Are you ready to get into YAH's Word today? I
am as well. I want you to open your bibles with me to Exodus chapter three, we're going to begin
with verse one in just a moment and I've entitled this message today, "Amazing Mysteries
Revealed in the Passover." All right so, there are some amazing mysteries that Passover
reveals when we dig deeply into the Scripture, into the original Covenant we will see
the wonderful story of how YAH delivered the children of Yisra'el out of Egypt, He
brought them out, He formed them as a nation. He gave them the pillar of a cloud by day and the
fire by night, He led them through the wilderness, He parted the Red Sea, He delivered to them
the Torah on Mount Sinai and they're wonderful pictures wonderful types of what we have in
Yeshua, and so today my hope is that I'm going to open up some things that that you may not have
seen before because these are amazing mysteries that the Passover reveals to us and so
we're going to start with Exodus chapter 3 and we're going to begin with verse 1 and this
is going to tell us that believers in Yeshua are delivered from the slavery of sin, so when
we read these passages you need to realize that Yeshua has done something in His death, burial,
and resurrection in His providing of the Ruach Ha-Kodesh, the Set-apart Spirit that lives within
us, He's done something to deliver us from slavery that we once were a slave to sin to the evil
inclinations of our flesh, but He's done something remarkable and by believing in Him, we are
emancipated, we are delivered, we're brought out of slavery from sin into righteous living so we're
going to begin here with Exodus 3 and verse 1, it says, "And Mosheh was shepherding the flock of
Yithro, his father-in-law the priest of Midyan, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness
you know interesting and marvelous things happen on the backside of the desert sometime and came to
Horeb the mountain of Elohim. And the messenger of YAH appeared to him (to Mosheh) in a flame of
fire from the midst of a bush and he looked and saw the bush burning with fire but the bush was
not consumed." So that got Mosheh's attention. "And Mosheh said, "Let me turn aside now and see
this great sight, why the bush does not burn." and YAH saw that he turned aside to see and Elohim
called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Mosheh, Mosheh,"" Do you believe that the
Almighty captured Mosheh's attention at this point? I believe He did. "and He said, "Here
I am." and He said, "Do not come near here, take your sandals off your feet, for the place
on which you are standing is set-apart ground." and He said, "I am the Elohim of your father,
the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Yitsaq, and the Elohim of Ya'aqob." and Mosheh hid his
face for he was afraid to look at Elohim." Verse 7 "And YAH said, I have indeed seen the oppression
of My people,"" See now as we read this account of what YAH said to Mosheh, think about what sin
does in your life. Think about the oppression that you felt when you were a slave to sin. All right?
""I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim," Who are in Egypt,
spiritual Egypt is where we came from. "and have heard their cry because of
their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows."" Again, you can apply all these
words to yourself when you were a slave to sin. So what did Sha'ul cry out in Romans 7:24? Listen
to his heart cry when he says here in Romans 7:24. "Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
from this body of death?" The evil inclinations that are residing in my flesh that drive me to sin
to transgress the Torah and that lead me to death. So Sha'ul or the Apostle Paul understood this
whole wonderful passage in Exodus 3 about how YAH had a heart for His people who had been oppressed
by the evil task masters of Egypt and he heard their cries, he saw their tears, he knew their
plight, and so when when Sha'ul is writing Romans 7 don't think for a second that he's not thinking
about this same passage this is the context of what he says in Romans 7. So again, what does
he say? He cries out, wretched man that I am, I'm a slave, I'm a slave to sin and apart from
help there's nothing I can do about it. All right. Who shall deliver me from this horrid situation?
Who shall deliver me from this body of death, from this physical body that houses all of these
evil inclinations that make me a slave to sin. Look at verse 8. "And I have come down to deliver
them from the hand of the Mitsrites," Or from the Egyptians. I have come down, this is YAH speaking.
