Alright, we're here in Exodus chapter 12, and the name of the sermon is
Characteristics of the Passover, Characteristics of the Passover, and last
week we looked at Exodus chapter 11, which I talked about the 10th plague, but
it's kind of divided because the 10th plague doesn't actually come until this
chapter. Obviously this is a very long chapter, we're not going to cover all of
it. We're going to look at the basic characteristics of the Passover we can
find here in Exodus chapter 12 in these first 20 verses. The Bible reads here, verse
number one, the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months, it shall be the
first month of the year to you. Speaking unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man of
land, according to the house of their fathers, and the land for a house. Now, when the
Bible says here in verse three, speaking unto all the congregation of Israel,
there's a lot of verses like this, and this kind of just gives us the basic
principle that the Word of God is for all people. It's not just for some people.
You know, there are a lot of churches where they will separate the adults
from the kids, and the kids will be in some room singing goopy songs and
learning absolutely nothing, coloring in Noah's Ark and all those things. Look,
I'm all for fun things for kids to do, but when it's time for church, it's time
to hear the preaching of God's Word. The Bible says here, unto all the
congregation of Israel, that includes man, woman, boy and girl, every single
person, everybody is hearing the Word of God. It says here in verse four, and if
the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his
house, take it according to the number of the souls. Every man, according to his
eating, shall make your count for the lamb. So the idea would be obviously some
people have bigger houses than others. People have bigger space than other
people, and the Bible is saying some houses, it's going to be very small, and you might
have to go over to your neighbor's house. You just don't have room to your house,
but every single person was required to partake in the land. So if you have room
at your house, you know, you sacrifice the lamb, and if not, you would go to your
neighbor's house. But every single person had to partake in the lamb, and that
gives us point number one, and that's just basically everybody needs to
sacrifice and eat of the lamb. And of course, the lamb is a picture of Jesus
Christ, and salvation is for everybody, but you've actually got to partake in
the lamb. You've got to believe on Christ. Turn to your Bible to Acts chapter seven.
Acts chapter seven.
And I think it's going to be very obvious when you look at Exodus chapter 12, when we
preach through this, that it's a clear picture of Jesus Christ. I don't
understand how anyone could read Exodus 12 and read Genesis 22, where Abraham's
going to sacrifice Isaac, and yet you have religions like Judaism, and you've got
religions like Islam, because Islam claims they believe the Old Testament,
and they can look at this Old Testament and not see the clear picture of Jesus
Christ. It doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. It's so obvious here in the
Word of God. Here's what it says in Acts seven. We're in the New Testament. It makes
reference of the Old Testament. It says here in verse 35, Acts 7 verse 35,
And by the way, here in verse 35, even though we have the
book of Judges that comes later on, Moses is really the first one listed as a
judge. It says here a ruler and a judge. You have Moses, then you have Joshua, then you have
basically a string of judges that are ruling, but Moses is essentially doing
that, and he's speaking on behalf of God and just giving the rules of God. They're
like, who made me a ruler and a judge? Well, the answer to that would be God. It's like,
who made you the leader? God made Moses the leader, okay? Verse 36, He brought them
out after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the
Red Sea and in the wilderness forty years. This is that Moses which said to the
children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren like unto me, him shall ye hear. This is he that was in the, notice this,
church in the wilderness with the age which spake them in the Mount Sinai and
with our fathers who received a lot of the oracles to give on to us. So the
Bible references that congregation in the wilderness as the church in the
wilderness. Now in the New Testament, the first time you see the reference of
church is in Matthew chapter 16. You also see it in Matthew chapter 18 where Jesus
is basically the head of a church. And of course in the Old Testament the
church is a little bit different but when you think of characteristics of a
church, because they're in the wilderness, they don't have a set building
that they're located at. They're traveling sometimes and it's a traveling
church that goes from place to place, right? But the key was that everybody
was together because with a church, because the Bible refers to church as a
congregation, you're congregated together. You've heard of congregational singing
which means everybody is together, everybody in the church, you're together.
And so it's called the church in the wilderness because they had the leader
Moses and they had a group of people that were there together that made up
that church. And they were there and part of the church and they were together,
okay? And of course, you know, Moses would get instructions from God and then he
would deliver it to the people. So it's essentially like preaching a sermon,
right? Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 10. So go forward to your Bible, Acts, Romans, 1st
Corinthians, 1st Corinthians chapter 10. Now obviously there's some differences
between the church in the wilderness versus a modern-day church. You know,
obviously Moses was married with kids, although his relationship
was of course kind of a question mark that no one's really quite sure. But you
know, I wouldn't say that he had to fit pastoral qualifications like in our
modern day, but it operated very much like a church in the fact that they met
together. He's the one who got the instructions from God and then he
delivered the message just like it's my job to read the Word of God and study it
and deliver the message that God has laid in my heart. And they were there
together as a group. One of the big differences though between that group and
a modern-day church is the fact that their church was really mixed, meaning
there was a lot of saved and a lot of lost. There's obviously a lot of
unsaved people because just because they grew up in the right religion doesn't
mean they put their faith in the Lord. And of course you see these uprisings
with Moses as the leader where there's clearly a lot of unsaved people in that
congregation. I don't know what the percentage is. Now of course you could
have unsafe people in congregations today, but if it's a church that's preaching
the truth, the vast majority of people are going to be saved. Now there are
Baptist churches that would be like that where basically a lot of people believe
this about salvation, a lot believe this. That wouldn't happen at our church
though because of the fact that we're clear on salvation and you know of course if
new people are coming it's because we went out sowing and presumably got them saved.
