1 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,160 Happy Monday. We are back in with the ERC 2 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,480 Leftovers podcast. I'm Pastor Matt. 3 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,600 I also have theology man here with me. 4 00:00:26,970 --> 00:00:32,840 You said that and you said that in the sermon yesterday and 5 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,680 we're. Just leading with that. 6 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,680 Well, you're theology man now. So you said that in the sermon 7 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,160 yesterday in. Case I didn't. 8 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,000 I didn't. I didn't mean for it to come off 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,520 like a superhero. I I shared that with you before 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,080 we started recording, but in the moment, and this is how so many 11 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,960 of you have brought up, we talked about my salty filter. 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Oh, sure. Over the past couple weeks. 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,040 And I don't know if that's necessarily salty. 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,800 It's just it's just the way my mind works. 15 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,720 Like you said that and you and you were not not even like 16 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,840 gently correcting Kristen, you, you were expounding upon, I 17 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,600 thought what Kristen said about the pies being free and giving 18 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,880 away like, but you, you added your you're added your two 19 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,680 cents, biblical 2 cents, theology 2 cents to it. 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,680 But you're just like theology, man. 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,240 Did I say that? That's what you said you, you 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,320 were trying to be kind and gracious, gracious. 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,240 And then you just said theology, man. 24 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,640 And in the moment I had, I did have one of those. 25 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,680 You always call me out for like those holding my head. 26 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,200 Moments. Oh, no, Chris, what are you 27 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,200 doing? It wasn't even that I was. 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,840 I was fine with it, but in the moment, I was just like, worst 29 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,040 superhero name ever, theology man. 30 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,400 And that's just on my mind. Like I had that thought in that 31 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,720 moment. And yeah. 32 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,360 Well, and you know, like, The thing is like where, where I, 33 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,360 where I know, sometimes, you know, I, I don't say what I'm 34 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,600 thinking perfectly, as none of us do, but like in particular, 35 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,480 I, I notice it with me, especially hanging out next to 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,080 you. I, I would never mean that to 37 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,760 say that somebody else doesn't have good theology. 38 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,360 I just, I, I don't know, I felt bad when you brought that up. 39 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,240 I was like, Oh no, I'm, I'm, I'm an idiot, like. 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,640 I thought it was great and I felt like the room received it 41 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:27,400 well too. But that was my that was just my 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,000 immediate thought. Oh my gosh, gets you a Cape up 43 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,480 there. As long as I don't have to wear 44 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,200 my underwear on the outside of my outfit like Superman does, 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:39,720 which I always thought was really weird. 46 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,160 That's a bad look. As long as I don't have to do 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,000 that, that's fine. I don't. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,320 Think we're going to have anyone asking for that? 49 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,320 OK, good barking up that tree so. 50 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,600 I hope not. Oh yeah, anyway, what? 51 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:56,480 What else yesterday was a funny day you in in case you weren't 52 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,880 there didn't didn't watch the live stream. 53 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:04,800 I've had this idea for a lot of the ERC logo clothing that so 54 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,440 many that a lot of you have adopted and enjoyed wearing 55 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,240 church swag around town. I like that's great, but I 56 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,600 wanted to lean into I, I made the Hawkeye kind of style on a, 57 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,800 on a golden sweatshirt with black logo and homecoming week 58 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,240 this week for DeWitt. I had the idea of, of Saber 59 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,960 swag, basically a a purple sweatshirt with the, with the 60 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,520 gold and white. And I know it's, it's a lot of 61 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,600 things. It's I mean, Erica Anderson came 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,720 up to me yesterday and said it's also LSU, like she LSU tigers. 63 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:42,120 Sure, you and I, we know that. And the Minnesota Vikings of 64 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,680 course, too, like of course, all all those things, but the idea 65 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,720 was birthed for the sabers. Yeah, some of you asked me as a 66 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,600 Packer fan for wearing I got I got a lot of go Vikes comments 67 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,800 like people were walking walking out, walking past me leaving 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,680 church yesterday and when I learned, as we don't have the 69 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,000 video yet video is coming soon 'cause I think it would be funny 70 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,040 for you for you to see I am despite the Packers horrific 71 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,240 loss yesterday. I'm sorry, we're I taking us off 72 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,240 the deep end of the sports, which we don't usually touch and 73 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,680 I don't usually make a big deal of it. 74 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,840 But because so many of you thought it was funny that I was 75 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:27,600 wearing Viking attire yesterday in in your mind, despite the 76 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,000 Packers lost yesterday, I'm still wearing my Packers 77 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,960 sweatshirt right now. I have I have a green and gold 78 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,480 worship hat that that matches my my Packers Ness right now 79 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:45,520 because I wore Viking colors to church on Sunday on a day that 80 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,240 the Packers were playing. The Vikings absolutely stomped 81 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,960 the Bengals yesterday. The Packers lost in 82 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,960 heartbreaking fashion, and the Bears also whooped up on the 83 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,440 Cowboys. The Lions are probably going to 84 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,480 beat the Ravens tonight. So we're on on in just in my 85 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,760 mind on the Sunday that I betrayed my fandom and wore 86 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,040 Viking colors. Everybody else in the division 87 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,080 is going to win. The Packers lost. 88 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,080 So I'm I'm now like I need to make it up. 89 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,200 I'm I'm. Is this like, is this like 90 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,320 sports repentance? A little bit, yeah. 91 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,480 So we can flesh out the theology of that later, But that's in my 92 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,520 mind. That's how I'm dusted. 93 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,920 I'm I'm, I'm sorry, I'm I'm making up for it by now. 94 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,120 Not on game day. Also still wearing my Packers 95 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,000 fandom. So anyway, I don't think that's 96 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,080 going to happen anytime soon. It is Saber colors, not Viking 97 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,640 colors. Well, and you, you pronounced 98 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,560 from stage yesterday, you know, perhaps the subtleties of the 99 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,280 gold. It's clearly Saber's gold. 100 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,880 Not clearly, not Vikings. I just didn't want to admit it 101 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,400 in front of it's it's fine. It's the same. 102 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,840 I just, I just didn't want to say it. 103 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,640 So anyway, that was funny. Thank you for all of you who 104 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,120 hung out at Autumn Fest. We kind of told the the story of 105 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,960 the pies, but the, the ladies and even just you as a church 106 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:07,680 participating in, in, in funding and assisting with the, with the 107 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,360 cost of those pies. There were a lot of ladies who 108 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,560 gave a lot of time to prep those pies and even be there and, and 109 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,880 hand them out. But that was that was kind of a 110 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,080 surreal thing. 500 Just again, we talked about it yesterday in 111 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,040 the message free pies. Somebody paid the price for 112 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,000 them. But for us as a church, to be 113 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,320 able to, to love on the community in that way and just 114 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,920 offer something like that. That isn't nothing's free 115 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,960 usually, right? Nothing's free, but to be able 116 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,360 to show love to our community in that way. 117 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,560 Do the mini golf out at Autumn Fest or even just for those of 118 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,920 you that were out in our community this weekend. 