Good, good, good. Turn with me
to Exodus 12. I brought a message from this
last week, and I'm going to bring another one today. Another one
today. Exodus 12. Exodus 12. I'm going
to read the first 12 verses. 15 verses, excuse me. And the Lord
spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first
month of the year to you, speaking unto 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 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 of the goats, and you shall keep
it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. And they shall take of the blood,
and strike it on the two side posts, and on the upper door
post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall
eat the flesh of that night, and that night roast with fire,
and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
with fire his head, with his legs, and with the pertinence
thereof. and ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning, and that which remaineth a bit unto
the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it,
with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, your staff
in your hand, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's
Passover. For I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night, and 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. Seven days
shall you eat unleavened bread. Even the first day you shall
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day unto the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel. Of our Lord in the scriptures. Seven names. Now look with me
back here in Exodus 12 Exodus 12 this is the first Passover
the first Passover and of course the first Passover Which we understand
that it pointed it was a picture a type of our Lord Jesus Christ
Christ our Passover sacrifice for us and And he was the last
lamb that was ever slain. And the only lamb, when Christ
our Passover sacrificed for us, he was the only one who actually
ever put sin away. He is the only one that ever
did. And that's why you know the blood
of Christ. It says, God said, when I see
the blood, I'll pass over you. The blood of Christ is precious.
It's so precious. It's called the precious blood
of Christ. A lamb without spot, without
blemish. It's the blood of the covenant.
You know, our Lord Jesus Christ sealed the covenant of God's
eternal covenant of grace with His blood. You know, God brought
again from the dead that great shepherd of the sheep, the Lord
Jesus Christ, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.
And another thing about the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is that
it speaks. You know, in Hebrews 12, it says
there that we've not come unto Mount Sinai, but we've come unto
Mount Zion, unto the city of the living God, to the spirits
of just men made perfect. And to Jesus, the mediator of
the new covenant and the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better
things than the blood of Abel. And Abel's blood spoke. But our
Lord Jesus Christ speaks better things. It's a speaking blood. It speaks before God. And that's
where it counts. That's why God said down there
in verse... You know when He said there,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. And... verse 13 and the blood shall
be for you a token upon the houses we are and when i see the blood
i'll pass over you you know this blood speaks before god and that's
where we needed to speak before god there's oftentimes we forget
oftentimes we don't understand it oftentimes we don't feel it
oftentimes we don't experience it even when we're in a service
But bless His name, His blood speaks before God. He entered
into the holy place for us. And there is therefore now no
condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. And I'll tell
you another place it speaks. It speaks to our conscience.
God took that blood and sprinkled that blood on our conscience.
And our conscience don't ask for anything else. My conscience
don't accuse me anymore. My conscience don't torment me
anymore. I don't trust in my conscience.
I don't look to my conscience. You say, boy, let your conscience
be your guide. You better not. You better not. Let the scriptures
be your guide. Let the word of God be your guide.
Let the gospel be your guide. Let Christ be your guide. But
don't ever let your conscience be your guide unless that conscience
has been sprinkled with the blood of Christ and purged from dead
works to serve the living God. Another place this speaks, it
speaks to our heart. It gives us rest. Peace and comfort
and assurance in our heart The blood of Christ does is so special.
It's so precious and here in this first Passover We have the
gospel. It's plain as the nose on your
face the gospel of redemption The gospel of love the gospel
of grace the gospel of power And all that God would let us
see it God. Let us hear it God. Let us believe
this gospel This gospel of blood redemption, this blood that cleanses
us from all sin. And I want to tell you how the
gospel starts out here. In Exodus 12, look in verse 12.
How the gospel, and this is the way always the gospel starts
out. It starts out with condemnation. The gospel always starts with
condemnation. It starts with God, but it starts
with men without any hope or help before God. Look what he
said in verse 12. For I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt.
