The Passover

Q: What does the Bible say about the Passover?

The Passover is a significant event in the Bible, symbolizing God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt and pointing to Christ as our ultimate Passover Lamb. The Passover, as detailed in Exodus 12, represents God's judgment on the people of Egypt and His deliverance of Israel from slavery. This event is marked by the slaying of a lamb without blemish, which signifies the coming of Christ, our Passover, who was without sin. God's instruction for the Israelites was to mark their doorposts with the lamb's blood, causing the angel of death to 'pass over' their homes during the final plague. This act of deliverance serves not only as a historic event for Israel but also foreshadows the redemptive work of Christ, who shed His blood for our sins. As stated in 1 Corinthians 5:7, 'For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.'

Q: How do we know Christ as our Passover is true?

Christ being our Passover is affirmed through Scripture, which repeatedly connects His sacrificial death to the Passover lamb. The New Testament presents Christ explicitly as our Passover. In 1 Corinthians 5:7, the Apostle Paul directly identifies Christ as the Passover lamb sacrificed for us, drawing a clear connection between the Passover celebration and the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan through Jesus. The Old Testament establishes the necessity of a pure, unblemished lamb for atonement, which Jesus fulfills as the sinless Lamb of God. His willingness to be sacrificed reflects the obedience required of the lamb during the original Passover, thus confirming the theological continuity between the two. In Romans 8:34, we are assured of Christ's work of justification and intercession, reinforcing our belief in Him as the true Passover.

Q: Why is the resurrection of Christ important for Christians?

The resurrection of Christ is central to Christian faith, confirming His victory over sin and death, and assuring our future resurrection. The resurrection of Christ is foundational to the Christian faith, as it validates His identity as the Son of God and signifies the defeat of sin and death. According to 1 Corinthians 15:17, if Christ had not risen, our faith would be futile, and we would still be in our sins. The resurrection is an affirmation of life after death and serves as the cornerstone of Christian hope, for as Jesus declared, 'Because I live, you will live also' (John 14:19). Furthermore, the resurrection empowers believers with the promise of eternal life and the assurance that we will be raised as He was. This pivotal event not only completes the work of salvation but also calls Christians to live in the reality of the resurrection as transformed individuals.

I'm going to tell you what led
me to my subject today, the Passover. Now the religious world has designated
this day as Easter Sunday. This is Easter Sunday, is it
not? I meant to look it up, I think
it is. And the resurrection of our Lord
Jesus Christ is going to be celebrated today by the religious world. I'm not making fun, I'm just
making a statement. And they're going to celebrate
it with new clothes and rabbits and chickens and Easter egg hunts
and special sunrise services and breakfasts and various other
activities. Well, one thing is correct in
all of it. I don't get angry with me, just
listen to me. One thing is correct in all that's
going on today in the name of religion. One thing is correct. Our Lord did arise from the tomb
on the first day of the week. He did. He was crucified. And he was buried, and he arose
on the first day of the week. Let's turn to Luke 24 and read
that. Luke 24, verse 1. Now, upon the
first day of the week, very early in the morning, they
came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared,
and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled
away from the sepulchre. And they entered in and found
not the body of the Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they
were much perplexed, thereabout, behold, two men stood by them
in shining garments, and they, as they were afraid, bowed down
their faces to the earth. They said unto them, the angel
spoke, Why seek ye the living, him that liveth among the dead? He's not here. He's risen. Remember how he spake unto you
when he was yet in Galilee. So they have one thing correct. Christ arose on the first day
of the week, on the Lord's day, Sunday morning, the first day.
However, however, Easter Sunday is possibly,
this Easter Sunday, not the anniversary of that resurrection. Maybe,
it may not be. I don't know. I don't know the
exact day on which he arose. I know it's the first day of
the week, but I don't know March or April, when it was. I cannot
tell you. But it's very possible that this
is not the day because Easter Sunday changes every year. Sometimes
it's in March and sometimes it's in April, and I suppose it has
been in May, hasn't it? And I'll tell you why that is.
