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There's no other way but this. I shall there get sight of the gates of light in the way of the cross I miss. The way of the cross leads home. The way of the cross leads home. It is sweet to know as I undergo. The way of the cross leads home. I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way. The path that the savior trod. If I ever climb to the heights of line where the soul is at home with God. The way of the cross leads home. The way of the cross leads home. It is sweet to know as I onward go. The way of the cross leads home. And I bid farewell to the way of the world to walk in it nevermore. For my Lord says come and I seek my home where he waits at the open door. The way of the cross leads home. The way of the cross leads home. It is sweet to know as I onward go. The way of the cross leads home. Good morning everybody, welcome to our foundation back in Christmas. Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements. If you don't have a bulletin would you just lift up your hand when the ushers will bring you a bulletin. On our front cover we have our verse of the week. It says that he took bread and gave thanks and break it and gave unto them saying this is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me. Luke chapter 22 verse 19. We are going to be remembering the Lord today in the Lord's Supper service. I'll get to that in just a minute. Our service times are Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. for our preaching service. Sunday evening at 3 30 is our second Sunday service. And then Thursday evening Bible study 6 30 p.m. will be in Hebrews chapter 9 this week. And our sowing times are listed below. We do have sowing today. And we're going to try to get in. It says to be in here at 1 10. But let's try to get in here at 1 0 5. We've been going beyond Jordan lately in our sowing area. So it's about 20 minutes out there by the time we get done with the little preaching. We're just going to try to push it up just a little bit depending on how long I go. But anyway we don't want to talk about that right now. But our praise report you can look down you can see the salvations. And it says February but that's supposed to read March. Right when you're fired. But now he's rehired again. But what I wanted to point out is that we had 36 salvations last month. So praise God for that. And we had five baptisms last week. So we're doing really well in soul winning this year. And I want to keep up the good work. We have a lot of soul winning planned for this month. So you can see the attendance totals down there at the bottom. On the right page on the inside is today April 2nd. And we're going to be doing the Lord's Supper at the p.m. service. And so I preach a sermon about it. Hopefully people that weren't here watch that sermon and kind of understand a little more about it. But I am going to be preaching about it a little bit today because I'm going to be preaching out of Exodus chapter 12 which is where the Passover is instituted. And we're just there. And we've missed some Sundays where I go into the Exodus. But I was originally going to preach that last Sunday. But I decided I wanted to just teach what the New Testament teaches first. And then we can look back at the Old Testament and see why those things were instituted. So anyway also. So that's at 3 30 p.m. So please be back on time for solely we're not going to wait. Obviously we want everybody to partake together. So just mind your time when you're out soul winning. And I know that sometimes you kind of get it if you're like about to pray with somebody or something that's different. But like if you're still knocking doors and it's 3 o'clock it's probably time to head back in. OK. So anyway April 4th which is this Tuesday is the men's leadership class. And men we're going to be practicing baptism. So I'm going to be washing all your sins away. No I'm just kidding. But so I'm going to teach you guys how to baptize all the men in the leadership class. And even if you're never going to be an ordained minister it's still it's still fun. And my first one was like a body slam. And I think I bashed Miss Bobby's head into the to the bottom of the tank. I mean I think her concussion is healed from that but I get a little overzealous sometimes. Anyway but now we're going to go through the technique of baptism. So I need a couple of people. Brother Sean if you would you be OK with bringing Gabe and we could practice on him. OK OK. So all right. But that's at 6 p.m. All right Gabe you got lucky. We're not going to we're not going to dunk you underwater. So anyway well maybe a couple of the guys could just bring some shorts and T-shirts some smaller guys. And I don't want you to do it Sean. Like Pastor Mendez didn't want to re-baptize me. He's like I just don't want to do it. It would look weird you know. Yeah. Oh Brother Ramon said he'll be the he'll be the test the test subject. All right. Cool. So if you hold him under too long he might come up swinging. So just be aware of that. Anyway so and we're also going to cover some stuff about the new app. We're not going to use the app today just because there's so many new people that didn't get the training yesterday and the training went a little long. And there's some bugs that need to be worked out and things like that. So the app is going to not be used today. So today when you go out don't use the new invites that are over there. That table right there is just a temporary table for when we use the app. On the other side there's some Easter invites. Please only use the Easter invites today and anytime you go soloing for the rest of this week. So if you're a soloing captain please take some of those with you. And even on the 8th when we're having the big soloing push which is next Saturday in Gresham. We want to take the Easter invites and try to use up as many of them as we can. I was smart this year and I didn't date them. So we could use them again next year. But I'm learning slowly but surely how to do this stuff. But anyway so yeah next weekend we're going to do another push in Gresham. And we've picked out some good spots. And hopefully it'll be a lot more receptive than yesterday. Yesterday I felt like I walked 10 miles but I think it was only a couple. But it was pretty rough out there. I mean we had two salvation so praise God for that. But it definitely wasn't very receptive in the areas that we went to. So we're going to try to hit a spot that's a little more receptive next Saturday. And I think that people usually end up getting saved in that part of town. So it's a good spot for soloing. Then April 9th is Easter Sunday. We'll have a potluck after the morning service. The church is providing ham. We've asked some volunteers to help just heat up the hams or whatever to bring them to church. But the sign up is in the WhatsApp group. If you haven't signed up for anything please do so. And if you don't bring anything you can still partake of the food. Okay I'm not trying to be mean or anything like that. But hopefully there'll be enough food for everybody. If everybody brings what they're supposed to bring. And also there's a backdrop that I ordered. It's kind of Easter-ish. It doesn't have Easter bunnies or eggs or anything like that in it. So you don't have to worry. You can bring your own bunny. No I'm just kidding don't do that. It's not about the Easter bunny folks. It's about Jesus Christ. But there's a picture that's going to be available. We'll have the backdrop set up so you can take pictures. If it's nice outside by all means go find a place to take your family pictures in the real outdoors. But we will have that available for you. April 11th is the OMSI homeschool field trip. That's at 930 in the morning meeting on the location at OMSI. If you don't know where OMSI is just Google it and you'll find it really easily. Okay this is 2023. Don't text me for the address unless you don't have a smartphone. Alright so that's 930. The parking is free. The admission is free if you already signed up. If you didn't already sign up and you still are wanting to go to it you would just have to pay your admission at the front office or whatever. The crochet class, the next one is April 12th. That's at 3 p.m. See Mrs. Boda for any questions with that. April 13th through 17th is the Detroit Soul Waning trip. That's in two weeks and it's going to be very exciting. April 29th is the Soul Waning marathon in Salem, Oregon. And then the men's preaching night is April 30th. And that is at the evening service. The King James Conference is going to be May 25th through 28th. We'll have Pastor Shelley, Pastor Anderson, Pastor Jimenez and Pastor Jones all preaching. We'll have Q&A sessions after each sermon. We'll have sword drills for children and adults. And we're going to give out a lot of cool King James type prizes. So it's going to be a great conference and after Easter we'll start rolling out more information about that. So we are a family integrated church please. And I've been asking this for a while but limit the going ins and outs of the mother baby room. The rules are here for a reason so we don't want a bunch of distractions during the preaching service. And if there's just a lot of stuff going on like people are doing this. And then I'm up here preaching and then you're going like this. So