The Passover | Resurrection Sunday 2003 (04/20/2003)

Let's pray and then we'll read Acts chapter 12 verse 1 through 4 father. We thank you so much for this day this

Passover season Lord the season of your resurrection We thank you so much for all that it means

For by your resurrection you give us life or we are quickened in you

We thank you that you had the power to come forth from the grave showing that you are who you claim to be and Showing that the father was propitiated and satisfied with your death for our sins

We can never thank you enough nor can we ever know what you experienced on the cross when your father said

He would turn his back upon you We will never experience that nor understand it nor comprehend it

We thank you for it and we pray that the Holy Spirit would take our word Thanks and magnify it into your heavenly language in such a way that it would be worthy

We praise you and we thank you this morning in Jesus name. Amen Acts chapter 12 verse 1 now about that time

Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church and he killed

James the brother of John with the sword and Because he saw it pleased the

Jews he proceeded further to take Peter also Then were the days of the unleavened bread

I want you to notice that that tells us what season this is in and when he had Apprehended him he put him in prison and delivered him to the four court quarterians of soldiers to keep him intending after Easter To bring him forth to the people

In the Greek language the word Easter is not there. It is the word Passover.

It is a Jewish Celebration it is not Easter that was placed there later by the

King James English translators It does happen to be at the same time of year. You've probably noticed because this is

Easter Sunday but last Thursday at at dusk

Passover Began and went through the dusk of the next day and then the season of the unleavened bread began

For seven days, so I want to turn I want you to turn to Exodus chapter 12 and verse 1 and let's look at this

Celebration called the Passover this morning this occurred 1 ,500 years before Easter Sunday occurred

But it pictured What happened three days before the first Easter Sunday?

It pictured it with power There are at least a couple of verses in the New Testament that say to us today that everything that is written before time that means in the

Old Testament was written as types or Pictures of spiritual truths that we learn in the

New Testament revelation So we have the benefit of hindsight that the

Old Testament Saints did not have We have the doctrines of the New Testament that the Holy Spirit gave through holy men through the

Apostles They're the Lord Jesus Christ. And even after Jesus went back to heaven by his

Holy Spirit He continued to give that to his Apostles and the New Testament writers but the

Bible tells us that if you can then take the Old Testament and go back and See it through spiritual eyes

You'll see that everything that happened in the physical world in the Old Testament all the physical things

They did were spiritual pictures of truths. We learned in the New Testament about Jesus Christ.

They were all pictures They were important. In fact, they were so important as pictures or types

That in the Old Testament God told them if you don't do this exactly the way

I say you will be cut off from your people God did not want them to ruin the type so that we today could see the type and understand exactly what it teaches

And so they were very careful To worship God God's way. We're not that careful today we have a whole nation full of churches that are inventing modern ways to quote worship

God Never has worked and God never has been pleased with it and he never shall

It gives us in the scriptures exactly what worship is supposed to be all about and exactly what a church service is supposed to be and Jesus says when

I come will I find the faith on the earth that implies by the time he comes at the Second Coming churches won't

Even be doing what churches were doing in the book of Acts at all They'll be off into some modern earthy fleshly

Worship, it's not even truly worship. It's as strange as the strange fire That was offered up in the

Old Testament Those people were killed for that because they weren't supposed to give a wrong type but let's look here at Exodus chapter 12 in verse 1 and Let's realize as we read this that there are pictures in these physical things that teach us spiritual truths about our

Lord Jesus Christ about his blood About his life about his death about his substitutionary death

About the way that his blood Bought us it was the price of our purchase and it set us free from slavery it's all here start with verse 1 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 this used to be the

Jewish New Year and After they came out of Babylon, which many evil things come out of Babylon They changed that They should not have but they did

They also brought many interesting things out of Babylon that are pagan worship that they've instituted into modern

Judaism For example at the Passover feast today, they have a little egg that they place on the table

Did you know that that's not anywhere in the Bible and God never told them to do that? It came from Babylon and it's a picture of the fertility

