I rest on his unchanging grace
In every eye and stormy gale My anchor holds within the veil
On Christ's solid rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand
? Mother ground is sinking sand ? His oath is covered, not his
blood ? Support me in the whelming flood ? When all around might
soak his way ? He then is all my hope and stay ? On Christ
the solid rock I stand ? All other ground is sinking sand
? All other ground is sinking sand ? When he shall come with
trumpet sound ? Oh may I then in him be found ? Rest in his
righteousness alone On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. Also, continue to remember Julie
in your prayers. This is an answer to prayer, though, so far. She
had a procedure that had to do with sound waves into her brain.
They were actually able to find a brain to do it then. And to stop the tremors in her
hands and they did it for her right side and her right hand
is as steady as a rock. So we're just thankful for that. The Lord is good. His mercy is
everlasting. Hymn number 15. Brethren, we
have met to worship. ? Brethren we have met to worship
and adore the Lord our God ? ? All your power while we try to
preach the word ? ? All is vain unless the spirit of the holy
one comes down ? ? Brethren, pray and holy manna will be given
to you ? ? Sinners round you slumbering
? On the brink of woe ? Death is coming, hell is moving ? Can
you dare to let them go? ? See our fathers and our mothers
? And our children sinking down ? Sisters will you join and help
us ? ? Moses' sister aided him ? ? Will you help the trembling
mourners ? ? Who are struggling hard with sin ? ? Tell them all
about the Savior ? Let us love our God supremely. Let us love each other too. Let us love and pray for sinners
till our God leaves all things new. Then He'll call us home
to Him. ? At his table we'll sit down
? Christ will gird himself and serve us ? With sweet manner
all around If you have this term with me, please,
if you have your Bibles to Exodus chapter 12, You want to read
the first 10 verses. The title of my message tonight
is The Lord's Passover. Exodus chapter 12, And the Lord
spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months, and it shall be the
first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto 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. And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take
it according to the number of the souls. Every man, according
to his eating, shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall
take it out from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep
it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. They shall take of the blood
and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door posts
of the houses wherein they shall eat it. They shall eat the flesh
in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with
bitter herbs shall they eat it. eat not of it raw, nor sodden
at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs,
and with the pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it until
the morning ye shall burn with fire. Let us pray. Now Father
in heaven, we are thankful for your word We are thankful for
the clarity of it, the beauty of it. We're thankful for the
fact that you left it for us, your children. We know that the
secret things belong to God, but that which is revealed has
belonged to us and to our children, and we may do all the works of
this book. We are thankful, Father, that
you have revealed your Son to us, and your Son has revealed
you to us. We are thankful that by and through
the Holy Spirit, through the preaching of the gospel, we have
learned and been taught of thee. And the result of that is that
we have come to the feet of Jesus Christ by your grace being drawn
irresistibly to his person. We are thankful for the clear
declaration of what he accomplished on Calvary's tree. in that day
that he shed his blood and died in the room instead of his people
and actually and truly redeemed them and saved them by his grace. We praise you, Father, that we
can even think of such things, we who are weak and frail and
full of sin, our minds and hearts polluted often with thoughts
that shouldn't be there. We are thankful, Father, You
don't regard us in our salvation save that you would save us.
