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“I am the LORD your God” Part 6: The Passover Lamb Exodus 11 & 12. Steve Petch Sunday 6 th November 2011. The Passover Lamb. Some Passover facts:. The people were in slavery It was a new start. The Passover Lamb. Some Passover facts:. The lamb had to be slaughtered
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“I am the LORD your God” Part 6: The Passover Lamb Exodus 11 & 12 Steve Petch Sunday 6th November 2011
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The people were in slavery • It was a new start
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The lamb had to be slaughtered • The lamb had to be perfect • The lamb had to be eaten • The lamb had to be sufficient for the number who ate it • There had to be no leftovers
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • They put the lamb’s blood on the sides and the top of the door frame • When God saw the blood of the lamb his judgement ‘passed over’ them • If there was no blood there was judgement, and death was the result
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • Death affected every household • The difference was not about race, but about whether they were ‘under the blood of the lamb’ or not
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • At the Passover the people were commanded to eliminate yeast from their lives
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The Passover only ever happened once • They were commanded to remember and re-enact this event often • It was always done in community
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • God is the one who initiated all this
The Passover Lamb • “The New is in the Old concealed, • the Old is in the New revealed” • Matthew 26 v 26 – 30 • 1 Corinthians 11 v 23 – 26 • 1 Corinthians 5 v 7
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The people were in slavery • It was a new start
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The lamb had to be slaughtered • The lamb had to be perfect • The lamb had to be eaten • The lamb had to be sufficient for the number who ate it • There had to be no leftovers
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • They put the lamb’s blood on the sides and the top of the door frame • When God saw the blood of the lamb his judgement ‘passed over’ them • If there was no blood there was judgement, and death was the result
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • Death affected every household • The difference was not about race, but about whether they were ‘under the blood of the lamb’ or not
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • At the Passover the people were commanded to eliminate yeast from their lives
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • The Passover only ever happened once • They were commanded to remember and re-enact this event often • It was always done in community
The Passover Lamb Some Passover facts: • God is the one who initiated all this
The Passover Lamb The essential Passover fact: “Christ (Jesus), our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” 1 Cor 5 v 7 Are you ‘under the blood’ of Jesus?
“I am the LORD your God” Part 6: The Passover Lamb Exodus 11 & 12 Steve Petch Sunday 6th November 2011