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Our God and our Father, we're thankful for Your Word that we have opened before us.
Thankful for the many types that we have in it. Think of all the innocent victims that were slaughtered and bloodless **** and how they all point to our Lord Jesus and sacrifice on the cross.
We're thankful that.
That we have a life to understand these things and we just pray that there would be something here for each one of us. There may be many needs or encouragement or exhortation or comfort. We just pray that there would be something for each one and that the Lord uses would be glorified. Pray for a blessing as we open up thy word and in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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1St 12:00.
Verse 27.
OK, Exodus chapter 12 starting at verse 12.
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 beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the 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 all your generations. You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance.
Forever 7 days shall you eat unleavened bread. Even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leaven bread. From the first day until the 7th day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, and in the first day there shall be in holy convocation, and in the 7th day there shall be in holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
And 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 you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.
In the first month, on the 14th day of the month, that even ye 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 eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened in all your habitations shall ye 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 that is in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in onto your houses.
To smite you, and you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. And it shall come to pass, when you become into the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service, that ye shall say It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel and Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and worshiped.
Verse 12.
And I'd like to read the verse in Chapter 11 to get some context and it says in verse.
Verse. Well, I'll start at verse 4. Moses said thus saith the Lord, about midnight I will will I go out into the midst of Egypt, and all the first born in the land of Egypt shall die from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first born of the maidservant, that is behind the mill, and all the first born of beasts.
And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it anymore, but against any of the children of Israel. Shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast? This is where I was thinking about, that you may know that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
And then jump down to the 29th verse of the chapter that we've been reading.
We haven't read this verse, but to give the context and it says, well, I'd like to read verse 28. And the children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass it at midnight. The Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh that sat up on his throne, and the first born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all the servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt where there was not a house.
But there was not one dead. So this is the context of what's going on with his death Angel passing over the entire land.
And that statement in Chapter 11, verse seven says that you may know that the Lord death put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. That's an important, important thing to know, that Israel, the 12 tribes were living in Egypt and God saw them as a distinct nation and that he was going to segregate them. And it came down to one thing. It came down to verse 28 of our chapter. It says the children of Israel went away.
Did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. Yes, we spoke yesterday of the fathers going out and laying the blood on the lentil. If a Hebrew father did not do that, the same then would have have happened. The first born in that house would have died. But scripture clearly tells us that every single household in the land of in the amongst the Israelites or the Hebrews obeyed.
And that's a key thing, that there was complete 100% obedience from the Hebrews and there was complete 100% disobedience from the Egyptians. There's not one Egyptian family or one Egyptian household was spared.
That's important thing to note is there is a distinction God will draw in the land. A distinction.
And it's important to see that obedience is a key factor. When God says something, he means something and there's a reason for it. We don't have to know the reason.
But there's blessing that comes from it. The blessing is is there was not a great cry coming out of the Israelites homes at night. There was a great cry was it stay there. It says in verse six of Chapter 11, there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it nor shall be like anymore to hear wailing of households throughout the land at midnight. I believe this is when the death angels coming across.
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To hear wailing of households.
Of first borns being smitten that night, what must have been something else and yet not A1 amongst all the Hebrew families.
Is it not a theme in Scripture that God always provides one way of escape from a judgment that is to come?
Whether it's from the from the flood, provided the art, it could be a type of price.
And of course, there's a judgment to come in the future here.
The Lord Jesus Christ and the close here. It's from the Passover lamb. I'd just like to.
Make one distinction from the.
The type and the anti type and that is the Passover lamb is just the land that had no intelligence.
And the Lord Jesus, he had perfect intelligence of what was to come when he was on his pathway on earth as a child, He said I must be about my Father's business and then his ministry. How many times he said he mentioned the things that he would suffer. And so he had total intelligence of what he was going to go through on the cross, and he went through it.
For us.
The type here, no intelligence, just the land, just the type. But there's a way. That's a theme in Scripture that there's that there's one way of escape from a coming judgment.
What Mark was just commenting on, you know, with what was said in Chapter 11.
