If you wish to follow along,
turn to Exodus chapter 12. Most of you are probably already
aware, because I usually try to send out the context of my
upcoming message for the next week. The immediate context is,
of course, Exodus chapter 11, verse one. The 10th plague is
coming, and it goes all the way through chapter 12 and verse
51, when God Almighty delivers Israel out of Egyptian bondage.
But I want to read to you as an actual text, chapter 12, verses
11, 12, and 13. And remember, who is this speaking
to Moses? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Remember, I am
is speaking to Moses. Isn't that what we've already
read? We've seen that. And we know who I am is. Jesus says,
I am. But before Abraham was, he says,
I am. This is what he said to Moses.
And thus shall ye eat it, that is this Passover lamb. And thus shall ye eat it with
your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staff
in your hand, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's
Passover. Isn't that glorious? This lets
me know if it's the Lord's, if he owns it, if it's his, it'll
get done what he's purposed it to do. I know there are people
out there that profess to be Christians, their God's not like
that, but our God's like that. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, I am, is like that. 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. Now when he says
smite, he's talking about killing, not whacking. This wasn't a thump
on the head. This was actual, real, felt,
experienced death. Thousands of families, no doubt,
lost loved ones this night. Correct? Some of them, maybe
even this big. both man and beast, and against
all the gods of Egypt, from the lowest to the greatest in Egypt. Against all the gods of Egypt,
I will execute judgment. People seem to have forgotten
that, even if they even really ever knew it. God is a God of
judgment. Do not trifle with God, believer
or unbeliever. believer or unbeliever, and the
blood shall be to you for a token. What a blessed person this must
be. What a blessed group of people
this must be. For God Almighty, the Lord of
the Passover to say the blood shall be a token for you. Now
it's not gonna be a token for somebody else. Jesus Christ did
not die for the sins of everyone. He did not shed his blood for
the sins of everyone, because if he did, then his blood does
not make the difference. Because everybody other than
universalists, Unitarian Universalists, preach somebody's going to hell.
Correct? And if he died for the sins of
everybody, if he shed his blood for everybody, then his blood
is not what makes the difference. But this book from the get-go
teaches the blood always makes the difference. From the first
sacrifice, first animal ever killed, God made coats of skins,
not of fur. God killed animals, shed their
blood, and made a covering from Adam and Eve. Cain offered the
fruit of the ground. Abel offered the fat, the fat
of a beast. You offer the fat of the beast,
you gotta kill it. You have to shed its blood. We've
had people say, well we don't know whether Abel killed it.
He offered the fat of the animal. Be real. Be real. And the blood shall be to you
for a token upon the houses where ye are. Take note of that. And
when I see the blood, I will pass over you. I will not bring
judgment into this house where the blood's at because judgment's
already been meted out. Amen, that's right. Rather than
God judging the firstborn where the blood was applied, where
God would see the blood, somebody's already been judged for that
problem. Amen, that's it. God said 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. You see the
same sacrifice, I'm talking about the sacrifice of Christ that
damned hundreds if not thousands of souls because they cried,
I'm talking about literally cried, kill him, crucify him. And God never brought repentance
to them, never brought faith to them, and Mason, that added
to their damnation. But that same sacrifice is my
only hope. My only hope. Our Lord told us
to go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature,
and thus we should strive for that. But then Peter turns around
and said, there's some people that have been better had they
never even heard. Now is that not what the book teaches? And
somebody said, explain all that. I don't have to explain. I'm
not in the explaining business. I'm in the declaring business.
This is who God is. There are some people, when they
hear, and they start for a while, but then they turn back. Peter
said, been better, they've not even heard the way of truth.
Be careful. Every message you've ever heard
is either going to add to your judgment or be to your eternal
blessing. And when we come to a place like
this, I don't care how small and insignificant it seems, or
how thriving or whatever it seems, let us come, not trying to find
fault with those who publicly minister. If you do that, if
you come with that attitude, you will be able to find the
fault. Let us come saying, Lord, fill me up. Lord, teach me. And Lord, help that servant in
spite of his faults. in spite of his misinterpretation
of maybe a particular verse or something. Yeah, now here's my
title. And I'm wording it, I thought
about this. I've worded it this way for a
reason because this is the truth of God. Here we see or read of
God saying to Moses, when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
That was a future thing. Now it was coming quick. It won't
be much more than 14 days. If you read the account, you
know that lamb had to be put up for 14 days. Which lets me know
this, you better make sure you got the right lamb from the get-go.