God the same as our modern Christians Do Easter egg hunts and have little eggs for the children it pictures pagan worship

It is not anywhere in the Bible to be found. The Jews have done the same thing They brought many things out of Babylon and placed it on their table

God has never been pleased with that and so it used to be that this was the new year

Verse 3 says speak ye into 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

Now you do remember the time period here. This is when God was just about to Take them out of Egypt Egypt pictures the world system in the negative sense the

Pharaoh pictured Satan and They were burdened and they were in slavery to Satan and to the world system

Just like we can be today if we live in the flesh if we walk in the flesh and not in the spirit this world system has everything to offer us that we don't need to have and It was a picture when they were taken out of that place called

Egypt It was a picture of God's people being taken out of the world being separate from the world Even though we're in the world

We're not out of the world it pictures all of that and this is about to take place in their lives Physically which pictures many spiritual things about our salvation and how it ought to be

Now let's look at verse 4 and if the household be too little for the lamb They're going to share it with a neighbor now go to verse 5 your lamb shall be without blemish.

What is that picture? That picture is the perfection of the Lord Jesus Christ Without blemish.

The Bible says that he was tempted in all points as we and yet without sin

Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats and you shall keep it

Up until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening and they shall take the blood and strike it on the two side post and on the upper door post of the houses where in they shall eat it and Now see how

God is being very specific He is not telling them general things he's saying you do these exact things point by point by point

And he says you're going to place this blood on the upper door of the houses We're in you shall eat and they shall eat the flesh in the night of this sacrificial animal roast with fire and eat

Unleavened bread now we understand in the Bible throughout scripture leaven is a picture of sin

Leaven picture sin it just always does so unleavened bread pictures bread with no sin in it the wheat

Where the wheat with no sin in it is pictured here and They will eat bitter herbs

They shall eat it pictures the suffering of Jesus Christ Verse 9 eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water

You see he didn't say you can just do what you want to with this He says here's exactly what you shall do roast it with fire

Because the fire pictures the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross It picture it pictures not only his spiritual separation from God when he said my

God my God Why have you forsaken me? But it pictures his physical death showing that he gave his all

So they were not to boil this they were to roast it the fire pictures the judgment of God upon his son

Jesus Christ Why did God judge his son because he looked at his son and he did not see him

He saw you ladies and gentlemen and young people He saw every sin you've ever done every evil thought you've ever had

He saw every evil deed you will ever do in Christ and he slew him now that judgment

Was poured out upon him by the wrath of God the wrath of a just God Who said the soul that sins it shall die and when he looked at Jesus, he saw your sins imputed unto him

That's an accounting term. It means God took the sins out of your account placed them in his and judged him for it a

Slight rabbit trails not really in the message this morning But did you know that if you're born again today that when

God looks at you? Guess what he sees Just as he looked at Jesus and he saw your sins and he slew him now he looks at you and he sees his perfection and righteousness and purity and goodness and holiness and He lets you live

That's what this Passover is all about it's about letting his people live

Even in the midst of the judgment of God He lets his people live but only because of the blood as we shall see so they roast this

Sacrifice picturing the suffering on the cross verse 10 and ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning

You know why nothing was left of the Lord Jesus Christ after that experience on the cross. He was dead.

He had given his all for his father and That which remained it remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire

No doubt about it. This picture is a total utter giving of his life verse 11 and thus shall ye eat it

With your loins girded and your shoes on your feet. I love this verse

You shall do this Passover even today the Jews that really celebrate this properly they do they dress like this

They do this whole thing even still today. Unfortunately, they got the egg on the table. They don't even know what they're doing They don't do the sacrifice anymore

They don't do a biblical Passover at all because they don't have one Because they missed their

Messiah not all of them my mentor in the faith was a Jewish believer for PhDs in theology

He was an awesome brother and mentor to me He was Jewish God Has it so that some of them see their

