Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] All right, let's get our Bible and turn to the Book of Exodus. Exodus, chapter twelve.
[00:00:15] Exodus, chapter twelve.
[00:00:25] It. All right. While you're there, I'm going to go to the book of Colossians just to read one verse to remind us of the truth upon which our study is built in Colossians, chapter two and verse number 16.
[00:00:42] Colossians, two, verse 16. You don't have to turn there unless you just want to says this.
[00:00:49] Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days.
[00:01:04] Notice what I want you to note is the word holy day. Holy day.
[00:01:11] We call it a holiday. All right, this is a reference to the various special days that were on the jewish calendar. Okay?
[00:01:20] He says this respective in a holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days. And this is the key, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. So all of the things listed in the previous verse, meat, drink, holy day, new moon, Sabbath days. And there's many other things that we could fit in there we found in other scriptures when we looked at the principles of typology and the purposes of the Old Testament, sacrifices and things. One of those things are the holy days. So as we've been going through the Old Testament law, we've gone through the Ten Commandments, we've gone through the. How many sacrifices?
[00:02:02] Five. We've got the five sacrifices. And that is all built upon the premise, the biblical truth, that all of those things are mere shadows and are not the real thing. The real thing is Jesus. All right? And so we've gone through that and we've tried to see it from that perspective. Well, what we're going to do is kind of transition into the next group of things that fit that category, which are the feast, the holy days of the children of Israel. And of course, the first and probably the most important is the what? Does anybody want to take a guess? What's that? The Passover. And that's a significant point. So let's look at Exodus 20 and verse one. The Bible says this, 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 ye 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 for an house. And if the household be too little for the lamb. 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 count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish. A male of the first year. Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. 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 sideposts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
[00:03:47] And they shall eat the flesh in that night roast with fire and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat it. Eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire his legs, his head with his legs, and with the pertinence thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning. And that which remaineth of it until the morning, ye shall burn with fire.
[00:04:13] And thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, with your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand. And ye 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 firstborn 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 ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. Let's pray together.
[00:04:57] Our father, thank you for the chance to be here tonight with your people. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be with people, good people, godly people, people who likewise know what it means to be redeemed by the blood of the lamb. Thank you for that. Thank you that these people have come, and many of them are weary from a long day of work, have burdens on their hearts, and some of them have pain in their bodies. But, Lord, please give grace to each one to be able to receive good things from your word tonight. And I pray that you would strengthen them and help them. And I pray you'd bless our time tonight as we look in your word. Lord, give me wisdom to know what to say. And I pray the truth of scripture would be just all the more clear to us as we examine it here tonight. In Jesus name. Amen.
[00:05:52] So the Passover, which is what we just read now the Passover. What I want to talk about. There are actually three layers to the Passover, all right? Understand what I'm trying to say? The first layer is what we just read. The first layer of the Passover is the actual event, okay? So the Passover was one event that happened in history, okay? The second layer of the Passover.
[00:06:17] The first layer, the actual event, is when the lord actually passed through Egypt and destroyed the firstborn, killed the firstborn in the homes where the blood of the lamb was not properly applied. Okay? So that was the actual event. The second layer of the Passover is the memorial of the Passover. In other words, there's a feast that God has established to commemorate and memorialize that one event that had happened. It was a holiday. All right? And you could see that in exodus twelve down on verse number.
[00:06:53] Verse 14 says this. So verses one through 13, talk about the actual event. You get down to verse 14, and the Lord says this, and this day shall be unto you for a memorial. And you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. He says, seven days shall ye 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. So in the second layer, which is the Passover feast, what they did, the children of Israel would, in essence, they wouldn't strike the blood on the linen and the two sideposts of the door like they did in the original, but they would take a lamb and they would burn it with fire and they would eat it. And they would have various things that commemorated what happened in the original Passover to remind them of what God had done. To remind them of what God had done. In other words, the Lord did not want them to forget something so significant to the life of the nation of Israel. So he instituted a feast. And then you have the third layer. The third layer is what the Passover means to us. Seeing we are not Jews.
[00:08:17] We don't celebrate the Passover.
[00:08:20] There are christian believers of some form or fashion that celebrate the Passover, but that is not a New Testament doctrine. They borrow it from the Old Testament. What do they call them? I want to say messianic Jew, but I don't think that's exactly. What's that?
[00:08:38] Yeah. Hebrew roots. There we go. And so what they'll do is they'll actually follow. Well, sort of. They'll follow the Passover feast as if it's a christian doctrine, but it's actually not. What we see in the Passover is the third layer. The Passover and the feast of unleavened bread is a shadow of spiritual and eternal truths that are applicable to us, every single one of us that are in the body of Christ. The Passover is a memorial type. That's what I called it, a memorial type to us. That reminds us, just as it did to the Jews, of some things that God has done for us, not just what God did to deliver Israel, but ultimately the ultimate fulfillment of the Passover is Jesus. And that's what we've already seen when we were talking about the sacrifices. Okay? So let's just consider what's going on here. And almost all of you, I'm sure all of you, are familiar with what kind of is happening in Egypt rather, at this time. Egypt is a picture in scripture of the world, and Israel is bound in Egypt. They are not there of their own volition, not at this point at least. Originally they were, but now they have been there for 400 years. They are bound. They do not have freedom to leave. They are bound in bondage to the world.
[00:10:09] And God has come down to deliver them out of the power of the world. And so that's kind of the setting. And I'm talking about the type as well as the fulfillment of the type kind of in the same term. Okay. The other thing I want you to see is in verse, chapter twelve, verse number, verse twelve says this, for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. So here you have God, the God of judgment, who is going through Egypt to judge. So there's a certainty of judgment. And every single firstborn in Egypt and every single firstborn of the Hebrews was subject to die. Their bloodline made no difference when it came to this. The Lord was going to judge every firstborn. And it speaks to this actual event, which is memorialized. Layer two in layer three speaks to the universality of sin and the reality of God's judgment. There will come a day when God will walk through the land, walk through the world, and will bring judgment. And the only ones, when you look at the book of revelation in chapter five ish, the only ones that escape, that are ones who can say, thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood. And who are they? Talking to. They're talking to the lamb. The lamb in revelation five. And the only ones who will be able to say they have escaped the judgment of the world are those who have been redeemed by the blood of the lamb in the same way as these people were. Now, I'll use the word paschal. How many of you are familiar with the word pascal? Pascal comes from the Hebrew and greek word which is translated Passover. It just means Passover. Okay, don't get confused by that. Now, here's what I want you to understand about the Paschal, or Passover lamb.
[00:12:23] The Passover feast, which is actually historically, is connected with the feast of unleavened bread. That's what you have to understand. It's important because it matters when you get into the timing of Christ's crucifixion and his resurrection. The Passover was marked the beginning of a seven day feast of unleavened bread. And we'll get to the feast of unleavened bread because these two are actually together in the feasts now, just as a review. And we'll go through these one at a time later, and hopefully I won't bore you to death. I'm trying make sure I don't bore you. There were essentially six feasts that the Lord told them to keep on the calendar. Holy days. You had the pass. Let's try to name them. Anybody can name. Name. Well, you know, the first one. The feast of the Passover and feast of unleavened bread. What's the second one?
[00:13:16] What's that?
[00:13:18] Tabernacles. That's the last one? That's one? Yes.
[00:13:23] What's the next one?
[00:13:25] Feast of first fruits.
[00:13:28] Then you have the feast of feast of weeks, also called Pentecost. You have the feast of trumpets.
[00:13:38] And then the last one is the day of atonement. The day of atonement.
[00:13:44] All right. And so all of these things picture spiritual truths, but we're looking just at the Passover. Okay.
[00:13:52] What is the most important part of the Passover?
[00:13:55] There's one thing. Everything about the Passover revolves around one thing. You know what it is? It's the lamb. The Passover is all about the lamb.
