Christ our Passover

Well, Andy was gonna hold up the two-minute warning sign Said that I don't go an hour and a half like I did last Friday at the conference so If you'll take your Bibles and you open it up to 1st Corinthians chapter 5.

I'm gonna read verses 1 through 8 it is actually reported that there is immorality among you an immorality of such of kind as as Does not exist even among the Gentiles that someone has his father's wife.

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead So that the one who had done this deed would be removed out of your midst. For I on on my part though absent from the body but present in spirit have already judged him who has committed this as though I were present in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

When I You are assembled I am with you in spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus. I Have decided to deliver this such one To Satan for the destruction of his flesh so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your boasting is not good. You do not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump just as you are in fact Unleavened for Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice or wickedness But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, let's pray father God as we Come together to to look at your word father.

I pray that you would Give me clarity of speech clarity of mind but the cares of this world and of today and in the past and Help me to focus on proclaiming your word empowered and in truth father. I pray to give me extra extra measure of your spirit and I pray that I would Preach your word and your truth to your people for your glory in Christ's name.

Amen. Well, we just partook of was something that was.

Typified of.

The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ now the Jewish people did not see it that way. The night in which they took that Passover lamb and the Lord said to them you take that lamb. You slit its throat you put the blood over the lintel and a two-door post and you stay inside.

He gave them clear instructions kill the lamb. Apply the blood and stay inside. They had no idea at that particular moment that this was pushed down in redemptive history to something far greater. But on that night when they did cut that lambs throat, they bled it out into a basin they took the hyssop and they put it over the lintels in the door post and then they ate it until it was gone and As that death angel came across the land of Egypt and that death angel saw that the blood had been applied.

That death angel passed over but those whom it did not pass over. Those who did not have that blood there as Andy read every firstborn Child was left dead. And there's another part of that that we often overlook every firstborn cattle as well.

God was making a Declaration he was making a distinction between his people and everybody else he was making a distinction between those whom he had selected and chosen to take out of that land of Egypt and to Redeem them out of slavery and to make them his own and then to place them under a covenant with blessings and cursings.

This passage that I read. I don't know if you noticed but when it says For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed that comes out of nowhere. If you notice as we were reading that this is has to do with a man that was in Corinth.

That had been had been sleeping with his mother-in-law or stepmother however, you want to say it and father's probably gone the Paul is saying to put this man out this Christ our Passover lamb statement comes in the context of Church discipline.

Paul says what this man is doing is Absolutely horrific, it's terrible. It's so bad that this sexual immorality the pagans don't even do that. He said so I'm telling you to get this man from out of the body remove him.

And he wants to know most people want to say well why well we get to the end. It says because a little bit of sin will ruin the whole lump. He's saying a little bit of sin inside the body will infect the rest and he said you need to put him out.

You've been grown arrogant. You have we're going proud you have grown as if hey. We're doing something better by showing more grace and Paul saying no, you're not you're being disobedient to the very thing that the Lord Jesus died for put the man out and then Paul says Something that sometimes is very shocking to people.

But he says you put him out and I've did. I have delivered that certain person over to Satan. For the destruction of the flesh that his soul may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ you understand that that is.

That is hard to do. I'm a everybody's ever been any type of church discipline where it actually comes before the body and you're actually having to either Excommunicate someone or to put them out that doesn't come easy.

We sometimes think that Paul did that with no big deal. Paul continually said that he struggled not only with the things on outside of the body being robbed and beat up and stoned and drug out of out of Temples, I mean out of synagogues and beaten, but he also says, you know those struggles I have to deal with but he says then I have to deal with the struggles and the problems within the body.

He was constantly dealing with these types things. So he when he says here in verse 3 He says for I on my part though and absent in the body, but present in spirit. That's not something mystical. Paul's not saying hey my spirits there, but my body somewhere else.

But he's saying I am standing in solidarity that when you put this man out of the body I am doing I am in in unison with you he says. In verse 4 and in the name of the Lord Jesus when you are assembled I am with you in spirit once again he's showing in unison and he said I'm going to be there and with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ as they put this man out and It says that he put him out for the destruction of his flesh that his soul may be saved.

Notice how Paul doesn't say this man's unconverted. Paul never says hey, this man's condemned to hell. Paul says we're gonna put this man out. He won't be under the covering of blessing of the church so that his soul may be saved.

God may take his life. But his soul may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. And then he goes on in verse 6. He says you're boasting is not good. Corinth was probably the most Gifted church that we know of in the New Testament.

Had every kind of the gifts of the spirit that you can imagine magister. They were so spectacular that people were boasting of the things that they could do whether it was tongues and healings or whatever and Paul Had to rebuke him of that.

Well Paul now Paul's rebuking them of their arrogance for continuing to let this sin run rampant within the church. He says you're boasting is not good. I don't know if there's any boasting. That's good.

Unless you're boasting about the Lord Jesus Christ. He says do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Leaven is always looked in in Scripture when it's used in this connotation As something that's infectious.

I remember when our kids were little and Sybil was doing the bread-baking thing and we were in the homeschool group you know, they had these little Friendship bread things and it would be these bags of something.

