Reference

Exodus 12:1-28

Sermon Slides

Sermon Notes

I. The significance of the                                           plague (v. 1-13)

A. A                                           start for Israel (v. 1-2)

B. Propitiation for                                           (v. 3-11)

C. The LORD Himself will                                           (v. 12-13)

1. In                                           (v. 12)

2. In                                           (v. 13)

II. The purpose of                                           (v. 14-28)

A.                                           (v. 14-16)

B. For                                           (v. 17-20)

C. A picture of the                                           (v. 21-23)

D.                                           others (v. 24-27a)

E.                                            and obedience (v. 27b-28)

Going Deeper Questions

  1. Read Matthew 21:1-11. What happened? What did the people expect?
  2. Read Matthew 26:17-20. What day was it? What did Jesus and his disciples do that night?
  3. Read Exodus 12:1-2. Why will this be a new year for Israel?
  4. Read Exodus 12:5-7. What are the families to do?
  5. Read Exodus 12:12. What is God doing? Why is it significant? J. Alec Motyer: “Unprotected, unsheltered humanity cannot stand in the presence of the Lord as the Judge.”
  6. Read Exodus 12:13. What is God doing? Why is it significant?
  7. When King Josiah celebrated the Passover, he slaughtered more than 37,000 sheep (2 Chron. 35). What does this teach us about the severity of sin? Do you take sin as seriously as you should? Why or why not?
  8. Alec Motyer: “When the lamb died, it was as a substitute for the Lord’s firstborn, the people whom he had chosen, and purposed to redeem.
  9. Read 1 Pet. 2:22; Heb. 4:15; John 19:6b. How is Jesus a spotless Lamb? Read 1 Cor. 5:6-8. How is Jesus our Passover Lamb?
  10. David Murray: “The Old Testament doesn’t just ‘point forward’ to Christ; it reveals him. It isn’t merely a series of signposts to Christ; his revealing shadow falls on every page, exciting faith and love in believing hearts.
  11. Read Exodus 12:14. What does God command his people to do? R. Kent Hughes: “It is because we are so forgetful that God so often commands us to remember: “Remember the Lord who is great and awesome” (Neh. 4:14). “Remember your Creator in the days of your youth” (Eccles. 12:1). “Remember…I am God, and there is no other” (Isa. 46:9). “Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead” (2 Tim. 2:8).”
  12. Read Exodus 12:17. How is Israel a “military”? John Mackay: “They left Egypt like a victorious army that had stripped the vanquished of their spoil and were departing laden with booty. This accorded with the promise that the Lord had made long before to Abraham that his descendants would come out of the land of their enslavement ‘with great possessions’ (Gen. 15:14).”
  13. Read Exodus 12:18-20. God is serious about NO YEAST. Why? R. Kent Hughes: “The last thing [God] wanted [Israel] to do was to take a lump of dough from Egypt that would eventually fill them with the leaven of idolatry. Instead, he wanted them to leave behind all of Egypt’s gods and goddesses — the old life of sin.” How does this apply to our lives as Christians today? What sins do you hang onto? What will you do with those sins this week?
  14. Read Exodus 12:21-23. The instructions are reapeated about the lamb. Desmond Alexander:“Atonement comprises of both paying a ransom and the removal of defilement through cleansing.”How does Jesus do this for us?
  15. Some might say that God will just let everyone into heaven if they are good overall. What does Passover show us? David Thompson says: “God is not some love God who will just love everyone into His heaven and into His eternity. If God does not see the blood of His Lamb applied to a person, that person will be destroyed. It is that clear. Either that sacrificial blood keeps you from God’s wrath or God’s wrath is on you.” Is God’s wrath on you? Why or why not?
  16. Alec Motyer: “When the wrath of God is applied in its essential reality, no one is safe. There were two nations in the land of Egypt, but they were both resistant to the word of God; and if God comes in judgment none will escape.” Thankfully, God also came in mercy!
  17. Sonship is a theme in Exodus. Read Exodus 4:22b-23. What is God doing at Passover? Peter Enns says: “The great irony is that the truefirstborn Son is not protected as was Israel, but he has become the enemy of God, as was Egypt. In his death, God’s firstborn Son is more like Egypt in that he bears God’s wrath. But three days later he rises to exaltation.”
  18. Read Rom. 5:9; Eph. 1:7; Heb. 13:12; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; 1 Jn. 1:7. What does the blood of Jesus accomplish? Take time to thank God for salvation through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross for you!