He's going to come down to His people in Egypt, He's going to deliver them out of
slavery, He's going to bring them out of Egypt and don't think for a second
that Sha'ul wasn't thinking about this when he declared that Yeshua has come to deliver
us and to bring us out of the slavery of sin. It says, "And to bring them up," How many of you
feel like when you believe in Yeshua you came up you were down but you came up? "And to
bring them up from that land to a good land, a spacious land, to a land flowing with
milk and honey," That's walking in the Spirit. "to the place of the Kena'anites and
the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hiwwites and the Yebusites and now see
the cry of the children of Yisra'el has come to me same cry that Sha'ul cried out, "O wretched
man am I and I have also seen the oppression with which the Mitsrites oppressed them," So the
Egyptians are a type of a shadow of demonic forces and what happens in a person's life
when they're a slave to sin and they have no help because they haven't believed in
Yeshua to receive help and they're tormented in their sins and they're ashamed of their sins
but they don't have the power to break out of it. Verse 10 "And now come, I am sending
you to Pharaoh to bring My people the children of Yisra'el out of Mitsrayim.""Out
of Egypt. And so Mosheh is a picture of the body of Messiah once we believe and get delivered
from the slavery of sin ourselves we receive the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit the Father pours
out His Spirit on all flesh on whosoever will whoever believes in Yeshua your sons and your
daughters began to prophesy like Mosheh did, your young men have visions and your old men dream
dreams, upon my men's servants and my maidservants I will pour out of my Spirit in those days and
they shall prophesy - so these early writers understood this story, they were all Hebrew, the
writers of the Apostolic Writings, they understood this story of how Elohim told Mosheh that He was
sending him to Pharaoh into Egypt, Egypt is a type of the evil nations, all right, to bring my people
out and there are people who are potentially His that as the body of Messiah, we are called to all
the nations to prophesy, to bring them out, to bring them out of spiritual Egypt, to bring them
into a good land a place of walking in the Spirit, a place of milk and honey, to bring them up from
that fallen condition. So let's take a look at what I'm talking about here, Mark chapter
16 verse 14. Let's look into the Apostolic Writings of what's called the New Testament and
see that these writings are the equivalent to Mosheh being sent to Egypt. Look at Mark 16
verse 14. "Later He appeared to the eleven as they said at the table. And He reproached
their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen
Him after He was raised," Now isn't it interesting that the very ones that the Almighty uses to
send to the lost and the dying in the world are usually those who don't believe that they're
able to do it? Didn't Mosheh have an issue? Mosheh said, I can't speak, you know, I'm a man
of uncircumcised lips, you know, and he had doubt and he didn't think he could do it and yet,
we see right here as Yeshua begins to speak to the body of Messiah and send them into the
nations, not just Egypt, but all the nations that they also have disbelief, they're also having
issues. Okay? It says, "They did not believe those who had seen him after he was raised." Verse 15
"And He said to them, "Go into all the world,"" Not just Egypt, because Elohim's potential people
are in every nation. "Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature."
And what do we know the Good News is? It's the Good News of freedom from the slavery to sin
and sin is the transgression of the Torah, that's the Good News, that Yeshua has
provided a way for us to be emancipated, to be brought out of slavery to sin, and we
can go and tell it in all the nations of the world. As a matter of fact, it's not the
great request, it's the great commandment. He's commanded us to go like Mosheh and proclaim
the Good News, freedom from slavery. What is our message? That people that are enslaved to sin can
be brought out, that people that are living in spiritual Egypt can be brought out to a good land,
a land flowing with milk and honey, the spirit life. It's the same message. Verse 16 "He who
has believed and has been immersed shall be saved but he who has not believed shall be condemned."
See, if you don't believe and obey the Passover Lamb, Yeshua, and mark your heart's door with
the blood of Yeshua, you will be condemned. That's the Passover message and it's directly
applied to the message that we have when we go into the nations of the world and declare that
through belief in Yeshua people can be delivered from the slavery of sin believe upon Yeshua. Mark
your heart's door with the blood of the Passover Lamb so that when it's time for judgment, judgment
then passes over you. Is it not the same message? HalleluYAH. Verse 17 "and these signs shall
accompany the ones who believe in My Name they shall cast out demons, they shall speak with
renewed tongues, they shall take up snakes, and if they drink any deadly drink it shall by no
means hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall get well." Now do we think this
is new? Is this something completely new? When Mosheh went into Egypt what did he go with?
He went with signs and wonders, he went with miracles to confirm the word that he was speaking
to Pharaoh so that he could bring the people out, so this promise of signs
and wonders is nothing new. HalleluYAH. Verse 19 "Then indeed after the Master
had spoken to them He was received up into the heaven and sat down at the right hand of Elohim."
That's a reference to Psalm 110 and verse 1. Look at verse 20, so powerful. "And they
went out like Mosheh went into Egypt and proclaimed it," Proclaimed this Good News of
deliverance from the slavery of sin. "proclaimed it everywhere while the Master worked with them,"
In case there were those that wouldn't believe it. "and confirmed the word through the
accompanying signs." HalleluYAH. Well I hope that you're as excited on the inside
as I am while I'm bringing this truth to you because this is amazing, this is a an amazing mystery that's coming to light. It is
the Passover message all over again. Now Paul goes on to describe this slavery to
sin in Romans chapter 7 starting with verse 14, now we have studied this quite extensively, but
I wanted to put it in this context because I want you to see slavery. I want you to see why Sha'ul
cried out, O wretched man am I, who will deliver me from this body of death this body that's filled
with evil inclinations that drives me to sin and the sin in my life then ultimately leads me
to death, notice what he says. Do we see slavery here? Romans chapter 7 verse 14, "For we know
that the Torah is spiritual but I am fleshly sold unto sin," What does that mean, sold under
sin? A slave is sold into slavery, is he not? And so this is a term that Sha'ul is using to
depict slavery, I am sold like a slave is sold in the slave market, I am a slave to sin, I'm sold
under sin. Verse 15, for what I work or what I do, I know not, for what I wish, what does he wish to
do? He wishes to obey the Torah, to be obedient, that I do not practice that I do not do, for what I hate, what does he hate?
To disobey the Torah. That I do. See, a slave doesn't get to do what he wants to do, a
slave does what the slave owner says he must do, and this is what Sha'ul is bringing to us, that
he wants to obey the Torah, but he is sold to sin and his flesh the evil inclinations of his flesh,
his flesh is his master at this point. Okay? For what I do I know not for what I wish to do, that
is to be obedient to the Torah I do not practice, but what I hate, that's what he's doing the thing
that he hates the most, disobeying the Torah, verse 16, but if I do what I do not wish I agree
with the Torah that it is good and now it is no longer I that work it or do it but the sin because
I'm a slave to sin dwelling in me for I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good. So he's
targeting his flesh, he's talking about what his flesh is doing to him the fact that he is a slave
to his flesh, for to wish or to desire or to obey is present with me, I want to obey but to work
or to do the good, that's obedience to the Torah, I do not find for the good that I wish to do,
that's obeying the Torah, I do not do but the evil I do not wish to do, that's disobeying the Torah,
this I practice. So this is a slave talking to us about his bondage and the fact that he wants to
do right but he can't, he's stuck he's in slavery, he's got to get set free, okay? Verse
20, and if I do that which I do not wish, that is to disobey the Torah,
it is no longer I who work it or do it but the sin the evil inclinations of
my flesh dwelling in me forcing me to do this I find therefore this law that when I wish
to do the good, that is to obey the Torah, that the evil is present with me I
can't get rid of this slave master for I delight in the Torah of Elohim according
to the inward word man, in other words, my spirit delights in the Torah of Elohim, I wonder
why this verse is not read that often these days? This is Sha'ul, this is the Apostle Paul saying
my spirit man delights in the Torah of Elohim. Now if he wanted to abolish it do you
think he would be delighting in it? He says my spirit delights in the Torah of Elohim,
he's simply referring to Psalm 119 verse 16. But I see another torah, that's a little t torah, that's a law or a dynamic in my members or in my
flesh battling against the torah, little t torah, law or dynamic of my mind the torah of
the mind is the what the will his desire and bringing me into captivity to the torah,
the little t torah, the law or dynamic of sin which is in my members in my fleshly body.
So he's saying I delight in my spirit man in the Torah, I want to obey the Torah, but I have
evil inclinations in my flesh that war against my will my desire to obey the Torah and basically
I'm overcome because I don't have power against this law or dynamic of sin, so it overcomes me
and it drives me to sin to transgress the Torah and that sin itself then will lead me
to death, that's why he's going to cry out here in a moment oh wretched man am
I, who will deliver me from this body of death, I need to be emancipated, I need to
get set free, I need to be free from slavery, who's going to do that for me - that's what
he's saying. Look at verse 24, here's his cry, the Almighty said I've seen their tears and I've
heard their cries and I'm coming down to deliver them, and Sha'ul said, wretched man that I am,
who shall deliver me from this body of death, here's the answer. "Thanks to Elohim through
Yeshua Messiah our Master," In other words, our Passover Lamb, it's our Passover Lamb who
delivers us from the slavery to sin and sets us free to follow Him in obedience to the Torah, so
then Sha'ul says, with the mind or with my will, I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, he
says, with my desire, with my will, with my mind, with my want to, I truly serve the Torah
of Elohim. He's not disparaging the Torah at all here, he's saying everything within me
wants to obey the Torah. How come this verse has not read much these days? But with the
flesh, because he's in his physical body, the torah that's a little torah, the law or
dynamic of sin, in other words, I'm a slave to sin so how do I get set free? We get set free by
believing upon Yeshua Messiah and receiving the Indwelling Set- apart Spirit. Look
at Romans 8 and verse 1. "There is then now," Now that I've believed. "no condemnation,"
What does that mean? No judgment of death. "to those who are in or who have believed upon Messiah
Yeshua," Notice. "who do not walk according to the flesh." In other words, you've been given power
over the flesh so don't walk in your flesh, it's talking about the evil inclinations
of the flesh but according to the Spirit. So we're walking in the Spirit now because the
Spirit will never lead us to transgress the Torah. If you're following the leadership of the Spirit
you will not transgress the Torah. If you're truly following the leadership of the Spirit, you'll
not go around saying the Torah has been abolished. You don't get forgiven by abolishing the law. You don't get set free from sin, which
is the transgression of the Torah, by abolishing the Torah. Well if we just
get rid of the Torah then we won't sin, you get set free from sin which
is the transgression of the Torah by receiving the Indwelling Set-apart
Spirit then you're set free from slavery. Goes on to say, verse two, for the torah
the little t torah, the law or dynamic, of the spirit of the life in Messiah
Yeshua has set me free from the torah, the little t torah, the dynamic the law of sin
and death. In other words, because I have the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit, which is the Spirit
of my Father, who gives me the want to and the power to be obedient, I am freed from the slavery
to sin which is the transgression of the Torah. And then we see in verse 3, "For the Torah being
powerless," In other words, powerless in that it couldn't make people obey it, that's how it was
powerless. "...in that it was weak through the flesh," Because of the evil inclinations of the
flesh. "Elohim, having sent His own Son, Yeshua, in the likeness of flesh of sin," Or in the
likeness of sinful flesh. "and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh," In other words,
He rendered sin powerless in those who would believe upon Yeshua. In other words, He gives
you the power to overcome the evil inclinations of your flesh so that you are no longer a
slave to sin. And then verse 4 is so powerful, "...so that the righteousness of the Torah," Or
the right living prescribed by the Torah, the way we're supposed to live. "should be completed," Or
fulfilled or accomplished or obeyed. "in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to
the Spirit." So Sha'ul makes it very, very plain here that by believing in Yeshua, and there's no
other way, you must believe in Yeshua, and receive the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit, we receive
power over the evil inclinations of our flesh and we are emancipated, we are delivered, we
are brought out of the slavery of sin and it takes us to a good land, one flowing with milk and
honey that is the land of walking in the Spirit. Now let's look at Romans chapter 6 starting
with verse 17 and this is Sha'ul also writing, the Apostle Paul, and notice what he says here.