Messiah, but as a nation they missed it, but they should have seen it It was all pictured right here

They need to have their loins girded about Their shoes on their feet your staff in your hand and you shall eat it with haste for it is the

Lord's Passover You know what that pictures that at the moment that you are born again and his blood is applied to your life

You hasten right out of the land of the world You hasten right away from the world the flesh and the devil and you are

Separated unto God just like they were in that wilderness and just like they were it when they got in the promised land They were to drive out the pagans they were to kill every man woman boy and girl and animal and drive out the ungodliness and the witchcraft and the

Homosexuality and everything that had defiled the land God told them drive it out They didn't obey him and they left some of it and they're still fighting over there today because of it

But it is a picture of being separated from the world when you get born again

Ladies and gentlemen, you are different if you're really saved you are different on the inside and your walk is supposed to demonstrate it and I can never forget my experience as a young person as it is a teenager in a big church in Mahalia and I went to the youth group.

I knew I was not saved I didn't get saved till I was 24 years old out of college So I knew I wasn't saved but I went anyway with my grandmother and my mom sometimes my dad

And I went to that youth group and I knew what every one of those kids were doing on Friday night and Saturday night

They claimed to be Christians and do you know that that had an effect on me and caused me to doubt the whole thing?

But you know what? I know now after I've studied the scriptures and walk with God is there probably weren't two of them that were saved out of 60 maybe four out of 60 in The time when

I was there But you know what their life showed it because a pig goes back to the slot doesn't he it's his nature

Do you know what happens when you get saved? This is not a thing where you just say well, I just you know, bow my head said dear

Jesus come my heart say may man got baptized. That's it. That's not what happens What happens is you get delivered from Egypt?

You get absolutely delivered You get delivered so much that it's pictured by you better have your shoes on your feet your staff in your hand and be ready

To walk with God and get out of that world because he's taking you out whether you want to or not See God is sovereign.

We're not in control We're not in control of our salvation. We didn't choose God. He chose us

God is in control Those people got out there to that Red Sea with their back to the

Red Sea and the mightiest power as powerful as the United States Army is today with comparatively speaking the most mighty army of the world in that day the

Egyptian army They could see the dust of it coming You know what they wanted to do They wanted to give up and quit and go back and they wanted to hang or stone has a hanging one to stone

Moses If Moses hadn't been walking with God as closely as he was he'd been scared to death not of the

Egyptians, but of the Jews They didn't save themselves that day

They didn't say oh, okay. Well, all right. I accept I accept what you're doing

God I know they didn't accept any of it what God did was he parted the sea with the hand of his power and He told them now go and he gave him a leader and he led him through and as they went through and came out on The other side the

Egyptian army most powerful army the world came after them and the waters closed in and destroyed them when

Jesus saved you He not only saved you and took you out of the world. He destroyed your enemy You just don't know that because you still listen to him sometimes

He lies. He is the accuser the brethren He is the liar the word devil means the slander and we as Christians listen to him and he says well

You're not really, you know, you're not really saying you go back into Egypt and get some of those Those locks and some of those lentils and some of those onions and some of that stuff the world's

God You don't really want to be out here separated from the world. He's going back into it But the

Bible tells me that because of my death in Jesus when

Jesus died my sins were in him. I Am dead to Satan He has no right to even talk to me or to you

And we certainly ought not be listening if he does

They had their shoes on their feet their staff in their hand because when salvation comes it sets you free and you're ready to run

Verse 12 for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn

Do you realize that the same salvation that saves you destroys Satan's seed? In other words those who are not going to be

God's now you say well, I don't get into that Calvinism Well, I do but you don't have to but let me just say this when you get to heaven and you look around After it's all over and we're all there that's going to be the ones

Jesus died for You know how I know that because if he had died for one of the ones down there

They'd fly right out of hell right back to heaven because his death is sufficient. It's more than sufficient It accomplishes all that has to be accomplished because you can't do anything

You can't add one thing to your salvation any more than they could part that Red Sea You Can't do anything.

