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BIG IDEA
THE DOOR OF SALVATION HAS A PRICE OF ADMISSION; A BLOOD SACRIFICE. JESUS CHRIST, THE LAMB OF GOD PAID THAT PRICE
IN FULL.
THE PASSOVER
EXODUS 12:3-13
3 TELL ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL THAT ON THE TENTH DAY OF THIS MONTH EVERY MAN SHALL TAKE A LAMB ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHERS’ HOUSES, A LAMB FOR A HOUSEHOLD. 4 AND IF THE HOUSEHOLD IS TOO SMALL FOR A LAMB, THEN HE AND HIS NEAREST NEIGHBOR SHALL TAKE ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS; ACCORDING TO WHAT EACH CAN EAT YOU SHALL MAKE YOUR COUNT FOR THE LAMB. 5 YOUR LAMB SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH, A MALE A YEAR OLD. YOU MAY TAKE IT FROM THE SHEEP OR FROM THE GOATS, 6 AND YOU SHALL KEEP IT UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THIS MONTH, WHEN THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL SHALL KILL THEIR LAMBS AT TWILIGHT. 7 “THEN THEY SHALL TAKE SOME OF THE BLOOD AND PUT IT ON THE TWO DOORPOSTS AND THE LINTEL OF THE HOUSES IN WHICH THEY EAT IT. 8 THEY SHALL EAT THE FLESH THAT NIGHT, ROASTED ON THE FIRE; WITH UNLEAVENED BREAD AND BITTER HERBS THEY SHALL EAT IT. 9 DO NOT EAT ANY OF IT RAW OR BOILED IN WATER, BUT ROASTED, ITS HEAD WITH ITS LEGS AND ITS INNER PARTS. 10 AND YOU SHALL LET NONE OF IT REMAIN UNTIL THE MORNING; ANYTHING THAT REMAINS UNTIL THE MORNING YOU SHALL BURN. 11 IN THIS MANNER YOU SHALL EAT IT: WITH YOUR BELT FASTENED, YOUR SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, AND YOUR STAFF IN YOUR HAND. AND YOU SHALL EAT IT IN HASTE. IT IS THE LORD’S PASSOVER.
12 FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THE LAND OF EGYPT THAT NIGHT, AND I WILL STRIKE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, BOTH MAN AND BEAST; AND ON ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENTS: I AM THE LORD. 13 THE BLOOD SHALL BE A SIGN FOR YOU, ON THE HOUSES WHERE YOU ARE. AND WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I WILL PASS OVER YOU, AND NO PLAGUE WILL BEFALL YOU TO DESTROY YOU, WHEN I STRIKE THE LAND OF EGYPT.
1. IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE GOD WAS SPECIFIC IN HIS JUDGEMENT
EXODUS 6:6
SAY THEREFORE TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, ‘I AM THE LORD, AND I WILL BRING YOU OUT FROM UNDER THE BURDENS OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND I WILL DELIVER YOU FROM SLAVERY TO THEM, AND I WILL REDEEM YOU WITH AN OUTSTRETCHED ARM AND WITH GREAT ACTS OF JUDGMENT.
EXODUS 7:4
PHARAOH WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU. THEN I WILL LAY MY HAND ON EGYPT AND BRING MY HOSTS, MY PEOPLE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT BY GREAT ACTS OF JUDGMENT.
EXODUS 12:12
FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THE LAND OF EGYPT THAT NIGHT, AND I WILL STRIKE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, BOTH MAN AND BEAST; AND ON ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENTS: I AM THE LORD.
ROM 3:20
FOR BY WORKS OF THE LAW NO HUMAN BEING WILL BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT, SINCE THROUGH THE LAW COMES KNOWLEDGE OF SIN.
2. IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE GOD WAS PRECISE IN HIS DISTINCTION
EXODUS 11:5
AND EVERY FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL DIE, FROM THE FIRSTBORN OF PHARAOH WHO SITS ON HIS THRONE, EVEN TO THE FIRSTBORN OF THE SLAVE GIRL WHO IS BEHIND THE HAND-MILL, AND ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF THE CATTLE.
EXODUS 11:7
BUT NOT A DOG SHALL GROWL AGAINST ANY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, EITHER MAN OR BEAST, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT THE LORD MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL.’
EZEKIEL 20:8B
“THEN I SAID I WOULD POUR OUT MY WRATH UPON THEM AND SPEND MY ANGER AGAINST THEM IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. ( ISRAEL )
EXODUS 12:12
FOR I WILL PASS THROUGH THE LAND OF EGYPT THAT NIGHT, AND I WILL STRIKE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, BOTH MAN AND BEAST; AND ON ALL THE GODS OF EGYPT I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENTS: I AM THE LORD. 13 THE BLOOD SHALL BE A SIGN FOR YOU, ON THE HOUSES WHERE YOU ARE. AND WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I WILL PASS OVER YOU, AND NO PLAGUE WILL BEFALL YOU TO DESTROY YOU, WHEN I STRIKE THE LAND OF EGYPT.
EXODUS 12:13
DOOR WILL SERVE AS A SIGN FOR YOU.
3. IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE GOD PROVIDED A SUBSTITUTE SACRIFICE
1 COR 5:7
FOR CHRIST, OUR PASSOVER LAMB, HAS BEEN SACRIFICED.
1 PETER 1:18-19
18 KNOWING THAT YOU WERE RANSOMED FROM THE FUTILE WAYS INHERITED FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS, NOT WITH PERISHABLE THINGS SUCH AS SILVER OR GOLD, 19 BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST, LIKE THAT OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH OR SPOT.
BIG IDEA
THE DOOR OF SALVATION HAS A PRICE OF ADMISSION; A BLOOD SACRIFICE. JESUS CHRIST, THE LAMB OF GOD PAID THAT PRICE IN FULL.
4. HE REQUIRES OUR RESPONSE
THIS WAS NOT THE END OF THEIR JOURNEY BUT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR JOURNEY IN FREEDOM. FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY.