Exodus chapter 12. I told you
the title of the message is what meaning by this service. Our children or anyone else might
ask. What does this service mean?
Not just the service of the Passover, not just the service of the Lord's
table. But our whole message of the
gospel. What do you mean by this message? God gives us the answer. The answer is it's the Lord's
Passover. This is how the Lord saves sinners. This is how the Lord passes over
the sin of his people. It's the Lord's Passover. It's
not something, salvation is not anything that we do. Salvation
is the work that God does by himself and it's a work he does
for his people. We don't contribute anything
to it other than our need of a savior. And what I would like
to do this morning by God's grace. Is take this passage and stay
out of the way and just let it preach itself. Because there's
no clearer picture of salvation through the blood of a substitute
than the blood of the Passover lamb, the death of the Passover
lamb. This whole ceremony that God gave Israel is a picture
of Christ, our savior. In 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, Paul
said, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Christ
is our Passover. He is the fulfillment of this
ceremony. So I want us to look at this
picture and see the gospel of salvation in Christ our Passover
and see what we mean by the gospel that we preach. Now verse 1 of
Exodus chapter 12. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron in the land of Egypt. Saying this month should
be unto you the beginning of months. It should be the first
month of the year to you. Now here's the first thing we
mean by the gospel we preach. Eternal life begins with God. When a person is born again,
everything's made new. God doesn't take the old flesh
and fix it up and prop it up and infuse some kind of goodness
into it. God starts all over. And he causes
a new man to be born. He makes everything new. Up until
this point, the Jewish new year had always begun in the middle
of September. Now everything's new. Now the
Passover has begun. This is the first Passover. And
now with the first Passover, everything's going to be new.
The Jewish new year is going to be different. Now it's going
to be the middle of March. I think that's just about the
opposite side of the calendar. Everything's made new. Everything's
turned upside down. That's the way it is for a believer.
When Christ reveals Himself to us, we're born again in Christ.
Everything's made new. Everything's completely different.
Verse 3, Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying,
In the tenth day of this 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 to his house take
it according to the number of the souls. Every man according
to his eating should make your count for the lamb. Here's the
second thing we mean by this gospel we preach. There must
be a lamb for the sacrifice. There gotta be a lamb. But now
listen, It can't just be any lamb. It can't just be any religious
ceremony. There must be a lamb and it has
to be the lamb appointed by God. Moses didn't make up these instructions
and bring to the children of Israel, did he? God gave them
to him. This is God's appointment. These
instructions are of God. So when that Jewish father went
out to pick out a lamb for this Passover, he didn't go out and
look at his flock. and picked the smallest, weakest,
sickest lamb that nobody would want anyway. He didn't find that
three-legged lamb, nobody would want to pick that. No, he picked
the best lamb in the flock because that lamb, that Passover lamb
that's going to be the substitute for his firstborn is a picture
of Christ, the Lamb of God, the perfect Lamb of God. You remember
Abraham and Isaac. Abraham taught his son, son,
there's got to be a lamb. There's got to be a lamb. They
were going to Mount Moriah. Walked for three days. Isaac
didn't know it yet, but he's going to be offered as a burnt
offering on top of that mountain. And on the way up the mountain,
Isaac asked his father. He said, father, here's the fire.
Here's the wood. Where's the lamb? There's got
to be a lamb. And Abraham gave that great answer,
my son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the sacrifice. He's
going to provide the lamb of God's own choosing. The lamb
that the Father provided. And that is exactly what God
the Father did. God's got people. They're sinners. They've got to be redeemed. The
Father provided Himself a lamb for the offering for their sin.
And when He sent the lamb to redeem His elect, God the Father
sent the very best that he had. He sent his own beloved son to
be the sacrifice for sin. So when that Jewish father went
out to pick the lamb, he picked the best one he had. This lamb's
a picture of Christ our sacrifice. Now here's the third thing we
mean by the gospel we preach. Christ the lamb is all you need. Christ the lamb is sufficient
to save God's people. Each home was to take a lamb
that was big enough to feed the whole family. You pick a lamb
according to every man's eating, according to every man's appetite.
