I want us to begin reading in
Exodus 12, verse 1. 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. Speak ye unto all the congregation
of Israel, said, 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 born in house. And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls, the person. Every
man according to his eating shall make you count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You
shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. And you shall
keep it up until the 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 house. wherein they shall eat it. And
they shall eat the flesh in that night roast with fire, and unleavened
bread, and with bitter herbs shall they eat it. Eat not of
it raw, nor sodden, at all with water, but roast with fire his
head and his legs with the pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing
of it remain until the morning. and that which remaineth of it
until the morning shall be burned with fire. And thus shall you
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. And I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt. both man and beast, and against
all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you
for a token, a sign, 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."
Now, I have no eloquent tongue this morning to preach the gospel
to you, and I am not looking for a new gospel to preach. I
love the old gospel. It has satisfied my soul, and
it has satisfied your soul. And that is what I want to look
at this morning, just the plain old gospel. And what you and
I love about the gospel, whether we read it in the New Testament
in the reality of it, in the person of Jesus Christ, or where
we come here in the Old Testament and see it in these pictures
and times. We love the gospel, and we know
it is of God. If you see it in the Old Testament,
it is of God. And that is the first thing we
see here in verse 1. The Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt. Now, isn't that so important?
And you say, Bruce, why is that so important? Because he was
about to tell them something that they did not know. He was
about to reveal something to them that they had never heard
before in all their life. That's what the gospel is. It's
a revelation from God. This wasn't something that Moses
and Aaron had been thinking about and was now ready to institute
this ceremony. It wasn't something that they
cooked up in their own heads, but this was the Lord speaking
to them. Sometimes the devil, if he can
rob us of the Word of God, then he's got us defeated. And one
of the things that he's trying, especially in our day, brothers
and sisters, is to discredit the Word of God. And he does
it in every means that he can think of. I was reading in the
paper not long ago one of these smart fellows was talking about
the reason he didn't believe the Bible to be the Word of God.
And he said you go back in some of the old Egyptian writings
and you can see where Egypt had already told these stories before
the Hebrews ever got a hold of them. In other words, he gave
an illustration, and you find all kinds of silly stuff like
this in our society, that Pharaoh had some historians, and they
had already told the story about the children of Israel fleeing
from Egypt, and Pharaoh found them at the Red Sea and brought
them back. And that was the end of the story.
And this fellow says, look here, Moses went and copied this out
of the writings of the Egyptian historian. Is that so? Is that
so? What if they went and copied
it out of Moses' writings? Do you suppose that could have
happened? If I'd have been Pharaoh's historians and he told me how
to change the story and my life depended upon it, I think I'd
change it too, wouldn't you? You know if the world should
stand 10,000 more years. I doubt seriously if it will,
but nobody knows. And people lost some of the records.
Have we lost a lot of the ancient records? And we don't know for
sure when these Egyptian historians wrote these things that they
wrote. But if the world should stand long enough, and we lost,
for example, instance, the record of when the Book of Mormons was
given, and we didn't know for sure when it was given, and somebody
found the Book of Mormons, and they said, look here, here's
a book, and they must have copied the Bible out of this book, because
it has all these scriptures in it. But it wasn't that they copied
the Bible from the Book of Mormons. They copied much of the Book
of Mormon from the Bible. And it's been happening like
that all along. Historians going into the Bible
and changing it and bringing it and telling their story and
adding just enough scripture to it that seems to make it credible. But you know the difference in
it? Here's the difference in it. They didn't copy. Moses didn't
copy out of the historians down in Egypt. They copied from Moses. They copied from Moses. Where
did Moses get the Scriptures? The Lord's faith. That's where
it came from. And I tell you, brothers and
sisters, the difference between Moses' writings and those historians
down in Egypt They told their little stories and that's where
they ceased. That's where they come to an
end. But Moses told us here about this lamb being killed and delivering
the children of Israel from Egypt. And fifteen hundred years later,
we find where God actually fulfilled this in the person of his dear
son. All of these shadows All the
types, all the promises, all the prophecies, you can trace
it year after year after year until 1,500 years later. And there it is. It is all fulfilled. And all the truth, we trace it
back here and say this is the Word of the Lord. The Lord is
the One who is speaking. and telling Moses and Aaron to
do what we find done here in this account of the Lamb being
slain. And therefore, look in verse
2. If somebody would ask me what it is to be saved, one of the
things I would tell them is this, it's a new beginning. It's just
absolutely a new beginning. Haven't you found it that way?