I don't want that. I mean obviously this is a small space and whatnot. And I'm not like trying to be mean or anything. But if you've already gone out and back in twice just stay in the mother baby room. OK. Please. Or the dad baby room whichever one. Obviously I'm not going to tackle you. I'm not going to stop preaching and run and make you go in there or something. But it's just a courtesy to other people. So if there's too much distraction I mean obviously it's distracting. So that's not what we want. So anyway use those mother baby rooms as needed. And then reserve the back rows for families with young children. Rockers and gliders are for pregnant nursing mothers or elders only. Please know men in those mother baby rooms during the services or moms in the dad baby rooms. No unattended children in any part of the building. That means during the fellowship time that means after church. If your children are in there by themselves then they're by themselves and they're not. You know we just want obviously a lot of people have multiple children and things like that. And it's hard to wrangle them all at the same time and I don't want you to not fellowship. But I do want you to watch your children make sure they're not just getting into stuff they're not supposed to. Or doing dangerous acts like jumping climbing on tables and jumping off of them and things like that. Or climbing on tables and turning the lights off and stuff like that. Anyway so let's just make sure to keep that in the back of your mind. Obviously this is a safe place but you know kids like to do dangerous things. So we just got to make sure we watch them all right. And then please know food in the assembly area. And I do have the table still set up but we're going to have a potluck next weekend. So I thought it's probably okay to just leave the table set up. But that doesn't mean leave a big giant mess down in that room too. I know I'm kind of going rules but it's because of transgressions that the laws have to be put into place all right. So at the end of the night we need to put the chairs back where they go. And that way the cleanup can be easy. So that way anybody's vacuuming or something like that. But please just you know don't just leave a giant mess for someone else to clean up. If you're in there using that room and you're eating don't just leave crackers all over the floor and whatever else. It's not somebody else's job to clean after you okay. And then I'm just being mean this morning I'll be nice later okay I promise. But no let's see silence your cell phones if you would at this time please. And escorts are available by the ushers to your vehicles. If you're a lady here or you just need a escort for whatever reason from an ailment or something. Then the ushers are available. They're the guys with the pins on their jackets that say usher. And the tithes and offerings at the bottom of the page you can see how to give if you want to online. And Timothy's birthday was yesterday right. I'm sorry I didn't say happy birthday to you Tim. Tim. He's not paying attention. Hi Tim. How's it going? He's like deep in biblical thought and theology right now. So how old is Tim now? Five man I can't believe it. All right well let's sing happy birthday to Tim right. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday God bless you. Happy birthday to you. All right that's all I have for announcements. So let's go ahead and sing another song. We'll receive the offering. Next song will be song 482. Let the Sun Shine Again. Song number 482, Let the Sun Shine Again in My Heart. Song 42, let's sing it together on the first. Song 42, let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again, stir the embers of love in my heart. Holy Spirit, every proof, then embrace me again. Let the sun shine again in my heart. Then how sweet were the scriptures, they spoke to me daily. How they guided my steps but my zeal did not last. And the sweet place of prayer where I met with my Savior I neglected. And so soon my joys were all blest. Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again, stir the embers of love in my heart. Holy Spirit, every proof, then embrace me again. Let the sun shine again in my heart. Oh, I loved well to walk in the way with God's children when we met with that heart in a fellowship sweep. But the bull of the flesh and some worldly companions in the paths of sin's pleasure attracted by me. Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again, stir the embers of love in my heart. Holy Spirit, every proof, then embrace me again. Let the sun shine again in my heart. Lord, I come now again for forgiveness and blessing. As Thy penitent child I am seeking Thy peace. For the blood paid by dead and Thy Spirit within me bids me come to my Father, my wandering to cease. Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again, stir the embers of love in my heart. Holy Spirit, every proof, then embrace me again. Let the sun shine again in my heart. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Exodus 12, the Bible reads, And 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. 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 an house. And if the household be too little for the lamb, the lamb 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. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats, and it shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And 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. And they shall eat the flesh, and that night roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall 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. And thus shall ye eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and the plagues shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. Ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day unto the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be in holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be in holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat that only may be done of you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall ye observe this day and your generations by an ordinance forever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses, for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lentil on the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he seeth the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side posts the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as ye have promised that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses, and the people bowed the head and worshipped. And the children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone, and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, We will be all dead men. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, and their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men besides children. And a mixed multitude went up also with them, and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt. For it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord to be observed, of all the children of Israel and their generations. And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover, there shall no stranger eat thereof, but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou has circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten, thou shall not carry forth aught of flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall ye break a bone thereof. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it, and he shall be as one that is born in the land, for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. Brother Timo, will you pray for us? Amen. Well, it's been a while since we've been in Exodus, and like I said in the announcements, I wanted to preach this on last Sunday, but I decided to go with the New Testament, clearer scriptures about what we do with the Lord's Supper, because we believe at this church that the Passover is, was, you know, continued through the Lord's Supper, and I preached about that last week, so I'll try to minimize that. This is a long chapter, and why do we read the whole chapter? Well, so you can get the context of what's being said before the preaching begins, so you can kind of match what's being said, and you kind of get a feel for the rest of the passage. But I did want to mention real quick, we are going to have two baptisms after the service, so if you're going to be baptized, if you're one of the ones being baptized, then just as the last song starts, just go ahead and get ready and then come back out. I'll be waiting for you by the warm water, and if I get a couple of the ushers to just make sure the steps are out here and the towels and such. But anyway, let's move on to the service. So let's look at verse number one together, and the first thing I want to point out is that the Passover is a picture of the salvation of Jesus Christ. So it's a picture in the Passover of the shedding blood of Jesus and the lamb being sacrificed for our sins. So look at Exodus 12.1, it says, And 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. So the children of Israel had a different new year. They had the spring month of Nisan, or Nissan, or whatever, however you want to pronounce that, but that first month was the beginning of months for them. It's like their new year, and it says it shall be the first