You didn't put it up for 14 days to see if it was good. No, you
put it up for 14 days because God is going to make sure you
better bring the best one from the get-go because it's got to
be put up for 14 days. Do you understand what I'm saying there?
They didn't put it up to see if it was good at the 14th day.
You had to take the firstborn, spotless, blemished lamb from
the get-go and put it up for 14 days. I'm sure there's a lot
more to the 14 days than I understand that I can't give to you. But
I see that much in it. You better make sure you got
the right Jesus. From the get-go. And if you don't got the right
Jesus, I tell you right now, you better drop him like a hot
potato. Let him go right now, because it's another Jesus. It's
another spirit. It's a false Christ, it's a false
gospel. And there are many, our Lord
himself said there'll be many Jesus's come. Here's my title, When God Seen
the Blood. Because I'm telling you, the
Passover is done. I mean the real Passover, not
just this one we read of. This one is just pointing to
the true Passover. This is just a picture of the
true Passover. And I'm here to declare to you
and I'm here to say that the gospel is this. When God seen
the blood, he passed over his people. Not when God is seeing
the blood. It is no longer when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you. It's when God seen the blood,
God passed over his people. It's done, it's done. The one
songwriter said, the great transaction is done. The Passover lamb has
been slaughtered. His blood has been applied. When God seen the blood, he passed
over his people. God does not operate by human
emotion. Does this look like human emotion
to you? He could go in and slaughter the firstborn from the beast
all the way up to the Pharaoh, right? Does that sound like God's
operated on love? No, God's operated on holiness.
And covenant love. That's what he's operating. God's
love is a covenant love. And God never made a covenant
with all of humanity. He made a covenant with his son
for a people he chose in his son before the world began. These people are typified here
in Israel. Now Israel was a special nation
before God, but remember, even in Israel from the get-go, there
was always only the remnant that was really true Israelites. The
elect, the elect. No man, woman has ever been saved
just because they're of Jewish or Israelite blood. Never, and
never will be. Anybody that's ever saved is
because God made a covenant with his son before the world began
to save that individual person. He is no respecter of persons,
had nothing to do with your blood, where you're from, who you are.
God does not operate by human emotion. God operates on covenant
mercy. And we see that in chapter 11.
He puts it this way. Chapter 11, verse four, Moses
said, thus saith the Lord, about midnight will I go out into the
midst of Egypt, and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die
from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne,
even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the
meal, and all the firstborn of beasts. God is no respecter of
persons. He doesn't care who you are. He'll damn you based
upon your sin, or he'll save you based upon his free grace
and mercy. There shall be a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there was not like it, nor shall
be like it anymore. You can imagine that. Can you
imagine having your firstborn son or daughter die right there
in your home? And then you hear your neighbor
over here wailing too, and you know they got one. And they're
gone. Their loved one is gone. Who did that? Who did that? God did. God did. But, and here's what I like.
Oh, thank, I wanna be after this but. That's where I wanna be.
I wanna be one of the people that he speaks of after this
but in verse, but against any of the children of Israel shall
not a dog move his tongue. I like that. You know, a dog
ain't even gonna bark at you. you're gonna have a peace that
only God Almighty can bring about. You can't bring it about for
yourself. You didn't bring it about for yourself. I didn't
bring it about for myself. God Almighty's in this night
of crying and horror. You know the dogs were barking
when the people started wailing, don't you think? You know what
sets off a dog crying and wailing? The dogs were barking, but ain't
not a one of them even lifting up a tongue against one of God's
children. That's our only hope. and it's
all seen as reality in Christ Jesus. You see, the Passover
was God's declaration of Christ's work. You could go back and read
it sometime, 1 Corinthians 5, 6, 7, and 8. Paul said, even
Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us. The sacrifice of the
Passover, Mason, is done and over with. Never to be done again. We remember it when we take the
wine and the unleavened bread. But remember, even this back
here, this Passover here, there was only one Passover. Every
time they did it, every year was a memorial of that first
time. So you take that wine and that
bread, you do so, if you don't, just do this in remembrance of
me. If you didn't already know him, you're not doing it in remembrance
of him. You're doing it because it's some religious thing that
you think you ought to do. Right? And Paul warns people,
you take that wine and that bread unworthily, you eat and drink
damnation to yourself. That's how serious, that's just
a piece of bread and some wine. That's how serious God takes
the personal work of his son. This is not a take it or leave
it proposition with me. No. Now either Christ was slain in
my place or I will be slain of God. That's basically, don't
worry about am I firstborn, that's not the point. The firstborn
was established because Jesus Christ was the firstborn son
of Mary, and there was never another one born like him. Born
without a human father, conceived in her womb by the Holy Ghost
of God. I can't explain that, but I know
this book teaches it. And he was God's firstborn lamb. Now either Christ was slain in
my place or I will be slain of God. If Christ was slain in my
place, I cannot be slain of God. Because God won't even let a
dog bark against me. He ain't gonna let the demons
in hell bring up accusations against me. His son was sacrificed
in my place. Now which side of the fence do
you want to be on? You want to be on the Egyptian
side or on the Israelite side? I want to be on the Israelite
side. Not because the Israelites were
a better people. No, we've seen their background.