119 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,920 It was great. It was it was a wonderful time 120 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,000 to be out there showing the love of Jesus or even just 121 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,280 interacting with those around us looking for opportunities to to 122 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,760 invite one more here. Always I I love the fact that 123 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:58,360 it's just a part of the culture of ERC that we we find ourselves 124 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,200 or we intentionally embed ourselves into our larger 125 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,960 community wherever it's helpful and possible. 126 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,600 And so I just think that that's a really neat thing. 127 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,040 And we're not the only church in town that of course tries to do 128 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,000 that. But I just, I just think it's so 129 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,160 important to be a part of your larger community because some 130 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,800 days, of course, yeah, that's often times we think of that as 131 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,040 the gathering of worshippers. But, you know, getting out into 132 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,480 our community and just not making ourselves known for our 133 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,400 own sake, but trying to be out there so that they can see the 134 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,080 hands and the feet of Jesus active in their community, 135 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,760 whether it's through pies or whether whatever that looks 136 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,360 like, it's fine. But I just, I, I love that we're 137 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:41,680 able to get out there and do that. 138 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,480 Yeah. And not only that we've had so 139 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,760 far in September, we had worship in the park the first week. 140 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,400 Each of the past two Sundays, there's been more than 200 141 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,000 people in the building on Sundays. 142 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,320 We we see that, we feel that. If there's any of you out there 143 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:59,080 wondering what's happening, we, we have plans for more parking 144 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,320 and that's gonna get addressed really soon. 145 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,600 There were, there were at least 20 cars on the street yesterday, 146 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,080 like all the way down in front of the Veterans Memorial. 147 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,360 And so that's, that's coming soon. 148 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,920 Even even space on Sunday mornings. 149 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,200 We're considering our as, as we're growing, as you all are 150 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,560 inviting more to come. We acknowledge that we need more 151 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,760 space or, or maybe even more times to, to gather and we'll be 152 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,840 communicating those plans very quickly. 153 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,640 Just know that we see it. We acknowledge it. 154 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,919 We're, we're, we're planning changes and, and how we are stay 155 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:37,559 fluid with how we're growing. So just so you know, all that. 156 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,960 Thanks for being here with us and being a part of our 157 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:41,679 community. Taking in some more conversation 158 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,160 on Exodus this morning before we get there. 159 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,000 We're still going through the Ask me Anything pile of 160 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,840 questions here 'cause we have a lot leftover. 161 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,360 Thanks for contributing to those couple of episodes, and we'll 162 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,120 continue to answer your questions week to week here. 163 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,880 We've got a theological one this morning. 164 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,400 Why can't we renew our baptism? I was baptized as an infant. 165 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,600 I wish I could renew my declaration of faith now that it 166 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,640 is my decision. All right. 167 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,680 That's a Yep, and here we go. That there's lots of layers here 168 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:19,000 and I will, I'll, I'll start. I, I want to hear your answer 169 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,520 the question first. I'll just preface it with I'm 170 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,800 right there with you. I was baptized as an infant at a 171 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,880 Catholic Church. I don't remember any of it. 172 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:37,800 I don't I have no experience of my baptism, but I also I've I've 173 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,880 never really been at a point where I felt like I needed I 174 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:45,040 needed to experience it. I'm not saying that that feeling 175 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,640 is is wrong. I think it's valid wanting to 176 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,280 wanting to feel the the intensity of that, But where do 177 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:52,600 you land? What's what's your initial 178 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:57,200 reaction to why we we're not a church that will re baptize? 179 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,280 We don't, we don't really encourage that. 180 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:05,200 Well, again, leading into word first theology, one thing that 181 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,920 we don't see in the Bible is we don't see re baptism. 182 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,640 It's just it's just not there. And you know, of course you can 183 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,640 draw into the verses of, you know, we have one God, We have 184 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,720 one baptism is what is clearly spoken. 185 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,920 Now, some theologians might say, well, one baptism is pointing 186 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,480 specifically to like we are baptized into Christ. 187 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,560 That is the one baptism that matters. 188 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,160 So if you want to make the argument the other way, you want 189 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,800 to play devil's advocate here a little bit, you could say, well, 190 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,880 what if I have a baptism of repentance and then I have a 191 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,080 baptism in Jesus Christ name and I have a baptism this and this 192 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,920 and this. And it's like, OK, like I, I 193 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,800 don't think you can drag those verses out that far. 194 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,880 I don't think you can stretch them that far. 195 00:10:55,880 --> 00:11:00,120 It's, it's putting, it's putting a lot of silent assumptions into 196 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,080 the text and I don't think you can do that. 197 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,680 So we don't see it in the New or the Old Testament multiple 198 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:10,280 baptisms. And The thing is like we have to 199 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:15,040 also acknowledge, and this is really big, who is doing the 200 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,040 work and the deciding in baptism, who's doing that? 201 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:25,880 So if we say, I decided, sure, maybe you came into a point of 202 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:30,480 adulthood and now your faith has lit up inside your heart and 203 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,040 inside your soul, and that's now feels much more real than it did 204 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,520 previously in your life. But The thing is, you can also 205 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:42,960 clearly make the argument that as God baptizes you, even if 206 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,080 you're a child or an infant, you don't remember that he's the one 207 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,920 who's doing the work. He's the one who's establishing 208 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,520 the Holy Spirit within your soul, within your heart. 209 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,360 He's doing that work, not us. So even if you say, well, I've 210 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,680 now decided, I didn't decide before. 211 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,240 Yeah, but God has already decided for you. 212 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,840 The Bible's pretty clear on nobody seeks after God. 213 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:12,480 That is a real thing. Nobody in our selfish, sinful 214 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,040 hearts seeks after God. It's always him doing the verbs, 215 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,240 it's always him doing the chase, and it's always all those 216 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,960 things. Now when we come to the 217 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,480 realization that yes, I believe it and I want Jesus Christ in my 218 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,080 life, that's a fantastic, beautiful, earth shaking moment 219 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:32,880 for a lot of us. However, God was laying all the 220 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,920 groundwork long before that. And we see baptism in the Bible 221 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,000 as God adopting us into his family, Him marking us with 222 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,360 that. So whether I remember that or 223 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,720 not, whether I was in the right place to receive that or not, 224 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,520 when it was done to me, because that's the thing, God is doing 225 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,840 that to you, right? It's not about us. 226 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,280 It's not about the pastor who did it. 227 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:00,520 It's not about any of those things. 228 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:06,720 It's God doing the work. Yeah, and that's, that's a large 229 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,880 part of it. And the, and the part of this 230 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:13,200 question that I think it addresses is I, I wish I could 231 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,920 renew my declaration of faith now that it is my decision. 232 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,920 Well, there's also, there's also a bit of faithfulness. 233 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,680 And I don't, I don't fully know the background. 234 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:29,600 And sometimes, yes, baptism, especially infant baptism in its 235 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,680 purest intended form. And this is these are the this 236 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:38,240 is where we get infant baptism is the, the Greek word oikos, 237 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,280 right? Is, is household. 