[00:14:10] There is no Passover without the lamb. Right? Because God doesn't pass over. Interesting Bible note is William Tyndale, who was the first person to translate the Bible out of the original languages, Hebrew and Greek, to English. There was one Bible before William Tyndale into English, which was the Wycliffe Bible. But the Wycliffe Bible was not translated from Greek and Hebrew, it was translated from Latin. But Tyndale was the first person that translated the Bible into the vulgar tongue, which is English in this case, and he was burned at the stake for it. But one contribution William Tyndale made to the Bible regarded Passover is because when he came across in the New Testament, and even in the Old Testament, the word pascal, pascal, which is the word for Passover, there wasn't an english word. So you know what he did? He invented one. And so he took pass and over, which is what God did, he passed over and he put them together, and that became the word that's translated for this feast, and it became a part of our language. This wasn't the only time he did that. This is just a little side, a little side note there.
[00:15:24] But the most important part of the Passover was the paschal lamb.
[00:15:29] Jesus is clearly identified as the lamb.
[00:15:37] Jesus is the only person identified as the lamb. From John, chapter one, verse 29. John the baptist introduces. He's the forerunner. He introduces Jesus as the lamb. Now follow it. The lamb of God. The lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. And it's mentioned all through in different parts of the New Testament, even into revelation, where the lamb is mentioned 28 times. Every single time it's mentioned, it's with a capital l referring to Jesus. Even in heaven, Jesus is the lamb of God.
[00:16:15] This is his title. And you know what that means.
[00:16:20] And this is why it's important.
[00:16:24] In the day of atonement, there were two goats that were used, right? In the day of atonement, two goats were used. But the Passover is the only feast where in particular, a single lamb was used, which is had to be under one year, and it had to be a male.
[00:16:44] And this is why it perfectly pictures the Lord Jesus.
[00:16:50] The one place in scripture the most important lamb in scripture before you get to the New Testament was this lamb. And Jesus in the New Testament burst forth on the scene, identified immediately by John as that lamb, what we call the anti type. So we already study what a type is, right? A type is the shadow. The anti type is what it's talking, the object. Jesus is the anti type. He is the real thing. The real lamb. Now notice a few things about in chapter twelve, notice a few things about the lamb in chapter twelve, verse five says, your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. If you go to first Peter, chapter one, we're going to flip a little bit here, so you just hang with me. One Peter, chapter one. Verse 19, the Lord says this of Christ. Of course, we all know this. I'm not saying anything new. But the Bible says in verse 18, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition from your fathers, but you were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. Notice as of a lamb without blemish, Jesus is that lamb. He is without sin. Of course, the lamb in the Old Testament referred to physical blemish, but Christ as. Remember, the higher truth is not the physical truth, but the spiritual and eternal truth. Right?
[00:18:26] So in Egypt, the lamb had to have no physical blemish. But this was way more, Christ was way more important than that. He had no moral blemish, no blemish of any kind, physical or otherwise. But more importantly, he had no blemish of sin. And of course, if this lamb in the Passover had a blemish, it was unfit, its blood was unfit for the Lord to see and pass over that home. The next thing is it mentions here in exodus twelve. Drop down to verse number 46. The Bible says this, in one house shall the, shall it, the lamb be eaten. Thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall ye break a bone thereof. And of course, we know in John, if you want to peek at that real quick. In John, chapter 19, Jesus is on the cross. And he says, after he dies, the soldier comes. And instead of breaking the legs, he sees that Jesus is dead already. So instead of breaking his legs, he pierces the side of Christ. And that by that act he fulfilled two prophecies. He's a heathen man. He didn't know nothing about God, right? But without knowing anything about God, in one act he fulfilled two prophecies. One in that Christ would be pierced, but the second one in that his bones would not be broken. Imagine being on the cross with your hands and legs nailed to the cross. You can barely breathe, and they break your legs with a sword.
[00:20:13] That is brutal. That is brutal.
