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 Good morning, my name is Sean. For those of you who don't know me, I'm one of the pastors of Trinity

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 Cambridge Church, and it is my absolute joy and privilege to preach God's Word to you this morning.

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 Please turn with me in your Bibles to Exodus chapter 11. If you're not familiar with your

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 Bibles, or if you don't have one, if you raise your hand, we have some ushers in the back who

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 can bring you a copy of a Bible you could use. Exodus is the second book in the Bible.

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 Chapter numbers are marked with large numbers. Chapter 11, we're going all the way through to

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 chapter 12, verse 28. Let me pray for the reading and preaching of God's Word.

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 Father, we thank you that you have given us your Word, that we might know you, that we might know

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 your will, that we might know your salvation. And we thank you that in your Word, you give us not only

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 instructions, but also pictures, stories, that deeply impress upon us your love displayed for us in Jesus Christ.

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 we pray that you would

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 awe us again.

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 Strike us with a sense of wonder

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 again.

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 And your love

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 at your saving grace this morning.

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 In Jesus' name we pray.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Exodus 11, verse 1, going through chapter 12, verse 28.

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 The Lord said to Moses,

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 Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt.

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 Afterward, he will let you go from here.

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 When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.

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 Speak now in the hearing of the people that they ask every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor for silver and gold jewelry.

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 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.

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 Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

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 So Moses said,

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 Thus says the Lord,

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 About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

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 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die.

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 From the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne,

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 even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill,

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 and all the firstborn of the cattle.

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 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,

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 such as there has never been,

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 nor ever will be again.

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 But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel,

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 either man or beast,

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 that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

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 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me,

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 saying,

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 Get out, you and all the people who follow you,

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 and after that I will go out.

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 And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger,

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 Then the Lord said to Moses,

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 Pharaoh will not listen to you,

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 that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

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 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh,

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 and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,

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 and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

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 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

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 This month shall be for you the beginning of months.

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 It shall be the first month of the year for you.

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 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month,

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 every man shall take a lamb according to their father's houses,

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 a lamb for a household.

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 And if the household is too small for a lamb,

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 then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons,

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 according to what each can eat,

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 you shall make your account for the lamb.

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 Your lamb shall be without blemish,

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 a male,

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 a year old.

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 You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,

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 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,

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 when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel

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 shall kill their lambs at twilight.

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 Then they shall take some of the blood

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 and put it on the two doorposts

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 and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

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 They shall eat the flesh that night,

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 roasted on the fire,

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 with unleavened bread and bitter herbs,

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 they shall eat it.

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 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water,

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 but roasted its head with its legs and its inner parts.

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 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning.

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 Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

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 In this manner you shall eat it,

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 with your belt fastened,

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 your sandals on your feet,

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 and your staff in your hand.

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 And you shall eat it in haste.

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 It is the Lord's Passover.

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 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night,

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 and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,

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 both man and beast,

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 and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments.

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 I am the Lord.

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 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are.

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 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.

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 And no plague will befall you to destroy you

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 when I strike the land of Egypt.

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 This day shall be for you a memorial day,

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 and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord.

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 Throughout your generations, as a statute forever,

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 you shall keep it as a feast.

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 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

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 And on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses.

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 For if anyone eats what is leavened,

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 from the first day until the seventh day,

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 that person shall be cut off from Israel.

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 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly,

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 and on the seventh day a holy assembly.

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 No work shall be done on those days.

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 But what everyone needs to eat,

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 that alone may be prepared by you.

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 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.

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 For on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt.

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 Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations

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 as a statute forever.

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 In the first month,

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 from the fourteenth day of the month at evening,

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 you shall eat unleavened bread

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 until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

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 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses.

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 If anyone eats what is leavened,

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 that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel,

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 whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.

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 You shall eat nothing leavened.

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 In all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.

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 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them,

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 Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans

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 and kill the Passover lamb.

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 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin

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 and touch the lintel and the two doorposts

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 with the blood that is in the basin.

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 None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning,

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 for the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians.

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 And when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts,

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 the Lord will pass over the door

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 and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

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 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you

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 and for your sons forever.

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 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you,

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 as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

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 And when your children say to you,

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 What do you mean by this service?

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 You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover.

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 For he passed over the houses of the people of Israel and Egypt

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 when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.

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 And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.

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 Then the people of Israel went and did so,

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 as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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 So they did.

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 This is God's holy and authoritative word.

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 In this passage, we're going to see how the Lord sets apart his people

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 by the sacrifice of the Passover.

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 And we're going to focus first on their identity as God's firstborn son,

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 and then the Passover lamb,

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 and then on the unleavened bread in turn.

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 In the preceding passage, if you weren't with us last week,

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 Pharaoh refused to let Israel go along with their children and livestock.

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 And he said to Moses in 10, 28,

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 Get away from me.

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 Take care never to see my face again.

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 For on the day you see my face, you shall die.

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 And Moses essentially said to him,

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 As you wish.

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 But Moses hasn't yet left Pharaoh's presence.

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 That will happen a little later in chapter 11.

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 And before he leaves Pharaoh's court,

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 he has one more thing that he wants to share from the Lord.

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 And he says in 11 verse 1,

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 The Lord said to Moses,

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 Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt.

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 Afterward, he will let you go from here.

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 When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.

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 Chapter 11 verses 1 to 10 are structured chiastically.

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 The first half is mirrored by the matching elements in the second half of the passage

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 with the middle of the passage in this case,

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 verse 6, standing out alone by itself to bring attention to it.

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 So it says in verse 1, chapter 11,

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 The Lord speaks and the Pharaoh,

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 The Lord says that Pharaoh will let Israel go after the final plague.