It looked like goo on the counter. I'm like, well, what is that? You know, we pass this around and it makes this bread or whatever. Well, it was I guess it was a bag of infectious yeast. And I they would I guess pass it around and everybody make bread and whatever anyway.

So it was just that little old bit of yeast then they would pass it around. It would make all this Other bread the sourdough. Well Paul saying right here. It only takes just a little bit of sin. To ruin the whole lump just as it takes that little bit of leaven to ruin the whole body.

I mean the whole that little bit of leaven can ruin the whole can infect that whole dough a little bit of sin can ruin the whole body and In this connotation leaven is always looked at as sin. How many times did we hear Jesus talk about beware the leaven of the Pharisees y 'all remember Jesus got finished.

He had fed four thousand five thousand. I can't remember if it was four or five and they they gathered up all the baskets and they put it in a boat and they were Supposed to put it in the boat. They were going across the way and then Jesus says beware the leaven of the Pharisees.

Just out of nowhere beware the leaven of the Pharisees and the guys go. Anybody have the bread. Where was the fragments they left it? They left I guess like 12 baskets and they said sorry, you know Jesus we left that bread.

He says, you know, do you not hear what I'm saying? I'm not talking about bread. I'm talking about the leaven of the Pharisees their hypocrisy their sinfulness. Beware of it because it will ruin everything.

And that's the same thing that Paul is saying here that a little bit of sin will ruin the whole lump and he says here in.

Verse.

7 clean out the old leaven so that you may be that you I'm sorry. Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump. Just as you are in fact Unleavened. Paul is talking to believers. He's saying take out that sin from among you and he says in fact, you are already unleavened.

He is saying Positionally you are already Sanctified before God meaning you are justified before God. You are sanctified you are set apart. Why don't you start acting like what you are? Why don't you start being what you are in Christ, which is holy and blameless and walking in uprightness.

He says just as you are in fact Unleavened not without sin but set apart and Then he says this for Christ our Passover Also has been sacrificed. Paul at that point takes Everything that he has been talking about.

The.

Putting this man out Giving him over to the destruction of the flesh Removing sin from among you and then out of nowhere. He says Christ is our Passover.

And.

He has been sacrificed.

Would any Jew?

Have ever thought up until the coming of the new covenant that Jesus would have fulfilled the Passover. It was something that was to be done once. The Passover lamb came one time in history. It was on that night when God said this is the last time I will send you to Pharaoh I'm gonna kill his firstborn.

This this lamb was to be done one time. One sacrifice one atonement one covering for all time. Now as we look at the at the the Gospels you see that they were preparing to sacrifice. Well that word sometimes need to we're trying they were preparing to sacrifice or to kill that lamb.

They were preparing this the sacrifice of the Passover lamb. They were they for the meal. That's interesting. If you look at Luke 22 and I think it's around verse 4 or 7 right as it comes time for Jesus to.

To.

Do the Passover meal it says and the time has now come For the Passover lamb to be sacrificed. That night that Jesus had what we would call the Lord's Supper or the Last Supper was the Passover meal. He sat down with his his His 12 closest confidants one of them being a devil and he sat in front of them and he went over many of the things that we just did and Then he said I must go away from you.

He has to go. He said he had already told them many times earlier in the week that I'm going to be given over and this goes right over their Heads. I'm going to be handed over to Sinful men and be crucified and there's right over their head more than once.

And Then it was on this night that he said that I am My hour has now come that I'm going to be delivered into the hands of sinful man, and I will be crucified. Jesus would be handed over by the Sanhedrin or handed over to the Sanhedrin.

He would be mocked trials he would then Be handed over to pilot. I stood in this very pulpit and showed you six times pilot had the opportunity on one on a a Good Friday service six times pilot had the opportunity to let Jesus go and that coward would not in fear of the Jews.

He then Washed his hands of it and said crucify him on that cross. That Jesus carried out to that hill Golgotha Was a hill we're not talking about a mountain. It was a hill just high enough on the main road where people could see this man executed whomever it may be.

Jesus went out there. He carried that stipe. Carry the cross beam to the stipe. They set him up. They crucified him and when he was suspended between heaven and hell he was fulfilling in that moment Every sacrifice that had ever been Presented to the tabernacle or the temple.

We think of the Day of Atonement and that is true the Day of Atonement.

Typified that.

They would go in that once a year. He would sprinkle the blood on the horns of the altar and that would put off the sins of the people for another.

Year.

Another year and they continually did that year after year. Fourteen hundred years or so. Well on this day When this Passover lamb would be sacrificed that place where those? Sacrifices had gone in year by year and year by year when Jesus said it is finished it ripped Into that veil that separated God and man.

There is no longer a barrier because that Passover lamb had now been sacrificed. You understand that every sacrifice from that time that Jesus said it is finished. Was the blasphemous act against a holy God?