So that means Jesus did it all his blood did it all for you If his blood had done it all for those who are in hell, they're coming out of hell

So I'm telling you the ones that end up in hell when you get out there I don't care what you think why you're here so much. I mean,

I want you to grow in the word But when you get there and you look at that group of people the ones that aren't there his blood was not shed for them

The proof of it is they're not there Now there's some theology you can go and study for two or three weeks

You're not taught that in your churches today. If you're visiting today, you might not have heard that Now if you had been in your same

Baptist Church before 1900, you'd heard it every Sunday Because historically Baptists have been strong on the sovereignty of God How do you think you get your eternal security if God's not in control if he didn't know you before the foundation the world know

Your name and love you before you're even born Before you're ever say you were his in his mind

How could he lose you? He cannot because he is sovereign. He's in control of everything

You know what? His sovereignty is demonstrated throughout this story in every verse. He says in the same

Action that saves my people it pictures here that it destroys the enemy

You think about the Ark for a moment the Ark knows are The same thing that saved

Noah and his children and the animals that God put in that Ark killed everybody else They were not gods

They did not belong to him. Yes, they didn't choose him because they didn't have a nature to choose him

They never would have thought to choose him They were lost and they were goats Now there are lost sheep people who don't not saved yet that are going to be saved

We know that Spurgeon said this God didn't put a yellow stripe on the back of the elect So I witnessed to everyone that's the attitude we should have in time, but I'm just telling you how it is in the heavenlies

Now God demonstrates it. Listen, we live in a world today. That is about it's being judged and it's about to be judged and At the same time it is judged you

God's people are going to be preserved You're going to be protected and eventually we're going to be raptured out of here

We're going to be changed in the air We are not of this world Pictured all throughout this he says

Egypt this night I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn who is the eye in that verse?

Tell me who I is in that verse I'm checking to see if you're awake. Okay God So who is it that slew the firstborn?

So Can you tell me that God loves everybody? Why do you hear that every Sunday and every church and on every radio station and on TV everywhere?

God loves everybody and you're supposed to too Well, maybe true we're supposed to because we can't see with his perfect eyes of judgment, but let me tell you something he doesn't

There are more than one people in the Bible that the Bible says God hated One of them it doesn't say he hated

Pharaoh, but I'll promise you he was not in love with Pharaoh You know when you study the word you get deep into the word and you go beyond your

Sunday school lesson You go beyond the sermon you heard last Sunday and you get on your knees and you ask the Holy Spirit to teach you and you

Get in your own Bible at home Did you know you'll learn things about God that you never knew you're gonna find out he's not anything like what people tell you

He's like He is not like that His justice is a burning justice.

His holiness is a pure holiness that sin cannot even approach You cannot even look upon him.

You will never look upon the father. Is that uncomfortable? Well, let me help you a little bit

When you're in Christ in heaven, brother Otis taught me this about four weeks ago He never thought of it in his life and it hit him and he shared it with me when you're in Christ in the heavenlies

You'll see the Father through Jesus eyes In that amazing if you saw him any other way just blow you away.

You'd be totally destroyed. God is holy God is demonstrating his holiness.

He is killing the firstborn of that nation which had totally given over to Satan and paganism and false worship and He's snuffing it out

He does that from time to time And it is right for him to do it because he's

God The land of Egypt both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt.

I will execute judgment Let me say this. He says I am the Lord. I am Jehovah if this nation ever passes to the place where the

Christians in the churches become pagans and defile the land

You better go find you an island somewhere or a mountain to get on somewhere way away from here and don't go to,

California Or Houston 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 shall pass over you You understand that's what salvation is all about Don't ever blame

God for who he didn't save Thank God that he saved anybody We were a fallen

Race We are the we were a depraved people who were dead to God blind to God deaf to God We hated

God the Bible says in the New Testament. There's none that loved God and you know what he did in Judging the world he reached out and he snatched his own out of it and saved us as firebrands

He saved us. He says in John 10 now We're in the palm of his hand and Jesus said

I the father that's greater than me has his hand on you, too He said Jesus says you're in my hand and he has his hand on you, too

And in the Old Testament, he says look the very your very mother may forget you He asked the question will the mother that nursed you forget you and he said well

I'll tell you she might but he said I will never forget you and you're graven in the palm of my hand Listen God is the eternal

I am that means you were always graven in the palm of his hand because he is he's not Past and in future.