238 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,480 When we see when we see a man come to faith in the New 239 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,360 Testament, in the early church, it's it's, it's followed most 240 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,960 often by the phrase, and he was baptized, he and his household. 241 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:51,760 Right. And his oikos was. 242 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:57,320 Baptized his oikos and we and we take that in Greek linguistics 243 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,400 to to mean I mean that that culturally it was many 244 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,800 households were compounds many households were man wife 245 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,120 children, even adult children and their children so. 246 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,320 And servants. And then servants and their 247 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,360 families too was it was was all of that and that would be 248 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:21,080 inclusive of all those all of those peoples family extended 249 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,880 family servants and children like the and that's what that 250 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,800 boycott the entirety of those who lived under that house. 251 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:30,720 He and his household were baptized. 252 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,040 So, so that's where we get infant baptism and then that in 253 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,760 its purest form and how it relates to how we do infant 254 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,600 baptism today. I know it doesn't always work 255 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,720 this way. And, and there are some of you 256 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,480 out there, even at the time that I was baptized, I, I think my 257 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,840 parents to this day would say they didn't have a saving faith 258 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,440 even at the time they got me baptized. 259 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,120 We should enter into infant baptism. 260 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,000 That's why we ask questions of of the parents. 261 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,440 If you if you've ever been here for for a baptism to do. 262 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,520 Do you want to baptize this child into the Christian faith 263 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,360 we profess. Will you raise them up? 264 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,240 Will you teach them the Bible, the ways of Jesus? 265 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,240 Will you give them opportunity to learn about him here at 266 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,840 church? There is this not entering into 267 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,280 it lightly. I know not all of you were Maybe 268 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,440 it was maybe more ceremonial. It was just the thing you did 269 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,320 you, you had a baby, you brought him to church, you got him 270 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,400 baptized. There wasn't all this extra. 271 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,440 But in its purest form, in its intention, there's actually as 272 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,640 as much as we want to feel. And I get the kind of 273 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,280 theatricality, I guess of it, of it being my decision of, of, of 274 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,560 feeling, of feeling that thing. There's also a great testament 275 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,520 of faithfulness. If your parents had a saving 276 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,080 faith and are then declaring, Nope, our child is gonna be 277 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,120 raised in this household is is is gonna be covered in this is 278 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,760 is gonna live out this declaration of baptism from from 279 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,440 day one. We're bringing them up in this 280 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,800 faith. That's also a beautiful 281 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:08,240 testimony of of faithfulness of the fullness of God throughout 282 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,360 your life. I know you don't necessarily get 283 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,040 to experience all of that in in that moment. 284 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,680 We were just having this conversation at Life Group 285 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,920 yesterday too, that the the contrast between testimonies of 286 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:25,680 some some people have a radical coming coming to Jesus turned my 287 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,200 life around in my in my 20s, thirties, 40s midlife sort of 288 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,320 thing. That's a powerful testimony. 289 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,120 Sure. I have one that I've always 290 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,000 quote UN quote always known Jesus. 291 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,120 That seems boring and and less powerful, but I've also had 292 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,480 those that have gone through half a life of hardship, half a 293 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,320 life of fighting against God, straying from God, whatever who, 294 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,600 who also see that and say I wish I never I I wish I had that I I 295 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,120 wish I never didn't know. I I wish Jesus was always in my 296 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,920 life, because I know now and the and the years before when I was 297 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,000 walking in darkness. It seems like I it would have 298 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,800 been better if I had known him then too. 299 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:13,240 So don't see your infant baptism maybe that you didn't get to 300 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:14,960 experience. Obviously you didn't get to 301 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,720 experience. It's not less than it's it's, 302 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,680 it's a declaration of of faithfulness and longevity of 303 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,760 Christ in your life from that point on. 304 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,400 Yeah. And let's, you know, I'm gonna 305 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:32,760 pick up on a couple ideas here. Let's use an example, and this 306 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:37,160 is a sad example, but let's use an example of somebody who maybe 307 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,200 later in life they start to have significant memory issues. 308 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,240 Now those memory issues, they can no longer remember the 309 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,840 particulars even of their life or even of their close family 310 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,040 people. That doesn't mean those things 311 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,040 didn't happen. That doesn't mean those things 312 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,000 didn't have their necessary impact on who you are. 313 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:01,480 Just because you cannot remember it precisely doesn't mean it 314 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,720 didn't matter. Does you know And and that so 315 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,320 that's that's part of it. Elevate that to the specific 316 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,200 scenario. If you were an adult who who was 317 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,640 baptized at a point that you remembered it, but maybe to your 318 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,440 point no longer remember it, that doesn't undo you. 319 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,720 There's not now necessity for you to be re baptized because 320 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,040 you don't remember it. Correct. 321 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,680 And in the case of somebody who's like, you know what, like 322 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:29,240 I have a deeper, far deeper understanding of my faith and 323 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,400 far deeper appreciation of it than I do now than when I was 324 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,280 baptized. I'll give you just my life 325 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,880 quickly. When I was baptized in my mid 326 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:45,880 20s with the rest of my family, my my level of love and deep 327 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,920 appreciation for who the Lord is and what he's continued to do in 328 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,600 my life since that day has only exponentially increased year 329 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,680 after year. So I could even look at my 330 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,920 baptism and say, yeah, I had this very basic, simple sense of 331 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:04,600 belief to the extent that I wanted to be baptized, but do I 332 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,720 need to be re baptized now that like the Lord has lit my life on 333 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,280 fire? No, I don't need to be re 334 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,920 baptized because the work has already been done and it was 335 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,960 done by him. Now, if I want to come out and 336 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:23,960 through a testimony to a larger community or through a testimony 337 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:28,000 to a a life group, like a smaller group of people, yeah, I 338 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,080 think that's a powerful thing to acknowledge. 339 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,760 You know what, God has been doing some amazing things in my 340 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,040 life and I'm seeing him clearer than I ever have. 341 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:41,240 Do that do that I and you can even use the words I I am 342 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,880 rededicating my heart and my life to this to to Christ. 343 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:50,080 Do that and talk about that and and share your testimony with 344 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,920 people. And I think that is a far more 345 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,920 powerful tool than, you know, being once again washed with 346 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,960 water and word when God washes us with his grace. 347 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,400 It it is washed us clean like I talked about yesterday, He has 348 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,320 taken away our sins. We aren't just covered with 349 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,960 water in our baptism. He is adopting us. 350 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:19,200 He is he is earmarking us. And so if I come to better grips 351 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,960 with that later in life, I don't need to be re baptized. 352 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,480 I can, you know, verbally and otherwise rededicate my life to 353 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,360 the Lord, who I now understand at a much deeper level. 