Come to the table, there's enough to eat. You don't have to say,
well, we better take a small portion because we don't got
enough lamb. No, there's enough lamb for every man's eating.
Enough lamb to fill up the whole family. And if you have a small
family, A lamb's gonna be way too big? Then get together with
your neighbor. The two of you get together in
one house and pick a lamb that's big enough to feed everybody
in the house. Now what do we mean by this gospel we preach?
What does it take to save a sinner? Christ alone. Christ is all it
takes. Christ is sufficient. He's all
it takes to save God's elect. We don't add anything to it,
it's just the lamb. We don't bring anything, we don't
add anything, it's not our works plus, no, it's salvation is Christ
alone. Christ is sufficient to save
your soul. Here's the fourth thing we mean
by this service, by this gospel that we preach. The lamb's got
to be perfect, verse five. Your lamb should be without blemish,
a male of the first year, You should take it out from the sheep
or from the goats, and you should 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." Now,
the lamb's got to be perfect, doesn't it? The lamb can't be
sick. It can't be bruised. It can't
already be dying. You say, well, this lamb's already
dying, so I'm going to sacrifice it. No, it can't. It's got to
be a perfect lamb. He's got to be in perfect health the first
year. He's got to be in the prime and
strength of his life. And after you pick your lamb,
build your pen and put that lamb in the pen and you watch it close
for four days to make sure there aren't any hidden imperfections
or any hidden diseases in your lamb. Because this lamb is a
picture of Christ, the lamb of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, if
he's going to be our Savior, he's got to be perfect. Absolutely
perfect. If he's going to make sinners
like you and me righteous, he must be perfectly righteous.
Christ can't be the atonement for the sin of his people if
he has any sin of his own. He's got to be perfect. No sin.
Christ couldn't be sick. How can he take away our sin
sicknesses unless he's perfectly healthy? Got no sin sickness.
The Lord Jesus Christ, our Passover, can't be bruised. He's got to
be perfect. How can he take away our bruises
and be bruised for us if he's already bruised on his own? The
Lord Jesus Christ, our Passover, can't already be dying because
sin's in Him. He's got to be perfect so He
can die the death His people deserve. He can't have any sins
of His own if He's going to take away our sin. He's got to be
perfect. And thank God He is perfect. And our Lord Jesus gave Himself. Somebody didn't come take Him
against His will. He gave Himself to be crucified physically, humanly
speaking, in the prime of his life. 33 and a half years old,
prime of life. But when did Christ die? Only
after he lived under the microscope of both God and men for 33 and
a half years. And after living under the microscope
that long, I wouldn't want you to put me under the microscope
for five seconds. Christ lived all his life under
the microscope And before he went to the cross, what did the
dad say about him? Pilate said, I examined him. He's perfect. I find no fault in this man.
Well, Pilate's not much. What does the father say? This
is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. The father can
only be pleased with him if he's perfect. The lamb has got to
be perfect. Christ is. But now listen, here's
the fifth thing we say, but this is what we mean by this message
we preach. The lamb must be killed. Verse
six, you should keep it up until the 14th day of the month and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. The lamb's got to die. It's not
enough that the lamb be perfect. You've got to kill that lamb.
The lamb has got to die because what's going on here? The lamb's
a substitute for the firstborn. Somebody's gonna die in your
house. It's either the lamb or the firstborn. Somebody's gonna
die. There's gonna be death in every
house in Egypt this night. It's the firstborn or the lamb.
Now it's not enough that the Lord Jesus Christ become a man
and be perfect. If Christ became a man and he
lived a perfect life, he established a perfect righteousness as a
man, and He ascended back to glory without dying on the cross,
what would happen? He'd be alone in glory. That's
what would happen. No sinner would be saved. Christ
the Lamb of God must die. His blood must be shed. God's
justice demands it. God's holy, isn't He? Then every
sin must be punished. It's either going to be punished
in me or my substitute. Somebody's going to die. And
the father made his son to be sin for his people. That's why
I said Christ had to be perfect. He couldn't have a sin of his
own so he can bear the sin of his people. And when the father
made the son sin, the justice of God demanded Christ die. He must die. The blood must be
shed. Look at Hebrews chapter nine.