It's a new beginning. Somebody said it's like turning
over a new leaf. No, it's not that. It's a new
book, ain't it? It's a new book. You've got a
new book. And look what he said. This month
shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first
month of the year unto you. They begin a new life this very
day. They didn't have to go over the
old Egyptian calendar anymore. A new nation, a new calendar,
a new life was brought into being. That's what it is to be saved. It's a new heart. It's a new
spirit. It's a new creature. It's new
loves. It's new desires. It's new goals. It's new ambitions. If any man
be in Christ, he's a new Creatures, all things have passed away and
all things have become new, a new life. Old sins are gone, aren't
they? And there's a new knowledge that
you never had before, an excellent knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And one fellow said, I was so new, he said, I even read the
newspaper different. Everything was different to me.
Everything in the world was different. My family was different. My job
was different. Because I was different. New. New. I tell you, it ain't just
turning over a new leaf. It ain't just trying to do better
and be moral, is it? Being saved is a new beginning. How many of us have thought within
our life, boy, I'd love to go back and try it again. What a
mess I've made. What a mess some people have
made out of their lives. Well, that's what salvation is.
You get a start over. You get a start new. And everything
else is gone. It's gone. The beginning of months
unto you. This is a new beginning. And
here in verse 3, I love this, every man was required to have
a lamb He said, speaking to the congregation of Israel, saying,
in the tenth month, in the tenth day of this month, they shall
take to them every man a lamb. Every man. This is personal. We talk about having a personal
Savior. This is personal. Every man. And when He says man, He doesn't
just mean male. He means everybody. Not just
Moses and Aaron, they had to have a lamb. Not just the rich
and educated, they had some rich people among the Jews at this
time. Educated people, famous people,
the heads of their tribes, they had to have a lamb. And don't
you imagine that they had some beautiful houses? When the Jews
were in captivity, no matter where they were, they prided
themselves on having beautiful houses. And don't you imagine
they have some immaculate dwelling places? And Moses said, you tell
those fellows that have built these beautiful houses that they
better take the blood and stain the post of those doors with
it. Because everybody has to have a lamb. And the rich and
the poor alike. Not just the rich. But you may
have been so poor, as my brother-in-law said, you can't even pay attention.
You're so poor. You may have lived in a tent.
And you may have been in bad health. But you had to have a
lamb. No matter who you were, every
man had to have a lamb. That was necessary. There have been people who say,
I hate your old bloody religion. Well, I'll tell you this much.
Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission. And I don't
care who you are. And I don't care what your standing
is in this world. You've got to have lamb. You've
got to have the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to wash you.
Every man who is ever saved and accepted of God must be accepted
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Every man must have a Lamb. Take unto you a Lamb. And that's what we do with the
Lord Jesus. We take Him into our hearts,
don't we? We take Him by faith. We take Him as our life, our
righteousness, our acceptance with God. We take Him. Take every
man a lamb. Every man a lamb. And look here
what he says in verse 4. And if the household be too big
for the lamb, Let him and his neighbor next to his house take
it according to the number of the person. Every man according
to his eating shall make you count for the lamb, if the household
be too little for the lamb." Now, what is he concerned about
here? He is concerned about waste. Look down in verse 10. And ye
shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, And that which
remaineth up into the morning ye shall burn with fire." See
what he is saying? See what he is concerned about?
That there would be no waste of this land. The next day the
children of Israel were leaving this place. They were going out
to cross the Red Sea and head out into the desert towards the
land of Canaan. And the Lord said, you must not
leave behind any of this land. You can't leave any of it on
the table. You can't let it fall off into the floor for the dogs
to eat or for it to lay there and rot. If there is any and
all left, it has to be burned. See what he is concerned about.
This lamb was not to be wasted. None of it was to be killed and
left in vain. Boy, see how careful the Holy
Spirit is to guard even the top of the Lord Jesus Christ. None
of it wasted. None of it discarded. Can you
and I conceive this morning, brothers and sisters, of the
Lord Jesus Christ dying to redeem a man, and then that man not
be redeemed? Can you conceive of such a thing?
