GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION
Exodus 12:1-16
In this lesson, I intend to show the parallel between the
Release of Israel from slavery from Egypt and the salvation
of all believers through the death of Jesus on the cross.
A NEW START
V:1-3 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 \”This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamba for his family, one for each household.
A. In Christ every believer is made new by his faith in Jesus.
1. The old man has died and a new man came alive
2 Cor 5:17-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the
old has gone, the new has come!
2. The old Israel began in slavery in Egypt.
3. The new Israel began in freedom in the desert.
4. The reordering of Israel calendar began in our March or
April month.
5. Historians suggest the Christ death was Friday
April 3, 33AD.
6. Each believer has a day of their new birth into
the family of Jesus Christ.
B. The sacrificial lamb represents Jesus Christ.
1. Christ was selected before the foundation of the
world to be our redeemer.
2. Christ is the sacrificial lamb for the entire body of
Christians.
SALVATION COMES TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN JESUS
V:4-6. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
A. Salvation is personal to everyone. We each must chose Christ
As our sacrificial lamb.
1. Why God chose a lamb for sacrifice, we are not told.
2. Sheep and goats were the king of Egyptian gods; Amun
And Khnum.
3. The sacrifice of a sheep was probably offensive to the
Egyptians.
4. The plagues were designed to show Egypt that God is the only
true King.
B. Perhaps God chose a sheep to represent Christ because it is
submissive and easily led.
1. Christ moved only on His Fathers orders.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me,
he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I
should speak.
2. The meat of a Sheep is most tender when it is a year old or
less.
a. The meat of a lamb toughen up after a year of age,
b. Jesus is considered a tender lamb.
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
c. God instructed Israel to choose the best quality for the sacrificial
lamb.
C. The sheep was chosen on the 10th day of the month and watch until
The 14th day of the month to insure it had no defects.
1. Likewise, Jesus was tested and interrogated by the Roman officials
Who found no sin in Him.
2. The lamb was sacrificed at dusk.
3. Jesus died at 3pm and the there was darkness in Jerusalem immediately.
JESUS IS THE BLOOD OF THE PASSOVER OF OUR SINS
V: 7-11. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire — head, legs and inner parts. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD \’s Passover.
A. The blood of the lamb represents the redeeming and atoning
blood of Jesus.
1. When God looks at us, He does not see our sins, He sees
the blood of Jesus.
2. The blood on the door frame represents our acceptance
of Jesus as our Passover lamb.
B. The lamb was roasted with fire.
1. The fire represents our Baptism into the body of Christ
Matt 3:11-12
\”I baptize you withb water for repentance. But after me will
come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am
not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
with fire. 1
2 The Passover meal included bitter herbs and unleaven bread
a. The bitter herbs was a reminder to Israel of the hardships of the
400 years of slavery.
b. The unleaven bread represents man’s redeemed state in Christ
c. Leaven or yeast represents the sins of mankind.
We were born in sin and shaped in iniquity.
D. The reason the meat was to be consumed all at once, is because
Jesus death on the cross was a one time event for all times.
1. If any meat was not eaten, it was burned.
2. Jesus death was an all consuming redemption of man that
would not be repeated.
GOD HAS SELECTED ALL WHO WILL BE SAVED
V:12-13. \”On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn — both men and animals — and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD . 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
A. God’s plan of redemption for mankind was through the
Death of His first born son.
1. Thoughout the plagues, God harden Pharaoh’s heart
so that He would not let the Israel go.
2. This final plague, the death of all first born males,
symbolized God’s victory over Satan and his demons.
3. Christ death on the cross was victory over death and
atoning of man’s sins.
1 Cor 15:55-57
\”Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?\”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But
thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.
B. A male child represents the continuation of the family
line.
1. By killing all first born males, the Egyptian family
lines was disrupted.
2. God eliminate what was most precious to each Egyptian
family, their first born male.
3. Pharaoh represented Satan, an unredeemed spirit.
COMMAND TO REMEMBER GOD’S MERCY, THE DEATH OF HIS SON
V:14 \”This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD — a lasting ordinance.
A. Redemption is eternal.
1. Israel was freed from slavery in Egypt.
2. They were commanded to celebrate their freedom.
B. The day we accepted Christ as our personal Savior is
A special day.
1. It is the day we received our release from the power of Satan
to the power of Christ
2. We are commanded to commemorate the death and
and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Luke 22:19
And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them,
saying, \”This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.\”
THANK GOD FOR THE CROSS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston, Texas 77041
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