In chapter 12 and 13, and I want
to talk about being bought with a price. Bought with a price. We've talked about the Passover
the last two times that I've preached. I preached the Passover
itself and what it was. And that Christ our Passover
was sacrificed for us. The last Passover. All those
other Passovers never actually put away sin. all those other
Passovers never ever satisfied God but when our Lord Jesus Christ
was sacrificed as our Passover that Passover actually put away
sin once and for all all for whom Christ died and then we
talked about how that you don't eat it raw you don't eat it sodden
with water you don't water down the gospel You got to take a
Christ roasted. Take a Christ suffering. Take
a Christ under the fire of God's wrath. And you got to have a
whole Christ. You can't leave unless you eat
it all. And you have to stay in the house until the morning.
And all these blessed, blessed truths of our Lord Jesus as our
Passover. Now I want to look at some things
that the Passover accomplished, that the Passover accomplished.
And the first thing I want you to look at is over here, you
keep chapter 12, but look over here at chapter 4, in verse 22. This is the first message, the
first message to Pharaoh. And Pharaoh is going to face
God. Pharaoh is going to face God.
He already did. God dealt with him in judgment.
But He ain't dealt with him like He's going to deal with him.
This is what Moses went to. God said, Moses, this is what
you're going to say to Pharaoh. And he went in to Pharaoh. And
thus shalt thou say unto Pharaoh. Thus saith the Lord. That's the
first thing you've got to tell him. I'm not speaking. It's not
me, Moses. I've got no authority. I've got
no power. So the first thing you've got
to understand is, thus saith the Lord. This is God speaking
to you. This is the Lord speaking to
you. And Israel is my son, even my firstborn. And since this
is my firstborn, the one by whom I made a nation from, you've
got to let him go. And I say unto thee, let my son
go, that he may serve me, and if I refuse to let him go, behold,
I'll slay even thy firstborn. You won't let my firstborn go,
I'll slay your firstborn. And he didn't believe this message.
He didn't believe it. He didn't believe God. He didn't
believe what the Lord said. He didn't believe what God was
going to do. And that's the way the world is. The world doesn't
believe God. The Lord, the world doesn't believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ. The world don't believe that
God's Word is His Word. And our Lord Jesus Christ said
this, except you repent, you'll all likewise perish. And here's
the thing, He said, he that believeth and is baptized, that man will
be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. That's what our Master said.
And the majority of people do not believe God means what He
says. They don't believe it. They do
not believe that God means what He says. Just like you take,
when we talk about Christ being our Savior, there's no reason
calling Him Savior unless He actually saves. Why would you
call Him your Savior unless He saves you? And there's people
that call Him Savior all the time, but they say He can't save
you unless Well, that's His name, the Savior.
Did He save? Did He come to save? Who did
He come to save? Did He accomplish the salvation
He was sent to do? So that's what I say. People
actually do not believe what God says. When our Lord Jesus
Christ says, No man, no man, no man can come unto Me except
the Father which hath sent Me draw him. And no man can come
unto the Father but by me. That's the only two ways you're
going to get to God. You're going to get to Him when
He draws you and you're going to get to Him when the Lord Jesus
Christ calls you. And you're not going to get to
God unless you go through Christ, unless you come in His name,
unless you come in His Spirit, unless you come in His righteousness.
Nobody, I can't, even right now, if you and I go into the presence
of God, we've got to go one way, through His Son. That's a pretty good way to go,
ain't it? Because you know why? Because we believe what God says.
I take God at His word. If He said, this is the way you
approach the Lord, this way I'm going to come. And this is the
way the Passover is. That's the way the Passover is. And we account the long-suffering
of God as salvation. He said, the long-suffering of
God, if he endured with much long-suffering, the vessels of
wrath fit it to destruction. But his long-suffering has a
limit. There's a time that he suffers so long. And then it's
over. And I tell you what, he endured
Pharaoh for a long, long time. And it said over here in verse
30 of chapter 12, it said this. He said, there was not left one
that was not dead in all the house of Pharaoh and all of Egypt.
