Eat The Lamb

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good shape. And now here's your message. We're gonna have

communion together. I'm going to be speaking on Eat the Lamb,

and go ahead and get your communion elements. You don't

need fancy church elements. I've brought some iced tea and

I've brought a ritz cracker, So I'm just trying to

show you be creative because we're going to be partaking together.

It's not how fancy the elements are, but it's the

understanding of what's available through communion and what Jesus has

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we're going to talk about communion, about eat the lamb,

the Old Testament, What does the Old Testament have to say.

We're going to briefly look at this. We're going to

just hit some points and things that I want you

to see today. What we call communion are the Lord's Supper.

All began with the Israelites exodus from Egyptian bondage, and

that began the introduction of passover. Visual lights have been

in a little over four hundred years, and they had

grown into a very powerful nation, and they had God's

favor and blessing on their life, and God knew it

was now time for them to be delivered from this bondage.

They were about to be set free, but there was

one more plague. Of the Egyptians had faced nine, but

there was one more that the Egyptians had to face.

Here's something though, this is something very interesting and unique

about this plague. That the Israelites would be subject to

this plague as well unless they had proper preparation and protection.

Preparation and protection. And this is what I want you

to see about the Lord's Supper for you and I.

We can have preparation for the things that we're facing

right now, and we can have protection. They had to

slay an animal. Most of them would have used the lamb,

So I'll just be referring to a lamb throughout this

and entire ape. That's Christ for us. So when we

get over to the New Testament, you'll see how Christ

fulfilled this. And they were to apply the blood of

the lamb to their home on the sidepost and the

top lentil for our protection. And then they were to

eat the roasted lamb. And those elements are represented for

us in communion. Let's look at two verses in Exodus

chapter twelve, and I want this to come alive to you.

Exodus twelve, verse seven. Then they are to take some

of the blood and put it on the sides and

tops of the door frames of the houses where they

eat the lamb. Verse eight. That same night, they are

to eat the meat roasted over the fire. Now get

this along with bitter herbs. Now, if you're at home,

say that with me. Bitter herbs and braid bread made

without yeas. That verse eight really speaks to me. I

want this to come alive. So the blood was applied

to the door frames in the top lentil, and they

were eat to eat the roasted meat, and they were

to put bitter herbs on the meat in preparation. And

the bread was to be made without yeast, and yeast

in the Bible is always a reference to sin. So

in essence, they were to make this bread leave any

sin behind. They were getting ready to leave exodus and

go out and be brought into the Promised Land eventually,

and we're to leave sin behind, and that we do

that we make a confession of that when we have

communion together. Before things are mentioned here blood, meat, bitter

herbs on the meat, and bread without yeast, specific instructions.

Now I want to bring up a thought here, and

I want you to track with me for a moment,

especially the time we're in history. If you sprinkled the

blood on the doorpost, that's awesome, that's part of the atonement.

Absolutely your salvation in type for us redemption for those

in the Old Testament. Right here the death angel passing

by for us in type when we apply to our

homes the coronavirus passing by any other type of plague,

or any other type of sickness. But to appropriate all

that the atonement meant and what it means for us,

you had to eat the lamb. And if you ate

the lamb, you cooked it. You were to put some

bitter herbs on it. Now here's the deal. The enemy

of our soul, the devil, and his trickery. He would

have us turning things upside down and getting the cart

before the horse, and getting us completely out of balance

in this time, and this is a time for balance

in our life like never before. We need balance in

our lives, in our families. It might be a time

where many are getting their life into balance for the

first time. In what the devil himself back by the

legion of demons and all those forces, he will arrange

for you to have the opportunity to eat more herbs,

more bitter herbs than you eat the nourishing lamb. If

you're not diligent in this critical hour we all live in,

including myself, we can participate in large servings of tribulation

and bitter herbs. The call today March twenty ninth, twenty twenty,

seeing the example in the Book of Exodus, people who

were preparing for their deliverance. You and I preparing for

our freedom in our deliverance. Let's get back to eating

the lamb and slow down on bitter herbs. It's a

choice you make. You have to renew your mind and

you have to stay focused in this hour. You know,

Jesus speaking to his disciples, he said this in John,

these things I've spoken unto you because in me you

can have peace. You can have peace in this world.

You are going to have some tribulation. You are, we're

having some right now. But he says, be of good cheer.

I have overcome the world. Jesus has overcome this. It

is a moment of tribulation and trial, different complications, different

ones that maybe are facing this. We pray for them.

