Gospel—G. Hayhoe
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Hail Sovereign Love, which first began that scheme to rescue fallen man. Hail matchless, free Eternal Grace, which gave my soul a hiding place. Hymn #88.
Like to turn tonight to the 12Th chapter of Exodus?
Exodus chapter 12. We'll start from the first verse.
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 Speak to you 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 the House of their fathers, a lamb or a house. And if the household were too little for the land, 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. He shall take it out from the sheep or from the gulls, and ye 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.
And they shall eat the flesh, And that night roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it eat not of it raw, nor Sodom at all with water, but roast with fire his head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof. And he shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, And that which remaineth of it until the morning he shall burn with fire, And thus shall he eat it with your lines girded, your shoes on your feet.
And your staff in your hand, and he 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 in 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 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 ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throat your generations. He shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread. Even the first day you shall 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. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation.
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And in the 7th day there shall be in holy convocation to you no matter of work shall be done in them. And save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you 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 months, on the 14th day of the month, that even he shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and 20th day of the month, at 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, he shall eat nothing. Rather in all your habitations he shall eat unleavened bread. And Melissa's called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw it, and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. You shall take a bunch of visits, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin.
And strike Belinda on the two side pulse with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
So the Lord will pass through despite the Egyptians, and when he sears the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side force the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in under your houses to smite you. And he shall observe this setting for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.
It shall come to pass when you become to the lamb, which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised, that she shall keep this service, and shall come to pass when your children shall say, And you what meet me by this service, that you 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 smoked the Egyptians and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed ahead and worshiped, And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. So did they.
I think many of us are well acquainted with this beautiful chapter in the word of God, and we know that it's a picture to us of the Lord Jesus. Because we read in First Corinthians 10, Christ, our Passover is sacrificed for us. And so as we read this account that God has given about the Passover in Egypt, we know it's just to bring before us the one who is the true Passover lamb, the Lord Jesus, and the only way of escaping your friends from judgment that it will surely coming upon this world.
And everyone who didn't have the blood sprinkled on the lentil and the side post every home was there was death in that home. And so we see here that God made groceries provision so that there could be an escape from the judgment. You know, that's a principle with the ways of God. He announces judgment and he provides a way of escape. Some received the provision he has made, some rejected. The Bible says he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life. But the wrath of God abideth on him.
He knows. And reading through the Bible and God was going to bring judgment on Nineveh. He sent Jonah there. And when they repented, then they escaped the judgment. And over and over again, again in the Bible, you find that God gave warning and He's given warning to this world. It tells us in.
Act 17 God was appointed today in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereas he hath given assurance, and to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. I don't know the day of judgment, friends, but I know it's sad.
But I do know there's a way of escaping, and I know that God himself has provided it a great cost to himself, a free to us. And so here we find the provision that God made for his people. Now, God had given many warnings previous to this because there have been a great many plagues that had already fallen upon the land of Egypt. And I think any thoughtful person today would say there's been some very, very remarkable things that have happened in this world in the last few years.
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And even businessmen and politicians and many people say things just can't belong the way they are. They know God stepped in, and he allowed different plagues to come upon the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh pardoned his heart. And I beseech you, dear friend, if you're in this room tonight, don't harden your heart. It says in the Bible today. If he will hear his voice, harden not your heart.
Just to say I don't care. I'm going to go on the way I like and I don't pay attention to those things that the Bible says. That's hardening your heart against God. There are many people doing it, people, intelligent people in Des Moines, people in Canada. Everywhere. We find people who are totally indifferent to the fact the judgment is coming. But nevertheless, God is very patient. He's waited a long time over this world and he's waiting still.
The only reason the door of grace hasn't been shut is because the Bible says that God is long-suffering, not willing, that any should perish, but that all should found repentance. Or how exceedingly gracious and patient he is. And many of us in this room will say, oh, I'm so glad he waited for me. He was patient with me until I yielded, and he's waiting, perhaps, for someone in this room.