354 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,040 But I don't need that to be redone because He's already done 355 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:40,400 the work. Yep, and and to that, what's 356 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,480 what would then be holding us back? 357 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,640 If, if you feel like being re baptized is holding you back 358 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,760 from living a full life for God, like I, I don't, I'd fail to 359 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,880 connect those dots a little bit. If if you want to, if you want 360 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:03,000 to have that experience of that declaration of baptism, Well, I, 361 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,680 I think you can live that life today, like up, up the ante, be 362 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:14,160 be in your Bible, be living out the faith that you're covered in 363 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,120 that that you're excited about. You're excited enough to be 364 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,280 questioning renewing your baptism. 365 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,040 You're there. Live that out. 366 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,560 You're, you're already covered from from this day forward that 367 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,240 that shouldn't be holding you back that you don't remember, 368 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,560 didn't get the experience of like declaring your baptism. 369 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:38,680 Cause again, it's, it's, it's about who's doing the verbs even 370 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,560 even as you were talking about the Holy Spirit. 371 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,600 I mean, the Holy Spirit is the one who's, who's even working in 372 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,880 our longings for the thing of God, the things of God and, and, 373 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,200 and even brings us into that faith. 374 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,720 Our, our bodies are naturally sinful. 375 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,360 We don't, we don't want the divine things. 376 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:01,680 So it's a fair, it's a fair question to think about it, but 377 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,520 that's why we, that's why we don't do it. 378 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,560 You're already, you're already covered. 379 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,800 And in some ways, renewal of baptism shifts the focus too 380 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:17,880 much to what, to what we have done or, or what our role in 381 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,760 salvation is. And, and, and this is hard to 382 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,480 wrap your, your head around sometimes too, because yes, we, 383 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,520 we do say I'm living my life as a follower of Jesus. 384 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,200 I, I chose to follow Christ, like, or, or I gave my life to 385 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,760 Christ. We have these, we have these 386 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:43,360 phrases that loosely make sense, but we need to be careful that 387 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,480 we don't overemphasize our doings in them. 388 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:52,400 It's still not a Jesus did 99% of it and I did 1 like and and 389 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,920 and that's and that's what I think renewal of baptism in 390 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,600 invites in like, like Jesus brought me this far. 391 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,760 He just needed me to step into the water and and go. 392 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,080 That's not that's not how salvation works. 393 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,000 So salvation is 100%. Jesus did all of it. 394 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,680 The gift is here. All we can really do is reject 395 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,840 it. Actually that that's that's the 396 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,880 only doing that we have power over. 397 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,800 God gave us the free will to reject it, to not believe. 398 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,840 If we do believe it's all already done right? 399 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,080 Yep. And I don't and I don't say this 400 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:37,040 to make to make the question that was asked to sound light or 401 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,040 silly. It's not a light or a silly 402 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,760 question. Denominations have been split 403 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,440 and divided over. This very question, Oh, it's, 404 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,000 it's a, it's a really important question. 405 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,600 But here's the thing that I bring forward. 406 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:58,360 I if, if I took this kind of basic questioner I idea and I 407 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,760 applied it directly to me like, you know what? 408 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,160 I feel more intense. I feel more dedicated to my 409 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,040 faith than I ever have. I feel more, I feel Christ's 410 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,120 grace more in my life than I have in the last five years. 411 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,120 Man, I'm telling you, and again, not to make light of it, but I 412 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:18,360 would want to be re baptized like every single week because 413 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:22,920 every single week I'm failing. And then, you know, Jesus is 414 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,200 drawing me back to his grace. And every single week I would 415 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,600 want to and again, not to make light of it, but I would want to 416 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,600 come back into that space and say, Lord, I have sinned, I've 417 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,440 fallen short. Please wash me once again. 418 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,880 And we don't need that the same similar actually, just thinking 419 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,120 about this now, like the the sacrificial system that we 420 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,800 talked about where in perpetuity they had to sacrifice these 421 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,880 lambs and over and over and over again. 422 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,960 OK, well, if we stayed in that system, then yes, it makes sense 423 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,240 to be baptized over and over again because I need to be 424 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:04,200 washed over and over again. But Jesus is the Lamb of God who 425 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,920 did it once and for all. And that is a key point of our 426 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,560 baptisms too. He has done it once and for all. 427 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,160 He has washed us clean. Whether we remember that, 428 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,920 whether we felt a certain way during that moment, He has 429 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,920 washed us clean. That is just an objective fact 430 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,160 of the person who believes in Jesus Christ. 431 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,480 It's one and done. Yeah. 432 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,440 So we just, I think that's more of our, the cautionary side of 433 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,160 it, of, of emphasizing who's, who's playing the part and, and 434 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,520 baptism's good. Baptism's something that we want 435 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,720 to participate in and we want each and every one of you. 436 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,360 We've, we've said it, emphasized it, we've said it before, but 437 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:48,000 we've really emphasized it the past two weeks. 438 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,760 What are the next steps? You should be baptized even if 439 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,760 you've been in a church or church adjacent for your whole 440 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,400 life and you're in and you're in adulthood, but I've never been 441 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,120 baptized. You should be. 442 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,280 And, and absolutely we want, we want to do that and have you 443 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:09,720 experience that and be and be washed in that, But also, as the 444 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,360 thief on the cross would teach us, you can be saved without it. 445 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,560 And, and this is a weird thing. Like it is significant and we 446 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,160 want to celebrate it, but also Jesus promised that guy, you 447 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,520 will be with me today in paradise. 448 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,320 So and and that's not to minimize it. 449 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,280 That's not to say we we shouldn't do it, but but the 450 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,520 again, where's where's the renewal of baptism also invites? 451 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,240 Where's that line? How many times if, if you feel 452 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,160 like you didn't experience it, or even if you like strayed and 453 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,960 came back and want to and want to renew and rededicate how, how 454 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,400 many times where's the line? Do we do we stop at one renewal? 455 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,840 Do we stop at 3 or 4? If I like? 456 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,880 How many to your question, how many times do we stray away? 457 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,000 How many? How many times are we repenting 458 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,840 and confessing and asking forgiveness? 459 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,160 It seems like if if that's the logic that we need to be re 460 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,200 baptized every step along the way and that's not what we see 461 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,560 in the Bible. We see Jesus crucified once and 462 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,640 for all. For all. 463 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,360 Absolutely. And I think you can land the 464 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,960 plane right there because that's. 465 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,240 Yeah, just the fact that it is a once and for all thing that 466 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,520 comes. You know, His grace comes once 467 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,240 and for all, period. Our baptism comes once and for 468 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,240 all. Period. 469 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,920 And that first passage that you were talking about Ephesians 4/4 470 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,320 through 6, that's the one Lord 1 faith, one baptism. 471 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:35,080 We do derive that only only once is nothing. 