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Trusting God | Hebrews 11:28 · Bayside Davis Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Bayside Davis podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series in the book of Hebrews.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebrews 11, verse 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys are all doing well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as Kelly mentioned, um some of you aren't familiar with Bayside, but Bayside has been around for 30 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's 10 churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're a family of campuses and churches across Northern California, one in Southern California.
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  SPEAKER_00: About 20,000 people a weekend attend Bayside churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for the last two years, all the lead pastors of each of the Bayside churches have been praying and working through what we believe to be the next 30 years of Bayside.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has done incredible things and what a blessing it is to be a part of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we also believe that there's a great future ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we are launching a vision and compassion campaign next Sunday to share the next 30 years of the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have a huge announcement.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know next weekend's a three-day weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: By all means, sacrifice and stay in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't miss church next weekend because there's some really, really amazing things that we're going to be sharing next weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And trust me, you're not going to want to miss it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one of those weekends you're like, should I go out of town?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the answer would be no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay in town.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh we'd be so glad to celebrate with you and share some incredible things that are going to be happening in the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bayside Church as a whole and Bayside Davis as one of the ten Bayside churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I can't wait to see you next weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope this weekend is a blessing and an encouragement to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hebrews chapter 11, verse 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: By faith, Moses, that's the he kept the Passover and the application of blood so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord Jesus, we are just so grateful for the opportunity to gather on a Sunday to worship the Lord, to hear incredible redemptive stories of people's lives that have been transformed by Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: To see people get saved every week as we have seen for the last three months.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Lord, we just pray that you would continue to work as we open up the scriptures and draw people to faith and to experience the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pray that there'd be nothing in our minds and our hearts or on our phones, Lord, that would distract us this morning from hearing from the living God and from experiencing your love and power at work in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do a work that only you can do, Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: We worship you and we honor you with this time in your name.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of God's people said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians 2, verse 17 says, Therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all those people who hate on vegans, don't judge me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or with regard to a religious festival, a new moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
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  SPEAKER_00: These were all Old Testament religious celebrations.
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  SPEAKER_00: These, all of these things in the Old Testament, these are a shadow of the things that were to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reality, however, is found in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: The great theologian Saint Augustine said, The new is in the old concealed, and the old is in the new revealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might say, what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're still saying, Well, Wesley, I don't get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Old Testament tells a story that constantly promises and prophesies of the coming of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these promises and prophecies are fully realized and fulfilled in the New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the story of the Old Testament is continually pointing to this reality that is the climax of human history, the coming of the Son of God, the Messiah, the Christ who would save people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you come to the New Testament, the New Testament, you see the story and the promises and the prophecies fully realized and fulfilled and understood in the story of Jesus and the early church.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, what Colossians 2 verse 17 is saying is that all the Bible tells one unified story pointing to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all pointing us to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nowhere is this more true than in the Exodus story that we read about in verse 28 of Hebrews chapter 11, where he talks about the tenth plague.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last weekend we went through nine plagues in the Exodus story, and in verse 28, this is the faith of Moses, part three.
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  SPEAKER_00: He talks about the tenth plague, which would be an act of justice and judgment on the resistant nation of Egypt that has resisted God and resisted allowing God's people to be redeemed out of slavery and oppression in Egypt and be free to fulfill all the promises that God promised to Abraham, which ultimately would be fulfilled in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they hated God and they have hated God's people and they oppressed them and they were destroying lives, and God was going to judge the nation in one last profound way in verse 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the Passover is interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Passover was one of the three great celebrations in the nation of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a religious festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, kind of like Bernice's wedding.
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  SPEAKER_00: A bunch of us were down in San Diego this past week for the great festival of Bernice's wedding, which was like a festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tons of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They rented out this mansion in San Diego that overlooked this beautiful terrain and is the biggest house I've ever been to.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told a couple of my friends there, I said, I've been to two billionaires' houses, and this is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two billion strong Christians, but they were billionaires.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had all of them had at least three private jets, but none of them had a house this big.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bernice's wedding was unbelievable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the wedding celebration, it was the longest wedding celebration I have ever officiated in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were so many aspects to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've never seen people so energized and enthused for a couple to be married before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything we said, people were cheering.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't matter if it was bad or good, people were cheering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything they said, they got a round of applause, standing ovation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the dance floor was something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's such a beautiful culture, the African culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bernice is from Africa, and Bernice's now husband, Lachius, who will be here next Sunday, he's also from Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they just know how to celebrate.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dancing was unbelievable, including Carlos and Linda, who got on the dance floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were unreal.
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  SPEAKER_00: These two can dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carlos and Linda, stand up, stand up, stand up.
