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Henry Mahan

The Lord's Passover

Exodus 11
Henry Mahan • April, 21 1993 • Audio
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What does the Bible say about God's judgment and mercy?

The Bible teaches that God's judgment follows His patience and mercy, and when His long-suffering ends, judgment is inevitable.

The Scriptures reveal that God is indeed long-suffering and patient, allowing individuals ample opportunity to repent. However, when He deems that the cup of iniquity is full, His judgment swiftly follows. This principle is encapsulated in Ecclesiastes 8:11, which states that because God does not execute judgment swiftly, people's hearts are hardened towards evil. Ultimately, there comes a time when God's long-suffering will cease, as seen in Exodus 11, where God declares judgment upon Egypt. This teaches us that while God's mercy is immense, there is a limit to His patience, and those who fail to repent will face His righteous judgment.

Exodus 11, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Deuteronomy 32:35

How do we know God protects His people?

God's Word assures that His protection is absolute for His chosen people, as exemplified during the Passover in Egypt.

The protection God affords to His people is a recurring theme throughout Scripture. In the account of the Passover from Exodus 12, we see that God provided a means of deliverance for His people through the blood of the lamb. He promised that when He saw the blood, He would pass over their homes, sparing them from judgment. This not only demonstrates God's faithfulness to His covenant but also illustrates the profound difference He makes between those whom He has chosen and those who reject Him. The assurance of this protection extends to believers today, affirming that nothing can separate us from the love of God and His protective hand over our lives.

Exodus 12:14, Exodus 12:8

Why is the blood of Christ important for salvation?

The blood of Christ is essential for salvation as it is the only means by which God's judgment is averted.

The significance of the blood of Christ is profound in the context of salvation. As illustrated in the Passover narrative, the blood of the lamb served as a token that kept judgment at bay. Similarly, Christ's blood, which was shed for us, is the atonement for our sins. Hebrews 9:22 states, 'without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.' This emphasizes that it is through Christ's sacrificial death that we receive forgiveness and are reconciled to God. Furthermore, believers are called to trust in this blood, recognizing that it alone provides the means of protection from God's judgment and the hope of eternal life.

Hebrews 9:22, Exodus 12:13

What is the significance of the Passover lamb?

The Passover lamb symbolizes Christ as our sacrifice, foreshadowing His atoning death for our sins.

In the Old Testament, the Passover lamb represents the ultimate sacrifice required for atonement, foreshadowing the work of Christ on the cross. Each household in Israel was instructed to slay a lamb, which was to be without blemish, symbolizing Christ's sinless nature. The blood of this lamb protected the Israelites from judgment, much like Christ's blood protects believers from eternal condemnation. The Passover lamb's significance is further amplified as it encapsulates the essence of God's grace—selecting a vessel for salvation and demonstrating His love for His people. Thus, the Passover is not merely a historical event but a type and shadow of the greater redemptive work accomplished through Jesus Christ.