month of the year to you. And most cultures have some sort of new year holiday that they have, like there's a Chinese new year that's different from our new year. Our new year's in the dead of winter. But to me it seems a lot more reasonable that it would be spring, because that's kind of when winter kind of represents when everything dies off or whatever, and it's cold and snowy or whatever, and the new year, the spring, life begins to bud back out and things like that. So I see that the picture of it being spring is also the picture of someone being dead in the winter and then new life in the spring, so I can see why God would implement this as their new year. And so what are some things about the new year? Well, the new year, everybody always has like, Well, I want to do things different this year. It's kind of like a reset button for people, and a lot of people have these goals that they want to stick to. Most of it has to do with weight loss, it seems like in this country, but there's a lot of goals that people want to quit. They want to quit smoking, or they want to quit whatever it is that they want to quit doing and start anew. It's just something that's ingrained in us that when we're kind of going on a bad path, we want to try to hit the reset button and make things new. And so the new year is kind of a picture of making all things new, right? And it also could represent the New Testament. So when the new year came, it's like a newness for the children of Israel, and it makes me think about the New Testament, and how about a new creature, a new man? So when we get saved, we were dead in trespasses and sin, and then we get saved in its newness of life. So in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17, it says, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. I think that's a great companion scripture to this. And let's look at verse 3. It says, 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. So now Moses is beginning to teach the children of Israel here the doctrine of the Passover, teaching them to keep the feast of the Passover and unleavened bread. And he says to take a lamb for a house. And notice it says it's in the tenth day of the month to do this. And the tenth day in the Bible represents a lot of different things, but think about the ten plagues that he's putting upon the nation of Egypt. So the tenth plague is about to happen, and so obviously the tenth of the month represents the time when they take the... You've got to get saved or you're going to partake of that last plague, right? You've got to strike the doorpost with the lamb's blood. We'll get more into that as we go on, but the interesting thing about it is that anybody that's saved, this lamb, anybody that's saved through the shedding of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is safe from the plague that all mankind's going to have happen to them, and that's death. And so the last plague that we see, and again we'll cover this more as we go through the Scriptures here, but that last plague represents the death of the first born. And when the lamb is slain, so two different things are going to happen to people in this world also. There's people that believe and there's people that believe not. The people that believe not are going to be cast into hell no matter how nice they are, no matter how good of a grandparent they were, no matter how good of a mother they were, or father or child or whatever. If you pass from this life to death, when your flesh stops breathing and your heart stops beating, the most important thing, the decision in your life that you can make is to make Jesus your Lord and Savior. By believing on him. And if you don't do that, you're going to lift up your eyes in hell, being instantly in torment for all eternity. And so this last plague kind of signifies, I think that, I don't know why he chose the tenth day, but because you would think new year, first day, but it's the tenth day. And I think that it has something to do with the fact that there's ten plagues, but anyway, let's look at Revelation chapter 2 verse 10. Just keep your finger in Exodus 12. We are going to be looking at a lot of scripture this morning, but that's nothing new to you. So if you have the Lamb of God, that plague of death is never going to come upon you. You're safe from the second death. But the thing is, we're not safe from persecution because weren't the Egyptians persecuting the children of Israel during this time? They were. They had them enslaved in hard bondage and rigor. But when they leave in the Exodus, they're free from all this stuff. So there's a lot of pictures in the book of Exodus, and especially a lot in this chapter. But Revelation 2, 10 says, Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation. What does it say? Ten days, right? Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. So here's the picture that matches with that verse, is that if you overcome, you shall not be hurt of the second death. Now that word overcome, if you study the scriptures, when you overcome, it's when you've believed in Jesus Christ for salvation. It's not talking about overcoming. You've repented of all your sins or something like that. It's talking about overcoming that second death by believing on Christ. It says you shall not be hurt by the second death. So the children of Israel, the children of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, on that tenth day, what happens to them? The death of the firstborn. What happens to the children of Israel? They've taken that lamb and they've applied that blood to their houses like God said for them to do. Look at verse 4, it says in Exodus 12, it says, 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 souls. That's very important because you're not just counting the house itself, you're counting the number of souls. Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. So how big the lamb is or how many lambs you have to have is based upon how many people are in that household. And if you have a small household and you can't eat the whole thing, then you would invite your neighbor over to partake of that too. Which is a good picture of soul winning. You're saved, your house is saved, you want your home to be saved, but you also want your neighbor to be saved too. So you're like, hey, why don't you come over and eat this lamb with us? Obviously the lamb is the picture of Jesus Christ, we'll get more into that. But, so each individual per house needs that lamb personally, right? It's a personal decision for each man, woman, and child to believe in Jesus Christ. This is a picture for us. Because listen children, you're not saved just because you come to this church. You're not saved just because your parents are saved. You have to make a personal decision to trust Christ as your savior, and that can't be mommy and daddy's decision for you, that can't be grandma and grandpa's decision for you, that has to be your decision. And a lot of kids, they want to get involved and everything, but I would just make sure that parents make sure your children understand what salvation is. And what we're doing this evening is going to be very exciting for kids and they want to partake in the Lord's Supper, but don't allow them to partake unless you know they're saved, okay? Unless they are baptized, unless they understand why are we doing this, because they want to do something exciting and fun, they like to drink the juice, and I'm sure a lot of kids like that, but the reason why we refrain from allowing them to do that, first of all you should be saved before you partake, but the other thing, it's a teaching tool to help those people in your house to be saved. Everybody should want their children to be saved, obviously, and so that is a perfect time to teach your children what salvation is all about, and then when you deny them the elements, it makes them want to dig into it further. I know that people have gotten saved just from going through this process that we're going to be doing tonight with the Lord's Supper, but you must choose on your own to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior by believing on him. Exodus 12-5, your lamb shall be without blemish. A male of the first year, he shall take it from the sheep or from the goat. So the lamb that they were supposed to take had to be without blemish. What does that mean? Well, if you have blemishes on your face, you would probably say that's just like a mark, maybe a scar, or even like a pimple or something like that, but just some kind of defect in your body is a blemish, and the lamb that they had to choose had to be without blemish, and what does that make you think of? Obviously, Jesus Christ was without sin, he was perfect, and so the lamb had to be a picture of what Jesus Christ was going to be later on, and it had to be a male. Notice it wasn't a female, it was a male, and they needed to take it from the sheep or the goats without blemish. Turn to John 1, verse 29, just keep your finger again in Exodus 12-5. We'll come back to that, but John 1, verse 29, the Bible says, The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. So, when John sees Jesus coming for baptism, he looks at him and he says, Behold the Lamb of God. This is not an accident, this is shown to us on purpose that the lamb that it's talking about in Exodus chapter 12 is