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JESUS CHRIST’S DEATH — YOUR EXODUS OUT OF SIN
Exodus 4:22-26 (22) And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: (23) And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. (24) And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. (25) Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. (26) So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.Exodus 12:21-24 (21) Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. (22) And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. (23) For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. (24) And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.1Co 5:7b (7)b …For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: The EXODUS story. The word DECEASE, in speaking of Jesus’ death, actually is EXODOS in Greek. Luke 9:30-31 His death is our Exodus. How? The death and resurrection of Jesus actually occurred the same time that the Passover in Israel was celebrated ever since God PASSED OVER the Israelite’s doors and protected them from the destroyer on the night they placed the lamb’s blood on their doorways. The greatest aspects of the crucifixion were things you could not have physically seen had you stood there on the hill.
John 10:17-18 John 6:51 A very special picture is given to us in the passover.
1Corinthians 5:7 Think of this: * What saves a soul is identification with Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. These Hebrews would step across a threshold of their homes that would be marked by blood, and all that would come between them and the power of death that would sweep through the kingdom would be that little lamb’s blood. * What a step of faith! That takes faith. * For you to have been a Hebrew that day, and to believe that walking through that doorway with lamb’s blood would keep you from a force that mankind simply must bow down to, called death, is for you to have manifested faith! And what better way to indicate ENTRANCE into Jesus Christ’s death than to have Israel put a lamb’s blood around a doorway and walk through that door and be spared from death?
Think of this.
It reminds me of Noah’s ark. 1 Peter 3:20-21 WATER SAVED NOAH’S FAMILY.
God told Pharaoh long before the 10 plagues something about slaying Pharaoh’s firstborn son.
God gave words for Moses to speak to Pharaoh. Exodus 4:22-26 * Israel is my son, even my firstborn. After plague after plague is meted out upon Egypt, we read the following: Exodus 11:4-6 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. This is more evidence that God had Jesus Christ in mind when this occurred! * He lumped all of Israel together into one person in His eyes. Now, we know that Rev 13:8 calls Jesus the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. * This brings up a question. Lambs were involved in this story.
Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God had the man Jesus Christ in mind when He called Israel His “firstborn son.” In this statement by God, many people were called a single SON. * A whole NATION was called one person… THE FIRSTBORN SON OF GOD. And the thought God had in mind was that Jesus was indeed the LAMB slain from the foundation of the world… * And Jesus was also the firstborn Son of God. When you and I believe that Jesus died as us and repent of our sins and accept His blood for remission of our sins, we take a great step of faith. * All that stands between us and eternal hellfire is that little tiny and meek Lamb’s blood. Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? We are baptized not into each other’s deaths. * We are baptized in one person’s death. And God foresaw it this way when He told Moses, * “Tell Pharaoh to let my firstborn son go, or I will slay his firstborn son.” When we die with Christ and are buried with him in water baptism… * And we take a step of faith and truly believe the only thing to keep us from an eternal death to come is that precious death of Jesus Christ… It is a step of faith for you to accept this as you face a looming eternity before you.
We are then considered the firstborn from the dead! Colossians 1:18 That is why the people who trusted in the Lamb’s death, foreshadowing Jesus’ death, are called by the same title Jesus Christ held, God’s firstborn Son. Joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. * Satan hates for people to discover this Gospel. Jesus even said He is the door. John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Go in and then go out and find pasture. * Enter in to escape death, and go back out again as someone then considered by God as one with the Son. Lets go back to God’s instructions to Moses about what to say to Pharaoh. * After Moses hears these words, he sets out to go to Pharaoh for the first time since he ran from Egypt 40 years previous. And its a horrible little story. Exodus 4:24-26 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision. Only three verses. * WHAT IS THE POINT? We see Moses’ life threatened with death at the hand of God. * And God just told him to go and tell Pharaoh to let Israel go! God does not change His mind like that. * Obviously God planned for Moses to be saved from death and continue on his journey. And so we see God had something in mind here, that adds even more understanding to this whole issue. He smites Moses with something that is killing him * We are not told what it was. She utters a strange statement like this. * And then we read God let Moses go and Moses is saved from death. What did she mean? * Why did God do this? And we come to find out that what Zipporah meant when she called Moses a bloody husband to her because of the circumcision, was that she was saying, “I PURCHASED YOU FROM DEATH BY THE BLOOD OF OUR SON.” At face value, without understanding concerning this sort of language, one might think she was complaining about the cruelty of her husband’s religion in requiring bloody circumcisions.
Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase the next verse,”then Zipporah gave praise, and said, how amiable is the blood of circumcision, which hath delivered my husband from the hand of the destroying angel.” That makes it a wonderful little story instead of a horrible little story. * She exclaimed that Moses was saved by Blood. She had her husband! He is spared! By the blood. And what is even more astounding and wonderful is this: Colossians 2:10-13 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST refers to baptism and Christ’s resurrection! * There is here what is referred to as “THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.” BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM. * What does that statement have to do with this? God was showing Moses a bit of what He was trying to say when He called Israel His firstborn. * He was saying, “Moses, little Gershom is your firstborn. And a firstborn son’s circumcision is going to touch you and its blood is going to save you from death.” WE ARE TOUCHED BY HIS BLOOD — connected to it. And this passage seems to say it all: 1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. One thing alone can stand between you and eternal death. * Nothing else can help you. You need to be touched by the Blood, and joined to Jesus’ death, so that when eternal death comes to your door, it will see that a death already occurred there. * YOUR’S AND JESUS’ DEATH. Do you want to know what “Gershom’s” name means in English? * “STRANGER” |