Did we not? We know originally why they're
down in Egypt to start with, don't we? Hmm. Consider four pertinent thoughts.
Now, there's so much here that we could go through. We could
spend months. I understand that. So please don't be upset with
me if you think I left something out that you really enjoy. I
understand that. But I want this, when God's seen
the blood, that's my message for this morning. It's no longer
when I see the blood, it's when God's seen. The Passover sacrifice
is sacrificed, and that's Christ. New Testament is clear. Four pertinent thoughts. This
is paramount. You see that in verse one and
two. Here's gonna be the beginning of your year. This is the beginning
of time for you. Of stipulated counted time, right? Here's your first month. In other
words, this is paramount. Paul says in Colossians 1 verse
18 that in him, God Almighty is pleased to this, that in him,
that in Jesus Christ, he might have all the preeminence. Now either your religion is the
religion of Christ as preeminent in everything in my life, or
he's preeminent in nothing. If you've got a Jesus just wants
to be over your soul but leaves your body and your life and your
work and your job, your dog, everything, dogs don't matter.
Let me see right here, dogs matter. Dog's gonna be barking against
some folk and ain't gonna be barking against the other folk.
God Almighty controls everything, folks. You got a dog and that
dog dies, it's because God killed that dog. You understand what
I'm saying? It's just a beast, that's right,
but it's God's beast. And God does with his own, what?
As he pleases. This is paramount. This sacrifice
is all of a sudden God just blowing the gospel up here in a great,
big, massive picture, isn't it? Before Mason, it's like little
teeny pictures, like the little wallet pictures, you know what
I mean? All of a sudden, the Passover comes along, and now
there's this great, big Rembrandt of a masterpiece. You see what
I'm saying? And go back, don't just say,
okay, Walter preached on that, we got through that, we can move
on now. Go back and look at it. Every detail matters, even though
I don't understand what every detail is here. But Mason, every
detail matters. Every detail here has something
to say about Jesus Christ, person and work. But that's the first
pertinent thought. Christ is paramount. Christ is
the beginning of everything for me. And that started with God
back before the world began. It starts with us when God gives
us life by his spirit in a sovereign act and sends us the gospel and
we begin to hear of the personal work of Jesus Christ. And it'll
end when we're conformed to his image. Second thing, naught of
Christ's work will be wasted. Verses three and four. Speaking
to 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 his fathers. A lamb for a house. This ain't no universal, just
put, even for the Israelites, Mason, it's not even universal,
it's individual. You see what I'm saying? He didn't
say, now there's one house, I'm gonna put the blood on it, and
if I see y'all put the blood on one house, I'll pass by all of ya.
You got to be in a house where the blood is. And if the household be too little
for a lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according
to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating.
Why? Because you read on, you don't
waste anything of this sacrifice. You feast on this sacrifice during
this night when all outside of Goshen you hear wails. and screams
and dogs barking. And inside of Goshen, it's quiet. And here's people in their little
shacks, their little hovels, feasting on this lamb. And he
said, you make sure that's just enough for everybody there, down
to the soul. You see it? You tell what that
says? And if there is anything, if even then, two households
come together, if there's anything left, what do you do? You don't
leave it for the Egyptians to come along and malk on it, scoff
on it. You burn all of it with fire. You burn it up. And notice the whole beast is
roasted, even with its guts. You know what it says? It calls
it pertinence. I mean, you roasted the whole beast and then began
to feed on the meat of that beast. That probably was not a really
pleasant looking sight. And he said, Jesus Christ, if
all you see is some kind of outward beauty in Christ, then you don't
get it yet. Because it ain't about the outward beauty. He
looked just like every other man. Walking like he did, he
probably had dirt under his toenails and under his fingernails, and
his breath probably stank. Do you understand me? He was, I mean, he sweat and
smelled just like you and I smell when we sweat. But he's God Almighty. and you will worship him as God
or you worship him not at all. Not of it's wasted. And according
to Hebrews chapter two, go back and read it sometimes, nine through
13, he died to save exactly as many sons as he would bring to
glory. He foreknew a people and come
all the way down through great statements of blessings all the
way to glorify and not a one will be left out. But not one
extra is gonna be had either It's according to the number
of the souls now only God knows what that number is But it's
a precise exact number and if you ain't in that number you're
a goner But if you're in that number all got some God's got
something in store for you So not of Christ's work is to be
wasted Again, I emphasize this. Jesus Christ did not shed his
blood and die for the sins of everyone without exception, else
everyone without exception must be saved. If you're in the house
where the blood was, God must pass over you because God promised
he would pass over you. Number three, there is the perfect
sacrifice. Verse five, your lamb shall be
without blemish. A male of the first year. Ye
shall take it out of the sheep or from the goats, and ye shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole
assembly, the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evenings.