I will execute judgment, for I am the LORD." Now, I tell you
what, the first thing that God says here, He said, I'm going
to execute judgment. I'm going to smite. He said,
I'm going to smite. You know, sin is such a horrible
thing. And I tell you, sin is such a
black thing. Sin is such a terrible thing
that wherever God sees it, He must deal with it. He cannot
let sin, He said, He cannot at all clear the guilty. And man
being what he is, he drinks iniquity like water. He was shaped in
iniquity and conceived in sin, comes forth from his mother's
womb speaking lies. And God said, I'm going to execute
judgment upon the firstborn tonight. The sentence of death was passed
upon all the firstborn. And why? Because they was condemned. They was born this way. You know,
it said in John 3.17, it says this, God sent not His Son into
the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him
might be saved. Why didn't He send Him to condemn
the world? Because the world's already condemned. The world
was condemned in Adam. God passed judgment upon the
human race in Adam. And He's already passed the sentence
on everybody outside of Christ. He's done pass the sentence of
death on you. He's done pass the sentence of
execution. And all He's waiting for is for
Him to execute the sentence on you. Now, He's done pass condemnation
upon these. He's done said what He's going
to do. And He said He's going to smite the firstborn and bring
judgment, execute judgment upon all the gods of Egypt. And there's no difference between
Jew or Gentile or Jew or Gentile. There's no difference between
these people. The only difference was made between them was what
God made between them. And this is man's condition born
this way. I'm the firstborn of my father.
I'm the firstborn. And if I lived in Egypt at this
time, if I wasn't an Israelite, if I wasn't a Jew, God was going
to slay me, and justly so. Why? Because I was born in sin. Born a rebel against God. And
these people, you say, well, it's not right for God. They
had false gods. They worshiped false gods. And
there ain't but one true and living God. And why would people,
and you know, people still worship false gods. And this is all men's
condition outside of Christ. The sin has already been passed. The soul that sinneth it shall
die. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no not
one. There is none that understandeth.
There is none that doeth good, no not one. And I tell you, listen to me.
You don't want God to execute judgment on you. Not outside
of Christ. You don't want that to happen.
Oh, it'd be awful for God to come down and pass a sentence
a day. The sentence has already been passed. It's like men in
prison. They done passed a sentence on
Him. And He's going to stay there. And they got His execution day
set. And they'll just wait until they come in there and take Him
out. And that's what's going to happen to men outside Christ. Men are under, listen to me now,
I'm telling you, this is true. Men are under condemnation right
now. Not going to be, right now. Not at the judgment. Men are
lost right now. Not going to end up being lost
there. They're born lost. Born lost. Born without God. Born without
Christ. And men are unrighteous now,
not going to be unrighteous down there. So listen, the first thing
about the gospel is that men are without God, without hope,
and without help in this world, and God's executing judgment.
He's going to pass through the land one of these days, and He's
going to execute judgment. He did on the, you know, in the
flood, He saved eight people, eight people in the day of the And I used to kind of joke with,
we used to kind of joke about it, you know. I'm not sure, I'm sure about
me, but I'm not sure about you. If there's only eight souls saved,
you know, I know it's me and you and six others, and I'm not
so sure about you. And that's about the way it is.
You know, it's as if God only saved eight. You think he can't, if his promises
to save are right, and true his promises to judge are just as
true yeah and then look here's the next thing thank god we don't
have to stay there look at the next thing back up here in verse
3 exodus 12 3 and speak you unto all the congregation of israel
saying in the 10th 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. Oh, there's condemnation, but
then there's also substitution. And he said, spotless. And then
it was kept up for four days. It says, you know, keep him up
up to the 14th day. So this started on the 10th day.
They took that lamb. And they took that lamb and they
put him up for four days. And they said, you know, it's
got to be spotless. Go out there and listen for it.
And I'm telling you something, oh, thank God for substitution. Every condemned man must be redeemed
by a lamb or die. There's got to be bloodshed or
there's going to be death. There's going to be a lamb for
a man. He said, a lamb. God said, take a lamb. Take a
lamb. The lamb was only for Israel.
And this is the thing about it. You people, you know, Bruce Crabtree
brought this wonderful message. You know, election, the friend
of sinners. When he was here in our conference.
