Sermon
June 2, 2019
FBC of Longmont
Hunter Irvine, Teaching Pastor
+ Open in prayer+ Read John 1: 35-37
Terrace Townhouses
During my elementary school years, my family lived in a townhouse in Annandale, Virginia. The townhouse neighborhood was ethnically diverse with families from various countries such as Pakistan and India.
One day I was playing outside with my friend, and he pointed out a townhouse, which was on the west side of the large complex. The boy told me a Jewish family who live there had sacrificed a Passover Lamb. Then he showed me what they had done with the blood.
After killing a lamb, they took some blood and brushed the blood on the frame over the door and at the sides of the door! I looked at that blood.
This was back in the 1970’s, yet I truly remember that.
The only reason I even knew about the Jewish Passover there in the fifth or sixth grade was since I had watched The Ten Commandments movie.
At the original Passover in Egypt, God instructed every Jewish family to sacrifice a lamb and then put blood from the lamb on the doorframe, above and to the sides of the door. Those who obeyed saved their firstborn child from death.
And God told the Jewish people to continue to sacrifice a Passover lamb every year in order to remember the fact they were delivered by God from slavery in Egypt.
Temporary forgiveness.
In addition to the Passover sacrifice, the Mosaic Law required an array of other animal sacrifices.
Lambs, goats, bulls, rams, and some other animals under certain circumstances, such as birds, were required to be sacrificed!
Temporary forgiveness of sins came through those animal sacrifices.
God was using such incomplete sacrifice to lead to the permanent sacrifice which Jesus would make.
Permanent forgiveness!
Jesus was the permanent atoning sacrifice!!!
The Lamb of God made the supreme sacrifice, being the permanent substitute for the sins of anyone.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The consequence of sin is spiritual death, yet Jesus, who was the perfect Lamb of God, paid the penalty on the cross.
Jewish people no longer need to sacrifice animals!
Jewish people have the offer of the forgiveness of sins because of the perfect atoning sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah on the cross.
And now all people have the offer of the forgiveness of sins because of the perfect atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
I Corinthians 5:7 “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival…”
** There is a new Passover to celebrate, and it is the Passover of Jesus Christ!!
The Gospel
Jesus Christ died on a cross for the forgiveness of sins of anyone. He was the substitute for the wages of sins, which is spiritual death. If you believe in Jesus, then you will have eternal life.
Invitation
I invite anyone who is not in a relationship with Jesus to turn to Him today. All you need to do is believe in Jesus!!
You will be forgiven forever!
