I will now again to Exodus chapter
12 for just a moment, and put your
hand right there in Exodus chapter 12, and then turn to 1 Corinthians
5. You'll learn a lesson here, one
that has to be learned if we're going to learn the gospel. And
that is, in the Old Testament, Christ Jesus is there in picture
and promise and prophecy. And all of these things that
were written and all of these things that were done are pictures
and types of Christ. We've got to learn that. And everything that is pictured
over here in the Old Testament is fulfilled by our Redeemer
in the New Testament. Now look at Exodus 12, verse
11. And thus shall ye eat it, with
your loins girted, your shoes on your feet, and your staff
in your hand. Ye shall eat it in haste." It's the Lord's Passover. It's the Lord's Passover. And
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. That's very clear what
I read a moment ago. Now look at 1 Corinthians 5,
verse 7. In 1 Corinthians 5, verse 7,
now here in Exodus, I read to you the writings of a man named
Moses. thousands and thousands of years
ago. Two thousand years before Christ
ever came. Two thousand years before these
words were written. And he wrote about the Passover,
he wrote about the blood, he wrote about the lamb, and the
slaying of the lamb, and the eating of the lamb, and the putting
of the blood on the doorpost, and how God passes over, passes
over. And how the wrath of God is held
back because of the blood. The animal blood, typical blood,
token blood. symbolic blood. Now here 2,000
years later, after our Lord Jesus, the Lamb of God, has died and
his blood has been shed, he's ascended back to heaven, the
Apostle of Christ, writing under the power of the Holy Spirit,
says in 1 Corinthians 5, verse 7, "...Purge out therefore the
old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover
His sacrifice for us. Christ, our Passover. This book
is a unit. This book is one message. The
hymn writer said, O how I love thy holy word, tis daily my delight. Father of mercy, in thy word
what endless glories shine. Forever be thy name adored for
these life-giving lines. O may these heavenly pages be
forever my delight and still new wonders and beauties may
I see an ever increasing light. This is the book of God. This is not a book of proverbs.
This is not a book for me to turn to and prove my pet doctrines. This is not a book to argue.
This is not a book to debate. This is the book of God. These
are the words of the King. These words are God-breathed. God-breathed. Would you argue
over God's word? All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
instruction, and righteousness. Holy men of God spake or wrote
as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. This is God's word. How
precious it is. How holy it is. It's rightly
named the Holy Bible. The Holy Book. It is God's book. It is the book of all books.
It is the book about God and one old writer said it's the
God of all books. It's subject to no other book.
All books are subject to this. This is God's Word. Holy men
of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. And this
is the book of life. This is the book of life, the
words of life, that's what they're called, the word of life. And
this is the book of Christ. Turn to John 5 verse 39. This is the book of God, it's
the book of life, it's the book of Christ. Our Lord speaking
to the theologians of his day. Our Lord speaking to the religious
leaders of his day. Our Lord, speaking to the scholars
of his day, said these words in John 5.39, You search the
Scriptures. That's what that's saying. Ye
do search the Scriptures. He's not commanding them to search
the Scriptures, for they did. They did search the Scriptures.
They were scholars. They were students of the Scriptures.
He said, You are. You are searching the Scriptures.
And for in them you think you have eternal life, in the Scriptures,
in your arguments and doctrines and religions and ceremonies
and all these things. You think you have life in these
things. They are they which testify of me. And you will not come
to me that you might have life. You're busy, he said, searching
the Scriptures, studying the Scriptures, arguing the Scriptures,
proving your points by the Scriptures. And you will not come to me that
you might have life. The Scriptures are about Christ. Acts chapter
10, turn over there a minute, verse 43. Acts 10, verse 43,
listen to what this says, talking about the prophets. Who were
the prophets? The prophets were Moses, the prophets Jeremiah,
the prophets Elisha, the prophet Nehemiah, the prophet Nathan.