Exodus 12:5, John 1:29

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Now judgment has come. The Lord will bring His wrath
to bear upon Egypt. Chapter 11 of Exodus, verse 1,
And the Lord said to Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more,
one more upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. And after that plague,
afterwards, He'll let you go. This is judgment. Patience and long-suffering has
ended, and God has called me into account. And He said, after
I visit Him in my wrath, He'll let you go. And when He shall
let you go, He'll thrust you out of hence altogether. Now
if you hold that place and turn to Ecclesiastes, and this is
something that the people of this world do not
understand, Ecclesiastes chapter 8, that God is long-suffering
and God is patient. And God gives a man space to
repent. But when the cup is full, and
when the long-suffering and patience is spent, judgment, and there's
no turning back then, there's no mercy, there's no space to
repent. When God says it's over, it's
over. And that's what He's saying here
in verse 1 with Pharaoh, it's over. It's over, it's done. The call has been extended. Patience
of God has been exercised. The long-suffering of God. But
now it's over. And Pharaoh is a dead man. You
know, he's praying for him now. You know, he's talking to him
now. It's over. God says judgment
is here. Now, this is what folks don't
see. And listen to this. In Ecclesiastes
8 verse 11, because God doesn't act, in judgment, because sentence
against an evil work is not executed speedily. In other words, people
start out left field here, and their rebellion and rejection,
and God doesn't step on them right then, because He doesn't
step out in judgment right then, and deal with them right then.
But He's patient and long-suffering, gives men space to repent, to
change. Because sin against an evil work
is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men
is fully set in them to do evil. I got by with it today. I'll
get by with it tomorrow. I'll get by with it the next
day. And Pharaoh did. He just kept
hardening his heart, hardening his heart, said no, no. It's
over now, God said. Though a sinner do evil a hundred
times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know it will be
well with them that fear God, which fear before him, but it
won't be well with the wicked. Neither shall he prolong his
days, which are as a shadow, because he fears not God." It
can't be well. God's going to... Here's one
more. Look at Deuteronomy 32. Deuteronomy
32, 35. And this is where Pharaoh, the
place to which he had come, that patience is ended, longsuffering
is over, and God is judging him. In Deuteronomy 32, 35, it says,
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Their foot shall
slide in due time, for the day of their calamity is at hand.
And the things that shall come upon them make haste. And that's
what we're reading about over here. We go back to the text.
It's an awesome thing. It's a fearful thing. It's a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God, an angry
God. And verse 2 of Exodus 11 says,
Speak now in the ears of the people. Let every man borrow
of his neighbor, and every woman borrow of her neighbor, jewels
of silver and jewels of gold." The word borrow there is request.
You can write that in the margin. Require or request or even demand. You see, these people had worked
for the Egyptians 400 years. You say they're borrowing, but
they don't intend to pay it back. They've paid it. They've paid
it over and over and over again. They've worked 400 years in slavery.
Now they're requiring of the Egyptians. They're demanding.
They're requiring and they're demanding and requesting. Give us this gold and silver.
We're about to leave here. We're about to leave here. Verse
3. And will they give them it? Will they give them what they
need? They'll do it willingly. God makes His people willing.
Now watch this, Tom. And the Lord gave the people,
the Israelites, favor in the sight of the Egyptians. You mean
these Egyptians are going to take off their rings, their earrings,
and their bracelets and give them to these Israelites? That's
right. God will make them willing. God Almighty will use whatever
He is pleased to use for the good of His church and His people.
Soften the heart of the Egyptians towards the Israelites. Moreover,
the man Moses, was very great in the land of Egypt. This is
the man that brought the pestilence and the plagues upon Egypt, and
yet he's held in high esteem in the eyes of the Egyptians.
God did this. God did this. Our God has control
even over the thoughts, imaginations, and hearts of men. The heart
of the king is in the hands of the Lord. He'll turn it whether
so ever he will. Men do what they want to do,
and in doing what they want to do, they will do what God wills
them to do, even the ungodly. God restrains wrath. He uses
it for His glory, and He restrains the rest. And He gave Moses favor
in the sight of the people. Moses was great in the land of
Egypt in the sight of Pharaoh's servants. And inside the people,
even the servants in the palace admired Moses. They were talking
behind the doors, Pharaoh is a fool for battling this man. This is a man of God. They were
serving Pharaoh, but they were admiring Moses. And Moses said, now listen, this
is a man that has come to Pharaoh again and again and again. He
said, let my people go. Like his God, he's restrained
his anger and his wrath and he's spoken kindly, spoken affectionately. He was raised in this city. He
grew up in this palace where he's now preaching. The present Pharaoh here was
like a brother to him at one time. In fact, I imagine he was
his half-brother in the same family. And Moses is angry now. Don't
you listen to him. Verse 4, he knows it's judgment
time. And Moses said, thus saith the
Lord, about midnight will I go out into the land of Egypt. What
did God say? I wish we'd quit adding to the
Word of God. He said, the death angel came
to Egypt. No, I beg your pardon. God said, I'm coming through.
I'm coming through. I hear people say, well, God
doesn't send a man to hell, they send themselves. No, God sends
them to hell. Men don't even know where hell
is. How could they send themselves there? That's right. And they're
not going to do it willingly. They're going there unwillingly.
Men come to Christ willingly, they go to hell unwillingly,
unrepentant. God said, I will, about midnight,