And if they didn't get saved, the thing on everybody's mind at our church is
what? We got to give them the gospel, right? We got to tell them, we got to explain it.
It's like maybe brother so-and-so talked to them and said, all right now
somebody else has turned, somebody else, we got to get them saved because what's the
point of having unsaved people come all the time, right? We want people to get
saved obviously. So it is different with the church and the wilderness, but
there's a lot of similarities. It says here in First Corinthians 10 verse 1,
Wherever brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our
fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea. And so all passed
through the Red Sea, right? Obviously God, part of the Red Sea, they went across and
then all the Egyptians including Pharaoh got destroyed after them. And it says
this, and we're all baptized onto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Now of course
they were not literally baptized like we baptize people today, right? Where
basically they go in water and it's like I baptize you in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost, buried me by the backs of death, raised to walk in
life. Obviously it wasn't the same thing, but it was a great picture of that. And
so how the congregation was basically, they wouldn't, I mean they weren't
getting soaked in the Red Sea because it parted, but basically, you know, it
completely surrounded them, which baptism is complete immersion. And the water's
like all around them. It's just the fact that God obviously preserved them from
getting destroyed. But they were all baptized into Moses. And of course
somebody gets saved, they come to church, then they should get baptized, right? And
they don't eat the same spiritual meat. What's the spiritual meat that's being
referred to? Well I believe it's referring to the manna, right? And everybody ate
the manna, which is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the bread that
pictures Jesus. And of course there's the application of receiving salvation, like
in John 6 the Bible says that if you do not eat this bread, and Jesus says if you
don't eat my flesh you have no part in me. And of course the Catholics go to John 6 and
they try to take that literally. In fact, go to John 6 right now, we'll go back to
1st Corinthians 10, and I want to add this to the sermon, because I was actually just
looking at this earlier today, so maybe God wants me to turn here. But let me
find the verse real quickly, because Catholics will use John 6, they'll use
this chapter as the one to teach their weird doctrine of transubstantiation. And
the amazing thing about Catholicism in 2024 is nobody really knows what the
church teaches, including their Pope, and no one really believes what their church
teaches or has taught before. And the teaching of transubstantiation is this
amazing thing where you put this wafer in your mouth and it literally turns
into the body of Jesus Christ. I mean that's weird, that's bizarre, and I'm sure
I didn't grow up Catholic, but a lot of people that grew up Catholic probably did the test.
Let me take the wafer out and see if it looks like the body of Jesus. I know it's
still a little wafer, it's not the body of Jesus. And this amazing thing they say
that it turns into the body of Jesus when it's in your mouth, but outside your
mouth it's just a little piece of bread. And the same thing with grape juice. You
drink it, it's grape juice, and once it goes into your mouth it turns into the
blood of Jesus. Now I would think that if it turned the blood of Jesus it would
start tasting disgusting, because grape juice is pretty much the greatest tasting
thing in the world, but I'm pretty sure if it turned into the blood of Jesus
you would just spew it out of your mouth, right? They don't understand that
John 6 is being symbolic. When Jesus says you have to eat my bread, or eat my
flesh, he's not saying, hey, let me just cut off a finger and give it to you.
Right? I mean that's ridiculous. Here's what it says in John 6, which is where
they get their weird teachings. John 6, verse 48, I am that bread of life. Okay? So
he says I am that bread of life. They try to take this literally, and he's gonna
say, you know, in verse 53 for example, then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I
say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no
life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, have eternal life, and I
will raise him up to the last day. And they'll say, well see, he said you've got
to eat my flesh, and drink my blood, and so somehow they try to tie that into the
Lord's Supper, where you're literally doing that at the Lord's Supper. Now look,
when you take the Lord's Supper, it is a picture of the body of Jesus, because we
have unleavened bread. It is a picture of the blood of Christ. It is grape juice. It
is non-alcoholic, because Jesus was sinless. The Bible says in him is no sin. But it's
not literally the body of blood. And here's the thing, you can prove that in
this chapter, because in verse 48 it says I am that bread of life, but it's an
example, because notice the verse right before it. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he
that believeth on me hath everlasting life. So being the bread of life is
linked with believing on Christ. And one thing he's trying to tell you is this,
believing on Christ is as easy as eating bread. And eating bread is pretty simple.
You see, we don't have to do the work for salvation. Jesus said, I am the door. It's
like opening a door. He said, I'm the living water. It's like drinking water.
It's pretty easy. I am that bread of life is symbolic. And in fact, throughout this
chapter, he talks about salvation, so you can see what he's saying. Because you go
back to verse number 27, John 6, verse 27, labor not for the meat which
perishes, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the
Son of Man shall give unto you, for him hath God the Father sealed. Then said
they unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered
and said to them, this is the work of God that you believe on him when he hath sent.
Now you can take that phrase, this is the work of God, in a couple different ways.
You can say, this is the work of God and the fact that God did the work. Or when
they're saying, you know, what do we have to do? You know, he's kind of responding
in a symbolic or metaphorical way saying, well, this is the work you got to do.
Basically no work, right? So there's kind of two ways you can take that. Maybe
there's a dual meaning that's attached in there, but it is truly the work of God.
He did all the work. There's no works involved. It's just believing on Christ.
Then you go later on to verse number 37. Let's talk about bread throughout this
entire chapter. Verse 37. All that the father giveth me shall come to me, and
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the father's
will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose
nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. Verse 40. And this is the
will of him that sent me, that everyone would see it in the sun, and believe it
on him may have everlasting life, and I'll raise him up at the last day.
Now look, the Bible does not contradict. If you've got in the same chapter
several verses saying this is what you got to do to go to heaven,
believe on Christ, then you got another verse that says you got to eat my flesh.
Well those are two very different things. You got to figure out how to correlate
these things. And considering all throughout the
book of John, all throughout the Bible, the Bible tells us it's by faith alone
you can tell that what he's doing in John 6 is using an example. He's saying
you've got to partake in me because I'm the one that died for your sins.
Of course, you know, drinking my blood, well here's the thing, it is the blood of
Christ that saves us. We understand that it was the sinless flesh of Jesus
that paid for our sins. So eating his flesh, he's probably given reference here
the fact that he had a sinless flesh and only his flesh
could do to pay for the sins of the world. So it's only the body of Jesus
it's only the blood of Jesus and it is clear in this chapter that he's merely
being symbolic in John chapter 6. Go back to 1st
Corinthians 10. 1st Corinthians 10.
And so he did all eat the same spiritual meat and then it says in verse 4, 1st
Corinthians 10 verse 4, and did all drink the same spiritual drink.
For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them
and that rock was Christ. So once again the spiritual drink is
being symbolic referring to Jesus Christ.
And so in the Old Testament that was pointing toward
Jesus Christ according to 1st Corinthians chapter 10.
So the manna from heaven, because John 6 what it is referencing
is the manna that came down from heaven. What the Bible is doing
is bringing the manna from Exodus chapter 16
and linking it with Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
And so in Exodus 16 they had manna and then they had quail in the evening the
Bible says but the manna is being linked with
you know in the book of John talking about the flesh
the body of Jesus Christ. The manna pictures Jesus Christ
and Jesus said I am that bread of life right so he's the manna he's the bread
of life. Go to John 14. John 14.
John 14.
And you know it's one of the most amazing things that when you first get
saved and you first start reading the Bible
if you're like me I kind of just you know soon the Old
Testament have these stories and we can learn some great principles
and then as you start reading the Old Testament and you start learning more
you start seeing Jesus Christ like on every page like everything is pointing
toward Jesus Christ like all these stories that were
cool stories like Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers
so it's a cool story it's a great story then all of a sudden wait a minute
this is also pointing toward Jesus Christ right and everything in the Old
Testament is pointing toward Jesus. John 14 verse 6 Jesus saith
unto him I am the way the truth and the life
no man cometh unto the father but by me. So according to Jesus the
only way to go to God the father is through him he does not say I am a way
well there's multiple ways to heaven well not according to Jesus
I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me.
Of course that's what we see with Exodus the first
characteristic of the Passover is that everybody needs to partake in
that land and you know when it comes to salvation
it is only in Jesus Christ and everybody must partake in that land
and if you don't you're gonna spend forever in hell
according to the word of God. Turn back to Exodus chapter 12
Exodus chapter 12
Exodus 12. You know one thing I've noticed going out soul winning is
there are a lot of people that will say they believe in Jesus
but they think it's okay to get to have it another way if you have a different
religion. I mean isn't that true we talk to
people and you know sometimes we'll show them well believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and then they'll think you're saying believe in God or whatever it's
like well that not to believe in God right it's because Muslims I would
literally I would directly tell them Muslims believe in God
Hindus believe in God but they do not believe that Jesus died and paid for
their sins and you know we do have to directly ask
them because if that's a hang-up for them then they need to hear
it seems to be becoming more common because there was a time when if you were
anywhere under the Christian realm you would say
Jesus is the only way to have even if you believe in a work of salvation
but you would not say that you get into heaven through Muhammad right people
that would be unsaved would still say it's only in Jesus
but now a lot of people within the Christian realm
think that there's multiple ways to have it you can get there through Islam
you get there through Buddhism you get there through being a nice person
and you know it's not surprising because the spiritual leaders are teaching this
garbage I mean there's literally a video from
Pope Francis from a few years ago where this kid comes up to him this kid's
father's died and he's really worried about his
father's eternal destiny he asked the Pope
he says my father was an atheist and he's like you know he's worried that
his father is in hell and Pope Francis said don't worry
because if he's a good man he's in heaven it's like man the Catholic Church
used to teach salvation was only in in you know the Catholic Church
now they're teaching you don't even have to believe in God to go to heaven
I don't understand for the life of me how anybody that knows the history of
Catholicism could say well you know I believe in Catholicism
I mean because it's completely changed as a religion it's completely different
than what it once was and yet it's like people just don't seem bothered
I don't get it but you know you've got spiritual leaders teaching this sort of
garbage and even within the Baptist realm you
have people teaching these sorts of things
right I mean there was a the southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren was saying
you know the purpose driven life the purpose
driven church and they were like talking about Chris
law as they always talked about Chris Rick Warren as he was mixing Christ with
Islam and saying all these great things about Islam it's like look
I have nothing nice to say about Islam I mean it's it's a huge episode or just
pedophilia and sin and wickedness it's like and you know
is it really a shock when their spiritual leader Muhammad married a
six-year-old girl and it's like that's the religion
well I mean they got married at six but they didn't consummate the marriage so
she was nine
it's like what's wrong with you and is it any shock that when you when you look
at pedophilia throughout this entire world
the central places where it's really prevalent are Muslim countries
it's like well it should not be a shock considering
their spiritual leader Muhammad that was a complete permanence
right I mean what a weirdo because his first wife was more than 20 years older
than him and then he marries a girl like 40 years
younger it's like what in the world right I mean what a
weirdo Muhammad was but the Bible is very
clear Jesus is the only way to heaven and notice what it says here in Exodus
chapter 12 point number two that the lamb
is a male without blemish it says here verse five
your lamb shall be without blemish a male in the first year you shall take
it out from the sheep or from the goats now
the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the lamb of God
the Bible says the lamb is slain from the foundation of the world
and so Jesus died and paid for our sins he is that lamb
and the Bible says without blemish what does that mean without blemish
well a literal lamb if it had a broken leg and a big scratch or
anything on it it would be like well we cannot use that
lamb because we see that scar on that lamb
we see that cut on that lamb we see that that lamb has
problems that lamb has issues and so what
God said is your lamb must be perfect now
a lot of people because obviously this is the old testament and
although they did know a lot about what was to come they didn't fully get
everything down perfectly a lot of people might have wondered
well why does it have to be without blemish I mean
there's not that many problems in this lamb over here the reason why it must
be without blemish is because it pictures Jesus Christ
and Jesus Christ was not just a good man he was a
perfect man he was not just the best man who ever existed no no it
wasn't just a great prophet no he was God in the flesh and perfect and
sinless I'll go to first John three first John
chapter three first John chapter three
okay
yeah I thought it was going to be a short sermon tonight and we barely got
to second page two it's already 23 minutes in so you know I guess
guess I was wrong but anyways first chapter three verse four
whosoever committed sin transgresseth also the law
for sin is the transgression of the law so
what a sin is very simply is when you break God's law
okay and you can do that unknowingly as well you can
commit sins without realizing it's a sin and the Bible says sins when you break
God's law and you know that he was manifesting
referring to Jesus to take away our sins and notice this
and in him is no sin there's no sin at all in Jesus Christ
go to Mark Chuckerton Mark 10 here and I know this is not a
complicated sermon here today I mean these are the things we know because
this is it's sort of like a salvation sermon but we're in the Old Testament
but this is the context of what's being said but it's good to be reminded of
these things and you know especially if you're kind of
getting you're kind of new at reading the Bible
it can kind of give you some excitement as you're reading through the Old
Testament to realize that hey pay attention and look for the symbolism
and and all these great things in the Bible
because it's all throughout the Old Testament it says here in Mark
10 verse 17 and when it was done forth in the way
there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him
good master what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life
okay now this is a bit of a tricky verse because a lot of people get confused by
the next verse to understand this you have to
understand that in verse 17 this man makes two very wrong statements
one of those is very obvious what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life
of course if you're saved you see the big problem here because what he's
saying is what are the works that I need to do
what's what what shall I do to inherit eternal life
right well obviously there's no works that you do
to inherit eternal life he thinks he can make it by his works and his actions
but there's no actions that you do to inherit eternal life obviously the
Bible says believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
what this guy is thinking is what are the works that I need to do
but the other big mistake he makes is when he calls Jesus good master because
here's the thing he does not believe that Jesus is God
he does not believe that he's perfect but he believes he's good wait a minute
how can he be good if he's not perfect see he thinks he's righteous without
being perfect like he's good he's very good but he's not actually perfect well
that's not possible because the Bible says there's none
righteous no not one none of us always do right none of us are
fully good so when he says good master what he's saying is hey you are a great
prophet you are a great man but he does not
believe that he's actually God and the messiah and perfect and
siblings and then he's saying what do I have to
do he's like you're good what do I have to do what are the good
deeds I need to do to get my eternal life
right he doesn't get it so here's a response to verse 18 and
Jesus said unto him why callest thou me good
now when Jesus says why callest thou me good he's saying
why are you calling me good in modern vernacular
is Jesus saying he's not good no he's not saying that he's asking why
are you calling me good like you walk up to me and say hey good
master he's like well why do you think I'm good
what's the reason for saying that I'm good
he doesn't say he's not good he just says why are you calling me
he's trying to get this person to understand the fact that why would you
think somebody is good if you don't realize that
you're God now it's it should be obvious to people that Jesus
is good because he's doing all these miracles you can't really deny that
unless you think he's doing it by the power of Beelzebub and so this person's
like I can see you're good you're being mightily used by God but he does not
understand he's the Messiah he's like why callest thou me good there
is none good but one
that is God now you know I it's funny because people try to turn
here to say that Jesus is not God they'll say well he said why callest
thou me good there's none good but one that is God
wait a minute is Jesus good well of course he's good
he's sinless well then he's God because the only one that's good is God
and so people don't understand the context leading in so they have a
completely wrong interpretation this is actually a common spot
Jehovah's Witnesses like to go to and you know when they've gone there it's
just like I showed them and it's like they have no explanation can you explain
it's like well do you believe Jesus was good well yeah
he was sinless right right well if he's good he's God because there's none good
but one that is God and then of course they're like they
don't know what to say right and so it is a tricky passage I
get that if you misunderstand verse 17 going in that's why we need to pay
attention when we're reading but when Jesus says
and you know what I will often do because it can be tricky if you read
this whole passage or whatever I will often quote out so many there the
Bible says there's none good but one that is God
and obviously Jesus was good and that shows he's God
right and so I showed him a few other verses on Jesus being God
but if someone has a hang up on this but this one I usually quote as I'm turning
to another one the Bible says there's none good but one that's God
the only one that's good is God and Jesus was perfect meaning he's good
meaning he must be God right go to Romans chapter 10
Romans chapter 10
you know sometimes as a preacher you feel like you're being repetitive but
remember it was on Saturday I was talking about Jesus being God
but you know then you realize the importance of being repetitive because
you know new people come in and sometimes they either have wrong
views or sometimes people come in because they're trying to cause problems
or whatever and they can subtly confuse people that
are new or whatever so we just need to remind them the same things
over and over again the things that we believe the Bible says in Romans 3 verse 10
as it is written there is none righteous no no one nobody always does right
verse 19 now we know that what thinks whoever the law says they say it's to
them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world
may become guilty before God the Bible's saying every mouth may be
stopped what it's trying to bring to your mind
is a person that's essentially at a courtroom being judged
and basically you're on trial it's time for your defense
you're you're you're being accused of murder what's your defense
and it's like they got the video they got the evidence
they got your DNA what's your defense
and it's like you got nothing because you're so clearly guilty
and when it comes to us trying to work our way to heaven we are so clearly
guilty you've heard a stand before God well
how can you explain the fact that you lied 15 000 times in your life
when one lie sends you to hell
i'm sorry what are you gonna say i mean one lies enough to send us to
hell we've all done things far worse than tell a lie
and so it's like well what's our defense warm out there's a stop
outside and in the sad reality because i do believe he's trying to
break your mind the idea when a person dies i don't want you to get confused
when a person dies they immediately go to heaven or hell their soul
immediately goes to heaven or hell but then one day both for for the
same people you get a glorified body at the rapture there will be people that
get saved after that point so um before the millennial reign of
Christ will be the judgment seat of Christ we're gonna get
gonna get our rewards we're not gonna be punished for any wrong don't we do
but there's the great white throne judgment that is after the thousand
years and that's where people get punished
and i promise you every single person
that is has been in hell and is at that great white throne judgment it's like
they want to try to come up with a justification and their mouth is just
stopped where it's basically like you cannot answer you've got
an all-powerful god and it's like there's nothing you can say there's
nothing you can do your mouth is stopped because everyone is guilty before hell
but notice what it says verse four romans 3 verse 4 romans 3 verse 4
it says god forbid yay let god be true but every man
a liar by the way when it says every man a liar also means every woman a liar
also and you know what if you have if you
raise young kids boys and girls at a young age
will lie i mean my son ezra right he will try to get out of stuff he will be
dishonest sometimes it's just human nature
when you're born to try to make excuses or lie to get out of trouble
and the bible says that god be true but every man a liar because
all of us have lied a multitude of times and see the bible speaks all throughout
the old testament about believing on the true god says the living god and the
true god come up over and over and over again when jesus said i am the true
and i am the light it's referencing to being the true god
and the living god yay let god be true and jesus christ
was always correct he never sins he's 100 true
but every man a liar and so he sees that the lamb has to do without limits and
the thing is that the only one throughout the history of the world that
could actually pay for our sins is jesus christ
go to your bible to xc12 xc12 we're going to skip isaiah 53 i had that in my
notes sermons you know longer than i was
expecting so isaiah 53 is a great prophetical passage where
you cannot read it without getting the fact okay this is about jesus christ
right it's very clearly about jesus
and you think of the great characters throughout history
and uh you know generally we think of the greatest people that have ever lived
we generally think of men just because men are more common in the bible
but i i think it'd be basically an equal split personally if you're to look at
the 20 greatest people that ever lived it's probably going to be outside of
jesus like 10 men 10 women or something like that
uh you know but you think of like john the baptist comes to mind
as being a great character the bible says they're not risen to greater than
him that was born of women but there's no comparison between john
the baptist and jesus and even in the bible you see john the baptist
doubting and you know losing his faith a little bit when he's in prison
so even the greatest man that ever lived outside of jesus is
nothing compared to these that's what john the baptist himself said it's like
whoa i have needed to be baptized of you
he's like i'm not worthy you know just for this the shoe latches
you know it's just like i'm nothing compared to jesus christ
right he understood that point one everyone needs to sacrifice and eat the
lamb basically everyone needs to get saved number two
the lamb must be a male without limits well the only one throughout human
history that was perfect was jesus christ of
course he was all god and all man quiver three let's see the description of
the object mentioned in exodus 12 or 6
x is 12 or 6 and by the way when you're reading through
like x is 12 is some kind of some deep reading
where it's not necessarily the most exciting
passage and that's where we really have to stop and think about because there's
a lot of great information but sometimes we kind of read over as
we're looking at just details without really thinking of the
bigger picture than what's being said but verse 6 and you shall keep it until
the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of
Israel shall kill it in the evening and they shall take up the blood and
strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post
post of the houses wherein they shall eat it so notice
the bottle says the two side posts and on the upper post
of the houses and i don't have a picture but essentially the two side posts
so you put blood here you put blood here
and the thing is if you put this together and bring this down
what you're basically seeing is the rough shape of
a cross on the door and so it's the two side posts and the upper post it's
basically giving you the picture of a cross and so basically when the
Passover is taking place they're looking and when they see the
blood of the lamb on the door in the shape of a cross man i wonder
what that could be picturing it's like man it looks like it's a
perfect picture of the lord jesus christ and so when they see the bloody
without blemish lamb on the door in the shape of a cross i will pass i will pass
over you i mean a clear picture how can you be a muslim
and say you believe the old testament and then not see
that this is clearly about the lord jesus christ
of course in islam they say that it is judas that died
on the cross and not jesus and i don't know if that's a hundred percent every
muslim but that is the dominant belief in islam that judas died
on the cross and of course they don't believe in
a resurrection and it's really weird because in islam i remember when i
learned this a few years ago i was i was really shocked islam says that
jesus is the messiah and islam says that jesus is the christ
it's like but you don't believe he's god you don't believe he's perfect do you
not know anything about what the old testament says about what the messiah is
going to be like it's like they say he is the messiah but
he wasn't as good as mohammed it's like what doesn't make any sense
very weird anyways um first peter chapter two go to first peter two
first peter chapter two but like you know it matters how jesus died
okay there there are some that teach that all that matters
is that jesus died but it doesn't matter how he died like he lived a
sinless life and he died of old age that would be good enough
that's ridiculous and they'll say well he could have died of cancer he could
have died of old age he could have jumped off a cliff or whatever i mean
however he died it didn't really matter it's just a matter of it's like what
about all and you know the most famous person that teaches this garbage is
john carter completely denies the blood of jesus christ
as being significant it's like well there's a reason why we have all these
songs about the blood because the bible speaks about the blood
over and over even in exodus 12 with the passover
there's the blood on the door right first peter two verse 21
for even a year or two where you call because christ also suffered for us
leaving us an example he should follow his steps
who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth and guile was actually
it's a bit of an archaic word it's not so common now but it's also
linked to sin as well there was no sense it's basically a synonym for
sin there's no guile no sin who when he was reviled reviled not again
when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him that judges
righteously through his own self bearer sins in his own body
on the tree that we think that the sin should live
on a righteousness by whose stripes he were healed and
of course the stripes would cause blood and the blood is significant
now the bible says in his own body on the tree
now a lot of people get confused by this and jehovah's witnesses are the big
religion that has this false doctrine because jehovah's witnesses do not
believe that jesus died like this they believe that he
died like this like that there was just like
an awkward state that he died on okay
now that goes against me the bible says the print of the
nails plural in his hands meaning one nail here one nail here
right because the new testament i believe is john 20 the print of the
nails in his hands when he's talking to thomas and so that
shows that it's not just like this where there'd be one nail because the print of
the nails plural in his hand okay but they get
confused by this because they say well it was just an
upward state that he died on well let me explain to you why the bible says tree
and there's two different reasons that i can see of where a tree
is mentioned why it would be number one because what is a cross made out of
it's made out of a tree so i wouldn't see this as a problem as it is anyway
because it's made out of a tree so it's talking about the object that
made the wood and so it says tree but the other thing
is this when you think about a tree a tree also kind of gives a bit of a
picture of what a cross because you've got the thick
trunk and then you've got the branches that
are going to the side so a tree and obviously trees are different but in
many ways the tree resembles a cross right you got the thick trunk and
you got the branches and so really i believe the reason why it is a tree is
because it's showing you both of those things
in one verse i i certainly don't see a contradiction because obviously a cross
is made it's a it's a wooden cross it's made out
of a tree but a tree basically resembles a cross as well as the branches are
going out to the outside okay uh go to x chapter 12 x is 12
x is chapter 12
so
yeah it really looks like jahovah's witnesses it's like they just
make up random stuff and of course they're banking on the fact you've
never even thought of this stuff because everyone believes
certain things like well i just died an upward stake you're thinking what
it's like i've never even heard that before even though you know
even in human history they will show like when they crucify people they
crucify them with their arms out so like where are they even getting them
now i will say this one nice thing about jahovah's witnesses
the one thing they do correctly is they're like the only religion that has
really a tough version of jesus right he's got short hair
you know he looks very tough he looks like a man it's like every other
picture of jesus out there from every religion he's got long hair
he's really effeminate he's really thin he's wearing makeup and all these things
or whatever the one thing i can say about jahovah's
witnesses is that they have jesus being pretty tough and strong in the picture
so they got one thing correct okay broken clock is right twice a day
right but anyways point number one everyone
needs to sacrifice beneath the lamb basically everyone needs to get saved
point two the lamb is a male without blemish clear picture of jesus
the description of the object the blood on the door was not just randomly blood
thrown on the door but it was in the shape of a cross
on the door point four the bible mentions the fire here in excess 12 the
fire excess 12 verse 8 they shall eat the
flesh on that night roast with fire
and unleavened bread and of course unleavened bread we know leaven is a
picture of sin so unleavened as in sinless and with bitter herbs they shall
eat it eat not of it raw or softened at all
with water but roast with fire his head with his legs
and with the pertinence thereof and he shall let nothing of it remain until
the morning then it says and now which remained in
the oven until the morning we shall burn with fire so the idea was basically you
know eat as much as you can but of course if
you cannot finish the lamb you're completely full
then whatever's left over burn with fire now what is the picture that the bible
is trying to give you as they are burning the lamb with fire
go to act chapter two acts two
acts 2 verse 27 acts 2 verse 27 the bible reads
because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy
one to see corruption thou hast made known to me the ways of
life thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance
men and brethren let me freely speak on you the patriarch david that he is both
dead and buried and his self occurs with us on this day
therefore being a prophet and knowing that god had sworn with an oath to him
that of the fruit of his loins according according to the flesh who raised up
christ and said on this throne he's seeing this before speaking the
resurrection of christ that his soul was not left in hell
neither his flesh should see corruption so there is a prophecy of jesus here and
what the bible says is his soul was not left in hell neither
his flesh did see corruption christabel do you want to come up here
i can hold you if you want she looks like she's about to sleep
but anyways you can come up here if you get tired christabel but
it says here his soul was not left in hell
neither his flesh did see corruption now we have to understand how this works in
verse 31 grammatically okay let's start at the inward says
neither is flesh did see corruption the word neither
is a negating word a negation that's taking place
okay it says neither his flesh did see corruption your flesh corrupting
would be a bad thing so his flesh did not
corrupt okay grammatically speaking the statement before is going to work
in the same way so his flesh did not see corruption his
flesh corruption is a bad thing so what does it say in the statement before that
it says that his soul was not left in hell not is the negating there
and his soul being in hell is that a good thing or bad thing
flesh seeing corruption is bad so his soul being in hell
is bad right it would not make sense where it's like
his soul being left and not being left in hell you know like
being in hell is a good thing and then your corruption's a bad thing it would
make sense right and so the bible's showing you
that your soul being in hell would be a bad thing like your flesh seeing
corruption's a bad thing well doesn't that make sense because
hell's a terrible place to go to in hell you're being tortured and how
you're burning for all eternity and so the bible's saying that his soul
was not left in hell look when jesus was in hell guess what
he wasn't having a good time to say why because he was on fire
because here's the thing when we die when a person dies
unsaved they go to hell for all eternity to pay for their sins
well here's the thing jesus was paying for our sins
so where did he go to pay for our sins he died on the cross
and then his soul went to hell to pay for our sins and i do believe that he
suffered in eternity of hell in those three days how that works it's we can't
fully comprehend but what jonah said prophesied was the earth
was about me forever and i do believe that's a picture
as he also mentioned the word hell in that passage of basically jesus suffered
an eternity of hell for all of us in a span of three days and of course
god is outside of time so some of these things
we just couldn't possibly try to wrap our minds around all
these things but when jesus was there for three days
and three nights he suffered the penalty you would for all of your sins
that you never committed never will commit if you weren't saved
right he did that in those three days so the bible is very clear that
being in hell is a bad place well there's a reason why the offerings were
burnt because that pictures jesus christ right
and so just as the offerings were burned jesus
he went to hell after he died okay um go to access chapter 12 access 12
and that's something that you know the catholic church is actually correct
about they teach that at least they i don't
know what pope francis teaches but that's what
historically they've always thought that you know i believe it's in one of their
prayers they say or whatever that is his soul uh was in hell well that's
directed from the bible what's amazing to me and what's sad
about this is that baptist churches are usually
wrong about this and it's it's just like you know i mean
obviously every false religion is right about some things
so just because the religion is false doesn't mean everything they teach is
false and the catholic church is clearly correct about this it's clearly
what the bible says here and the old test and there are always
these burn offerings that you see but the question is like why is it that
they can see a clear verse like that and walk away and then say well but the
center of the earth you know before jesus ascended to
heaven was like a paradise they're having a good time
there's like the good part of hell and the bad part of hell and you know
i'll confess my my false one to another because when i was an earlier christian
i remember reading this and thinking you know just that jesus went to hell
like just like it says but i remember i started listening to
baptist preaching and i listened to all these preachers say that well it wasn't
literally a burning hell and i just thought
well they know the bible a lot better than me so i guess i
i'm misunderstanding this and then now i look at it today like how foolish am i
right because if you're safe you've got the holy spirit of god inside of you
they can teach you all things now of course you can learn from people
let them read the bible more and and but but at the same time it's like
when something is clear as day it's like this is what the bible teaches
right and so you know obviously all of us the same people we search the
scripture for ourselves all of us need to read the bible to know these things
um go to Exodus 12
Exodus chapter 12 and we'll get a few more places and we'll
close up Exodus chapter 12 but it says here in verse 11
and so point number five let's talk about the blood so we talked about the
description of the object and specifically about the blood here in
Exodus 12 verse 11 and thus shall you eat it with your
loins girded your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand and you shall
eat it in haste it is the lord's passover
the crowd passed through the land of egypt this night and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of egypt both man and beast
against all the gods of egypt i will execute judgment
i am the lord so basically uh according to verse 12
essentially he's been executing judgment on all these false
gods of egypt and any gods that are left basically they're all going to
basically be under this sort of judgment
as with this final one of course as i mentioned before
the main god in ancient egypt was really a pharaoh himself like he was
looked at as a god man but it says here verse 13
and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the house is where you are
and when i see the blood i will pass over you
and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when i smite the land of
egypt this is where we get the song in the
hymnal when i see the blood when i see the blood
when i see the blood when i see the blood
i will pass i will pass over you and that's one reason why
you know our not that it handles perfect i'm not saying it was written by god
what you see is a lot of these older songs
were really based on clear verses in the bible
whereas a lot of the newer songs are not really based in the bible at all or
they're just very barely based on what the bible
says right yeah but they just kind of make up various different things there's
no real bible verse they're pointing to they just kind of
say whatever whereas like a lot of the older hands what you see is they're
directly from the bible itself right so as as our kids growing up
are singing songs like when i see the blood
we're actually learning some doctrine just you know subtly learning these
things without realizing it and you know kids can grow up and just
know a lot of things just from having seen it in the bible
then at first peter one first peter one we'll go to first peter one then go back
to excess 12 and then we'll finish up first peter one
first peter chapter one verse 18 first peter one verse 18
first peter one verse 18 for as much as you know that you are not redeemed with
corruptible things and silver and gold from your main conversation received by
tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of christ
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot i mean you can tell
jesus is the fulfillment of what was said