Go on and talk about the prophets. But it says in verse 43 of Acts
10, to him, to him, to him, give all the prophets witness. that
through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission
of sin." Moses, Christ said, wrote of me. Those Pharisees
said, well, we have Moses. We believe Moses. He said, if
you'd believe Moses, you'd believe me. Moses wrote of me. This scripture
I read in Exodus 12 is about Christ. The average Sunday school
teacher and preacher will take the Old Testament, the story
of Abel and Cain and the story of the ark and Noah, the story
of of the Passover and Moses and these, and never mention
Christ. When these things are about Christ, they prophesy of
Christ, they tell of Christ, they teach of Christ, they point
to Christ, they are given for that purpose. Moses wrote of
me, our Lord said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day, he saw it and
was glad. As Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.
As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the well,
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. That rock, he said, was Christ. And this
verse, turn to Luke chapter 24. Here is our Lord speaking to
some of his disciples after he arose from the tomb, as he appeared
to them. In Luke 24, verse 44, he said
to them, Luke 24, 44, These are the words which I have spake
unto you. while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets,
in the Psalms, concerning me." Concerning me. That's what they're
all about. And perhaps the most beautiful
and clearest figure, turn back to Exodus 12, now perhaps the
most beautiful and clearest figure by which the Lord Jesus Christ
is pictured and typified in the scriptures, in the Old Testament
scriptures, is the one I read in your hearing a moment ago.
I'm saying this that the whole of the Old Testament points to
Christ. That rock is Christ. That brazen serpent is Christ.
That ark is Christ. That cloud, that pillar of fire,
that tabernacle, that priesthood, that sacrifice, that mercy seat,
that's all the Lord Jesus Christ. It points to Him. It pictures
him, it prophesies of him, it causes us to look to him. But
perhaps the clearest, perhaps the most beautiful type in all
the scripture is found right here in Exodus chapter 12. Now
let's look at it a moment. Israel was down in Egypt. The
people of Israel had been in Egypt. They went down there,
70 of them, and now there were hundreds of thousands of them.
And after a few generations had passed, there arose a Pharaoh
or a king that did not know Joseph. And the people of God were under
a terrible slavery, a terrible bondage and oppression. And their
cry came up to God. They were there something like
400 years in bondage, in slavery, in oppression, powerless to deliver
themselves. Under the bondage of the Egyptian
empire, they were powerless to deliver themselves. Now that's
a picture of us in our sins. In our sins, we're powerless
to deliver ourselves, we're powerless to do anything about our condition,
we're slaves and servants of sin. Our masters are the lust
of the flesh and the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
We're in oppression, slavery, and bondage. And God would deliver
his people. He sent Moses down to Pharaoh
to demand that Pharaoh let his people go. And Pharaoh refused
to let his people go. He said, I'll keep them. I will
not let them go. And when he refused, God began
to send plague after plague upon Pharaoh. He sent the plague of
the river turning to blood. All the rivers in Egypt turned
to blood. Pharaoh hardened his heart. God
sent a plague of frogs. There were frogs everywhere.
And Pharaoh relented a little, and then the plague was lifted
and his heart was hardened again. And God sent the plague of lice,
and flies, and the cattle were diseased, and all the Egyptians'
cattle died. And then God sent the plague
of boils. And then God sent a grievous hail. And then God sent locusts
and darkness. And each time, Pharaoh would
relent a little, or he'd promise Moses he'd let the people go.
And then when the plague was lifted, his heart was hardened,
and he refused to let them go. Finally, the last judgment. Finally,
God said, Moses, at midnight tonight, or midnight
on a certain night, I'll pass through the land of Egypt on
a certain night. And I'll tell you what you're
to do. You and the people of Israel are to take a lamb. Now,
select that lamb, a male of the first year. You can take it from
the sheep or you can take it from the goats, but let it be
a kid of the first year. without blemish or spot, and
put it up for four days so you can examine it, so you can be
sure it doesn't have a spot or a blemish. At the end of that
time, on the 14th day, you're to take that lamb and slay it.
And you're to take the blood and put it on the lintel and
on the two side posts of the doors of your home. And you're
to go inside. And you're to eat that lamb.