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 And then that's matched by verses 9 to 10,

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 where the Lord speaks again.

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 And he says Pharaoh will not let Israel go unless the final plague comes.

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 And then in chapter 11 verses 2 to 3,

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 Israel and Moses enjoy the favor of the Egyptians.

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 And then likewise in verse 8,

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 Israel and Moses enjoy the favor of the Egyptians.

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 And then in verses 4 to 5,

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 Moses speaks.

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 And then he says the firstborn males of both man and beast of Egypt will die.

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 And then in verse 8,

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 Moses speaks again.

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 But the firstborn males of neither man nor beast of Israel will die.

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 And that leaves verse 6 by self,

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 where he says there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt.

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 And this is significant because this cry will not be the cry of the Israelites.

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 Previously, because of the harsh Egyptian taskmasters,

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 they said in Exodus 3, verses 7 and 9,

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 that the cry of the people of Israel came up to the Lord.

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 But now, after the final plague,

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 after the Lord's intervention,

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 it will be the cry of the Egyptians that fills all the land of Egypt.

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 So the structure of this passage is highlighting the great reversal that's happening.

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 Previously, Pharaoh and his servants arrogantly defied Moses and dismissed his demands.

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 But it says in verse 3 now that the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt,

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 in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.

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 And then in verse 8,

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 Moses predicts that after the final plague,

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 all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me,

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 saying,

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 Get out,

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 you and all the people who follow you.

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 So previously,

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 in Exodus 1, 15,

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 Pharaoh decreed that every son that is born to the Hebrews

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 must be cast into the Nile.

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 But now, in the final disaster that God brings,

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 every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die,

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 both man and beast.

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 But no harm will come at all to the Israelites.

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 When Pharaoh killed Israel's sons,

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 he was not merely acting against Israel,

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 but he was ultimately acting against God.

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 Because as God says in Exodus 4, 22,

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 Israel is my firstborn son.

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 And I say to you,

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 to Pharaoh,

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 let my son go that he may serve me.

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 If you refuse to let him go,

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 behold,

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 I will kill your firstborn son.

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 So this is the retribution that God has threatened to Pharaoh

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 and to his stubborn Egyptians.

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 But the tables have now turned.

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 There's a great reversal happening.

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 This, by the way,

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 is the reason why we,

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 as God's followers,

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 never should avenge ourselves upon our enemies.

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 Romans 12, 19 says,

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 Beloved,

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 never avenge yourselves,

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 but leave it to the wrath of God.

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 For it is written,

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 vengeance is mine.

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 I will repay,

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 says the Lord.

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 The reason why Christians can endure suffering and persecution without retaliating

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 is not because we don't care about justice,

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 even justice for ourselves.

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 It's not because it doesn't hurt us,

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 and we don't mind the suffering,

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 but it's because the Lord has said,

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 the vengeance is mine.

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 The Israelites suffered under the cruel slavery of the Egyptians.

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 They watched helplessly as their infant sons were exposed to the Nile,

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 as they drowned or were consumed by wild beasts.

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 They had no power,

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 but the Lord is powerful,

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 and he will not stand idly by when his firstborn son, Israel,

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 is battered and abused.

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 So here, Israel's identity as God's firstborn son points to the fact that they are a nation

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 that is specially set apart for God.

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 There are many children in this world.

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 All over the world, there are children,

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 but only three of them are my daughters.

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 I have a special relationship with them because they belong to me,

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 and I to them.

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 I am their father and no one else's.

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 Father, no one else calls me father.

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 That's similar to what God is saying here about Israel.

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 Israel has been, my people, God is saying,

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 have been set apart for me among the nations.

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 They belong to me,

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 and we as Christians also belong to God's people Israel.

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 In Romans 9, Paul writes that the Christians are,

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 by faith in Christ, spiritual descendants of Abraham,

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 the children of promise.

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 And so we are all members of God's holy people,

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 so then we can rightly apply this passage to ourselves as well.

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 So God says of us then,

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 Israel is my firstborn son,

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 and I say to you,

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 let my son go that they may serve me.

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 That's in fact what God has done here.

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 He has freed us from our slavery to sin.

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 He has delivered us from the bondage of the enemy,

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 so that we might serve him.

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 The spirit of God within you,

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 by whom we cry to God,

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 Abba, Father,

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 is God's stamp and seal upon our very souls,

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 declaring,

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 mine,

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 my people,

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 my son.

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 And that's why we as God's holy people,

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 consecrated to him,

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 for his special purposes,

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 ought to live holy lives.

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 You shall be holy,

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 for I am holy.

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 We see further evidence of Israel being set apart

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 as God's people

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 in the institution of the Passover in chapter 12,

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 verses 1 to 13.

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 The Lord says to Moses and Aaron in verse 2,

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 this month shall be for you the beginning of months.

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 It shall be the first month of the year for you.

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 The expression this month is literally this new moon,

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 because they used the lunar calendar.

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 And their exodus from Egypt

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 is such a life-changing and nation-shaping event

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 that God literally changes their calendar,

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 gives them a new calendar system.

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 From now on, he says,

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 the month of exodus from Egypt,

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 the month of your exiting Egypt,

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 which typically falls on March or April in our reckoning,

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 that shall be the first month of the year

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 to signal the reality

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 that this is a new beginning for the people of God.

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 Then in the following verses,

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 God gives the Israelites instructions

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 for how to observe the Passover.

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 On the 10th day of the first month of the year,

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 each household is to pick out a lamb

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 to slaughter and eat.

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 The lamb is to be carefully chosen.

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 It has to be a lamb that is without blemish,

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 a male, a year old.