will I go out into the midst of Egypt. And all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt shall die. Firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth
upon the throne. Now here's a lot of things that,
here's some things that us natural people don't, we don't understand. The fallout of judgment. strikes down those who are not
involved in the rebellion. Now Pharaoh is in his firstborn. You say, well, he had it coming.
He's getting his comeuppance. Now read the next line. Even to the firstborn of the
maid service behind the mill. What's she got to do with this?
This is the little maid that carries water up to the mill. Minds her own business. Works
hard. Never had a dime in her life.
Just fell in love with this young boy and they married and they've
got a little boy now. Oh, two years old. How she loves
him. He's going to die. God's going to kill him tonight. Because that brainless leader
up there won't let him go. Won't let God's people go. And we need to understand, you
take this thing that happened out in Waco, 17, everybody keeps
hollering about the children, the children, the children. God
Almighty will judge men down to the third and fourth generation.
That's right. I mean the leaders and the people
in authority and the rulers in this country are responsible.
And we can talk about the innocent sufferers, sure they do. is a
judgment upon homosexuality and sodomy and perversion. And it's
not over. And it's going to reach people
that wouldn't do that for all the money in Georgia. It's going
to reach your children, little children, babies, unborn. Judgment. That's right. You can see it
right. This is it. Judgment. When God When God's
long-suffering patience comes to an end, and the space for
repentance is over, it's judgment. It's judgment time. And it falls
upon nations, it falls upon cities, it falls upon communities, it
falls upon the world. It's judgment time. Just like
the flood. Like burning up Sodom. They burned
up children. The maid behind the mill. And
the firstborn of the cows. and the horses. I tell you, it's a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of a living God. And he says in verse 6, "...and
there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as
there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more." Can you
imagine it? Every home in Egypt. Death. Every home without exception. Nothing like it before, nothing
like it since. But, oh, the grace of God. Who am I? Who are you? But, against
any of the children of Israel, against any of my sheep, my people,
my chosen, He said, The Lord thy God hath chosen thee. He
didn't set His love upon you because you were more than any
people, because you were better, wiser, better morally, but because
the Lord loved you, because the Lord would keep His oath, His
covenant which He swore to His Son. He chose you. But against any of the children
of Israel shall not even a dog move his tongue. When God redeems,
He redeems fully, wholly, and completely. Not even a dog will
bark at Him. You talk about the untouchables. These are the original untouchables. Touch not my anointed. Touch
not my sheep. Touch not my people. There isn't
a power in heaven, earth, or hell that can touch one of God's
elect. I'm coming through Egypt tonight,
and there's going to be death, wholesale slaughter in this entire
land, and not one single individual or home will be spared, except
my people. And against my people, not even
a dog will bark. That's protection in my hands. Can't touch them. that you may
know how that the Lord doth put a
difference between the Egyptians and Israel." Who made the difference? God made the difference. God
made the difference. He says, not against any of the
children. Not one shall be lost. He said,
all that my Father giveth me will come to me. Not one of them. that you may know that God puts
it. There's no difference but by nature. There's no difference
in you and I and this world, the most wicked person in this
town. There's no difference by nature
between me and him and you and him. By nature. But there's a
difference by grace. And He made the difference. He
made the difference. Christ Jesus is the difference.
The difference is we have a substitute. We have a mediator. We have a
savior. We have an intercessor. God doth
put a difference. There's a difference in His attitude
towards them and us, His love between them and us, His grace
between them and us, His action between them and us. There's
a difference. Now, you read throughout the Scripture, but there is no
difference. There is no difference. There
is no difference. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. There is no difference. The same
Lord is rich unto all that call upon Him. But there is a difference
between the sheep and the goats, between the believers and the
unbelievers. And God made the difference. God made the difference. Verse 8, And all these thy servants,
Moses is speaking to Pharaoh here now. And he says, Pharaoh,
you're going to find out God made a difference. You'll find
that out. I know people running up down
the streets and in the pulpits hollering, God loves everybody
the same, God wills the salvation of all men, Christ died the same
for all men, all this. One day you'll see God made a
difference. God made the difference. And
Pharaoh, he saw it after a while. You're going to know, he said.
And all your servants, verse 8, will come down to me, Moses
said, and they're going to bow down themselves unto me, and
they're going to say, Get out of this land! And all the people
that follow you, take them and go! And after that, he says, I'll go.
I'll go. The Lord declares the end from
the beginning. The Lord will be magnified. Every
knee is going to bow. Every tongue is going to confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. They
are. Moses said, I'm going to give
them an opportunity to admit God's with us, God's in us, God's
among us. They're going to admit it. The
whole world is going to admit it. They're going to see it. And Moses said, then I'll leave.
I ain't leaving until that takes place. God's going to be glorified,
His name's going to be magnified, and everybody's going to confess
that He's among us, and they're going to beg us to leave. They're
going to ask us to leave. We're not going to slip out under
cover of darkness. We're not going to sneak out.
We're going out with the blare of the trumpet, and everybody's
going to stand wanting us to go. Please get away. Just get
