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The sermon interprets the Passover lamb as a divinely appointed type fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Christ is presented as spotless, set apart, sacrificed in the appointed place, and effective to save those who personally receive His blood by faith. Salvation is not secured by morality, religious formality, church affiliation, or charitable works, but by Christ’s atoning sacrifice. Those saved by Him must also continue to feed on Him spiritually as their ongoing source of life and sanctification.
Theological center: Jesus Christ is the true Passover Lamb whose substitutionary atoning death delivers His people from God’s judgment and clothes them in His righteousness.
Applications: Seek Christ’s Sprinkled Blood · Feed Daily Upon Christ · Reject Self-Righteous Salvation · Consider Christ as the Passover Lamb
Primary texts: 1 Corinthians 5:7 · Exodus 12:1-32 · John 6:53-66
“For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” 1 Corinthians 5:7 THE more you read the Bible, and the more you meditate upon it, the more you will be astonished with it. He who is but a casual reader of the Bible does not know the height, the depth, the length, and breadth of the mighty meanings contained in its pages. There are certain times when I discover a new vein of thought, and I put my hand to my head and say in astonishment, “Oh, it is wonderful I never saw this before in the Scriptures.” You will find the Scriptures enlarge as you enter them, the more you study them the less you will appear to know of them, for they widen out as we approach them. Especially will you find this the case with the typical parts of God’s Word. Most of the historical books were intended to be types either of dispensations, or experiences, or offices of Jesus Christ. Study the Bible with this as a key and you will not blame Herbert when he calls it “not only the book of God, but the God of books.” One of the most interesting points of the Scriptures is their constant tendency to display Christ, and perhaps one of the most beautiful figures under which Jesus Christ is ever exhibited in sacred writ, is the Passover Paschal Lamb. It is Christ of whom we are about to speak tonight. Israel was in Egypt in extreme bondage. the severity of their slavery had continually increased till it was so oppressive that their incessant groans went up to heaven. God who avenges His own elect, though they cry day and night unto Him, at last determined that He would direct a fearful blow against Egypt’s king and Egypt’s nation, and deliver His own people. We can picture the anxieties and the anticipations of Israel, but we can scarcely sympathize with them, unless we as Christians have had the same deliverance from spiritual Egypt. Let us, brethren, go back to the day in our experience, when we abode in the land of Egypt, working in the brick-kilns of sin, toiling to make ourselves better, and finding it to be of no avail. Let us recall that memorable night, the beginning of months, the commencement of a new life in our spirit, and the beginning of an altogether new era in our soul. The Word of God struck the blow at our sin, He gave us Jesus Christ our sacrifice, and in that night we went out of Egypt. Though we have passed through the wilderness since then, and have fought the Amalekites, have trodden on the fiery serpent, have been scorched by the heat and frozen by the snows, yet we have never since that time gone back to Egypt. Although our hearts may sometimes have desired th…