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 A year old suggests that the lamb is fully grown,

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 it's mature, but it's in its prime.

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 The lamb is not senile, it's not old.

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 It's in good health.

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 And the carefully selected lamb then is to be sacrificed,

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 killed on the 14th day of the month at twilight.

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 Everyone is supposed to kill the lamb at the same time.

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 And then according to verses 7 to 10,

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 they are to take some of the blood of the lamb

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 and then put it on the top and the sides of the door.

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 And they are to roast the lamb on the fire.

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 It was required that the lamb be roasted by fire,

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 not consumed raw or boiled in water.

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 It was also supposed to be consumed

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 with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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 The significance of the unleavened bread,

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 I will explain a little later,

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 but the bitter herbs serves as a reminder

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 of the harsh slavery that Israel was under in Egypt.

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 The only other time that the word bitter

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 is used in the book of Exodus

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 is in Exodus 1, 13 to 14,

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 where it says the Egyptians ruthlessly made

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 the people of Israel work as slaves

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 and made their lives bitter with hard service.

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 So as they consumed the bitter herbs,

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 they are to be reminded of the bitter slavery

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 that they were suffering under in Egypt.

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 And the lamb was supposed to be consumed in its entirety.

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 Nothing was to remain until the morning.

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 And anything that did remain until the morning

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 was to be burned,

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 lest people found to be eating leftovers

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 and throwing out some of the leftovers to the trash,

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 and lest the Passover meal seem like a common, ordinary meal.

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 They are to burn it, all the remainders.

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 So these detailed instructions

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 for both the preparation and the consumption of the lamb

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 show that this is no ordinary feast.

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 It's a sacrifice.

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 This is not Taco Tuesday

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 where you just happen to eat tacos.

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 It's not a day in the year

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 when the Israelites just happen to eat lamb.

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 It's also not even like Thanksgiving turkey.

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 That's a little more similar

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 because you're commemorating something there,

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 but it's still not an adequate comparison

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 because the turkey itself

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 has no sacrificial significance.

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 The Passover is not just a celebration.

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 It's not just a meal.

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 It's, as verse 27 clearly says,

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 the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover.

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 And if it's a sacrifice,

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 it serves two main functions.

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 It atones for sin,

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 and it consecrates the people

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 on whose behalf the lamb is sacrificed.

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 That's why the offered lamb must be without blemish.

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 Later in Exodus 29 and 1

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 and throughout the book of Leviticus,

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 instructions for sacrificial offerings

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 specifically require that the animals be without blemish.

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 A sacrifice offered to God as worship to him

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 cannot be blemished.

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 Likewise, putting the blood of the lamb around the door

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 also suggests that this is a sacrifice

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 intended to set Israel apart

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 from the nation of Egypt,

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 from other people.

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 Later in Exodus 29,

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 when the Aaronic priests are being set apart,

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 consecrated for God to serve in the tabernacle,

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 a ram is sacrificed,

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 and some of its blood is sprinkled on Aaron and his sons

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 as a way of marking them,

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 consecrating them for God's service.

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 And it says in 29, 33,

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 that the ram was used to make atonement

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 at the Aaronic priests' ordination and consecration.

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 So then here in the Passover also,

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 the lamb without blemish is sacrificed

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 to make atonement for our sins,

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 and then so that the firstborn males of Egypt,

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 or of Israel rather,

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 might be spared from the death that is coming upon them.

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 And the blood of the lamb,

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 smeared around the lamb,

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 consecrates or sets apart

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 those who are within the house,

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 marking them as God's own special possession

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 and therefore protected from the plague.

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 Verses 12 to 13 confirm this.

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 God says,

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 for I will pass through the land of Egypt that night,

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 and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,

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 both man and beast.

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 And on all the gods of Egypt,

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 I will execute judgments.

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 I am the Lord.

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 The blood shall be assigned for you

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 on the houses where you are.

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 And when I see the blood,

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 I will pass over you,

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 and no plague will befall you to destroy you

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 when I strike the land of Egypt.

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 I don't know if you caught the interesting reference there

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 to the gods of Egypt.

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 This is the first time that the false gods of Egypt,

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 apart from Pharaoh,

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 are explicitly referenced.

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 God says,

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 I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt.

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 So all the plagues that God has been inflicting upon Egypt

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 to this point,

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 and especially this pending final plague,

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 the 10th plague,

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 are ways in which Yahweh, the Lord,

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 is executing judgments on all the gods of Egypt.

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 So some people have tried ingeniously

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 to connect each of the 10 plagues

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 to a specific Egyptian deity,

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 but the identification is not so easy

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 or neat with some of them.

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 And sometimes the comparison is also anachronistic.

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 It doesn't fit because those gods that we know of now,

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 Egyptian gods,

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 were not necessarily worshipped at the time of Moses.

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 But because it says that God is executing judgments

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 to all the gods of Egypt,

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 you can make a general connection,

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 and some of the identifications are pretty easy.

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 So this, for example,

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 the plague,

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 the first plague,

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 the blood,

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 turning the Nile into blood,

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 neither the Egyptian god of the Nile,

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 Hapi,

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 nor the Egyptian guardian of the Nile,

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 Khunum,

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 could stop Yahweh from turning the Nile into blood.

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 The Egyptian goddess of fertility,

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 Heket,

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 who takes the form of a frog,

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 could not control the Lord

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 from bringing a swarm of frogs

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 overwhelming the land of Egypt.

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 The Egyptian god of the earth,

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 Geb,

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 could not stop Yahweh

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 from striking the dust of the earth

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 and turning it into gnats

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 to torment the Egyptians.