[00:20:18] But they did not break our Lord's legs because he had to fulfill. Verse 36 of John 19 says this, for these things were done, that the scripture might be, should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be broken. Now for those of you that are interested in the nuts and bolts, some people cite Psalm 34, verse 20 as the scripture that this is referring to. But Psalm 34, verse 20 is not really directly a messianic psalm referring to Jesus. So it's my opinion that this is not referring to Psalm 34, but this verse that's quoted in John here is actually referring to the Passover where his bones were not to be broken. That's my theory on it. But either way, the Lord, this was done because both in the Passover and in John 19, it was done as a matter of fulfillment of Christ being the fulfillment of the paschal lamb. And we also see, going back to Exodus, that the blood of the lamb was shed. The blood of the lamb was shed.
[00:21:22] As you can see it here, it says, verse six says, the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening, and they shall take of the blood and strike on the two posts of the door.
[00:21:37] Look at chapter 13 as well.
[00:21:41] Verse 13, chapter 13, verse 13.
[00:21:47] The blood was shed. The lamb had to die. Of course, you could not use the blood unless the lamb was dead. So part of the product of that blood being applied in the place where God appointed. You say, that's gross. I agree. But I got to thinking about the blood where they applied the blood to the lentil and the two side know, the children of Israel. After that night was over, they left.
[00:22:15] But you know, it was still on the door of that house, that blood.
[00:22:20] It was a permanent testimony. The Egyptians probably came back and dwelled in those houses and all that stuff, but they had to wash all that blood off. It was a testament, a lasting testament of what God had done, even to those who had been judged.
[00:22:34] But anyhow, the blood was shed. The lamb had to die. And because it died, it died as a substitute for the children of Israel. What do I mean? Look at chapter 13 of Exodus. Verse 13. The Bible says this.
[00:22:49] And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb. And if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck. And all the first born of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. What does the word redeem mean?
[00:23:04] To buy back. Right. That means something was sold, and then you purchase it again. All right. Verse 5th, 14. And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, what is this that thou shalt say unto him? By strength of hand, the Lord brought us out from Egypt from the house of bondage. And it came to pass when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrificed to the Lord all that openeth the Matrix being males. But all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
[00:23:45] So why did I read that.
[00:23:48] Because after they had already left Egypt, the Lord said, because I made a substitute for all the firstborn, they are mine. Right?
[00:24:01] Because they were bought by the lamb's blood. You see that? That's why in chapter 13, the Lord says, all these firstborn are mine. You have to buy them back from me. I paid for them. They're mine now. And so now you have to redeem them. You see the picture here?
[00:24:21] So what you see is the children of Israel. The blood of that lamb was the price, the substitutionary redemption price for all the firstborn to be spared. And so now they belong to the Lord. That's why they had to be bought back by the children of Israel.
[00:24:40] The blood was shed. The lamb died. And by the blood of that lamb, God purchased the firstborn.
[00:24:47] And so it is with us.
[00:24:50] We have been redeemed by Christ by his blood. But that wasn't it. The blood. Going back to chapter twelve, verse number.
[00:25:00] Verse number. I'm in chapter 13, it says verse seven. And they shall take of the blood and strike it upon the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall eat it. So the blood had to be properly applied. It was not enough that the lamb was killed. It had to be properly applied to those people in that house. And if it was not in its proper place and it had not been properly applied, it was useless. The lamb was just dead. And so it is with the blood of Christ in the fulfillment, God is sheding the blood and applying it so that he might justly pass over us, pass over us in judgment, because a substitute has died for us. Is that not what the New Testament says, Romans? I think it's chapter three. Is it chapter three? It says that he might be just and the justifier. So if the Lord just pardoned us without a substitute, it would not be just, for sin had never been correctly judged by God's justice. So the Lord had a substitute. That's what this lamb pictures.
[00:26:15] But yet that substitute, that Christ died for us. Now let me pause here and let me make something clear.