Now if your household's too small for everybody to completely eat
that lamb, then go in with your neighbor. But all of it's to
be eaten, every bit of it, none of it's to be left. You're to
eat all the lamb. And you're not to mix it with
water, you're not to eat it raw, you're to roast it with fire,
and you're to eat it with bitter herbs. And you're to stay in
the house. And he said, when I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. our Passover year. Now Paul picks
this up in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7 and says, Christ our Passover
sacrifice for us. We have a Passover. We have a
bloodshed. What Israel had, we have. What
Israel trusted, we trust. Israel's refuge is our refuge. Israel's hope is our hope. And
what we have today is a fuller and richer manifestation of that
in which they trusted to. Now let me show you that. I'm
going to give you about five points. And I looked over this
congregation, and I saw young people, and I saw visitors, and
I sat there and thought and prayed. Lord, let me take the gospel
this morning. And like Paul said, I'm concerned
that Satan, through his subtlety, take you away from the simplicity
of Christ. Let me so picture. Rediction
as it is in Christ. Salvation as it is in Christ.
Let me so picture it that at least in our heads, everybody
here will understand. Some may believe it and some
may not. Some may trust it and some may not. Some may commit
themselves to Christ, some may not. But at least they'll understand
the way God saves sinners. Now then, Israel is in Egypt
in a helpless bondage. total bondage. You talk about
total bondage. They were in total servitude,
total bondage. They said, well, rise up against
the Egyptians. They were powerless against them.
They were men without swords and spears and weapons. They
were men without leaders. They were men that were nothing
in the world but naked slaves. They'd been that way for 400
years. Powerless, unable to do anything
about Now that's our condition by nature. That's where we are
by birth. That's where we are by nature. We're powerless to
conquer sin. We're powerless to obey the law.
We're powerless to meet the demands of God. We're powerless to deliver
ourselves from the servitude of sin. Sin has dominion over
every son of Adam. It has dominion. Self and sin
has dominion over every son of that. He's a slave whether he
likes to admit it or not. He's a servant of self and sin
and Satan and the enemy of God Almighty. He's in bondage. Now
God has chosen to redeem some people. God has purposed to have
a people. The Lord God Almighty will show
mercy to some. He will be gracious to some.
That's so. He said, I will be gracious to
whom I will be gracious. I will be merciful. God Almighty
will have a people. He's going to redeem some folks
from this bondage. They're not going to redeem themselves.
He's going to redeem them. And he shows us here a picture
of that redemption. A picture of that deliverance.
A picture of that redemption from slavery. First of all, it
was the Lord's Passover. Now that's the first thing we
know about this whole thing. This whole thing was the Lord's
doing. Do you see what I'm saying? This
whole thing, the purpose to deliver them, the will to deliver them,
The way to deliver them, everything was of the Lord. It's the Lord's
Passover. Look back at Exodus chapter 12 verse 11. That's what
it's called. It's the Lord's Passover. You
see that verse 11, the last line? It's the Lord's Passover. It's
the Lord's redemption. It's the Lord's salvation. It's
the Lord's deliverance. Look at verse 27. That ye shall
say it is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover. This is the
Lord's way. Now, my friends, there are a
lot of ways of salvation presented to people today. Mothers and
dads, a new baby is born into the family. It's delivered down
to the hospital. And the preacher comes with his
robes and rubrics, and his uniform of religion, and his little glass
of water, and all of his different things written down here in his
book. Not the Bible, but in his book.
