep it and make sure that there's no blemish. It'll
be a male the first year. You'll take it from the sheep
or from the goats. and then they shall slay it.
The Passover, it says in Luke chapter 22 verse 7, the Passover
must be killed. And you know, we go back to some
of our previous lessons, the musts of Jesus. When we have
a scripture that said must, it means must. And when it applies to Jesus,
it's an absolute, and it's not open to debate. In Exodus 12,
6, you shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month, and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. Our pastor brought out a message that It wasn't the
Egyptians that slew Jesus. It wasn't the Romans. It wasn't
the elders. It was the believers. It was the people that he died
for. It was their sins that hanged him on that cross. The whole
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." And
then again in Luke 22, 7, then came the day of unleavened bread
when the Passover must be killed. And so as we look at this in
Exodus, was that blood applied indiscriminately? Well, it wasn't. He said it was never intended
to be generally applied to the world at large as represented
by the Egyptians with the idea that They could partake or not
according to their own will. God directed where that blood
would be applied and where it would be applied effectually.
Speaking to the congregation of Israel, he says in Exodus
12, 3, saying, in the tenth day of this month they shall take
to them a lamb, every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house. In verse 7, they shall take that
blood and strike it on the two posts and on the upper doorpost
of the houses wherein they shall eat it. That blood was applied
specifically. And further on, we find in Exodus
chapter 12, verse 43, the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, this
is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no stranger eat of
it. So it was very specific and it was very pointed on where
it would be effectually applied. The blood, again, the blood was
undeserved. There was no merit in them where
it was applied. And then we find later on where
a lot of those people died in the wilderness. and from unbelief. And so there was no merit in
where it was applied other than where it was applied, the Lord
passed over. But they were sinners, all of
them. And the scripture says, for grace, by grace are you saved
through faith and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of
God. And so this blood, the ultimate
gift of God applied for them effectually. He said, the blood
shall be for you a token in Exodus 12, 13, 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. So going forward
into the New Testament, 1 Peter 1.18, For as much as ye know
ye are not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold,
in your vain conversation received by the tradition of your fathers,
but with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb, without blemish
and without spot. who verily was foreordained before
the foundation of the world, but was manifest for you in these
last times." 1 Peter 1.20. There was an urgency about it.
In Exodus 12.8, they shall eat the flesh that night, not whenever
they took a notion to. They shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs
shall they eat it." 2 Corinthians 6, verse 2 says,
For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in a
day of salvation I have succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted
time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
And for them, it was that night. He determined it. The bitter
herbs. You'll eat it with bitter herbs. And boy, what a picture
of the revelation of sin that comes with the new birth. Things
that we didn't really pay much attention to before now become
bitter to us. And they're bitter to our nature.
They're bitter to our being. And we recognize the cost of
it and how it affects every facet of our lives and how we're in
bondage to it. until we've been relieved of
that. It doesn't mean that we stop sinning, but we recognize
that that sin has been paid for, that sin has been taken care
of, that sin has been resolved for us in our place by Him who
died for us. And you know, in Matthew, he
says, blessed are they who mourn. Boy, when you've been born again,
you mourn for your sins. How awful. But he says, but they
shall be comforted. They're comforted with the knowledge
of what he did for them. They're comforted with the peace
that passes all understanding that now exists between them
and God the Father, where before they were at enmity with him.
In Exodus 12-2, it says, This month shall be unto you the beginning
of months. It'll be the first month of the
year to you. Therefore, in 2 Corinthians 5-17,
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things
are passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. What a picture of that in the Old Testament. This will
be the beginning. When I apply the blood, this
will be the beginning. When I apply the blood, all things are passed
away. I've taken care of them. When I apply the blood, all things
become new. And you know what? We have to
have that blood applied all the time. Because we don't quit sinning. I mean, we just sin more than
we want to, and we don't want to. But Paul said, you know,
I'm always doing the things that I don't want to do, and the things
that I do want to do seem to be the things that I don't do. So we're covered in all that
because we have an advocate that's sitting at the right hand of
God applying that blood. I paid for that sin. It's all
been paid for. This issue of leaven, the people
were to take unleavened bread. They were to eat it in haste. Exodus 12, 39, what a picture
of them being unable to prepare for themselves. They were to to take unleavened
cakes of dough which they brought forth out of Egypt. It says,
for it was not leavened because they were thrust out of Egypt
and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves
any vittles. So this leaven being a picture
of an additive that makes something. Remember when we talked about
that earlier in Luke about the beware the leaven of the Pharisees. Leaven was something that takes
something and puffs it up and makes it seem larger than it
is, makes it seem more than it was. We use that leavening in making
big loaves of bread. But when we celebrate the Lord's
Supper, we use unleavened bread because there's nothing added
to it. The bread that is represented in Christ is enough. You don't
need to add anything to it. It doesn't need to be enhanced.
It's good just as it is. In fact, there was so much stress
on leaven being a representation of hypocrisy and falseness and
works and all things that were contrary to the grace that it
says, seven days shall you eat unleavened bread. Not enough
just to eat it one day. You eat it seven days. Even in
the first day shall you put away leaven out of your houses. Don't
even have it in your house. Don't even look at it. Remove
it from your thoughts. Remove it from your mind. Remove
it from your life. Anything that has to do with
works. For whosoever eateth leaven bread from the first day unto
the seventh, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. You add
that leavening, you add that works, it's not sufficient for
you anymore. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves. So again, beware that leaven
of the Pharisees, which is what the Lord said, that's hypocrisy,
that's adding works, keeping of the law, falseness, and as
it says in 1 Corinthians 5-7, purge out there for that old
leaven. Get rid of that. Anything that you have in your
religious life that has anything to do with works, throw that
out. Get rid of that, that you may
be a new lump. As you are unleavened, for even
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep
the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. those things that are so represented
in Christ. And as Paul wrote to Titus in
chapter 3, verse 5, not by works of righteousness, which we've
done, but according to His mercy, He saved us by the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. That brings us
to our next lesson, which is the memorial is changed. As we
find here in Luke Chapter 22, the memorial is changed from
the Passover to do this in remembrance of me. We'll talk about that
and the need for whenever we do that, we're remembering why
he died. Not that we're special now, or
now that we're meritorious. It's just a thing that we need
it now, and we need it every day, and we need it more than
ever. So, do this in remembrance of me will be our next lesson. So, thank you for your attention,
and until next time, be free.

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