[00:26:23] Just because Jesus died does not mean everyone is automatically saved or will, in the end, automatically be saved, because God is good. That is not a scriptural truth.
[00:26:38] And this is shown here. It wasn't enough that the lamb died and its blood was shed. That blood and the effect of that blood being shed had to be appropriated.
[00:26:51] Had to be appropriated.
[00:26:54] That is, it had to be put where it was required to be. And that took an act of faith, because those people inside that house that the people who actually dipped the hisop into the basin of blood and put it on the, that's something they had to do by faith, because the only thing they had to go on that judgment was impending, was God's word. That means it was an act of faith. They did not see it. They only saw it by the eye of faith, by God's word. And so believing God's word and knowing the peril of the firstborn, they killed that lamb and dipped that hisop into that blood and struck it on there. All of this is by faith. But this is the appropriation. This is our salvation right here. The lamb's blood has been shed. And by putting it on the door, that represents, when we appropriate what Christ has done for us, we receive him by faith. It's not just faith, though. We're going to see something else in just a minute. But notice again, it wasn't enough that Christ died.
[00:27:56] We have to appropriate that.
[00:27:58] We have to appropriate that into our lives personally, just like each house had to appropriate the blood of the lamb.
[00:28:05] Everybody follow me on that.
[00:28:11] After that, the lamb was roasted in the fire. I won't say a lot about this, but we've already studied the burnt offering. Remember, whether it was Isaac or whether it was with Abraham or whether it was the burnt offering. In the sacrifice of burnt offerings, the entirety of that animal was burned.
[00:28:28] Everything symbolizing the wrath of God consuming the animal, the wrath of God consuming Christ on the cross.
[00:28:37] And you see the same thing here. It was eaten with bitter herbs. Look at Exodus, chapter twelve, verse eight.
[00:28:46] And this is true in both the first layer and the second layer. In the original event, they ate the lamb with bitter herbs. And in the feast, they also had to eat the lamb with bitter herbs.
[00:29:01] But notice it says this, verse eight. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread. And with bitter herbs, they shall eat it. So when you eat something with bitter herbs, it's not good, it's not pleasant. It's designed to be unpleasant, right? If the Lord says, hey, I have this food for you, but I'm telling you, I'm commanding you to eat it with bitter herbs. That means it's not going to be a pleasant experience. It'd be like making Isaiah eat fish with his hamburger or pizza. Would you like fish pizza?
[00:29:40] Who likes fish pizza? You like anchovies? Isaiah would not like fish pizza, but that'd be like making Isaiah eat fish pizza. He hates fish.
[00:29:51] Of everything, he hates fish the most.
[00:29:54] But look at Zechariah, if you would. Chapter twelve. Interesting cross reference here.
[00:30:01] Zechariah, chapter twelve, verse ten.
[00:30:15] Zechariah, chapter twelve, verse ten.
[00:30:20] Now, this is prophetic.
[00:30:22] This has not happened yet. This will happen when Jesus comes back in his second advent. And all of Israel who is in peril at that moment waiting to be destroyed by the Antichrist, will immediately, as a nation, look to Jesus, who is appearing in heaven before he descends to take his kingdom. Verse ten says, and I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him. Notice how it says, they'll look upon me and mourn for him.
[00:31:01] Jehovah's talking is switching between Jehovah and Jesus. Jehovah. Like that. He knows what it says. As one mourneth for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. You see that at the moment that they look in faith, there's bitterness mixed for their sin. You see that?
[00:31:28] And that's the picture here. When someone comes to the Lord, there ought to be sorrow, right? There ought to be bitterness. There ought to be some level of anguish. That's the whole idea of conviction that the spirit of God brings in a person. There is some level of anguish, some level of sorrow that has brought them to this point. The fact that they need a savior, the fact that Christ had to die for them. It's not something you lolly gag.
[00:31:57] When someone comes to the Lord and they trust in Jesus. The attitude matters.
[00:32:03] And a mark of a correct attitude is one where there's a certain gravity to it.