Because when the last one is gathered in, it tells us that in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, can you think of anything quicker than twinkling your eye? That quickly, dear friends, will the master of the house rise up and shut to the door and call those who are ready home to the Father's house? So how important that you should remember that other word. Now, Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.
Will not change their calendar all around. Perhaps they were using the calendar of the people in Egypt, But God changed it and said This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. And there's a new beginning. When we realize our need of the Lord Jesus and accept him, I say there's a new beginning.
Now it is rather interesting here that God changed the calendar, but he said that it was in the 10th day of this month they would take a lamb. Perhaps you have wondered why it was on the 10th day. But you know, all through the Old Testament they were looking forward. They were waiting for the time that the Lord Jesus would come. He was announced in the Old Testament, the 53rd of Isaiah, written hundreds of years before the Lord was born.
Told about his coming into the world and the work that he would do on Calvary's cross, the Prophet told where he would be born. But at last the day came, just like the 10th day of the month. Perhaps the reason it's the 10th day is because there were 10 commandments and man was tested as to whether he could live up to God's requirements. But no one did. The Bible says by the needs of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. And so we read in Galatians and when the fullness of the times come.
God sent forth his son made of a woman He made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. And so on the 10th day came. Then they picked out the lamb without blemish. It had to be without blemish because I couldn't die for you and you couldn't die for me. You're a Sinner and I'm a Sinner. And the Bible says none can by any means redeem his brother or give to God a ransom for him. I couldn't give a ransom for you, or you couldn't give a ransom for me.
Your blood would be not available to put away my sins.
Be mine to put away yours. It must be the provision that God has made. And that's beautifully answered in First Peter chapter one that says you're not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold after the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without God has a land, and that lamb is the Lord Jesus. And John the Baptist saw him. He recognized him at once.
And he said that behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Have you seen him? Have you received him? Have you recognized that he and he only can put away your sins? The lamb must be with his blemish. Is the Lord Jesus is not gone. He couldn't be our Savior, because the whole human race are sinful. All of sin can come short of the glory of God. But there was one person in this world who was God and man.
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In one person that was the Lord Jesus. He's God's lamb. Then it tells us they kept that lamb from the 10th day to the 14th day, and perhaps that would remind us of the life of the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem. He walked through this world. Anyone who looked at him and recognized that he was without fault, They said, nevermind, spake like this man.
Pilate said, Pilate said. I find no fault in this man. The Lord Jesus was without blemish, whether it was the soldiers or whether it was the common people, or whether it was pilot. Whoever it was, they all had to say there was no damage on that person. I find no fault in him. He doeth all things well, they said, so there was the land without blending, but he kept it from the 10th day to the 14th day.
And the Lord Jesus walked before man.
Healing the sick and cleansing the lepers, but he was on his way to Calgary.
And friends, it was what was done upon that cross of Calvary that meets your need and mind and nothing else.
The life of the Lord Jesus, beautiful and perfect as it was, is not sufficient to put away sin. It only shows how far short we've come. It says we are reconciled to God by the death of his Son. So on the 14th day, that lamb that was without blemish was slain and the blood was caught in a basin and God said that the blood was to be sprinkled.
On the level and the two side pulse of the home, that was the only way of shelter from the coming judgment.
Another thing that's interesting here to see is that it says a lamb for a house. You know God delights that work in families. I think of the jail keeper there and the 16th chapter of Acts. And when he cried out, Lord, what must I do to be saved? The answer was to call him. He said Sir is what must I do to be safe. They said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house.
And notice it over and over again. When one person in the household gets saved, then you so often find God begins to work in the family and he saves a brother, her and sister and others. He delights to do that friends and we think of Rayad the harlot.
When God made provision for her to put the scarlet line in her window, she said that, oh, can my father and my mother and my household find children here? And they told him, Whosoever they said, whosoever is in that house will be safe, and all dear friends, it's wonderful whosoever still goes on, whosoever well may come, and anyone who takes his place under the shelter of the blood is perfectly safe. Oh, how wonderful to know that God has made a provision that he has provided that there is a way, a place of shelter from the coming judgment. And I say again that he.