You do not regard any work that we did or any merit we might
have assumed to have. But you saved us wholly by your
free favor and great grace and mercy. Father, we pray for those
who are sick. Pray for this young man who's
had this fall. Pray you'd be with him and bring
him back to a good measure of health. I pray you'd continue
to be with Fred and watch over him and be with Arlene as she
ministers to him. Pray for Dee Parks to continue
to bless him and strengthen him in Jesus Christ. And we pray
that these things that you're using to battle his cancer will
be effective and effectual. Thank you for the good report
on Julie. We thank you, Father, that you are with us. and they
have told us to cast our care upon you because you care for
us. Help us now to worship you. As you ought to be worshipped,
we know we can never on this side of eternity bring ourselves
to do so. But we, as much as we are able,
cause us to worship you in spirit and in truth. We ask these things
in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, for his glory. Amen. Now from the fall of mankind
until the day our Lord returns to Earth, one theme stands out
as central and irreplaceable in the Word of God. It is the
fact that without the shedding of blood there is no remission
of sin. Sin is not remitted where blood
is not shed. from the beast slain by God's
hand to atone for Adam and Eve's sin to this great day of salvation
that we have in this passage here. Blood Death marks the pages
of this great volume. I think it was Spurgeon who said
men would do well to take a red cord and a needle and punch it
through the front of the Bible and punch it through all the
leafs and go all the way to the back of the Bible. And that way
every page you turned would have a red line in it And that red
line would speak of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. There
can be no doubt, as you've read this, I read these words, if
you're reading along with me, what these words are about. We
know that they are about the Lord Jesus Christ as the Redeemer
and Savior of His people. This Paschal Lamb is Jesus Christ. He is said to be our Passover
or Paschal Lamb slain for us. Now from henceforth, the song
of the redeemed will be, worthy is the lamb that was slain that
has redeemed us by his blood out of every kindred, nation,
tongue, and people. The record before us, the account
of the deliverance of Israel from the cruel shackles of enslavement
to Egypt is the story of the salvation of every one of God's
elect by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The theme set forth
here is echoed throughout the word of God, this lamb. as it
had been slain. The story begins, as all things
begin that have any eternal value whatsoever, they begin with the
Word of God. We have God speaking. It says
in verse 1, And the Lord spake unto Moses, and to Aaron, saying,
His first word was about a brand-new beginning. He says in verse 2,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall
be the first month of the year to you. This is the first month
that was dedicated to the Passover. Now, in Jewish religion, there
are three other first months. There's the first month that
has to do with the harvest. There's the first month that
has to do with the first fruits. There's the first month that
has to do with the tithing of cattle. These things are also
first month. But this first month is specific
to one thing and that is the slaying of the lamb and putting
the blood on the doorpost and lentils so that God would pass
over them. But this is the beginning of
things. The beginning of things. This beginning pictures the new
birth when life truly begins. Prior to this, there was nothing
but the helletry and the slavery of Egypt, and for every elect,
it was the helletry and the slavery of sin, Satan, and self. Now
comes the news of the beginning of a journey that will eventuate
in the entry into the promised land. Here's where the story
begins. We know the promise had been
made a long time ago. When Abraham was called out of
the Ur of Chaldees, God says, I'm going to take you to a land
that you've not seen. to a land that flows with milk
and honey, to Canaan's land. And we know that this sojourn
here on this earth is toward some place, toward some great
place. It will eventuate into a city
whose builder and maker is God, is how it is described in Scripture.
Our Lord said in verse 2, This month shall be the beginning
of months and shall be the first month of the year to you." Now
the Lord goes on to say that on the tenth day of this month
every household of Israel is to take a lamb or a kid, a goat,
but here it is described as a lamb, but the word could also mean
basically any animal fit to sacrifice, which could be a lamb, a goat,
a kid goat, a bullock, all male, or turtle doves. Those are all
sacrifices that could be made. However, here he talks about
the lamb, and that's important because that theme runs throughout
the scripture. The criteria for the lamb is
that there be enough people inside the house that when the lamb
is roasted, it might be fully devoured. So he says, if it should
be that you don't have enough people in your house to eat a
whole lamb, once it's roasted, then you and your neighbor join
together. Let your neighbors come into your house so this
lamb will be fully eaten. That was the criteria. If there
was not enough family members to entirely consume the lamb,
then households were joined together to ensure the lamb's total consumption.