representative of the Lamb of God, which is Jesus Christ, who is without blemish, and he's the one that takes away the sin of the world. Jesus Christ is representative, or the lamb is representative of Jesus Christ. Turn to 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21, 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21. It says in 2 Corinthians 5, 21, it says, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So, who's the he? Well, it's Jesus Christ. He's made him to be sin for us. So, Jesus did not sin, but because all the sins of the world were poured upon him when he was suffering on the cross, then that made him sin. He became sin. He became the detested thing that God hates so that he could die in our place and forgive us of all our sin. It says, who knew no sin? So, it carefully tells us that even though he became sin, he still didn't know sin. He didn't perform sin. He didn't commit sin. That we might be made the righteousness of God. So, when you are saved, the righteousness of God comes on to you, and so it's through him. So, it says that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. In who? In Christ. You can't be righteous on your own. We're all sinners. We're incapable. The Bible says there's none righteous, no, not one. But the caveat to that is Jesus Christ was. Jesus Christ was perfect, and he was the propitiation for our sins. Back to Exodus chapter 12 verse 6. Exodus 12 verse 6, it says, And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. So, they take the lamb on the tenth day, and then on the fourteenth day of the same month, the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. So, what is this representing to us? Well, it's representing to us the fact that the whole congregation, everybody that's saved, everybody in the world basically, is responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. Because even if there was just one sinner on this world, he would have died for that person's sin. But see, all are sinners. But see, not everybody is saved. So, if you're saved, and you're in the congregation, then that picture is that we kill that lamb because in reality we did kill Jesus. The Bible talks about how the Jews killed Jesus. That's true. And how Pilate allowed Jesus to be killed, he washed his hands and said, I don't want to have anything to do with this, but Pilate could have set him free. Pilate didn't have to let the Jews crucify, or let his soldiers crucify him. He just said, I don't want to have anything to do with this. I washed my hands of it. That doesn't mean he's innocent. So Pilate is responsible. The Roman soldiers are responsible. The Jews that were against him, the people that he came to to save were against him. They said, his blood be upon us and on our children, putting this blood curse upon themselves and their children, right? But in reality, it's also us. Every single sinner on the face of the earth is responsible for putting Christ, Christ Jesus, on the cross. Let's turn to Matthew 27, verse 25. Matthew 27, verse 25. Again, keep your finger in Exodus. Matthew 27, verse 25. It says, Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children. So when they were saying, hey, who do you want? Do you want Barabbas or do you want Jesus? And they said they want Barabbas. So they want some murderer, some seditionist that is basically a scumbag, and they want him instead of Jesus. That pictures the death outside the camp of the scapegoat. So they chose Jesus to be crucified instead of the sinful person, Barabbas. So that's just a picture of them obviously choosing the wrong thing, but it was the right thing in reality because his blood saves us. Verse 26 says, Then released he Barabbas unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Who delivered him? Pilate delivered him. Now turn to 1 John chapter 2, verse 2. 1 John chapter 2, verse 2. But see, it was necessary for Jesus to die. He allowed himself to be crucified. He could have called all these legions of angels to come help him and take him off the cross. He could have just said, you know, I'm not going to do this, and just destroyed everybody if he wanted to, but he didn't do that because the plan was the salvation of all mankind that would believe in him from the beginning to the end. 1 John 2 says, And he is the propitiation for our sins. Not just a propitiation or one of the propitiations. It's the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. So the blood that he shed that day, the fact that he died on that cross that day, his blood was spilled so that the whole world would have their sins covered by his blood. And the word propitiation means appeasement. So what are they appeasing? The wrath of God. Because God has to judge sin. God is a righteous and holy judge. He's not going to just look the other way when we commit crimes. A good judge, if you think, you know, not the judges we have in this country, by the way, but a good judge isn't going to take bribes. He's not going to just, you know, interpret the law however he wants. God interprets the law how it's interpreted. You murder somebody in cold blood, death penalty. You rape somebody, death penalty. You kidnap somebody, death penalty. You commit sodomy, death penalty. You commit bestiality, death penalty. And so God has to judge according to his own standards and so if he judged the whole world without having something to cover or to redeem us from that curse, then we would all be doomed. But this is the only way, and it was a bloody way. I talked on Thursday night about how everything had to be purged with blood. All the things that they made for the tabernacle, including all the beautiful curtains and the veil that leads to the holiest place, the Ark of the Covenant, all the things that they used, they had to sprinkle blood over every single thing to cleanse those things. It's a picture of Jesus cleansing and being separated from the world and that his blood covers all of our sins. So that time of the year when the high priest would go in, they'd put the blood on their ear, their right thumb, and their toe, their big toe. And then they'd sacrifice for themselves because they're human beings and they're sinful too, but then they sacrificed for the people and then they went in. They had to be sanctified. They had to wash and do specific things to wash themselves and then do it once a year. But Jesus Christ only had to do it one time because his blood covers all sins for all time. So that propitiation is an appeasement to God, the sacrifice that's acceptable to him. You know how when it says in the Bible, and it was a sweet-smelling savor to him, that's what it was like when Jesus died. And you're like, well that kind of seems morbid and sick, but that's what it required. So God was happy with the sacrifice that Jesus made. Turn back to Exodus chapter 12 verse 7. So it says, So they're supposed to kill the lamb when? On the 14th day, right? They're supposed to kill the lamb and then they're supposed to take the blood and strike it on the doorpost of the houses wherein they shall eat it. Which obviously pictures your personal salvation, right? So now turn to Hebrews chapter 9 verse 14. And I know I'm having you turn to a lot of verses, and in the next points I won't have you turn so much, but it is 50-something verses, so I apologize. They're probably going to go a little bit long today, but you know, you're used to that, so. Anyway, Hebrews chapter 9 verse 14 it says, And this is also pictured in this chapter because it was supposed to be without blemish, right? The lamb and without spot. Without spot, without blemish, without defect, and so that's what it's talking about in Hebrews chapter 9. And then it says, So what were the dead works that the children of Israel were doing? Well, they were enslaved by the Egyptians, which pictures the fact that we're in bondage to the sin in our life, and then it says you're purged from that, from the dead works that you were doing, and then served the living God. So it's not like the children of Israel were free, but God wasn't enslaving them to himself. He was freeing them so that they could serve God, so they could serve Christ. Now look back at Exodus chapter 12 verse 8, Exodus 12 to 8. It says, So here's the specification of how they're supposed to do it. So they're supposed to eat the flesh that night. So what night? The 14th. They strike the doorpost with the blood, they eat the lamb, and it's got to be cooked a specific way. You can't boil it. You can't eat it raw, which would be gross in my opinion, but some people eat raw meat or whatever. I like my steaks medium, so it's still moving a little bit, but it's not completely rare. But notice that they had to do it a certain way. Roast with fire and unleavened bread. So what is that significance? Why roast it with fire? Why does it have to be like that? When Jesus died on the cross, did they burn him with fire? So what's the significance of a sacrifice having to be cooked in fire? Yeah, it's hell is what it represents. It represents hell. The unleavened bread represents the body of Christ that is without sin. Unleavened bread means there's no leaven in it. Leavened pictures sin in the Bible, so it's not big puffy bread that you were eating because that's leaven. Obviously, leavened bread isn't bad inherently, but for the picture of the body of Christ, then it's