And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be to
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 account for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall
take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. And the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. And they shall take of the blood
and strike it on the two posts, two side posts, and on the upper
door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall
eat the flesh, and that night roast with fire an unleavened
bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of
it raw, nor sodden it all with water, but roast with fire his
head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof. And you
shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that which
remaineth of it under the morning you shall burn with fire. And
thus shall you eat it with your Lord's girded, your shoes on
your feet, your staff in your hand, and you 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. and this day shall
be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to
the Lord throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever this is the first Passover very first
Passover in the scriptures and Paul said Christ was our Passover
sacrifice for us and what he means by that As God passed over
Israel this night, God passed over us for Christ's sake because
of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ is
precious. Oh, how precious it is. But here
in this first Passover, we have the gospel. The gospel of redeeming
love. The gospel of grace. The gospel
of election. The gospel of particular redemption.
The gospel That's by the power of God and the power of God alone.
God providing. God telling what has to be done. And may God enable us to see
and hear and believe the gospel of blood redemption. The gospel
of blood that cleanses from all sin. Here's the first thing I
want us to notice about this first Passover. Down in verse
12 it says this. 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. And listen to this, I will execute
judgment. I am the Lord." The first thing
that happens to a person when they hear the gospel, when they
hear about Christ, God said, I'm going to smite all the firstborn
in the land. I'm going to execute judgment.
Why is he going to smite them? Because they worship false gods.
Because of their sin. And the sentence of death was
passed upon all the firstborn this night. All the firstborn
in Egypt. Passed upon all of them. And
all were condemned already, though the judgment had not been executed
yet. Nobody had died yet. But the
judgment had already been executed. God said, this is what I'm going
to do. And beloved, a man's got to understand his condemnation,
his guilt before God. And that's the first thing God
said, I'm going to execute judgment. And there was no difference between
the Jew and Gentile. He's going to come through that
at night, and he's going to slay all the firstborn. And this is
all man's condition. All man's condition. All man's
condition outside of Christ. All are under the law. All are
cursed. All are. And God doesn't pronounce the
curse upon Egypt. And here's what men don't understand.
Men are under condemnation now. Not at the judgment. Men are
lost now. Not that they're going to die
lost, they're born lost. Not that they're going to die
unrighteous, they're born unrighteous. And so God executes judgment
and condemnation is the first thing that God pronounces on
a man. He that believeth on the Son of God hath life. He that
believeth not the wrath of God abideth on him. And that's what
the scripture said. And here God said I'm going to
come through the land and I'm going to execute judgment. I'm
going to execute judgment. And God had already passed the
sentence. And here's the thing about it, He's already passed
the sentence on every man in this world. He's either passed
it in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, or you're going to pass
it to yourself. One or the other, no difference.
Here's the second thing we learn in the Gospel, and learn in this
first Passover. Not only are we under condemnation,
but look what He said up here in verse 3. But there's a substitution for
those that are under condemnation. Substitution! 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 the fathers, a lamb for a house. Oh my! I'm going to smite them! I'm
going to smite them! Every condemned man there in
the land of Egypt that night must be redeemed by a lamb or
die. And God said, every man take
a lamb. And here's the thing about it. There's millions of
Jews here. Lots and lots of houses. But
there's only mention of a lamb. He didn't say lambs. He just
said lamb. One lamb. It's all considered
one lamb. And the lamb, and I'll tell you
something else, this lamb was only for Israel. He said, this
is, you know, tell, speak unto the congregation of Israel. Tell
them that they've got a substitute. Tell them that they've got a
lamb. Tell them, take a lamb. And that's what the gospel tells
us, that God himself provided us a lamb and his blessed son. And you'll take it the tenth
day of the month according to the house of their fathers, a
lamb for a house. And look what he says down here
at verse Verse 5. Your lamb shall be without blemish.
A male of the first year, you shall take it out from the goats,
and you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same
month. Now what he said is this lamb has got to be without spot,
got to be without blemish. You put it up for four days.