He says in verse 3 and verse 4, speak unto you, all the congregation
shall sing in the tenth day of this month they shall take of
them every man a lamb that's every man who's head of household
according to the house of their fathers and that is according
to which tribe they're in a lamb for a house one lamb for every
house now how many people were in israel How many Israelites
had houses in Egypt? I have no idea. But there's a
lot of lambs. A lot of lambs. And if the household
be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor take it
according to the number of the souls. Every man according to
his eating shall make your count of the lamb. So this had to do
with Not only this lamb's blood that was put upon the door, but
it won't be consumed, and it must be fully consumed. If you
didn't have enough people in your house to fully consume it,
then you had to bring some more people in so there'd be nothing
left of this lamb. Now the lamb had to meet strict
qualifications. It was closely monitored for
four days. They took him in on the tenth
day, and they watched him for four days to make sure that there
was no spot or blemish on the lamb. He was monitored. The lamb
was to be of a year old, that means he was in the prime of
his life, full of vigor. Verse 5 says, Your lamb shall
be without blemish. A male of the first year, ye
shall take it out from among the sheep, or from among the
goats. These qualifications, we know,
if we know anything about the gospel, pictured the perfect
lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. Remember John the
Baptist, as he was baptizing, Jesus Christ started walking
down the road. And as he was baptizing these
people, he looked up. He looked up and saw Jesus Christ,
a man, a man, coming down the road. And he said, Behold, the
Lamb of God, the Lamb of God, God's Lamb, the ordained Lamb,
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. He is the
Lamb of God. He was made to be sin for us.
He knew no sin. There is no blemish in Him. He
was without sin. Peter said it perfectly in 1
Peter chapter 1. And he said, This is what we
know. Now, this is what believers know
for sure. In 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse
18 he says, For as much as you know, This is what every believer
knows. Now if you don't know this, you're
probably not a believer. But if you're a believer, this
you know. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed
with corruptible things as silver and gold from your own vain conversation
received by tradition of your fathers, but with the precious
blood of Christ as a lamb without spot or blemish. What was the
qualification for the Paschal Lamb? No blemish. Without spot
or blemish. Who was barely foreordained,
predestinated. When? Before the world began. But was manifest in these last
times to you through the preaching of the gospel. Who by Him do
believe. How do we believe? We do by Jesus
Christ. That's how we believe. We don't
believe any other way. Jesus Christ gives us faith to
believe. Who by Him do believe that raised
Him from the dead and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope
might be in God and not in yourselves or any of the gold and silver
or anything else. This is the Lamb of God. The
Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. In 1 John
chapter 3, which is a wonderful passage
of scripture that I'll only read one verse. In 1 John chapter
3 and verse 5 it says, We know, ye know, here again, oida, we
know from heaven, from the Word of God, we know that God, because
God has said it, ye know that He was manifested to take away
our sins, and in Him is no sin. In Him is no sin, and of course
you know the Verses in Revelation, Revelation 5, 9, and 10. Worthy
is the lamb that was slain. The lamb. Worthy is the lamb. The book of Revelation has this
lamb on the throne. This lamb. Over and over again,
it's the lamb on the throne. People ran and hid because of
the fear for the lamb. You think, how in the world can
anybody be afraid of a lamb? If that lamb is the Sovereign
Lord, you'd be afraid of Him if you don't know Him. The Lamb,
worthy is the Lamb that was slain, that has redeemed us by His blood
out of every kindred, nation, tongue, and people, and made
us kings and priests unto our God, Revelation 5, 9, and 10.
Then in Revelation 13, 8, we find that this Lamb was not what
appeared. It was manifested, as 1 John
said, it was manifested to take away your sin. He was openly
displayed to take away your sin. But He was an eternal creature. He's an eternal person. an eternal
person. He's the Lamb, as described,
the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world in
Revelation 13. Why? Had sin been committed yet? No. Man hadn't been committed. Man
hadn't been made yet. The world hadn't been created
yet. Before the foundation means prior to the conception of the
world, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is God of every God,
the only God we know and can know because God is Spirit and
the Holy Spirit is Spirit and Jesus Christ is a man, a man
who is God and we can know Him. Jesus Christ was slain before
the foundation of the world. Why? because before a sin was
ever committed in the Garden of Eden, there was already the
Redeemer slain from the foundation of the world. He was in that
slain condition as the one who shed His blood before the world
began. He was the surety for the people of God. He was the
surety for the elect. What does that mean? He was the
GUARANTOR of their salvation. He was the GUARANTOR of the debt
they owed. He took it upon Himself, signed
His name to the debt, and when He came into the world, it was
HIS debt and not His people's debt. It was THEIR debt in the
sense that they are the ones that committed the sin. But they
were never held responsible to pay it. God's people were never
held responsible to pay it because the debt was signed by Jesus
Christ. You see, He was the surety of
a better covenant, the covenant which began before the world
was, wherein He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. He's your surety. You came into
this world an enemy of God, hating God, despising God, caring not
for the things of God. But that was not the case of
God concerning you. God loved you forever if you're
His child. If you're one of the elect, He
always loved you, He's never mad at you, and He never looked
to you to pay for those sins. He looked to the one who had
signed His name to the debt, our great surety, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.