But look down here in Exodus 11, 7. You know, this lamb was
only for Israel. Do you want a lamb? Do you need
a lamb? Do you feel like you're under
condemnation and I would to God that I had a lamb? I had a substitute,
I had somebody to take my place and bear my sin, bear my condemnation,
to bear my guilt for God to execute judgment on a lamb instead of
on me. But look what he said in Exodus
11, 7, But against any of the children of Israel shall not
a dog move his tongue, against a man or a beast, that you may
know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptian
and Israel. God said, this is my people,
and I provided them a lamb. And I tell you what, if you feel
like you're one of God's people, I tell you, either the firstborn
must die, even the firstborn of everybody, He said, go smite
the firstborn. or else there's got to be a substitute,
someone that has to have his blood shed. There must be an
innocent substitute put in their place, or they must die. This
is God's way, and there's no getting around it. This is God's
way. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin. And every firstborn in Egypt
died this night. Even the firstborn in Israel
died this night, but you know where they died at? They died
in their substitute. They died in their land. I was the firstborn and God went
through the land and He smoked the Lord Jesus Christ for me.
He put Christ in my place. That's why John said, Behold
the Lamb of God. What does he do? He takes away
the sin. Of who? The world. What world?
The world of God's elect. The world of ever kindred, kind,
tongue, and nation, and people under the earth. Then make what
difference, what character, what station, what power, what prestige,
who they was, where they's from? It makes no difference. He said
he shed his blood for the world. And I tell you what, God's people
all died in their substitute. And I heard Scott one couple
of times, I've heard him do this and we'd be in a meeting and
somebody'd get through preaching and he'd come up and he'd say,
I didn't see no lamb in that message, did you? Where was the
lamb at? He was a firm believer in substitution. Got through preaching one time,
took him about 15 minutes and he got down and he said, well,
at least I said substitution. You know, where is the lamb?
Christ was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world.
God made Christ to be the last lamb. He's our Passover sacrifice
for us. Look over here in Genesis 22
with me. Look in Genesis 22. Genesis 22. Oh, where's the lamb? That's
why he says, every man take a lamb. Got to have a lamb. Put him up
four days, examine him. Christ our Lord was examined
by God. He examined by man, examined
by law, examined by angels, examined by the scriptures, examined by
Satan himself. And I tell you what, the answer
came back every single time. A lamb without spot, a lamb without
blemish. And He had no sin. This Lamb
had no sin. The innocent must be put in the
place of the guilty. The just must be put in place
of the unjust. That's God's way. We're unjust. We've got to have somebody that's
just. We're guilty. We've got to have somebody that's
innocent. We have sin. We've got to have a Lamb that
don't have no sin. And look what He said here in
Genesis 22, verses 5 through 8. Let me show you this. God
told Abraham, take his son, his only son, Isaac, and take him
up on a mountain, and there offer him. And Abraham said unto his
young men, abide ye herewith, they asked. And God done told
him, you know, slay his son, and I and the lad will go yonder
and worship. And look what he said, we're
going to come again to you. He understood that the promise
of the Messiah, the Lamb of God was going to come through him.
And he said, if I take this boy's life, God's going to raise him
from the dead, just like He raised Christ from the dead after His
life was taken. So Him and not me and that boy's
coming back down off that mountain. But we're going to go up there
and worship first. And what happens now? And Abraham took the wood
of the burnt offering, and listen to this, and he laid it upon
Isaac, his son. Isaac had to bear the wood that
he was going to die with. And look here, and he took fire
in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto his father, unto Abraham his father, and
says, My father, and he said, Here I am, my son. He said, Behold,
we got the fire, we got the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering? This is what God said. Abraham said, My son, God will
provide himself a lamb. And he did. God provided himself
in the person of Christ as the lamb. God himself provided the
lamb and he himself was the lamb when he was manifest in the flesh.
And look what happens now. So they went both of them together.