"But thanks to Elohim that you were servants," All right, your bible may say slaves because that's
what he's talking about. "...you were slaves of sin yet you obeyed from the heart that form of
teaching to which you were entrusted." Now isn't that interesting? Because Sha'ul understands that
to believe upon Yeshua means that you obey Him and so many in religion today they just want to
say if you just make up your mind that Jesus is the Christ then everything's okay and they want to
remove the obedience factor all together because if you're promoting a doctrine of lawlessness
you certainly don't want to talk about obeying. So Sha'ul doesn't put this in the same terms that
modern religion does, he understands that if you believe in Yeshua that means you're going to obey
Yeshua. Now why does he understand that? Because he understands what the Hebrew word "shema"
means it means to hear with your heart and obey and he understood Deuteronomy 18 verses 15 through
19 that we have a commandment in the Torah that we are to shema Yeshua that we are to hear Him,
hear His words with our hearts and obey Him and what did He teach? He taught the Torah, we know
that from Matthew chapter 5. All right, verse 18 "...and having been set free from sin," What are
we set free from? Now this is the emissary Paul, the Apostle Paul telling us what we're set free
from. We're not set free from the law, we're not set free from the Torah, we're not set free from
the instructions of Elohim, what are we set free from? Sin, and what is the bible definition of
sin? The transgression of the Torah, that's what you've been set free from. You've been set free
from transgressing the Torah. Well if you've been set free from transgressing the Torah then what
does that mean you've been empowered to obey the Torah. HalleluYAH. "...and having been set free
from sin you became servants of righteousness I speak as a man because of the weakness of your
flesh for even as you did present your members," He's talking about in the past, you presented
your body, your members, your physical body. "....as servants or slaves of uncleanness and of
lawlessness," You lived like there was no law. "resulting in more lawlessness," That was the
cycle you were in as a slave. "so now present your members," Or your physical body. "as servants
of righteousness," What's this talking about, this righteousness? It's right living as defined
by the Torah. So now you make your body be a slave to you who you're now empowered by the Spirit make
your body do the right thing now that you have the power to do it. "...so now present your members as
servants or slaves of righteousness resulting in set-apartness." Your bible may say holiness.
"For when you were servants or slaves of sin you were free from righteousness," Right living is
defined by the Torah. "what fruit therefore were you having then over which you are now ashamed?"
Yeah, the fruit of a sinful life brings shame, that's the fruit that we were having when we were
in a sinful life and it brought shame to us. "For the end thereof is death, but now having been set
free from," What? Sin. See that's the emancipation you've been set free from, the slavery to
sin which is the transgression of the Torah. "...and having become servants of Elohim, you
have your fruit resulting in set-apartness," Obedience produces set-apartness. See, to be holy
doesn't mean you were born with the holy gene. Some people think that holiness is some sort of
characteristic and some people have more of it than others, some people got more of that gene
and some people didn't get that gene at all. It's not a gene. What sets you apart? Obedience to
the instructions of Elohim. If you really want to be holy obey the bible. What a novel thought.
Why did He give us a bible? So that we could ignore it and say that the vast majority of it
has been abolished? No, He gave us a bible as His instructions and guidelines, He wants us
to obey it. When we obey it, we're like Him, not like the world. So when we're like Him,
what are we? He is what holy, He is set-apart. When we obey the bible, we are set-apart so it's
not a gene, it's not some characteristic that somebody has more than you it's the fact that
you obey the bible. When you obey the bible, you'll not be like the rest of the world. When
you obey the bible, you'll be really different. You'll be different than religion because
much of religion doesn't obey the bible. A lot of religion wants to abolish much of the
bible. You're keeping the set-apart Shabbat today because you want to be set-apart. You're
not making excuses coming up with other days, you're not making the fourth commandment
a principle of rest, pick a day, any day. There is a set-apart day and if you worship
on the set-apart day, you will be set-apart. Broad is the way that leads to destruction,
there are many that are on that path but narrow and difficult is the way that leads
to life and there are few who find it. All right. And then we get to verse 23 which is so often
just lifted right out of the context but notice the context. "For the wages of sin is death," In
other words, what you receive when you practice a life of transgressing the Torah is death. What is
sin? Transgression of the Torah, isn't that right? So what is Sha'ul saying? What you get when you
live a life of transgressing the Torah is death, that's what you get the wages of sin. See, you
don't get to define what sin is, neither do I. The Scripture itself defines what sin is, the
Torah defines what sin is. It also defines what righteousness is. If you disobey the Torah you're
in sin, if you obey the Torah, you're living a right life according to the Scripture and what
you're going to get if you decide to live a lifestyle of sin, which is transgressing the
Torah, what you're going to get is death. "...but the favorable gift of Elohim," In other words,
the blessing you receive when you believe upon Yeshua Messiah and receive the Indwelling Set-
apart Spirit empowering you to obey the truth. Is what? "...everlasting life in Messiah Yeshua
our Master." And what does the Torah itself say about obedience to the Torah? The Torah was given
to bring life and blessing. So when you believe upon Yeshua and receive the Spirit of the Father
who gives you the want to obey and the power to obey and you walk in the Spirit and the Spirit
will never lead you to transgress the Torah and you live a life of living rightly according
to the Scripture it's going to produce what the Torah says Torah obedience will produce and
that is life eternal life and blessing. This is not new to Sha'ul, this is not new to the Apostle
Paul. All right, let's go on to the next mystery. The next mystery that we want to talk about is
that Passover is a celebration of the justice of the Master. So Passover is a celebration
of emancipation from the slavery to sin, that's the first one, and then it's also a
celebration of the justice of the Master. You know the Scripture says that Elohim is a just Elohim,
is He not? He judges with righteous judgment, He not only gave His Torah but He lives by His
Torah, and so let's look at Exodus chapter 12 starting with verse 33. "And the Mitsrites,"
Or the Egyptians. "were strong on the people," They were adamant. "to hasten to send them the
Israelites away out of the land," So they wanted them out of the land. "for they said we are all
dying and the people took their dough before it was leavened," Talking about unleavened bread.