So there's gotta be a payment for
sin. And the only payment there is,
is blood. Perfect blood. The blood of Christ
must be shed to be taken to the Father as a payment for sin. Hebrews 9 verse 11. But Christ, being come a high
priest of good things to come, by greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, But by His own blood,
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. The blood's got to be shed. There's got to be blood shed
as a payment for sin. But brethren, don't stop there.
There's got to be a lamb. It's got to be the lamb that
God appointed. The lamb's got to be perfect.
The lamb must be killed. But now the blood must be applied. And they shall take of the blood
and strike it on the two side posts, on the upper door posts
of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. Now if the father of
that house, he went out to his flock and he picked the best
lamb. He put it up for four days, made sure that lamb was perfect.
He killed the lamb at that point in time. Roasted its body with
fire. He went in the house and ate
the lamb. What would have happened to his firstborn? His firstborn
would have died. That's exactly it. The blood
must be applied. It's got to be put on the outside
of the door. And the blood of Christ must be applied to our
hearts, or there's no salvation. It's not enough that Christ be
a perfect man. It's not even enough he died
on the cross. His blood must be applied in the new birth.
Look back at Hebrews again, chapter 12, or chapter 10, excuse me. I guess if I was organized, I
told you to mark that, wouldn't I? The blood has got to be applied
in the new birth. Hebrews 10 verse 21. And having a high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full
assurance of faith. Now, how can you draw near to
God in full assurance of faith? Only having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Our hearts has got to be sprinkled with the blood. The blood must
be applied. And I want you to notice where
the blood is applied. It's on the outside of the door,
isn't it? The blood is offered to who? To the Lord. The blood is put on the outside
of the door. Where are you in the Passover? I'm inside the
house with the door closed. Well, when you're in there, can
you see the blood? Doesn't matter, does it? The blood's not offered
to you. The blood's offered to God. God said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you. You know what he said in verse
13? And the blood should 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. The blood
is offered to God. You know, we don't have the option
to reject the blood of Christ. This is not an option. It's not
an option that we trample underfoot the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because where's the blood applied? Blood's applied on the side post
and on top of the door. So when you go in the house to
eat the sacrifice, you've gone through the blood. It's been
over you and around you. But you didn't step on it. Blood's
not applied to threshold. Because we do not trample underfoot
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't have the choice whether
to accept Christ or reject him. We don't trample it underfoot.
This is by God's grace. This was given to God's people.
And the blood applied to the outside of the door. I'll tell
you what else that is. It's the public confession every
believer makes. If God saves you, you'll confess
him. You'll confess him. When you put that blood on the
outside of the door and you go in and you shut the door, God
sees the blood. You know who else sees it? Your
neighbor. When that father put that blood
on the door, you know what he was saying? The only hope my
firstborn has of living is that blood. I've got faith in the
blood of the Lamb. I'm going to go and eat the Passover.
I'm going to put my shoes on. I'm going to gird my loin, put
my staff in my hand. I'm leaving this place tonight
with my firstborn because the Lamb died. The blood's applied.
That's a confession every believer makes. Now here's the seventh
thing we mean by this message of the gospel. Salvation requires
union with Christ. Verse 8. And they shall eat the
flesh, and that night roast with fire, and unleavened bread, and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Brethren, the lamb's
got to be eaten. You can't just look at the lamb,
roasted, set there on the table. Boy, that's a beautiful lamb.
Oh, it's beautiful. Look how well cooked that lamb
is. Boy, it sure smells delicious, doesn't it? Boy, I bet that'd
be good if you ate it. You can't even enjoy watching
others eat lamb. You've got to eat lamb. You eat
lamb. Christ must be received into
our hearts. Christ has got to be formed in
our hearts so that we have union with Christ. When we have union
with Christ, we become what he is. Yesterday, we had chicken. Just so you know, Janet didn't
just sit and enjoy watching everybody else eat. She ate. You got to
eat, didn't you? You had to eat. Well, we ate chicken yesterday.
