the lessons of the passover (week 9)
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The Lessons of the
Passover…7 images of
Jesus the Messiah
Lesson IX… The Sabbath and the Feasts
Series
LESSON 1: The Lesson of
Lamb’s Selection
The Lamb’s Selection…
It had to be from their own flock –a healthy male yearling
They were to examine it for 4 days (Deut. 15:21)
What affect do you think this had on the household?
The Lamb’s Selection…
They fed & cared for lamb (4) days
They grew attached to the lamb
They may have even named it…the lamb had a unique identity that they recognized
Do you think they enjoyed eating it?
JESUS is the Lamb of
God
He was selected
from among
His own people
He was examined for 4 days
before He was
slain
He was found
perfect and without
the blemish of
sin (John 18:38)
People had
followed and grown attached to Him
(Matt. 19:1-2)
LESSON II
The Lesson of the Lamb’s
Judgment
Lesson II: The Lamb’s
Judgment
Passover lamb was born & selected for a purpose
Passover lamb was identified and
marked for death
Passover lamb slain & roasted with fire
LESSON OF THE
LAMB’S JUDGMENT
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JESUS THE LAMB WAS JUDGED BY
GOD FOR US…
JESUS in the Lamb’s
Judgment
He was foreknown & foreordained to die 1 Peter 1:19-20
He was led like a lamb to the slaughterIsaiah 53:7
“…but with the precious blood of Christ , a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for
your sake.”
1 Peter 1:19-20
“He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He
did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her
shearers is silent, so He did not open His
mouth .”
Isaiah 53:7-some secular scholars used to teach that there were multiple versions of Isaiah written after the death of Christ to fit the events…but in 1948 we found a complete copy of Isaiah intact with the Dead Sea Scrolls…it was just as you read it today in your Bible
FIRE IN SCRIPTURE
Fire in scripture is symbolic of God’s Judgment
God brought down fire on Sodom & Gomorrah
Aaron’s sons Nadab & Abihu were consumed by
fire for approaching God inappropriately
Jesus warns against the fires of hell
JESUS in the Lamb’s
JudgmentMessiah would suffer
fire & wrath of God’s judgment [Is. 53:10-11]
God made Him to be sin for us [2 Cor. 5:21]
So intense was God’s judgment that Jesus cried out, “My God, My God why hast thou forsaken me?”
Was it just pain from physical judgment?
None of the Bones of the
Lamb Were to be Broken…
“It (the lamb) is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house nor are you to break any bone of it.”
Exodus 12:46
JESUS- the Lamb- God’s
Judgment fell on Him instead of
us
THE PASSOVER LAMB THE LAMB OF GOD
Passover Lamb – No
broken bones
Exodus 12:46
Jesus was battered &
bruised but no bones were
broken
John 19:31-36
No Bones Were Broken
“Then the Jews…so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath…asked Pilate that the legs be broken…so the soldiers came and broke the legs of the 1st man…but coming to Jesus when they saw He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side and immediately blood and water came out…For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scriptures…
John 19:31-36
Lesson of the Lamb’s
Judgment
Passover lamb is a type, a foreshadowing
of Jesus, the true Lamb of God
Over 30 times in Scripture Jesus is called
“The Lamb of God”-A clear reference to Jesus
as our Passover Lamb
Jesus was judged in our place just as it was
predicted in the Scripture
LESSON III:
THE LESSON OF THE
LAMB’S
PERSONALIZATION
AND
APPROPRIATION
Moishe & Ceil Rosen point out something interesting in KJV
about the Passover Lamb (Ex. 12:3-5)-turn there with me…
The Lamb’s
Personalization and
Appropriation
In Ex. 12:3 – God tells Israelites to take “a lamb”
Lamb is unknown to them at that point, but
It had to meet God’s criteria, and
They had to search for it
The Lamb’s
Personalization and
Appropriation
In Ex. 12:4 - God refers to lamb as “The Lamb”
Now we have found “The Lamb” after our search
It is the unique one that is set apart
It meets all of God’s criteria
Lesson of The Lamb’s
Personalization
In Exodus 12:5 – God refers to the lamb as “YOUR LAMB”
It is personal now
Each redeemed soul had to appropriate a lamb for himself
God identifies the lamb with the person who finds and appropriates it
Paul reminds us of this
personal appropriation in
Galatians…
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20
The Lamb’s Personalization
and appropriation…
“No longer I who live” • To myself
irresponsibly and selfishly
• Alone and misguided
“It is Christ”
• The appropriated lamb, my lamb – who lives in me
• I am dead to self
• I am empowered by His Holy Spirit
• It is about His agenda not mine
“I now live by faith”
• Faith in the Son, the Lamb
• Faith that I am alive to Christ
• I put my faith in Christ because He is the one who loved me enough to die for me
The one who loved me
• The one gave Himself up for me personally
• The one Who took my sin upon Himself
• The one Who endured ridicule and rejection and the cross for me
• The one Who conquered the grave and sin and death and rose from the dead for me
• The one Who lives so I can live also in eternity with Him
• The one who has prepared a place for me in Heaven
1. A personal responsibility
and appropriation
2. A 1st step of liberation
3. The sacrifice & covering of
the blood was the 1st step in
the journey
Jewish people knew that
sacrifice of the lamb was:
Lesson IV: The Lesson of
the Bitter Herbs
“They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened
bread and bitter herbs.” Exodus 12:8
In Scripture bitterness often symbolizes hardship or death….
