PRESENTATION OUTLINE
How would you explain the Passover to someone?
I. What are these Feasts?
Why did there need to be blood on the doorposts… didn't God already know who was inside the house?
Do you have the blood of the lamb which covers you and shelters you from judgment?
Better in the sense that it would require a sacrifice once and for all time, no longer needing anymore blood.
Greater in the way that it would liberate a people not just from the slavery of people around them temporarily on this earth but the slavery of sin rooted in their hearts.
We are far too accommodating and helpless when it comes to removing the sin in our lives than we as humanity would like to admit.
II. What does the N.T. say?
Jesus is our Passover Lamb:
“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
John 1:29
“For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken."”
John 19:36
Is the blood of Jesus daubed over your life so that you may find shelter in Him and the rightful judgment of God would “pass over” you?
We are Liberated FOR Obedience not Freedom to do whatever we want:
“Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
1 Cor. 5:7-8
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations.
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end,
eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:15-23
A Word about Fasting and Feasting:
While some of us may practice regular fasting I think that we do not do it as much as we should simply because we forget an important part about fasting and that is celebrating and feasting on the goodness of God.
Feasting is just as spiritual as fasting.