And he tells the parents now, he says, the thing for us to
do is to take this baby and get a godfather and a godmother and
go through a ceremony and sprinkle water on that baby's forehead
and that'll bring the baby into the covenant. That'll bring the
baby under God's protection. That'll give the baby a refuge
from God's judgment. That's a lie. That's a lie. That's not God's way. You see,
Moses presented God's way of salvation. It's the Lord's Passover,
it's God's way of salvation, it's not mine. So someone else
comes and says this, now what we're to do is to bring these
children into the church. We're to give them catechizing
classes, we're to give them confirmation classes, we're to give them certain
days and ages when they do certain things, and then when they're
12 years of age, they're to be confirmed and join the church,
and we're to go through a certain ceremony and make them members
of the church. And that makes them members of
the body of Christ. It's a lie. It's not the truth. Moses got from God the way of
deliverance. The way of deliverance was given
by God. And then others say, well, if you'll come down the
aisle and shake my hand and say you believe in Jesus Christ and
be baptized and join the church, you'll be saved. That's a lie.
It's just not so. And you can go on. I could go
on here talking about this. Somebody, some other church says,
well, if you're baptized, you're saved. If you, you women to be
saved have to be married to a man. That's a certain denomination
holds to that, you know. And they go on and on thinking
of ways, and Moses got this directly from God. God said, it's my Passover,
it's my purpose, it's my way of deliverance, it's my way of
redemption. You see, the judgment's God's
judgment. The wrath is God's wrath. The
death is inflicted by God. So the one who dictates the way
of deliverance, Jay, is God. If I want to be delivered from
sin and the wrath of God, I've got to find out God's way of
deliverance. It's God's Passover. It's God's
Passover. And God said to Moses, He said,
This is the Lord's Passover. There is no other way. There
was no other way. God planned it. God purposed
it. God executed it. God Almighty ordained it. He
says in his word, talking about Christ, other foundations can
no man lay than that which is laid, Jesus Christ the Lord.
There's none other name under heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved except the name of Christ. I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me, Christ said. Now I know people today say,
well, preacher, you ought not get on these other different
types of religion and their different ways. Listen to me. If Moses
were walking down the streets of Egypt, And he had already
told the people of Israel how to be delivered from God's wrath.
He already told them. And they already proceeded to
do what he said, some of them. But he walked by and here's a
man who's got a keg of water there. And he's slopping the
hyssop down in water and spraying the water upon the house. You
suppose Moses would have said, well, I don't want to offend
him. You know, I wouldn't want to upset him. Everybody's entitled
in their own way. Moses would have stopped and
said, friend, my friend, That's not God's way. You'll do nothing
but lose your firstborn son if you get in that house under that
water. I told you the way is the shedding of the blood. When
I see the blood, I'll pass. He went on down a little further
and he found some fellas down there, you know, going through
some other ritual or some other religious hocus-pocus. They're
all dressed up in uniforms, one of them's got a pointed hat on,
you know, and they're waving a cross around different ways,
you know, doing these different things, like this, you know.
And they're going through all these kneelings and prostrations
and falling on the ground and cutting their bodies with glass
and other objects and fasting and praying. And Moses said,
fellas, there's a time to pray, but this is a time to put blood
on the door. That won't deliver you, that won't hold back the
wrath of God, that won't hold back judgment. And in this congregation,
the Lord willing, I'm going to expose that which is false. And
cause men's attention, if you're trying to find acceptance with
God, by the fact that you've been sprinkled, poured, or immersed. By the fact that you've taken
sacraments, communion, or the Lord's table. By the fact that
you've tithed, fasted, or prayed. By the fact that you give alms,
by the fact that you've made a profession, by the fact that
you're a theologian or a Calvinist, you are without hope. When I
see the blood, God said, I'll pass over you. It's the blood
that maketh atonement for the soul. Without the shedding of
blood, there's no remission of sin. Christ said, I'm the door,
by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. I am the way,
there is no other way. You mustn't trust any other way.
This is God's Passover. That's what he said, Moses, this
is God's Passover. This is God's way of salvation.