Now look down with me in verse 13. And Abraham, he was fixing to
kill his son and God said, stop, stop. And Abraham lifted up his
eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket
by his hat horns. And here's substitution right
here. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for
a burnt offering. What? In the stead of. in the place of, for His Son. And that's what God does for
us. He took Christ and put Him in
the stead of every believer. Every believer, huh? Oh my. And I tell you, it had to be
spotless. Look back over here with me in Exodus 12 again. It
has to be spotless now. look what he said in verse five
and six your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year
going to be in his very prime going to be strong keep it up
four days the fourth day of the month and oh now look with what
was says over here in verse seven now here's the here's the next
thing substitution you shall take the blood And they shall
take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts, and
on the upper door of the post, the post of the house wherein
they shall eat it. And down in verse 13 it says,
And the blood shall be for you a token upon the houses where
ye are. You know, when it says a token,
the blood shall be for a token, that means it's a pledge, it's
a promise, it's a covenant. and he says you should take the
blood and that blood will be a token upon your house now listen
to me it wasn't the death of the lamb that saved them you
know what saved them that caused God to pass over them it was
the blood when he put that blood you know Moses told him he says
you take the blood and you dip this up in a basin and you go
across the line go up here Go down this two-side post, and
you sprinkle that blood. And it wasn't the death of the
lamb, but the lamb on the door post. It was the blood on the
door post. And it was what was applied that
availed the firstborn. If there hadn't been any blood,
the firstborn would have died. And I'll tell you, death in the
scriptures is always called the shedding of blood. It's always
called that. being redeemed with the blood
of Christ as a lamb without spot, without blemish. You know, the
blood of the life is in the, the blood of the life, the life
in us is our blood. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. And I, you know, you can go to a doctor and when they
take a blood, when they take your blood, they can tell everything
that's about you with your blood. If you're healthy, They'll tell
you. If you ain't healthy, they can
take your blood and tell you that. If you got an infection,
they find it through the blood. If you got cancer, they find
it through the blood. They'll take that blood and they'll
say, your white blood cells are really, really high. There's
something wrong with you. And it's always in the blood.
And when you die, That blood, you know what caused you to die?
The blood quits pumping. The blood quits going through
the flesh. And when that blood quits going through the flesh,
you become lifeless and cold. And beloved, that's what man
is without the blood of Christ. He's lifeless and cold, and he's
dead. And it's got to be blood. And
that blood's a pledge, it's a promise, it's a covenant. And without
the shedding of blood, We have a bloody religion. The
old-timers used to say they'd plead the blood. I plead the
blood. It's called the shedding of blood.
The life of the flesh is in the blood. Why is it God going to
destroy the firstborn in this house where the blood is? because
He already did. He did it in His substitute,
in the Lamb, in the blood being there. It s the blood on the
Lord that was between them and God. And that s why the blood is my
justification. That s why the blood is your
justification. What s your justification before
God that your sins are gone? It certainly can t be in It can't
be in our prayers, it can't be in our tears, it can't be in our honesty, it
can't be in our sincerity, it can't be in our Calvinism, it
can't even be in our dust. It's got to be. What's our justification? That our sins are gone? The blood! Oh, what was between the firstborn
and the avenger that went through there that night? It was the
blood of the Lamb slain between our guilty souls and a sin avenging
God. It's the blood. 1 John 1, 7 said
it's the blood that cleanses, cleanses from what? A-L-L-S-I-N. Oh our Lord Jesus Christ made
peace Between us and God through the blood of his cross, huh? And I tell you what we take that
blood by faith. We're justified by faith and
look in Romans 5 9, huh? Look with me in Romans 5 9 you
need to see this talking about the blood being our justification
Now, you keep Exodus 12, but look in Romans 5 and verse 9
with me. And it's a token to us upon our
houses. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ
is so precious to us. His blood and His death and His
substitution is so precious to us. It's because it's the blood
that God said He would wash us from our sin. It's the blood
that justifies us. Look in verse 8, Romans 5, 8,
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. Then he goes on to say, So if
Christ died for us, much more then, being now justified by
his blood. At least what else it says. Oh,
the avenging angels coming through tonight. God's coming through
to execute judgment upon all the firstborn. Much more than
now being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath
of God. How? Through him. Through him. All right, back over in Exodus
12 with me. Look down verse 13. Look down
verse 13. Look what it says here. God says, and the blood should
be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And this
is what I want to say. Confirmation of his promises.