away. Just get away. Get away. And what's this? And he went out from Pharaoh
in great anger, in the heat of anger. Moses, his patience is
at an end. He reflects the wrath of his
God. That's right. You can see him standing there
before Pharaoh. He's the ambassador of God. He
was the ambassador of goodwill. He's the ambassador of bad tidings
now. And you don't deliver bad tidings in a happy mood. He's
mad. He's angry. He says, she's coming, get ready.
Judgment's coming. And the Lord said to Moses, now
Pharaoh's not going to hearken to you. Isn't that a shame? They're not going to hear you.
How many times the Lord God said that to a prophet? Go tell them,
but they're not going to hear you. Go warn them, but they're
not going to hear you. Go preach to them, but they're
not going to hear you. It led Isaiah to cry, Lord, who hath
believed thy report? To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? Go tell them, but they're not going to hear. Moses? He's
not going to hear you. What's wrong with him, Lord?
He's deaf. He's blind. He's a rebel. He hates me. He hates God. He hates truth. He's not going
to hear you. That my wonders may be multiplied
in the land of Egypt. And Moses and Abram did all these
wonders. Wonders don't bring men to God.
Grace does. Wonders and miracles don't bring...
When are we going to learn that? Oh, Lord, if you'd just come
and heal a bunch of people and demonstrate some of your power
and send some plagues and earthquakes, they'd just curse God more. Why
should you be stricken? He said, you'll only revolt more
and more. Your whole head is sick, the
whole heart is pained, from the sole of the feet to the top of
the head. There is no soundness. He said, you do your wonders
and all these things, they won't hear, they won't hearken. He
would not let the children of Israel go out of the land. Alright, now chapter 12. And
then the Lord spake to Moses and Avon in the land of Egypt.
Now here's the high point of Moses' entire Law and Revelation,
chapter 12 of Exodus. This is the high point. This
is the clearest, greatest, plainest picture of Christ's person and
work in the entire Old Testament. In this passage of Scripture,
the Lord preached to the Jews the whole gospel, the whole gospel
of God's grace in Christ Jesus. It's all right here in chapter
12, verse 14. I want you to watch it now, and
as we read it, think about this. In the choice of the sacrifice,
it was a lamb. Behold the Lamb of God. In the
characteristic of the lamb, without blemish, without spot. In the
death of the lamb, and the sprinkling of the blood. In the eating,
roasting and eating of the lamb, and resting behind the door.
In the results, morning dawns, Not one death where there is
blood. And not one living where there
was no blood. This is the gospel. Alright,
look at it. Verse 3, Speak to the children
of the congregation, speak 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 their fathers, a
lamb for a house. Now take a lamb out of the fold.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was taken from among men. He didn't come
down here on a white horse. He's made of a woman, born of
a woman, lived among men. God appointed him from among
the brethren. And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next door, next unto
his house, take it according to the number of souls. Every
man according to his eating, make your count for the lamb. Verse 5, your lamb shall be without
blemish or spot, one year old, in the prime of life, without
sin. Our Lord Jesus knew no sin, had
no sin, did no sin. Take it from among the sheep
of the goats. Keep it up to the fourteenth day. That's four days,
isn't it? Observe it. Make sure there's
no spot. He was kept for thirty years, thirty-three years, tested,
tried. Tried by heaven, earth, and hell.
The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill that lamb
in the evening, shed its blood, and take the blood. Thou shalt
take of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on
the upper door post of the house wherein thou shalt eat it." Two
things are seen here. God didn't put the blood on the
door, they did. Two things are seen here. Heart
faith. Faith led them to kill the lamb.
And faith led them to put it on the door. We rest in the crucified
Christ and we confess Him publicly. That's what they did, wasn't
it? Faith led Moses to slay that lamb. And faith led them to openly,
publicly put it on the doors of their houses. God's coming
through in judgment. We don't stand a man outside.
We don't put our children outside. We put the blood out there. And
we go in the house and shut the door and sit down. And God said,
when I see the blood. And that's what we trust for
salvation. We trust. Faith leads us to look
to the crucified Lamb of God and faith leads us to confess
Him publicly. And I tell you, What I believe
in here, you tell us what you believe in here. We follow Him
in baptism. We confess Him. We say publicly,
my faith is in Christ, in the blood. Nothing else. I'm not
putting on a show. I'm not standing up here waving
and acting a fool. I'm resting in the blood. Sit
down. Quietly rest in the blood. And
verse 8, they shall eat the flesh in the night, roast it with fire.
That shows you how He died. under the wrath of God, the fire
of God's wrath. Unleavened bread. Unleavened
bread. Leaven is evil. It's a type of evil. That's the
reason this is unleavened bread. Because in the Passover, there
wasn't any leaven anywhere in the house. It was gotten completely
out of the house. You see, unleavened bread indicates
sincerity of profession. There's no hypocrisy. There's
no hidden hypocrisy in this confession. It's Christ and Christ alone.
There's no hypocrisy. It's all Christ. You trust Him. You put the blood on the door.
You do it with unleavened bread, without hypocrisy and insincerity. It's Christ that saves us. And watch this. And you eat it
with bitter herbs. With bitter herbs thou shalt
eat the lamb. What are the bitter herbs? It's sorrow over my sin. It's repentance of sin. The bitter
herbs is we taste the bitterness of our sin. In other words, we
come to take this bread and this wine, but we do it because we're
sinners. And like that song we just sang,
infinite sin, infinite, infinite sin. My sins go over me. David said, my sins are ever
before me. I taste them, I feel them, I regret them, I weep over
them. That's the bitter herbs. Oh, what a taste. That's the
bitter herbs. And he says here, eat of it raw. Not sodden. Christ has to die.