He's not back here. And he says now someday you'll get saved. You'll be in my hand It's not like that to him You're graven in his hand all the time and always have been you can't lose your salvation

It's up to him. You've always been his Now as we continue if I quit if I quit preaching and just read

We'll get to the place where you will see that those who say well once saved always saved

It means go out and live for the devil doesn't mean that the whole thing of salvation is deliverance it's not just skipping hell

That is a good byproduct by the way But it's deliverance from sin now in this life

Did you know ladies and gentlemen if you're born again right now that you're already living eternal life You don't have to die to start that you're living it now

Jesus said whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die believe us now this you're not gonna die if you're born again

You're already living eternal life. Now your body may shut its eyes and lay there

That's just your tabernacle. But the real you that you talk to when you talk to yourself will never die and in the first day

There shall be a holy convocation. I skipped one didn't I? Let's go back to verse 14 verse 13

He said when I see the blood I will pass over you verse 14 says in this day shall be unto you for a memorial

Now you see memorial that means it's a picture You're supposed to look at this picture and learn what it means and remember it all the time every year once a year you do

This do this with your children whole lot better than Easter egg hunts It's a whole lot better to get with your children and teach them the

Passover and tell them what it pictures Do you know at the end of this passage one of the last things God tells them is you make sure you rehearse this with?

your children every year Why is it the world gets us off of this and on the stuff the world invented back in Babylon?

Isn't it crazy think about it's crazy Fertility eggs Explain that to your child people last night for this message you go ask you

You can thank me later. I'll go hide. So you can't find me a Memorial An ordinance forever seven days.

Shall you eat unleavened bread now? This happens after the Passover the Passover is one day one night

The next day started that day and going for a week is the feast of the unleavened bread now

What is leavened picture again? Tell me sin, so Unleavened for an entire week now in the

Bible seven is the perfect number this pictures that after you are passed over Because the blood has been applied to you then you live a perfect number

With no sin, what does that picture ladies and gentlemen? Does that picture here Jesus come the heart say maymen get baptized go out live for the devil on Friday and Saturday like my youth

Group did when I was a kid or like many adults do in churches today No, it does not picture that it pictures that with your deliverance comes power to avoid sin

That's what deliverance is all about power over the enemy the world the flesh and the devil power

You can't have it if you're not in this book Did you know one of the things he tells them in this story?

He says Well, I'm getting ahead of it. Let's just read it. Let's read it

Verse 15 seven days shall you eat unleavened bread even the first day shall you put away leaven out of your houses?

They have a little game where the father goes and hides some leaven and they let the children go all over the house looking for it

They get to take it outside and throw it away It's a picture to the child where the child learns that sin is bad get it out

Is that not a good thing you could do around this season with your children? There's a lot of better things we can do than some of the things we do

Create a little game with them and go hide Something get some yeast and go hide it around the house and make it conspicuous where they can find it

If they're a little bitty and they'll go around and find it take it outside and then praise them for it So, you know what that picture is that picture sin?

We don't want sin in our house We don't want sin in our lives. We get it out teaching that from the time

They're one to the time they leave for college. You'll be happy you did now it goes on and it says

Whosoever eateth leaven bread from the first day until the seventh day that soul shall be cut off From Israel, you know why because God didn't want the type or the picture messed up.

That's all there is to that This is not a teaching that anybody loses or salvation that has it

It's a teaching that you do you worship God God's way You do it

God's way. Do you know if you're born again? God's given you his own nature the divine nature Why would you want to do it any other way?