The Lord, when He laid these things out for Israel, assumed their obedience. And you know when the Lord speaks in regards to His provision, His protection.
He assumes our obedience and in regards to that, and sadly.
Often that isn't the case and there is an obedience and there is a lack of blessing and and there is such a thing as as a.
The government of God that is associated with lack of obedience, but thankfully, as Mark said here.
In this portion we see absolute obedience on the part of Israel and not one first born from the homes of Israel that that died. But I think it's important to see that when the Lord laid this out in Chapter 11, He assumed their obedience.
We have a much greater capability.
Having been delivered.
Power of sin.
To walk in a way that's pleasing to the Lord and it's.
It's sad that that isn't always the case for us.
I think there were about 10 judgments that.
Came up that fell upon Egypt, went there.
And as we've been looking at this chapter and its typical teaching, when you, when you look at those judgments and their their typical form, what they picture to us, we have really God exposing the world for what it really is. It's emptiness and, and all of that. And the final judgment ends in death.
And and that's.
That's solemn to think about, as Steve was pointing out that the Lord has provided.
This world with escape.
But it's only through one way, that is through Christ to escape the judgment to come and judgment that will fall upon each individual that refuses God's offer of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. So it's a very solemn thing that.
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That this is the end.
Is death and judgment for one who does not come to Christ God's?
Lamb Acceptance of God's lamb is the only way to to escape the judgment.
You know, I was looking at that recently, Josh, and when Moses first went in the Pharaoh and.
And describe these various judgments that were going to come to pass. The magicians came out from Egypt and they weren't able to reverse them. They duplicated them. They duplicated them, making the problem twice as bad as it was to begin with. They had no power to, actually.
Provide deliverance from it. The only deliverance that Steve brought out was from the land was from the Lord.
I think it's good if we emphasize that.
To the young people, we need to emphasize that that we're talking about.
God dealing with man here in the day of superheroes and Superman, and I don't know, all these things that are going on. It's almost portrayed like there's this struggle between good and evil and they're both just about equal and in the end good is just going to overcome. But that's not the case at all.
We're talking about deity and created beings.
In the story.
There is no contest that God is going about things in a certain way, and it might seem that way to us that, well, where is the Lord? How come he didn't come in sooner? Why did he allow this to happen if if he's really the Supreme being? Well, He is, but He has plans and purposes that go beyond our thoughts. And so it's good to remember that there is no contest. And like you were Speaking of the magicians, there are supernatural beings too.
There are people that have a touch in with supernatural beings, but these are all created beings and there is a creator that is going to win in the end. He's going to have his way and it's good to get that solid in our minds that there's no question, no contest.
With this obedience we we see just simple faith.
On the part of Israel, they just took God at his work and that's really what faith boils down to. I think it's Acts chapter 25, verse 27. It's often been said that the definition of faith is captured there in that statement that Paul made. For I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me. The children of Israel believe God that it would be even as it was told them. They obeyed and they were preserved.
It's that simple, not a complicated concept.
Faith is taking God at His word and obeying.
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So again, it's it's God's estimation of the work.
We've been talking about should give us.
Absolute solid peace in our souls to know that when.
That he's accepted the work of his beloved Son is satisfied and for the soul that places their trust in Christ.
There are then sheltered by that precious blood and spared from eternal damnation and promised life, everlasting life in Christ and.
We have here in verse 13, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. That's a definitive statement. There's no question about it. I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you.
Destroy it when I smite the land of Egypt.
Many believers today wrestle with eternal security and you know, we need to be solid on this. And, and the Lord has gone to great lengths and his word to assure us that once we're saved, we're saved forever. And it's, it's, it doesn't depend upon us at all. It's what he sees in in the work of Christ that matters and it's not.
My what I can do to maintain my salvation I it was left up to me.
Or you? Well, we would have no hope.
But the work is done, it's complete, it's final, and God promises us.
Assurance that.
Once saved, we are saved forever.
And so let's not let anyone ever try to convince us that that you can be saved or lost or lost and then saved and then lost again. And it's this ongoing cyclical battle.
