February 6, 2022

Christ our Passover

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Passage: Exodus 12:5-8, 1 Corinthians 5:7
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Introduction

  • The Passover took place in March/April time
    • It was a time to remember what God had done for them
    • The first month of their new calendar year
    • When the Angel of the Lord saw the blood on the door lintels, He passed over them
    • However, judgment was executed against Egypt
      • The final judgment of the ten plagues
    • The Israelites were set free to travel to the Promised Land
    • The Israelites would give thanks for this each year
  • Jesus practiced the Passover each year as a Jew
    • He changed the meal
    • He said that the bread and wine represented His body and blood
    • Jesus is the true Passover Lamb
    • 1 Cor 5:7
    • We remember Christ as our Passover Lamb
      • Judgement was been averted from us
      • We are covered in the blood of the lamb
  • Concentrating on v5-8:
    • The Lamb
    • An Act of Sacrifice
    • An Ongoing Feast

The Lamb

  • A lamb without blemish - i.e. a perfect specimen (v5)
    • What does this remind us of?
    • Jesus was a perfect Lamb - 1 Pet 2
      • We are sinners and not morally perfect
      • Jesus perfectly obeyed God His Father
      • He always did those things that pleased the Father
      • God saw Jesus as perfect - His Beloved Son
      • People found no fault in Jesus - Pilate
      • He was holy and undefiled
      • He was absolutely spotless
      • His life of obedience allows us to be saved
  • A lamb in its prime
    • Do we sometimes think of Jesus and meek and submissive
      • We think of His passive obedience - in how He let men nail Him to the cross
      • He actively set His face to Jerusalem
    • Jesus died in His prime and utter control
      • He died in tremendous pain but thought of others
      • He cried out 'It is finished'
  • A lamb set apart (v3, 6)
    • Jesus has been chosen to be the Lamb of God
      • John the Baptist saw this
      • Isaiah saw this
      • John writing in Revelation saw this
    • Do we set apart Jesus Christ in our hearts?
      • We come to the Communion Table reverently
      • Not like those in the Corinthian Church

The Sacrifice

  • Did you think that this lamb was sacrificial?
    • Deut 16 - tells us the lamb is sacrificial
    • The lamb was to be sacrificed instead of their first born
  • Only Jesus' blood atones for our sin
    • Heb 9:26
    • Christ has put away sin once and for all
    • The blood of animals did not remove sin
    • Christ has died in our place - if we trust in Him God will forgive us
  • The lamb had to be burnt (v8)
    • Christ suffered the fires of hell and the wrath of God for us on the cross

The Feast

  • For all generations (v14)
    • All the families were to come together
    • Just as they had on the first night
    • Not done in haste as the first Passover
    • They were called to be pilgrim people
  • Jesus institutes something new
    • The old Passover has been done away with
    • We are now to meet together to remember Him
    • To rejoice in Christ at being set free from sin
    • 1 Cor 5:7
    • Remember what Christ has done for us

Closing Remarks

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