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So in light of the fact that we have the Tabernacle before us this week, the question came to me here just sitting here thinking in Exodus 12, where it says, And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by the service, that perhaps we could take up the Passover.
And what it entails as it leads up into the wilderness journey. But this is a very good question for children to ask what may need by the service and so the Lord would have us would have children diligently asked. We find that later on in the wilderness that the children were to ask of their parents.
What mean you buy this? And it's a good, it's a good thing for children to seek earnestly seek for themselves these things. And so it's interesting the Spirit of God would bring up.
You would assume that's that the children would ask.
Anyway, there's just a thought I had in light of the children that are before us.
Normally I call on my sons to read the chapter.
I will put you on the spot ready next time.
Steve, do you think maybe the 1St 27 verses?
Of Exodus 12 for this morning.
Exodus chapter 12, verse one. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be to unto you the beginning of months, and it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the 10th day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their house.
Of their fathers a lamb foreign house.
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every man, according to his eating, shall make your account for the lamb. 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 of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts, and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. They shall eat the flesh in that night. Roast with fire, with unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs. Shall they 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 as thereof.
And he 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. You 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 first born of the land of Egypt, both man and of beast. And against all the gods of Egypt will I execute judgment.
I am the Lord.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will Passover you, and the plague 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 you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by ordinance forever. Seven days shall ye unleavened bread.
Even the first day shall you put away leaven out of your houses, For whosoever eateth leavened bread, from the first day until the 7th day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. In the seventh days there shall be a 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 you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this self same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.
In the first month, on the 14th day of the month that even he shall eat unleavened bread until the one and 20th day of the month, that even seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses for whosoever.
Whosoever eateth that which is leaven, even that soul shall be cut off in the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
He shall eat nothing leavened in all your habitation shall ye 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 you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood.
Which 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 at the door of his house until the morning, for the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. When he seeth the blood up on the lentil and on the two side posts. The Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in into your houses to smite you.
He shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.
And it shall come to pass, when you shall become to the land which the Lord giveth you accordingly, as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass, when your children say unto you, What meaneth thee 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 spoke the Egyptians, and delivered.
Houses and the people bowed the head and worshiped.
I.
So to add another question, God has it in Deuteronomy chapter 640 years later after their wilderness journey or near the completion of the wilderness journey of Deuteronomy 6, the same question.
Was written down again under the Spirit of God, it says in Deuteronomy 6.
Verse 17 Shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. Verse 20 And when thy son asketh thee, and time to come, saying, what may need the testimonies?
And the statutes.
And the judgment which the Lord our God hath commanded you.
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondsman in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
So it's nice to see this question again show up roughly 40 years later.
And it's noted the fact that they were to keep these commandments. And because they keep these commandments, the children were to ask a question, Why do you do this?
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I think it might be nice for the children.
Understand or be reminded that these things that we're reading about the Passover and that we're going to be taking up about the Tabernacle.
Are important things that God has seen fit to put down, and it's something that he wants us to know a lot about.
We're going to be talking about types and shadows and illustrations and pictures all during camp as we take up the Tabernacle.
And this time about the Passover that we've just read about is important because it has to do with the deliverance of the children of Israel.
Likewise, we have been delivered from judgment to come by the act of God, just like they were here.
Unless we think these things are just to do with the children of Israel, it's just all old history and stuff that happened a long time ago and has nothing to do with us now.
I want to read again verse 14.
This day shall be unto you for a memorial.
And you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
The beginning of the summer we have a day called Memorial Day.
And we think about others who have sacrificed for ourselves so that we can enjoy now the things that we do because of their sacrifice.
When the Lord sets up a memorial.
It's because it's a very important thing to him.
And He wants us to know about it, and He wants us to appreciate it because He appreciates it. So this memorial isn't something that children of Israel got together and decided to do. This is something that was instituted of God for specific purposes so that they would never forget.
But they were delivered from, but their condition once was.