We don't take that lightly. But if we put too

many herbs on the lamb, on our relationship with Jesus,

the bitter herbs will make the lamb bitter. You know.

It just takes a little bit of something bitter, bitter

herbs on the meat to make a very flavorable, tasty substance,

something very very good. Those of you that are chefs.

I'm not, but those of you that are. You put

all kinds of things on your meat by themselves, they

would not be good. Too much of it it would

ruin the meat. But the right proportion it makes it good.

So let's not let too much of this tribulation, this

bitter herb, get on our relationship with the Lord. You know, personally,

I like garlic as a seasoning. I'm from Louisiana. I

like things seasoned well. But have you ever had something

to eat where the chef got carried away with the garlic?

For days, all you taste is garlic. If anyone gets

around you that's had that, after you've eaten all that garlic,

they know you've had too much garlic. What I'm saying

is the trap the devil makes available, is that a

participant pay right now and everything and anything but the lamb,

and you and I are going to eat the lamb

in Jesus' name, Let's just slow down. Let's get our

feet on the rock on Jesus, keep our fixation on God.

Lean into this relationship. I challenge you in the morning,

don't turn on the news first. Turn on the best

news first, the good news first. Build yourself up and

let God speak to you, eat from the lamb our

own passover, and let's not allow too much of this

bitterness and distribulation to spoil the meat. Our priority is

keep the blood on the doorpost, keep the blood of

Jesus over your life, keep the lamb on the table,

and let's just watch God do something through this. You know,

it'd be interesting to videotape your life right now. I

bet for many of you it's very calm and very soothing,

and it's great. Those of you, though with children, are

grandchildren at home with you twenty four to seven, and

you're trying to homeschool, and this, that and the other.

It's probably a zoo. In fact, your home might look

like a zoo. What I've enjoyed different people are sending

me pictures of what they're doing creatively. They're out fishing

with their family, they're reading, they're playing games outside, they're

doing board games inside, they're reading the Bible, they're worshiping,

they're doing things where they're allowing to pull the lamb

up and eat and get well and stay well. For

any of us right now, life has been totally altered.

Am I little saying I feel like a fish out

of water. Now I'm still moving and I'm still squirming,

but it is a little bit awkward if I'm honest.

Here's my pastor or advice, wherever possible. Shut down some

of the voices, the things that are clanging for your attention,

the bitter earth herbs that want to just spoil your

joy and make you focus on the tribulation rather than

the deliverance. Close the door to those unnecessary distractions and

those fears they're real. Shut the door to them. Put

the blood over the doors of your house, your spiritual house,

and your family. Pull yourself up to the table and

eat from the lamb until you are well and strong

and you're ready for this journey. Amen, I'm talking about

just take advantage of this slowdown. Feast on Jesus because

he's our health. Read the Word of God, worship, put

some worship music on. Read materials in books that are

going to build your faith. Have Thanksgiving going on. Here's something. Laugh,

laugh a lot, Smile your face won't break. It might

actually cause a contagiousness of others in your home. Be

sure whatever you eat spiritually right now, it's centered on Jesus.

Then you can tell others what you've partaken of and

they can receive strength from you because you've experienced him,

you know him, you've been partaking of him. You share

what's in you. Anyway, out of the abundance of the heart,

the mouth speaks. So what are some of the first

things that come out of your mouth when you're speaking

to someone on the home? Are in social distancing? We

have the opportunity right now to be the church like

never before. I know it would not be appropriate to

me and gather as a group because of just how

this disease spreads. But this does not stop the church.

I encourage you be more creative than ever before. You

can be more effective in this hour. Let's get to

the New Testament. Now, New Testament communion move over there.

After the ascension of Christ, the Christian Church recognize that

Christ became our passover. They saw the correlation. They understood it.

One Corinthians five, verse seven. Get rid of the old yeast,

so that you may be a new, unleaven batch as

you really are. What you are, you're new for Christ

our passover, Lamb. He has been sacrificed, Jesus fulfilled passover.

He became the lamb. Therefore, he eliminated the necessity of

the yearly sacrifice. As I've said before, aren't you're so

glad you didn't have to bring fidoh or some other

animal to sacrifice a church. Jesus has paid that the

cup representing the blood and the bread representing the body

the meat became a symbol of the completed work accomplished

at the death of Christ. We as believe we received

the cup and bread to celebrate the finished work of Christ.