You see, Easter, Now listen, Easter is determined by the moon. The Sunday on which Easter comes
is not determined on when our Lord rose from the grave, it's
determined by the moon. Did you know that? Easter is
the original name for a pagan spring festival. And because
it comes nearer to the Passover season than the church back yonder,
Catholics just incorporated it. They incorporated the resurrection
celebration with the spring festival celebration by the pagan, heathen
people around them. It's the same way that the Catholics
have incorporated the bullfight in Mexico with religious services. I've been down there many times
when they're having a special religious services on Sunday,
incorporated with a bullfight Saturday night. or whatever the
people want to do, that's what they do, and connect it with
some religious ceremony. I'll tell you how you can determine
when Easter will come, so all of you will know when it will
be in the next 20 years. Easter is a pagan spring festival
which comes the first Sunday after the date of the first full
moon that occurs on or after March the 21st. Now, you can
find out when Easter is from now on. It's the first Sunday
after the date of the first full moon, but it's got to come after
March the 21st. Therefore, I don't celebrate
Easter with the religious world. I don't do it. I do rejoice and
glory in the resurrection of my Lord. I celebrate the resurrection
of Christ every Lord's Day, and I hope every day, because he
arose from the grave. If Christ be not risen, we're
yet in our sins. We're found false witnesses of
God, are we not? And those that have perished
trusting Christ are perished forever. So we don't, if you
wonder about Christmas and Easter, we don't join with the world
in the celebration of these pagan, heathen holidays. I don't want
to be an old fuddy-duddy and a killjoy and all that. If you
want to have an Easter egg hunt, have one, but don't make it spiritual. I'll hide them for you. It's
fun. I don't mind hunting Easter eggs.
I mean, color them up, they're pretty. You want to buy rabbits,
buy them. But celebrate it as the coming
of spring, nothing more, nothing less. I think that's why the
little chickens and rabbits and eggs have to do with the spring
festival, is because it's new life, you see. The trees are
blooming and the flowers are coming out, and spring's here,
that's right, isn't it? That's what Terry Cahill came
about. And that's what I say, if you
want to have a Boston New Clothes, buy them, you look good. That's
right. Dress up, I like to see people
dress up. If you want to have an Easter
egg hunt, have one, but don't put any spiritual significance
with it. Don't do it. It has nothing to
do with the resurrection of our Lord. Understand? And in case
you boys and girls, Brother Mahan and the church there and the
elders, a bunch of old fuddy-duddies, long underwear, whatever you
call them, you know, that way. But I resent the religious world
doing what they're doing to such a glorious, wonderful truth of
the resurrection of our Lord. and commercializing it and carrying
on in a pagan, pagan way. And I'm not going to have anything
to do with it. I'm not going to have any part in it. But then
I realized when I was sitting there at my desk thinking about
this holiday and what folks are going to do this morning and
today in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then I realized
that one of my students or some of them in this morning hour
are going to be reading the King James translation of the Scripture
and come across the word Easter. It's in there, Acts 12. Turn over there with me. It just
occurs one time in the Bible. The word Easter occurs one time
in the Bible. It's found here in Acts 12, verse
4. That's right, Acts 12, beginning
with verse 1. Now, about that time, Herod the
king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
And he killed James, the brother of John, with a sword. And because
he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter
also. See, then were the days of the
unleavened bread. Then were the days of Passover.