That's that's not scriptural, that's not what God says. I was just thinking of his verse in in Romans 8 verse one. And again, there are many many. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
It's final. In fact, the latter end of that verse is not in the manuscript. It was added by the translators. That's where the verse should end.
He gives unto them eternal life, gives unto us eternal life, and they shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand, for my father, which gave them me, is greater than all. No man is able.
To pluck them from my Father's hand, the Lord Jesus said.
We are doubly secured, you might say, in his hand and, and our father's hand and.
I believe that for those who wrestle with the question of their salvation, whether it is sure or not, I.
It becomes a.
I believe it stunts the growth of any believer because we're we're never able to get past the first step.
You know.
So it's sad, you know, there's many people who believe that, but.
That's not what Scripture tells us.
Yeah. As you say, Josh, I don't believe that there's any possibility of growth spiritually if you're still stuck in that that place because you haven't gotten past square one and.
We can thank God for His Word that gives us absolute assurance. I think I've mentioned this before in these meetings here, but I work with a man named Brian who's a Catholic, and I believe, I honestly believe that he has life.
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But he does absolutely not have eternal security at all, and we've had numerous conversations and as a Catholic, he believes that to assume that he has salvation is a sin of presumption. And so I read to him these verses and 1St John chapter 5.
First John chapter 5 and verse 10. He that believeth on the Son of God, not the witness in himself.
He that believeth not God made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave his Son, and then these verses. And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life. This life is in his Son, either half the Son, half life. And he that hath not the Son hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know.
That you have eternal life.
And that you may believe in the name of the Son of God. He had never heard that before. He was speechless and.
It's a sad thing, as you say, that he was completely stunted in his ability to move forward.
And his Christian life by the system for sure, but also just by his lack of resting in the finished work of Christ and having that conscious assurance that it was it was spinning.
I think that.
And sometimes the.
Anyway, sometimes it's not just a doctrinal issue I remember as a young person.
I got finally knew that I was saved and I could never be lost. But my experience was such that.
Yeah, did that work?
The blood apparently was applied outside the door, not on the inside.
So don't look in here to get your assurance. Look to the Lord Jesus.
Look to the word of God. There you can have assurance you can't have it looking inside.
To that I was actually trying to find the verse and I can't put my finger on it, but there's another verse in first John that says if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart can't can't put my finger on the verse. But I was thinking that same thing and that regard saying because as a young person I wrestled with the same thing and I think it's probably a fairly common experience even amongst thoughts that.
We don't necessarily rest in the settled assurance of our eternal life.
And, and it hinders us, I can for sure say that there was absolutely no growth in my life spiritually while I wrestled with those things.
It's first John chapter 3.
Verse 20.
If our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence towards God.
It's OK.
Ask about these things, how was the kind of what came up?
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In the beginning was the question of this what we need?
Thanks.
What we need by this service?
It's OK to ask. I think the spirit in which we ask these things means a lot, too. Mark and I had that discussion the other day.
About the spirit in which we ask questions but if we're honestly seeking, it's okay to ask questions about why we do things the way we do something just a tradition or.
Struggling with things like even eternal salvation or eternal security.
To go to dad, mom, brother, sister and.
And point like you said.
Point to Scripture. That's the final authority. That's what speaks to.
Our heart and can guide us in the way but you know it's not wrong to ask questions I think sometimes we get shy about asking questions because we might.
Think we'll be looked down upon or something like that or?
But it but it's always good to be asking and it's always good to be going to work.
To find those answers or to get help from other people.
To guide us in those things, to find those those answers. But I like that the kids.
Children ask what we need by their service and so I I think that the the Lord would want us to be seeking, asking, looking through His word.
You know a lot of what we're talking about now, the, the Old Testament Scriptures and, and the Passover and the Tabernacle and.
You know, it's, it's hard to get a hold of these things sometimes. And what's, what's the purpose, what's the meaning? Well, I think what's been being brought out in these meetings?