You didn't kill it when you wanted to. It took place when God Almighty
said it took place. And we know the book says in
the fullness of time, Christ comes. But again, remember this,
you didn't wait to the 13th day to see if you had the right lamb.
If you found out you had a blemished lamb on the 13th day, you're
a goner. Do you understand that much of that? Now I'm sure there's
more to it than that. But I know that, I see that much
there, Paula. You better make sure you got
the right Jesus to start with. People just don't see that. People
hear me say this, maybe. and it'll just roll off their
back like water off a duck's back, as we say. Perfect sacrifice. And Paul tells us that's exactly
what it is in 2 Corinthians 11, verse four. You can check it
out sometime. Number four, here's the fourth pertinent thought.
The blood is never general. Verse seven, and they shall take
the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper
door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. You don't
eat over yonder and have the blood over yonder. You see it? This is not only for where the
blood was shed, but for the people in the actual house where the
animal was slaughtered and the blood was applied. God don't apply the blood to
you. God applied the blood to his justice. Now, I want you
to think about that. The blood ain't something that
we're like a couple side posts in a little. That is God's justice,
God's holiness, God's law, which we will see comes thundering
forth here before long, don't it? You see, blood must be shed
if there's to be remission of sins. It must be. But when blood is shed, there
is remission of sins. That's the natural opposite of,
or the conclusion of the very thing. The blood is never general. And you shall take the blood
and strike it on the two side posts, on the upper door posts
of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. But pastor, here's a
question then. Did Christ do that? Did Christ
do what he did? 2,000 or so years ago. Did He do that for me? Isn't
that a pertinent question? People don't want to deal with
that question because they think that's a given. Of course Jesus
died for you. And now God's waiting on you
to somehow respond to that before He'll pass over you. That's not
the way the Passover works. When I see the blood, I will
pass over you. So I must take God if he's true
to his word, and he is. When he says Christ is our Passover
sacrifice, sacrifice for us, the New Testament teaches it's
a once for all sacrifice, that when he seen that blood, Roy
Jr., he had to pass over me. If I'm in that house. There's
the point. If I'm in that house. That's
my question. Are you in the house? What are
you talking about? Are you in Christ? Are you in
Christ? Well, how do I get there? You
can't. You can't. But of God, are you in Christ
Jesus? It's an act of God. But the people
in the house can be, can know that they're in the house. You
know why? Because you know, guess what's
inside? The blood's on the outside, where God passes by, remember?
The blood was for God, not for you. That's what I was saying
a minute ago. The blood was for God. When I
see the blood, don't matter if you see the blood. What matters
is God see the blood, and he did. But who's it for? It's for those people inside
that house. And what's inside that house with each and every
one of them? A lamb. And they're eating. they are
feasting on that lamb. I'm asking you. I'm not asking
you is Jesus just something you think about on Sunday when you
come to services. I'm asking you if it dominates
almost every thought of your mind and you fall off the wagon. I don't mean that drinking wise,
but you fall off, you fail, you sin against God, but it's like
immediately God brings back Christ to your mind. Mason, I can't
forget him. I hope I am constantly in that
house feasting. And let me tell you, if you're
in the house feasting, you will feast to the end. Am I in the house? How can I
have assurance, though, preacher, that I'm in Christ? Here's the
assurance. Am I feasting on the Passover?
That's what believing is. Believing ain't just accepting
the death, burial, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus Christ.