Alright, secondly, it was a lamb that was sacrificed. It was a
lamb. Now there's several things we
need to see here. Number one, a lamb is harmless. You heard
the term, he's innocent as a lamb. I'm innocent as a lamb, because
a lamb is a harmless creature. God didn't sacrifice a lion or
a tiger. They'd have fought to the, when
they put that knife to their throats, they'd have fought all
the way, they'd have killed somebody. But a lamb, our Lord, it says
he went as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before her shearers
is done. He opened not his mouth. is harmless,
gentle, and holy. You see that? That's the Lamb
of God. When John the Baptist saw Him, he said, Behold the
Lamb of God. A Lamb. That pictures Christ's willingness
to bear my sins. Willingness. Our Lord willingly
took our place. He wasn't chained like you'd
have to chain a dog or a horse or a pig or any other kind of
animal and drag it to the slaughter. Our Lord went willingly to Calvary. And then that lamb was to be
without blemish. That is, our Lord was without
sin. Totally without sin. He cannot be my substitute if
he has sin of his own. You see, back in the Old Testament,
when the high priest was chosen from among the people of Israel
and brought the sacrifice, he brought a sacrifice not only
for the sins of the people, but for his sins, too. His sins. But our great high priest has
no sins. He has no sin. He's without spot.
He's without blemish. The Scripture says he knew no
sin. And then it says this lamb was
to not only be a lamb without spot and blemish, but it was
to be a lamb of the first year, one year old, in the prime of
its life. Not a lamb that was sick and
old and wounded and dying, but a lamb of the first year. Our
Lord was 34 years old when He died. and prime the full manhood
and maturity of his years. And then it was to be kept up
and examined for four days. They were to select the lamb
on the tenth day. They were to pick one of the first year, a
male, the son of man. And they were to put it up for
four days. And during that four days, that
lamb was to be examined. Someone brought out several things.
It was alone. Our Lord suffered alone. It cried
out, being separated from its fellows. But one of the main
things was to keep an eye on that lamb and be sure that it
didn't turn up any blemish or any spot or any stain. Our Lord
Jesus Christ was tried, not only four days. Many people say that
these four days were the most trying days. He was tried by
Pilate and Herod and Caiaphas and the soldiers, the Sanhedrin
and all that. But our Lord was tried during
his whole 34 years. Tried by Satan, tried in every
point as we are, yet without sin. Tried even by his friends,
and tried by his enemies, and tried by men, and tried by the
Father, and tried by the law. He's a tried lamb, a tried stone,
and he's without blemish, without stain. But then thirdly, that
lamb was to be slain. Blood was to be shed. Now, I
know this, that this is a generation of promoters of humane societies. I know all that, and I know that
people say, well, don't mention blood. You know, that's first
century doctrine. That's old-fashioned doctrine.
That's medieval gospel. That's gospel of the dark days. Let me tell you something. This
wasn't the first lamb slain. This wasn't the first lamb slain.
Now talk about blood. Let me say this about blood.
You talk about, you're squeamish about blood. And folks say, don't
sing about the blood. Don't preach about the blood.
Don't talk about the blood. We're sitting around the table
and somebody brings up blood and we wrinkle up our nose. You
know we don't talk about blood. Let me tell you something. The
life of your body is in your blood. Blood's a precious thing. I'll tell you, you talk about
being squeamish about blood. You let one of your children
ride his bicycle out in front of a car and that car hits him
and splits his arm open and that blood starts running out. I tell
you, you'll get a little concerned about blood then. The life of
that body's in that blood. And I'll tell you something else,
maybe your loved one's taken to the hospital this afternoon
and he's pale and drawn and the doctor comes in, hooks that beautiful
red bottle up there and puts it in his arm. And you sit there
and look at it, there goes life. Life in his arms, life. Blood's
mighty important. Blood's mighty precious. This
nation's freedom was bought by blood. There's some boys went
overseas and shed their blood that we might remain free. I
like blood. I think it's mighty precious.