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  SPEAKER_00: These two can dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unbelievable dancers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, Tristan and Nate and Bella and everybody was dancing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just an un and they even required me to dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bernice said, This is my one ask.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you get in the middle of the dance floor and dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what am I gonna say no to Bernice on her wedding day?
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course I'm gonna dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I danced, and then one of the African women came up to me uh afterwards and she said, Pastor, Pastor, I didn't know you had African in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I felt encouraged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scandinavians know how to dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this was a great celebration where they would sacrifice a lamb and God would pass over them in redemption.
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  SPEAKER_00: This story is told in Exodus chapter 12, if you would turn with me there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exodus chapter 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna pick up in verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exodus 12, verse 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
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  SPEAKER_00: If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's communal in nature, sharing and giving and sacrifice, having taken into account the number of people there are.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you may take from them or take them from the sheep or the goats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door frames of the house when they're where they are to eat the lambs.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread without yeast.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have time to, you know, don't worry about the yeast, in other words.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't have time for the bread to do its thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, Jen's famous bread that she posts about on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where Jen is.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe she's not in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh she's always doing this bread thing on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should follow her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire with the head, legs, and internal organs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not leave any of it until morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: If some of it is left till morning, you must burn it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how you were to eat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: With your cloak tucked in your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, be ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're about to be redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eat it in haste.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the Lord's Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are they doing yard work out there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can somebody go out there and let them know we got church in here?
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  SPEAKER_00: See if they can do it over there first and maybe come over here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tristan, you're the man.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the same night I will He's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of the people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: The blood will be a sign for you on your houses, where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the story of the Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the most redemptive stories in all of the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, there were so many elements to this Passover that we just read through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to bring each of these elements to light real quick before we get into the most important points in this story.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Passover, there were many different instructions that God gave.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you, if you're a note taker, you write these down.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not, you don't have to write these down, but at least follow along with us.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's eight different instructions that I want to highlight amongst the many that God gave in these first 13 verses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, one lamb per household or to be shared with the neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, the Passover lamb was to be without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were to give the best of their flock as a sacrifice to redeem the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the idea of without blemish is not that the goats or the lambs would be unedible that had blemishes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would taste the same, but it was a sign of spiritual holiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a sign of giving the best or the first fruits as a sacrifice in a spiritually symbolic way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they were to give their best, and it was a sign of holiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Third, the Passover lamb was to be a year-old male.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you know anything about the development of goats, sheep, you know that by the time they are a year old, they're virtually a full-grown animal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you, you are veterinarians or you're studying veterinary medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the reason he he said a male is because females were kept for breeding and milking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the males would then be slaughtered.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would be a sacrifice unto the Lord to save the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just what I just said.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the 14th day by the entire community, it was a sacrifice to protect the Israelites, sparing their firstborn and the firstborn of their flocks from judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fifth, the Passover lamb was to be applied.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Passover lamb's blood was to be applied to the doorposts and lentil of the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, the entryway, the lentil, the top of the doorframe and the doorpost.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were to spread it out over that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the judgment, the angel of judgment would see the blood and pass over their house in judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, sixth, the Passover lamb was to be eaten.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a roasted lamb, obviously a good meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're preparing to leave in a hurry.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to be redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to flee quickly out of the land of oppression where they had been for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the meal was to be eaten in haste, and they were to be ready for their departure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe a beautiful picture of like when God redeems our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That we're not to stay where we are at.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are to leave that life and pursue the life of redemption.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you, you're newly saved.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think in the last like three weeks, 20-something people have come to Christ at baseline, David.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you are new to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord would encourage you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't stay where you were redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You were redeemed where you were at.
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  SPEAKER_00: But don't stay in that life.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is going to transform your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And believe that God can transform your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And move toward the life that God is giving you through his redemption of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't stay where you're at.
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  SPEAKER_00: God loves you where you are at, but God does not want you to stay where you were at.
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  SPEAKER_00: God loves you too much to leave you in that place.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to fully transform and redeem and change each one of our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was the mindset of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I guess my encouragement to you this morning, as I'm just thinking about the haste and the departure and the pursuit of the redemption that God is about to give them out of oppression in Egypt, my encouragement to you is next weekend, we have baptism Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you just came to Christ, if you have believed in Jesus and never been baptized, we would love and be honored to baptize you next weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just have to sign up at the Connect Table or on your iPhone, Instagram, Link Tree bio, and we would be honored for you to stand not as an undercover Christian, but as a bold proclamation of your faith in Jesus as we take you in that public setting and we dunk you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's in a cold plunge pool.