It's got to be a year old, got to be in its prime, got to be
in its greatest strength. And you put it up for four days
and you examine it. You look at it. You consider
it. And you see if there's any spot
or blemish in it. And if there's a spot or a blemish,
it's not going to be offered. And you think about our Lord
Jesus Christ without spot, without blemish. He offered himself to
God without spot and without blemish. We got blemishes, we
got faults. Oh my soul! I got enough sin
in me to damn the race! But oh my, thank God said, I
got a lamb! Huh? Oh my, either the firstborn
must die, or an innocent substitute in his place must die. This is
God's way of getting, and there's no way of getting around it.
And here's the thing, beloved. Every firstborn in Egypt died
that night, including all of Israel. But the difference was,
one was judgment on them, and the other difference was, they
had a lamb. But they all died that night.
You know, I'm the firstborn. I'm the firstborn of my father
and mother. Firstborn. So if I'd have been
in Egypt that night, if I didn't have a lamb, I'd have been a
golden Jesse. But if I had a lamb, and God
said, here's a lamb, then I'd have still died that
night, but I'd have died in my substitute. So we, oh my, that's why John
said this, he said, behold, the lamb of God. Where is the lamb? Old Scott used to ask all the
time when a preacher would get done, he said, where is the lamb?
I didn't hear nothing about a lamb. But oh my, our Lord Jesus said
he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And
I tell you what, it must be spotless, it must be young, and it must
be in its prime. You remember when Abraham, God
said, told Abraham, take his son and go up on the mountain
and offer him? He started up that mountain and
said, I and the lamb will go yonder and worship, and we will
come again. And he knowed that he was going
to offer his son. And he had him tied down on the
altar. And he had the wood under him.
And he had the knife drawn back to shed that blood. God stopped
him. And he said he looked around,
and that was a ram. Caught in a thicket. They took
that ram. He got Isaac up off the altar.
And they took that ram and put him in the stand of Isaac. That's what God did with our
Lord Jesus Christ. He had the knife drawn back. He was ready to be consumed by
the fire of God. And God stayed his hand. And
he said, I found a lamb. You know what he does? He takes
away the sin of all his elect. Oh my! That's what he does. Gotta be without spot. Gotta
be without blemish. Gotta be a year old. Gotta be
in his prime. And our Lord Jesus Christ was
all those blessed things. Now look what else he says down.
Down in verse 13. And Moses stretched forth his
hand. Well, I'm in the wrong place here. I'm in the wrong
12 and 13, excuse me, 7, look at
verse 7, I've been to the wrong place again. And they shall take
of the blood, when they slay that lamb, they shall take of
the blood and strike it on this two side post and on the upper
door post of the houses wherein they shall eat. Look down at
verse 13 now. And the blood shall be to you
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. He said, you take
it. You put this blood over the door. You put this blood. And then
he said in verse 13, there shall be a token upon your house. Everybody
knows what a token is. You get a token and it's a pledge,
it's a promise. You give that token and you get
what the token's worth. Well, here God said, I'm gonna
give you a token. I'm gonna give you a pledge and
I'm gonna give you a promise. You put that blood where I told
you to. You put that blood where I told
you to. And you shed that blood and you
put it where I told you to, over that little and on the side post
of that door. And he says, and you put that
blood there. and the lamb and it was applied
only for the firstborn and I tell you when it talks about the blood
you shall take the blood people say I don't like bloody
religion I tell you what in the scriptures In the scriptures
it's always called the shedding of blood. Death is called the
shedding of blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin. It's the blood of Jesus Christ
that cleanses from all sin. Leviticus 17.11 said this, The
life of the flesh is in the blood. And I shall give the blood upon
the altar to make atonement for you. I went and had a, they take
your blood. You go to a lab and they take
your blood. And they gave you this old two big pages of everything
that there is about you. They can tell everything there
is going on in your body with just a little sample of blood.