And when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. He had his threats, but he also
makes a promise. He says where you are, where
you are, when I see that blood. I'll pass over you. When the
Lord passed through Egypt that night and it was a dark the scripture
said the darkness was dark that you could you couldn't is the
darkest of the dark it's just so dark and I tell you what that
God says what he says cast them into outer darkness and it was
dark dark dark night and why it was so dark is because God
was coming to execute judgment God was coming to destroy false
gods and everybody that worshiped a false god, the firstborn and
everybody. And when he went through Egypt
that night and that dark, dark night, he wasn't looking for
Israelites and Egyptians. You know what he was looking
for? He was looking for blood on the door. The door shut. Everybody's behind the door.
And when he comes through Egypt that night, he ain't looking
to say, well, we're Egyptians, but he's coming through there
smite every firstborn. And he says, but when I see the
blood, when I come through that edge, I'm going to, you know
what I'm going to do? I'm going to pass that on over you. That's
why it's called Christ our Passover. God punished Christ in our sin,
though he could pass over us. He was looking for the blood
of the Lamb, that's what He was looking for. The blood, the blood's
always before His eyes, whether we see it or not. Oh, look in
Hebrews 9. Look in Hebrews 9. This is what's
so precious. This is precious to me, oh my
soul. Our Lord Jesus Christ, God's
looking for the blood of the Lamb. The blood's always before
his eyes, whether we see it or not. And the blood made them safe.
The blood made them secure. And God said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you the promise made that sure that they
is going to be saved when I see the blood. Look in Hebrews 9,
11. But Christ, being come a high
priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
not like the tabernacle they had in the wilderness or the
tabernacle they had or the temple they had in Jerusalem, neither
by the blood of goats and calves did he enter into this place,
but by his own blood. Did you hear that? by His own
blood. He entered in ONCE, not every
morning and every evening like the priest did, but He entered
in ONCE into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and
goats, and ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctified,
and made them acceptable to God through the purifying of the
flesh while they were yet in their bodies before Christ ever
died, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God purge your
conscience from all your idols and all your false gods and all
your works and all your legalism and fundamentalism to purge your conscience from
dead works to do what? To serve the living God. And
all beloved back over here again it says when I see the blood
I'll pass over you that word Passover means to step over leap
over to spare and to protect. Why? Because the blood on the
doorpost was evidence of death already inflicted in that house. Death was already inflicted in
that house. You know, where did they die
at? That lamb died. That's why I
said let every man take a lamb. And then here's another thing. Where am I at here? Substitution,
purification, Passover. All right. Now look in verse
15. Not only he confirmed it when
I see the blood, but there's also purification now in this.
Look down in verse 15. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread, even the first day, the first day now, You shall put
away leaven out of your houses, for whosoever eateth leaven bread
from the first day unto the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off. On the first day, you got rid
of the leaven. And you know, and you all know
this, it's been told to you so many times, talking about last
week. Leaven, in the New Testament, was always typical of sin. Always,
it's of hypocrisy. That's why our Lord said, beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the leaven of their
doctrine, their hypocrisy, their play acting. And he says, put
it away the very first day. Now, you know all it takes to
mess something up. And that's why Paul, you know,
he says a little leaven, it'll leaven the whole lump. Just put
a tiny bit of leaven in something and it leavens the whole lump.
and leaven will mess everything up. A little leaven in our doctrine,
our doctrine is ruined. A little leaven with Christ,
He ceases to be all. A little leaven in a congregation,
that's why He says put away anger and wrath and malice and envy
and all evil speaking because this is leaven. Just a little
leaven and you thought, I'm going to tell you all a true story.