Mighty precious. God calls it the precious blood
of Christ. He says His word's precious,
His promises are precious, faith is precious, and blood is precious. Blood is precious. This is just
satanic influence trying to take us away from the very fountain
of life, which is the blood of the Lamb. All this squeamishness
and slaughterhouse religion and downgrading of the preaching
of blood isn't anything in the world, but satanic influence,
his subtle influence to take you away from the true message
of the cross. It's the blood of Christ. It's the blood that
makes atonement for the soul. Without shedding of blood, there's
no remission of sin. Precious blood! Say it! The blood of Christ! Redeemeth
us from all sin. We have forgiveness of sin, redemption
in the blood of His cross. Thank God for the blood. When
Adam and Eve stood before God over there in Genesis 3.21, naked, trying to cover their nakedness
with fig leaf aprons, ashamed, fearful. God Almighty took the
first lamb and shed the first blood and covered their sins. And there stood Adam dressed
before God and dressed before Eve in the skin of the lamb. And then Abel brought his blood
the lamb's blood and put it on the altar as a sacrifice for
his sin. And then Abraham and Isaac walking
up that mountain that day to worship God. Listen to me. That
young man had been taught by his father that no sinner dare
approach God without a sacrifice. That no sinner approach God without
a sin offering. That no sinner approach God without
the cleansing, atoning, redeeming, purifying blood of the lamb. And on the way up that mountain,
he turned to his daddy and he said, Father, he said, here's
the fire and here's the wood. Where's the lamb? I heard you
tell those fellows we were going to go worship God. Where's the
lamb? Where's the lamb? Let me ask you this morning.
Where's your lamb? You say you've come to worship
God? You can't do it without a sin offering. You say you've
come to praise God? Can't do it. Isaac knew that,
not without a lamb. Where's the lamb? You say you've
come to serve God? Can't do it without a lamb. That's
the most burning question that can be asked this morning, that
question that Isaac asked Abraham. He was on his way up that mountain.
He was on his way proceeding up that mountain to approach
God, to call on God, to worship God, to fellowship with God,
to commune with God. And that boy stopped him and
said, where's your lamb? Where's your lamb? Because if
you don't have a lamb, you better go back to the donkeys. Because
you're not going to talk to God. God's not going to hear you.
God's not going to hear you. Where's your lamb? Where's your
sin offering? John the Baptist called the attention of those
people of his day and said, Behold, behold, look! The Lamb of God. The Lamb of God. Alright, notice
the next thing now. He said that you would take that
lamb, first thing of the flock, a male of the first year, without
blemish, put it up for four days and examine it, and then you
would kill it. And then he said verse 7, now
listen to me. And ye shall take of the blood, and put it on the
two side posts, and on the upper door post of the house, wherein
ye shall eat." Now let me get down just as plain as I can right
here. Moses came with the message.
He said God has purposed and designed to deliver. God will
deliver whosoever will, whosoever is interested, God will deliver.
God has designed and purposed to save a people. God will deliver. Almighty God has set forth a
way of deliverance. The way is by the Lamb, the shedding
of its blood, the slaying of the Lamb, the shedding of its
blood. God will deliver. That's the
way God will deliver. God has purposed to deliver, God has
purposed to deliver by sacrifice, and God himself has provided
the sacrifice. And that's the Lamb, the Lord
Jesus Christ. He tells Israel, you are to take
that blood and you are to put it on the door of your house. Now my friends, I don't know
exactly how to explain this, but I'll let the Word of God
speak. Turn to John chapter 1. I do know this, I know it's the
blood that makes the atonement for the soul. I do know this,
I know God said when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. I
know the only thing that stood between Israel and death was
the blood. I know the only thing that stood
between the death of the firstborn in this particular home, the
only thing that stood between life and death was that blood,
the blood, the blood of the lamb, which is typical of Christ. You
see, these people took the blood, they threw the lamb, they took
the blood and put it on the doorpost by faith and went in the house,
and went in the house. Now then, God designing, and
God purposing, and God providing, and God designating the way is
not going to save any of those people unless that blood's on
the door by faith. That's just so. And I can sit
down here and believe that there's a God. And I can believe, honestly
believe, and be convinced that He's angry with sinners. He's
angry with the wicked. He says that in his work. And
he will judge, and he will put somebody going to hell. I don't
know who, but somebody's going to hell. God made hell for somebody.