It was the Passover. I've just read about that a little
while ago. It was the Passover feast. It was the time of the
Passover. And when he had apprehended Peter, he put him in prison and
delivered him to the four quaternions of soldiers. A quaternion is
four, so there are four and four is sixteen, I guess, of soldiers
to keep him, intending after Easter to bring him forth to
the people. The word Easter there, and you
can look it up, you've got concordances at home and Greek lexicons and
so forth, the word Easter there is the Passover. That's what
the word is, Passover. And that's where it's translated
in any other translation. I don't know why, I guess it
was the Catholic influence that carried over into the Church
of England when this was translated in 16-what? 16-something. And that influence carried over,
and instead of putting the word Passover here, they put the word
Easter, because it was a common celebration among all the churches
then, and they translated Easter. But it's not Easter at all. The
word is Passover, the Passover. And so I determined to preach
today on Easter, as it occurs in the Word of God, one time,
the Passover. And we couldn't have a better
subject. That's why he was in the grave. because he was our
Passover. All right, let's turn to Exodus
now, and my friends, there's no better picture, there's no
better type in the Word of God of our salvation in Christ Jesus
than the Passover. If a person can learn, can take
in, can receive what I'm going to say this morning, It'll be
well with your soul if you can receive it and believe it. Now
Israel, I want to read from Exodus 11 first. Israel had been in
bondage in Egypt for 400 years. They'd been in slavery. And the
Lord called Moses and he said, go down to Egypt and tell Pharaoh,
let my people go. Let my people go. And so the
call was refused. And God was pleased to send plague
after plague after plague after plague, and Pharaoh hardened
his heart. He made several idle proposals,
but he never intended to let the people go. And so the Lord,
the Lord announced judgment here in Exodus chapter 11. And the
Lord said in verse 4, about midnight will I go out into the Now, the
Lord didn't say, I'm going to send a death angel. He said,
I'm going. I tell you, man's rebellion and
evil will be dealt with by God Almighty. Man's unbelief will
be dealt with by God. He said, I'm going to deal with
them. And then you know how he said, the firstborn in every
home, that's the firstborn in Pharaoh's palace, even the maid
behind the mill. Even the cattle. God, this judgment,
so complete, so thorough, that everybody, every body and every
animal that was the first one born from every woman is going
to be killed. But the Lord proclaimed the covenant. This is what Desi just sang about,
but God. We were lost and ruined and depraved
in bondage and darkness and slavery just like Egypt. like Israel
and Egypt, but God. But God. And that's what he said
in verse 7, but, that's the whole, but, by God, against any of the
children of Israel, not only will God not fall upon them in
judgment, but I'll protect them from every other enemy. Not even
my dogs going to bark at them. Not even my dogs. Then he proclaimed the way of
redemption. In chapter 12, here's the way. God revealed the way of redemption.
He said in verse 3, Now you speak to the children 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. The household be too little for a lamb, let him
and his neighbor next. You read it all. Take a lamb
without blemish or spot. Our Lord had no sin. This is
a type of Christ. It's a picture of our redemption
in Christ. A male, a male of the first year,
the prime of life, Christ was 33 years old when he died. Put
that lamb in a pen. It's to be without blemish or
spot, because Christ was without sin. Watch it. Test it. Four
days. Observe it. Make sure there's
no mark or disease or anything in it. Our Lord was tried. He
walked this earth for thirty-three and a half years, tried by heaven,
tried by earth, tried by the law, tried by Satan. Found no
fault. Pilate summed it up, I find no
fault. I find no fault with him. And then you kill it. Then you
kill it. And then he said, you take the
blood. You see, you roast the body of the Lamb with fire, as
Christ was literally roasted under the fire of God's wrath
on Calvary's cross. And you roast that lamb with
fire, the whole lamb, all of Christ, our prophet, priest,
and king. You can't have part of Christ. It's all of Christ. And you eat it. That is, we feed
upon him. We eat his flesh and drink his
blood. Christ is our life. We receive
him within. Not just a token or a sign or
a pledge or a decision, it's a receiving hymn. I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless
I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. That's to eat his
flesh and drink his blood. Then you dip the hyssop into
the blood, and on the door of your house, put that blood on
the lintel and on the two side posts. That's the way. of redemption. That's what God
said to Israel down there. I'm coming through, he said.