Now God was patient and he let that go on for another 40 years. But he was patient but every one of those acts of sacrifice on that brazen altar on that butcher table or the ones that went into the Holy-of-holies one time a year they sprinkled the on the horns of the altar were acts of blasphemy because that Passover lamb Jesus Christ had come he had propitiated the death angel that was on you and me and everyone else and he Passed over us because the blood was upon his people.

Now we look back 2 ,000 years and we can say Christ is our Passover lamb. Or if you're a believer in here today, you can say how is cry ask the question? How is Christ my Passover lamb? How? By faith you were redeemed.

God has bought you back from sin. Our predecessor gave us over Adam with his Willful act to not protect his wife in the garden when the serpent was there. And then when he's seeing her eat the the the fruit.

He then himself took it to and put all of us into full-on Corruption. Well, Jesus Christ comes and makes that new. Jesus Christ not only redeemed us. But once he redeemed us as that Passover lamb was redeeming those people out of the land of Egypt.

He then now Provided a way for us to then come to God the bait. They he had to set up a sacrificial system when they can out of Egypt. Now, we don't have to that sacrifices. How do we come to God by faith in Jesus Christ and we can come boldly before the throne of grace?

We stand justified before God. Because the Passover lamb has paid the penalty in our place one day. We will stand in Heaven before the Lamb of God that took away the sins of the world. We will stand in the halls of heaven and we will see the Lamb that was worthy to open the scroll in Revelation.

We will stand and we will see the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. We will see the Lamb standing there the only one that has scars on his hands and his feet and He may even say to you or me go ahead.

Stick it in. That's where the spear went and he has promised us That we will be glorified with him. Look Jesus as no lamb was ever sacrificed at the altar or at the brazen altar or in the holy of holies.

And was resurrected. What happened to him? They were either completely consumed or they were divvied up and to feed the the the priest. Well in this case when this lamb died this lamb was buried in a tomb a Borrowed tomb and it had to be borrowed because he wouldn't stay him.

And three days later Resurrected the glorified God man purchasing that which God had foreordained before the foundations of the world. Those whom he had chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world.

Jesus Christ purchased with his own blood.

Providing a way.

For men and women To be made right with a holy God.

So.

Nothing novel nothing new nothing spectacular said just the fundamental truth is that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for sin so that sinners could be set free and God didn't have to do it. It's amazing.

He didn't have to do it out of his sheer sovereign grace. He provided a way got a all he had to do to be a saving God is just Save Adam and Eve and he could have saved nobody else but because God is great and loving kindness and merciful and Benevolent and he desires to be with those who were his image bearers.

He has provided a way and he has provided that way in the Lord. Jesus Christ as our Passover lamb. If you're here today. And you're unconverted bad news for you. If you get in your car and you leave Somebody crosses that line tire blows out and you die you will stand before a holy God an unholy person and The Bible says that the only thing that remains for you is a fire indignation of a wrathful God that will consume his adversaries.

That's not my words. That's the writer of Hebrews. But the good news is it doesn't have to be that way. The good news is that this very lamb that we're talking about. The God-man the Lord Jesus Christ who came into the world who lived a perfect life fulfilled every Tight and shadow of the Mosaic law that God required he fulfilled it.

Providing righteousness for every person that would ever believe he then if you by faith trust in that finished work of what Jesus has done that then Imputation of your sin is put on Christ and then the imputation of Christ's righteousness has been put on your place.

It's called W imputation going to fancy word. He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might have the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God has provided a way for you. And if you're here today, and you're without Christ.

You would be a fool to leave this place not bow in your needy King Jesus. Now if you're a believer here today, man, we've got so much to celebrate for. We have someone that did what we could not do which was be perfect and God was perfect in our place.

He did what we could not to do which was pay the penalty of our own sin that we were in debt for that we could Spend forever in eternity and not pay for one sin. Understand that not one sin could be paid for if we spent all eternity forget all the ones that we've done every second.

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Mean think about the amount of sin that we sin even as Believers. If anybody in here ever loved the Lord by God with all his heart or soul of mine all straight for one second. Anyone raise their hand.

Nobody.

We should be thankful That we now stand righteous before God Declared righteous ain't nobody in here right. So let you know ain't nobody here righteous. You know that we're not. Nobody in here is righteous.

We're living on credit. We're living on what Christ has done in our place. We have been declared something. We're not. That's what justification is it's not just as if you never sinned. It's justification is God declaring us righteous.

Then at that moment of being declared righteous We are justified and then God through sanctification then begins to make us what he has declared us and that's holy in one day. It will be standing before him in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ and then clothed in glory.

Just like him glory not the glorified God man, but we would be glorified man Just as God intended. So with that being said Let's pray and you'll come lead us in a song Father God, thank you so much for our Passover lamb.

We look back and See what that lamb purpose was in the Old Testament. And father we look forward to what it fulfillment came in the new and that was in your son who would be willing to. Not as that lamb which was taken from the herd and Then had its throat cut but the Lamb of God who willingly Said I will I will pay the debt that they owe.

Father, thank you for thank you for your son. Thank you for the provisions that are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you one day father. We will leave this place and we will Leave this earth and will forever be with you Glorified and we will see him just as he is and we will be as he is In Christ's name.

Amen.