And in verse 5, the Lamb is preceded with a personal possessive pronoun. It says, Your Lamb, Your Lamb, This lamb belongs to the people
of God. That's what it says in Romans
8.32. He has freely given Christ to us. And with him has freely
given us all things. He's our God. Our God. And our Savior. Wasn't that the
words of doubting Thomas as the Lord appeared in the room and
showed him the wounds in his hands and his side? Didn't Thomas
bow down and hit the floor and say, My Lord and my God. my lord
and my god, my lord, my god, your lamb, your lamb, that's
what it says, and after observing the lamb for four days it is
said that the whole congregation of Israel shall kill it, that's
the way it's put, the whole congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening, the last phrase in verse six, the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening, I guess
this was a set time where every household in Egypt that belonged
to an Israelite at the set time everybody killed the lamb. Everybody
killed the lamb. Why is it said that everybody
killed it? It only takes one person to kill a lamb and cut
its throat. Why does it say everybody? That's a picture of what nailed
Jesus Christ to the cross. Our sin. Our sin. This is indicative of the truth
that it was our sin, the sin of every one of the elect, that
nailed Jesus Christ to the cross. It said they were to bleed the
lamb in a basin, later it says that, and take hyssop, which
was a root that grew out of rocks, which was commonly used as a
brush, a paint brush, to paint things with, take hyssop and
dip it in the blood and take it and strike it on the doorposts
on the sides of the door, and the door post above, or the lintel.
So each of these houses had blood on each side of the door and
blood above. And then they were to go inside
the house. Now from that point on a very
important truth is set forth. From that point on, because when
they went in the house they shut the door and they didn't come
out until God had come through and killed the firstborn of everyone
in Egypt, every firstborn in Egypt. They did not see the blood. That's important to understand.
We don't always see Christ. We're not always looking to Him,
if we're honest. Elsewise, God wouldn't admonish
us to look to Him all the time in Scripture. Who sees the blood? God says,
When I see it. That's the important thing. For
me and for you who know Christ, we dare not trust in our own
ability. We dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. But our hope is not built
on us. It is built on nothing less than
Jesus' blood and righteousness. We just sang that tonight. What
does that mean? My hope is this. When God looks
at me, He does not see me. he sees the blood of Jesus Christ.
I'm in the household of faith, and I'm thankful that he has
given me faith to believe, but my faith didn't save me. My faith
don't save me daily. It's the blood of Christ that
does. It's the blood of Christ that cleanses us from all transgression,
it says in 1 John chapter 1. The doorposts and lintels were
stricken with blood, and then they went inside that house,
and they didn't come out again until they headed for the promised
land. come out the next time it was to gather the gold and
the silver that they had and head out for the promised land.
Now once safely inside it says they were to roast the lamb and
consume it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. That is what
it says down here in verse 8. And they shall eat the flesh
that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter
herbs shall they eat it." The unleavened bread was called the
bread of haste because it could be carried on a trip and it would
never spoil. That referred to the speed with
which the events were about to occur. This is the bread you
eat. Eat it up and we'll get them to leave pretty soon. Shortly
they will be leaving the place of their slavery. How much they
got of that, I'm not sure. because all they had been told
was to strike the blood on the doorposts and lintels. I'm coming
through to kill every firstborn in Egypt. When I see the blood,
I'll pass over you. That's all they saw. They didn't
know what awaited them fully. Moses and Aaron did because they'd
been told. They didn't fully understand.
But God says, get ready. Get ready. Later on in next week's
lesson, we'll see that he, or the week after next, we'll see
that he told them to gird up your loins. Put on your shoes.