This is a true story. A fella came to visit me. And when he got there to visit
me, he says, you know, I said, boy, I appreciate you coming
by. And he said, well, I got something to tell you. I said,
what? He said, I hate to bring this
on you, He said, Robbins, my wife is fixing to divorce me.
And I said, why? He said, well, because I committed
adultery. This is my second time. She forgave
me the first time. But I'm saying this to say this.
That fellow cried and cried and cried and cried and cried. I've
been in services with him, and he sat, and the tears just streamed
down his face. and just carry on about how sorry
he was. He told his pastor, his pastor
went and talked to him and told his pastor, you know, that he
was just stood there and cried, cried, swore he wasn't doing
it and he continued on for months. But that's what I'm saying. The
hypocrisy. People can cry. People can put
on wonderful acts. People can can hide things from
other people. But if there's leaven, leaven,
and if God don't have mercy on us, if there's leaven in our
heart, leaven in our mind, if there's that leaven, we'll leaven
and destroy the whole line. And oh, that's why he says, put
it away. That's why if any man be in Christ,
what is he? He's a new creation. God has
purified unto himself a peculiar people. And let me tell you something
about leaven. We don't put out the leaven in
order to be saved or make us any better before God than we
already are. We do it because we are saved
by the grace of God. and the two feasts went together,
the Passover and the Unleavened Bread. If you have the blood
of Christ, You got to have the unleavened bread. That's why
when we take the Lord's Supper, we take wine, real wine, not
grapefruit juice. And we don't eat saltine crackers
without salt on them. You know, we take real wine because
wine is real. It typifies the blood, emblematic
of blood of our Savior. And then we take a piece of unleavened
bread. Why? Because that's what the
feast is. It's a memorial. It's a memorial. And that's the blood in the bread.
And all shall we, cause we're saved by grace, continue any
longer therein, God forbid. And let me show you something
else in verse 22 here, where their hiding place, the place
of refuge of this, on this terrible night of God's judgment was.
Look what he says down here in verse 22. Moses talking now,
and he, you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood. that is in the basin, and strike
the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that's in the
basin. And listen to this now, and none of you shall go out
at the door of his house until the morning. Don't you dare stick
your head out that door until the daylight comes. Oh, while the Lord's passing
by in judgment, the only safe place behind that blood, huh? Oh, God said, stay, stay right
there till the morning. And I'll tell you something,
do you know, there are no doubt some of those folks, when they
start hearing those people screaming and crying over their firstborn
being dead, and they sat there and some of them was probably,
they're scared, worried, frightened, And then others sat there calmly
and quietly and confidently behind, resting behind the blood that
was shed. But it didn't make no difference
how they felt behind that door. It didn't make any difference.
God said, when I see the blood, it's His view of the blood, I'll
pass over you and don't come out of the house. And you know,
when we, when we leave this place here, it's going to be a new
day. Everything will be made new.
We'll go to a new place and we ain't coming out from behind
that blood until we go to glory. And when we go there, you know
what we're going to say? Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Huh? And then let me show you
another thing. Separation. There's a great separation
between God and His people. Look in verse 29 with me. Exodus
12 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 cattle.
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and
all the Egyptians, there was a great cry in Egypt, for there
was not a house where there was not one dead. And he called for
Moses and Aaron by night. And the last time he told Moses,
next time I see you, he said, I'm gonna kill you. That's what
he told him. Well, he's called for him this
time. And he called Moses and Aaron by night and said, rise
up, get you forth from among my people, both you and the children
of Israel, go. Get out of here! Serve the Lord, as you have said,
and listen, and this is another thing, they never left a hoof
behind. Also take your flocks and your
herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also. The Egyptians and the world,
they do not want anything to do with a blood-bought lamb. They don't want nothing to do
with any blood-bought ones or the blood of shedding. They don't
want it. You talk to them about that and
you're talking a foreign language to them. What do I need blood for? What
do I need somebody to die for me for? As far as I know, I'm okay. As
far as I know, I'm a pretty good person. As far as I know, I ain't
done nobody no wrong. That's the first lie you told
yourself. That's the first lie you told yourself when you said,
I ain't done nobody no wrong. That's the first lie. That's
how deceitful a man's heart is, that he will lie to himself and
everybody else. And then, look, let me show you
something else, and I'll move on with it. Look in verse 2. This is, we have regeneration
here too in this first Passover. Regeneration in this first Passover.
