8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” “I know I’ve forgotten this before” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God: The Passover meal 1
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:3, 5a (NIV) “Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household....The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect....” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:3, 6a (NIV) “Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household....” “Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month....” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:3, 6 (NIV) “Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household....” “Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.” 2
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:22-23 (NIV) “Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe.... When the L ORD goes down through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:8 (NIV) “That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:29-30 (NIV) At midnight the L ORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh...to the firstborn of the prisoner....Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. 3
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:31-33, 35-36 (NIV) Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the L ORD as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go....” The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country.... The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The L ORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for.... “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover Exodus 12:14, 25-27 (NIV) “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the L ORD - a lasting ordinance.” “When you enter the land that the L ORD will give you...observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?” then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the L ORD , who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Passover The meal isn’t the object of devotion... God is the object of devotion! 4
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” The Passover: pointing to Jesus “Remember The Cross” The Passover: pointing to Jesus John 1:29 (NIV) The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” “Remember The Cross” The Passover: pointing to Jesus 1 Peter 1:18-19 (NIV) For you know it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. Exodus 12:3, 5a (NIV) “Each man is to take a lamb for his family....The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect....” 5
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” The Passover: pointing to Jesus 1 Corinthians 5:7b (NIV) For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. “Remember The Cross” “I know I’ve forgotten this before” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Lord’s Supper 6
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Lord’s Supper 1 Corinthians 11:23-24 (NIV) For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Lord’s Supper 1 Corinthians 11:25-26 (NIV) In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. “Remember The Cross” Remembering God’s faithfulness: The Lord’s Supper The meal isn’t the object of devotion... Jesus is the object of devotion! 7
8/23/2016 “Remember The Cross” A word-association exercise “Remember The Cross” God will be at work in places where Christ and the cross are made central! 8
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