The apostle Paul informed the church at corinth about the

importance of having the believer received the Lord's supper. It's important.

That's why we're going to do this together momentarily first

Corinthians eleven, starting in verse twenty four, And when he

had given thanks, he broke it and said, this is

my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance

of me, in remembrance of Jesus Christ. In the same way,

after supper, he took the cup, saying, this cup is

the new covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you

drink it in remembrance of me, in remembrance of Christ's

life and his death and what he paid for for.

Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup. You

are proclaiming the Lord's death that finished work until he comes.

After Jesus was raised from the dead, he again was

breaking bread in the home of his disciples and his

followers Luke twenty four, verse thirty. Luke twenty four, verse thirty.

When he was at the table with them, with the disciples,

he took bread, he gave thanks, broke it and began

to give it to them verse thirty one. Then their

eyes were open and they recognized him, and he disappeared

from their sight. This particular illustration was with those on

the road to Emmaeus, and there they have Jesus with him,

and they didn't even realize it. But when they broke

the bread and he blessed it and they partook, suddenly

their eyes were open. I said, their eyes were open.

I'm telling you there's something about communion, and you understanding

whatever represents When you partake of it, your eyes, your

spiritual eyes, your heart art can be opened. Let's go

back up to Matthew twenty five, verse twenty six through

twenty eight. I want you to see this when he

was with the disciples, because I skipped that originally While

they were eating, Jesus took bread. When they had given thanks,

he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying,

take eat. This is my body. Then he took a cup,

and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying,

drink from it, all of you. This is my blood

of the Covenant, which has poured out for many for

the forgiveness of sins. You can see he had the

Lord's supper with the disciples and with those on the

road to Emmaeus. I believe there's just something so significant

when we understand the importance of this. So here we

are today, right now, March twenty ninth, a deadly disease

of virus that's sweeping not only our state in all

fifty states, but literally the world. This outbreak of the coronavirus.

What are you doing about it? What are you thinking

about it? We need a revelation of our full atonement.

Our protection can be supernatural, just as it was for

the children of Visual and their exodus. So I've sent

these points to get to hear. Here we go two

things from the Old Testament. Number one, the lamb's blood

on the door post restrained the destroying angel from taking

the life of one single Hebrew. That's awesome. Two, the

roasted lamb with just a little bit of herb, bitter herbs,

brought physical healing to an entire nation. And one night

it says no one was feeble. That was a big

group of people, Not one of them were feeble. New

Testament application. Let's understand this. If the blood and the

body of an earthly lamb restrained the destroyer and it

brought health, It refrained the destroyer and it brought health,

how much more can the blood and the body of

Christ protect you and I the believer? This is awesome news.

Let that become a revelation. Let it become a foundation,

revelation and a foundation. As the ancient Hebrew nation ate

the lamb and received healing and applied the blood for protection. Likewise,

we're going to partake of the bread and the cup

to receive our healing. Some of you might need a

physical healing today. Receive that by faith, and we're going

to drink the blood or the juice or the orange juice,

whatever you have, and proclaim that as a protection over

our family and our homes. John six, verse fifty three.

Jesus said to them. I tell you the truth. Unless

you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and

drink his blood, you have no life in you. There's

something about the revelation of this communion. It brings you life,

and people are looking for others who have life. We're

gonna have some life. Verse fifty five. Jesus said, my

flesh is real food, my blood is real drink verse

fifty six. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood

remains in me and I in him Verse fifty seven.

Just as the Living Father sent me, and I live

because of the Father, so the one who feeds on

me will live because of me. You will live because

of Jesus. Verse fifty eight. This is the bread that

came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died.

They passed away. But he who feeds on this bread

will live forever. And that's talking about our eternal salvation.

You're eating it by faith as a proclamation. Jesus is

my Lord, and I'm gonna live forever. You drink the cup.

Jesus is my Lord, and I'm gonna live forever. I

am so wanting this to become just life to you

and come alive in your spirit. Picture that communion cup

and the bread in the manner that you would nutrients

from the food you're eating right now at your house.

Proper foods are high and beneficial nutrients that when they're

released in our bodies, when the food molecules are broken down,

it brings you life and health. You know, I can

hold up a plate of food. This is just a

little thing. I have the cracker in. But I could

hold up a plate of food all day long and

tell you, oh, wow, this is good for you. Man,

this is good. Wow, this is good, and then just

eat it, not give you any put it back down.

