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For Abel. 
Would you please stand for the 

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reading of God's word? 
This morning, I'll be reading 

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from Exodus chapter 12 beginning
in verse 1. 

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This is the story of the 
Passover. 

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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron
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shall be for you the beginning 
of months, it shall be the first

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month of the year for you to all
the congregation of Israel that 

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on the tenth day of this month, 
every man shall take a lamb 

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according to their fathers 
houses, a lamb for a household 

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and if the household is too 
small for a lamb than he and his

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nearest neighbors. 
So take, according to the number

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of persons, According to which 
each of you Shall make your 

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count for the lamb. 
Your lamb shall be without 

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blemish. 
A male a year old. 

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You may take it from the sheep 
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keep it until the 14th day of 
this month. 

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When the whole assembly of the 
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kill their lambs at Twilight. 
Then they shall take some of the

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blood and put it on the to 
doorposts and the lintel of the 

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houses in which they eat it. 
They shall eat the flesh that 

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night roasted on the fire with 
unleavened bread and bitter 

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herbs. 
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Do not eat any of it raw or 
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But roasted its head with its 
legs and its inner parts and you

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shall let none of it. 
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anything that shall remain until
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and this man, are you shall eat 
it with your belt, fastened your

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sandals on your feet, and your 
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shall eat it in haste. 
It is the Lord's Passover for. 

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I will pass through the land of 
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And I will strike all the 
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Both man and Beast, and all the 
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judgments. 
I am the Lord, the blood shall 

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be a sign for you on the houses 
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And when I see the blood, I will
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befall you to destroy you. 
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this day shall be for you a 
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And you shall keep it as a feast
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Generations as a statute 
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You shall keep it as a feast 
verse 21, then Moses called all 

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the Elders of Israel and said to
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yourselves according to your 
Clans and kill the Passover 

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Lamb. 
Take a bunch of hyssop and dip 

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it in the blood that is in the 
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two-door post with the blood 
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None of you shall go out of the 
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morning for the The Lord will 
pass through to strike the 

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Egyptians. 
And when he sees Blood on the 

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lintel and on the two-door post,
the Lord will pass over the door

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and will not allow the Destroyer
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strike you. 
You shall observe this, right? 

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As a statute for you, and for 
your son's forever, and when you

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come to the land that the Lord 
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promised, he should, you shall 
keep this service. 

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And when your children say to 
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service? 
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It is the sacrifice of the 
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Passover for passed over the 
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in Egypt, when he struck the 
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and the people bowed their 
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And worshiped, this is the word 
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You may be seated. 
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questions of person. 
Can ask and life are this, is 

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there a God? 
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And of course, the questions 
underneath those questions are, 

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how do you know And so this 
morning, if you do not believe 

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in God will the question of 
course is well, how do you know 

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what face do you have to be 
certain that God does not exist 

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and if you do believe in God and
the question is well then what 

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is he like? 
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Like where do you get your 
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Your understanding of God? 
Do you know, God but according 

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to what he has described himself
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Or have you made God in your own
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Theologians when they talk about
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describe his attributes, these 
qualities, these characteristics

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of who he is, and what he is, 
like things like his 

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omnipotence. 
His omniscience, his goodness 

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and his Mercy. 
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attributes, perhaps the most 
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controversial Is his 
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And for many people, they 
consider the sovereignty of God.

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They assumed that his 
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cold to be calloused. 
To be harsh to be lacking in 

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love. 
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scriptures, And we read about 
God and what he is like when we 

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get to know him, for who he 
really is and who he's revealed 

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himself to be. 
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God does not make him to be cold
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but it's the sovereignty of God 
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of his judgment. 
But it's the sovereignty of God.

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That's the foundation of his 
grace. 