Can you imagine this? Can you imagine standing beneath
the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ? and seeing the blood flowing
down and the water flowing down, and make this statement, you
know most of this is done in vain. Most of this blood that's
being poured out will avail nothing. It's for naught. It's wasted. Can you imagine saying that?
Wouldn't that be awful? No, the Holy Ghost, He guards
even the top of the Lord Jesus Christ. None of it will be wasted. The Lord Jesus will save every
last soul for whom He died. And not one soul whose blood
was shed for it will wind up in hell. Can the groans, can
the tears, can the bloodshedding of the Lord Jesus be wasted? Can it be for nothing? I can't conceive that anymore,
can you? Spurgeon used to say something like this. He said,
some people look upon the redemption of the Lord Jesus as a bridge
that goes halfway across the river. It gets everybody on it
for sure, but nobody across it for sure. It sounds kind, doesn't
it? But it's not. Who wants to get
on a bridge that goes halfway across the river? We may say this, and people may
accuse us of being unkind, but the sufferings and death of the
Lord Jesus Christ was for a particular people. He wasn't for everybody
without exception. And the reason we say that, if
it was for everybody without exception, then it's done for
naught. It's wasted. It's useless. And who could say such a thing? Whose safety and whose deliverance
this lamb here is secure? The firstborn. The firstborn
of Israel. It was for a particular people. He didn't say, offer this for
everybody without exception, did he? I'm going to pass through
the land of Egypt and all the firstborn, I'm going to kill
them. Take you a lamb and slay it. And when you do, You put the
blood there over the doors, and I'll spur the first barn, the
first barn, the first barn. That's who it was for. And when
the Son of God died on Calvary's tree, it was for His sheep. It
was for His sheep. I'm not ashamed to say that,
are you? And all His sheep are going to be saved. And all others
are going to perish in their sins and because of their sins. But the blood of Jesus Christ,
the death of Jesus Christ, will never be done in vain. It will never be wasted. You
read sometimes carefully Galatians chapter 2 and verse 21. And Paul
did a horrible thing to say this, that Christ died in vain. I do
not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead and vain." And Paul said, that
can't ever be. You can't waste, none of his
blood can be wasted. Not one drop will be wasted. So there's what the Holy Spirit
is concerned about. This lamb was a beautiful picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he said, therefore, don't you
let a thing go to waste. Don't let a thing go to waste.
It's not to be left for the dogs. It's not to be left to decay.
It's not to lay there useless and rotted. None of it. None of it. Now look here in
verse 5. Look in verse 5. Your lamb. Now notice how he says that.
Your lamb. In verse 3, he said, every man,
every woman, every boy, every girl, everybody must have a lamb. And now here he even makes it
more personal. He says, Your lamb shall be without
blemish a male of the first year, and it shall be taken out from
among the sheep or from the goats. In other words, this lamb has
to become your lamb. Your lamb. It's your salvation
now. You've got to know the character
and condition of your lamb. In other words, he's telling
them, don't you run out there in the loft and in the herd and
just grab the first lamb you come to. You better know what
kind of lamb you need and you better get the one you need.
That's what he's telling them. You better check him over and
make sure he don't have any blisters on him. You better make sure
he's no more than a year old and you better make sure that
he's a male. Know this lamb. That's what they're
saying. You bring an old lamb up here
that's crippled and old and has blisters and you kill him and
you think it's going to save you, you're sadly mistaken. That's
what he's saying. Your lamb. Your lamb. Isn't it
sad, brothers and sisters, that you run into people all the time
that profess the Lord Jesus Christ, and they know absolutely nothing
about Him? They say, He's my Savior, until
you begin to talk to them. What kind of a Savior is He?
And they know nothing about Him? There's this thing going around
today, and some of you have run into people like this. Where
they say, it doesn't matter that Jesus Christ was virgin-born.
Did you run into people like that? It's not important where
He was virgin-born or not. His miracles aren't important.