Thousands of people have done that, walked aisles and done
that and still will perish. There will be many, Christ said
many that, Lord, let us in. We believed in you. But they
believed by the flesh. He wasn't even talking about
a false gospel necessarily there. Not necessarily. They got, I
am orthodox, Lord, I believe in the doctors. No, are you feasting
on Christ? Because if you ever take a taste
of that lamb and you're hearing all the wails out around you,
and you know of the judgment that ought to come to your soul,
you're gonna be saying, give me some better herbs. Oh, they
don't taste good, but give me some better herbs. Where's the
unleavened bread, huh? Where's the wine? Give me a drink.
Aren't you? While you're eating, pulling
off pieces of that meat, that sacrifice. That's what we do,
and Paul tells us, What that unleavened bread means. It's
the unleavened bread of sincerity. You gotta mean this. I'm a Christian on the side.
You ain't no Christian on the side. You're either Christian
through and through, other than your flesh, or you ain't Christian
at all. Now your flesh ain't gonna be Christian. It'll pretend
to be. It might like to think it is, it might like to convince
you that it is, but it ain't. But if you're a Christian, the
new man's all about Jesus Christ. He's all about Jesus Christ. I like the taste of Christ. Don't
you? The unleavened bread of sincerity.
You gotta mean it, but also this. You don't pick and choose from
God's word what you want. The unleavened bread of sincerity
and what? Truth. Truth. Miss the truth, you've missed
Christ. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. I'm asking you. Are you feasting
on the 14 day lamb? The lamb that you know for sure
is without blemish and spot. No fault in him. He's never done
the best he could do. He's always done exactly what
he wanted to do. He said, I came to do the will
of the Father. Now whatever the will of the Father is, he either
did it or he's an imposter. Jesus of Nazareth wasn't to Christ.
And if it was God's will to save everybody, Joe, then he lost
out, then he did not do the job. But that's not his business.
His business is he came to find the sheep, and the sheep are
feasting on the sheep. You know what I said? That Lamb
of God. True feasting, it is defined.
It's in the house. I'm not talking about this house.
But if you're really feasting on the Lamb, when you find there's
others feasting on the Lamb, and they're gathered in a certain
place, you will try to be there if you can. or you're not feasting
on the lamb. Don't come to me, though. Well,
you don't have to go to church to be saved. Of course you don't
have to go to church to be saved. But if you are saved, why ain't
you wanting to gather with other people who are saved? That is
the most asinine thing that people have ever said today. You don't
have to go to church to be saved. That's just blowing smoke. That's
just trying to excuse your rebellion against God Almighty and saying,
oh, I like the lamb, but I'm not gonna take time to feast
on him with other people feasting on the lamb. It don't work that
way. It don't work that way. You leave
the gospel, you never knew the gospel. If you can lay it down,
you never really had it. Some say that's a cop-out. Well,
we call it what you want. Joe already quoted, they went
out from us because they weren't of us. Because had they been
of us, as old Henry Manningham said, they'd have stuck around.
Isn't that what it says? They stuck around. See, some things accompany true
feasting. Unleavened bread, that's his
human perfection. As well as his deity. Unleavened
bread and wine, he is, you said it Joe, precious blood. Mason, all that he was, had to
fall under the judgment of God. Both in his humanity and his
deity. Both fell under the judgment of God. And as Martin Luther
said, God forsaking God, I can't explain that, don't understand
it, but it's so. It's so. You see, some things
have come. There's gonna be, listen, being
a Christian is not all roses. It's not all roses. You're sitting
there, what, now what, this is, now this is a picture, of course.
And they shall eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it with haste.
This is the Lord's Passover. Why? You're about ready to come
out of here. Be ready to go. But you see that? In other words, every day, think
about you'll be going one day. I mean, yes, we have been delivered,
but Mason, as we talked somewhat, I'm not going into, we've been
absolutely delivered judicially. But we have not yet been absolutely
delivered personally and physically. So keep your shoes on your feet
and your staff in your hand. be it eating on the lamb and
the bitter herbs, and the bitter herbs is just living in this
world as a believer. If you can easily rise to the ranks in this
world as a believer, then something's wrong with your believing. Because
you've compromised something somewhere. I tried to preach this gospel
30 some years now, and I ain't the best at it by any means,
I understand that, but I know what I'm talking about. If you're a believer, you'd have
a real tough time of being a president of the United States right now.
I would say impossible, apart from God Almighty just blowing
the seams wide off this thing. You understand what I'm saying?