Not one house didn't have somebody died that night. Not one house. You reckon they believed God
then? You reckon Pharaoh believed God then? And so look down here
in verse chapter 12 with me in verse 40 and 41. Let's talk about
being bought with a price and coming up out of Egypt. Just
go over a few things again. Exodus 12, 40 in verse 41. Now this is him rehearsing what
happened and how often they are going to do this. Now the sojourning
of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. God had told them it was going
to go into a strange land and they were going to stay there
400 years and that he would bring them out. And it came to pass
at the end of the four hundred and thirty years Even the self
same day it came to pass that all the host of the Lord now
listen to that the host of the Lord That's what he calls us
All them people said he's the host of the Lord. Oh You know where somebody's
a host, you know, that means that they take care of you That
you're welcome The Lord, He said He was our
host. Where the host of the Lord went
out from the land of Egypt. When did they go out? Only after
the blood of the Lamb was shed. Only after the blood of the Lamb
was not only shed, but it was applied. not till redemption
was actually effected and effectual. They never walked out of Egypt
until the blood had been applied, the blood was effectual, and
when that morning come, they walked, walked out of those houses
because redemption had been accomplished, the blood had been applied, and
it was effectual. There wasn't anybody dead in
the houses of Israel. All of them come out. And the
Lord, He said, the Lord of Hosts come out. And I'll tell you what,
you reckon the blood of Christ is effectual? You reckon it actually
cleanses a man from sin? Do you reckon it actually makes
a man acceptable to God? Do you actually believe that
when God sees the blood, He'll pass over you? Do you believe
that when God, because the blood's been applied to us, that Christ
will take us to glory one of these days? Oh my! They had the promise, I'm going
to bring you out. You're going to be there a long,
long time. And we'll be here a long, long time. Everybody
says, every generation said, I don't see how the world can
stand much longer until the Lord comes. And I was a little boy
over in North Carolina. I went to a Baptist church to
live with some people that was, went to a Baptist church and
they'd all pray every evening. They'd all play their guitars
and sing. My thing gospel songs the very nice people wonderful
people took care of me very well And I'd go to meet with them
and all that one of them talks. I don't see how the world can stand This is 1960 61 I don't
see how the world can stand as wicked as it is I Now here it
is, 2019. I don't see how the world can
stand much longer. I believe the Lord is going to
come. And I do know this. They had
the promise, you're going to have to stay down there a long,
long, long time. But when it's time for you to
come out, I'm going to make a way for you to come out. You know
how I'm going to make a way? through a lamb. You know how
I'm going to make a way? Through blood. You know how I'm
going to make a way? I'm going to make that blood
effectual. When you come through that blood,
you're coming out of there ready to go. And not only they had the promise,
but they had leaders. They seen wonders. They seen
miracles. But they weren't free until that
blood was effectual. And as the Lord of hosts, they
were redeemed, and as bought with a price, and away they went. And away they went. And that's
why Paul, he said it this way, being justified freely by His
grace, through the redemption, through the payment price of
the Lord Jesus Christ. all the transgressions, all the
sins, under the first covenant, under the covenant of the law,
under the covenant, all of the Christ is the mediator and he
done away with all the transgressions of all his people that was under
the Old Testament. And now he's the mediator for
all beloved before and after, since then. And you know even
our Lord Jesus Christ had to die, there'd be no redemption. He was the Lamb. He was the Lamb. Our Lord said it this way. He
told His disciples, He said, except a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it'll bring
forth much fruit. And our Lord Jesus Christ, when
He died, He brought forth so much fruit, more. He said, no
man can number it. 10,000 times 10,000, thousands
in a multitude that no man can number. One man done that. One man. One man done that. Oh, what a
Savior. What a Savior, Brad. What a Savior.
And then look at the ordinance of the Passover down here in
verse 43. The ordinance of the Passover.
