Steve Petch Sunday 6 th November 2011 “I am the LORD your God” Part 6: The Passover Lamb Exodus 11 & 12
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The people were in slavery It was a new start
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The lamb had to be slaughtered The lamb had to be perfect The lamb had to be eaten The lamb had to be sufficient for the number who ate it There had to be no leftovers
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb They put the lamb’s blood on the sides and the top of the door frame When God saw the blood of the lamb his judgement ‘passed over’ them If there was no blood there was judgement, and death was the result
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb Death affected every household The difference was not about race, but about whether they were ‘under the blood of the lamb’ or not
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb At the Passover the people were commanded to eliminate yeast from their lives
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The Passover only ever happened once They were commanded to remember and re-enact this event often It was always done in community
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb God is the one who initiated all this
The Passover Lamb “The New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed” Matthew 26 v 26 – 30 1 Corinthians 11 v 23 – 26 1 Corinthians 5 v 7
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The people were in slavery It was a new start
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The lamb had to be slaughtered The lamb had to be perfect The lamb had to be eaten The lamb had to be sufficient for the number who ate it There had to be no leftovers
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb They put the lamb’s blood on the sides and the top of the door frame When God saw the blood of the lamb his judgement ‘passed over’ them If there was no blood there was judgement, and death was the result
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb Death affected every household The difference was not about race, but about whether they were ‘under the blood of the lamb’ or not
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb At the Passover the people were commanded to eliminate yeast from their lives
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb The Passover only ever happened once They were commanded to remember and re-enact this event often It was always done in community
Some Passover facts: The Passover Lamb God is the one who initiated all this
The essential Passover fact: The Passover Lamb “Christ (Jesus), our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” 1 Cor 5 v 7 Are you ‘under the blood’ of Jesus?
Steve Petch Sunday 6 th November 2011 “I am the LORD your God” Part 6: The Passover Lamb Exodus 11 & 12