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 The Egyptian goddess Hathor,

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 who is often depicted as cattle,

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 a cow,

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 could not stop the livestock

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 from being killed

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 by disease of the Lord.

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 The Egyptian god of the sky,

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 Horus,

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 or the goddess of the sky,

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 Nut,

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 and the god of the storm,

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 Seth,

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 could not stop the Lord

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 from bringing the destructive hail thunderstorm

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 upon Egypt.

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 And the Egyptian god of fertility

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 and agriculture,

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 Osiris,

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 could do nothing to stop Yahweh

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 from destroying the remaining crop

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 with the locusts.

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 The Egyptian sun god,

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 Ra,

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 could not bring even a ray of sunlight

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 to shine on Egypt

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 when Yahweh blanketed with utter darkness.

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 And even Pharaoh,

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 who claimed to be God,

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 the son of Ra,

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 in fact,

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 could do nothing to protect

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 even his own firstborn son,

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 who's supposed to be divine,

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 who's supposed to be the next Pharaoh,

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 to rule over Egypt

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 from the final plague

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 that the Lord is about to bring.

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 It's a powerful statement

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 that the Lord is making

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 over and over again

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 with these plagues.

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 The Lord is setting himself

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 apart from these false gods of Egypt

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 and when he brings judgments upon them

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 and he's declaring to them,

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 I am the Lord.

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 And as he said in Exodus 9, 14,

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 there is none like me

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 in all the earth.

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 None in all the earth.

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 What are the quote-unquote gods

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 that you rely on

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 to provide for you

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 and protect you?

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 Buddha?

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 Allah?

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 Shiva?

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 Maybe your ancestral spirits?

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 Maybe it's no religious deed at all.

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 Maybe it's your savings account.

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 Your good looks.

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 Your intellect.

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 Your spouse.

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 When you make any of these things

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 your God

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 and you put your trust in them

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 rather than in the living God,

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 when you love and cherish them

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 more than you do

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 the God who loves you,

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 they will inevitably disappoint you

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 and fail you.

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 Because God will prove

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 over and over again.

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 Because God admits no rivals.

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 He will demonstrate in your life

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 again and again,

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 I am the Lord.

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 There is none like me

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 in all the earth.

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 And in setting himself apart

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 in this way,

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 the Lord God is also

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 setting his people apart,

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 Israel apart.

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 The blood shall be assigned

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 for you on the houses

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 where you are

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 and when I see the blood

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 I will pass over you

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 and no plague will befall you.

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 Egypt will be stricken

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 but Israelites will be spared

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 because they are atoned for

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 and covered by the Passover sacrifice.

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 Egypt is not God's people

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 but Israel is God's people.

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 God makes a distinction

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 and sets his people apart

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 for himself as a special possession.

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 And by God's grace,

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 now because of what Christ

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 has done on the cross,

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 all those who put their faith in Christ

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 from every nation

00:25:36.259 --> 00:25:38.240
 now belong to God.

00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:39.799
 And in this way,

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.880
 God's people are set apart

00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.880
 by the Passover lamb.

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:44.960
 And God's people are also set apart

00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.519
 by the unleavened bread.

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:48.460
 After observing the Passover,

00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:49.880
 the Israelites are instructed

00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:51.860
 to observe a seven-day feast

00:25:51.860 --> 00:25:52.800
 of unleavened bread.

00:25:52.900 --> 00:25:54.520
 This is on the heel of the Passover.

00:25:55.400 --> 00:25:56.480
 They're all part of the big,

00:25:56.540 --> 00:25:58.100
 one big feast of Passover

00:25:58.100 --> 00:25:59.560
 or a five-feast of unleavened bread.

00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:01.500
 And then in verses 14 and 20,

00:26:01.580 --> 00:26:02.760
 they tell them during the feast,

00:26:03.060 --> 00:26:04.520
 they are to remove leaven

00:26:04.520 --> 00:26:05.840
 out of their homes.

00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:08.220
 For if anyone eats what is leavened

00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:08.960
 from the first day

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.780
 until the seventh day,

00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:11.280
 that person shall be cut off

00:26:11.280 --> 00:26:12.600
 from Israel.

00:26:13.100 --> 00:26:14.160
 And they are to observe

00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:15.760
 a holy assembly on the first day

00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:16.480
 and the seventh day

00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:17.819
 of the feast of unleavened bread.

00:26:17.940 --> 00:26:19.180
 They are to not work,

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:20.779
 observe a rest.

00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:21.740
 They have rest.

00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:24.059
 And you might wonder,

00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.099
 what's the deal with leaven?

00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:27.200
 I mean, it's just good fermented

00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.759
 sourdough bread, right?

00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:31.140
 I mean, what's wrong with leaven?

00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:33.119
 And there's a reason for this.

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:34.839
 You find out later in verse 34

00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:36.920
 why God commands this feast

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:37.619
 of unleavened bread.

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:39.079
 And it's because the Egyptians

00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:40.440
 were so urgent

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.079
 to make the Israelites leave

00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:43.720
 in a haste because of the plagues

00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:45.319
 that the Israelites, it says,

00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:46.360
 took their dough

00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:48.600
 before it was leavened.

00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:50.799
 When they were leaving

00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.220
 in their initial exodus

00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:53.519
 from Egypt,

00:26:53.779 --> 00:26:55.900
 they did not have time to wait

00:26:55.900 --> 00:26:57.680
 to let the bread rise.

00:26:58.019 --> 00:27:00.000
 And so they took unleavened bread

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.880
 as provisions for themselves

00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:02.539
 in their journey.

00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:04.420
 This is similar to the command

00:27:04.420 --> 00:27:05.640
 earlier in verse 11

00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:07.380
 that we saw of how Israelites

00:27:07.380 --> 00:27:08.920
 are to eat the Passover lamb.