They're not that important. Why He died is not that important. He was just our example. We're
just to follow Him. What would Jesus do? They say
that so many times. When you get in a bad situation
and you've got to make decisions, just ask yourself this question,
what would Jesus do? I tell you, brothers and sisters,
I want to know Christ, don't you? And this is one of the things
that we must know and believe about Him, that He's a Lamb without
blemish and without spot. He has to be. What kind of Savior
does it take? to save us. When you examine
your own soul and you feel the unworthiness and the sense of
sin in yourself as you stand before God, what kind of a Savior
do you feel like you need? Can He be a Savior like you?
Can He be born and live like you and yet be your Savior? Can
He be a mere man and yet be your Savior? Your Lamb! What kind of a Savior do we need
to represent us before God? That's a good question, ain't
it? The Master asked this question, and what a good question it is.
What think you of Christ? What do you think of Christ? And I tell you, I want to know
the character. I want to know the nature. I
want to know the person of the Son of God, because I profess
to be saved by Him. And I want to know that He's
such a One who can save me. And I want to say, Lord, You're
mine. You're mine. You're my Savior. I know You. I know You. I don't want to go
up there and say, Lord, I've done all of these things in Your
name. I've preached in Your name. And
I've cast out, I've done all these wonderful works and have
him to say, I don't even know you. I don't even know you. Never knew you. Never knew you.
I want him to know me, and I want to know him. And the Bible tells
us he's without spot. You know, everybody, even devils
in hell, had to bear witness that Jesus Christ wasn't like
anybody else. when he was ready to be conceived
in the virgin's womb. Remember what Gabriel said about
him. He's that holy thing. That's what the angels called
him. A holy thing. And that's what the devils called
him. We know you, who you are, the holy one of God. They know
him. They were a witness of him. And
Peter, who knew him for three and a half years, knew him intimately,
Peter says he did no sin. No guile was found in his mouth
ever. Never did he have a bad motive. Never did he think a foolish
thought. Never did he speak a sinful word. Never did he commit an
act of iniquity. He had no sin and no guile was
in his mouth. And here's what the Father said
about him. He's my righteous servant. My righteous servant
shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquity." And the
scripture says he offered himself without spot to God. He's holy, harmless, undefiled,
and listen to this, here's the point, separate from sinners. He wasn't born like you and I
are born. He was born of a sinful fallen
woman, but was not sinful or fallen Himself. He lived in a
world of sinners, but never did He sin. And He died for sins,
but not His own. He was separate from sinners. That's why He can save us. And I tell you to know Him is
life eternal. But you've got to know Him. You've
got to know Him. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the living God in Jesus Christ. Your lamb. Your lamb. Your lamb. Moses didn't
go out and pick him out, did he? Aaron didn't go out and pick
him out. Every man had to have this lamb. And you better make sure what
kind of lamb you have. Will Christ do to die that? Will Christ do to face the judgment
by? Will Christ do to face eternity
in? The Christ of this Bible will. Make sure that is the Savior
that you have. The Christ of the Bible. Peter said he is a lamb without
spot or blemish or any such thing. Here in verse 6, now look at
this. There was a specific time, a
specific day, a specific time within that day this lamb was
to be offered. Look what he says in verse 6.
And ye 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. Now, this was their new month,
Nisan. It's part of our March and part
of our April. We don't go with a Jewish calendar.
But this was their first month. And the fourteenth day of this
month, they were to keep the lamb up from the tenth day to
the fourteenth day. Four days they were to keep it
up. And then they were to bring it
out and kill it. I often think of, when I read
this, what Peter said about one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, a thousand years is a day. It was four thousand years from
creation to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. In that sense,
there was four days. But here is what John Gill said
on John chapter 12. He said, It is remarkable that
on this very day, the tenth of Nisan, Four days before the Passover,
and four days before His sufferings and death, Christ made His entry
into Jerusalem nearer to the place where He was to be offered. Four days He showed up, and then
four days later He was crucified. And we're told here in the last
part of verse 6 that they were to kill it in the evening. Now this is an amazing thing,
and I don't know if I can explain this to you, if I can even remember
this. But the Jews have twelve hours
in their day. The Lord said, Aren't there not
twelve hours in a day? And their time began at six o'clock
in the morning, and their day ended at twelve o'clock. That
was the work day for them. In the morning, in the third
hour of the day, which is 9 o'clock, they offered their morning sacrifice. That gave them time to get up.
