Sacrifice for sins

Began with the covering God gave Adam and Eve. He slew the animal and gave them the covering.

Atonement means exactly that covering.

Passover (the Lord's Supper) began in Exodus 12 Sacrifice a first born lamb without blemish [disabilities and deformities] from either a sheep or a goat.

They were to bring it in on the tenth day of the first month of that year.

The calendar of the Bible and the one the Jews use today doesn't work like ours. Instead of starting the day at 12:01a.m., they start it at sundown.So for them, Friday actually begins Thursday at sundown.

If there was no blood on the door the Angel of the Lord would enter in and kill the first-born?"

The Angel had his marching orders. It didn't matter whether it was understood or not. It didn't matter how big or how little the house was. It didn't matter if they were the known thieves of the camp. It didn't matter if they were moral wretches. It didn't matter what they were.

If the best living man in the camp didn't have the blood of a first-born baby lamb on the door, the angel of death would come in and do his job. If the worst reprobate in the camp had blood on the door as prescribed, the angle would pass over.

It didn't matter if a man's neighbors though he deserved to be shot. As long as he slayed the lamb, put it's blood on the door, went inside, shut the door, and put that lamb on the roast, he was spared.

The angel passed over the house, without respect to the behavioral pattern of those inside, if the blood was on the door.

Some of today's preachers would say,

"There has got to be some spiritual exercise at the door after you put the blood on. Otherwise, some people who don't deserve to be spared would get behind the door."

That is what the Legalist do when they lay a guilt trip on you at the Lord's table. Jesus was observing the Passover when He instituted what we call "The Lord's Supper."

There was no behavioral requirements for participation in the Passover. The only requirement was that the blood be applied.

Similarly, there is no behavioral requirement for participation in the Lord's Supper," only the application of Jesus' blood.

Jesus show us clearly that whatever our sinful past has been we can still have eternal life in heaven [Luke verses 23:39-43]

One of the criminals hurled insults at him: Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

(40) But the other criminal rebuked him. Don't you fear God, " he said, since you are under the same sentence?

(41) We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."

(42) Then he said, "Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom.

(43) Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."

God told the Hebrew people to observe the Passover through the centuries to remember that he had delivered them from Egypt's (the world) bondage

The night of the 13th, between the evenings, Jesus took the cup and He took bread, broke it, and blessed it. Up to that point, those who followed Him, expected a normal Passover.

Matthew 26:26-28

"Christ has become our Passover." That slaughtered lamb was a shadow being cast. When you see a shadow, you look for the substance that casts the shadow. that substance was Christ.

(Hebrew letter Hebrew 1:1,2)

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the universe.

What was concealed in the old testament is revealed in the New Testament.

That night, He gave substance as the blood of the lamb was suddenly translated into a more valuable blood.

[Lev 17:11]

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life.

That night in Egypt, God taught His right to take a substitute sacrifice and let its blood be spilled thereby removing the necessity of killing the one that was being substituted for. Just as the death of the lamb was a substitute for our sins.

[Romans chap 5]

Peace and Joy

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we rejoice in the hope of the sufferings because we know that sufferings produces perserverance; perserverance character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man. though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were sinners, Christ died for us.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Death through Adam Life Through Christ

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned- for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

Again, the gift of God's is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those whom receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just sin reigned in death, so grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The only way damnation stands on the horizon for us is if we do not discern what He did, how adequate his covering was, how complete the sacrifice was, and that we, you and I. are made worthy by his shed Blood.

All we have to do is lift the cup and say " Lord be merciful to me, a sinner" and we're covered. If we partake in that manner, God sees us through the worthiness of Christ.

Why are there two elements at the Lord's table?

1. The blood is symbolized by the cup. (life is in the blood)

) 2. the bread is symbolized by Jesus bearing our iniquity (healing) (Isa 53:5)

If sin were the only thing that needed to be taken care of, all that was needed was the blood which is symbolized by the cup.

He healed every "feeble" Israelite that night, as they ate the roasted lamb.

They ate it with sandals on their feet, and their staff in hand.That was the act of faith symbolizing that they were ready to move, that night, God would begin to deliver them.

I say to people who are sick, "Do something that symbolizes sandals on the feet, and staff in hand.

God gave them the healing behind closed doors because of their faith. If they obediently ate the lamb in readiness, with staff in hand and sandals on their feet, and ate in haste, they were healed.