"having their kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders and the children of
Yisra'el had done according to the word of Mosheh and they had asked from the Mitsrites," From
the Egyptians. "objects of silver and objects of gold and garments. And YAH gave the people the
Israelites favor in the eyes of the Mitsrites so that they gave them what they asked and
they plundered the Mitsrites." Now you may have wondered what that was all about it's
because YAH is a just Elohim. All right so for hundreds of years the Israelites had served
the Egyptians, they had labored in hard labor in Egypt and they never got paid their wages.
Now let's look at a verse in the Torah here, Deuteronomy chapter 24 beginning with verse
14, it says, "Do not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of your brothers or of your
strangers who are in your land within your gates. Give him his wages on the same day and do
not let the sun go down on it for he is poor and lifts up his being to it so that he does
not cry out against you to YAH and it shall be sent to you." All right, this is simply saying,
look when you hire somebody to do work for you and they're poor, remember that they're poor,
give them their wages when they finish the work for that day so that they can go and
get what they need to sustain their life, if you don't and they cry out to me and and
bring this offense before me then it becomes sin. In other words, you're transgressing
the Torah and you'll be judged for it, so how many days do you think the sun went down in
Egypt when the Israelites didn't get their wages? A lot, a lot of nights, a lot of days. And so the
Almighty is a just Elohim and so what did He do? He told Moshe to tell the people? Go ask the
Egyptians to give you gold and silver and garments and precious things, and then the Almighty
worked it the way that only the Almighty can and He caused the Egyptians to
think that was the right thing to do and so they gave them all their gold and
their silver and their precious items and so the Scripture says that Israel plundered Egypt.
In other words, they got paid, it was payday. Passover's payday. Remember that when you're
celebrating Passover, remember it's payday. You're not only going to come out of
slavery, but you're going to get paid. You say what do you mean by that? Colossians
chapter 2 starting with verse 13, "And you, being dead in your trespasses, and the
uncircumcision of your flesh He, Elohim, has made alive together with Him, Yeshua, having
forgiven you all trespasses, having blotted out that which was written by hand against us by the
dogmas which stood against us," And that's just simply speaking of the record of our past sins,
you know, when a criminal was going to be executed they'd place a plaque that would state the crime
that the criminal was being executed for so that everybody could see it and this is simply saying
that that record of your sins was blotted out, it was nailed to the tree, this is not talking
about the law being nailed to the tree. When you hear that from religion, just shake your head
and say, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not buying that. It's not the law that was nailed to the tree, it
was our record, the record of our transgressions. That record was nailed to the tree, okay?
