1. The Lessons of the
Passover…7 images of
Jesus the Messiah
Lesson IX… The Sabbath and the Feasts
Series

2. LESSON 1: The Lesson of
Lamb’s Selection

3. The Lamb’s Selection…
It had to be from their own flock –
a healthy male yearling
They were to examine it for 4 days
(Deut. 15:21)
What affect do you think this had
on the household?

4. The Lamb’s Selection…
They fed & cared for lamb (4) days
They grew attached to the lamb
They may have even named it…the lamb had a
unique identity that they recognized
Do you think they enjoyed eating it?

5. JESUS is the Lamb of
God
He was
He was He was found People
selected examined perfect and had
from for 4 days without followed
among before the and grown
His own He was blemish of attached
sin to Him
people slain (Matt. 19:1-2)
(John 18:38)

6. The Lesson of the Lamb’s
Judgment
LESSON II

7. Lesson II: The Lamb’s
Judgment
Passover lamb was
born & selected
for a purpose
Passover lamb was
Passover lamb slain
identified and
& roasted with fire
marked for death

8. LESSON OF
THE
LAMB’S
JUDGMENT
-
JESUS THE
LAMB WAS
JUDGED BY
GOD FOR
US…

9. JESUS in the Lamb’s
Judgment
He was foreknown & foreordained to die
1 Peter 1:19-20
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter
Isaiah 53:7

10. “…but with the precious blood of Christ , a
lamb without blemish or defect. He was
chosen before the creation of the world,
but was revealed in these last times for
your sake.”
1 Peter 1:19-20

11. “He was oppressed
and afflicted, yet He
did not open His
mouth; He was led
like a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a
sheep before her
shearers is silent, so
He did not open His
mouth .”
Isaiah 53:7-some secular scholars used to teach that there were
multiple versions of Isaiah written after the death of Christ to fit the
events…but in 1948 we found a complete copy of Isaiah intact with the
Dead Sea Scrolls…it was just as you read it today in your Bible

12. FIRE IN SCRIPTURE
Fire in scripture is symbolic of God’s Judgment
God brought down fire on Sodom & Gomorrah
Aaron’s sons Nadab & Abihu were consumed by
fire for approaching God inappropriately
Jesus warns against the fires of hell

13. JESUS in the Lamb’s
Judgment
 Messiah would suffer
fire & wrath of God’s
judgment [Is. 53:10-11]
 God made Him to be
sin for us [2 Cor. 5:21]
 So intense was God’s
judgment that Jesus
cried out, “My God, My
God why hast thou
forsaken me?”
 Was it just pain from
physical judgment?

14. None of the Bones of the
Lamb Were to be Broken…
 “It (the lamb) is to be eaten in a single
house; you are not to bring forth any
of the flesh outside of the house nor are
you to break any bone of it.”
Exodus 12:46

15. THE PASSOVER LAMB THE LAMB OF GOD
 Passover Lamb – No  Jesus was battered &
broken bones bruised but no bones were
 Exodus 12:46 broken
 John 19:31-36
JESUS- the Lamb- God’s
Judgment fell on Him instead of
us

16. No Bones Were Broken
“Then the Jews…so that the bodies would not remain on
the cross on the Sabbath…asked Pilate that the legs be
broken…so the soldiers came and broke the legs of the
1st man…but coming to Jesus when they saw He was
already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the
soldiers pierced His side and immediately blood and
water came out…For these things came to pass to fulfill
the Scriptures…
John 19:31-36

17. Lesson of the Lamb’s
Judgment
Passover lamb is a type, a foreshadowing
of Jesus, the true Lamb of God
Over 30 times in Scripture Jesus is called
“The Lamb of God”-A clear reference to Jesus
as our Passover Lamb
Jesus was judged in our place just as it was
predicted in the Scripture

18. LESSON III:
THE LESSON OF THE
LAMB’S
PERSONALIZATION
AND

19. Moishe & Ceil Rosen point out
something interesting in KJV
about the Passover Lamb (Ex. 12:3-
5)-turn there with me…

20. The Lamb’s
Personalization and
Appropriation
In Ex. 12:3 – God tells Israelites to take “a lamb”
Lamb is unknown to them at that point, but
It had to meet God’s criteria, and
They had to search for it

21. The Lamb’s
Personalization and
Appropriation
In Ex. 12:4 - God refers to lamb as “The Lamb”
Now we have found “The Lamb” after our search
It is the unique one that is set apart
It meets all of God’s criteria

22. Lesson of The Lamb’s
Personalization
 In Exodus 12:5 – God
refers to the lamb as
“YOUR LAMB”
 It is personal now
 Each redeemed soul had
to appropriate a lamb for
himself
 God identifies the lamb
with the person who finds
and appropriates it

23. Paul reminds us of this
personal appropriation in
Galatians…
“I have been crucified with
Christ; and it is no longer
I who live but Christ lives
in me, and the life I now
live in the flesh I live by
faith in the son of God,
who loved me and gave
Himself up for me.”
Galatians 2:20