00:27:09.339 --> 00:27:10.259
 It says they were to eat

00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:11.980
 with their belt fastened,

00:27:11.980 --> 00:27:14.400
 their sandals on their feet,

00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:16.660
 and their staff in their hand

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:17.980
 in haste.

00:27:21.539 --> 00:27:22.940
 Why do the Israelis

00:27:22.940 --> 00:27:23.620
 have to eat that way?

00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.579
 They needed to be ready

00:27:24.579 --> 00:27:25.960
 to leave at a moment's notice.

00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:27.920
 They had to have their shoes on.

00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:28.920
 They had to have their loins

00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:30.039
 girdled up, their belt.

00:27:30.539 --> 00:27:31.440
 They had to have their staff

00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:32.099
 in place already

00:27:32.099 --> 00:27:33.519
 so that in the moment's notice

00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:35.019
 when there is the release,

00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:36.339
 you may go,

00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:37.059
 you may leave Egypt.

00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:38.620
 They can leave right away.

00:27:38.619 --> 00:27:41.099
 And so by eating unleavened bread

00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:42.439
 each year during the Feast

00:27:42.439 --> 00:27:42.979
 of Unleavened Bread,

00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:44.539
 the Israelites were to remember

00:27:44.539 --> 00:27:46.799
 the same truth.

00:27:47.639 --> 00:27:49.219
 So this exhortation

00:27:49.219 --> 00:27:50.399
 of how to eat the bread,

00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:51.539
 like I mean how to eat

00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:52.679
 the Passover lamb

00:27:52.679 --> 00:27:54.279
 with girdled loins

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.019
 or with your belts fastened,

00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:57.619
 that phrase is often used

00:27:57.619 --> 00:27:58.279
 actually throughout

00:27:58.279 --> 00:27:59.439
 the New Testament as well

00:27:59.439 --> 00:28:00.979
 in a figurative sense.

00:28:01.619 --> 00:28:03.659
 And it's used to tell Christians

00:28:03.659 --> 00:28:04.759
 that we ought to have

00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:06.059
 our belts fastened

00:28:06.059 --> 00:28:06.799
 when we live,

00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:07.879
 figuratively,

00:28:08.059 --> 00:28:09.339
 meaning we ought to be alert.

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:11.419
 We ought to be sober-minded.

00:28:11.899 --> 00:28:12.940
 We ought to be prepared

00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:13.779
 for action

00:28:13.779 --> 00:28:15.619
 because this world

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:16.799
 is not our home.

00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:19.240
 We should have

00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:20.480
 an eternal perspective

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.819
 rather than thinking

00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:23.059
 and living like this world

00:28:23.059 --> 00:28:24.079
 is all there is,

00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.399
 like this life

00:28:25.399 --> 00:28:26.460
 is all there is.

00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:27.819
 We can't settle

00:28:27.819 --> 00:28:28.619
 and be comfortable.

00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:28.940
 Rather,

00:28:29.019 --> 00:28:30.119
 we ought to always have

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:31.419
 the mindset of a pilgrim,

00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:32.859
 someone journeying

00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:34.619
 with their girdles fastened.

00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:36.979
 That's what

00:28:36.979 --> 00:28:38.419
 the unleavened bread serves

00:28:38.419 --> 00:28:39.179
 to remind us of.

00:28:40.459 --> 00:28:41.500
 Cleansing out the leaven

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:43.879
 also has a symbolic significance

00:28:43.879 --> 00:28:45.099
 because leaven,

00:28:45.899 --> 00:28:47.079
 as we might assume

00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:47.939
 that leaven is yeast,

00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:48.779
 but yeast and leaven

00:28:48.779 --> 00:28:50.039
 are actually two different things.

00:28:50.479 --> 00:28:51.319
 In the ancient world,

00:28:51.419 --> 00:28:52.500
 yeast was very rare.

00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.619
 And so what they did

00:28:54.619 --> 00:28:55.439
 was use leaven

00:28:55.439 --> 00:28:56.579
 to ferment their dough.

00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:57.679
 Fermented dough

00:28:57.679 --> 00:28:59.079
 from an existing,

00:28:59.199 --> 00:29:00.259
 like an old batch,

00:29:00.719 --> 00:29:01.559
 some piece of it,

00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:02.500
 they would set it apart

00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:03.659
 to use as leaven

00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:04.540
 and they would mix it

00:29:04.540 --> 00:29:05.380
 with the new dough

00:29:05.380 --> 00:29:06.900
 and then that would then

00:29:06.900 --> 00:29:08.100
 ferment the new bread.

00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:09.279
 So that's leaven.

00:29:10.320 --> 00:29:12.759
 And so the more you do that,

00:29:12.800 --> 00:29:13.160
 of course,

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:14.240
 there is a risk,

00:29:14.360 --> 00:29:15.100
 there's a danger

00:29:15.100 --> 00:29:17.620
 of with each subsequent bread

00:29:17.620 --> 00:29:18.480
 an increased risk

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:19.320
 of mold growing

00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:20.980
 and harmful bacteria

00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:21.640
 growing on it

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.680
 because it's literally

00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:23.500
 like you're taking

00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:24.560
 the same piece of bread

00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:25.300
 and using it

00:29:25.300 --> 00:29:26.160
 over and over again.