472 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,480 And we also, just like you said, we don't see re baptisms in the 473 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,440 Bible. We see we see once washed clean, 474 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,320 new life born again. And that's and that's how it is 475 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,880 that that's that's how it works. So Ephesians 4/4 through six are 476 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,320 a couple of the other baptism passages you can look up first. 477 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,560 First Corinthians 12 is where a lot of the the helper, the Holy 478 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,480 Spirit, how it, how it brings us into, into faith, into 479 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,560 relationship with God, how that relationship works There you 480 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,560 can, you can look at those too, because the Holy Spirit also has 481 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,200 workings in this. And that's really what we want 482 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,120 to emphasize and make sure it's God doing the things in baptism. 483 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:20,760 It's Jesus's blood washing us clean, being made new, being 484 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,760 refreshed and renewed. And Jesus does it once and for 485 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,600 all. Done. 486 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:30,400 That's it. So all right, that's baptism. 487 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,120 We're of course open to having more conversations in person, 488 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,840 but that's why that's why we do what we do here and don't 489 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,640 practice renewal baptisms. And we will. 490 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,200 It doesn't all have to be infant baptisms. 491 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,800 We'll, we can, we'll baptize kids, adults, whatever it is. 492 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,760 But first time if if you haven't been baptized, let's do it. 493 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,680 Yep, Yep. We do not withhold the grace of 494 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,720 God in baptism or communion. Those are important sacraments 495 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,840 that we practice. But again, as you know, the Old 496 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,040 Testament that you know, Exodus 12, God said do this for the 497 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,640 rest of your days. Jesus comes along in the new 498 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,440 agreement, the new covenant and says, OK, now you will practice 499 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,800 this communion over and over again. 500 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,560 Do this whenever you you know and remembrance of me. 501 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,840 So that's a continuously moving forward thing, whereas baptism 502 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,680 is a one thing that God did and doesn't need to be redone. 503 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,000 And and this also gets a little muddy because there are some 504 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,720 denominations and churches even who would say, oh, well, you 505 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,920 didn't get baptized here. So that baptism is no good. 506 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,760 And that's just that's just not what we see in the Bible, what 507 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,200 we see, what we see in baptizing and and it's in the Great 508 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,160 Commission go Matthew 28. Therefore, go make disciples of 509 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,480 all nations baptizing and teaching. 510 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,840 And that's where where I started the like perfect ideally infant 511 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,680 baptism parents declaring we're baptizing you into this faith 512 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,880 and we're going to bring you up in a life that's teaching you 513 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,960 this faith like those those things go together. 514 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,400 But like the Ethiopian eunuch and and Philip, all you need is 515 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,600 water in the word. I baptize you in the name of the 516 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,120 Father Son, the Holy Spirit, water done. 517 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,280 That's it. If you if you had a baptism that 518 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,240 included those things, you you've been baptized, walk in 519 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,000 freedom, walk in the righteousness of Christ. 520 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,840 Live, live that experience, that decision that you want to 521 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,800 experience. Live it out each day. 522 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,400 That's what I would say. Absolutely. 523 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:47,280 So we are, you've preached on Exodus 12 yesterday, 1st 14 524 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,880 verses of chapter 12. You're right, we did. 525 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,960 We skipped over all the kind of repetitiveness of the plagues 526 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,440 and you, you touched on it that there were a variety of plagues. 527 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,960 There were a lot. They all kind of played the same 528 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,600 way though, right? They did. 529 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,680 Curse, curse came on. Put the screws to Pharaoh, let 530 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,560 my people go, he agrees. Then he pulls back. 531 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,080 Then he pulls back his word and OK, bring in the next plague. 532 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,600 Not great. Not great for the Egyptians, not 533 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,560 great for Pharaoh, and not great for Moses and God's people. 534 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,760 So eventually we come to the Passover, the Angel of death, 535 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:29,760 the this is the thing that Pharaoh can't come back from, 536 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,880 right? So we're in Exodus chapter 12, 537 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,320 verses one through 14, first verse, yeah. 538 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,200 And you touched on it a little bit. 539 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,240 Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt. 540 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,720 And I think it's important you touched on it the the 541 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:53,120 camaraderie of community even in the sharing of the lamb later in 542 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,160 in verse verse four and five and how that kind of plays out. 543 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,320 Moses wasn't doing it alone. Aaron was an advocate for him to 544 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,760 to the people he'd been living in and amongst the people all 545 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,920 those years that Moses was in the Midianite wilderness, right? 546 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,560 He needed that ally. He needed that person to relate 547 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,360 to them. So that I think that's a really 548 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,960 important jumping off point too, But something else. 549 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,560 Verse 2, you didn't jump into the detail of this, but it's 550 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,240 really profound. Actually. 551 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,440 This month shall be for you, the beginning of months. 552 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,200 It shall be the first month of the year for you. 553 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,720 What God's God's telling them. This is now how you tell time. 554 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,480 Oh yeah, absolutely. And and it's interesting. 555 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,680 So let's quickly Fast forward to our modern day Western idea of a 556 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,680 new year. So new year hits on, you know, 557 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,600 January 1st. And how do we see that? 558 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,400 How do we typically take that as a larger culture in a society? 559 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,160 OK, cool. This is a great point for me to 560 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:01,160 reset, to maybe look back at some things that I didn't love 561 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,480 and to look forward at some things that I really want to do 562 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,720 well. And of course, you can go on and 563 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,680 on about, OK, I'm going to go to the gym this year, I'm going to 564 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,680 eat better this year, I'm going to do whatever this year. 565 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,160 And you're kind of dedicating yourself to that new life. 566 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:20,280 But as God commands that this is your first month, why there? 567 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,400 Why then? Well, I think the obvious, you 568 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,800 know, application to that is God is saying I'm starting you. 569 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,880 I'm starting your year every year when it resets, I'm 570 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,320 starting you thinking about what I have done for you, what I am 571 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,520 sacrificing for your freedom, what I'm sacrificing for your 572 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,800 forgiveness. That's where you start your 573 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,280 year. Yeah, sure you can. 574 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,880 You can do some personal growth things, but our year starts at 575 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,520 the fact that I have saved you. I have walked you out of 576 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,120 slavery. That's where you start. 577 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,920 That's where you get your strength from. 578 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,400 Moving forward from the rest of the year is remembering what I 579 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,400 have done to set you free. Yeah. 580 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,440 So he establishes this new foundation this new year, even 581 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,480 if we even think about it. And as I said, this language in 582 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,360 the past couple weeks, because it was brought into our site, 583 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,880 it's, it's, it's that starting line versus finish line 584 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,520 mentality, what's coming and what's new. 585 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,400 But also we're standing on the foundation of God's 586 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,320 faithfulness. It's it's a, it's kind of a 587 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,840 reset reminder of each year. Yeah, we can face what's ahead 588 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:29,440 because of what I've already done, right. 