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PASSOVER
The fulcrum of the Hebrew bible, foreshadowingof the apex of the New Covenant…the redemption of the world through Jesus the Messiah
Lev23…..
Passover is an event. It is a holy day. It is a season. It is a celebration.
The themes and liturgy of Passover echo throughout all Scripture. From the Exodus come the words of the psalmists and are even on the lips of Mary, Simeon and Zacharius, father of John as quoted in the Gospel of Luke. Imagine the words we repeat every Christmas story are routed and grounded in the Passover.
Jesus was celebrating Passover with His disciples at their last supper together. And it was that ritual that Jesus adapted into Communion.
- Revelation of God’s memorial name
- Revelation of God’s character and ways (psalm 103)
- Love
- Justice
- Holiness
- Grace
- Mercy
- Power
- Sovereignty over creation
- He alone is God
- Saving faith
- Pattern of redemption -Sacrificial blood
- Relationship with God as Father – Israel His son, His firstborn
- Revelation of the uniqueness of Israel
- Picture of the doctrine of election
- Pattern of worship (echoes throughout scripture)
The three holidays of Passover:
- Pesach
- Unleavened Bread
- First Fruits
- Sukkot – six months later
- Seasonal- the spring harvest
National – the deliverance of Israel out of bondage
Spiritual – Revelation of God’s personal name – YHVH
Prophetic – God’s plan of Redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus, our Passover Lamb
Personal
Trusting God for deliverance – coming under the sign of the blood
NATIONAL SIGIFICANCE
God said that He created a testimony in Israel. That testimony, the history of Israel as a nation and their distinctive relationship with God begins with the story of the Passover.
The story –
- Israel in Egypt
- Pharaoh who did not know Joseph
- Put Israel into bondage
- Faith and courage of the midwives
- God raised up a deliver!
- Brought into the Pharaoh’s household
- Israel groans – God hears
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1 Theme
Children cry
God hears, etc,
God delivers
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Exodus 2:23
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3:8
YHWH
The God who is intimately and actively involved in our lives
GOD HEARS OUR CRIES
- Psa 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.
- Psa 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
- Psa 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psa 107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses.
- Psa 138:3 In the day when I cried thou answered me, [and] strengthened me [with] strength in my soul.
- Hsa 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.
GOD DELIVERS
- Psa 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
- Psa 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
- Psa 31:2 Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.
- Psa 50:15 Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
- Psa 91:14-15 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa091.html - 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.
Back to the story
- God’s promises
- 6:6
- Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD your God, which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians..
axy bring you out
lxn I will rid you out of their burdens (rescue)
lan redeem
jql take you as My people
procure, get, take possession of, select, choose, take in marriage, receive, accept
Response
Bowed their heads to the ground and worshipped. Exodus 4:31
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Theme #3
Deliverance was for
service - worship
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Exodus 3:12, 18
When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain,…sacrifice God on this mountain
Psalm…Set me free that I might worship you
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Worship
Believed
Heard God had visited them
Bowed their heads
Worshipped
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But things got worse before they God better
God deliberately put Israel in a vise
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Theme #2
That Pharaoh will know that
I am God
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Exodus 7:3-5
Thou shall speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments And the Egyptians shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
God shows off
- Battle with the ‘gods of Egypt
- Sun God
- Nile God
- Order of the plagues
- Made a separation between Egypt and Israel
Redemption through the blood
- Exodus 12
- A lamb
- The lamb
- Your lamb
- 10th – 14th watch, examine for blemish
- killed
Sacrifice of the Lord
- Distorted to a holiday of freedom
- Pass through
- Blood shall be a sign
- Pass over = pesach
- Remove all leaven
- At midnight the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat o his through to the firstborn of the captive
- Pharaoh was considered a God
- Ended the line
FIRSTBORN
The double portion
- Jacob/Essau
- Dt 21:17acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
- 2 Chron 21:3acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; othe right of the firstborn is his.
- Ex 4:22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
SPIRITUAL
PROPHETIC
- GOD CAME DOWN TO DELIVER
- Phil 2:8
- Ps 80:27Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
- Passover lamb
PERSONAL
- God hears, remembers, looks and understands
- Intimately actively involved in your life (Psl 139)
- Punishes sin, gives forgiveness by grace, through faith
- Christ IN US, the hope of glory
- Trust as well as have faith in God
- Colossians 1:17 – delivered and transferred us
- Whose kingdom are we building
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