00:29:26.900 --> 00:29:28.420
 And so in the same way,

00:29:28.540 --> 00:29:29.480
 then the month

00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:30.019
 of their exodus

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:30.700
 from Egypt

00:29:30.700 --> 00:29:32.140
 on the first month

00:29:32.140 --> 00:29:32.540
 of the year,

00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:33.720
 because it indicates

00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:34.559
 a new beginning

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:35.339
 for God's people,

00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:36.180
 they are to cleanse

00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:36.659
 the leaven

00:29:36.659 --> 00:29:38.139
 from their pantries

00:29:38.139 --> 00:29:39.119
 and begin again

00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:40.920
 with the fresh batch.

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:42.839
 And in this way,

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.079
 because of how

00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.460
 only just a little bit

00:29:45.460 --> 00:29:45.879
 of leaven

00:29:45.879 --> 00:29:46.879
 leavens the entire

00:29:46.879 --> 00:29:47.700
 lump of bread,

00:29:48.299 --> 00:29:50.420
 this became a symbol

00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:51.259
 to represent

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:53.299
 how sin and evil,

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:55.180
 just a little bit of it

00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:56.399
 can so quickly spread

00:29:56.399 --> 00:29:57.259
 and infect

00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:58.299
 an entire community.

00:29:58.299 --> 00:30:01.500
 And so in 1 Corinthians

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:02.440
 5, 6-8,

00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:03.440
 Paul references

00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:04.019
 the feast

00:30:04.019 --> 00:30:04.779
 of unleavened bread

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:05.899
 and when telling

00:30:05.899 --> 00:30:06.519
 the Corinthians

00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.519
 to purge their church

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.799
 of sexual immorality,

00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:10.899
 which was rampant there,

00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:12.099
 he says this,

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:13.319
 Do you not know

00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:14.279
 that a little leaven

00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:15.559
 leavens the whole lump?

00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:17.680
 Cleanse out the old leaven

00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.379
 that you may be

00:30:18.379 --> 00:30:19.180
 a new lump

00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:21.220
 as you really are unleavened.

00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:22.379
 For Christ,

00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:23.559
 our Passover lamb,

00:30:23.639 --> 00:30:24.759
 has been sacrificed.

00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:26.399
 Let us therefore

00:30:26.399 --> 00:30:27.519
 celebrate the festival,

00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:28.819
 not with the old leaven,

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:30.200
 the leaven of malice

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:30.700
 and evil,

00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:32.440
 but with the unleavened

00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:33.259
 bread of sincerity

00:30:33.259 --> 00:30:34.200
 and truth.

00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:36.379
 So brothers and sisters,

00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:37.379
 this is why

00:30:37.379 --> 00:30:38.819
 we as a church

00:30:38.819 --> 00:30:40.500
 must take holiness seriously,

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:42.019
 why we must be

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:43.139
 a holy people.

00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:44.759
 Unrepentant sin

00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:45.920
 is like leaven

00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:46.839
 that leavens

00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:47.740
 the whole lump

00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:48.319
 of bread.

00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:49.759
 It's like cancer

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.839
 that spreads

00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:51.660
 and destroys

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:52.639
 the entire body.

00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:54.019
 You can't afford

00:30:54.019 --> 00:30:54.559
 to leave

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:55.720
 even a cell of it.

00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.519
 But we as God's people

00:30:58.519 --> 00:30:59.220
 have been joined

00:30:59.220 --> 00:30:59.819
 to Christ

00:30:59.819 --> 00:31:00.660
 and are therefore

00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:01.900
 God's firstborn son.

00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:03.759
 We have been atoned for

00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:04.460
 and marked out

00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:05.559
 by the blood of the lamb.

00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:07.059
 We have been set apart

00:31:07.059 --> 00:31:08.559
 as God's chosen possession

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.039
 by the unleavened bread.

00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:11.100
 And as people

00:31:11.100 --> 00:31:12.140
 who have been set apart,

00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:13.000
 our lives

00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:15.180
 ought to reflect that

00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:16.660
 to show that

00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:17.600
 we belong to God

00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:19.640
 because the Passover lamb

00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:20.380
 has been sacrificed.

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:22.579
 Paul is here

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.160
 making,

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.039
 in 1 Corinthians,

00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:25.359
 an explicit biblical

00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:26.539
 theological connection

00:31:26.539 --> 00:31:28.359
 between the Passover lamb

00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:29.619
 and Jesus.

00:31:30.379 --> 00:31:31.339
 He's telling us

00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:32.440
 that the Passover lamb

00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:33.299
 pointed to

00:31:33.299 --> 00:31:34.220
 and was fulfilled

00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:35.839
 by Jesus Christ.

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.420
 That's why we read

00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:39.420
 in our Assurance of Pardon

00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:39.819
 today

00:31:39.819 --> 00:31:41.099
 from 1 Peter 1,

00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:41.940
 18-19,

00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:42.420
 it says that

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:43.440
 Christ is

00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:44.480
 the lamb

00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:45.700
 without blemish

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.519
 or spot

00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:48.000
 by whose blood

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.200
 we have been ransomed

00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:51.319
 from the futile,

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:52.339
 sinful ways.

00:31:52.339 --> 00:31:54.899
 Jesus was without sin

00:31:54.899 --> 00:31:55.959
 and therefore

00:31:55.959 --> 00:31:56.819
 he was fit

00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:58.159
 to be the unblemished

00:31:58.159 --> 00:31:59.199
 Passover lamb

00:31:59.199 --> 00:31:59.879
 that is sacrificed

00:31:59.879 --> 00:32:00.699
 for our atonement

00:32:00.699 --> 00:32:01.539
 and consecration.

00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:03.139
 So imagine

00:32:03.139 --> 00:32:04.819
 with me for a second

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:06.099
 the original night

00:32:06.099 --> 00:32:06.980
 of the Passover

00:32:06.980 --> 00:32:08.339
 for the Israelites.