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  SPEAKER_00: We dunk you in a cold plunge pool, and you go into the water and you come out of the water, and the symbolism is so beautiful that ties back into this that your old life is being buried and your new life in Jesus is resurrected.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to encourage you by the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a command of Jesus: be baptized, every one of you, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as a new disciple of Jesus, or maybe somebody who's been a disciple that's never been baptized, to sign up and be baptized.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a major step in your pursuit of the life that God has given you in your redemption story.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Passover lamb was to be eaten and eaten in haste, ready for departure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seventh, the blood of the lamb, notice verses 12 and 13, the blood of the lamb was to be a sign for you on your houses where you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that the blood of the lamb was a sign of faith in the Lord, that you were trusting in the Lord's provision, the lamb that was sacrificed to save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was also a sign of obedience that by faith you trusted God and you obeyed God with the sacrificial lamb and putting the blood on the entryway of your house.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what is written in Hebrews 11 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: One writer said the blood was a public confession of their faith, a sign that they trusted in the atoning efficacy of the sacrificial lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another scholar commenting on this verse in Exodus said, There is no better location to place a sign showing faith on the part of those who reside inside for the benefit of anyone outside who comes to check.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like if you had a Jesus flag at the, you know, the front door of your house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody that walked by your house would know you're a follower of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the nation of Israel, I mean Egypt, everybody knew what was happening, and those who trusted in God, this was a sign of obedience to the Lord for everybody who looked at your house.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was no way to hide your trust in God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a sign publicly, and it was a sign before the angel who would come in judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, the blood of the lamb will protect you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The blood of the lamb will protect you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's provision to protect the Israelites was a sacrificial lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: God saved the Israelites who put their faith in him in the sacrificial lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the blood of the lamb that protected them, that caused the Lord to pass over them, which is incredible and beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, maybe think of it this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Super Bowl Sunday, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Last weekend I said Super Bowl Sundays on the 15th, and everybody corrected me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can correct me anytime I'm wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not right often.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think about like on the Super Bowl Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's it's in San Francisco, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be these F 35s or B2 bombers that fly over, you know, the fly over the stadium.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's people in the stadium wearing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seattle Seahawks jerseys.
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  SPEAKER_00: No 49ers jerseys because they're not in the thing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Seahawks, and then what's the other team?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's in it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the Patriots.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Patriots again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, and again, and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've got a good franchise.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we're going to go for the Seahawks because we're West Coast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to go for the Seahawks because I'm a Northwest guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go, Seahawks.
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  SPEAKER_00: You with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go Seahawks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it would be like if the jerseys were a sign to pass over.
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  SPEAKER_00: No death.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I thought of it this this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: No death.
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  SPEAKER_00: No destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, those jets, I mean, those jets are they're great, but they're dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord would pass over everybody who wore the jersey, which was the blood of the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that was a good illustration.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it was bad, let's move on.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, all that to say, nobody's gonna get bombed or blown up in the stadium today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not saying that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not put me on the news, do not post this on social media.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that to say, all that to say, I want to make a connection for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do not put me on social.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just trying my best to make a modern day illustration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's my main point.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of this, except for that bad illustration, is connected to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Connected to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might say, well, how so?
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these celebrations, all of these events, were a shadow of things that were to come, and the reality is found in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colossians 2, verse 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you might say, well, Wesley, how does the Passover and all of these aspects that we just talked through in the Passover, how do they relate to Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do they parallel the reality of Christ?
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  SPEAKER_00: How is all of this story that we just went through quickly, how is this connected to the person and life and death of Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so glad you asked that question because I want to answer it with six ways that this story connects with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six parallel truths between the Passover and the reality of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where you do want to write down and take notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parallel number one: God required a lamb to save the Israelites.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is that connected to Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the Lamb who saves us from sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this, Isaiah 53, verse 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: He, Jesus, was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: John 1.29, the next day John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: An innocent Savior for a guilty people, an innocent lamb for a guilty, sinful people who trusted in the Lord's sacrifice to deliver them in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parallel number two.
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  SPEAKER_00: God required a lamb without blemish in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the New Testament, we read that Jesus is the Lamb without blemish.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 1, 18 and 19, for you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, all the people who went before us, sinful, sinful, sinful, sinful, including us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've all wandered away from God's design and nature and plan for our life and for humanity.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you've been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, don't miss this.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 1, 18 and 19, here's the last words: a lamb without blemish or defect.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the very best, most important thing that God could offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: His perfect, sinless, holy Son.