Somebody's going to perish. There's going to be folks on
the right and on the left in judgment. Some folks are going
to hear God say, depart from me. I never knew. Bind him hand
and foot and cast him into outer darkness. Just like in Egypt,
the firstborn, some home, was going to die. The firstborn of
Pharaoh's home died, the firstborn of his captain, of his host died,
the firstborn of all the way down to Egypt. It says at midnight
a great cry, a wail went up from Egypt, God's judgment fell, God's
wrath descended. The firstborn son in every home,
even the cattle on the hillside, all lay dead that night at one
minute after midnight. And I can believe that, and I
can believe there's a way, there's a way out. God said take the
blood and put it on the... But my friends, those people
had to act in faith. They had to do what God commanded.
And where there was no blood on the door, the people died. Where there was no blood, God
worked. And he says John 1, look at John 1 verse 11. He came to
his own, his own received him not. That is the Jewish nation,
they didn't pay attention to him, they didn't believe him.
They didn't believe him, they didn't believe he was a Messiah,
they didn't believe he was a Christ, they didn't believe he was a Savior,
but to as many as received him, received him, they consciously,
intelligently, willingly received him, believed on him, embraced
him, laid hold upon him, to them gave he the right, the privilege
to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his
name. I know they were born not of
blood, not of the will of the flesh. That not of blood is not
of fleshly inheritance. That is, not by natural generation,
not because mom and daddy were Christian, nor the will of the
flesh, nor the will of man, but of God. Turn to John 3, verse
36. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Turn with
me to Romans 10. Romans chapter 10 verse 9. Now
listen to it. Romans 10 verse 9. That if thou,
if thou shalt confess with thine heart Jesus to be Lord, and believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved. Now Moses said to these people, he said this
is the way. But they had to act on it. There
had to be a response. It had to be a personal response.
Every father of every home had to act in faith and put the blood
on the door. He believed it. He believed God. He glorified God. Now, I gave
this illustration in the Sunday school class this morning. Faith
glorifies God. Faith glorifies God by attributing
to God the faithfulness and power and honor and truth of his attributes. For example, let me give you
this. Suppose that I'm a very poor person. I have nothing.
I'm just in poverty. I'm naked and ragged and hungry
and thirsty and weary and my children are hungry. I have no
job. I have nothing physically, materially. And suppose Brother
Wembley comes to me and he says, Brother Mann, I've received quite
a bit of money quite a bit of possessions and he says I love
you and he said everything that I have is yours now you go ahead
down buy you some new clothes and get you some groceries and
for your children buy them all some clothes and get them some
school books and y'all move into a better house and all that the
money will be in the bank for you just go ahead I promise you
I'm gonna do it Now then, suppose that I went home and my wife
said, what are we going to do with something to eat? And I
said, well, Wembley said he'd give us something, but I don't know
whether he will or not. We'd better wait until he proves it. We'd better
wait until he brings it down here himself. And what are we
going to wear? Well, Wembley said for me to
go ahead and get me something to wear that he'd take care of
it. The money was in the bank. It was all covered. But I just
don't know whether he will or not. I'm just concerned about
it, you know. Well, that'd be an insult. And
I wouldn't blame him if he called me up and said, forget what I
said. But suppose that I went down to the Star Store and I
went in and told Mr. What's-His-Name, I said, pick
out the best suit you've got here. And he said, you can't
afford them. I said, Wembley can. Wembley
can. And he told me, pick out anything
I want. So just pick them out and write them up and charge
them. I'm wearing them out of here. Yeah, but he just promised you.
Let me tell you something, friend, his promise is good as done.
What he promises he'll do. Now that's glorifying. That's
giving him credit for being what he is, a man of his word, a man
of honor, a man of truth, a man of grace. And I go down here
to the grocery store at Foodland and I say, sack up all them cart
bags there and all them carts. I'm taking them home full of
groceries. That man said, you can't afford that, but Wembley
can. And he told me anything I wanted to help myself. Fill
them up! I believe Him. That's glorifying Him. You see
what I'm saying? And that's what we do. We believe on Christ.