And so as we read through here, it's good to remember that and I want to tie that together then.
With First Corinthians 11 That you may often hear read in the breaking of bread when the Lord says this, do Remember Me now. I don't know how many of you young people remember the Lord in your home assemblies.
I hope that that.
That.
Request from the Lord Jesus means something to you.
Because he went.
And provided the sacrifice for us to be delivered from judgment to come. And he says, this is another thing I want you to remember. And it's tied very closely with the Passover here. There was a deliverance for us, and he asked us to remember him. So these two things are tied together, and they're both very important to God.
And he's laid them all out for us so that we could be apprised of these things. And it's nice, like Mark has been saying, that there would be an exercise with the young ones. When you see why we do, when you see what we're doing and you wonder why we're doing it, that's why we're having these meetings. That's why we're taking up these things this week.
I just trust that gives a little bit of a depth and a purpose to what we're doing here.
Because these things are very important to God.
And they ought to be to us too.
Do that. Let's turn to Hebrews chapter 10. Read a verse there.
Is this really important, like a brother just brought up that we make the connection between what we're reading about here and the application that this has to our lives as Christians today. Now this verse in Hebrews chapter 10, verse one that I'm going to read here actually is speaking more along the Levitical.
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Offerings not so much this, but the same application applies.
Hebrews 10/1 for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers they're under perfect. And then a little bit further down it says.
In verse 4, for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away 10s.
Wherefore when he that is the Lord Jesus, cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offerings Thou wouldest not, but a body has Thou prepared me, and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, Thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come, and the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God.
Verse 10.
Verse 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will of God, he taketh away the 1St, that he may establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Verse 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down on the right hand of God. Verse 14 For by one offering hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
So our brother used some language. Brother Walt used the word deliver. And that's important because this aspect of the Passover has to do with the deliverance of Israel from the ******* of.
Under Egypt.
Is not redemption not redemption? Redemption took place at the Red Sea and it was by a hand of power of God. But what this did was deliver them from that *******.
So in First Corinthians chapter 5 we read.
About.
The connection.
Between what we're reading in Exodus 12 and us.
1St Corinthians 5 verse 7 verge out there for the 11 That you may be a new lump as you're unloving for even Christ or Passover that sacrifice for us. And then if we were to turn back to Luke chapter 22, I believe it is.
I think we're all very familiar with these portions are often read during our breaking of bread meanings, and rightfully so.
I'm not going to read the whole chapter here but Luke 22 and verse one it says.
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread you're not, which is called the Passover.
A little bit further down.
7.
Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed.
And we know that the Lord sent his disciples to make ready a room where they would celebrate the Passover together. And the Lord would say.
Verse 15 He said unto them, With desire, I have desired to eat.
That's Passover with you before I suffer where I say unto you, I will not.
Anymore either of until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. And you took the cup and gave thanks and said, Take this and divide it among your souls, or I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God shall come. And then these next verses specifically. And he took bread and gave thanks and break it, and gave in to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you.
This do.
In remembrance of me likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you.
And so these things are intimately connected to that which we.
Have been given for us as Christians today and the more we enter into these things, the more we understand and the more we enter into.
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The fact that Jesus was our Passover.
To deliver us from the ******* of sin, and is instituted that feast.
Luke chapter 22. They had the Passover feast, but then he instituted something new.
That's what we were reading about in Hebrews, that he took away the 1St that he might establish the second or fulfilled the 1St that he might have salvage the 2nd. So as we consider Exodus 12, let's just keep that in mind that these things are very relevant to us and it was a purpose behind what took place in Exodus chapter 12.
We will remember that.
Barrel was holding.
The children of Israel and ******* and they had requested to be able to leave, and Pharaoh had said no and God had.
Not about a number of plagues upon Egypt to exercise Pharaoh, to release its people and to let them go. And it was.