Delights to work in households and less. I don't mean that each one individually doesn't have to receive the Lord. You must individually receive the Lord. We just see that principle. You find it with Noah. Come now all thy house into the ark. And let me say to parents the earth. It's necessary to provide clothing and education and all kinds of necessary things for your children. But always remember, the most important thing that you can do for your children is to seek to bring them.
To know the Lord Jesus, to tell them about him, to present the gospel in all its simplicity, to pray with them and pour them, That's the most important thing in the household. And so it was a land foreign house. And how beautiful it is to see here that God made that provision. Then who they could share it with a neighbor And many times.
Some of us have had opportunities to speak to our neighbors. We sought to bring the word before our children.
And then we had opportunities to talk to our neighbors, and so they could go and share this land with their neighbor and maybe somebody here. Perhaps you've been invited by a neighbor because they wanted you to share in the blessedness of knowing the Lord Jesus as your savior and being brought to trust in him.
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Well, the lamb was to be slayed, and it says in the seventh verse, And they shall take up the blood and strike it on the two side pulse, and on the upper door pulse of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Then I'd like also to read the 21St verse. 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 ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike a lentil in the two side poles with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house.
Until the morning, see how very simple it was. The blood was to be caught in a basin and then they were to take the hyssop. Now for us, we might think, well, hyssop is something very rare and hard to get. But we find in another place in the Bible that hyssop was just a weed that grew there. It's called the hyssop that springeth out of the wall. It was just a weed. So it was something that was very easy to get. And God hasn't made the way of salvation difficult.
That he had said it had to be something.
Some kind of thing that was hard to get, they might have said, but we had the broad but we couldn't find the hesitant. But it was something that was very easy and God has made the way of salvation so simple. It says a wayfaring man, though approval need not earlier. We have a little song that says a little child of seven or even 3 or 4 May enter into heaven through Christ. The open door don't have to be a grown up person. You don't have to a college degree or something.
To understand God's way of salvation and to receive the Lord Jesus.
A little boy, a little girl, an older one. And in simplicity just say, Lord Jesus, I am a Sinner and I'll put my trust in my precious blood that cleanses from all sin. So it was made very, very simple that they might not have any difficulty in making their homes safe. Dear friend, I plead with you tonight that if you're not under the shelter of the blood, now is the time.
Because we don't know when the master of the house will rise up and shut to the door. And I plead with you not to put it off. There's a boy or girl here that's not saved. Why not tonight? Why not right now receive the Lord Jesus and trust in Him while it's still a day of His grace? Now it's a few little things that I'd like to point out here in connection with this Passover. Perhaps I could just mention them briefly and that He is.
What it was that made their home safe, and then what gave them peace and assurance in their hearts? And then the feast that they could partake of in their homes, and then the remembrance of it. There were four things that were mentioned in connection with this, and I believe those four things are very blessed and very important.
The first thing, of course, was how their homes would be safe and I want to say that that had absolutely nothing to do with their feelings.
It wasn't a question of their feelings at all. There was a question of the value of the blood, because when God gave these instructions about the blood, he said. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. He didn't say, but I see that you don't have any doubts. When I see that you're good people. He just said one thing and he made it very, very clear when I see the blood.
I will Passover you and any Israelites who have the faith to just do what God said and put the blood upon the lentil and the side post of his home. That home was safe. That home was safe regardless of how he had feelings. Maybe doubts might come into his mind, but God didn't look at their feelings. You know, many Christians get occupied with feelings, they say. I don't feel safe. I don't feel any different.
An Israelite inside have to have different kind of feelings. It doesn't say so. What made their home secure with just one thing? When I see the blood, I will pass over you. It was the blood that was sprinkled. What did God want them to have those? Does he want you to have devils? Does he want one who has trusted in the blood of Christ to have doubts? Sometimes Christians do. And you know, the devil is very, very busy that way. He tries his very best to get uncertainty into our minds.
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You know how many people there are that are occupied with their feelings?