Well, if you cut me open right now, you know what? You're not
going to find any chicken. You'll find some egg and sausage
I had for breakfast. You're not going to find any chicken. That
chicken's already become one with Frank. You can't tell the
difference between my flesh and the chicken anymore. It's become
one with me because I ate it. That's faith in Christ. When
Christ is formed in your heart, you become one with Christ so
that you become what He is. He made you what He is so the
Father can accept you in Him. The only way the Father can accept
us is through union with Christ. He can't accept us as we are,
not in Adam. It must be in Christ. And the
lamb that you're gonna eat's gotta be roast with fire. Why
can't it be boiled? Or broiled? Why can't it be microwaved? Why does it have to be roast
with fire? Because Christ, the Lamb, the Passover, He suffered
under the fire of God's wrath against sin. I thought the Lamb
was perfect. Why did the Son of God suffer
under the fire of God's wrath against sin? Union. He became one with His people
and He took their sin so He could put their sin away and make them
what He is. That's union with Christ. And
you know what? All you got to do is set that
table, the roast lamb. The believer's going to eat it
up. Now, you'll eat it with bitter herbs. You'll eat it with the
bitter herbs of repentance, the bitterness of your sin. But that
makes the lamb taste all the better, doesn't it? Bitter herbs
are repentance and a believer eats that up. And here's the
eighth thing we mean by this message of the gospel. It's the
whole Christ that saves. A partial Christ only gets the
job done. A whole Christ saves. Verse nine. 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. Now don't take the lamb
and chop it up and put it on the grill. You're not having
pork chops. You're eating a lamb. The whole lamb, roast its head
and its legs and all, all roast together with fire. Because this
lamb is a picture of the lamb of God. Hope we got that, I keep
saying that. This lamb's a picture, isn't
he? It's the whole Christ that saves. There was a babe born
in a manger one day, born a virgin. But it's not that baby laying
in a manger that saves. That babe had to grow into a
perfect man. That man had to grow under the
law, keeping all the law so he'd be Christ our righteousness.
And that Christ must go to Calvary. He must suffer and die under
the wrath of God, not to give the whole wide world a chance
to choose him, but to save his people from their sins. This
lamb offered, just think of one house, that lamb wasn't offered
for a bunch of Egyptian children, was it? It was offered for somebody
specifically, wasn't it? For that father's firstborn.
And that father's firstborn lived because the lamb died. Christ
must die to put away the sins of his people. Not to give everybody
a chance, but to save his people from their sins. And you know
that same Jesus rose from the grave. He rose again, and we
worship the resurrected Christ. Not just the babe in the manger,
not the man on the cross, The resurrected Christ too. But you
know that resurrected Christ? He's not on earth anymore in
a bodily form. Where is he? He ascended back
on high. Well, what's he doing? He's seated
on the throne of glory, waiting till his enemies be made his
footstool. We worship the sovereign savior who saves whom he will,
when he will. He's not up there looking over
the banister of heaven, wringing his hands, begging and hoping
somebody will accept him, no. He's there accomplishing his
eternal purpose. And that very same Jesus is coming
again. He's gonna come again, he'll
judge the world in righteousness, and he's gonna take his people
up, isn't he? He's gonna take them to be with
him forever in glory, because he's gonna fulfill his promise.
Now that's the Christ, the whole Christ that we worship, the whole
Christ that we preach. And you can't be saved if you
take any part of that Christ away. You take any part of that
Christ away and you've taken away all my salvation. Don't
undercook the gospel. Now just don't undercook the
gospel. If you take away part of the
sufferings of Christ, you know what you've done? You've undercooked
the gospel. If you take away why Christ suffered
and who did he suffer for, you've undercooked the gospel and you
got raw lamb. I wouldn't imagine that tastes
very good. A raw gospel won't taste good
to believe, I can tell you that. And don't water down the gospel.
Don't try to take the edge off of election to make it taste
better. God's electing loves my hope. I'll never choose God. Don't take the edge off Him choosing
me. Tell me like it is. Don't take the edge off God's
sovereign grace. If you do, you've sodden it down
with water. You've taken away the flavor
of it. Don't try to make the lamb more appealing to the flesh
by throwing some gravy on it. No, you're going to eat it with
the bitter herbs of repentance. Don't try to make it so men will
accept it. Preach Christ as He is. If you take away the glory
of the Lamb, if you take away the glory of His person, you've
taken away my Savior. Here's the ninth thing. We say
this is what we mean by this message. The death of Christ
got the job done. It wasn't in vain. Look at verse
10. And you shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it
until the morning you should burn with fire. Now you're not
eating this for leftovers tomorrow. No part of this lamb is going
to be wasted. Now there's plenty for everyone. You take a lamb
according to every man's eating. There's plenty for everyone,
but nothing's going to be wasted because this is a picture of
the sacrifice of Christ. The death of Christ is enough.