[00:32:11] And so they ate it with the bitter herbs, symbolizing that kind of bitterness.
[00:32:16] Now, once that was done, the children of Israel, the Lord passed over. And, of course, Egypt. The Egyptians pushed them out. And once they came out of Egypt, they were rescued from the world by the work of God, not what they did. They did not come out of Egypt out of the power of the world by their own strength. It was by. What does the Bible say? Over and over by. Oh, my goodness, where'd it go?
[00:32:41] I think it says strength of hand.
[00:32:44] By a strong hand. That's what I'm looking at. The Lord, by a strong hand, delivered them out. But what was the means by which he delivered them? He didn't use their help. It wasn't their power. It wasn't how good they were. No, they were none of that. They were weak, they were helpless. God delivered them by his hand, which is actually a number symbol of Christ. Christ is the hand of God in Isaiah, chapter 53. But the Lord delivered them by his power. How?
[00:33:13] The blood of a lamb. All God's work. That's amazing, right? The Lord passed over and all those people cried and they walked out of that house free.
[00:33:26] Free.
[00:33:28] But you know what's interesting?
[00:33:31] All of the children of Israel walked out of that house free, each one of them having been saved by the blood lamb. Because remember, that judgment was individual. Each one of them had to exercise faith. Right?
[00:33:44] But now when they all came out, what was the result? Now you had a crowd of people who knew what it was like to be redeemed by the blood of the lamb. That's you and me. That's us. That's this church. That's something we have in common.
[00:34:00] Every one of us knows what it means to be delivered by the blood of Christ.
[00:34:09] That's the fellowship we have with one another, a shared experience of salvation. That's the way it's supposed to be. All how?
[00:34:19] Only by the blood of the lamb.
[00:34:23] All right.
[00:34:27] The children of Israel continue their journey. And we could go into, they take their journey out of Egypt and they go down to the Red Sea. And the Bible says they cross the Red Sea on dry ground. Right? There's water, a wall of water here and a wall of water here. And the Bible uses that to describe baptism. It says they were baptized unto moses, but they had already been delivered out of the world and the bondage of the world. It's a perfect illustration of believers'baptism. It's beautiful. They had already been saved.
[00:35:01] They weren't little baby. Imagine a bunch of little baby Israelites crawling on their hands and knees down to the. No, they had already believed in Christ. Come to the. They were immersed because the water was all walls on either side. They didn't wade through the Reed sea, as some of the critics say. How many of you have heard that before? The Reed sea?
[00:35:22] Give me a break.
[00:35:25] I mean, it's miraculous as a host of Egyptians in chariots and horses fell face first into a bunch of mud and drowned.
[00:35:36] That's some amazing mud, I'm telling you.
[00:35:39] But anyway, all right, let's go to first Corinthians, chapter five. And this is where we're full finish.
[00:35:48] One Corinthians, chapter five.
[00:35:53] It's crazy.
[00:35:57] In an effort to prove infidelity, right, the things you're willing to believe, to disbelieve the Bible. I mean, it's just crazy.
[00:36:06] Anyway.
[00:36:13] All right, this is beautiful passage here. First Corinthians, chapter five, verse six.
[00:36:21] Your glorying is not good.
[00:36:24] Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump purge out, therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened. Now, here's the thing. For even Christ, our Passover is sacrificed for us.
[00:36:48] So this identifies that lamb as Christ.
[00:36:53] Right?
[00:36:55] Without any question. So that means we can look back at the Passover feast and the event also and see Jesus in his various aspects. Even the Lord just gives us a tidbit. It's our job to dig and find the ways it parallels.
[00:37:13] But one thing that I haven't covered, and this is the last thing I want to talk about, is that the Passover was just the beginning, because the Passover marked the beginning of a seven day feast, the feast of unleavened bread.