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And then the story of the 
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We see judgment and Grace 
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See, as we think of God as 
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It's easy for us to think of 
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these separate parts of who he 
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But you see God is personal. 
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characteristics are intermingled
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And it's at the Passover that we
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together by the sovereignty of 
God. and so this morning, I want

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you to see God for who he is and
I want you to get to know his 

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Sovereign Grace for you. 
I want you to see Jesus as our 

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Passover Lamb, and I want you to
see why both his judgment and 

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his grace, why? 
That is good news for us this 

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morning. 
Want to look at this in just two

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ways. 
First thing I want you to see I 

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want you to see The Sovereign 
Grace of God in his judgment. 

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The story of the Passover 
begins, right? 

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Where we left off last week so 
before we get to our passage in 

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Exodus 12, I want you to turn in
your Bibles to Exodus chapter 4.

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If you don't have a Bible, you 
can use the blue Pew Bible in 

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front of you. 
If you don't have a Bible at 

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all, that's our gift to you. 
We'd love for you to take it 

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home with you. 
So you can get to know the 

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character of God for yourself. 
This is Exodus 4 verse 22. 

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This is what we've been looking 
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God comes to Moses as he calls 
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his people with a mighty hand 
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And this is what he says to 
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He says, you shall say to 
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Israel is my firstborn son and I
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that he may serve me. 
If you refuse to let him go 

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behold, I will kill your first 
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Son. 
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pharaoh and order to redeem his 
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We see his judgment and we see 
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identifying the people of Israel
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This is his chosen people. 
His prized possession and God 

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will stop at nothing to get his 
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himself. 
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We see his judgment. 
And a declaration that God makes

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to Pharaoh through Moses. 
If you refuse to let my people 

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go behold, I will kill your 
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The grace of God requires 
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But I also want you to know that
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separated from his grace. 
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Did you turn a few chapters 
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Exodus 7 verse 2. 
Again, God says to Moses, you 

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shall speak all that. 
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Aaron shall tell pharaoh to let 
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this land. 
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Moses to go to pharaoh. 
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people go release them, so they 
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oppression, but I want you to 
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Next verse 3, Exodus 7 verse 3 
but I will harden Pharaoh's 

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heart and though I multiply my 
son my signs and wonders in the 

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land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not 
listen to you, then I will lay 

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my hand on Egypt and bring my 
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My people, the children. 
Turn of Israel. 

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Out of the land of Egypt by 
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Did you see it? 
I will by grace and mercy. 

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Bring my people out of the 
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How Through great acts of 
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God is going to save his people.
Through judgement. 

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And there's two ways that I want
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passage. 
The first is we see God's 

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Sovereign judgement poured out 
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Look again, at verse 3, but I 
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I will harden Pharaoh's heart. 
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and wonders and land of Egypt, 
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In other words Moses I'm sending
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I'm asking you to go into 
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pharaoh and I'm asking you to 
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he's not going to listen. 
I'm going to send great acts of 

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judgment and even still Pharaoh 
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going to harden his heart and 
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warning for us. 
I will harden Pharaoh's heart, 

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you see? 
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Pharaoh's hard hard in the story
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Here, we see an exodus 73 that 
God says that he will be the one

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to harden, Pharaoh's heart. 
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14. 
It says that Pharaoh's heart was

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already hard. 
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Exodus, 8 verse 15, it says that
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So in one verse God says, he's 
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Pharaoh's Heart. 
Another verse it says, Pharaoh's

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heart was already hard. 
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Pharaoh, was the one who 
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which is it? 
Did God hardened Pharaoh's 

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heart? 
And Pharaoh hardened, Pharaoh's 

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heart. 
The answer that question should 

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sober us. 
Because the answer is both. 

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The greatest act of judgment 
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created people. 
Is to leave us alone and the 

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hardness of our own hearts and 
allow our hearts to become 

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harder and harder and more 
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Apostle, Paul. 
Put it this way in Romans, 

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chapter 1, Romans 1 verse 24. 
Therefore, God gave them up in 

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the lusts of their hearts to 
impurity to the dishonoring of 

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their bodies among themselves 
because they exchanged the truth

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about God, for a lie. 
What is Paul saying? 