"...and He has taken it out of the way," The Scripture says. "having nailed it to
the stake." Now here it is, this is payday, verse 15. "Having stripped the principalities
and the authorities," Strip them. In other words, strip them of their authority, stripped them of
their rulership, stripped them of their wealth, they were stripped down. They thought they were
something, they thought they were all powerful, they thought they ruled over us. They thought
they had us held in bondage in spiritual Egypt but the Almighty has stripped them, stripped them of
their authority of the rulership of their wealth. Notice, "having stripped the principalities and
the authorities He made a public display of them having prevailed over them in it." And so it's
interesting, you see examples in Scripture where the Almighty uses foreign nations and raises them
up to bring judgment against Yisra'el and they come in and they exact judgment against Yisra'el
but later on, we find out that the Almighty judge is those nations for their arrogance and for
their pride and He judges them, brings them down, and so the Almighty brought down
principalities and authorities, principalities and powers rulers of the darkness
of this age and host of spiritual wickedness. He brought them down, He made them pay, He stripped
them of their authority and their rulership and their wealth and He made a public display of them
having prevailed over them in it, HalleluYAH, in the same way that Elohim caused the Israelites
to prevail over the Egyptians and those that had mistreated them and those that had taken their
labor but didn't give them their wages. In Yeshua, the principalities and powers are treated the same
way. HalleluYAH. All right, are you still with me? Let's look at another one. The Passover is the
celebration of a nation being formed, okay? Exodus chapter 12 verse 37, "And the children of Yisra'el
set out from Ra'meses to Sukkoth about 600,000 men on foot besides the little ones," Look at verse
38. "and a mixed multitude went up with them too also flocks and herbs and very much livestock,"
So it wasn't just native-born Israelites, it's also a mixed multitude of people who
decided to join themselves with Israel. All right. "And they baked unleavened cakes of the
dough which they had brought out of Mitsrayim," Or Egypt. "for it was not leavened since they were
driven out of Mitsrayim, and had not been able to delay," To allow their bread to rise. "nor had
they prepared food for themselves. And the sojourn of the children of Yisra'el who lived in Mitsrayim
was 430 years and it came to be at the end of the 430 years on the same day it came to be that all
the divisions of YAH." Well I thought it said that Yisra'el, the the native-born Israelites, and a
mixed multitude came out, is that what it says? It's what I read a moment ago but notice
what it says here, all the divisions of YAH. So YAH had adopted the mixed multitude and
they had become part of the divisions of YAH and all the divisions of YAH went
out from the land of Mitsrayim. Yes, it was salvation for the native-born Israelites,
but it was also salvation and deliverance to those who were not naturally born but who
wanted to had a desire to join themselves together with Yisra'el and they became through joining
themselves together with Yisra'el, they became part of the divisions of YAH. In other words,
YAH placed His Name on them, halleluYAH, and all the divisions of YAH went out from the land
of Yisra'el, it is the night of watches unto YAH for bringing them out of the land of Mitsrayim. So
it's not just a night of watches for native-born Yisra'e,l it's a night of watches for every
person who has joined him or herself to Yisra'el. Well you remember what Yeshua said when He
was celebrating that last Passover meal? He took up that cup and He said I'm
not going to drink of this cup again until I drink it anew with you in the Kingdom, how many of you believe you're going to be in the
Kingdom? Well you're going to get to drink that Passover cup with Yeshua in the Kingdom. Why?
Because you're part of the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt in that great deliverance
and you became a part of the divisions of YAH. HalleluYAH. Don't worry, I'll
get excited enough for everybody. All right. This is the night of watches unto YAH
for all the children of Yisra'el throughout their generations and I would say again that it's both
natural-born Israelites and the mixed multitude that had joined itself to Yisra'el. All right
now we see a bit of this in 1st Peter chapter two starting with verse four, it says, "Drawing
near to Him or joining ourselves with Him," With Yeshua. "He's a living stone rejected indeed
by men but chosen by Elohim and precious, you also as living stones are being built up a spiritual
house," Now what did they build out in the wilderness after they got delivered from Egypt?