Some of them think they have to keep saved and all kinds of things that they feel they have to do. But I want to say again that what made their homes safe was the blood, that God also wanted them to have the assurance of it in their own hearts. He didn't really want them to have doubts and so he gave them his unchangeable word to rest. And what is going to give you peace? Looking in for feelings and saying I love her if I have enough faith.
For if I'm as good as somebody else now it's just taking God at his word. And does anyone here that's perplexed adults what I say to you tonight, just take your stand upon the precious word of God and that will give you peace, that will give you assurance, that will give you the peace that God alone can give. And so we read in first John chapter five, he said.
These things that I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that she may know that she have eternal life, says in John chapter 5 and verse 22, that the Father has committed all judgment to the Son. And then he turns to the one who believes and says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that set me.
Half Everlasting Life.
Shall not come into condemnation that is passed from death on delay. Yes, you can take God at his word. You can rest upon what God has said, dear friends, and that will give you peace. You know so many people are occupied with their feelings.
Well, how good it is to just rest upon the word of God. Let me illustrate it something like this. Supposing that you were walking down the street in Egypt and you saw a home where the blood is sprinkled, and you walked to the door of that home and you said, I see you have blood sprinkled on the lentil and side post of your homes. Why is that? Well, I answer you. The Lord has said that this night he's going to slay all the first born in the land of Egypt.
Only those homes were the bloody sprinkled would escape and that's why we have sprinkled the blood. You see what I want to ask you A personal question. Do you have any doubts? Well, behind his head a little bit. And he says, well, I will be glad when the midnight hour has passed because I I don't feel any better than anybody else. And I'll feel a little better when the hours passed. Well, you go into the next home and there you see the blood again sprinkled.
And you say to the person, why did you sprinkle the blood on the front of your home? So all they said, because the Lord is going to pass through the land of Egypt this night and every home where the blood is not sprinkled by, there's going to be death in that home. And he has said that when you see the blood, I will pass over you. And you say, well, do you have any doubts? And his face breaks up and smile. And he said absolutely not.
If we can certainly believe what God says, we can trust Him, can't we? He can. He can't lie. No, we have perfect peace in this hall. Now I will ask you, which home was the more safe? They were both the same. One was just as safe as the other because God didn't say anything about feelings. He said. When I see the blood and I ask you which home would you rather live in, I would say the second friend. You can live in the 2nd. And if you're living in Golden corner, why? Why not just rest upon the word of God?
The only difference was the second home they just simply took out of his word and didn't allow the temperature to put doubts into their minds. Oh my friend, that if you've been perplexed with doubts, I just turned to the Lord tonight and say Lord, I believe He wants to remove those doubts. He wants to give you that peace that he alone can give, that doesn't depend on feelings, doesn't depend upon the amount of your faith.
About news illustration like this, supposing you had a check for $50 and you're sure that the check is good, you don't have any doubts at all and you go and present it to the bank for payment and girl checks the account and says I'm sorry I can't pay it today, well.
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You say I was so sure the check was good. Your feelings, your your confidence had nothing to do with it. The question was whether the person was worthy of your confidence.
That person was worthy of your confidence by it was yours. But if they weren't, why? You're not going to get it no matter how sure you were. I know people that are think they're going to get to heaven by their good works. They're trying to get there by their church going, and friends are trusting in the wrong thing. And it doesn't matter how much faith they have. It's not faith in what man can do.
They're trying to get there by their church going and friends are trusting in the wrong thing. And it doesn't matter how much faith they have. It's not faith in what man can do. It's faith in the Lord Jesus and in the work that he has accomplished. And you have another check and you even have doubts about it and you presented it. It's not a question of your feelings if the man is worth the money that the check says, or you get the money without any question.
Look into your feelings. Is the Lord Jesus worthy of your full confidence? And remember a man was talking to another man and he was trying to present the gospel and its simplicity to him. And a man said, oh, I just can't believe it. He said you can't believe who, And he said I just can't believe it, he said, But you can't believe who.
He that believeth not John hath made him a liar.