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  SPEAKER_00: So not just one person, but billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of people could be saved by the perfect one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus lived a perfect life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus died a perfect death so he could forgive imperfect people like us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why we come on a Sunday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why you get up and take a shower and put on deodorant and wash your face and put on your Sunday clothes, whatever those are, and you hustle here and you go to the parking lot and you try to find a seat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just about coming to church, it's about coming to church because the perfect one has delivered our imperfect lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: He loves you in all of your imperfection.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the story of the Exodus.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the story of the gospel of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parallel number three, God required a lamb to be sacrificed in the Old Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the New Testament, Jesus is the lamb sacrificed for sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 5, verse 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get rid of the old yeast.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's using that as a metaphor, so that you may now be a new unleavened batch.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, live that old life before Jesus and just enter into the new life that God has for you as you really are.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Christ, listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check this out.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 5, 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was all pointing to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the ultimate Passover Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: God looks at us and He doesn't see our imperfections.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't see your sins on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't see your sins on Saturday.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't even see your sins today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he doesn't see your sin tomorrow or the next day or the next day or next month or next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sees you washed, cleansed, and forgiven in Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he passes over.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the wages of sin is death.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I deserve.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the free gift of life is eternal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: He passes over us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm imperfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: I fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may be imperfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: I for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord has forgiven me because of my our Passover lamb Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And isn't that encouraging?
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  SPEAKER_00: You and I, we think about our failures a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about our guilt.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think about yesterday's failures or a year ago or 10 years ago or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord sees us as washed and cleansed and forgiven by the Lamb of God Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I encourage you to start seeing yourself as God sees you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Start speaking to yourself as God speaks to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the narrative of redemption and forgiveness be the narrative that is most prominent in your mind and heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the Lord has cleansed you and washed you and forgiven you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parallel number four.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Old Testament, God required the lamb's bones not to be broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was to be mercy in how they treated the animal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we read in the New Testament that Jesus is the lamb whose bones were not broken.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many parallels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exodus 12, verse 46, it must be eaten inside the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take none of the meat outside the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not break any of the bones.
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  SPEAKER_00: John 19, 31 through 33.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it was the day of preparation, and the next day was the special Sabbath, because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would take them down.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'd make sure each person was dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: They asked Pilate to have the legs broken, which the person wouldn't be able to lift themselves up on the cross anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once their legs were broken, they would suffocate to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the bodies taken down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who has been crucified with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then those of the other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leviticus 17, verse 11 says that the life of an animal or a person is in the blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when Jesus dies on the cross, it is Jesus' life being offered in an act of death so that we could have life in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you can think about it as the blood is a life as a sacrifice, and the death brings atonement or covering.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the life is a sacrifice for guilty people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is innocent, he's perfect, he's spotless, he's blameless, and he gives his life because the life is in the blood, so that he could be offered as a sacrifice of atonement or covering for sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what atonement means.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that we guilty people could have our sins forgiven.
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  SPEAKER_00: One scholar, P.E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hughes, says the Old Testament clearly asserts that the life of an organism exists within its blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Blood is used synonymously with life in Leviticus 19, 16, where a prohibition against doing anything that might endanger the life of one's neighbor is to be read literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: The blood of your neighbor, it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the blood of the slain, Abel, that cried out to Yahweh from the ground in the Hebrews Bible, first use of this noun in Genesis 4.10.
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  SPEAKER_00: And blood and life are equated clearly in the post-flood prescription.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall not eat flesh with its life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is its blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave his life so that we could have life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave his life, his blood so that we could be forgiven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave his life so that we could be redeemed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave his life so that our life could be changed and set free from the bondage of sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was his blood that was literally the pouring out of the very essence of his biological life, but more importantly, his spiritual sacrifice, sacrificial life for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, parallel number six, this is also very interesting that many times people don't think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Old Testament, God required the lamb be eaten yearly in remembrance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every year you would have this festival, this feast, and hundreds of thousands of people would gather and they would celebrate what God did in redemption.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in the New Testament, Jesus is remembered frequently in communion.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is all parallel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Exodus story, Jesus' death and resurrection and what he did for us, this is all parallel, all connected because the Bible tells one unified story pointing to Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this, Matthew 26, 26 through 28.
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  SPEAKER_00: While the disciples were eating, right before Jesus went to the cross, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take and eat, this is my body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink from it, all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then later he says, Do this in remembrance of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every year the people of God celebrated the Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: They never forgot what God did for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then God tells us frequently, there is no right prescription for how often you take communion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some churches do it once a month, some do it once a quarter, some do it every other week, some do it every week.
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  SPEAKER_00: All we know is that frequently we're not to forget what God did in redeeming our lives, and we don't forget by taking communion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's incredible how the Old Testament is foreshadowing in such specificity, in such history, the reality of what Jesus came to do for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ died for you.