It's all it took to save his people from their sin. His precious
blood was shed for his people. Not one drop was wasted. Not
one drop. This is what I'm saying. The
sacrifice of Christ was not offered to you and me to see if we might
accept poor little Jesus. Don't you feel sorry for him
how he suffered? No. The blood of Christ was shed
for God's elect before the father and every one of them is going
to be saved. Not one will be lost. Now you
come to Christ. You come to the table. If you
come, there's a seat at the table for you. You know why there's
a seat at the table for you? The Father prepared it from all
of eternity. He chose you before he created the earth, and he
put your name on a seat. You come to the table, there's
a seat for you. Plenty of room. And if you don't
come to Christ, there's not gonna be any empty seats. Not a drop
of the blood of Christ is wasted. Heaven's a large place. Plenty
of room for every sinner who come to Christ. But brethren,
there are not going to be any vacancies. You're not going to
make God sad because you didn't accept his invitation. He's got
a vacant house. No, there won't be any vacancies, but there'll
be plenty of room for everyone. Here's the 10th thing we mean
by this message of the gospel. We receive Christ. We receive
this message of Christ in faith. Verse 11, and thus shall you
eat it with your loins girded Shoes on your feet, your staff
in your hand, and you should eat it in haste. It's the Lord's
Passover. Now, why would you sit down to
eat with your loins girded? You know, it seemed like more
comfortable, you know, how they wore those robes. It'd be more comfortable to let
everything, you know, be loose. I like to put on a pair of stretchy
shorts, you know, before I eat so I'm all comfortable. Why do
I want to gird everything up, you know, and have my shoes on
my feet? I got a staff. I like to have both hands so
I can, you know, cut my meat. Why I got to eat with my staff
in my hand? Because brother, you're leaving. You're leaving
this place. Jan's grandmother, she was a
great-grandmother, was famous for saying this. Somebody said,
we're going to town. You want to go? She said, let
me get my hat. I'll be ready to go. The believer's eating
with his hat on. I'm ready to go. Why are you
ready to go? God said, I'm leaving. I believe
him. I'm packed and ready. You know I believe God. That's an amazing statement of
God's grace. It's by God's grace, but I'm
telling you, I believe God. I love the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. I love to hear it. I love to
preach it. I love to sing about it. I love to sing it. Just, oh, I love the gospel of
Christ. And you know what? I expect you
to believe it. This is why we don't take the
edge off the truth of the gospel. I expect you to believe it. It's
truth. Christ is the truth. I expect you to believe Him.
I expect you to love Him. He's altogether lovely. I expect
you to believe Christ. He's trustworthy. He's faithful. And I receive Christ believing
He's put my sin away. He made me without sin. He made
me perfect before God. And the only reason I believe
that, I don't see any evidence of that myself, believe me. You
know why I believe that? God said so. I don't understand
how he could do that, but I believe it because God said so. That's
the way we receive Christ, by faith, completely believing him.
Then next, this is what we mean by this message of the gospel.
The salvation of God's elect is done in justice. God can't
do anything less than justice, can he? 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, against
all the gods, all the princes of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. And you know,
there's no such thing as the death angel. Isn't this Christ
speaking here? I will, he says. Christ himself
judges sin. Christ himself passed through
Egypt. And there was death in every home in Egypt this night.
The firstborn in the houses of the Egyptians died because God's
justice required it. There'd been no bloodshed. There'd
been no blood applied. And the firstborn in the house
of the Israelites lived. Why'd that firstborn live? Because
the substitute had already died. His blood had already been applied.