We rest in Christ. We enter into His rest. We do
what God says to do, knowing that He'll do what He says He'll
do. See, that's faith. And that's glorifying God. That's
honoring God. But will the Son of Man find
any faith when He comes? I don't know. I don't know. That fellow, our Lord said, He
said, my son's sick, and the Lord said, well, I'll come heal
him. He said, you don't have to come down there. He said, I'm a man
under authority, and I say to this man, go, and he goes, this
man come, and he comes. Just say the word, my son will
be healed. Our Lord said, I hadn't seen faith like that anywhere
in Israel. Go thy way, thy son liveth. Oh, if we just, we've
got to exercise faith, faith, faith, faith. That's right, and
that's what they did. Now I'm saying to you, that there's
not one home where the firstborn was delivered unless there was
the blood on the door. Put there willingly, put there
deliberately, put there faithfully, put there believingly by that
individual. That's right. All right? And last, turn to Luke 22. I
want to show you something here. Luke chapter 22. Now this is
what Luke 22 Verse 7, Luke 22, verse 7. Be patient with me a moment,
I've got to make this application. Then came the day of unleavened
bread when the Passover must be killed. Alright, ever since
Egypt, Israel had been keeping that Passover every year. Slaying
that lamb. Thousands of lambs died, rivers
of blood were shed. Keeping that Passover. That's
how they were delivered. Passover. This was an act of
faith. An act of faith. Each year, typifying or showing
the death of Christ. Alright? And our Lord sent Peter
and John saying, go and prepare us the Passover. He was a Jew.
That we may eat. They said, wherewith are we prepared?
And he told them, alright, go on down now. Verse 15. Verse
14. 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. This was before the cross. They were still slaying
the lamb, eating the Passover, and so forth. For I say unto
you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled
in the kingdom of God. Now, he took the cup, he took
a cup of wine, 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 bread and he gave thanks and break it and said
to them, this is my body which is given for you. Now, when the
Israelites slew that lamb and put the blood on the door, they
ate the body. They didn't eat it raw. They
burned it with fire. And the burning of fire is the
sufferings of Christ. You can't take Christ as an example. You've got to receive Christ
as a substitute. Christ in His life alone cannot
save. Christ in His life and death
saved. Roasted with fire. Eaten with
bitter herbs, with repentance. It was not to be mixed with the
water of works. It was not to be mixed with anything.
That roasted lamb was to be eaten without the mixture of anything
with it, and all of it was to be eaten. You don't take Christ
as prophet and reject Him as king. You don't take Christ as
king and reject Him as priest. All of Him is to be taken. All
of him is to be eaten. All of Christ is to be embraced.
The whole Christ. The whole Christ. Not Christ
the example, or Christ the infant, or Christ the virgin son, but
Christ in all of his offices, and Christ crucified, buried,
and risen, and Christ the mediator and advocate. We receive and
eat all of Christ. And he took that bread, and he
break it as his body was Not a bone was broken, but his body
was bruised. And he said, this is my body
given for you, this doing remembrance of me. Likewise, he took the
cup after supper, saying, this cup is a new covenant in my blood,
which is shed for you. Behold, the hand of him betrayed
and so forth. Now Paul, later on in 1 Corinthians
11, said, that which I have received of the Lord, I deliver unto you. How that the Lord, the same night
in which he was crucified, took bread and break it. and said,
take eat, this is my body. He took wine and gave it to him
and said, this is my blood. As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until he comes. Now, my brethren, there's one
way of salvation. It's the Lord's Passover. Down
in Egypt, this is typical. Exodus 12 is typical. And a picture
of Luke 22. And they took a lamb. And they
slew it, and they put the blood, and they roasted it with fire,
and they ate it. And by faith, they put that blood on the door,
and they went in the house, in the house, under the blood, in
Christ. And they waited, and God passed
over. Now I'm saying that this Lamb
is a picture of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. uh... if you'd like to you can
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