That says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart and they didn't throw, didn't follow through, and he didn't let the people go. And so we come to this Exodus chapter 12, where God was going to pass through and judgment that night and all of the first born in the land of Egypt would be slain.
So I had the purpose of affecting the heart of Pharaoh where he would actually follow through and let God's people go. It wasn't that God just desired to come through and and judgment do this. There was a there was a specific purpose for what he had in mind and it's.
Was something that the children of Israel were to never forget and if we looked at the history of Israel.
There was a period of time during the Kings where the Passover was not celebrated for hundreds of years, right? I can't remember at what point it stopped, but Hezekiah brought it back in again and.
There are some remarkable things that are written about the effect that.
Celebrating that Passover feast, what it the effect that it had on the hearts of those that were that were present. And there's a reason also why the Feast of Unleavened Bread follows the Passover, because that should be the effect that the Passover would have on us, that we would be sanctified and set apart and not take up with that which is loving.
So in in light of the comments that have been made.
And perhaps for the sake of our young people and children here, it's good to be reminded that.
The things that we are reading today, as has already been pointed out, have their own relevance to us as Christians in the sense that God would have us to learn spiritual lessons from what was written in the Old Testament and, and it's been mentioned, we will touch in on types and shadows and figures and pictures.
And it's been said this way that.
The Old Testament is like the picture book.
That we can look back into through the lens of the New Testament and see in picture form.
Of the truth that is taught in the New Testament.
And let me read you a verse along these lines. Romans 15, verse 4.
For whatsoever things were written before time, so that would be the things in the Old Testament.
Were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort.
Of the scriptures might have hoped.
So that's just one verse 2.
So I guess layer over some of these comments that have been made already to show that.
We can benefit by.
The the Old Testament just as much as the new. We need them both, of course, but we need to.
Not ignore the Old Testament and and and what we see in it. I remember talking to a brother in Christ.
About the Tabernacle. In fact, this was a while back.
I realized we're not taking up the Tabernacle in this chapter, but we were talking about the Tabernacle in particular.
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And the Tabernacle is a beautiful layout of some wonderful truth as to the glories of Christ and, and our place in him and, and all of that. And the brother said to me, well, you know, I, I really, I kind of skip over those things in the Old Testament because I.
To him, they just simply were just.
I guess a bunch of instructions and didn't have any relevance. He thought to him as as a believer in Christ, and it just became kind of mundane kind of repetitious instructions that he couldn't really find any meaning in.
But the reality is, is when we, when we can take up these things in the Old Testament, and as we're looking at this chapter in Exodus chapter 12, we see and we can read it through the length of the New Testament. We see some beautiful pictures for us and for our souls and we can learn something that will be for our profit only.
So what I'm saying?
Is don't ignore the Old Testament scriptures. We do need them and and we need to take up with the study of them. We need to do so through the understanding of what we have in the New Testament and these things make sense.
So these things took place in history. They are historical facts.
They are historical facts.
But there's also a spiritual element to them that we need to consider. That's what we're doing here.
It's always good to get God's perspective first.
And that's often how it is presented to us in the Scriptures. God wants us to see things through His eyes first.
And then I believe when we can do that, we have a better appreciation of what he appreciates and and what is true of us. And in Exodus 12, I think that's what we have in the Passover. What is focused on is the blood. And so it was.
A judgment for God to see.
Right. And he looks upon the blood and he sees the blood and he values that blood. And then from there we can get a a good perspective on his assessment of the work.
If you go to chapter 14, it's a judgment for us to see. And that's when they go through the Red Sea and see all their enemies overtaken in, in the Red Sea. And and that's the death of Christ. That's what it's focusing on. So here is, is the blood of Christ in tight and it's a judgment for God to see.
Chapter 14. It's the death of Christ, and it's a judgment for us to see, but God's side comes first.
Because we need to appreciate it from his perspective to get it right.
And so it had to be a lamb without blemish.
You know, for the Lord to have been in a position in which that sacrifice could be.