And you know what they said? The life of my flesh and my blood,
there ain't nothing wrong with me except a weak mind. Liver's good, heart's good, lungs
good, kidney's good, everything's good. But I tell you what, if they
take your blood, you got a lot of white cells, that means there's
something bad wrong with you. Huh? They can take it, and they
can tell you whether you, they say, well, we need to do something
else. We need to take another, but boy, when they read that
thing, and it's all good, I tell you what, Our Lord Jesus Christ's
blood, the life of us is in His blood. The life of our life is
in His blood. Not our blood, His blood. The
life that we have now is by His blood. And everything we have
is by His blood. And why isn't God going to destroy
firstborn in this house? Because they've already died
in the substitute with that blood on the house. And they say how
in the world we know that we're saved. That blood is the justification
that God's going to pass over this house. And what's my justification
right now before God? What's my justification? Christ. And let me tell you something,
I hope you understand this. It wasn't the death of the Lamb
that saved them. It wasn't just the death of the
Lamb that saved them. they ate lamb all the time but
it was the blood of God's providing it was the blood after the death
of the animal the life that was in that blood was put on those
lintels of that door and it's the blood that caused God to
pass over not just the death there was two other men died
with our Lord Jesus Christ on that day their blood did nothing
for nobody not even for themselves but the blood of Christ the blood
of Christ cleanses. It's the blood. But that's what
death means. It's the shedding of blood. And
I tell you what, it's the blood that was on the doorpost that
was between the one on the inside and God on the outside. Oh my. Beloved, it's the blood
of the Lord slain that's between our guilty souls in a sin avenging
God. And you know what? It wasn't
even our side of the blood. So they took that blood and put
it on there and they closed the door and got inside. And the only reason in the world
that they believed that God was going to pass over them was because
of the blood. And that was the only reason
they thought it was going to happen. That blood was out there. Now
will God keep His promise? Will God do what He said He'd
do? Will He pass over us? He said, it'll be a token on
your houses. Where I see that blood, it'll be a token. Huh? And then let me show you something
else. Oh my. We believe the blood. We believe
it. Oh my soul, we believe we need it. We believe it's necessary. We believe it's the only thing
that will cleanse sin. We believe it's the only thing
that keeps God from destroying us all. It's the blood of Christ
applied to our hearts and souls. But look in verse 13, now he
has his promises and his threat. He said in verse 13, and I love
this, and the blood should be upon you for a token upon the
houses. Now listen to this, where you
are, Where you are, oh my, when I see the blood, that's
what he said, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
oh my. Where you are, when I see that
blood, where you are, I'll pass over you, huh? When the Lord
passed through Egypt that dark, dark, dark night, He wasn't looking
for Israelites or Egyptians, He was looking for the firstborn.
But I do know this, when He went through there, every place where
the blood was applied, God passed right on by. Blood is always
before His eyes, whether we see it or not. Now you keep this
and look with me in Hebrews 9. Hebrews 9 And I'll tell you something
beloved. I don't know how you are. I Don't know how you are, but I
know one thing That if God didn't see the blood
And didn't regard the blood and it's always before his eyes whether
we see it or not But look what he said here in Hebrews 9 11 But Christ, being a coming high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, that's his body, not made with hands, that's to
say, not the building that they had in the wilderness, neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood. Did you
notice that? By his own blood. He entered
into, once, into the holy place. Having obtained eternal redemption. When that high priest went behind
that veil, once a year, he just got redemption for one year at
a time. Our Lord Jesus Christ, when he took his blood in there,
he got eternal redemption. salvation for eternity. For if
the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
the unclean, it will make the flesh sanctified and purified. How much more, listen to this
now, how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the
eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, listen to
it now, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God. Oh that blood, that blood before
God. You see the blood, the blood
made them safe. The blood made them secure. But
the promise that God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over
you, made it sure to happen. When I see the blood. And that
word Passover means to step over, means to leap over, it means
to spare and protect. Why? Because the blood on the
post was evidence of death already inflicted in that house. Now,
where I see the blood, where you are. Where you are. Has that blood applied to you?
Did you feel like that blood has been shed for you? Do you
feel like when God sees you, He sees the blood? Do you feel
like, I shouldn't say feel like, do you believe? Feelings don't
enter into it, I shouldn't say feel. I say, do you believe? Do you believe that God shed
his blood for you. I do, I do, I do, I do, I do. I do, you know why? Because God,
God said, what God said makes it sure, makes us safe and makes
us secure. What he said, not what the preacher
said, what God said. And then there's purification.
Look over here. Let's see if I'm not ahead of
myself here. Yeah, look here in verse 15 then
not only we have substitution And all he confirms it with a
promise Take the blood but it also purifies us look down in
verse 15. Oh this blood also purifies us
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread even the first day you
shall put away leaven out of your houses and For whoso eateth
leaven bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul
shall be cut off from Israel. Even the first day you shall
put leaven out. Now we all know that leaven is
typical of sin. Leaven is typical of hypocrisy.