They could get stirring around, get the lamb, kill him, dress
him, and roast him. They killed a lamb every morning
at 9 o'clock. And then at 3 o'clock was the
evening sacrifice. Remember 3 o'clock was the time
of prayer? You read it this morning. Peter
and John went up at the ninth hour, being the hour of prayer. That ninth hour is when they
offered the evening sacrifice. And that's when the Jews offered
this Passover lamb. And when the Lord Jesus died
on the cross, remember when all the crucifixion started? It was
at nine o'clock in the morning. Remember that? The third hour
of the day they crucified him. Brother Glenn taught us that,
remember? That's when the trial began. And then, at the ninth
hour, he lifted up his voice, three o'clock in the evening,
and said, Father, why have you forsaken me? And he gave up the
ghost at the ninth hour. So the Lord Jesus was the morning
sacrifice, and he was the evening sacrifice. And when they were
going to prayer that very day, the fourteenth day of the month,
while they were going to prayer at three o'clock, the ninth hour,
the Lord Jesus was hanging on the cross and said, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? And he bowed his head and gave
up the ghost at the very time that the Jews were offering the
Passover. And people don't believe this
is God's Word? Who but God in His infinite wisdom
could have predicted this? Could have foretold this? And
who but God in His sovereign power and providence could bring
it all to pass? It's amazing, ain't it? It's
amazing. They shall offer it in the eve. And you know nobody knew anything
about this. Nobody knew about it. His disciples
even tried to stop it, but they couldn't. It's the very exact
day, in the very hours in that evening, that they took this
Passover lamb and offered Him. Here is the Son of God, 1,500
years later, and He's hanging up on Calvary's tree. The Lamb
of God. The Lamb of God. Now it says here in verse 7,
And they shall take of the blood, and they shall strike it on the two
side posts, and on the upper door of the posts of the house,
wherein they shall eat it. And verse 22 tells us how they
did that. They shall take a bunch of hyssop,
and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the
lintel of the two side posts with the blood, that is in the
basin, and none of you shall go out at the house until the
morning." There was two things about this blood, and you'll
notice this. There was the shedding of it.
The shedding of it. And there's the application of
it. And it's the same way with the
blood of Christ, isn't it? There's the shedding of it. When
did that take place? Two thousand years ago now. The
blood of Christ. atoned for sin. God saw it 2,000
years ago, and God says, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. And then there's the application. There's the sprinkling of it.
And that takes place in your lifetime. Your conscience is
sprinkled with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if that
blood was sprinkled for you back there at Calvary, if it was poured
out for your redemption before God to atone for your sins, then
there is coming a day and a time when that blood will be sprinkled
upon your guilty conscience. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, purges our conscience from dead works to serve. the living God. The blood. The blood. And we'll see that
here in just a minute. But look in verse 8 and 9. This
is very interesting. The way they roasted this lamb. And verse 8 and 9 tells us that.
They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, with
unleveled bread and bitter herbs shall ye eat it. Eat not of it
raw. They weren't to eat it raw. They
couldn't boil it in water, but they had to roast it with fire,
and they had to roast the whole lamb. Look over in the same chapter,
and look over in verse 46. In one house shall it be You
shall not carry forth all of the flesh abroad out of the house,
neither shall ye break a bone thereof." They weren't allowed
to cut this up. Some sacrifices they were allowed
to cut up and stack them up. This one, they had to roast it
whole. Even the insides, they took all
the insides out, they washed them, and they put everything
back in. And here is the way they did it. You can find this
in Gil, and I wrote down a quote here, what he said. This is very
interesting, the way they roasted these lambs. Gil said this, he
loved these Jewish historians, and he was quoting here from
a Jewish historian. He said, they transfixed it through
the mouth and out its rump with a wooden spat, a wooden bar.
And they hang it in the midst of a furnace, and the fire is
below it. So it was not turned upon a spit,
according to our manner of roasting." Now, if you remember the pig
that Clarence bought last year, and he roasted it. Remember how
Clarence roasted it? It had the bar, the metal bar
through it, and it turned. It turned. And the fire was underneath
it. It wasn't that way with this
lamb. They rammed this wooden bar from its rump to its mouth,
and it was standing up like this. And it had a hook on it that
held it, and the fire was underneath its rump and come up its side.