Because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Safety was through the blood. Assurance was just simply resting upon the word of God. But now there was more than this. There was a feast to be held within these homes. God not only wanted that the home to be saved, He not only wanted them to have assurance, but He also wanted them to have a feast inside of their homes and their friends. And a God wants you to be a happy person. He wants you not only have appearance, but He wants you to be rejoicing.
Says rejoice in the Lord all the way. And again I say rejoice. And then there was some provision made as to how they could have an enjoyment of this feast inside it, says the eighth verse. And they shall eat the flesh, and that might rose with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it, eat not of it raw, and are sodden at all with water, but roast with fire His head with his legs. And his assertions fell off. Now this was a feast inside.
Let me say again, it wasn't what made their homes secure, but it was for their enjoyment inside those homes. And so, you know, as believers, we need to be feeding upon Christ. There are some Christians, real Christians, I believe, that put their trust in the Lord Jesus. But they don't enjoy him, They don't make a habit of reading their Bibles, they don't turn to him and pray daily, and they don't seek to be a testimony for him.
And tell others about his love. All these things won't make us Christians, but they do give us the joy and a consolation in our pathway of life. And so there was this provision made that they would have a feast inside, says in Acts Chapter 23, The Flock of God, which is among you. And I'm sure that you've come to the meeting sometimes and you've learned more about the Lord Jesus and His love and what He's done for you.
And you had a rage and said, I'm really gonna bless him for my soul that was feeding upon Christ, and that's what God wanted for the Israelites.
About how they were to be, I believe is instructive too. It says here they would eat the flesh in that light glossed with fire and unleavened bread. Now when it says roast with fire and not to be satin with water, no, when you boil something, it doesn't get the full heat of the fire. It doesn't matter how hot your element is. If you're boiling it, it doesn't grow about boiling point, does it? But if you set your oven at 400 and you put something in, it gets the full heat of the fire. It feels the 400°.
And you know, there are some people that thank the Lord Jesus for a part of the judgment. I've met people and they say, well, Lord saved me and wash my sins away. But if I fall, I have to save me. I'll lose it all. I'm lost forever. And you know, they're not happy. They're not in the enjoyment of it. I believe that many of those people are going to be in heaven because in reality, they have sprinkled the blood. They know that it's only the blood that puts away sin.
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But they're not enjoying what God has for them. They don't enjoy eternal security. And God wants you to know. Reminds me of a story of a lady who came to the Gospel meeting and she accepted the Lord as her savior, and she was very happy.
But a few weeks later she came back and the same brother was preaching. And she said I was so happy when I received the Lord as my Savior.
But to say I'm afraid that I've slept since and I haven't been perfect, I've failed since. And what about those sins? I knew all my past sins were put away when I received the Lord, but what about those sins since I have accepted him and the brothers said to her, I just want to ask you, I just want to ask you two questions said first how many sin of your sins are future when the Lord Jesus died?
She said I guess they were all future because I wasn't born. So that's the 2nd place. Do you think the Lord Jesus is going to die again you know? She said I don't suppose he isn't friends the Bible says and that he died he died under sin once he had perpetuated forever then that are sanctifying And he said, well his brother said to this lady who was having doubt said if the Lord Jesus didn't settle the question of your sins of the pearls it will never be settled.
But if he did settle, he settled once for all. Paul Bradley, how wonderful to have this assurance. This is part of the feast with him. I hope everyone in this room not only has taken shelter under the blood, but understands this wonderful fact that that one sacrifice has perfected you as to your standing before God forever. You're already you're already seen as accepted in the beloved. You're already seen as fit before that holy presence above.
Through but the Lord Jesus has done.
And then it says also it says an unleavened bread. Now you know, the Bible tells us that 11 is a figure of says in Second First Corinthians 5. Therefore let us keep the feast not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, That is, the Lord tells us then 11 is a figure of two things.
Malice and wickedness. You know, I I know Christians that are not happy, and I believe that those two things often lie at the roof, that they're unhappiness. We've spoken about. If you have doubts, the Lord wants to take away those doubts and He wants you to enjoy eternal security. But even knowing those things, I found some people and they're allowing some little secret sins in their lives, and they're not happy Christians.