“They made their lives
bitter with hard labor
in mortar and bricks
and at all kinds of
labor in the field, all
their labors which
they rigorously
imposed on them.”
Exodus 1:14
The Lesson of the Bitter
Herbs
Reminds them of bitterness Israelites suffered in bondage.
During Seder – Maror (bitter herbs) eaten twice – alone & with Matzah in a sandwich
Jews were reminded that they escaped bitterness of Egypt and death
They lived and escaped God’s judgment because the lamb died instead
Similarly…Our Lesson from
the bitter Herbs is That…
We also were caught in the bitterness and bondage of our own Egypt
Because Jesus the Lamb died, we also appropriated His blood personally and we
escaped sin and death
We also escaped the bitterness of sin and death because God’s judgment fell on Jesus
We also were liberated and received life
THE LESSON OF THE UNLEAVENED BREAD
Lesson V
Unleavened Bread
They…entire community…ate the Passover
lamb with bitter herbs and unleavened bread
Then they ate no more leaven for 7 days
They were to clean or purge their houses of
leaven and those who didn’t would be “cut off”
[Exodus 12:14-16]…Any NT parallels or
implications for us today?...See [1Cor. 5:9-13]
Q: What Does Leaven Symbolize in
Scripture?
A: SIN!
Lesson of Unleavened Bread
After appropriating the blood of the
Lamb…the believer is to put away the
leaven (sin) of his old life…to purge it
They were to “cut off” from fellowship
those who refused to purge the leaven
Leaven…
1. Was part of everyday life and its effects
had obvious meaning
2. Hebrew word for leaven “chometz”
means “bitter” or “sour”
3. Sin makes people bitter and sour
4. Leaven causes dough to rise & creates
the appearance of volume…but
5. It’s not really more in substance or
weight but only in air that puffs it up
Reminds me of Paul’s
words about being puffed
up… “Now … we know that we all have
knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant (puffs up in some translations), but love edifies. If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.”
(1 Cor. 8:1-3)
Lesson of the Leaven
What kind of sin is it when knowledge
makes you arrogant?
PRIDE Often it’s the result of
ability, wealth or knowledge we believe is “superior”
It causes people to be puffed up, putting themselves above others
What effect does pride have on relationships?
Do you like being around prideful people for very long?
In: The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis uses the chest as a
metaphor for the center of man’s
magnanimity, emotion and
compassion. He argues that it (the
chest) is what makes man human.
It is a mitigating force between the
intellect and the appetite.
From: The Abolition of
Man According to Lewis modernism & secularism…
“produce men without chests. It is an outrage
that they should be commonly spoken of as
intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say
that he who attacks them attacks intelligence.
It is not so. It is not the excess of thought but
defect of fertile and generous emotion that
marks them out. Their heads are no bigger
than ordinary, it is just the atrophy of the chest
beneath that makes it seem so.” C.S. Lewis
THE APOSTLE PAUL’S VERSION…
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.”
(1 Cor. 13: 1-2)
ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH PRIDE… QUESTION: What is usually the cynic’s charge against the church…the thing people sometimes see in the church that they say causes them to stay away? It is a form of leaven and a form of pride…
Lesson of the Leaven
Jesus warned against the leaven of the Pharisees when he said to his disciples in Luke 12:1: “…beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
Lesson of the Leaven
A hypocrite says one thing publically and does another privately…Pride says, “I am above the rules; they don’t apply to me. I’ll hold others accountable but not me. I’m special or exempt.” Jesus warns that all hypocrisy (sin) will be exposed one day …
Question: Besides double standards there are many other
ways pride can lead to hypocrisy…C.S. Lewis wrote these things about pride: “A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.” or “…to avoid a man because he is wicked-with the all but inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)-is dangerous and disgusting .” Pride is deceptive to the proud. We don’t always recognize it in ourselves; we can’t.