Has been, you know, extremely helpful in showing that all these things point to Christ. It's not just stories in the Old Testament.
Types, shadows and.
So I just wanted to bring that up. It's it's OK to ask questions.
It's evidence of engagement, isn't it? When we're having our reading meetings at home, I am thankful when my kids ask questions because it means they're paying attention. If if we don't have questions, maybe I missed the mark, maybe they're not engaged, maybe have lost them. And I believe that that's probably what happened in Israel at some point in time as there was a loss of engagement.
The children no longer asked their parents these questions and these things fell away.
To the point where there was a period of hundreds of years in Israel where the Passover was no longer celebrated. Hezekiah brought it back in. And so why was that? Maybe it would have been assisted by the children asking their parents, hey, why do we, why do we do this and that matter? Maybe encourage them, hey?
We've missed the mark. We we need to get back to doing what the Lord has asked us. So couldn't agree more Drew. It's important for questions to be asked.
But there's also to Drew to Stifel and on the very next verse, verse 27, that ye shall say.
So this is a two way St. There are those that should ask questions sincerely, right? But then there should be those that would give an answer. But that is a that is a tricky thing. So growing up I'll never forget.
Going to another camp in Northern California and seeing young people from other assemblies where things weren't necessarily followed as much. And so questions were asked and this answer was given. That's how the meeting does it.
That's the wrong answer. That's the wrong answer.
And I'll relate a time when I was.
When I was 20 years old and I was working through college at UPS early in the morning at 3:00 in the morning it will be having eating some breakfast before I went to work at UPS. My dad was in cancer at the time and.
He was wrought with radiation on the head, so he had no hair.
And he come in the kitchen while, I mean while I'm having pancakes. And I had a little Bible study with the young people at college and he'd say, say Mark, he says.
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What are you taking up? What questions are being asked?
I remember this quite, I remember this statement, he said, He said.
I may not know the answer, but we're going to go find it.
I've taken heart on that just because you're being asked the question.
Doesn't mean you don't have to have the answer right now the scriptures, you just have to go look for it as it said there.
We have been tested with major things here worldwide in the pandemic that really should have made a search into the Scriptures as to answers for ourselves. There are things that come up that we can't look at at a point verse and say, well, it says here because of that. No, there's there's questions that are being asked that won't have a definitive answer, but there's going to be principles.
To be searched out in the scriptures that will make it make the way plain.
So I so enjoy that just because you're being asked the question, you may not have the answer right then. Know the fact. Take some time, ask the Lord, find out where in the scriptures would principles lay themselves out to help give that answer.
You might add to this that.
There's probably a couple things I think that we as parents can get from this, and that is that we ought not to take for granted that our children are established in some of the most basic truths and avoid bringing them before them because we think, well, it's just common knowledge. It's important that we go over the basics.
And #2.
That teaching should begin at home.
Should be found in the assembly, absolutely yes.
But I don't think we should be relying on the assembly to be teaching our children, although we we want it to be. So that would be a healthy assembly, but it should begin in our homes. Is that right?
Along those lines, Josh, the verse that we started with today, just like to touch on this real briefly because it's a critical point.
The last phrase of the verse says, Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.
I am the Lord like to read a verse couple verses over in second Peter.
Because this is pertinent to us in our day as well. Because there is coming judgment.
I'd like to read from first and second Peter chapter 3.
And we'll start at verse 3, knowing this first that there's shall come in the last days. Those are the days that we're living in scoffers walking after their own less saying where is the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they are willingly ignorant.
Of that by the word of God, the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water, whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished. But now, but the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word, are kept in store.
Reserved unto fire.
Against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
We're living in a day.
That is not unlike.
What we're reading about in.
In Exodus 12, there's a coming judgment and and that judgment is coming very, very soon.
God is going to judge.
In, in Exodus 12, God executed judgment on Egypt, and it came about exactly how he determined. And it was a very, very solemn judgment. But this world that we're living in.
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Is destined to judgment, not by water, not by an Angel of death that is going to come through.