24. The Lamb’s Personalization
and appropriation…
The one who loved me
“I now live by • The one gave Himself up for
faith” me personally
• Faith in the Son, the • The one Who took my sin
“It is Christ” Lamb upon Himself
• The appropriated • Faith that I am alive • The one Who endured
lamb, my lamb – who to Christ ridicule and rejection and the
lives in me • I put my faith in cross for me
• I am dead to self Christ because He • The one Who conquered the
“No longer • I am empowered by is the one who grave and sin and death and
rose from the dead for me
I who live” His Holy Spirit loved me enough to
die for me • The one Who lives so I can
• It is about His
• To myself agenda not mine live also in eternity with Him
irresponsibly and • The one who has prepared a
selfishly place for me in Heaven
• Alone and
misguided

25. Jewish people knew that
sacrifice of the lamb was:
1. A personal responsibility
and appropriation
2. A 1st step of liberation
3. The sacrifice & covering of
the blood was the 1st step in
the journey

26. Lesson IV: The Lesson of
the Bitter Herbs

27. “They shall eat the flesh that
same night, roasted with fire, and
they shall eat it with unleavened
bread and bitter herbs.”
Exodus 12:8

28. In Scripture bitterness often
symbolizes hardship or death….
“They made their lives
bitter with hard labor
in mortar and bricks
and at all kinds of
labor in the field, all
their labors which
they rigorously
imposed on them.”
Exodus 1:14

29. The Lesson of the Bitter
Herbs
 Reminds them of bitterness
Israelites suffered in bondage.
 During Seder – Maror (bitter
herbs) eaten twice – alone &
with Matzah in a sandwich
 Jews were reminded that they
escaped bitterness of Egypt
and death
 They lived and escaped God’s
judgment because the lamb
died instead

30. Similarly…Our Lesson from
the bitter Herbs is That…
We also were caught in the bitterness and
bondage of our own Egypt
Because Jesus the Lamb died, we also
appropriated His blood personally and we
escaped sin and death
We also escaped the bitterness of sin and
death because God’s judgment fell on Jesus
We also were liberated and received life

31. Lesson V
THE LESSON OF THE
UNLEAVENED BREAD

32. Unleavened Bread
 They…entire community…ate the Passover
lamb with bitter herbs and unleavened bread
 Then they ate no more leaven for 7 days
 They were to clean or purge their houses of
leaven and those who didn’t would be “cut off”
 [Exodus 12:14-16]…Any NT parallels or
implications for us today?...See [1Cor. 5:9-13]

33. Q: What Does Leaven Symbolize in
Scripture?
A: SIN!

34. Lesson of Unleavened Bread
 After appropriating the blood of the
Lamb…the believer is to put away the
leaven (sin) of his old life…to purge it
 They were to “cut off” from fellowship
those who refused to purge the leaven

35. Leaven…
1. Was part of everyday life and its effects
had obvious meaning
2. Hebrew word for leaven “chometz”
means “bitter” or “sour”
3. Sin makes people bitter and sour
4. Leaven causes dough to rise & creates
the appearance of volume…but
5. It’s not really more in substance or
weight but only in air that puffs it up

36. Reminds me of Paul’s
words about being puffed
up…
 “Now … we know that we all have
knowledge. Knowledge makes
arrogant (puffs up in some
translations), but love edifies. If
anyone supposes that he knows
anything, he has not yet known as he
ought to know; but if anyone loves
God, he is known by Him.”
(1 Cor. 8:1-3)

37. Lesson of the Leaven
 What kind of sin is it when knowledge
makes you arrogant?

38. PRIDE
 Often it’s the result of
ability, wealth or knowledge
we believe is “superior”
 It causes people to be puffed
up, putting themselves
above others
 What effect does pride have
on relationships?
 Do you like being around
prideful people for very
long?

39. In: The Abolition of Man
 C.S. Lewis uses the chest as a
metaphor for the center of man’s
magnanimity, emotion and
compassion. He argues that it (the
chest) is what makes man human.
It is a mitigating force between the
intellect and the appetite.

40. From: The Abolition of
Man
 According to Lewis modernism & secularism…
“produce men without chests. It is an outrage
that they should be commonly spoken of as
intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say
that he who attacks them attacks intelligence.
It is not so. It is not the excess of thought but
defect of fertile and generous emotion that
marks them out. Their heads are no bigger
than ordinary, it is just the atrophy of the chest
beneath that makes it seem so.”
C.S. Lewis

41. THE APOSTLE PAUL’S VERSION…
“If I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels but do not have love, I have become a noisy
gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of
prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but
do not have love, I am nothing.”
(1 Cor. 13: 1-2)

42.  ANOTHER
PROBLEM WITH
PRIDE…
QUESTION: What
is usually the cynic’s
charge against the
church…the thing
people sometimes see
in the church that
they say causes them
to stay away? It is a
form of leaven and a
form of pride…

43. Lesson of the Leaven
 Jesus warned against the leaven of the
Pharisees when he said to his disciples
in Luke 12:1: “…beware the leaven of
the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”

44. Lesson of the Leaven
 A hypocrite says one thing publically and does another
privately…Pride says, “I am above the rules; they don’t
apply to me. I’ll hold others accountable but not me. I’m
special or exempt.” Jesus warns that all hypocrisy (sin)
will be exposed one day …
 Question: Besides double standards there are many other
ways pride can lead to hypocrisy…C.S. Lewis wrote these things about
pride: “A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of
humility.” or “…to avoid a man because he is wicked-with the all but
inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)-
is dangerous and disgusting .” Pride is deceptive to the proud. We don’t
always recognize it in ourselves; we can’t.