You know, and that's what he calls it, an ordinance. And we have two ordinances, baptism
and the Lord's table. And I'll tell you what, he says,
and the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, this is the ordinance
of the Passover. From now on, when you have a
Passover, you're gonna have one of that once a year. When you
have a Passover, look what he says. No strangers shall eat
thereof. What in the world does he mean
by that? You've got to be one sheep. You've got to be in the covenant
of grace. This lamb was slain for Israel. Only Israel. The whole man brought about those
four things about the house last Sunday morning. And here's the
thing about it. No stranger is going to eat there.
It was for Israel alone, for no foreigner. This feast is for
Abraham's children. The children of promise. The
children of promise. Abraham's children. And then
look what else he said. No stranger is going to eat there.
And I tell you what, beloved, and he was, who read that tonight? You read it. First verse out
of Psalm 66 was that the Lord will even subdue his enemies
unto himself. He subdued me. I was an enemy
and he subdued me. But here he says no strangers. This is for the Lord's people.
This is for Christ's people. This is for God's people. Abraham's
children. And then look what he says in
verse 45. A foreigner And an hired servant shall not
eat thereof. You know a foreigner, they don't
understand your language. First thing about a foreigner.
A foreigner comes in here and they'll say, I've never heard
anything like that. I don't understand it. I don't get it. Well, there
was a time I didn't get it either. I didn't understand it. But God taught me. You know,
this is the thing about it. God, the Lord's people speak
a language that nobody else speaks. And so when a foreigner comes
in here, we talk about grace. And we say free will is one of
the awfulest doctrines that's ever been perpetrated on the
human race. That's the first thing they say.
Oh, that's foreign to me. I don't understand that. We say
that Christ has a people, an elect people. Christ died for
the elect. We say that the Lord Jesus Christ,
His blood was shed for that particular people. That they were dead and He gave
them life. They were lost and He found them. We didn't find Christ, He found
us. Christ wasn't lost, we're the ones lost. And you say, and
you preach like that, and folks say, ooh, that's the strangest
thing I've ever heard. Foreigners, they don't understand
roasting a lamb. They understand walking an aisle,
they understand getting on an altar. They don't understand
the justice of God demanding the death of the substitute for
the sinner. They don't understand how that
God's justice must be satisfied and that Christ is the only one
who can satisfy it. And like I said this morning,
now listen. Is there anything that we've ever done that God
would accept by something we've done? Is there anything we've
ever done in our lives that would make God accept it? You know why? Because we believe
God. We believe God. He set forth
His Son, and in His blessed Son, He said through faith in Him,
and who He is, not just what He did, but who He is. Who He
is. Who He is gave value to what
He did. Who I am, It's what gives value
to what I do. And that's why it's got no value
to it. But Christ, what He did, it's got value to it. It's got
merit to it. It's got worth to it. It's got power to it. What
we are, we got no value to it. No worth to it. No power to it.
But He's got it. So no hired servant. No foreigner. You know why no hired servant?
He's motivated by self-interest. He's working for pain. Oh, listen. I'm going to get so many rewards
when I get to heaven. I used to hear them fundamentalists
do that. They say, I'm going to get seven crowns. I heard a preacher say one time,
I can't wait till God makes me rule over Fenton's County. I
can't even rule over myself. But that's how idiotic people
are. But oh no, hire a servant. And
that's why if you know Romans 4, 5, it says that God justifies
him that worketh not. And then look what it says in
verse 48. And when a stranger shall soldier
with thee, and keep the Passover, and look
what it says down there, and let him come near, he shall be
as one that is born of the Lamb. Now listen to this here, for
no uncircumcised person shall eat it. Now circumcision to the
Jewish people, that was a sign of the covenant. And it showed
a cleanliness, it showed a, it typified being clean before God. Being accepted of God. It was
a sign of the covenant. And this is Israel as well as
Gentiles. Circumcision was a sign of the
covenant. Only those who belong to the covenant of grace can
feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to look at two places
with me. You keep this. First, I want
you to look in Colossians. Look over here in Colossians.