Although there will be an amazing amount of death and suffering during the Great Tribulation, but this world that we're living in is going to be judged by fire.
And I, I mentioned that because there's a lot of people around this and the portion that I read here in, in second Peter is, is incredibly relevant to the day in which we live. And I know that all your children have been told or exposed in one way or another. Even if you've been homeschooled, there's still information out there that says that there was no flood.
As a professional, I work in a.
In a part of science that would love to ignore the fact that there was a flood, that there was judgment that God executed on this earth and that there is a coming judgement, but it's going to be a judgement by fire. And we need to acknowledge that and recognize that.
And the relevance to our lives now is that we should have a care for those that are around us that are destined.
That are heading down that broad Rd. that leads.
To the Lake of Fire.
It leads to judgment.
And so often it's it's easy for us to coast along.
And to not.
Let our light shine.
I'm pointing the finger 4 fingers back at myself.
I'm not pointing the finger at anybody else.
Because I I'm guilty of this. We don't have a heart for the souls that are around this.
I'm thankful that Moses testimony to the children of Israel was such that they listened and they obeyed.
The question is what is our testimony to those around us that there is coming judgment and that that judgment is going to come in the most awful way, judgment by fire.
Sadly, we see in Pharaoh.
Something that we see in relation to what you're saying, Steve. In this world we see one who hardened his heart against the Lord, and the Lord hardened his heart in return.
Verse that says in Genesis, My spirit shall not always strive with men. And that happened with Pharaoh. Right as they were going through these flags, Moses was speaking to him, and Moses was cast out from the presence of Pharaoh. Chapter 10. Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself.
See my face no more.
And that is a real thing. There are those that absolutely reject anything and everything that has to do with God and.
They may be passed out from their presence, but we're responsible for being ambassadors for Christ. Mark talked about that a little bit on Monday night. And you know there's a verse that says that he that being often reproved pardoneth his neck so suddenly be cut off and not without remedy.
Song but.
We that know the terror of the Lord.
If I may, I'd like to just go back to guess what you're talking about respect to our homes. And this verse came to me back in chapter 10. In fact, there we have Pharaoh hardening his heart. Verse 20, Lord harden Pharaoh's heart.
And Pharaoh's heart in this case, after Pharaoh pardon his, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
This is in the word said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven.
But there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt. Three days he saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days. But this is what I was thinking of. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. I think that's a beautiful thing, you know.
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We've been speaking a lot about Egypt and in particular in chapter 12, the the Judgment of death.
But again, all these plagues as they are exposing the world for what it is and what it means typically, excuse me, we should be very cognizant, very aware.
Of what this world system is, what it's characterized by, we should be very careful about how insidious.
This world is and how it can creep into our homes.
It's been said that, you know, the television takes us out into the world. Now we've got the computer and the Internet. Which are we? The television brings the world into our homes.
Computer and the Internet brings us out into the world.
And.
And there's many different mediums of, of information exchange that, you know, we partake in today just as a part of normal life. But if we let that get out of hand, we can be bringing, we should have light in our dwellings, is what I'm trying to say. And and not allow the darkness of Egypt to creep in.
And a healthy Christian home should be, should be one where the Lord is honored and where we speak about the scriptures and and teach these things to our children.
And we need to be very careful about what we're allowing into our homes. And in this case, all the children of Israel have light in their dwellings, and that should be what characterizes us, too.
There's an interesting order in what we've been talking about with these questions of the children.
It's because they had the remembrance that the questions came so the Lord is talking to Moses and Aaron in the 1St 20 verses that Moses calls the elders and says this is what the Lord wants you to do. You keep it, you're responsible. You're responsible once. So as parents are responsible to bring the things of the Lord in the home to their kids can be occupied with that. We don't have to wait for questions to bring things out the.
The opposite, it's us bringing the things of the Lord into the house and then questions come, thankfully, by which we can explain things more and so on. But that's the order. It's the elders that were responsible to have this remembrance, to have this, you know, gathering together to talk about what the Lord had done for the people of Israel because of that, the children.
Would see it, they would think about it, they would come up with questions.