unleavened. So now turn to Genesis chapter 22 verse 6. And you know, people, what I'm about to talk about here upsets people. It upsets Christians sometimes, but how do you get around the fact that the Bible says in Acts chapter 2 that Jesus' soul was not left in hell? And people just say, well, that just means that means Hades. That means Sheol. But, you know, as an example in, what was it, the newer older Bible versions, they went around and interviewed people and said, do you know what Sheol means? Some guy's like, oh, it's like a shield. No. Or do you know what Hades is? I know some people knew and some people didn't, but when you ask people what hell is, everybody knows what hell is. Hell is a fiery place of torment where the dead go to be punished for all eternity. So what does the roast with fire represent? Where do you see that picture with Jesus Himself? Do you see Him being roasted with fire in the New Testament? Well, you do when you talk about Acts, or when Jesus said, you know, as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So, Jonah being in the whale's belly is a picture of Christ being in hell for three days and three nights. And Jesus says it Himself. When Jonah is, if you read the book of Jonah, there's a parallel with the verses correlating to Christ. The prophets were prophesying about Christ and when He was swallowed by that well, it's like as if He was in hell. Darkness. Burning. I'm sure the stomach acid was burning Him. You know, and then going down to the bottom, the depths of the sea, it says even under the mountains. So under the mountains is past below the sea. But Genesis chapter 22 verse 6, you have this story about Abraham and Isaac. And God said to go sacrifice Isaac, who is your son. Your only son, your only heir, in who the promises were promised to. The line was supposed to move on. But Abraham was a man of faith. And he knew, I think he knew and he believed, even if he did kill Isaac, that Isaac was somehow going to rise from the dead because he believed the promises of God. But look at verse 6, it says, And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they went both of them together. So Abraham's fully intending on sacrificing his son. And notice that there's fire involved, there's a knife involved, and there's wood. Look at verse 7, And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? What does the lamb represent? The lamb represents Jesus Christ. And in this picture, Isaac pictures Jesus Christ. Abraham is the father of Isaac, right? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering. And, you know, obviously that's a little bit, you know, later on he finds the ram and the thicket, so there's like a dual, what would you call it? A dual fulfillment, yes. So the shadow fulfillment was the ram appearing in the thickets, but then the real sacrifice was going to be Jesus Christ, himself dying later on for our sins. But notice he says, where's the lamb for the burnt offering? All offerings, if you read about the offerings in the Bible and in the book of Leviticus, it teaches us that everything that's offered is roast with fire, including the bread. Anything that's offered is offered with salt and it's offered by fire. There's no exceptions to that rule. So, then when it says God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering, what is it talking about? Well, the fact that Jesus Christ was going to be that lamb and he is God, so he's going to provide himself as the burnt offering. That's how I read this, that's how I take it. It says, so they went both of them together and they came to the place where God had told him of and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood. So there you have the picture of him being on the cross, being on the wood, being bound to the cross, being bound to the wood, and then of course the ram comes, the angel stops him right before he's about to kill him, but the picture is there. So where is that in the cross of Calvary? They didn't burn him afterwards. They drained him of all his blood, they buried him, but the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ's soul went to hell. His soul was not left in hell according to Acts chapter 2 verse 31. His soul was not left there. Let's actually just turn over there. It's not my notes, but let's turn over there really quick so you can see it for your own self because people will be like, well, this is Abraham's bosom. This is hotel paradise. This is the good hell. Let me tell you something. There's no such thing as the good hell. Hell is always a place of fire and torment. What I think is weird is that people just want to make the Bible say whatever it wants. Why don't we just look at what the Bible actually says and believe that instead of coming up with all these other theories about it. Look what it says in verse 31. It says, He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in hell. So when Jesus Christ resurrected, where was it before he resurrected? What's it say right there? His soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we are all witnesses. So what is the burnt offering representing? It's representing the fact that that sacrifice had to be roast with fire. That's what the picture of Exodus is to us. That's why all offerings were made by fire. Because look, if we deserve hell for our sins and Jesus paid for all the sins of the whole world, where would he go? People go, well, he went to heaven. He did eventually go to heaven, but he didn't go to heaven right away. He went to hell for three days and three nights. That's a fact. That's what the Bible actually teaches. That's what the Bible says. And so anybody trying to just do an end around or try to explain these verses away, if you believe what the Bible says, it says hell. It doesn't say Sheol. It doesn't say Hades. Maybe in the Greek it says Hades, but that's just the representative of what the Greeks. The Greeks believed in a hell also, and they called it Hades. So just because it doesn't make it the mythical Hades that they believe in, it's the hell of the Bible, the hell that's taught from the beginning to the end of the Bible. So now look what it says back in Exodus 12, verse 9. I realize we're only in verse 9, but we'll get going a little faster here, all right? But Exodus 12, 9 says, Eat not of it raw, nor sodden it all with water, that means boiled, 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. Now, so again, the picture of being roast with fire, like if it's not Jesus going to hell for three days and three nights, then explain to me what it is. Why is it so specific about how it's cooked? Why is it so specific about what to do with it after you eat it? Could they just throw it in the garbage, like a regular piece of lamb? Could they feed it to the dogs? Did they give it to their neighbors? Well, that's a waste of meat. No, they're supposed to burn it, right? Turn to Hebrews chapter 13, verse 11. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 11. So if anything remained, they were to burn it with fire. In Hebrews chapter 13, verse 11, this is, you know, in Paul's teaching the Hebrews about what these things signified, and in Hebrews chapter 13, verse 11, it says, For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priests for sin, are burned without the camp, whereof Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. So, again, when you burn the rest of the carcass with fire, you don't burn it inside your house. You take it outside, right? So you take it outside the gate. It says that those beasts that represent Jesus are burned without the camp, so Jesus, and then he compares that to Jesus suffering without the gate, because Jesus was not crucified in Jerusalem. He wasn't crucified at the tabernacle. He was crucified outside the city. So now turn back to Exodus chapter 12, verse 11. It says, And thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, that means your belt put on, your pants pulled up, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And ye shall eat it with haste. It is the Lord's Passover. So this picture of being ready, so they weren't supposed to eat it in their jammies with their bunny slippers on. It wasn't like everybody's in their pajamas eating the Passover. He said, you're supposed to be ready. Why? Well, when they leave after the death of the firstborn, they're just thrust out immediately. And that's a picture of, as soon as we're saved, we're free completely from the bondage of sin. And you've got to be ready to walk in a new life. Now, if you don't repent of all your sins in the first week of being saved or something, it takes time to learn these things. But you are a new creature in Christ Jesus. All things have become new. You're done serving sin, and you're moving on to serve the living God. That's what it's talking about there. So now, Galatians 5, verse 1. Because once you eat that lamb, once you believe on Christ, you are free from the bondage of sin to serve Christ gladly. And remember, Jesus, you know, we're not supposed to go back to the Exodus. Remember where, well, the Bible says that you're not supposed to go back to Egypt. Don't go back there. And that's a picture of us. Don't go back to the world. You think you're safe for a while and you forget what it's like being on that other side. Being in a life that you used to live. And maybe you grew up in some church and