Talk about this circumcision. Colossians, chapter 2. I want you to see this now. You know, the Jews, they still
trust in circumcision. They still do that. They have a rabbi, still do it. And look what it said here, talking
about being complete in Christ. in whom in Christ in whom also
you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands
man didn't have nothing to do with this and putting off the body of sins
that's what the filthiness of the flesh the body of sins of
the flesh now listen to this by the circumcision of Christ
Christ cuts off that old body of sin. Christ cuts off that
sin. Christ cuts off all our sin. And then look what he says.
So we're buried with him in baptism. I believe this baptism here is
the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's what I believe it is right
here. Wherein also you are risen with him. through the faith. Now what? Listen to it now. Through
the operation of God. God does this. God does this
operation. God does the circumcising. God
buries us with Christ. And the faith is the operation
of God. He gave it to us. Who has raised
him from the dead. So we are circumcised. We're
clean. We're accepted. And now look
over here in Romans chapter 8, or excuse me, chapter 2 in verse
28. I love these two verses of scripture
right here. I love them. Love them, love them, love them.
Well, I love it all, but these two right here really mean something
to me. Now watch what he says here. He is not a Jew, which
is one hour late. Wears his black hat and his long
coats and got the curls hanging out from under his hat. Goes
to the synagogue, you know. He is not a Jew which is worn
out. Neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh. That's not circumcision. God
considers it not circumcision anymore. But listen to this.
He is a Jew. Notice how that's capitalized.
Which is worn inwardly. And circumcision is that of the
heart. God told him over there and he says, don't rid your flesh, circumcise
your hearts. And he says, circumcision is
that of the heart. God does something in the heart.
And in the spirit, in our spirit. And not in the letter, not according
to the law. Because when a man does it in
the law, he gets praised of men, but not of God. not of God and
so you see we've been circumcised we've been cleansed we've been
accepted we're in the covenant the covenant of grace all right
now look back over here with me again verse 44 now here's
people But every man's servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast circumcised him, then shall eat." Now a hard servant
can't do it. But if you're a bond slave, you've
been bought for money, and you've been circumcised, then you're
able to eat the Passover. Well, I was both. I was a bond
servant. You know, no hard servant could,
but a bond servant could. And you know what a bondservant
is? Somebody's got to set them free. And they got to be circumcised,
got to set them free. That Passover sets them free.
And he says he's been purchased, he's been circumcised, he's one
of the household. He belongs in the family. And
so he gets to eat the Passover. And then look what he says here
in verse 48 again. And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee, or travel with you, and he will keep the Passover
to the Lord, here's the first thing he's got to have. Let all
his males be circumcised. We just talked about we've been
circumcised. And then let him come near and keep it. And he
shall be a swine that's born in the land. Oh, that foreigner,
if he submitted to God's way, this is the thing, he got to
submit to what God said. He got to submit to this circumstance.
He got to submit to what God said. And that's what, you know,
as people, strangers without God, without Christ, and without
hope, now we're about nine. by the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And beloved, if there's anything,
