And he says in verse 9, "...eaten out
of it raw."
Raw, you see, there must be the judgment
of sin in our lives.
When we come to Christ, friends, we come
as a sinner.
He died for our sins, and that's where
we begin with Him.
"...nor sodden at all with water."
In other words, it must be just trusting
Him and Him alone.
And I'm afraid there's some people who trust
water today.
But roast with fire, there must be judgment.
His head with His legs and with the
pertinence thereof, all of it is to be
roasted.
"...and ye shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning, and that which remaineth of
it until the morning ye shall burn with
fire.
And thus shall ye eat it with your
loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand, and ye shall
eat it in haste."
It's the Lord's Passover.
And friends, when you come to Christ, this
speaks of Christ, our Passover offered to us.
When we come to Him, we should have
our loins girded, ready to get out of
the world and no longer involved with the
world.
I don't believe that you're converted and live
a sinful life.
We had a remarkable instance here of a
woman who ran a liquor store in South
Los Angeles, got converted.
She called me up and she said, I'm
getting out of the liquor business, and if
you tell me to, I'll take a hammer
and iron and break every bottle.
I told her, I said, you go sell
it.
And she got out of the liquor business.
She was a wonderful Christian, by the way.
May I say, you'll get out of Egypt
if the blood's been put on the doorpost,
because you eat it with your loins girded,
ready to go, if you please.
How tremendous this is.
Verse 12, For I will pass through the
land of Egypt this night.
I'll smite all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both man and beast.
And against all the gods of Egypt, I'll
execute judgment.
I'm the Lord.
Now, all of these plagues have been directed
at each idol individually.
Now, all of them demanded the firstborn.
God says, I'm now turning the guns against
all the idols.
Now will you notice.
And the blood shall be to you for
a token upon the houses where ye are.
And when I see the blood, I'll pass
over you.
And the plague shall not be upon you
to destroy you when I smite the land
of Egypt.
And God says that the people were not
saved because they were seed of Abraham.
Why, the Egyptians could have obeyed, and they
would have been saved, God says, when I
see the blood.
They were not saved because they were doing
the best they could.
And paid their honest debts.
And because they were good people.
God says, when I see the blood, I'll
pass over.
And they were not to run out during
the night and look at the blood.
They were to have confidence and faith in
it.
God says, when I see the blood.
He didn't say when they saw it.
And they were not saved because of their
thoughts or their feelings, their experiences.
Not because they regarded the blood.
God says, when I see the blood, I'll
pass over.
To them it was just faith.
Not saved because they went through the ceremony
and were circumcised.
God says, when I see the blood, I'll
pass over.
They were not saved because they belonged to
the church.
The death angel wasn't making a survey of
the neighborhood.
When I see the blood, God says, I'll
pass over.
They were not to open the window and
tell the death angel how good they were.
And how much charity work they did.
If a man had put his neck out
of the window that night, he'd have died.
God says, when I see the blood, nothing
is to be added to it.
Who was saved that night?
Those who believed God?
Those where the blood was sprinkled?
Those that had trusted the blood?
I say to you candidly, I do not
understand it completely.
But I set my seal that God is
true.
And today, it's the shed blood of Christ
that'll save you and nothing else, my friend.
Now, these are the instructions that God gave.
And he said that when he saw the
blood, he would pass over.
Now, that was not some mystic or superstitious
sign at all.
There's a great principle that runs all the
way through the Word of God.
And it is, without shedding of blood, there
is no remission of sin.
In other words, God cannot arbitrarily or big
-heartedly shut his eyes to sin and do
nothing about it, any more than a judge.
When there is brought before him one guilty,
the judge should apply the law and the
penalty should be paid.
And I think, frankly, our problem in America
today has been the laxity that has come
in the enforcement of law.
The important thing is that in God's universe,
while law is inexorable, and the soul that
sinneth, it must die.
Therefore, life must be given up for me,
a sinner.
You see the death sentences on all of
us.
Now, if you will accept Christ by faith,
you'll be saved.
Now, that night in Egypt, on every home,
there would be the death of the firstborn.
The death angel went through, and the blood
was an indication, the application of it on
the doorposts and the linens was an indication
of faith, you see.
That answers the appropriation of a personal faith.
And that was all that was necessary.
They didn't put the blood out there and
something else.
They're good works.
They didn't bring an offering like Cain.
All that was necessary was just simply this.
And the death angel, when he came, when
he saw that, he passed over.