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That people were already 
idolatrous, they had already 

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exchanged, the truth of God, for
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them up in the lusts of their 
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In judgment. 
God gave Pharaoh up to the lusts

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of his own heart. 
A lust for power, a lust, for 

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control. 
A lust for sovereignty over his 

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own Nation. 
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To be consumed with himself. 
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Pharaoh's hard heart was 
hardened by our Sovereign God. 

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He refused to acknowledge God's 
sovereignty and with each plague

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that God sent his heart became 
harder. 

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So God sent great acts of 
judgment plagues one by one that

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served as judgment first over 
Pharaoh, why? 

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To declare that he alone is The 
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Lord of the world that he is 
Sovereign over every government,

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in every nation. 
He was displaying his power over

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the most powerful King of the 
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All to remind, not only pharaoh.
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Generations, later of who's in 
charge, Because it is so easy to

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forget. 
And in this way, we're beginning

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to see that. 
As God poured out his judgment, 

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it was also a Grace, a Grace for
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And me, the second thing we see 
here in his judgment is in the 

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plagues themselves as God, sends
ten plagues of judgment. 

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These great acts of judgment to 
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His whole people to display his 
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Once you turn to Exodus 9 verse 
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For this time, I will send all 
my plagues on you yourself and 

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on your servants and your 
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So that you may know that there 
is none like me in all the 

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Earth. 
Why did God send 10 plagues? 

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Why do it this way? 
Why display his power and his 

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judgment in this specific way 
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show his softy. 
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government of Egypt, but to 
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sovereignty over their false 
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And so as God turned the Nile 
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displaying his Sovereign power 
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Nile. 
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displaying his power over the 
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had the head of a frog as he 
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knots. 
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the Egyptian god of the Earth. 
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display his Sovereign. 
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Fly God as he killed all of the 
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displaying his power over the 
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boils display his Sovereign. 
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epidemics, as he sent hail to 
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Egyptian, god, of storms, as he 
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sovereign power of the Egyptian,
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And as he sent Darkness, to 
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Sovereign power of the Egyptian,
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To save his people, he sent 
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is the question I want you to 
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As he sent each plague. 
What was the purpose of these 

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great acts of judgment? 
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False gods aren't real. 
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what's the point who is all of 
this for You see there is Grace 

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woven into God's judgement. 
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Because he was showing his own 
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true. 
God. 

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That he alone can be trusted 
that he alone is powerful. 

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And mighty, you see, because 
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this false worship have begin to
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well. 
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to Pharaoh, that also become 
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So God by his grace is pouring 
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don't exist to show his own 
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God and I'm pouring out my 
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bring you back for myself. 
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is the one true God who will 
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people for himself. 
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to our passage Exodus chapter 
12, again, you can turn their 

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Bible, you can use the bulletin,
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turn to verse 12. 
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the tenth and final plague, the 
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It's described many ways and 
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exodus 11 and exodus 12. 
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it's summarized in Exodus 12 
verse 12, God says, for I will 

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pass through the land of Egypt 
that night and I will strike all

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the firstborn in the land of 
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Notice what it says next, and on
the gods of Egypt, I will 

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execute judgments. 
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With this final plague, God 
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worship once and for all. 
To declare that he alone is the 

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Holy One. 
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praise. 
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judgment is Grace so even 
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Later we would hear this story 
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that he alone is the Holy One. 
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down to Earthly Kings and 
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nor to worship false gods. 
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but we would be reminded through
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Alone can be trusted so the 
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want you to see this morning not
only want you see The Sovereign 

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Grace of God through judgment, 
but I want you to see The 

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Sovereign Grace of God, through 
our salvation, What is so 

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startling about this last 
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That God would kill all of the 
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Egypt, is that death was sent to
every house in Egypt every 

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house. 
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Look again at verse 12 for, I 
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Egypt that night. 
I will strike all of the 

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firstborn and the land of Egypt.
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you might miss it. 
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house. 
That is every Egyptian house And

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every Israeli house. 
Every house and the land will be

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struck with death everyone. 
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where they have sacrificed a 
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over the door. 
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people inside be spared. 
Look with me. 