589 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,760 And he's just inviting them to come back into that each and 590 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,040 every year. Remember this. 591 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,440 Remember do this in remembrance of me at the the words, the 592 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,639 words we say it communion because we forget and that was 593 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,040 if you're not following along with the with with the study. 594 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,960 Well, one of your questions this week. 595 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,600 Oh man, in what ways can we be No, why was it why was it 596 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,120 commanded? Sorry. 597 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,679 Now I'm like, oh the repetition. That's what the password was 598 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,840 instituted as something to be remembered and re enacted every 599 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,480 year. Why does God call for the 600 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,000 repetition of such such events and days? 601 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,760 Because we forget, because we, we, we are sinful and, and we 602 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,600 take our eyes off of Jesus, we take our eyes off of faith. 603 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,840 Even even Peter, he, he writes, he opens one of his, one of his 604 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,040 letters. I can't remember off the top of 605 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,240 my head, it's first or second Peter. 606 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:23,280 But he he even says, I write you these things by way of 607 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,480 remembrance. Like it's, it's a phrase that's 608 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,080 you are, you've heard all this and you know all this, but you 609 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,280 need to remember it. Yeah, Yeah. 610 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,240 Well, and I think it's, it's not a, it's, it's not a hard, you 611 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,200 know, jump to make you look forward into the New Testament. 612 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,200 And when does Jesus die? Oh, that's right. 613 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,840 He dies at the exact same time as the first Passover. 614 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,360 So, I mean, again, if you're a Christian, and I know we've got 615 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,520 all these cultural things built into us and baked into us, but 616 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,680 if you're a Christian man, you know, when your new year starts, 617 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,760 your new year starts at Easter, your new year starts at the 618 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,800 Passover. Why? 619 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,520 Because we move forward into the new year and with this renewed 620 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,240 strength and this renewed remembering of what has in fact 621 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:13,120 been done for us. So it's kind of interesting, you 622 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,440 know, like, and you know, people get into this argument like, do 623 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,920 I work out of my rest or do I rest from my work? 624 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:25,200 Well, the Bible would seem to indicate I move forward from my 625 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:26,960 rest. I move forward from my 626 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,120 understanding of my forgiveness and my freedom. 627 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,160 That's been done to me. And so as God's establishes, 628 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,240 this is the start of your year. Therefore I think you would make 629 00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:39,280 the argument on that other case like, Oh no, we want to work out 630 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,960 of our rest. We want to work out of our 631 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,280 worship, not just be like, oh, I'm so burdened and now I need 632 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,040 to rest from. No, I'm resting towards. 633 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,600 Yes, Yep, absolutely. And that that applies there even 634 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,240 as we consider what we're entering towards. 635 00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:59,400 So you're right, all things new God, God saying that this is the 636 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,880 fresh starts, the brand new start releasing you from walking 637 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,760 you out of slavery into this, into the promised land. 638 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,640 And again, we've talked about it the past couple weeks, not only 639 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:15,200 removing the the fear, the sin, but instituting a promise, 640 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,800 instituting a blessing you, you're, I'm making all things 641 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,160 new. I'm bringing you into the 642 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,960 promised Land. The the life of fear and sin 643 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,920 that I'm calling you to leave behind is also replaced with one 644 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,000 of blessing and abundance and eternal life. 645 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:33,400 Right yeah, in our in in our very highly individualized 646 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,640 culture and thought processes. I think there is something kind 647 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,240 of cool and kind of beautiful about, Hey, January 1st, like 648 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:42,800 I'm going to, I'm going to start some new good habits in my life. 649 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,200 Those are great things to do. And I would never downplay the 650 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,160 importance of those things. And I think people should 651 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,680 commit, you know, what, whatever, or recommit themselves 652 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,400 to certain things at certain points when there seems to be a, 653 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,440 a fresh start. Those are great things. 654 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:01,480 But I would say for, for, for the Christian man, everything 655 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,120 comes out of even the things that I think I want to do 656 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:09,160 personally, for self help, for lack of a better term, like all 657 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,480 those things ought to come out of what God has done and 658 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,280 continues to do for us. And that's where that 659 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,400 motivation, that's where that drive comes from. 660 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:25,880 One more thing from kind of the first half of this passage, you 661 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,520 may take it from either the sheep or the goats, right? 662 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,600 That's that's interesting because we often, I mean the 663 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,600 Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 664 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,520 They use the word lamb to refer to either a young sheep or a 665 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,320 young goat. Does it matter? 666 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:48,720 Well, and actually, so a fun thing that I do, I try, I try to 667 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:52,600 do is that like, so I will go through and I talked to my life 668 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,560 group about this. I will go through in preparation 669 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,080 for a sermon or a study and I'll just do like a verse by verse 670 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,800 commentary. And during that verse by verse 671 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,480 commentary that I'm writing out and I'm not reading anybody else 672 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,760 at this point. I'm just making observations and 673 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,920 and I'm asking questions. And so actually, it's really 674 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,920 funny. I was, I asked that question, my 675 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,120 verse by verse commentary leading into this Sunday. 676 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,800 I was like, wait a minute, what? I actually don't understand the, 677 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,760 you know, the nuances of this. Are they are we talking about 678 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,120 two different animals? Is that all right? 679 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,680 Whatever. So David Guzik, who he that guy 680 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:33,160 continues to teach me so much through his commentary, but he 681 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,960 says this quote, the Hebrew word say is quite a neutral word and 682 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,400 should be translated head of of small stock, applying equally to 683 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,480 sheep and goats of any age. The Hebrews, like the Chinese, 684 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,560 seem to have regarded any distinction between sheep and 685 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,240 goats as a minor division, and this is really good, probably 686 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,320 because of this. To separate the sheep from the 687 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,640 goats is a proverbial is a proverbial of God's discernment 688 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,000 in the New Testament times. That is something I'd never 689 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,360 thought of connected to. That is really cool. 690 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:12,040 Yeah, that's so Matthew 2532 separating the the sheep from 691 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,880 the goats, right, those on his left and those on his on his 692 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,240 right. Interesting connection there as 693 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,360 well. But for the, the ceremonial 694 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:26,840 aspect of this, the important parts were lamb could be either 695 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,560 sheep without or goat, but without blemish, right? 696 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:34,040 As as perfect as a lamb as that, as that sacrifice could be. 697 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:35,760 I also thought it was interesting. 698 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,920 So they have this 14 day like waiting period, right? 699 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,960 And then they, they kill it at twilight, right? 700 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,400 There's also this, this connection to 1st John 211 that 701 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,200 Christ came in the evening of the world in the last hour when 702 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,440 all they buried in darkness, right? 