Look what he said in verse 12, or 2, excuse me. This month shall
be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first
month of the year to you. Huh? You know, when we reckon
our beginnings, our new birth, our life, the day God applied the blood. And when God sprinkled the blood
upon our hearts, that was our beginning. That was our regeneration. That was the beginning of our
months. That was the first day of our life. That was the first
day of our beginnings when God took the blood. And then the
Holy Ghost took the blood of Christ and applied it to our
hearts, applied it to our minds, applied it to our conscience.
And oh, I tell you what, when redemption's applied, that's
when we start living. You know, redemption, redemption
was already for those folks. God told them to take a lamb.
God already had a lamb for us. And when that blood was shed
2,000 years ago, we was redeemed back there. The Holy Spirit had
to come and teach us that and make us to know that and understand.
When we got that, that's when we began to live. That was our
regeneration, the beginning of months. And then let's look in
verse 8. Look in verse 8. Then you have a feast. In verse
8. and they shall eat the flesh
and that night roast with fire and unleavened bread with bitter
herbs and then down in verse 14 look what it says and this
shall be unto you for memorial and you shall keep it a feast
to the lord throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast forever
first you have the lamb slain the blood sprinkled the blood
outside the door and then he says then you have a feast The
blood sprinkled, then comes the eating after the blood shed,
after it's put on the door. The blood was there before they
ever ate that lamb, before they ever had that feast. And feasting
on our Lord Jesus Christ, feasting on the Gospel, comes after the
blood shedding and the blood sprinkled. And you know what
feasting speaks of, what it talks about? Joy and gladness and a
wonderful, blessed rest and peace. Everybody said, it's a feast!
We're gonna have a great big feast! Oh my, that's what he says when
you feast. And the last thing is this, in
verse 14 again. And this day, this day shall
be unto you for a memorial. Huh? A memorial. You remember
this. You remember this. This right
here that's happened now, is going to be a memorial for you
from here on out. Admit that what our Savior said,
as often as you eat this, drink this blood and eat this bread,
do it in remembrance of me. Who can forget the day of our
Lord's passing over? Huh? Oh, I don't need reminding. I don't, you know, and I do.
Our Lord says do this often as remembrance of me. Keep this
feast. You know who can forget the Lord's
passing over right now? But I tell you one of these days
we probably will forget. Probably will forget. But who
can forget the day of the Lord's sprinkling our conscience? We
may forget someday. But thank God it's called the
Lord's Passover, not our Passover. the Lord's Passover. And I tell
you, he won't forget it. People go into comas. People
get old. They lay and lifeless and can't
talk to them, can't communicate with them. And old John Newton,
he got old. He got real, real old. Couldn't
preach anymore and he was just about ready to die and somebody
asked him, John, You ready? He said, oh yes. He
said, oh, two things I remember. I'm a great sinner and Christ
is a great Savior. That's two things he can remember.
And I tell you what, when you can't even remember that, God
said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Our Father, O our Father, Abba
Father, thank you for the Passover. Thank you for the blood. Thank
you for the lamb. Thank you for the feast. Thank
you for applying the blood, redeeming us by our Lord Jesus Christ,
putting all our sin away, And Lord, when we get old and we
get feeble, our mind doesn't work like it should. Can't remember. Lord, we thank you that it's
when you see the blood, when you see the blood. Lord, when
we can't see it, you see it. When we fall and stumble and
falter in our lives, you see the blood. When we have nothing, absolutely
nothing but sin to be before our minds, Lord, you said you
see the blood, you'll pass over us. Lord, I pray that some heart
would be touched today, and they've seen the blood, and they thank
God for the blood, and they're hiding behind that blood. safe, secure, sure, behind that
blood. God please, for Christ's sake,
save you people in this place. Amen, amen.