We're going to leave this place. The bitter herbs are a reminder
of the afflictions they endured while they were in Egypt. And
they picture the fact that though the Lord will remember the sins
of His people no more because of the blood of Christ, their sins are never far from
their own memory. In fact, the children of God
throughout this book talk about the blood of Christ. They don't
talk about His blood without talking about their sins. Because
that blood doesn't mean anything to anybody who's not a sinner
saved by grace. And we never forget, just like
I quote in Romans chapter 5 and verse 9 and 10. Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain as it was redeemed by His blood out of
every kindred, nation, tongue, and people. Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain. Why was He slain? To redeem us. Why? Because we
needed our debts to be paid. We're only sinners saved by grace.
the song of heaven will entail the memory of our sins the songs
we sing entail the memory of our sins and the glory of how
they were put away and forgiven and that is by the blood of Christ
we'll remember our sins we remember them all the time don't we? God
doesn't I'm thankful I'm thankful for his bar of justice it's really
the one that means something I know I'm a sinner and I realize
it every day that I live but I also know that the shed blood
of Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all transgression, and
before God my sins are not remembered. Oh, I will confess my sins! I
will confess my sin to God when I pray, knowing this, that He's
just to forgive me. He's justified to forgive me.
Why? Because I confess? No! He's just because He has
been propitiated by the blood of Christ and he's just to forgive
them that believe on Jesus Christ because of that propitiation,
that satisfaction. He'll remember our sin no more,
but we don't forget. We don't forget. Our song will
be a song of a sinner saved by grace. And the manner of cooking
that lamb was important. It was extremely important. It
was not to be eaten raw or to be boiled with water. Now later,
as the priest would often boil up some of the sacrifices and
take it and divided among the people and for the priest and
water was used. But this was not. This lamb was to be roasted.
This lamb was to be roasted. It was to be roasted with fire.
That means it was to be put over a fire and roasted. We know what fire is in scripture.
Fire is symbolic of God's wrath consuming the sacrifice and it's
also a picture of God's refining fire for the life and the faith
of His people. This is symbolic of God's wrath
poured out on our transgression and the fiery trial sent our
way to refine our faith so as to make it come out as pure gold.
In Malachi when he talks about the Lord Jesus Christ suddenly
appearing in the temple some four hundred years after Malachi
was written on a night sometime in the middle of October in the
season of Moshavad our Lord suddenly appeared born
of a woman born under the law to redeem them that are under
the law born of a virgin laying in a stable in a manger but the
heavenly host knew he had come the shepherds were abiding in
their field by night and the heavenly host began to light
up the heavens and sing glory to God in the highest and peace
on earth to men of good will for unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord we bring
you good tidings of joy they say good tidings of joy on that
night he suddenly appeared into this world what a happening that
was when the son of god laid aside his glory and burst through
heaven to land his feet on this earth it says of that appearance
in malachi chapter three behold i send my messenger and he shall
prepare the way before me speaking of john the baptist and the lord
whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the
messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in. Behold, he shall
come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of
his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth?
For he is like a refiner's fire and a fuller's soap." The fuller
was the town's washman. He had a machine that people
would come in and take their clothes. Probably they had two
sets. They brought one to the fuller
and he would put them in this machine and slosh it around and
slosh it around. And sometimes he would add bleach
or something like that to make the whiter clothes whiter. And
he was a wash man. That's what he was. The fuller
was a very important man in early society because otherwise people
would just stink all the time and their clothes would smell
bad but he was a good guy. But the Lord in his appearance
is like a refiner's fire. What's that? Purification. Purification. Refining gold or
refining silver and you know how that works. When gold is
refined it's put into the smelting pot and the heat is put under
it and it's heated up and it begins to bubble. begins to bubble
and then it begins to shake because gold is a heavy liquid. It begins to shake and as it
shakes the dross or the dirt or the foulness that is in the
gold rises to the top and then the refiner takes and scrapes
off that dross and what he sees is a mirror image of himself.