And my judgment's going to be complete, my judgment's going
to be thorough, my judgment's going to touch every living human
being and animals even. I'm going to kill. I'm going
to destroy. I'm going to kill. But, but Israel
will be delivered. And I'll tell you how Israel
will be delivered. There'll be a substitute. You see, not only was there death
in the houses of Egypt, but there was death in the houses of the
Israelites. But in the houses of Egypt, the
Son died. In the house of Israel, the substitute
died. You see, the Lamb died. We're
not saved without death. The wages of sin is death. are and have been punished by
death, not my death, but his death, by suffering. The soul
that sinneth shall die. And I died, but I died in a substitute. You see that? And they put the
blood on the door, and then they observed it. And he said over
here, look at verse, Exodus 12, verse 26. Now, which will come
to pass when your children shall say to you, what do you mean
by this service? And our boys and girls are sitting here this
morning. And they say, what do you mean by all this? What do
you mean by Christ and his cross and his death and his blood and
eating his flesh and drinking his blood? Well, you say to your
children, the reason we're slaying this lamb, and the reason we're
roasting it with fire, and the reason we're eating the lamb,
and the reason we put the blood on the door, or we put the blood
now on the mercy seat in the tabernacle, is this is a large
Passover. And we're remembering and showing
and confessing to him, in our own hearts and to everybody else
and to him, that this is the way he saved us. This is the
way he delivered us from Egypt. Not by our merit, not by our
works, not by our efforts, not because we deserved it, but because
someone died for us. That's what we're saying. This
is what we're saying to our boys and girls. This is what we say
when we reserve the Lord's table, the bread and the wine. We're
saying we live, but we live by his death. We live, but we live
by his sacrifice. We're righteous, but it's by
his obedience. We're forgiven, but it's because
he died. You see that? That's what we're
saying to them over and over again every Sunday, every Lord's
Day. Now, it was at the observance
of this Passover, turn to Luke 7, or Luke 22, I beg your pardon,
turn to Luke 22. It was at the observance of this
Passover that our Lord Jesus Christ instituted the Lord's
table. You see, Jesus Christ, our substitute,
our savior, he came of the house of Israel. He was a Jew, born
of the seed of David, declared to be the son of God, but made
of the seed of David. And he was born under this law,
under the Levitical law, under the moral law, under all the
laws, ceremonial law, under the law of Moses. He kept the Passover. That's right, every year of his
life. He was circumcised when he was eight days old. His mother
took him to the temple for purification. He followed every one of these
Levitical laws down to the letter, in your place and my place. He
didn't come to destroy the law, he came to fulfill it. And so
he was with his disciples. Look at Luke 22, verse 7. Luke
22, 7. Then came the day of unleavened
bread when the Passover must be killed. This is 2,000 years
after Moses gave this Passover feast to Israel. The Lord Jesus
is still keeping it. He said, keep it every year.
And he sent Peter and John saying, you go and prepare the Passover
that we may eat. And they said, where wilt thou
that we prepare? And he told them where to go and all that.
Now I'm down here at verse 15. Now he said in Luke 22, 15, he
said to them, with desire I have desire to eat this Passover with
you before I suffer. Christ, our Passover is going
to suffer. The Lamb is going to be slain.
The Lamb of whom John the Baptist spoke when he said, Behold the
Lamb of God. I'm going to suffer. For I say unto you, I will not
eat any more. anymore until it be fulfilled
in the kingdom of God." The Passover feast is coming to an end. This
is the last one. No more lambs, no more animal
blood, no more Passover, no more sacrifices. And he took the cup
and gave thanks and said, take this now 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 is come." And he took
the bread and gave thanks and break it and gave it to them
saying, this is my body broken for you. Eat this. You know when
Israel was down in Egypt and bonded slavery and darkness,
God would leave them out. They had a substitute of lamb.
That lamb was slain and roasted with fire and they ate it. And
that blood, they didn't drink it but they put it on the door.
Now the Lord Jesus said, I'm your Passover. I'm your sacrifice.
I'm your lamb. I'm your substitute. I'm going
to suffer and die. Now take this bread and you eat
it. This is my body broken for you.
This do in remembrance of me. And as oft as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death till he comes.