They're not happy Christians. There's malice in their hearts, their facts holding bitter feelings toward somebody else, and they're not happy Christians. And you know, if we allow those things in our lives, we will not be happy. And the Lord has made a provision that when we fail, it says we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, and it says that we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
And the unrighteousness, and I want to say to any believer here, if you're saying very near the Lord is your savior, is there something you're going on with in your life that you know is displeasing to the Savior who died for you? It's robbing you of happiness? And if you're holy, bitter feelings toward someone else, I I know you're not a happy Christian because the Lord forgave you so much and he wants you to forgive that other person too. And so.
I want you to see that this had nothing to do with the safety of the home. The safety of the home is one thing when I see the blood of a castle view that made himself what gave them peace in their souls, they just simply resting on what God said. But what gave them happiness in their home was feeding on the Roseland and being careful that they didn't make sense. 11 really. And when you try to enjoy the Lord and you're allowing those other things in your life.
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It spoils your joy as a Christian, and God wants you to be a happy Christian. Rejoice in the Lord. Always and again I say rejoice.
Then it says in the 10th verse and he shall let nothing of it remain until the mornings. I believe the reason that it says this is God wants us to have a fresh enjoyment of the Lord in our souls. No. When you meet a person who is just saved, you often see what the Bible calls first love and you say, oh, it's so fresh. They're just so happy. They're just been saved, you know?
God doesn't want that to, shall I say he doesn't want that to change. It always gives me a kind of a swirl when I need an older Christian who is still fresh and happy in the Lord. When you talk to him, you can see it's just as if he was saved yesterday. He's just as happy because he has a fresh enjoyment of the Lord. And so he said that I don't want you to just have something like over things. Warm Rover food isn't quite as nice as when it's fresh, so I want you to be fresh.
And so they were to have a fresh enjoyment of this Passover. Then there's another thing too. And this 11Th verse. And thou shalt eat it with your loin inserted, your shoes and your feet, and your staff and your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lords Passover. Notice this provision in this verse. The loins girded, it tells us in Peter's epistle. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind.
Be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Another verse says, your loins do it about this truth. If you're anything like me, you find that your mind wanders everywhere. You think about a lot of things that you don't want to think about. I find sometimes even when I sit on Lord's day, I have figured out the loins of my mind, because if I just let my mind go, I'd lose the enjoyment of being gathered there to remember the Lord Jesus.
And so when it says your loins girded, you just won't let your mind go everywhere. Because you know what your mind go everywhere. That gets off on the things, things that you wish you had never heard. Over and over again, you find how your mind wanders off into things so they would have their lines girded. May I say it's a good practical habit in our lives as Christians to watch and when you find your mind wandering.
Sometimes I'll just repeat a verse.
Perhaps a versatile hymn. Something will help to bring your mind back, because it's so easy you have to watch that you don't let it wander away. Then your shoes and your feet. Well, I think of it like this, that if there was some mud and I have their feet and I walk through that mud, I'm certainly going to get my feet dirty. Friday. If I I'm going to have to walk through some mud. So I I'd like to put on a pair of boats or something and then I could walk through that mud. The boots might get dirty, but my feet wouldn't. It wouldn't it?
And you know, this is a muddy world.
I know that many of you have have to go to employment and boys and girls have to go to school and you have to walk through the mud of this world, but we don't need to bring them at home. I've seen people and defenders a lot of good and hot outside. Then they they leave their shoes outside and they don't bring them into the house and they come in without those muddy shoes on. No need to be careful when you grow up and meet all these things in the world.
Where you have to leave that there.
And they'll bring the mud and everything of this world along with you back into your home and into your life. So they would have their shoes on their feet. And then, what's the stack? Well, we know the staff is for you. Lean up. You're not a little unsteady on your feet wide. You're glad to have something to lean on. And brethren, as Christians, we need to be always dependents. The eternal God is Thy refuge and underneath of the everlasting armies.