Jesus Christ is the refiner of fire. he's the one that puts
our trials, that sends the trials to us and puts our faith in that
pot and heats it up with the trials so the dross will be consumed
and the gold refined and he can see his image in the product
that he's made this is the refiner's fire and this refiner shall sit
as a refiner and a purifier of silver and he shall purify the
sons of Levi, who are those? That's the priesthood. Now what
is the priesthood according to 1 Peter? The church is the priesthood. The living stones are holy priesthood
unto God. He shall purify the sons of Levi
and purge them as gold and silver. When he had purged our sins,
he said down on the right hand of the Father, that they may
offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. In other words,
that their gifts will be acceptable by Jesus Christ. That's what
it says in 1 Peter. They've been acceptable by Jesus
Christ. He's a refiner of fire. A refiner of fire. What I've just talked about is
spoken of in 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Peter chapter 1. Now let's read
verse 7. That the trial of your faith being much more precious
than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing
of the Lord Jesus Christ, may come forth like fine gold." Historically,
the manner of roasting this lamb was specific among the Jewish
people. Jewish tradition stated that the lamb was not to be roasted
on a spit, In other words, the spit was not to be erected over
the fire and the lamb was hooked on it and turned. Not that way.
Nor was it to be thrust through with an iron rod as some would
put them on a spit. The lamb was to be roasted upright.
It looked like it was standing up. The head would be here, the
body and the legs on a wooden stake. The wooden stake, he was
either attached to the wooden stake or the wooden stake was
thrust through to the mouth all the way out to the other end.
And then he was hung in the fireplace above the fire. And that's how
he was roasted. Hanging right over the fire on
a wooden stake. Does that sound familiar at all?
The wooden stake was used. The word for the cross in the
original in the Greek is starus. It means a wooden pole. Starus, a pole. Now, I know we,
the modern idea of the cross is that the hands were outstretched,
and that's a possibility. There was one type of cross that
was a Roman cross. An Alexandrian cross was an X,
where the legs and the arms were spread out at those angles. But
the common use was a starus, a pole. They hung him on a pole
and they put the hands above the head and nailed the hands
to the above the head. And then they put a foot rest
for him to put his feet on, but they nailed his feet. But he
could stand up straight on that foot rest and keep the pressure
off of his arms. But as he tired, his legs began
to sink and his arms began to stretch out and he began to suffocate.
It actually started cutting off his breathing. That's how they
died. That's why if they weren't dead,
what did they do? They broke their legs. So they
would just fall all the way down and hang there. Star roast. The lamb was roasted with fire
on a pole. That's how that was done in Jewish
history. On such a gibbet our Lord was
suspended between heaven and earth, whereupon the fires of
wrath, the fires of God's wrath, were poured out on him when he
was made sin for us. Nothing but the lamb, nothing
of the lamb was to remain. They were to eat every bit of
it after it was roasted. It was to be totally consumed.
If anything was left over, like bones or maybe entrails, that
were not meant to be consumed, they would be burned with fire
until they were nothing but ash. There was nothing left of this
lamb. Our Lord said this lamb must be totally, completely consumed. Why? Why? Because that's how
our salvation was accomplished. Our Lord, first and foremost,
is pictured in giving his life entirely for the glory of God
and for the salvation of his people. He gave himself, all
of himself. He gave himself. He said, in
his face like a flint toward Golgotha, he for the joy set
before them endured the cross, despising the shame, and he sat
down on the right hand of majesty on high. There's a second application. The Lamb of God is the food and
the feast of the elect. we feed on Christ. Our Lord's
table is a picture of that. The unleavened bread and the
wine picture His body and His blood and we consume that. We
feed on Christ. He is our food. Now none of this
worldly food will do anything other than feed this body and
our Lord said it will go in the body and cast out the draught.
That's how it works. But to eat this food is to live
forever. Isn't that what our Lord said
to the woman at the well? If you knew who you were talking
to, you would ask of me and I would give you water and you would
never be thirsty again. Water of eternal life. He alone
is our sustenance. As we sojourn here with our hearts
fixed on the promised land, He alone is what we feed on. That's
why the minister of the gospel, the preacher of the gospel has
a strict set of standards by which he is to operate. He's
to preach Christ and Him crucified over and over and over again
because that's the only thing that will satisfy the soul that
will convict, comfort, and convince the child of God. Who's this
talking about? Well, over in 1 Corinthians chapter
5 and verse 7 we see all about this paschal
lamb purge out therefore the old living
that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even Christ
our Passover is sacrificed for us this is the feast he is our
feast He is the blood of our salvation. Father, bless us to
understand and pray in Christ's name. Amen. All right. Don't
forget to set your clocks back.