It's not going to do you any good. No vitamins,

no protein, no minerals. Nothing. Likewise, we can talk about

the fact that Christ died on the cross to save us,

and he was beaten and he was bruised to heal us,

but simply discussing that that event has no impact on

your life unless you believe in your heart and you

confess Jesus with your mouth. That's in Romans ten. You

believe and you confess, you partake, you're doing something with it.

So when we eat the bread and drink the cup,

it is more than flour or whatever you're using for

the body. It's more than a cup grape juice. It's

not a routine. It's not to be a routine. Just

our confession leads to salvation, and God honors our prayers

when we pray in conviction and repentance. Wise, the Father

honors an act of faith when we partake of communion.

Our healing has been bought through Christ's suffering. But we

need to properly discern the body of Christ. The Word

of God tells us that we must comprehend what really

happened at the whipping post, the piercing of his side,

the thorns on his head, the nails in his hands,

the nails in his feet. When we take communion in

remembrance what he did, and you understand that, get ready

for something great. You're stewarding the greatest testimony in history. Listen,

we need faith right now because we're human. I need faith.

If I really receive that and understand that my faith,

your faith, it will lead to hope. People. We need hope,

and so does everyone else around you. Hope is what

connects us to the future. But the moment you lose hope,

that's the moment you're disconnected to the future. I want

to pray, just like if I had hundreds of people

right here, right now, I'm going to pray. We're going

to make a confession about Jesus being Lord and savior.

You might be just a wholehearted follower after Christ. I

encourage you to do this anyway. Maybe you've been away

from Christ. I encourage you to believe it and mean

it and say it. Maybe you've never accepted Christ and

you can see what He's done for you. Would you

pray with me right where you are, wherever you are,

and let's allow Jesus to be our lord before we partake.

Would you bow with me as I lead us in

a prayer? Just repeat after me. Dear Jesus, I acknowledge

you as the way, the truth, and the life. I

need a savior, and you're the only way. You're the

only connection I have to a holy God. You made

a way through your sacrifice, your crucifixion, your blood, your

broken body, the full atonement of all that means. So

I declare, and I say, right now, Jesus is my Lord,

he is my savior. Forgive me Lord of all my

sin and become the center of my heart in my life,

I declare I will live forever as Jesus said, for

those that partake of you. So I thank you today.

I am saved in Jesus's name. Amen, I'm excited for you. Now.

If you will, wherever you are, would you get the

body of the Lord, the lamb that we're not going

to let too much tribulation or bitter herbs. Get upon

what we eat right now, for this day, for this week,

for the duration of what we face. If you need

to break it, if it's a loaf of bread or whatever,

go ahead and do that. I'm gonna bless it, and

we're gonna partake. And by doing this, you're saying, Lord,

I'm leaning into you and I'm gonna eat a lot

from you every day. So let me bless the broken body. Jesus.

I thank you for your body that was broken for us,

for the price that you paid. I thank you, Lord.

There's so much in your atonement we didn't even have

time to mention. But by eating of this, we're receiving strength.

We're making a declaration we're not gonna get brought into

too much of the fear, in worry and anxiety, we're

gonna walk in wisdom. But we're not gonna be destroyed

by this. We're gonna be made through this time of

tribulation in our life. We're gonna partake of you. We

thank you that you're our Lord in our savior. In

Jesus' name, let's partake. Take your cup. I've got my

iced tea. Let it represent the blood. Put it over

the doorpost of your house, of your vehicle. It's your workplace,

your children, your family, your neighbors. Let's apply it that

the death angel, sickness and disease won't touch you. Father,

we thank you for your blood. It never loses its power.

It's so powerful. We understand what it represents. And Father,

as we partake of this right now, I thank you Lord,

your broken body, your blood. It's bringing healing to people's

bodies right now who need a touch from you, who

need to be freed from fear or worry. And I

thank you Lord you encouraging them, and we're careful to

give Jesus all the praise in Jesus' name. Let's partake

together now. Each occasion you have to have communion at

your home. Encourage you to do it. You might do

this once a week right now, or every week, every

other week, or every day, whatever you want to do.

It's an opportunity to say and proclaim and confess. I

hereby lay hold of all the benefits of Jesus Christ,

full redemption from my life, forgiveness, wholeness, strength, health, sufficiency, peace, calmness,

a sound mind. And when we use communion as a

tool for intercession, hear me, it is a tool for intercession.

We are not only realigning ourselves with Christ, but we're

proclaiming the reality of Heaven over every area of our lives. Listen,

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