anything that we haven't submitted to, I tell you what, everybody
in this building who's a believer wants to. Ain't that right? Oh, you want
to submit. You know, that's one of the griefs
of our hearts that we can't submit the way we want to. That's a
great grief to our hearts. Oh, my. And then look in verse
46. In one house shall it be eaten.
Now he's talking about the Passover that's going to be on this way
from now on. In one house shall it be eaten. Thou shalt not carry
forth all of the flesh you brought out of the house, and neither
shall you break a bone thereof. The lamb was to be eaten under
the shelter of the atoning blood. That blood's there. And you're
eating that lamb. where the blood is and beloved
we're eating the lamb we eat the Christ we trust Christ and
we believe Christ and we believe him and trust him and we're under
the shelter of the atoning blood I'm going to sing that little
chorus in a little while I hope I can sing it under the blood
under the blood of Jesus safe in the shepherds fold safe though
the worlds may crumble Save for the stars wrote him under the
blood of Jesus. I am secure in him. Oh Listen,
that's and the lamb listen to this and the lamb can only be
Really where it's virtue. Oh, they got to believe that
blood. They gotta trust God for that
blood They gotta trust God that God will not punish them on account
of that blood on account of that lamb that God won't punish And
here's the thing about it If they deny that blood, they deny
the Lamb. If you deny the blood, you deny
the person. If the blood and the person go
together, then neither one of them go together. The Lamb and
the blood. You have to have the Lamb before you can have the
blood. And once you've got the Lamb, you've got the blood. We've
got Christ and we've got everything that goes with Him. Huh? And
I'll tell you what, then He says, neither shall any bone be broken. Do you all remember? This is
what he said in Psalm 3420. And not a bone of his shall be
broken. It was the Passover. And they
slayed the Passover in the afternoon. That's when the Jews slayed the
Passover. And they said, you know, we want
these three men that's on these crosses, we want them taken down. We want to take it down before
the Passover. Before we eat the Passover. And they went up there. And there's
two fellows that are still alive on either side of Christ. They
took a big old hammer and broke their legs. They died immediately. But you know why they didn't
break Christ's legs? He's already called. He's gone. I looked at him. He wasn't alive. You know what he had done? He
said, Lord, it's finished. And into thy hands I commit my
spirit. And the scripture said he gave
up the ghost. No man took his life from him.
He laid it down of his own power. He took it up of his own power. What a Savior! Oh, what a Savior! Oh, my! And that's why they never
broke it down. Not a bone of His shall be broken.
And then, let me hurry up. I think this is the last note. It's not. Look what He says here in chapter
13. And the Lord, verse 2 verses,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto Me all
the firstborn, Whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
Israel, both of man and of beast, it is mine. What this means is
separate me every firstborn, he belongs to me. Every firstborn. And I tell you, if God acts in
grace towards his people, and by that act of grace that he
gives towards his people, he lays claims on them. And ain't
you thankful to be his? He can lay all the claim on me
He wants to. I'm glad He claimed me. If He acts in grace and He shed
the blood and He says, Thou art mine, He lays claim to you. You
belong to Him. And ain't that wonderful to belong
to Him? Him lay claim to you? in all
minds, firstborn. Oh, a redeemed people become
the property of the redeemed, the redeemer. Sanctify to me
the firstborn. Your bought was a prize. Glorify
therefore God in your body and your spirit. And the firstborn,
it was a firstborn that was redeemed from judgment in Egypt. Every
firstborn in Egypt died that night. Some died without Christ
and no bloodshed. But everyone in those houses
where the lamb was, they died in the lamb. And God claims the firstborn
for Himself. And then look what He says down
here in verse 6 and 7. Now He separates them for Himself. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread and in the seventh day shall be a feast unto the Lord
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days and there shall no
leavened bread be seen with thee neither shall there be leaven
seen with thee in all thy quarters don't even let it be in your
house seven days and This is the nature. This is the nature
of sanctification. I Leaven is, of course, what
we call baking soda. Whatever they put in stuff to
make biscuits and things with. But this is the nature of sanctification.
In the scriptures, leaven was always spoken of in an awful
way. Always spoken of as a corrupt thing. And like leaven, like
leaven in a little bit of dough makes the whole dough rot. And
here's the thing about it, a little bit of leaven in us, Spoils us
a little leaven, leaveneth a whole bunch. And so it counts and it
spreads into everything that comes in contact. And it's more,
this here leaven, putting the leaven out is more than indulging
the flesh and the grosser sins of things. Let me give you three
or four things here. You'll have to look at it. But
remember when our Lord Jesus Christ said, Beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees. They thought He was talking about
the bread. And he says, no, I'm talking about the doctrine of
the Pharisees. Oh, beware of the living of the Pharisees and
their traditions, their hypocrisy, their formalism, their legalism. Beware of them. Beware to be
seen of men. You know, stay away from that
pharisaical religion. If you go to pharisaism and you
go to legalism and formalism and ceremonialism and love to
be seen of men, He said it will ruin everything about you. It
will ruin you. And then there's the 11 other
Sadducees. 11 other Sadducees. Now the Sadducees, they didn't
believe in a resurrection. They didn't believe that there
was a spirit, the Holy Spirit or any spirit. They didn't believe
in angels. They didn't believe there was
such a thing as an angel. That's the Pharisee. And he says,
be aware of the leaven of the Sadducees. They were materialists. They denied the Spirit in man,
they reject the resurrection. And you know how many people,
how many people, you just start asking people when you're out
in the world someday, do you believe in the resurrection?