And likewise, verse 20, he took the cup saying, this cup is the
New Testament in my blood which is shed for you. That is our
Passover. Now turn to 1 Corinthians 5,
you've got to turn over here and see this. 1 Corinthians 5,
verse 7. 1 Corinthians 5, 7. 1 Corinthians
5, 7. Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ
our Passover is sacrificed for us. There's our way of redemption. So Israel down in Egypt, bondage,
God came and said, judgment, that I make a covenant with you.
And that's that covenant David rejoiced in before he died. God
made with me a covenant, but God. Now you take that lamb,
roast it and eat it, put that blood on the door. I'll pass
over you. And then you keep that feast
all the way until Christ comes, the Lamb of God. And when he
came, he said, I won't eat this spice over anymore, and neither
will you, because I'm going to suffer and die. Now, you take
this bread and this cup, and you show the Lord's death till
he comes. Now, let me show part four lessons from this quickly.
Number one, let's go back to Exodus 12. Four lessons. Four
lessons to be learned. Now, you children listen carefully
to me now. and everybody else, four lessons
to be learned. It's not just blood that saves. Scripture says without the shedding
of blood there's no remission, but believe me, it's not just
blood that saves. It's the blood of a divinely
appointed Lamb. In other words, Israel just did
not indiscriminately go out and get some blood and put it on
the door. It had to be the Lamb. The properly, divinely appointed
lamb. God said, you take a lamb, firstling
of the flock, male, without spot or blemish, put it up, observe
it. That's the lamb. And my dear
friends, listen to me. It's not just a man that died. It's not even that Jesus died. The whole world believes that
Jesus died. But what is the message? It's
Christ that died. You know what you were talking
about the other day? It's Christ that died. Paul said in 1 Corinthians
15, I have delivered unto you the gospel which I preached unto
you, which you receive, which you believe, wherein you stand.
He didn't say Jesus died, though it was Jesus, but it's the Christ
that died. It's the one God appointed from
before the foundation of the world. It's the Lamb of God typified. Pattern and picture. It's the
Lamb of God who came as our mediator. That's what John said. That is
the Lamb of God. He's the one who lived. He's
the one that died. Listen to Paul over in Romans
8. You needn't turn over. Just listen to what he says here.
He says in Romans 8, verse 34, Who is he that can condemn it?
Who is he that can condemn it? It's the Christ who died. It's
the Christ who died. Yea, rather is risen again, who
is even at the right hand of God, who maketh intercession.
It's Christ that died. Now I would like you to turn
with me to Revelation 5. Revelation 5. So it's not just
blood that saves. Somebody says, well, you all
have a bloody religion. It's a religion of blood, a slaughterhouse
religion. You talk about blood. Well, in
the Old Testament, almost all things were purified and sanctified
by blood. He sprinkled the book, he sprinkled
the people, he sprinkled the tabernacle, he sprinkled the
mercy seat, he sprinkled the vessels with blood. And without
the shedding of blood, there's no remission. But it's not just
blood, it's whose blood? It's Christ's blood. It's Christ
that died. Now, Revelation 5, verse 1. And
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book,
written within and on the backside seal with seven seals. And I
saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy
to open the book? Who is worthy to loose the seal? And no man in heaven or earth
or under the earth, no man, no creature. was able to open the
book, neither to look there. What is this book? It's a book
of God's promises, of God's decrees, of God's purposes, of God's redemption. It's the book of life. It's the
covenant of God's grace. Who can open it? Who can reveal
it? Who can make these things manifest? Who can fulfill them? And I wept much, verse 4, because
no man was found worthy to open and to read the book neither
even to look thereon. And one of the elders said to
me, Weep not, behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, Christ
was a Jew, descendant of David, and the root of David, a man,
the God-man, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the
seals thereof, and I beheld, and, in the midst of the throne,
in the middle of the throne of God, and of the four beasts in
the midst of the elders, said of what? A Lamb, as it had been
slain, having seven horns, all power, seven eyes, omniscience,
and are the seven Spirits of God, the Holy Spirit, sent forth
into all the earth. And He came, you see, it's not
just blood, it's His blood. It's not just the blood of any
lamb, it's the blood of the Lamb. It's the Lamb slain for the foundation
of the world, and the Lamb who reigns in the midst of the throne.
