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The Passover Feast “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.
The Passover Feast You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.” (Deuteronomy 16:1-8 ESV)
The PassoverThen and Now Church of Christ at Medina March 23rd, 2014
The First Passover • “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here.” (Exodus 11:1)
The First Passover “So Moses said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.” (Exodus 11:4-8 ESV)
The First Passover • “This month shall be for you the beginning of months.” (Ex. 12:1) • “…on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb…” (Ex. 12:3) • “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.” (Ex. 12:5) • “…and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.” (Ex. 12:6)
The First Passover • “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.” (Ex. 12:7) • “They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.” (Ex. 12:8) • “In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.” (Ex. 12:11)
The First Passover • “For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.” (Ex. 12:12-13)
The Passover Feast • It required a lamb, one year old without blemish. • It was to be sacrificed and it’s blood was used as a means of avoiding death. • The Israelites were to remove all leaven from their houses. • The feast was to be a perpetual reminder to the Israelites of God’s deliverance.
The Christian Passover Feast “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, ESV
The Christian Passover FeastOur Lamb – Jesus • God foretold that a lamb would be given as a sacrifice to bear the iniquities of many. (Isaiah 53:7, 10-12) • John the Baptist gave witness to this Lamb. (John 1:29) • Jesus was not only a sacrifice, but He was the perfect sacrifice. (1 Peter 1:17-21) • As a matter of fact, He was the only sacrifice that could be offered for man. (Rev. 5)
The Christian Passover FeastOur Deliverance – Spiritual Death • Ephesians 1:7 • “In him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses…” • 1 John 1:7 • “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” • Romans 3:23-25, 5:9-10
The Christian Passover FeastOur Duty – Remove All Leaven • From our personal lives • “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” (Colossians 3:1-5, ESV) • Romans 6:1-11 • 1 Peter 1:13-16
The Christian Passover FeastOur Duty – Remove All Leaven • From the local body • “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”(1 Corinthians 5:6-8, ESV)
The Christian Passover FeastOur Reminder – The Lord’s Supper For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, ESV
Resources • All images taken from Google. • The Chronological Bible Curriculum by Jim Deason.