Text: Exo 12:3
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth day of this month they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for an house:
Introduction: Let us consider the
relationship of the entire family to God.
I. The Family and God.
A. The family is God's idea and is a
divine institution.
B. The family has always been connected
with the blood of sacrifice.
1. Adam and Eve.
Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD
God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
2. Noah and family.
Gen 8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his
wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Gen 8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every
fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
Gen 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and
took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Gen 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;
and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination
of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I
again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
3. Abraham and Isaac.
Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both
of them together.
Gen 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his
horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered
him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
4. Passover [text]
5. Philipian jailor.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
II. Consider the family without a lamb and the
implications.
A. They had no promise of deliverance.
B. They had a house doomed to sorrow.
Exo 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the
LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from
the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and
all the firstborn of cattle.
Exo 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a
great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where
there was not one dead.
C. A home without Christ has no savior.
The hardest funeral a preacher is called upon to
conduct, is when death hits such a home.
III. Consider the family with the
Passover slain and the blood applied.
A. Rejoicing in the midst of sorrow.
B. In the midst of condemnation, a
promise of deliverance.
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token
upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
IV. Behold the Lamb of God.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto
him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world.
A. Our heavenly father has provided the
Lamb.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
B. He was found to be without blemish.
Luke 23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and
to the people, I find no fault in this man.
C. He was cut off from his flock.
D. His blood was shed for deliverance
from sin.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
E. The whole family is blessed when dad
and mom trust and apply the blood.
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