00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:10.099
 The Israelites

00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:12.339
 are to kill their lambs

00:32:12.339 --> 00:32:12.939
 at twilight.

00:32:13.679 --> 00:32:14.740
 The whole process

00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:16.099
 that then is carried out

00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:16.839
 in the dark,

00:32:17.139 --> 00:32:17.959
 it's at night.

00:32:18.679 --> 00:32:19.579
 And you could imagine

00:32:19.579 --> 00:32:20.899
 the fear and trembling

00:32:20.899 --> 00:32:21.720
 among the Israelites

00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:23.240
 as they take meticulous care

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:24.779
 to slay the lamb,

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:26.819
 they drain the blood,

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:28.620
 they roast the lamb,

00:32:29.019 --> 00:32:29.860
 they are careful

00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:30.440
 to eat it

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:31.160
 without breaking

00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:31.839
 any bones

00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:33.299
 and they're doing

00:32:33.299 --> 00:32:33.700
 all of this

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:34.180
 and they take

00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:34.940
 some of the blood

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:35.900
 and then they

00:32:35.900 --> 00:32:36.880
 daub it

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:39.279
 around the doorposts

00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:40.579
 and since

00:32:40.579 --> 00:32:41.940
 it doesn't specify

00:32:41.940 --> 00:32:43.180
 how much blood

00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:43.640
 you're supposed

00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:44.400
 to put on it,

00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:45.480
 you can imagine

00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:46.019
 there are probably

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:48.059
 some very overzealous

00:32:48.059 --> 00:32:49.440
 and fearful Israelites

00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:50.400
 who are just

00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:51.120
 you know

00:32:51.120 --> 00:32:52.480
 lathering the blood.

00:32:52.580 --> 00:32:53.820
 Make sure you cover it all.

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:54.860
 I don't want

00:32:54.860 --> 00:32:56.200
 the destroyer coming in.

00:32:58.120 --> 00:32:59.140
 There's fear.

00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:00.840
 There's anticipation.

00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:05.460
 The Israelite families

00:33:05.460 --> 00:33:06.360
 probably don't sleep

00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:07.240
 a wink that night

00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.740
 and in the middle

00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:10.279
 of the night

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:11.240
 they hear

00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:12.799
 shrill cries

00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.180
 in their neighboring

00:33:14.180 --> 00:33:15.220
 Egyptian homes

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:16.779
 indicating that

00:33:16.779 --> 00:33:18.700
 there's some death

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:19.339
 in the house

00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:20.440
 and then

00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:21.399
 the Israelite families

00:33:21.399 --> 00:33:23.139
 are gripped with fear.

00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:24.379
 Are we next?

00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:25.519
 Maybe some

00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:27.579
 older firstborn sons

00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:28.500
 who realize

00:33:28.500 --> 00:33:29.259
 what's going on

00:33:29.259 --> 00:33:30.160
 ask their parents

00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:31.460
 am I next?

00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:33.279
 Are we gonna be okay?

00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:35.460
 And the parents

00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:36.359
 reassure them

00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:38.240
 we're gonna be okay.

00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:40.079
 But why?

00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:42.559
 Because the blood

00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:43.639
 of the lamb

00:33:43.639 --> 00:33:45.180
 is on our door.

00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:54.640
 the Lord

00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:55.600
 passes over

00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:56.480
 the houses

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.019
 of Israel.

00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.200
 The sun rises.

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:00.720
 There's not a single

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:01.980
 death in Israelite homes.

00:34:03.060 --> 00:34:03.560
 In fact

00:34:03.560 --> 00:34:04.860
 not even a dog

00:34:04.860 --> 00:34:05.620
 growled

00:34:05.620 --> 00:34:06.200
 against

00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.200
 the Israelite

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:08.820
 families

00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:09.920
 or their animals.

00:34:10.720 --> 00:34:11.360
 Why not?

00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:13.880
 It's not because

00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:14.420
 the Israelites

00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:15.700
 are a superior race

00:34:15.700 --> 00:34:16.559
 or an ethnic group.

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:19.539
 And it's not because

00:34:19.539 --> 00:34:20.059
 the Israelites

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:20.960
 are more ethical

00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:22.440
 or more righteous

00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:23.639
 than the Egyptians.

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:25.579
 The reason

00:34:25.579 --> 00:34:26.480
 the only reason

00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:26.940
 is because

00:34:26.940 --> 00:34:28.159
 they were chosen

00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:29.180
 and marked

00:34:29.180 --> 00:34:30.059
 by the blood

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:31.059
 of the lamb.

00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.079
 The same is true

00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:36.019
 for all Christians.

00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:37.760
 Do you live in fear

00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:38.740
 of God's punishment?

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:42.099
 Do you harbor

00:34:42.099 --> 00:34:43.739
 lingering doubt

00:34:43.739 --> 00:34:44.959
 in your heart

00:34:44.959 --> 00:34:45.759
 that your sins

00:34:45.759 --> 00:34:47.199
 can ever be pardoned?

00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:50.079
 Do you doubt

00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:50.559
 that God

00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:51.500
 can ever love you?

00:34:53.099 --> 00:34:54.439
 If God really knew me

00:34:54.439 --> 00:34:56.259
 if God really knew my heart

00:34:56.259 --> 00:34:57.579
 if God really knew my past

00:34:57.579 --> 00:34:58.619
 he would not love me.

00:34:59.759 --> 00:35:00.859
 He would not want

00:35:00.859 --> 00:35:01.959
 anything good for me.

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:05.240
 Do you see

00:35:05.240 --> 00:35:05.900
 the blood

00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:06.699
 that Christ

00:35:06.699 --> 00:35:08.139
 the Passover lamb

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:08.880
 shed

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.920
 on the cross

00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:10.880
 for you?