If we don't bring the things of the Lord in our home, they'll be occupied with things, will be other things, and they won't bring questions about the Lord's things. So let that be the order that we as the responsible ones make sure that there's plenty of Christ in the home that our kids can be occupied with and then have questions which are wonderful to go into things further. And that's the order we have in this chat.
Mark, I think that's excellent and just want to make a notice. Verse 15 Seven days shall ye eat?
Unleavened bread? I'd like to ask the kids a question. What's unleavened bread?
This morning.
Most of us dads got together and and we met in the kitchen and we followed a recipe to make the pancakes we all enjoyed for breakfast. Can somebody tell me what the recipe is for unleavened bread?
I'll give you a simple.
Suggestion. I believe that unleavened bread had either two or possibly I believe three ingredients.
Can anybody, any of the kids, tell me what the the ingredients of unleavened bread are?
It's OK, you can speak up.
There's flour. That's one.
There's water.
What's the third one?
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I'll give you a hint. We used it this morning.
Oil.
Those are the ingredients of unleavened bread.
And the reason I I point that out is is there some significance to that?
As we get into the Tabernacle a little bit, I don't know if we'll get to this, but the flower, especially fine flower, speaks to us of the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus himself said I am the bread of life.
And so flower, throughout Scripture, especially fine flowers, speaks to us of the Lord Jesus, His evenness of character, but he's also food for our souls.
The water speaks of the word of God and the oil speaks of the Spirit of God and those three things combined. And you might add salt in there as a fourth ingredient, but that's what created unleavened bread.
I want to ask you.
We don't generally eat unleavened bread. Has anybody ever tried to eat unleavened bread?
It's the closest that we get to it is probably crackers.
It's it's a little bit hard.
The most of the bread that we eat is leavened bread, and the difference is is that you add one more ingredient to that mixture before you cook it, and that's yeast.
So bread is very simple as really four ingredients, but the difference is the yeast and sometimes some sugar to activate the yeast.
There's a lesson here.
And what Mark was saying prompted me to ask about this and, and for us to think about this because the unleavened bread was something that, number one, the children of Israel wouldn't have eaten on a regular basis.
That was something special and it speaks to us of the Lord Jesus and I believe that the the picture.
And the type is what are we feeding on in our in our households?
Are we feeding on Christ? Are we feeding on that which is the word of God?
The person of the Lord Jesus.
And the Spirit of God, it's going to have an effect and it will, I believe, bring out those questions that we would like to like our children to ask if we are feeding on unleavened bread.
The leaven speaks to us of sin.
Or that principle that that expands and it when you take a little bit of leaven and you put it in that recipe, that same recipe of oil and water and and flour.
That that dough is going to be leavened. It only takes a small amount of yeast and that spreads throughout the entire lump of of dough and it causes it to rise and.
And it causes it to be soft, and that's why we use it in our and the bread that we eat.
On a regular basis. But it's something that is very personal. It spreads, it doesn't stay in one one part of that, that lump of bread or a lump of dough. The cooking process kills the yeast, stops its action, but it's still there.
And so.
I believe the and somebody else can help me with this, but feeding on that unleavened bread would have been something that would have been unique.
In in the Israel households, and I think it would change the tenor of things in that household during these this feast of unleavened bread, these seven days that they were to eat unleavened bread.
Right.
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The open Scriptures it's time we could enjoy in the Word we give thanks for the light of God that shined in our hearts that allows us to see the Lord Jesus in these Old Testament passages. Thank you too for the light that we have in our homes and may that shine brightly Lord, as things are getting increasingly dark, you just pray that our hearts would be enlarged for the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we thank thee that we can press toward the mark.
And have that hope of heaven, that hope of.
That face to face look at the Lord Jesus Christ. So we asked for the mercy of God over us today as we look forward to some fellowships and activities today, we would pray for safety as we're together. Lord Jesus, we ask for help with the the meeting that's planned later today in the evening. Pay it all in thy name, Lord Jesus, and for thy glory, Amen. Amen.