[00:37:30] Now, the reason that there's a feast of unleavened bread, because in layer one, which is the actual event, the Lord told them that they had to have their loins girded, that had the belt on, they had to have their shoes on, they had to be ready to go, right? So they did not have time to ferment. Leaven their bread. Normally they'd make bread with leaven and they would let it rise and then they would cook it, but they didn't have time to do that. Now, you might say it only takes an hour, but I was talking to my wife about this earlier. But in the Bible, the bread that was used in the Bible was most similar to sourdough bread in the way it's used. And they didn't have processed leavening agents like we have. They used natural leaven. So what they'd have to do is they'd make the lump of dough and they'd leave it out. And natural yeast from the environment, or bacteria from the environment would get into the bread and it would naturally leaven. And sometimes it took a whole day for it to rise, to be ready to cook, a whole day. You see why they didn't have time. They didn't have time to do that. And the Lord in the feast, the Lord says, you get rid of the leaven and to memorialize how that you were delivered in a short period of time, as it were, in a moment, which is another symbolism of salvation being a moment.
[00:38:59] But in one Corinthians, chapter five, you have all of that put together. Then the feast, they were to clear leaven. They could have no leaven in their home. And the Jews do this to this day around Passover. No leaven in their home. They had to take it out, get rid of it completely.
[00:39:16] So that they could observe this feast of unleavened bread. But notice, here's what I want you to see.
[00:39:22] Verse seven. Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump.
[00:39:32] All right, think now.
[00:39:34] Jesus is in the typology. Jesus is the lamb. Right?
[00:39:40] Who is the bread?
[00:39:44] According to this verse, who's the bread?
[00:39:50] We are.
[00:39:52] We're the bread.
[00:39:59] This verse seven identifies the believer as the lump in the Passover. So here's what you have. They have been delivered out of Egypt, but they have no leaven with them because they haven't had time to do it. And they have their kneading trials bound up in their clothing so they can take it with them. And it's all unleavened bread.
[00:40:18] And they take it out. And for seven days. While they're traveling to be baptized in the Red Sea. For seven days, they're taking unleavened bread. They're eating unleavened bread. No leaven at all. Keep reading. Verse eight says, therefore, let us that's Christians now, keep the feast not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness. But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So leaven is, of course, a symbol of sin.
[00:40:47] So for seven days, seven being the number of completion, we know that it represents a life of perpetual holiness.
[00:40:55] In which leaven or sin, is eschewed by the believer. When did it all start? We were delivered by the blood of the lamb out of Egypt. You see that from that moment, they're walking. They're following the Lord.
[00:41:10] Unleavened, you see, without sin, it's repentance and faith. You see, both aspects. It changed their orientation towards sin. Remember, the children of Israel and the Egypt were not upright and righteous people. To the contrary, they were not that way when they were in bondage in Egypt. They did not know the Lord. They knew of the Lord, but they did not know the Lord like Moses knew the Lord. Would you agree with that?
[00:41:35] But now they do because they have been delivered by him. And now they're following him.
[00:41:42] And they have no leaven in their midst.
[00:41:45] They have repented. Left leaven in Egypt. Right? That's where they left it. And all their bread is unleavened. And the Lord says to us as Christians in the third layer, right. He says, keep the feast seven days forever. Keep leaven out of your life.
[00:42:04] Why? Because he says, purge out the old leaven. That's what was in Egypt, that you may be a new lump.
[00:42:14] He said, let us keep the feast not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness. But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Which is supposed to characterize our new life in perpetuity, following the Lord wherever he leads us. The pillar of cloud by day, pillar of fire by night. Now, the last thing I want you to see is this.
[00:42:38] As we saw in Exodus twelve, this feast was the first one of the year.
[00:42:47] It occurred on the 15th day of the first month.
[00:42:51] You can't have any of the other feasts that we're going to look at if you don't have this one. This is this is the entrance. Right? And this represents our salvation. This represents our salvation through Christ being delivered. But you can't have any of the other feasts that are going to symbolize other things and aspects of our christian life until you have this one. This is the beginning of months, the beginning feast. This is the starting point. Let's pray.