Do you believe that there's life hereafter? Most folks will say,
yes, I believe that there's a higher power. I don't know if any of
you've all ever been to AA or had anything to do with AA, anything
like that. But the first thing you got to
acknowledge is that there has to be a higher power than yourself.
Don't call him what you want to. Call him supernatural, call
him father, call him a great power out there, but the first
thing you got to do is acknowledge that there's a power greater
than yourself. Call him whatever you want to. The only people
who know, they ain't got no strength in their... I mean... Oh, God. But they don't think... We watched this stupid movie
last night. I think it was last night. This guy had cancer and
he's going to die. He's going to die. He said there
was nothing he could do. So they gave him medicine for
him to take his own life. He had a set system to go through
this thing and then he took the last thing and when he took the
last thing he laid down and just in a few minutes he quit breathing.
But this is what he said. This is what he said. And this
is what people really believe. He said this. He said, I don't
know if there's a hereafter or not. But if there is, do you
want me to come back and let you know some way? He said, do
you want me to come back and write something on your mirror? Listen, there's a hereafter. You can believe it. You can believe
it. You can believe that. And man's
got a spirit. And then there's the leaven of
Herod. You know what the leaven of Herod was? Worldliness. Worldliness. He wanted to please
everybody. He had people dance around him.
You want this? You want that? You want this other thing? He
tried to please everybody. That's the leaven of Herod. And
so he says, purge out that old leaven. Don't want no leaven. Don't want no leaven in our hearts.
Don't want no leaven in our lives. Don't want no leaven in our doctrine.
Now let me show you this, and I'm done. Look here in verse
8. Here's the basis for this feast,
the reason for this feast. And thou shalt show thy son in
that day, saying, This is done because we're doing this, we're
taking the Passover, we're shedding this blood, we're roasting this
lamb, and we're putting it over the door and not having unleavened
bread. We're doing this because of that
which the Lord did. Because of that which the Lord
did unto me when I came up out of Egypt. Oh my. When they take the Passover,
we're doing this because of what God did. God brought us up out
of Egypt. God told us to take a lamb. God
said it'd be without spot and blemish. God said shed the blood. God told where to put the blood.
God said what to do with the lamb. God said, God said, God
said. And this is why we do it. And
when we have a take the Lord's table, why do we do it? When
we get baptized, why do we do it? And the foundation with this
feast was to show our children that redemption's accomplished.
That it's entered into. And not only is it entered into,
but it's enjoyed. And look what he says in verse
9. And it shall be a sign unto thee
upon thine hand. Oh my. Oh my. Gonna be a sign on your hand.
What does that mean? That our hands We use our hands
to glorify God. Use our hands to praise the Lord.
Use our hands to do the Lord's service. And oh my, didn't look
what he said else, what else he said? And be a memorial between
nine eyes. A memorial between the eyes?
What he's telling you is, is that there's only one thing for
your eyes to see. That's that lamb. Look at that
blood. Look to the Lamb. Look to what
God has done. Set nothing before your eyes.
Don't have no statues, no monuments, no phylacteries. Don't have none
of that. And look what else He said here. That the Lord's law
may be in thy mouth. What is He talking about here?
The Word. The Word of God. The doctrine
of Christ. the commandments of our Lord
Jesus Christ. And then look what he says, and
this is what we say. For with a strong hand hath the
Lord brought thee up out of Egypt. God did this. Oh my. Oh we're surprised. We're his. And I'm surely, surely
thankful. that he made claim to me. I got two word sermon in Paul
Priest, Saturday night, follow me.