Good Friday | The Lamb | Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer

It's Good Friday
We want to skip to Resurrection Sunday
Flashback Friday
Holy Week
Palm Sunday - Hosanna
Monday - Flip The Tables
Tuesday - Judas agrees to betray Jesus
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - Last Supper & Betrayal
Good Friday - Crucifixion, death & burial
Saturday - Silent
Resurrection Sunday
Go to Exodus 12
Good Friday = The Purpose of why Christ came
Jesus preached and taught
So simple that kids could understand yet so deep the religious leaders couldn't understand
Jesus also came to heal the sick
But the purpose of Christ's coming was actually to die
John 1:29 says, "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus is referred to as Lamb 29x and 1x as Lion
Lamb is the preferred title of Jesus
Hebrew people have been slaves for 400 years
God raises up a deliverer
9 plagues
Exodus 12:1-3 says, "The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household."
1 lamb per household to cover them
Genesis 4 = Lamb per person
After the Law is given = 1 lamb for the entire nation
Jesus is the Lamb for not just a person or a household or a nation but the entire world
Exodus 12:4-6 says, "If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight."
Twilight = 3-6pm
Jesus was crucified at 9am and breathed his last breath around 3pm = Twilight
Exodus 12:7-13 says, "Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs,and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. 12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt."
I am thankful that the blood of Jesus has been applied to the doorpost of my heart and the Lord has passover my sin
The reason Good Friday is Good is because Christ took our place and His blood was shed so ours would not be
Paul said we preach Christ and Him crucified
It is the power of the cross that breaks the power of sin
Tonight we remember the Lamb slain on the cross for our sins
Colossians 2:13-15 says, “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
There is still power in the blood
There is still power in the cross
OT strange story but is a pic of Jesus
Hebrew people are impatient
Numbers 6:4-9 says, “They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!” 6 Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.”
Bronze serpent on pole is pic of Jesus on cross
People only had to look up to be healed
We have all been bitten by the deadly snake of sin
Look to Jesus
Keep your eyes on Jesus