I saw this take place with my own eyes one time when I was
in Yuma, Arizona. I walked down to a border town,
and lo and behold, I saw this very thing taking place. They
had what appeared to me to be a small lamb, and it had this
rump through its rump out of its mouth and was hanging, and
the fire was coming up around this rump and on the sides, and
that's the way they cooked it. That's the way they cooked it. But this one historian by the
name of Justin Martyr, and Gil gives his account, It said he
gets even more specific and says, one spit or one rod went from
the rump to the head, and another rod went across the shoulders
and held out the legs. So that when the lamb was being
roasted, he appeared to be crucified. That's from the Jewish historians.
And I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. Because what
was this lamb representing? Who was he representing? The
Lord Jesus Christ. And what did he say? Christ,
our Passover, is sacrificed for us. That's the way they roasted
him. And there he was in that fire
with the flames coming up. And you know, those Jews who
were enlightened, who really believed that Christ was coming,
in faith they saw the Son of God being crucified. By faith
they kept the Passover. They were looking to Christ.
They saw Christ in this sacrifice. And all their faith laid hold
upon Him. roasted this lamb, Christ crucified. And look here quickly, and I'll
hurry to a close, in verse 12. They were to take, in verse 7,
take this blood and strike it on the two side poles and on
the upper poles, not on the threshold now. He said, don't you let any
drop on that threshold. Why? This is precious blood,
you see. It's not to be walked upon. Not
to be stepped upon or trampled under one's feet. Put it overhead
and on the side of the hose. What was the purpose of this?
Oh, I tell you, brothers and sisters, I tell you, a wonderful
purpose behind this. I tell you, if you can get a
hold of this, if you're here this morning and you have any
concerns in your heart at all about the wrath of God, and you
don't want to face it, And here is some precious news. There
is one thing that will stay the wrath of God from a person's
soul. There is one thing that will satisfy the wrath of God,
and that is the blood. Look here at what he says in
verse 12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,
and I will smite The firstborn in the land of Egypt, man and
beast, and against the gods of Egypt, I'll execute judgment.
I can do that. I'm the sovereign Lord. I'm just
and holy. And the blood shall be to you
for a token of sign 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. Oh, I tell you, two precious
things for us to understand that God is holy and God is just. But there is a deliverance from
His wrath by this blood. Oh, the most horrible thing,
one fellow says, is this. The most horrible thing that
anyone, man or angels, could possibly face is the wrath of
God. Not temporal death, not temporal
sufferings, but the eternal wrath of God. And the most precious
thing for that soul who is conscious of this wrath is to know the blood of Jesus
Christ, God's Son, will turn it away, will turn it away. That's the best news I ever heard
in all my life. That's still the best news I'm hearing today. J. L. John Darby. Here's what he said about this
verse. I like this. He says, No disexpression When
I see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
It is not said when you see the blood, but when I see it. The soul of an awakened person
often rests not on its own righteousness, but on the way in which it sees
the blood. Now, precious as it is to have
the heart deeply impressed with it, This is not the grounds of
peace. Peace is founded upon God's sin,
the blood. He cannot fail to estimate it
in its full and perfect value and put it away sin. It is he
that abhors and has been offended by sin. It is he that sees the
value in this blood and put it away sin. It may be said, but
must thou not have faith in the value of Christ's blood? This
is faith in its value to see how God views it. That is faith. when we see the estimation that
God puts upon the blood. That is faith, ain't it? We may
come to the point where we've lost all apprehension. We've
lost all knowledge of Christ and His blood. We may wind up
in a nursing home somewhere out of our heads and know nothing.
We won't be able to see the blood, then will we? But here's our
hope and our comfort and the grounds of our peace. When I
see the blood, that's what saved these people. They put the blood
on the doorposts, they went in the houses, and they ate the
lamb, and they no more saw this blood. It was on the outside
of the door. But it wasn't their view of it,
it was God's view of it. Brothers and sisters in the hour
when your understanding is so darkened and your faith is so
weak, and your apprehension of Christ and His blood and the
merits of it are so shallow, it doesn't change God's estimation
of it. He passes over you because of
His estimation of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. How much
does God devalue sin? How much does He hate it? Beyond
estimation. How much, therefore, does God
value the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? It's beyond estimation. He thinks about it much, much
higher than you and I do. Let's sing 232. Glenn, would you lead us in there?
232.