703 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,600 So we have we have this not only renewal at at the peak of 704 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:03,280 darkness, at a time where if first the firstborns were being 705 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,000 killed at the first Passover, like the the pinnacle of 706 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,560 darkness in, in many of these families, households, whatever, 707 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,360 whatever it was, the darkness was overwhelming in in that 708 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,040 moment. In the same way Christ entered 709 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,440 the world right in, in, in that moment of overwhelming darkness 710 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,880 as the light. So awesome. 711 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,920 Yeah. Interesting connections the the 712 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,520 whole of the Bible as as we've tried to explain and try to 713 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,680 teach each and every week points to Jesus. 714 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,880 We we have we have all of this, the history and the Old 715 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,840 Testament really foreshadowing how Christ interacts with the 716 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,960 world. Yep, Jesus is the fulfillment of 717 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,480 all of the law and all of the prophets and as much as we have 718 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,920 time to or can, or even in your own individual reading and 719 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,560 stuff. When you see those little like 720 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,440 notes, 'cause sometimes if you're reading a, a, you know, a 721 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,720 physical paper Bible and it's got like this little like number 722 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,440 next to it and then it pushes you back towards an Old 723 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,600 Testament text. Go and do that as often as you 724 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,720 possibly can. When you're reading your Bible 725 00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:15,480 and see the overall narrative, the overall kind of Arc of God's 726 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,400 story from beginning all the way through Christ, go see those 727 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,320 things because it's, it's incredible and it's impossible. 728 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:29,240 Honestly, it is impossible. How you know these acts of these 729 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:33,040 people thousands of years before Christ directly ties into what 730 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:37,160 he does directly ties into what he teaches like that is not 731 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,280 possible with human ingenuity across thousands of years across 732 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,720 dozens and dozens of authors like, and people have made that 733 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:49,120 point like the, the, the ability for Jesus to fulfill all of 734 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,080 these different things, both in his words and his actions and 735 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,120 just what kind of seemed to happen to him. 736 00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:00,040 All of those things like the the odds of that are not even 737 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,000 calculable. They're like 10 to the, I can't 738 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:09,200 remember, 20 something power, like you can't calculate it how 739 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,720 all those things happen. So yeah, go back and forth 740 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:14,000 between your Old and New Testament and see how God has 741 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,000 had a plan the entire time, how he has fulfilled that plan 742 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,760 through his Son, and catch that bigger narrative because it's 743 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,400 really important. Yeah, it's it's all in there. 744 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:29,440 The couple other things from kind of the second-half of this 745 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,080 passage consuming all of it verse 10 you shall let none of 746 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,400 it remain until morning anything that remains until the morning 747 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,160 you shall burn and in this manner you shall eat it with 748 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,080 your belt fasten your sandals on your feet and your staff in your 749 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,080 hand and you shall eat it in haste. 750 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:54,280 Couple things that I at least glean from this it it's you, you 751 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,000 have to tell me what, what you, what you feel about this. 752 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:01,200 But I, I hear shades of the Jesus's repulsion to, to 753 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,400 lukewarm followers in this, this in, in, in the lamb being 754 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,640 completely consumed or the, or the family being sustained by 755 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,440 this lamb. It's not a halfway sort of 756 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,840 thing. You're all in this, this whole 757 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,520 thing is, is gone and done and is your sustenance is, is the 758 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,040 thing that that fuels in its entirety, right. 759 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,000 You can't just, you're not just doing part of it. 760 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,960 And so we, I think we could relate that to the Bible, to 761 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,840 Scripture as a whole, can't just take bits and pieces and leave 762 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,480 some of it sitting there. It's it's the whole thing. 763 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:41,960 Well, and speaking about Jesus himself specifically, did part 764 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:47,600 of Jesus die? No, no, he was fully consumed by 765 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,960 death. He was fully consumed by God's 766 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,520 wrath. It wasn't like we you said 767 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,720 earlier, it wasn't like, oh, you know what, Jesus, you're still 768 00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:57,560 alive, but you've suffered an awful lot. 769 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,360 And actually that as much as you've already suffered, that's 770 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,640 definitely enough to cover the sins of the world. 771 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,440 No, He was fully consumed just like this lamb is fully consumed 772 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,320 either by the people themselves or by fire. 773 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,560 Yeah. And so either way, he is fully, 774 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,760 fully consumed. And and in that way, I also 775 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,600 think it's interesting the the belt on your waist, the sandals 776 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,200 on your feet and your staff in your hand. 777 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:28,000 I, I, I hear in this passage, you're eat. 778 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,680 So you're eating this lamb and faith, the sacrificial lamb, 779 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,560 trusting in the deliverance that's happening. 780 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:38,560 That had to be a wicked to like like because they were we we 781 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,040 live a little bit of ambiguity because we don't know the day or 782 00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,600 the hour that judgement day is coming like Christ is coming 783 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,560 back right. God gave them a date said two 784 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,720 weeks, then this is happening. I have to believe there was a 785 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,920 little bit of a sense of dread each nightfall before that is 786 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,880 tonight. The night is tonight, but no 787 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,880 trusting that following this promise, the deliverance would 788 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:08,160 happen if they if they follow this Passover procedure that the 789 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,480 deliverance would be present, but the readiness. 790 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,120 So if so, if you're accepting this, if you're taking this 791 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,720 sacrifice and you're all in on it, but you got to be ready to 792 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,560 walk in that deliverance that you're, you're changed 793 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,600 immediately and you got to be ready to go, right? 794 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,240 Oh, that's so important. And so I mean, you again taking 795 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,200 Old and New Testament as one combined narrative. 796 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,600 You look forward into the New Testament and you see Jesus 797 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:40,640 tell, you know, the stories are parables basically of like, hey, 798 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,960 you've got the virgins and you know, some of them, you know, 799 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,160 made sure they had enough oil to be ready for when the bridegroom 800 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,920 shows up. And some of them like they 801 00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,280 weren't, they weren't ready. They fell asleep. 802 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,600 They didn't plan well, they they were not ready to for action. 803 00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,920 And so even thinking about this way, this too. 804 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:05,640 OK, so like when we take communion together on Sundays, 805 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,120 receiving the body and blood of Jesus, what does that mean? 806 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,160 I ought to be ready as I have received the sacrificial lamb. 807 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,560 I ought to be ready to move out into my world because I know 808 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,800 what he's done for me. I, I, I fully take that in. 809 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,840 I'm ready to move out into my mission field, which currently 810 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:31,160 in Lord willing will always be to wit, right And so like as I 811 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,280 receive his body and blood, my, my shoes are tied. 812 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,160 I'm ready to go like and, and bigger picture, of course, as 813 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,320 you mentioned, is like I'm ready for Jesus to come back. 814 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,080 I'm don't want to die today, but I'm ready for it. 815 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,280 And in that way, I think it, I think it relates maybe even back 816 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,120 to the baptism question that we were saying like this, this 817 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,360 deliverance, this baptism, it's, it's already happened. 