When you feel a little bit shaky about some situation and you feel temptation pretty strong, there's an arm to lean on, a mighty arm once they're always able to support you and I limit. That's the thought and the staff in their hand. It was the thought of dependence, something outside of themselves. Selena.
And then it says they were to eat it in haste, for I would eat it in haste. Well, they were expecting to get the marching orders at any moment to leave Egypt and to leave it for good. Did you ever think of what it must have been? There was about a million of those people. And can you think of a million people marching out one night, All the empty homes and all the things left behind? That's what's going to happen someday. It's going to be a lot of empty homes. I think in color in other places, empty homes. The Lord is coming.
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And when we remembered the Lord this morning, it says, until you come, until the time that we were just reminded again of fresh this morning, that we're going to get marching orders, we're going to leave our homes, let the people propel or Des Moines or wherever, Let them have it all. They're gone. They're gone for something far better. And so this was what we were to have before them. Let me now say it again. Your homes were safe.
Through the blood they had an assurance. By this rest of them, the word of God. They had an enjoyment when they fed upon that feast. And when you and I are really enjoying our portion and trade. Just think, brethren, the unsearchable riches of crooks, a counselor, a friend who cares, that means more to me as I get older, but that there's someone that you can turn, who cares about everything, the smallest detail of your life and you can bring to him.
And tell him.
Your friends may not understand. One of my favorite verses is in the Psalms. It says trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart before you. Not many people who can pour out your heart to who say they would never understand if I told him how I really felt. But you can pour out your heart to the Lord, or we have to be so happy. We have such a wonderful savior, such a wonderful friend. And then there was a remember that set up and it tells us that they were to remember this.
All through their generations, I'm glad to be able to look back and think of brethren that I knew when I was younger and they were remembering the Lord, and now they taught me, My parents taught me about this wonderful privilege. And so it tells us in the end of this chapter that if your children ask what may be by this service that they were to say to them, it's the Lord, the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, and we we can tell others about this.
You can tell our children about it so that they understand that it isn't just, shall I say, a church custom to us. It's a reality to us. And as they look back on that night and thought of that wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, how precious it must have been to them when they roasted the land the next year and again kept the Passover. Oh brother, it ought to be a precious privilege to us that we can gather not just once a year like the Israelites, because they just kept the Passover once a year.
The first day of the week we have this presence of gathering to remember the Lord Jesus. So he set up the remembrance. He said it was to be precious to them and that they were not to forget it all through their generations. And that's what seems so wonderful to me. 1500 years later when the Lord Jesus was here on earth, he wanted to impress on his disciples the real meaning of the Passover because he was the true Passover. And he said.
With desire I have desire to keep this Passover with you before I suffer.
1500 years later, was it still precious? Yes, it's almost 2000 since I failure died. Is it precious to him that we should remember him all Adidas? May we value it? Maybe tell our children about it so that they too might learn to know the preciousness of it? And then it says here where we come to the 27th verse.
And they explained it to them in the 27th verse, that you shall say, is the sacrifice of the Lorde Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel and Egypt when he smoked the Egyptians and delivered our houses, and the people bound ahead and worshiped, and the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
What we talked about this year tonight, but meeting now comes to an end. We're going to go away. We're going to go way to our homes. But when the children of Israel listen to this, did they say, oh, that sounded very nice, Moses, what you said that was very interesting. It says they went away and did as the Lord commanded. Moses and Aaron, so did they. They went away and acted upon it. And I just want to say the close of this meeting was there anybody here?
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Who's not under the shelter of the blood? Is there anybody or. I want to warn you, It's a terrible thing to die of your sins. Just think of eternity forever under the judgment of God, away from Him forever. Why should you put it on? I often say, what do you have to lose by receiving the Lord Jesus? Nothing but your sins, that's all. What do you have to gain everything that's worthwhile in this life and for all eternal? Why wouldn't? Why would you have him in the center here? Who hasn't received him? Why not tonight?
The people went away and did as the Lord commanded Moses. And is there any of those who have received the Lord Jesus first, allowing doubts and perhaps allowing things in our lives that are spoiling our enjoyment of Christ? Is it worth it?