It's Christ. And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne, and when
he took that book, The four beasts and the four and twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden
vows, full of odors which are the prayers of the saints, and
they sung a new psalm, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book
Thou art worthy to open the seals, for thou was slain, and thou
hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, thy blood out of every
kindred, tongue, people, and nation, and you've made us kings
unto our God, made us unto our God kings and priests, and we'll
reign on this earth." That is, the Lamb, the Christ. With Israel,
it wasn't just blood. It was the blood of the lamb.
All right, secondly, it's not just the blood poured out on
Calvary that saves. Now, please understand what I'm
saying. Stay with me. It wasn't just that when they
took that lamb, here a father took the lamb. His little boy
is behind him there. He said, what are you doing?
He said, the Lord's going to come through in judgment. Son,
and you're my firstborn. I want you to die. I believe
God. And God's told us what to do.
So he took the lamb while the children, everyone watched, the
lamb for a house. The lamb was, its throat was
cut and the blood was caught in a basin. And then they roasted
the lamb with fire. Now, is it over? No, sir. It's
not over. It's not over. The father by
faith took the blood, went to his house, his own house, where
his own boy was, his own family, and he dipped the hyssop and
put it on his door. And I'm telling myself and you
and everybody else, you take the blood and put it
on your heart. Now that's highly important.
The Apostle Paul said, I know whom I have believed. And there
are a lot of us good Calvinists that know who Christ is. And
we know he died. I know he died on the cross.
The whole world knows that. I've always known that. I've
known that since I was knee-high to a duck. Haven't you? I've heard that all my life.
Christ died on the cross. Jesus died on the cross. But
there was a day. When this old sinner out here
believed what God said about sin and about his wrath and his
holiness and his righteousness and his judgment, and I personally,
individually, intelligently, somebody didn't drag me down
an aisle. I don't believe Moses was standing there with a whip
saying, put the blood on the door, put the blood on the door,
raise your hand, do this, that and the other. The Father willingly,
from his own heart, believed God and he himself. put that
blood on that door. And that's what I did one day,
and that's what you did. And so it's not just, I believe
the Bible, I do too, most people do. I believe Jesus died on the
cross, well, most folks believe that too. But I tell you, Paul
said, I know whom I have believed, I'm persuaded he's able to keep
that which what? I put the blood on the door.
If thou shalt believe in thine heart, if thou shalt put the
blood on the door, and confess with thy mouth, Jesus to be Lord,
thou shalt be saved. That's what I'm calling on you
to do. You see, faith acts. All right,
thirdly, let's turn back to the text a minute. It's not just
blood, it's his blood. It's not just the fact that he
died, it's the blood applied. And I'll hold to that, I'll believe
that, as long as I live. It's the blood applied. It's
the blood received by faith on my heart. I don't know about
others, but I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sins. And
thirdly, God said, verse 13, listen, and the blood shall be
to you for a token upon the houses where you are, and when I see
the blood, It's not what you see, it's what he sees. It's
not what you do, it's what he does. When I see the blood, what
does this blood mean to God? Alright. You see, back in the Old Testament,
I'm not going to read all this, but the atonement and the sacrifices,
here's three words that occur almost every time the sacrifice
is talked about. Take a lamb before the Lord.
Slay the lamb before the Lord. Sprinkle the blood before the
Lord. Before the Lord. Before the Lord. Look it up in
your concordance soon enough. Before the Lord. In other words,
when that high priest went into the Holy of Holies, he said,
don't take anybody with you. Nobody. Because that blood of
atonement was sprinkled on the mercy seat before the Lord. People
out there didn't even see it. Because what they saw and what
they felt had nothing to do with it. It's God that must be justified. It's God's love that must be
satisfied. It's God's justice that must
be honored. So Christ died before the Lord.