00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:14.659
 You are covered

00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:15.559
 by his blood.

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:17.099
 There can be

00:35:17.099 --> 00:35:18.240
 no condemnation

00:35:18.240 --> 00:35:18.880
 for you.

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.039
 There can be

00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:21.000
 no punishment

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.159
 for you.

00:35:22.699 --> 00:35:23.740
 There on the cross

00:35:23.740 --> 00:35:25.539
 is the indelible message

00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:26.579
 from the Lord God

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:26.980
 saying

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:29.159
 I have chosen you.

00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.399
 I have marked you

00:35:31.399 --> 00:35:32.079
 as mine.

00:35:34.359 --> 00:35:34.920
 There

00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:35.879
 is the blood

00:35:35.879 --> 00:35:36.500
 of the lamb.

00:35:40.219 --> 00:35:41.359
 And that's

00:35:41.359 --> 00:35:42.239
 what we remember

00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:43.579
 when we gather

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:44.299
 in his name

00:35:44.299 --> 00:35:45.940
 week after week

00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:47.059
 to hear

00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:47.779
 the same

00:35:47.779 --> 00:35:48.559
 good news

00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:48.980
 of Jesus

00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:49.679
 proclaimed

00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:50.420
 over

00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:51.679
 and over again

00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.199
 to break

00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:53.579
 the same bread

00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:54.099
 and to drink

00:35:54.099 --> 00:35:55.500
 the same juice

00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:56.339
 proclaiming

00:35:56.339 --> 00:35:56.739
 the death

00:35:56.739 --> 00:35:57.279
 of Christ

00:35:57.279 --> 00:35:57.920
 over

00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:59.039
 and over again

00:35:59.039 --> 00:35:59.900
 because we need

00:35:59.900 --> 00:36:00.480
 to be reminded

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.039
 of this

00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:02.420
 every single

00:36:02.420 --> 00:36:03.179
 day.

00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:08.860
 So let's

00:36:08.860 --> 00:36:09.340
 remember

00:36:09.340 --> 00:36:11.159
 1 Corinthians

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:11.940
 11 26

00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:12.960
 for as often

00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:14.119
 as you remember

00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:14.679
 as you eat

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:15.159
 this bread

00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:15.639
 and drink

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:16.079
 the cup

00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:17.179
 you proclaim

00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:18.079
 the Lord's

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:18.480
 death

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:19.420
 until

00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:20.599
 he comes.

00:36:23.279 --> 00:36:24.039
 So let us

00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:24.659
 remember his

00:36:24.659 --> 00:36:25.000
 death

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.320
 let's proclaim

00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:27.079
 his resurrection

00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:28.300
 and await

00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:29.300
 his coming

00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:29.720
 in glory.

00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:30.600
 Let's pray.

00:36:40.100 --> 00:36:40.539
 Father

00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:41.080
 thank you

00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:41.480
 for your

00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:41.900
 love.

00:36:46.780 --> 00:36:47.360
 Thank you

00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:47.680
 that you

00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:47.940
 do not

00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:48.539
 call us

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:48.960
 to be a

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:49.780
 holy people

00:36:49.780 --> 00:36:51.060
 so that

00:36:51.060 --> 00:36:51.780
 we might

00:36:51.780 --> 00:36:53.539
 qualify

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:54.080
 to be your

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:54.420
 people

00:36:54.420 --> 00:36:56.720
 but you

00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:57.200
 call us

00:36:57.200 --> 00:36:57.420
 to be

00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:57.720
 holy

00:36:57.720 --> 00:36:58.220
 because

00:36:58.220 --> 00:36:59.079
 you

00:36:59.079 --> 00:36:59.579
 have

00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:00.159
 already

00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.380
 chosen

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:01.860
 us

00:37:01.860 --> 00:37:03.300
 because

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:03.539
 you

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:03.820
 have

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:04.420
 already

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:05.380
 marked

00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:05.720
 us

00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:06.039
 with the

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:06.200
 blood

00:37:06.200 --> 00:37:06.460
 of the

00:37:06.460 --> 00:37:06.700
 lamb

00:37:06.700 --> 00:37:07.519
 because

00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:07.720
 you

00:37:07.720 --> 00:37:07.880
 have

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:08.440
 already

00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:08.960
 called

00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:09.180
 us

00:37:09.180 --> 00:37:09.460
 your

00:37:09.460 --> 00:37:09.900
 own

00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:13.720
 so Lord

00:37:13.720 --> 00:37:14.180
 let us

00:37:14.180 --> 00:37:14.559
 pursue

00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:14.960
 holiness

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.519
 let us

00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:16.680
 live

00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.240
 holy lives

00:37:17.240 --> 00:37:17.720
 not out of

00:37:17.720 --> 00:37:18.180
 fear and

00:37:18.180 --> 00:37:18.760
 insecurity

00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:20.840
 but out of

00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:21.640
 great love

00:37:21.640 --> 00:37:22.100
 for you

00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:24.660
 with great

00:37:24.660 --> 00:37:25.300
 security

00:37:25.300 --> 00:37:26.220
 assurance

00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:26.820
 and

00:37:26.820 --> 00:37:27.500
 gratefulness

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:29.700
 knowing that

00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:30.060
 we are

00:37:30.060 --> 00:37:30.560
 your own

00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:37.320
 in Jesus

00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:37.740
 name we

00:37:37.740 --> 00:37:37.960
 pray

00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:38.920
 amen

00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:58.119
 to

00:37:58.119 --> 00:37:58.659
 we

00:37:58.659 --> 00:38:07.680
 have

00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:08.360
 all