Don't eat it raw. Don't eat it raw. Eat not of
it raw. Christ has to die. He has to be burned. Roasted. Sodden it with water. Don't add
anything to Him. Not with water or wine or gravy
or anything else. Just Christ is all. Nothing added
to Christ. Any of your professions and duties
and deeds and gifts and so forth. Eat it. Eat it. Eat not of it
raw. Sodden with water. But roast
with fire. His head, His legs, with the
pertinence thereof. Eat all the lamb. Nothing's to
be left. You can't have half a Christ,
or a third of a Christ, or a human Christ, or prophet only. You've got to have prophet, priest,
and king, divine Christ, human Christ, righteousness, sanctification,
redemption, wisdom. It's all in Him. Eat all of Him. I receive Him like He is. I receive
all of Him. He's everything. and not leaving
anything out, not leaving anything aside. Nothing left to the morning.
If you've got any left, burn it. And that means don't save the
cross and worship it. Don't save the tomb. When they
got this lamb, and without spot or blemish, and they slew this
lamb, and they put the blood on the door, and they ate the
lamb, and they didn't save of remembrance of the Lamb so they
can have a shrine made out of it. They ate it all. If there is anything left, burn
it. Have no recollection of what went on this night except
the grace of God. And this is the thing about the
cross and the tomb over there and the birthplace of Jesus and
the burial shroud or whatever you call it. Nothing left. Burn it. No memories. Nothing left. Only Him. In His
love and mercy and grace. Don't keep anything till the
morning. Don't save anything out. Don't save a hoof. Don't save anything. Let nothing
remain till the morning. That which remains in the morning,
burn it. And thus shall you eat it. Now watch this. Eat it with
your loins girded and your shoes on your feet. You're leaving
this place. Egypt is no longer your home. Egypt and its glories, Egypt
and its pleasures, Egypt and its connections, Egypt and its
social society, Egypt and its applause, Egypt, you are packed,
you've got your clothes on, you've got your staff in your hand,
you're leaving this place. You're leaving this place. And
that's what's settled in a believer's mind. When he receives Christ,
when he believes on Christ, his bags are packed, He just stays. He's pilgrim here.
This world is not his home. He's a pilgrim. He's passing
through. He's on a journey. He's like Abraham living in tents
with Isaac. And he's looking for a city.
Somebody says, Abraham, I've got one of the finest ranches
over here. I'm just not interested. If Jew
hadn't seen this thing, I know. But he said, I'm not staying
here. I'm going to my eternal home. I've got my bags packed. The bag's packed. Staff's in
your hand, you eat it in haste, it's the Lord's Passover. He's
passing over and I'm passing through. That's right. That's what I was talking about
Sunday when we come to realize that everything here is temporary. It's fuel for the fire. It's
been put under judgment. The fashion of this world passes
away. That's what these people are
showing here when they eat the Lord's Passover. They're standing
here in Egypt, but they're about to leave. And if they leave tomorrow,
fine. If they leave a week from now,
if they leave a month from now, but they're still leaving. It's
temporary. A friend of mine was holding
a meeting somewhere with Scott Richardson. holding a meeting
in a town, staying in a motel. And he just checked in that morning.
He was sitting there in the room. A buddy came in and he went over
and started straightening the picture. Scott said, I'm not
going to stay. He said, I'm just pissed in here. You don't need
to straighten the picture. I'll be leaving in a couple of
days. So it doesn't matter to me whether the picture is straight
or not. That's what I'm talking about. It'd be fine if they're
straight or fine if they're crooked, but we're leaving. That's what's
depicted here. Verse 11, verse 12 says, And
I'll pass through the land of Egypt this night, and I'll smite
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, man and beast, against
all the gods, that's the leaders, princes of Egypt. I'll execute
judgment, I'm the Lord. And the blood shall be to you
for a token upon the houses where you are, not a sacrament, a token,
a picture, a type. It's the blood of Christ that
holds back the judgment of God, not an animal blood. It'll be
a token. And when I see that blood, I'll
see His blood. When I see that blood, I'll see
Christ's blood. When I see that Passover lamb,
I'll see our Passover lamb, and I'll pass over you. And the plague
shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of
Egypt. And this day shall be to you
a memorial. You keep this feast of the Lord
throughout your generations. Keep it a feast by an ordinance
forever." I quickly turn to Luke 22. And this is what our Lord
was doing that night when He instituted this table of which
we are about to partake. In Luke 22, If you look at Luke 22, verse
13. And they went and found as He
had said unto them, they made ready the Passover. This is the
last one. The last one. Because our Passover,
Christ is about to die. And when the hour was come, He
sat down and the twelve apostles with Him. And he said to them,
with desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer. For I say unto you, I will not
any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of
God. And he took the cup and he gave thanks. And he said,
take this and divide it among yourselves. For I say unto you,
I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom
of God shall come. He took the bread and gave thanks
and break it and gave it to them, saying, this is my body. which
is given for you. This do in remembrance of me.
Likewise also the cup, after supper, saying this cup is the
new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. And the apostle
Paul said to the church at Corinth, that which I have received of
the Lord I delivered unto you, how that the same night in which
our Lord was betrayed he took bread and he blessed it and he
break it and gave thanks and gave it to his disciples. and
said, this, eat. This is my body broken for you.
Eat in remembrance of me. Took the cup and blessed it,
gave thanks, and he said, this is my blood shed for you. This
do in remembrance of me. Let a man examine himself and
so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
Henry Mahan
About Henry Mahan