Accepted.
I had to build them without blemish and without spot. We have that first, Peter. I think it, what is it, Chapter one or two.
Now again.
This doesn't have to do with redemption here specifically, but deliverance. So this person and First Peter take that in that context.
First, Peter.
Chapter One.
In verse 18, For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things of silver and gold from your vain conversations received by tradition from your Father's, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, who fairly was, who barely was foreordained before the foundation of the world.
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But was manifest in these last times for you and so the Lord Jesus.
And as we take up the Tabernacle, we'll see this as well. With the fine twine linen. There was that perfection of this person.
His moral glory that was clearly evidenced.
That made it possible for him to be the sacrifice.
So I'd like to notice a couple points here in verse 3.
In the 10th day of the month they shall take unto them every man a lamb, according to their fathers a lamb for a house.
And notice verse four, Have the household be too little for the Lamb. Let him and his neighbor unto him and to his house. Take it according to the number of your souls according every man, according to his eating, shall make your account of the Lamb. We don't have the converse. There wasn't such a thing as a house too big for the Lamb.
And I think that's beautiful.
In this picture of Deliverance.
Our house may be too small for the Lamb, but our house cannot be too big for the Lamb. The Lamb is sufficient in and of himself. And I think that that is so wonderful to get a hold of in our souls that we have a deliverance, and that deliverance is greater than any of our problems. You might say so.
The children of Israel, they had a real problem. They were in ******* and they had no way of delivering themselves. They needed God's deliverance and God was going to come in and provide that deliverance.
But that deliverance was greater than them. And I think that that's important for us to remember that we may feel small, and that's good. And I'm sure that there was lots and lots of households in in Egypt among the children of Israel that felt that they were too little for the lamb.
But there was no household that was too big for the land.
The lamb was sufficient.
Tim mentioned that the lamb was to be without blemish, but I love the first part of that verse. Verse five it says their lamb.
No, it says your lamb.
And I, I want to tie this back together first, it's speaks of a lamb for a house. And, and we have this immense privilege of, of everyone here, I believe is part of a, a Christian household. And and that's an immense privilege, but it has to go beyond the house. It has to become immensely personal. And that's why in verse 5.
It says your lamb, everyone needs to have that applied so that they say it's my land. Your land shall be without blemish a male of the first year and you shall take it out of the sheep or from the goats. And then it says you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month. What did that mean?
I think this is so beautiful.
Physically, that meant that they took that lamb out of the clock or the.
The the group and they would bring it into their house and they watched that lamp.
For 14 days.
For two whole weeks they examined that lamb, they looked at that lamb, they were acquainted with that lamb. And for us to receive God's deliverance, we need to have our eyes on the Lamb of God. We need to be focused on the Lamb of God. We need to, as it were, bring that lamb into our into our household, into our dwelling. We need.
To examine him.
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And we're going to find that it's truly without blemish and without spot.
If we do that, and that's part of the reason we're taking up the Tabernacle, I know that there's maybe some that are saying.
What the world are we doing taking up the Tabernacle? It's it's in in a great deal our exercise that we would.
As it were, take that lamb and and really look deeply at that lamb.
So as we take up the Tabernacle, our desire is that each one of us would see the Excellency of Christ.
In the Tabernacle, in the different components of the Tabernacle, in the building, in the.
The fence that was around the court and each item we see Christ.
And that's our desire is that if, if we go away from this week with with just one thing, it's that we would have seen the Lord Jesus.
In some way, in some shape, in some form, who he is and what he's done.
We need to look at the lamb.
On that, the other effect that having that lab in their house for four days was.
They became acutely aware of the cost.
This was a living creature that was in their myths that they slew for the purpose of delivering them from that death Angel and.
Is what made it significant. If they just went out and took it from the clock and immediately slit, maybe not so much of A connection, maybe not so much of A relevance to them, but having it in their home for four days?
Well.