Verse 16 and in the first day there shall be a holy convocation that means a meeting a congregation of people like we're doing today a

Congregation and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation unto you now look at this

These were Sabbaths. These were special Sabbaths that were placed on either end of this feast of unleavened bread

What does Sabbath mean? Do you know the word Sabbath is a bad word really in English because it's not a translation.

It's a transliteration Which means it means nothing to our our Gentile minds in the original.

It simply means rest So everywhere you see Sabbath in your Bible just get rid of it mark it out put the word rest there and you'll understand it

With your English speaking mind, you'll know what it means. It means rest So it says no matter of work shall be done.

Well that kind of proves what it means Save that which every man must eat that only may be done.

Do you know what that pictures ladies and gentlemen? That when you are saved at the Passover you're covered by the blood of Jesus it pictures your salvation

Then you start a feast of unleavened bread with no sin in the house for a perfect number of days seven days that at the first of that seven days and then at the other end of that seven days is a holy meeting where you're not

Allowed in the whole days of Sabbath, you're not allowed to do any work. You just rest You know what it pictures you're resting in Christ He did all the work for you.

The finished work of Christ on the cross is what saved you You can't add anything to it. Don't try just rest

Rest in Christ. It said however, I will let you do this. I'll let you eat Guess what we eat for our spiritual lives

This manna right here Now listen, that's one of the main problems if anybody in this room today is having any problem with this message at all

And you're feeling funny about anything I've said Get in this book when you get home and Study it every day.

Don't take it for granted It is your spiritual food Picture your body having gone as long without eating as it's been since you studied the

Bible last Now I could sell that weight plan weight loss plan

Picture that that's what's happening to your spirit and this says we rest in Jesus, but we continue to eat

We eat the word hallelujah And it goes on and it says and ye shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread for in this self same day

I brought you out of the armies. I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. I delivered you from the world system

Therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance Forever as a picture to your children's what he's saying in the first day of the month 14th day of The month at evening you shall eat unleavened bread until the 1 and 20th day

This is now talking about the feast of unleavened bread that happens after the Passover Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses picturing no sin in the life for whosoever eateth

That which is leaven even that soul shall be cut off. Why God doesn't want his type messed up He did not allow the

Jew to mess it up physically because we might misunderstand it spiritually today. That's what this is all about You shall eat not nothing leavened and all your habitation shall you eat unleavened bread

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them draw out and take you a lamb

According to your families and kill the Passover. I Promise you this when those men struck that lamb in the neck with that knife and he slowly laid there and didn't kick or anything

But just bled and the life bled out of him and he watched it That was the most powerful picture God could have given him that it's our hands

They put Jesus on the cross in a sense not really the father did but he did it because of our sins for our sins and there's a powerful picture of the fact that the innocent lamb has to die because we've sinned and He says you will take the blood put it in a basin and look at verse 22 you shall take a bunch of hyssop weeds and Dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lentil and the two sides of the door post

With the blood that is in the basin and none of you shall go out at that door of this house until the morning

Do you know what that hyssop weed pictures now picture this they slay the Innocent animal

They spill his blood into a basin. They take the blood in the home They dip hyssop weed in it and they strike it on the door and the in the lentil

In the door post of their door that hyssop weed pictures your faith Your faith is a gift from God just like they couldn't make a hyssop weed

They had to go out and get it. God made it grow God gave it to him It's a gift faith is a gift from God You can't work it up but when

God gives it to you the first thing you do in your life before you're you know at the place where you're

Starting your spiritual walk with God is you take that faith and by faith you dip it in the blood of Jesus Christ And you apply it to your life

You apply it to you personally you receive him as your personal Lord and Savior by applying his blood to you

It's actually the father that applies the blood because only he can do that But the only way they had to picture it was the father of the household

You see what I'm saying father of the household dips that hyssop weed, which is faith