A little leaven, leaven is the whole lot. And he said put it
away the first day. Put it away. And I'm telling
you this, where the blood justifies, it also sanctifies. Wherever
the blood is applied, it also sets you apart and also makes
you holy. Now I'm going to tell you something
about sanctification while you turn with me over to 1 Corinthians
chapter 5, verse 6. 1 Corinthians 6. You know, People think sanctification is
something that you have to do by the flesh. Now, I believe
we grow in grace. I believe we grow in knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's like Paul said. You
know, when he first started out, he was the chief of sinners.
He was the chief of sinners. Then he grew a little bit and
he said, I'm the least of the apostles. He started out as the
chief of sinners. That's nothing. Then he says,
well I'm the least of the apostles. That's 1 in 12. Then he come
out and said, though I be the least of all the saints, though
I be nothing. Now that's not sanctification.
That's ruining grace. Sanctification is not a man setting
himself apart. It's God setting a man apart.
We through the belief of the gospel sanctification of the
Spirit. And let me tell you something about sanctification and holiness. And believe me, I'm telling you.
Believe what I tell you. I can prove it from the scriptures
and I will. Holiness and sanctification is a state of being. It's not
something you get better at. God is holy. Does he get any
more holy? Christ was holy and he said I
sanctify myself for their sake. Does that mean that he set himself
apart? He got more holy when he sanctified
himself? Did it become more sinless? Sanctification
and holiness is a state of being. Something you don't get or get
any better at sanctification means that you set apart and
when God said take out that old leaven and the same thing that
lemon is he says beware of the living of the Pharisees beware
of their doctrine and he says purge out the old leaven were
with you Had before the Passover and what that means is all your
old tradition And all the things that you believe and all the
things that you thought was right and true in that that's linen And he said, that's got to go.
You can't bring your trash, and you can't bring your traditions,
and you can't bring your feelings, and you can't bring your works,
and you can't bring your making your flesh better into the presence
of God. It can't be done. And wherever there's leaven,
leaven in the scriptures always, always means something bad. And all night, put it away. Paul
said, put it away. Look what he said here in 1 Corinthians
6. 9, I think it is, yes. No, you're not. that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived. Don't be deceived
in this. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Now listen
to it. And such were some of you, We can find ourselves in
that list. And such are some of you. But
you're washed, you're sanctified, and you're justified in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. He didn't say you're going to
be. He said you are. Ain't that right? Oh my. And I'm telling you where
the blood justified, it also sanctifies you. We don't, the
leaven is not put out and we can't, we don't put it out to
be saved but because we are saved. And these two feasts go together,
the Passover and the unleavened bread. And Christ our Passover
sacrificed for us and we have nothing to offer on that blood
and on the death of Christ himself, nothing. We're not gonna mess
it up with some leaven, are we? All right back over here where
was that if I get back over there Exodus 12 Purification the first day at
11's got to go Got to go Got to got to go And
look at their hiding place the refuge of this terrible not Not
of God's judgment. Look what he said here in verse
22. They only had one place to stay. And you shall take a bunch of
hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the
little in the two side posts with the blood that is in the
basin. And now listen to it. And none of you shall go out
at the door of the house until the morning. You stay right where
that blood's at. Don't you come out until the
morning comes and I've done passed over everybody. While the Lord is passing by,
in judgment, the only safe place is behind the blood, behind the
blood, under the blood of Jesus. Saved in the shepherds fold,
under the blood of Jesus. Oh my, I tell you beloved, God
said to stay there and to abide there. Now let me tell you something,
this is probably what happened. When God started through Egypt
that night, they started, those people in those houses started
hearing screaming, hollering, crying, moaning, and groaning,
and weeping. And oh, agony was manifested
everywhere they went. Everywhere they went. Men were
dying, just dropping dead. And God was smiting them. And they was behind these doors
and all this blood curdling screams and this wailing and mourning
and gnashing of teeth and screaming and hollering and crying and
just throwing themselves. And they heard all that. And they're sitting there. Now
some of them folks didn't have much faith. Some of them were sitting there,
they were probably trembling and said, oh my, what's going
to happen now? Some little girl says to her
daddy, Daddy, is that going to happen to us? Honey, God said, we put the blood
in her and God said it's going to pass over. And those folks
were sitting behind them doors, some of them had faith, some
of them didn't. Some of them were scared to death and some of them
wasn't. But I do know this. As long as they stayed behind
that blood, they were safe. Whether they were little bitty
fellows or real old people, it didn't make any difference. So you can sit there confidently
behind that and rest behind that sheltering blood. Because God
said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Now, let me show
you another thing about this gospel. Look here in verse 29. And it came to pass that at midnight
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. And then he called for Moses
and Aaron by night. Called them out there, said,
by night. And said, rise up, get you forth
from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. Go
serve the Lord as you have said. Also take your flocks, your herds
as you said. Be gone. Be gone. God said he'd thrust them out.