Well, what's the difference between the Jewish firstborn and the
Egyptian firstborn? Wasn't that Jewish boy so much
better, was it? He wasn't. What's the difference? The blood of the lamb on the
door. That's the difference. What's the difference between
saved and lost? The blood of Christ. It's all
God's grace. When God saves His people, God
doesn't overlook their sin like a soft old grandfather. God saves
His people. He gives them eternal life. because
Christ, their substitute, died to satisfy God's justice for
them. He died as their substitute. He applied his blood to their
hearts. So God didn't pass over the sin of his, because he's
ignoring their sin. He's passing over their sin because
their sin's been blotted out under the blood of Christ, our
Passover. That's why he passes over the
sin of his people in justice. Then 12, this is what we mean. by the gospel we preach. Christ
is worshipped without hypocrisy. Verse 15, seven days shall you
eat unleavened bread. Even the first day, you should
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul should
be cut off from Israel. Now throughout scripture, leaven
is a picture of sin. So the Jews would remove all
the leaven from their houses and boy they'd look in every
nook and cranny to make sure there's no leaven in their houses
before this Passover. Because they had a picture of
Christ who removed all the sin of His people. Now look in Luke
chapter 12. This is what we mean by that
message. When we receive Christ and we
worship Christ and we preach Christ, we do it without hypocrisy. Now there's no point being a
hypocrite about this. God sees the heart in Luke chapter
12 and verse one. In the meantime, when they were
gathered together in innumerable multitude of people, in so much
that they trod upon one another, he began to say in his disciples,
first of all, beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees. Well,
what's their leaven? Which is hypocrisy. Christ our
Passover is eaten without leaven. He's eaten without hypocrisy.
I truly confess I'm a sinner. I mean, there's no point sugarcoating
that. There's no point glossing over it. I'm a sinner and you
are too. And Christ really is all my salvation. I don't have anything to add
to him. He's all my salvation or I'm damned. He's all my righteousness
or I don't have any without hypocrisy. And here's the last thing we
mean by this service, the message of our gospel. Christ is my only message. My
message is Christ all the time because Christ is the gospel.
Look at verse 14. And this day should be unto you
for a memorial. and you should keep it a feast
to the Lord throughout your generations. I don't care how long this thing
keeps going, how many generations come after you, there's only
one message. You keep it a feast by inordinance,
how long? Forever. Well, you know, what
if the world evolves and people, you know, get more education
and they learn more and well, we better change it to fit the
times. This says you better keep it by a feast by inordinance
forever, doesn't it? Verse 24. And you shall observe
this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. Now, you know, when Christ came,
the Passover ended. This isn't talking about more
than that ceremony, isn't it? It's talking about the gospel
of Christ. And this is the message you preach
forever. Because no matter how long it
is till Christ returns, Christ is still going to be the only
savior. Christ is still going to be the only message. It's
not possible that salvation come any other way other than Christ,
other than through his blood and through his righteousness.
I can't wash away my sin, but the blood of Christ did wash
me white as snow. I can't make myself without sin.
I can't, I'm nothing but sin. I can't do anything about that,
but Christ did. He made me, he did for me what
I can't do for myself. He made me righteous in his righteousness. In Him, I'm the righteousness
of God. And that's going to be the message
until time is no more. Christ is all. This is what we
mean by this message. And you know what? This is the
song. Learn these verses. This is a
song that's going to be sung in eternity. Christ is all. That's what we mean by this message.
And I tell you the reaction of God's people to that message.
Look at the very end of verse 27. Well, let's read the whole verse.
After your children say unto you, what mean ye by this service?
That ye shall say, it's the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed
over the houses of the children of Israel and Egypt, when he
smote the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. God's electing love. His wrath is poured out on the
sinner, on the unjust. He delivered our houses, and
the people bowed their head and worshiped. In just a few moments,
the men are going to distribute the Lord's table. And what we
mean in all the gospel that we preach is pictured in this table. It's the broken body and the
shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We don't always have
to do this, but sometimes we have enough bread from the previous
time we have to break up the bread, but this time we need
to break up some more bread. Wayne comes and breaks up that
bread. This is not a time filler now. This would be a good time
to remember. This is what we mean by the service. The body, the precious, perfect
body of our substitute was broken, broken to put away the sin of
his people. All right, Wayne, you may come
distribute the bread.