Applies the blood to to the life That's what the

God God makes the application he gives you the faith, but he wants you to know that it's personally applied to your life

So It's applied in verse 24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever

It shall come to pass when you become to the land which the Lord will give you according as he has promised

That's the promised land that you shall keep this service You know what that tells us the promised land pictures a victorious

Christian living So when you become a mature Christian don't ever get the attitude. Well, I kind of know the scriptures now

I don't have to read and study anymore. I'm okay. I'm mature It says no you need when you when you get to the promised land when you get to that place where maybe sins not bothering you quite as much you think and you know the scriptures and you're walking with the

Lord you're in fellowship with your brothers and sisters and and There you are He says there you shall keep this service always remember

The blood that has been applied to your life that remembrance will cause you to live

Like the child of the king that you are And it shall come to pass when your children

Shall say unto you What mean you by all this service, you know, they get old enough where they start asking questions

What do you go say if they say what are these Easter eggs mean But now if you teach him

Passover and ask you the question, what can you tell him? You can tell him Jesus died He gave his blood for the sins of you that you might live forever

Isn't that wonderful? God sent his own son and he gave his life so you can live.

Isn't it wonderful? That's what this picture and the little children come and say what mean ye by this service?

Do you know that that's a sign parents that it's time to witness to your child and start asking you questions The minute they start find you something

Romans Road Call the preacher if you can't do it do something but show them the scriptures show them how to be saved

Doesn't mean you want to get them pray a little prayer. Did you come out name in? No, don't do that. Just show them how to be saved show them the

Savior It's not a prayer. It's a person show them Jesus at that time as they ask

What mean you by this service that you shall say then you shall say it is the sacrifice of the

Lord Passover Who passed over the houses of the children of Israel?

That's what God does for his elect God listen, we deserve hell because of the sins we've done

It's not that we don't deserve hell. It's not that we're better than anybody We're the

Bible says look among you. Are there many noble? No, we're not the best. It's just that we've been passed over Because when he looks at you

He sees the blood of Jesus because it's been applied to your life by God -given faith as pictured by the father

Putting that on the door Passed over the house of the children of Israel in Egypt.

You were in the world See how much you could tell your child about this tell him about the world the world has a bad sense in which the world

Is bad not God's beautiful creation But the systems the way people and systems think and the way the systems are set up.

They're designed to make you stumble When he smote the Egyptians that means Satan is destroyed already by the death burial and resurrection of Jesus hallelujah and delivered our houses deliverance is the whole thing of salvation and The people bowed the head and Worshipped God and the children of Israel went away and did as the

Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron And so did they? What a beautiful picture

What a picture of our salvation what a picture of our deliverance What a picture of sin and that leaven what a beautiful picture

It is that immediately after the Passover they went seven days with no leaven in the home What a beautiful picture that on both ends of that was a

Sabbath rest Where they rested in Christ, you can't add to your salvation nor can you take away from it?

You can just thank him you rest you rest in it, but you eat while you're resting

What do you eat? Here's where we're deficient right here. Ladies and gentlemen, but the church today has more books and dictionaries and atlases and records and CDs Radio and TV than the world has ever had in there

We're the weakest generations of Christians that have ever lived and if you don't believe it read We are the weakest

We don't eat Let's stand and have prayer together Thank the

Lord for his son Jesus Christ and all that is pictured in the

Passover Dear father. We thank you for your word. We thank you for how powerful it is

We thank you for how it searches the deepest depths of our hearts causes us to change not stay the same

Our whole life is about being conformed into the image of your precious son. May you accomplish part of that work today?

As we contemplate the words we've heard from your book Bless our fellowship together in a few moments in the food that we're about to have bless our afternoon services together and Protect us as we go on our way our way home after that And let us go home and talk to our children about the things of God about what

Easter is all about It's not even Easter. It's called the Passover and the resurrection

Sunday Lord help us to take these things seriously so that our children will benefit we ask it in Jesus name.