and the Egyptians were wretched upon the people that they might
send them out into the land in haste for they said we all be
deadly here's the thing these Egyptians didn't want anything
to do with the bloodshedding of a God and the God of bloodshedding
they didn't want to face the God of judgment anymore they
didn't want to deal with him anymore and I tell you what beloved You know, this is a mercy that
God gives us. Every one of us has got somebody
we love that's in hell. Every one of us have. Mothers,
fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, all of us do. But ain't you grateful that God
don't let that get in our brain? And it'd drive us crazy if we
thought about it. But he don't let that affect us. Once you
leave this life, when you leave this life, if you're not in Christ,
if you're in Christ, your life's determined. And if you're outside
of Christ, your life's determined. Judgment over here, salvation
over here. Death over here, salvation over
here. And you remember when God said,
you know, when I come through that, that night, not even a
dog is going to bark. I'm going to put that kind of
difference between you. And then not only was all these other
things that happened, but this was count, this is our regeneration.
Look back up here in verse 2. Oh my, listen to this now. This month shall be unto you
the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. You know when we count our beginning? is when God saved us by His grace
and applied the blood to our souls. Huh? The day of the bloodshed
is sprinkling upon our hearts. I've told you this so many times
before, that God, He calls it the sprinkling of the blood unto
the obedience of the sprinkling of the blood of Christ. And just
as this blood was put on these doors, God takes the Holy Spirit
when He comes to us in the gospel. What is it that purges your conscience? What is it that takes the sin
away from your conscience? What is it that takes the guilt
away from your conscience? What is it that takes that away?
The Holy Ghost takes the blood, applies that blood to your conscience.
And from that day on, you say, that's my beginning. I didn't have no beginning until
that took place. I was just marking time until
that took place. And when that blood was applied,
when that blood was put on our hearts and on our souls, life
started. Ain't that right? Redemption applied is when we
start living. You know I had religion but I didn't
have life. I had a profession but I didn't
have Christ. But when I heard about the blood,
and when I heard about Christ, and I heard about that blood
that cleanses from all sin, and the Holy Spirit came along, and
when I was listening to that gospel, Christ died 2,000 years
ago. Christ was the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world. Now how in the world is that
blood going to affect you and me? that was shed before the
foundation of the world and shed at Calvary's cross actually 2,000
years ago. How's that blood going to affect
me? What's it going to do me any good? Ain't going to do you
no good unless it's applied to you. And you can't apply it to
yourself. Who does that? He said, you put over lentils,
but here's what He said, you take hyssop. Our Lord Jesus Christ
comes and by the Spirit of God, takes the blood of Christ and
He applies it to our hearts, He applies it to our souls, He
applies it to our conscience. And beloved, we from that day
forward, we count our life to have just begun. Just begun. And oh my, look here, we have
a feast. We're regenerated. We have a
feast. Look in verse 8. I'm going to preach on this several
times before we get out of here. But then we have a feast in verse
8. And they shall eat the flesh that night, that lamb, that night,
roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. You know, I'll deal with that
like I said another time with the roast was fire. Our Lord
Jesus Christ was roasted under the fire of God's wrath. God's
judgment came down on him. And the fire of God come down
on him. But you sprinkle the blood and the blood's put on
the door, then that's when you start eating. You can't start
eating Christ. You can't enjoy Christ until
the blood's been applied. Ain't that right? You don't really
Enjoy you the salvation that you have until you get the blood
applied that you start here And then you start enjoying we start
eating Christ. We rejoice with Christ There's
a place out by us and this is what this is the truth I'll tell
you what I these people are so stupid this fella says The word
is our daily bread not just a piece of cake But here's what I'm telling
you We feast on Christ. We live on Christ. And Christ
bearing our judgment. Christ being roasted with fire. Christ, we're here today. He
prayed the Lord to help him to preach the gospel. Get a fresh
view of Christ. And beloved, that's what we want.