I'm just trying to make a point here. I'm not saying God's raising
up a believer to be a president. Or that God can't. I'm just trying to illustrate
what I'm saying. If you rise up in this world, you've compromised
the truth of God somewhere. Now you'd go to your jobs, you'd
do the best you can. You make as much money as God
Almighty lets you make. You thank Him for it. But don't
compromise His truth. Even if it means you gotta go
on food stamps. Come stay at Me and Penny's for
a while, we could feed you a bologna sandwich. Don't compromise His
truth. Because only the people in the
house ready to go. are going to go when going time
comes, right? Now there's much more here. Let me wind this down. Chapter 12 verse 6, and ye shall
keep it until the fourteenth day of the month. I would love
to tell, oh, if God would impress the words coming out of this
clay pot upon somebody's heart. Be careful of what Jesus you're
believing in. We're preaching this all the
time and people ain't getting it. I've had them equate me to
some other preacher and I think, my God, if you don't see a difference,
I'm a felon somewhere. Or they're just so blind, they
can't see it. And I try to state it as clearly
as I can. Like I said, every once in a
while, I'll just pull the pin on a hand grenade, flip it out
there and let it pop and see who runs for cover. They don't
even run for cover anymore. Bang! Oh, wow, that was just,
you preach just like this preacher over here. I've been told that.
And I'm thinking, I know that preacher. I don't. Take heed to the Christ you serve.
Chapter 12, verse nine. Eat it not raw nor sodden at
all with water. You don't pick out the lamb in
the way you want to do things. Well, I don't like that part
about Jesus. Then you don't like Jesus at all. Because you either
take Jesus as he is, as God has presented him, or you don't believe
him at all. Chapter 12, verses 43 through
49. In other words, let me shorten this down. Time's moving on.
You go eat this Passover, you got to first be circumcised.
I don't care who you are. You tell what that says? Remember
reading that? You're gonna eat this, I don't care if you're
a stranger in the land. You're gonna have to have the flesh.
You're a male, you're gonna have to have the flesh circumcised. What's he teaching us here? Unless
God Almighty does the work for you first, you can't eat of this
lamb. It ate for you. Do you hear me? It ate for you. But if God Almighty
circumcises your heart, your ears, your mind, your inner being,
then eat on the lamb. Put your shoes on, put your staff
in your hand, and be ready for God to take you out of this thing
all together. All together. Therefore, since
God seen the blood of Christ, now if God seen the blood of
these animals and passed over, and that's a historical fact.
If God did that for the blood of some beast, How much more
for the blood of His precious Son? But then again, humanity equates
Him to nothing more than just another beast. Don't they? But remember, God's Son is Himself. I and my Father, Christ said,
are what? One! One. Since God's seen the blood
back then, how much more Christ the actual intent of all of this
story back here, all this account back here. Earl ruined me on
the word story years ago. When God's seen the blood, according
to Hebrews 10, verses four through 14, he already did two things.
Back yonder, not even in your conversion experience, as you
eat on the Lamb, no, uh-uh. He did two things for you back
then. He sanctified you and perfected you back then. Isn't that what
Hebrews 10 says? Oh sinner, can you believe that?
That's what I'm asking you. Can you? You say, I thought y'all
taught that nobody could believe. They can't without the enablement
of God Almighty. But if God gives you the ability
to believe, bless God, believe you shall. Can you believe that? I'm not
asking if you just believe the historical facts. I'm not even
asking you do you believe all the doctrinal facts. I don't even believe them all
because I don't even know them all. You understand what I'm saying?
I'm still finding out truth, the one truth, like little bits
and pieces, Mason, all over the outer edge. That's all I'm doing,
nibbling on a big old steak all the way out here in the outer
edge. Ain't even got into the inside of it yet, I feel like sometimes,
Joe. Oh, but what a blessed steak it is. Even if it's just nibbling
on the outsides. You see, Christ has done. all
that is required for God to be satisfied. Chapter 12, verse
51, I was already there. And it came to pass the self
same day, do you see it? That the Lord did bring the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their word. Armies and
they didn't even have a weapon one in their hand as far as we're
told they just had a bunch of gold and silver That the Egyptians
said here take this and get out of here Now I figure they might
have found a few left weapons later When then thousands of
Egyptians were lying dead on the shores of the Red Sea But
they didn't go out as a physical army They went out as God's chosen
army An army that's here to say, I proclaim the truth of God. Cut, blotch. No compromise. That's our weapon. Truth. Ain't that our weapon? The sword
of the spirit, which is what? What is our real sword? The word
of God. Father, we thank you for the
food we have this time we have together. Bless it, I pray. May it have been a blessing and
may it still be a blessing. In Christ's name, amen.