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Verse 13, Exodus 12 verse 13. 
The blood shall be a sign for 

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you on the houses where you are.
When I see the blood, I will 

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pass over you and no play will 
befall you to destroy you. when 

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I strike the land of Egypt, 
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you, particularly, if you are 
somewhat familiar with the 

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story. 
Because it could be a part of 

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the story that you've never 
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Death came to every house. 
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the sacrifice lamb that the 
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I want you to ask. 
Why would God do it that way? 

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Why do it that way? 
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death been more precise. 
Couldn't God no and what house 

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or people who are Egyptian and 
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Hebrews. 
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What are we to make of this? 
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this that judgment comes for us 
all For all of us. 

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We have all sinned and fall 
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Judgment was coming to every 
family and Egypt weather Hebrew 

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origin. 
Because judgment comes to us 

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all. 
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your background, your 
nationality, where you come 

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from? 
Everyone of us, have sinned and 

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fall short of the glory of God. 
Every one of us have committed 

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treason against the high King. 
Every one of us, goes our own 

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way of every one of us says no, 
my way is better. 

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Every one of us, has rejected 
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and Majesty of God and judgment 
comes to us all Judgment came to

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every house in Egypt that night 
and yet in this great Act of 

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judgment. 
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And to his own people. 
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Though, in so many ways they 
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He provided a way of salvation. 
A way of Grace, he provided a 

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substitute to take on the 
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their land. 
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Then Moses called all the Elders
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and select lamb through 
yourselves according to your 

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Clans and kill the Passover 
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Each Hebrew household chose its 
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It had to be perfect spotless 
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only acceptable sacrifice for 
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And once they selected a lamb, 
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there was to be killed as a 
sacrifice. 

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Look at verse 22. 
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it in the blood that is in the 
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two-door post with the blood 
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None of you will go out of the 
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morning for the Lord will pass 
through to a strike the 

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Egyptians, but when he sees the 
blood on the lentil and on the 

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two-door post, the Lord will 
pass over the door, will not 

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allow the Destroyer to enter 
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They were instructed to take the
blood of the lamb and put it 

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over the door post, so that when
judgment came judgment would 

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pass over them. 
This is the story of the first 

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Passover. 
God, sending judgment for sin. 

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And God passing over his own 
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But because of a substitutionary
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judgment would pass over them. 
You hear that? 

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And you think seems so strange 
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in some ways it even seems 
barbaric to kill an innocent 

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lamb. 
And to shed its blood and to 

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Painted over a door. 
And yet, for Generations, this 

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story was told over and over and
over again. 

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Every year they kept the Feast 
of Passover because they were so

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prone to forget that, God is who
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Sovereign one full of both 
judgment and of Grace that it is

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by his grace and Sovereign 
judgment alone that we are 

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saved. 
And so, every year, they would 

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keep the feast. 
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You shall observe this, right? 
As a statute for you, and for 

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your son's forever. 
And when you come to the land 

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that the Lord will give you his 
promise, you shall keep the 

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service and your children will 
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And verse 27, you shall say? 
It is the sacrifice of the 

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Lord's Passover free passed over
the houses and the people of 

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Israel and Egypt when he struck 
the Egyptians, but Spirit our 

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houses, Every year they would 
kill. 

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An innocent Passover Lamb. 
And every year they would keep 

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the feast. 
So much so that it became part 

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of who they were. 
Pirate part of their own faith 

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and even their Consciousness 
about who God is and what he had

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done for them. 
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what it really meant to be part 
of the Hebrew people. 

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One of God's chosen ones that 
they were, they had been 

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declared Israel, they had been 
declared God's firstborn son 

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because of his grace And because
of his judgment. 

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So much, so that many years 
later, when John, the Baptist 

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saw Jesus coming towards him, 
the Jordan River. 

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He only saw one thing. 
And he said, behold. 

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The Lamb of God has come to take
away the sin of the world. 