We mentioned that on the 14th day they slept. They pulled it out of the clock on the 10th day, right so.
So the, they had it there in their midst and they slew the lamb and they made it their own. And going back to what Steve said and again, where there's a lot of crossover here to the, to the Tabernacle, because we have in the Tabernacle.
The mercy seat officiation and that was the sacrifice sufficient?
For all but on the other side of it we have the brazen altar in which there was substitution, in which you had to take the sacrifice, and it had to be yours. And that's why in Hebrews Chapter 9 we read about.
There's other scriptures as well, but I'll just mention it in this reference. It says so. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
That's not all because not all have substituted of taking Christ as our substitute. And so there's an aspect of of this lamb that's brought out. They had to make it theirs. And you know, there was a significant amount of faith that was associated with this action. I think sometimes we look over that, but.
This was serious. The death Angel is coming through the land. If that blood wasn't on the door, people were dying in that home.
And the place of safety was inside the home.
Covered by the blood. If the children of Israel were to discount this, those in their homes would die, just like Egypt. This was serious, and it required action on their part in order to preserve them from this death Angel.
It's remarkable that it says that they were to eat of this with their staff in their hand, their feet shod. What? Why? Because they were to do that with the confidence that this was going to have the desired effect and that they were going to be sent out of the land.
So very much on display.
In this action that was taken, and especially probably from the standpoint of the first born, I am a first born in my family. Had my family been in Egypt as part of this group of the children of Israel, if this ordinance didn't happen and that blood wasn't applied to the doorposts and the lentil, I would be the one that would be dead.
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And so it would really acutely matter to me.
That this and.
So these these things are remarkable pictures to each of us. You know that the children invisible were not to leave the house during that time and again going back to the difference between deliverance and redemption, this action kept.
God out of the house. Redemption brings us into connection with Him, and so this is deliverance, but not redemption. What it did is it kept the death Angel out.
Delivered them, but the redemption took place at the Red Sea.
So spoiler alert.
We're going to be taking up the Tabernacle in the evenings throughout the week. I don't know if we actually made that explicit. Many of you know about that already. But for those of you who keep hearing us referencing the Tabernacle and you're saying to yourself, well, you're not taking up the Tabernacle right now. You're right. Later on we will, Lord willing.
But back to the chapter here.
It says in verse 3A lamb, verse four the Lamb and then in verse five your lamb.
So let's look at John One and see.
God's Lamb. Again, all of this pointed to Christ.
John, Chapter one.
Know these verses well, it's good to read them and verse 36.
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God.
Actually backing up to verse 29, this is the next day John. See if Jesus coming unto him and say it, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
So.
What does this point to?
Points to none other than the Lord Jesus Christ doesn't and it shows us that God there was a distinct lamb that was to be selected. There was a lamb, there was VLAN.
And.
So applying this to the Lord Jesus.
He was foreordained by God to be the Lamb and and so there had to be a sacrifice to deal with our sins. There had to be a Lamb and it had to go through.
A distinct, exclusive person, the Lamb being the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone.
And as it's as it's already been said, then we need to apply.
We need to come to Him and receive Him in His work for ourselves, have our him as our land, so to speak. So the Lord didn't just give.
Yeah, he didn't just kind of leave it open and free for anybody just to decide how they wanted to go about this. You'll notice this is a very specific instructions as to how things were to be done and how it was to be followed through.
And and so is salvation through Christ. It is exclusive and exclusively through him and him alone. He is the Lamb of God. He is not just one of many lambs speak reverently. He is the Lamb. You know, the world thinks that, you know, we can just get to God through many different ways, and that's not true. It's through Christ and Christ alone. And so he is the Lamb of God.
As far as making this personal, like you were Speaking of, Tim, I think a connection with those three things, a lamb, D lamb and your lamb, you know, like you were saying, you just go out and take the lamb out of the clock. It's just a lamb. And we might know that there's a Savior. We might know about Jesus.
