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A Meal to Remember
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Pastor Jojo Ma
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Exodus 12:43-13:10
The Jewish Passover was not merely something to be looked back upon; it pointed toward something even greater in the future: the coming of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away all our sin.
In the Old Testament, a type can be a person, like Moses, or a practice, like Passover, or an event like the Exodus from Egypt, and these types show us a pattern of the salvation we have in Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 5:7-8 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I. A shared meal [v47]
II. An exclusive meal [vv43-45]
III. A signifying meal [vv3-7]
IV. A teaching meal [vv8-10]
I. A shared meal [v47]
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
50-51 All the people of Israel did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
Christians should not only value our unity with God but our community as His redeemed people. We should love the fellowship of the saints and the priority of gathering as God’s people in Christ.
Heb 10:24-25 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
II. An exclusive meal [vv43-45]
43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No foreigner or hired servant may eat of it.
This was an exclusive meal, a restricted meal, for those who know and trust and fear God. You don’t celebrate what you don’t love.
The Lord’s Supper and “Fencing the Table”
We “fence the table” because Communion is an exclusive meal too. Just like Passover, Communion is not for everyone. It’s for Christians.
III. A signifying meal [vv3-7]
3 Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. 5 And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
What does this Passover meal signify, point us to? What is it a sign of? Why did God have His people eat lamb and bread as a way to celebrate? Why food? Why consume? What is the point of having an edible sign of salvation?
IV. A teaching meal [vv8-10]
8 You shall tell your son on that day, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.' 9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.
Parents, I want to urge you to leave a legacy of faith for your children and for your children’s children.
This is a good reminder for us all: as a church, as elders, as deacons, as members, as parents, as grand-parents, let’s not waste our opportunities to instruct and model the Christian life to those in our midst.