who very was ordained before the foundation of the world but was
manifest these last times for you so this was always god's plan god knew what
was going to take place he knew man could never keep the rules
and so of course jesus was always going to come and die and take place into the
world who by him do believe in god that raised
them up from the dead and there's referring to the fact that
god the father raised god the son up from the dead
and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in god
seeing you have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit on
the unfeel of the brethren see that you love one another with a
pure heart fervently being born again not a crumple seed would have been
crumpled by the word of god which liveth and abideth forever so when it comes to
being born again what you're seeing linked here is the
resurrection of jesus being raised from the dead
you see talk about the blood of christ and the fact that he's sinless
well him being sinless is necessary right
yes him rising from the dead is necessary right for us being born again
well it would make no sense to talk about the blood of christ that's not
necessary when it's listing all these things that are
basic necessities his resurrection the fact that he was sinless and of course
the fact that it's his blood so it was the blood of
christ that saves go to exit chapter 12 we'll close up
x is 12 x is 12
it's amazing we're only through 13 verses here so far in x is 12 and
there's a lot of symbolism and pictures of the lord jesus christ
x is 12 verse 14 and this day shall be on you for memorial
and you shall keep it a feast the lord throughout your generations you shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance forever point number six the last point
is the lord suffer because what god said about the passover
is that this is an ordinance forever here's the about this you know there are
religions like judaism who they don't believe the messiah has
come and yet they don't keep the passover
every year it's like well if god says forever why don't you keep the passover
right or for example islam why aren't you doing
this right because he says forever you say
well pastor we don't keep the passover what we do because the lord's supper is
the fulfillment of the passover the big change you see is what well the
fact that we don't sacrifice the lamb you say why don't we sacrifice the lamb
the same reason why we don't do any animal sacrifices
because the fact goes pictured and pointed to who
the lord jesus christ and so we're still doing it
and now what we're doing is remembering back to what jesus did for us
whereas before they're looking forward and the land is the big part
uh it wasn't the only part of the passover but it was the big part
he's very clear everybody needs the lamb everybody's going to do it
and that was the big part of the feast that they had was the lamb but now
we don't sacrifice the land why is that well because of the fact jesus already
died he's a lamb slain from the foundation of the world what we do now
and you know the thing is the bible mentions jesus mentioned the passover
and then right when it's the passover you see them taking what we call the
lord's supper and he makes the change to how they do
it you say why because the fact now we're looking back
and the two things we're looking at are the unleavened bread which picture
the sinless body of jesus and then we have the great juice which pictures the
blood of jesus which is necessary for salvation so
we do keep it as an ordinance forever but we do it as the lord's supper now
we call it because there is a change that takes place so
with the passover you need the blood of the door well here's the thing i mean to
take the lord's supper presumably you're safe
you know and you know i i when we take out the lord's supper i let people make
their decision i kind of just say what the bible says
but you're supposed to be saved to take the lord's supper so for example with
our kids it's like you know with zef you know
we're confident in his salvation with our other kids they're just young they
don't understand these things it's like i know you like grape juice
but just after the service okay you can hear some grape juice
uh anyways let's just uh close up here verse 15 seven days so he got another
bread and in the first day he shall put away 11 out of your houses for
whosoever eateth love and bread from the first day until the seventh day that
soul shall be cut off from israel cut off meaning
killed put six feet under and the first day there should be a holy complication
in the seventh day there should be a holy complication to you
no matter work should be done in them save that which every man must eat that
only may be done of you you shall observe the feast of unleavened
bread for in the self-same day if i brought your armies out of the land of
egypt therefore so you observe the state of
your generations by ordinance forever now you might think that it's pretty
harsh to be cut off or killed for not following these
instructions but you have to understand this is a picture of jesus christ
and when it comes to salvation if there's any amount of works added to
that salvation any bit whatsoever and if by grace it
is no more worse otherwise grace is no more breaks and
if people mix in a little bit i remember i had a friend of mine
and uh you know he was dating this girl in college
and you know this girl had not come from like a strict baptist background and
there's some things that she didn't really like internal security was
something that she you know we knew she didn't believe
in it and he talked to her about it and he's like yeah but you know he's
like you know um and people always call me except
by my last name so they said you know she's like 99.9
percent on internal security she just thinks there's one exception
i was like brother she's not saying i was like what are you doing
it's like she's like she just thinks that you can give it up
you know she doesn't think that it can be taken away i was like
you can do whatever you want but i'm just saying you have to believe it's
eternal right any amount of of you know there's
not really this place well they're closer to self i mean
in a way some of us here in the gospel is working on their heart but it's not
like they're closer to salvation because
they've got you know only 20 works added instead of 25
it's like no they're still just rejecting
salvation by grace through faith and so it's a big deal to add something so god
was very strict you break the sabbath day death penalty because it was a picture
of jesus christ and showing you how important salvation is
you cannot mix anything verse 18 in the first month on the 14th
day of the month and even he showed you the unleavened bread
to the one and 20th day of the month and even seven days shall there be no leaven
found in your houses for whosoever eateth that which is leaven
even that soul shall be cut from the congregation of israel whether it be a
stranger or born in the land he shall eat nothing leaven in all your
habitations shall you eat unleavened bread let's go to
your heavenly father thank you for uh this amazing
chapter and section of the bible we've read uh help us just to read our bibles
diligently including the old testament and look for these pictures and
symbolism all the great information we can learn jesus
you