He's just a person in history. Whatever. Well, the time comes, you need to realize, and by faith the Lord can make that happen.
In your life that it becomes there's only one. It's the lamb.
That's nice, but it doesn't stop there.
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Because you need to make it your own.
It has to become your lamb.
Lord Jesus went through those things for you.
And each one of us can say that for ourselves. That's open to us because of propitiation. Like you said, the way has been made open. Now the sacrifice has been offered. Now you have the opportunity to be in the Father's house looking at the Lord Jesus face to face because of what he did.
And there's another aspect I want to add to what Steve was saying.
Connection with having that lamb there and watching the lamb. I happen to know that there's some hunters here.
In the group this morning and when you look at how they handled that lamb and the Levitical situation in numbers of Leviticus number, chapter one.
It goes into how they look at that lamb and prepare that lamb for the sacrifice.
So in Leviticus one and verse six it says And he shall play that means to skin.
Flay the burnt offering and cut it into his pieces. Just that one verse.
I used to hunt when I was a young person and when you killed an animal there were certain things that you looked for.
You look at the kidneys, maybe you look at the lungs and if there's a certain look to them or if you see white spots on them or something like that, there were things you looked for to make sure that that the animal was not diseased. You couldn't see that from the outside.
But when you take it apart, when you skin it, when you dress it out, you take all the insides out.
There are things that you look for. So they did this with these lambs and the other animals that they offered. And I want to submit to you that the Lord Jesus went through that process when He was here in this world. It was being exposed to everyone around, not to see if there was some flaw or difficulty or problem with this Lamb of God, but to prove that there was no problem.
He went through that process and to go there on the cross and say, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Just one little thing, one more evidence that this is a perfect person.
This was a perfect sacrifice.
You could look as far as you want to look and you'll never see anything but perfection. So I just wanted to add that in there because they're hunters here and Steve just got an elk the other day and they would been going through the process of cutting it all up. And they were probably looking for some of those things that you are taught to look for to make sure the animal is not diseased or as a problem so that it's unusable. But the Lord Jesus.
You will not find any problems ever with that perfect person.
Would you say that the blood kept?
Judge out on the Passover.
When we come to the Tabernacle, it gives us the right to go into the Holy.
So it's a different function.
In that sense.
And what's interesting too, is that in the book of.
Romans, you have blood mentioned only three times, and one of those times is whose feet are swift to shed blood.
In Hebrews you get blood mentioned 23 times, so it shows you the.
The emphasis on these things in the different.
Another thing too is that.
We haven't provided.
The Lamb.
We sing that hymn.
God who gave the blood to screen us. God looks down from heaven above.
Clouds may seem to pass between us.
There's no change in him above. It's because he sees.
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The value of that work of his son.
I want to said that it was 2000 years ago.
But that.
The efficient, the efficacy of that work stands good for everyone who puts their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I just had that.
Unfortunately, we've gone beyond the hour, as is often the case.
In other words, we're out of time.
Just like to read a verse before we pray Genesis.
Wanted to go.
Genesis 22.
Verse seven. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here my, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire in the wood.
But where is the lamb? Where a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went, both of them together.
Verse 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife just.
Lay his son. I believe that word slay should be rendered slaughter.
Can you imagine? He took the knife to slaughter his son, but his hand was stayed. Let's pray. God our Father, we thank Thee for providing for thyself a lamb or a burnt offering. Thank You that even Christ, our Passover has been sacrificed for us. We think of that blood that was on the outside of the houses.
The doorpost in the upper lentil, the eye of God. We think of the security inside of those that would feast upon the the lamb.
And so our God and Father, we thank thee for all thy good provision to learn thine attributes, our God and thy character, and in the deliverance thine earthly people, and to recognize that we are under the shelter of the blood of Christ. And so we commend the rest of these meetings to thine hand and ask for blessing.
We give thee our thanks, our God, our Father, in the worthy and precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.