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What did John see? 
He saw God's judgment and Grace 

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once again and he saw a 
substitute walking towards him. 

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you see, there were generations 
of passover's that were 

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celebrated Until one day Jesus 
gathered with his disciples in 

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the upper room to celebrate the 
Passover again. 

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The gospels tell us that as they
made preparations to celebrate 

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the Passover, Jesus sent his 
disciples out to go and gather 

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everything. 
And as they gathered everything,

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they were needed, they met a man
who led them through the city 

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and prepared a place for them in
the upper room. 

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So they could celebrate the 
Passover meal together. 

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The gospel of Mark tells us that
as they were eating together 

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that Jesus Took bread, and after
he blessed it, he broke it. 

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And he said, take this is my 
body and then he took a cup. 

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And when he had given, thanks, 
he gave it to them a drink. 

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And he said, this is the blood 
of my Covenant, which is poured 

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out for many and all of the 
gospels give us every detail of 

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that Passover meal. 
What they ate and what they 

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drank and what Jesus said Ed 
every element of the Passover is

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there, except for one crucial 
piece, what is it? 

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Where's the lamb? 
They don't have a lamb. 

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Where's the lamb? 
But when Jesus said, this is my 

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body given for you. 
This is my blood poured out for 

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you. 
Jesus was saying I am the 

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Passover Lamb. 
I have given my own body for you

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and I have shed my own blood. 
So as judgment comes, it will 

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pass over you once and for all 
Jesus is the true and greater 

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Passover Lamb. 
The one God has given to us as 

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our substitute. 
Because friends judgment is 

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coming. 
Judgments coming to us all and 

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every one of us has fallen short
of the glory of God because 

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every one of us has sinned. 
But thanks be to God to the 

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midst of his judgment. 
He has given us Grace in his 

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son. 
He has given us the true 

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Passover Lamb Jesus Christ, who 
shed his blood for you. 

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And for me so that death would 
pass over us. 

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This is why the Apostle Paul 
said Christ, Our Passover has 

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been sacrificed for us. 
And so, I wonder. 

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If you were there at that first 
Passover, what would you have 

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done? 
You heard Moses giving you these

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instructions. 
We thought that sounds strange 

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Moses. 
Are, would you have listened and

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obeyed and seen death pass over 
your household? 

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And the same way. 
Also, I wonder, how will you 

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respond to John? 
The Baptist's declaration, 

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Behold, the Lamb of God who's 
come to take away the sin of the

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world. 
Will you behold Jesus as your 

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Passover Lamb? 
And this morning, will you claim

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his blood alone? 
It's that judgment would pass 

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over you. 
How will you respond? 

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because this morning, we once 
again have been invited to keep 

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the feast, And just, as Jesus is
the true and greater Passover 

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Lamb the Lord's Supper. 
This communion is the true and 

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greater Passover. 
The feast where we come together

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once again to remember and 
Proclaim that Christ has died. 

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Christ is risen and Christ will 
come again. 

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He is our Passover and we come 
now into his presence, according

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to his judgment falling on his 
own son because of his grace. 

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Let's pray Our Father in heaven.
Would you now prepare our 

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hearts? 
To keep the feast. 

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And that in keeping the feast 
that we would remember once 

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again. 
The great hope that we have and 

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you Jesus Christ as our Passover
Lamb. 

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As we come to this table, we 
bring the so many ways that we 

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are. 
Just like the people of Israel 

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prone to forget who you are and 
what you have done for us and 

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prone to wander and worship 
other gods. 

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And so n coming forward this 
morning to your table. 

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Help us to come by grace. 
Help us to calm knowing that 

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your blood has covered us and 
help us to come and Proclamation

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that you are The Sovereign one, 
the Holy One, the mighty one, 

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And that by your Sovereign, 
Grace, you have come and 

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judgment for our salvation. 
Be with us. 

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Now as we come together, as your
people at the table of the king 

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in Jesus name, amen. 
Be with us. 

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Now as we come together, as your
people at the table of the king 

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in Jesus name, amen.