you didn't really live that bad of a life. But you still don't want to go back to the place where you were in bondage of. In Galatians 5, it says, Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. We don't want to go back to bondage. We want to live our lives free so when you get saved, you know, you should be ready to serve God. And when you're ready to work, it's like the picture of being ready to work. You've got your staff in your hand, your loins are girt up, you're dressed, you're ready to go, and you're ready to serve the truth. You're ready to do things for God that gives you rewards in heaven later on. Don't just be idle. Don't be like, oh, I got my fire insurance card. I'm saved now so now I can just go live however I want. That's true, you could do that. But you're going to get beaten with many stripes. So, who gets beaten by more stripes? The child that always does what they're supposed to do? Or the one that's always doing wrong? Which child got beaten the most in my house? Remy. Now look at him, he's great. He's a good child, though. He's respectful. But he learned through chastening. And when you learn that lesson, that's good. So hopefully when you're getting chastened as a Christian, you learn, hey, this is why I'm getting chastened. This is why I'm getting beaten. And then kind of come to a realization in your mind that maybe I should stop doing that. That's what it's for. That's why God chastens His children. Because He wants us to learn a lesson. Verse 12, back in our text. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. So, I preached about that before, so I'm not going to get too far into it, but the gods of Egypt were the devils that they worshiped. And when he put those plagues upon them, he's plaguing them as he plagues their gods, quote unquote. So, they worshiped all these weird animals and people, combinations, and apparently a big deal to them was the firstborn. And it's a big deal in a lot of cultures. So, when you're basically worshiping your firstborn or whatever, you know, God's last thing was to, you know, if you're going to worship people, if you're going to worship your own kids, if you're going to hold them higher than me, you know, and that should be a lesson to us, that children are not to be revered more than God is. And people are like, well, that's kind of weird. I mean, but I think it's weird when husband and wives, they'll put their kids over their own relationship. And like in reality, when you do that, you're damaging your children even more. So, it's like, well, I'm just going to leave them. We can't get along. Well, why don't you get along so that they can be raised right? Why don't you put your own pride aside and, you know, stop the bickering and fighting about the dumbest things on earth. They say that the little things kill. You know, the little problems in marriages and things like that, they kill the relationship. That ought to be said about Christians, especially independent fundamental Baptist Christians that believe the Bible. So, it says in verse 13, And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses 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. So, it's a token. What is a token? It's a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of a fact. So, the blood itself didn't save them. It's a token. It's a picture of what? The fact that Jesus Christ's blood is going to cause it to where when God looks at us, He sees the blood of Christ and He will pass over us in the judgment. He's not going to send us to hell no matter what we do. If you're saved, you cannot lose your salvation. It is a free gift and it lasts forever. It's so weird how many people are just into this works-based salvation where they say that they can lose it somehow. If you think you can lose it somehow, that means you think you hold it somehow. And that's not salvation. Salvation's not you. It's not based upon your human efforts. It's not based upon how good you are. It's not based upon how bad you are. It's based upon whether you believe in Christ and whether His blood has been applied to you. If His blood's been applied to you, God will pass over you. He will never judge you to hell. He might spank you, but He's never going to judge you to hell. I like to give this example to people out soloing. I say your children will always be your children no matter what, right? Even if they say, I don't believe you're my mom, does that make them not the mom? Even if they say, Dad, I don't believe you're my dad. He's still your dad. And if your kid doesn't clean up their room, you might spank them or punish them. And nowadays, a lot of kids haven't been spanked. So when you try to use that example, they're like, well, no, I've never been spanked before. I'm just like, what? Now I know what's wrong with this world. But anyway, I say if your kid doesn't do what you say, it might mess up your relationship. Maybe you're upset with them or whatever. But you never throw them in the oven, do you? You never do. You're never going to throw your child into the oven and kill them for not doing something that you asked them to do. So it's a good example. So when God becomes your father, whether you're his spiritual daughter or spiritual son, He might spank you, He might punish you, but He's never going to cast you into hell because the Bible says it's eternal life. It's everlasting life. Now let's look back at our text in verse 14, and we'll see the procedure of the Passover. So the token in the blood of Exodus on the doorpost is what it represents, the blood of Christ on the doorpost of your heart. And when God sees the blood applied to your heart, He's going to pass over your sin. And that's called imputed righteousness. Again, it's not good things that we've done, it's the good things He did. Look at verse 14. And this day shall be unto you a memorial. What is another word for memorial? Remembrance. You're remembering something. It's a memorial. So when we take the Lord's Supper, what did Jesus say, this do and what? Remembrance of me. So He says this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. Ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance. For how long? Forever. So even though we don't do the Passover anymore because the lamb's already been slain, we've already got Jesus, when He changed it, He changed it to a remembrance, a memorial of Him, of what He did for us. Now, it says in verse 15, Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. Even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, or whosoever eateth leavened bread from this day until the seventeenth day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, and only may be done of you. So the days of unleavened bread were how long? Seven days, right? From the fourteenth to the twenty-first of every new year month, which is the month of Nisan, or whatever, however you say it. So in the first day there shall be a holy convocation. What is a convocation? A convocation is a large, formal assembly of people. So were people supposed to do these things, the feast itself? In the Exodus, they were to do it in their houses, but when they continue to do it, when they divide all the land of Israel, and everybody lives in these different parts of the land, where are they supposed to go for the Passover? They're supposed to go to Jerusalem, aren't they? They're supposed to go wherever God says to do it. At first it was at Shiloh, I think, and then obviously in the wilderness they did, they traveled around these desert places and stuff, but wherever God told them to stop and do things, that's where they were supposed to do them, but after the permanent tabernacle was in Jerusalem, that's where they were supposed to go. But it wasn't something that they privately were doing, it's something that the whole assembly, that's what a holy convocation is, when they do the feast, they're gathering together. Verse 17, He shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for in the selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, see now it's getting more specific, at even, he shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses, for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land, he shall eat nothing leavened, and all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread. Again, the picture of unleavened bread, do we still use unleavened bread in the Lord's Supper? Yes we do, because it represents the body of Christ. So, it represents not having sin. So, and then, let's see, let's turn to 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7. 