818 00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:00,000 Like are are Are you ready to walk forward in the gift in the 819 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,320 gift that's already been given? We don't we don't need to dwell 820 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:04,520 on that. There wasn't any. 821 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:10,400 OK, you're going to take in this Passover and just sit Pat till 822 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,000 it comes around next year. Like there there wasn't a 823 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,960 looking forward to the next time that it happened. 824 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,360 Yes, it was sustaining. It was remembering, but there's 825 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,720 in between things to do, there's, there's walking in that 826 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:27,560 deliverance between the remembering, right. 827 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,600 Absolutely, 100%. Another thing, just kind of 828 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,200 switching gears here a little bit is, you know, it is for 829 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,600 anybody who, like, you know, has a farm and you butcher animals 830 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,320 and stuff like this. You know what you don't do? 831 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,840 You don't just cook the whole thing as the whole thing. 832 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,760 That seems really weird if you stop and think about that. 833 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,400 But again, pointing forward to Jesus in the New Testament. 834 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,520 But one of the things that we know that was prescribed for 835 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:59,120 Jesus long before he walked the earth as a man was that none of 836 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,160 his bones would be broken. Nothing about him would be, 837 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,520 would be. Yeah, broken before his death. 838 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,120 So he was whipped, he was tortured, he was hit, he was 839 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,520 spit on, He was all these things. 840 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,440 But the New Testament clearly reports not one of his bones was 841 00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,840 broken. He was a whole person being 842 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,280 wholly sacrificed. So as we look at this Passover 843 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,320 lamb in Exodus, that is a whole lamb being wholly sacrificed. 844 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,680 There is not a part missing. Again, like it's not 99% of them 845 00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:32,480 is being sacrificed. No, 100% is. 846 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,200 And that's a. That's a cool little detail that 847 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,360 we might miss too. Yeah, and that's an interesting 848 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,000 distinction because traditionally crucifixion, you 849 00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,280 most readily die by asphyxiation, right. 850 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,680 Like like suffocating basically. And there came a point if, if 851 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:51,280 the guy was a fighter, he'd, he'd be hanging up there and he 852 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,520 could kind of push with his feet on on the on the bottom to, to 853 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,000 support himself. A lot of the time they would 854 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,360 break the legs so that he could no longer support. 855 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:03,440 That didn't happen to Jesus. No, that he, he. 856 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,280 It is finished and gave up his spirit. 857 00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:10,280 Before that happened, He was a whole lamb of. 858 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,320 God, perfect. That's exactly what that points 859 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,040 to, yeah. What else do we have? 860 00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,080 We're towards the end of where you were at. 861 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,840 We have the protection of the blood here. 862 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,200 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. 863 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,360 When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague 864 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,840 shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of 865 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,840 Egypt. Yeah, so interesting. 866 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:38,040 God says when I do this thing, you know, you can, you can carry 867 00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,720 that forward pretty quickly to nobody likes. 868 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:44,120 I mean, I can't think of anybody who's like, hey, when I die, 869 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,920 blah, blah, blah. Like that's not a conversation 870 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,800 we typically like to have. But the day is coming. 871 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,480 And that is, again, it should be a sobering thought, when I die. 872 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:58,600 Not if I die, but when I die, am I, has my sin been carried away? 873 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,720 Has it been taken away? Have I, has God's judgment 874 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:05,760 passed over me because I've received Jesus Christ as my Lord 875 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,440 and Savior? Well, yeah, absolutely Hope so. 876 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,720 So I mean, I it's not an if, it's a when you know the 877 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:18,120 potential for judgement, it's real, it's coming. 878 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:22,520 Are you ready for that? Because of the Lamb will the 879 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:29,040 Angel of death Passover me because I am now I've received 880 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,640 the blood of an innocent one and I've painted that all over my 881 00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,520 life. I've painted that all over my 882 00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,400 household. And again, fun fact, you know it 883 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,040 forms a cross when you're painted that way, so. 884 00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,040 Yeah. And that's so that's how it's 885 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,480 real time related for us today, even when we take communion 886 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,640 together. Jesus at that, that Passover 887 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:56,280 before he was killed, that this is my body in the new covenant 888 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,440 covenant, the the blood of the new covenant, right? 889 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:05,080 So that we as the household was covered in the blood and God 890 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,560 passed over. We remember Christ in that way 891 00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,760 and that's how God sees us covered by the blood of Jesus 892 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,040 and, and and passes over. So that's why even when we take 893 00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:20,560 communion, that's that's a renewing and remembrance of 894 00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,120 those things. Yeah. 895 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,840 You want to talk about renewal of faith, That is every single 896 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,240 time we take communion, that's a renewal. 897 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:31,920 That's all. Because what do we do when we 898 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:33,720 take communion? We are called to examine 899 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:37,080 ourselves. We are called to confess sin, to 900 00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:41,520 begin that process of repentance in that moment, and then carried 901 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,200 forward as we go. But every single time we receive 902 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,440 the body and blood of Jesus, that is a special kind of 903 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:53,680 renewal of accepting, receiving Him as our Passover lamb. 904 00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,840 And that's why again, that the same words in remembrance, God, 905 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,520 God used it with the with the Israelites in in Egypt, there in 906 00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,560 captivity and and Jesus the same thing. 907 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,560 This is the new covenant, but you're going to do it, you're 908 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,560 going to repeat it in remembrance of me. 909 00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:12,560 So you never forget. Absolutely. 910 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,560 There it is. That's the Passover, and a few 911 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,360 extra thoughts on that next week. 912 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:24,280 This Sunday we're in Chapter 14 and Exodus Another another. 913 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:25,880 I got the burning Bush and the Red Sea. 914 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,760 Somehow I don't. These you get, you get these 915 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,200 kind of big watershed moments, which is great. 916 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,240 And that's it will be good for all of us to dive into that with 917 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:36,000 you. Yeah. 918 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,800 So that's, I'm, I'm excited for that a large chunk in Chapter 14 919 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,800 next week, but very excited about where we're going with 920 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,920 that. And honestly very excited for 921 00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,560 what God has laid out for us as a, as a people and a church here 922 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:52,680 too. We're excited to share more 923 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,240 about that in the coming weeks. We have our, our annual meeting 924 00:53:56,240 --> 00:54:00,640 on October 26th after church. That's going to be great. 925 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,360 And we, and we want to, we want you all to be there to take in 926 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,040 some more of these ideas and the vision going forward of what we 927 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,360 have working here at Emmaus Rd. church in our community. 928 00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,080 And just so grateful that you're a part of it. 929 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,520 Absolutely. I love doing life with you guys, 930 00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,440 love walking with Jesus with you guys, and it's so much fun, as 931 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,400 we stated earlier, to watch our church be the hands and feet of 932 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,600 Jesus, even through pies or whatever means necessary. 933 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,080 All those are wonderful things. Yep, we're shouting Jesus in the 934 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,760 streets and we're we're always doing it for the one more. 935 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,520 So thank you for being a part of it. 936 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,560 Stay faithful, stay in the word. Have a blessed week.