Henry T. Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1926. He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served as a signalman on an L.S.T. in the Pacific during World War II. In 1946, he married his wife Doris, and the Lord blessed them with four children.

At the age of 21, he entered the pastoral ministry and gained broad experience as a pastor, teacher, conference speaker, and evangelist. In 1950, through the preaching of evangelist Rolfe Barnard, God was pleased to establish Henry in sovereign free grace teaching. At that time, he was serving as an assistant pastor at Pollard Baptist Church (off of Blackburn ave.) in Ashland, Kentucky.

In 1955, Thirteenth Street Baptist Church was formed in Ashland, Kentucky, and Henry was called to be its pastor. He faithfully served that congregation for more than 50 years, continuing in the same message throughout his ministry. His preaching was centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, in full accord with the Scriptures. He consistently proclaimed God’s sovereign purpose in salvation and the glory of Christ in redeeming sinners through His blood and righteousness.

Henry T. Mahan also traveled widely, preaching in conferences and churches across the United States and beyond. His ministry was marked by a clear and unwavering emphasis on Christ, not the preacher, but the One preached. Those who heard him recognized that his sermons honored the Savior and exalted the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all.

Henry T. Mahan served as pastor and teacher of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky for over half a century. His life and ministry were devoted to proclaiming the sovereign grace of God and directing sinners to the finished work of Christ. He entered into the presence of the Lord in 2019, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the gospel he faithfully preached.

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