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7. It says in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, it says, So, just like, so, in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, Paul's telling us that we're supposed to purge out the leaven. And what is this in reference to? It's reference to sinful people that are committing sinful acts that are above and beyond, you know, the regular, everyday acts. So, fornication, covetousness, extortion, all these different things in 1 Corinthians 5 that tell us who we're supposed to kick out. So, I mean, then you can see that it correlates to when the congregation is doing this feast of unleavened bread, you know, when you actually do the feast itself, then it's supposed to be, it's picturing that there's no leaven inside the church, right? That's why it says, Purge out there for the old leaven, it may be a new lump as your unleavened, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. So, again, he's correlating the picture of the Old Testament Passover. Back to Exodus chapter 12 verse 21. Exodus 12, 21 says, Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And he shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lentil, and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he seeth the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side posts the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your house and smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. Now, the angel didn't pass over them, you know, all the other times they did it, so this is a special time that it happens, but when they do it, they're supposed to remember, it's supposed to be a memorial, they're supposed to do it forever. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever, and it shall come to pass when ye come to the land which the Lord will give you, according to as he hath promised he shall keep this service, and it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service, that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel and Egypt, and he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses, and the people bowed the head and worshiped, and the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. So God is specific about how he wants these things done, isn't he? And so even today when we do the Lord's Supper, and what I talked about last week is, you know, he wants us to do things, the ordinance says they were delivered unto us. So as much as possible, we try to do and try to enact that same, you know, thing, where Jesus actually broke the bread up and passed it out. He supped and then poured out for the rest of the disciples. So I think it is important how you do things, the spirit in which you do things, the reason why you do things, that your heart's right when you do these things. It's not just some thing that we do for no apparent reason. It's not just some hoop that we jump through because we have to. It's something that we're supposed to, and the main thing that we're trying to do when we do the Lord's Supper is get close to God. Get close together as a congregation and we remember what God did for us by sending Jesus Christ to suffer and die for us. Number three, we're going to look at the tenth plague at verse 29. And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn of the land of Egypt and the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of cattle, and Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all of his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not an house where there was not one dead. I mean, just imagine waking up and your firstborn is dead. And so this isn't just necessarily the firstborn child because maybe some of these houses, maybe they were the firstborn of their family and didn't even have kids yet. So in every house in the whole land of Egypt, somebody was affected. You know, if they were dog lovers, then the first dog puppy was dead or whatever. Because it was their beast, too. There was a great cry in the land of Egypt. And you know what, when people end up in hell, there's going to be a great cry from them also when they realize that they're dead and in hell. And it says, And he called Moses and Aaron by night and said, Rise up and get forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as ye have said. Now remember in the last sermons that I've preached about this, Pharaoh always sticks another stipulation on it. God says, Let my people go that they may serve me. Let my people go that they may serve me in a feast in the wilderness. And Pharaoh's like, Yeah, but don't take these people. Yeah, but don't take this. Yeah, but only go here. And he's telling God's people what they're supposed to be doing, how they're supposed to be performing or believing their religion. But now he finally gets it. Now he finally says, Serve the Lord as ye have said. Now he finally is broken. God has punished Egypt. He's destroyed Egypt. He's destroyed the firstborn and killed every single firstborn in the land. And it says, And take your flocks and your herds as ye have said and be gone. And I think this is really weird how this is added in here. But it says, And bless me also. Pharaoh's just a weird guy, isn't he? It's like, Oh, by the way, bless me also. It's like, You're doomed, buddy. Everything you've done has been a detriment to your country and to your people, to your own household. And you're like, And bless me also. There's no blessings for reprobates, folks. There's no blessings for Pharaoh. God's all out of blessings, just like Esau. He's like, Isn't there a blessing left for me? And he's like, No, it's all to Jacob. You know, maybe Pharaoh, if he wasn't such an idiot and wasn't such a hard-hearted fool, maybe things would have been different for the people of Egypt. But see, sometimes you get a bad leader in and that bad leader corrupts the whole country. I mean, look at our country right now, for crying out loud. Some trainee walks into a Christian school and murders people and they want the transvestite day of vengeance. People are getting tired of this stuff. People are getting sick of this stuff. And our leader, he can say, God bless me all you want, but God's never going to bless that man. When you're sitting there throwing it in people's faces that now it's a day to view the trainees or whatever it's called. I don't want to look at them. Why would I want to look at them? And especially after they murder all these people. That drag queen over in Portland that was the oldest drag queen working in the world died and went to hell. Darcelle is in hell. And they're like, Oh, let's remember him. I don't want to remember that. I don't want to look at that freak's face, some old trainee. Are you kidding me? But this is the problem with people like Pharaoh, rapper baits that are running whole countries. And look what it did to Egypt. He destroyed Egypt. And you know what it's doing to our country? To have all these freaks in our offices all across the land? It's destroying our country. God is never going to bless that. Is there a blessing left for me? No, there's no blessing left for you, you freak. You're doomed. Number four, the Exodus portrays the freedom of salvation. Look at verse 33. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. And they said, We be all dead men. See, the Egyptians understood where they were at. And the people took their dough before it was leavened. They didn't eat it in their house, like, you know, people seem to think that that's something that we do now, but we don't eat it in our houses. They're kneading troughs, being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And you know, I think that this is a picture, obviously it says they spoiled the Egyptians. They spoil them. That means that that's the loot you get from winning a war. But you know what, the people that are unjust are going to leave everything to us anyway. So that's kind of a picture of the just getting what the unjust has laid up in store. But it says in verse 36, And the Lord gave the people favor on the side of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required, and they spoiled the Egyptians. And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses unto Succoth, about 600,000 on foot that were men, beside children. So we're talking about 600,000 men. This is a big, huge group of people. So you want to talk about megachurches, Moses had the biggest megachurch ever known to mankind, right? So, and it says in the mixed multitude, that's not even counting the mixed multitude, So again, in verse 39, it tells us that they didn't, so even though they were supposed to do the Passover lamb, they killed the Passover, the angel came and Passover in the middle of the night, they were safe, but they didn't eat the unleavened bread there. They didn't eat it with the world, they didn't eat it in Egypt, they took it out with them. So, you know, they ate the lamb in private at home, in haste, and then partaking, you know, so because partaking of the lamb is a private thing, it's a picture of our personal salvation, and once they were all together, they ate the bread collectively together, like we do in the congregation. That's why we do the Lord's Supper the way we do. The only thing they did at home was the one thing we don't do anymore in the New Testament, which was eat the lamb. We don't eat a lamb at the Lord's Supper, we drink the juice, we bless the cup, we drink that, it represents the body or the blood of Christ, but that's the only thing that's absent from that, and so we don't eat a lamb in the New Testament because the lamb's already been slain for us. So, again, it's a beautiful picture of salvation that we eat the bread together at church, but partaking of the lamb is a private thing for each individual, something that you do on your own. You're not saved just because you're here at church. You must receive the lamb of God on your own. The church can't make you saved unless, obviously, we're talking about soul-wanting where we go and preach the Gospel. Alright? And so, 1 Corinthians 10, verse 15, I know I gotta hurry, I'm trying, I'm almost done, kinda, but 1 Corinthians 10, 15 says, I'm just gonna give you the verses and I'll read them. 1 Corinthians 10, 15, I speak as to wise men, judge ye what I say, the cup of the blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? It's saying we. We break, we bless. Talking about being together. Verse 17 says, And we being many are one bread, one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. So, in 1 Corinthians, when it's talking about this, it's talking about the communion. And it's saying we do it together, isn't it? One bread, one body, It'd be kinda weird if we all went to our own houses and did this on our own. I mean, that's not what the Bible's teaching here. So it's not talking about taking it home. They didn't, they ate the lamb in private, but they also did publicly kill the lamb outside of the camp. All the congregation shall kill it. That's what the Bible says, right? So all the congregation together killed the lamb. And then all the people, when they got together, they ate the unleavened bread as a congregation. So, it's together. We as a church here in Vancouver are one body of believers when we gather together. This is clearly talking about us partaking of the bread together, not separately at our own houses. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 16, verse 5. Deuteronomy chapter 16, verse 5. I've only been preaching for an hour, so just calm down. It was a long chapter to read. I was long on my announcements. I'm gonna try to get done as fast as I can. All right? But I don't want to preach 12B. All right? I want to be done with this chapter and done with this subject. All right, so, Deuteronomy 16, verse 5 says, Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee. So where are they not supposed to sacrifice it? In their gates. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in. There thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. So where were they supposed to do it? Not in their gates. Not in their houses. That's not what it says. They partook suffering outside the camp just like Christ was crucified outside of Jerusalem. Look at verse 7. Thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt turn in the morning and go unto thy tents. So were they taking it in their tents or were they going to their tents after they took it? Afterwards, right? So it says, Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt do no work therein. Verse 40, back in Exodus chapter 12, says, Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was 430 years. Now that number's important and I don't want to dwell on it too long, but most calendars that you see only say 400 years for the children of Israel. But what's the Bible say? 430 years. And that helps add the math when you get the total age of the earth. That is a factor there. And it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations. So it's the same day. 430 years sounds like to the day. It says even the selfsame day it came to pass. So 430 years exactly. Now the last thing I want to talk about is the institution of the past. So now it's fully being instituted. Verse 43, it says, So this is not something that outsiders were supposed to partake of. People do this open communion where anybody can just come in. It doesn't really matter. And I'm not saying that we should police at the Lord's table because the Bible says not to do that. But obviously this is our church. And if we were just like handing out communion to everybody, not even knowing whether it's saved or not, at least not warning them. Some churches, I mean, the Catholic church, you just walk up and you take communion. I mean, I know they have classes for people to go there, but I don't think they're really just stopping people from doing it. You know, communion's done in a lot of weird ways and a lot of weird different places. Like I said, it's important how you do things. When God says, roasted with fire, He meant roasted with fire. So He's, you know, God is a God of detail. He's a God of order and He wants us to do things how He said. A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. So if someone's just working for you and they're not saved, this picture is somewhat, you know, unsaved people coming in and partaking of this feast. It says, Abroad out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof. And obviously, that's the picture of Jesus not, you know, even as badly as He was beaten, not one single bone of His was broken. That's a prophecy from Psalm 34 verse 20 and it's fulfilled in John 19 verse 36. Verse 47, All the congregation of Israel shall keep it, and when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep the Passover of the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and let them come near and keep it, and he shall be as one that is born in the land. So a stranger, see, this is where the children of Israel got messed up and started being racist, okay? But the Bible's very clear. If someone converted and became a follower of the Lord, what did they have to do back then? They just had to be circumcised. What do you have to do in the New Testament? You have to have the circumcision of the heart. That's a spiritual circumcision. It's the fact that you believed on Christ and you are able, everybody's one. We're not just, you know, it's not just for the Jews. It's not just for the Gentiles. Man, woman, boy, and girl, every single person on the face of the planet is capable of being saved no matter what tribe you're born into, no matter where you're from. We're all one in Christ Jesus, but it is saying that the people should be saved. I agree with that. One law shall be to them that's homeborn and to the stranger that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of Israel. As the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass the selfsame day that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. So that's where we have, so this is the end of basically where we've seen the last plague, the plague of the firstborn, but all this stuff in this chapter, it is important because it helps us to understand why we do communion. It helps us to understand about salvation and the pictures of the Old Testament, how they show us what salvation is. And to say the blood is not important is blasphemy. John MacArthur says that it's not the blood, it is the blood. I mean the word blood is in the Bible like a multitude of times. And a lot of the times it's talking about the sacrifices and the Passover. So you can't take the blood, you can't have a bloodless gospel. It was the blood that cleanses. It's the blood that makes an atonement for sin. And so hopefully you got a greater understanding while we take communion tonight. There won't be any preaching, so you're probably like, yes. But you got two sermons for the price of one this morning. It was really only an hour and eight minutes, okay? So quit whining. Anyway, let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for the lessons that we can learn in the Old Testament that picture what Christ did for us. Lord, we thank you so much for his great sacrifice that he did for us and that we could all be saved from sin. And Lord, that the whole world could be saved from sin. I pray that you'd put it in our hearts to just have this day as a solemn day of remembrance towards you, Lord, and that when we partake tonight we wouldn't have any issues between ourselves and you, Lord. Lord, I pray that we'd purge out the leaven that's in our life and Lord, we would reflect today as before we take this communion, Lord, that we reflect on the things where we need to improve and if there's any major sin in our life, Lord, I pray that you would help us to make the right decision on whether to partake or not. I pray that people would be saved because of the view of how we show forth your death and the remembrance of this ordinance, Lord. And I pray that you just bless the rest of our day and the soul wanting that's come to follow. I pray that you bless each and every single person in this church. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right, so we're going to sing another song and then we're going to have... The blue hymn book's The Wonder of It All. Song number 63 in your blue hymn book's The Wonder of It All. Song 63, let's sing it again on the first. Oh, the wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. The wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. There's the wonder of springtime and harvest, the sky, the stars, the sun. But the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is a wonder that's only begun. Oh, the wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. The wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. There's the wonder of God's revelation, the word who dwells among men. But the wonder of wonders that thrills my soul is that Jesus is coming again. Oh, the wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. The wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to think that God loves me. We got a favorite, first comforter right there, 120. When I See the Blood. Song number 120, When I See the Blood. Let's sing it together on the first. Christ, our Redeemer, died on the cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due. All who receive him need never fear. Yes, he will pass, will pass over you when I see the blood, when I see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass over you. Thank you.