Isn't that right, John? He shed his blood before the
Lord. He represented you. He took you into the Holy of
Holies. You didn't see him go in. You didn't have to. You didn't
see him die on the cross. You didn't have to. You didn't
see him ascend into the right hand of God and put his blood
on the mercy seat. You didn't have to. God saw it. Look at Hebrews 9. Let me show
you that. God saw it. That's what's important. God said, when I see the blood.
See, it's the blood that satisfies. God must be just and justified. Christ didn't die to get us to
feel sorry for Him. He died to reconcile us to God.
The Lord Jesus Christ didn't die as an example. He didn't
die to gain your pity. He said, don't weep for me, weep
for yourselves. It was an act of justice. It
was an act of righteousness. It was a legal act that Christ
accomplished for us before God. Hebrews 9, listen to verse 11.
Hebrews 9. But Christ being come, a high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not paid 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 once into the holy place, into the presence of God,
having obtained eternal redemption for us. That's what it is. It's the appearance
and the presence of God for us. And God said to Israel, now back
to the text, Exodus 12, one more thing. He said, when I see the
blood. And I'll tell you, my friends,
there's a whole lot I don't know about the law and a whole lot
I don't know about the death of Christ and the suffering of
Christ, but there's a whole lot I don't have to know. I know
I'm a sinner and I know God demands perfect righteousness and I know
I don't have it. And I know God's coming through
in judgment, and God will not spare. I know that. I need a
substitute. I need a Passover. I need a lamb.
And Christ is that lamb. And he died. And that transaction
back yonder on Calvary's cross was between the Father and the
Son. And he paid it all, all the debt I owed. Sin left the
Crensland's bank. He washed it, all this stuff.
And this is my assurance. Look at verse 12 again now. God
said in verse 12, Exodus 12, He said, I will, and my friends,
I believe it, I'll pass through the land, maybe this night, I
don't know, tomorrow night or the next night, but He's going
to come and He's going to smite. God's going to smite all the
firstborn of the land of Egypt. I'm going to smite man and beast.
against all the leaders, princes, gods of Egypt, I'm going to execute
judgment. I'm the Lord. I'm holy. Do you
believe that? I do. Now here's my assurance. But God said, and the blood,
the blood of Christ Jesus, the blood of God's Lamb, shall be
to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And here I am.
I'm in a house right here, a tent, a tabernacle right here. And
his blood, his precious blood by faith has been received and
applied. I trust Christ, I believe Christ.
And when I see that blood, I will, I will, God said, pass through.
When I've seen up your works, or the amount of your faith,
or how long you've been there, it doesn't matter how long you've
been under the blood, you're under it, that's it. That thief
on the cross got under the blood by ten minutes before God passed
through. Isn't that right? About ten minutes,
an hour maybe, two hours. Not how long, it's whose blood. When I see that blood, I will
pass over you. Christ, I'll pass over. Now do
you see why I'm preaching on the Passover? I'll pass over
you. Now watch. And the plague shall
not, it shall not, judgment shall not, the overflowing scourge
shall not be upon you to destroy you. When I smite everybody else,
I'm going to pass over you." And they took him down from that
cross and put him in the tomb. That's not the end. Christ, our
Passover, arose. And he said, because I live,
you're going to live. I'm not only going to be delivered from
the judgment against sin, but I'm going to be raised everlastingly
to the glory of God. My Passover was slain and buried
and rose again. And on this first day of the
week, I come to praise Him and to rejoice in Him. And I don't
mean to be offensive, and I know people always say, leave religion
alone. Well, that's like telling me
to leave sin alone, because religion is shot full of sin. It's sinful
practices. It's sinful praying, sinful working,
sinful farming, sinful ceremony. It's got to be condemned. And
we've got to be taught. So this our Passover, in our
risen, exalted, enthroned Redeemer, we worship Him. And because of
Him, it's well with my soul. Ronnie, come lead us in singing
256.

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