We want a few of our Lord Jesus Christ. And here He's roast with
fire. And after that blood's applied
and our Lord Jesus Christ's death on the cross and His resurrection,
we feast, we rejoice, we eat, we delight in our Lord Jesus
Christ. He sets the table for us. And
oh my, because of His blood shedding,
you know what He sets the table with? Let me give you a few things. He sets the table. He's got a
big old table here. You ever been to somebody's house and
they just got, I mean, big old table and they got three or four
kinds of potatoes, three or four kinds of meat, and I mean, just
bread all over the place. Gravy and, well, our Lord Jesus
sets the table. And you know what He puts right
in the middle? Right in the middle, He puts grace. And from that grace, that grace,
that free grace, he starts, sits over here, righteousness. Sets
over here justification. Sets over here sanctification.
Sets over here light. Sets over here power. Sets over here mercy. And oh,
he starts setting the table for us. And oh, he gives us that
good gravy. Oh my, he gives us this good...
And then he lets us know, sit down here and eat. Feast on me.
And I tell you what, that's what he called it, the marriage supper
of the Lamb. And we're going to sit down and feast with our
Lord Jesus one of these days. We feast on Him now, and I'll
tell you what feasting means. When you feast, you're full of
joy, and you're full of, oh my goodness, look at the food! Woo!
Let's eat! Oh, you're at somebody's table
and say, oh my, that looks so good! And you eat it and say,
it tastes better than it looks! Well, that's the way the gospel
is. It tastes good. Tastes good. And then last of
all, let me show you this and I'll wind it up. Look in verse
14. And this day, this Passover day,
this shedding of blood day, this roasting, this death of this
lamb this day, this putting of the blood this day, and this
day shall be unto you for a memorial. and you shall keep it a feast
to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. He said this day will be a memorial
unto you. We had the beginning of months.
Our life started when our Lord Jesus Christ saved us by his
blood and applied the blood to our hearts and souls. But then
he said it will be a memorial to you. Who can forget Who can
forget the day of the Lord's passing over? Who can forget the day of the
Lord's sprinkling the blood upon our conscience? Who can forget
the day? Who can forget? He said this will be a memorial
unto you. And that's what we do every time we take the Lord's
table. Do this in remembrance of Him.
And a memorial, who can forget? The day that the Lord passed
over you, and He come by where you are, and He passed right
where you are, right where you was sitting that day, right where
you was at that day, and He said, this is the day, this is the
day, I'm going to put the blood. And He passed over you all these
years because of the blood that was shed way back yonder. And
then He come and He put that blood there Himself. and he singled
you out, he set you apart. Can you remember that? Who can forget it? I'm going
to tell you something. We may someday forget it. But
I'll tell you somebody who won't forget it. The Lord Jesus Christ
won't forget it. That blesses my heart. I've seen
some folks get in some awful, awful bad shapes before they
leave this world. Go into comas. Mind gets bad. But I tell you what, God's mind
never goes bad. He knows exactly where you are.
And He knows exactly what He's done for you. Who can forget? Huh? We may. But he won't. He won't. Our Father, oh our Father, precious
glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed be your name. Oh, blessed be your grace. Blessed
be your holiness and your glory. And blessed be the Lord Jesus
Christ for that blood shedding that He so willingly, so freely,
so submissively shed for us. And thank you, O our Father,
for bringing the blood of Christ and applying it to our hearts,
our souls, our conscience. And now our conscience are free,
free from all them old rotten dead works that we had, that
old religion we had. And now, Lord, you've purged
our conscience. And now we come to the living
God through Christ our Lord. We bless you and praise you.
Amen. Amen. Every moment and in every way. Every We better find that. Last page.
All right. Every hour of every day. And in every way I'm leaning
on Jesus. He's the rock of my soul. I'm singing his praises wherever
I go. Amen. Well, I'll see you Wednesday. God bless you. Good night and
God bless you.