They built the tabernacle in the wilderness, did they not? You are that tabernacle, you are
that temple in this wilderness of this world that we live in, all right? You're being built up a
spiritual house, a set- apart priesthood to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to
Elohim through Yeshua Messiah. Look at verse nine, this is so good. "But you are a chosen
race just like the children of Yisra'el," Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 15, that's
a quote of that. A royal priesthood, that's Isaiah chapter 61 verse 6, a set-apart
nation, that's Exodus chapter 19 and verse 6, a people for our possession, that's Isaiah chapter
43 and verse 2, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness
of spiritual Egypt. You've been called out, why do you praise Him every day? Why do you shout
praises? When we get together as a corporate body, why do you celebrate Passover? Because you are a
chosen race, you have become a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession
unto YAH that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of spiritual
Egypt, out of darkness into His marvelous light and what is His light? The light of His
Ruach Ha-Kodesh, the light of His Indwelling Set-apart Spirit. You've been brought into the
light of the cloud by day and the fire by night. HalleluYAH. Verse 10 "...who once were not
a people but now the people of Elohim," You know they were a slave nation when
they were in Egypt but they became a nation unto Elohim when they came out and
this says that we once were not a people but now we're the people of Elohim,
who had not obtained compassion but now obtained compassion and and these verses
are simply a reflection of Hosea chapter 1 verses 9 and 10 and Hosea chapter 2 and verse 23.
All right, well let's go a little bit further. Through belief in Yeshua we can draw near
and become as native-born Israelites, that's a powerful, powerful mystery that many people
who say they believe in Jesus don't understand. So let's look at it. Quickly Exodus chapter 12
and verse 43, "And YAH said to Mosheh and Aharon, "This is the law of the Pesah," Or this is the
Torah of the Passover, this is what the Torah says about the Passover. "No son of a stranger is
to eat of it." All right, so this word "stranger" is speaking of the person who does not have a
desire to join himself to the people through the act of circumcision and the Torah of the
Passover says that person, that foreigner, that stranger who does not want to join himself
with Yisra'el through circumcision is not to eat of the Passover, so the Passover is very, very
special. It depicts being delivered from slavery and that person who has no desire to join himself
or herself to Yisra'el and be circumcised in their heart has no right to this wonderful celebration
of emancipation because they're not emancipated, they're still in slavery to sin, so let's
not play games. You don't get to celebrate deliverance when you're not delivered. Verse
44 "But any servant of a man," When this says a man it's talked about an Israelite. "...any
servant that an Israelite has bought for silver when you have circumcised him then let him
eat of it." So if an Israelite buys a servant and that servant is circumcised then that servant
can eat of the Passover. So here's the question, do you know of an Israelite that's purchased
you? Have you been purchased by an Israelite? First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 19. "Or do you
not know that your body is the dwelling place of the Set-apart Spirit which is in you which you
have from Elohim and you are not your own?" Why are you not your own? "For you were bought with a
price therefore esteem Elohim in your body and in your spirit which are of Elohim." All right so you
were bought with a price, with the very blood of Yeshua, and so once your heart is circumcised
then you draw near and enjoy the Passover. Let's go back to Exodus chapter 12 and pick up with
verse 45. "A sojourner and a hired servant does not eat of it," In other words someone who
has no desire or intention to join himself with the people of Israel through circumcision.
"It is eaten in one house, you are not to take any of the flesh outside the house, nor are you
to break any bone of it," Now you're reminded when I say that Yeshua when He was executed
they didn't break any of His bones because He is the ultimate Passover Lamb. Verse 47, "All
the congregation of Yisra'el are to perform it." Now wait a minute, didn't we just talk about a
servant that was bought so this is a non-Israelite person that was bought and circumcised and yet,
it says here all the congregation of Yisra'el is to perform it? Now what about the gare? Let's read
about the gare. Verse 48 "And when a stranger or a gare," The word "gare" in Hebrew means the person
who wants to join himself or herself to Yisra'el and as it relates to a male through circumcision
and in yeshua through the circumcision of the heart. "And when a stranger or gare sojourns
with you and shall perform the Pesah to YAH, let all his males be circumcised and then
let him come near and perform it," Now again, we've taught on this before but it's so
very important, this is a mystery for for many, many people and you've come into
an understanding and the knowledge of this this phrase, "to draw nearer, to come near", let's
remember that because we're going to read a verse in the writings of Sha'ul where he uses these
exact same words he uses this terminology when he talks about former Gentiles who believe in Yeshua
receive the Ruach Ha-Kodesh, the Set-apart Spirit, then they can draw near. So those two words
together are very, very important. "...and then let him come near and perform it and he shall
be as," What? Does it say a second-class citizen? Does it say that there are two different ways?
One way for believing-Jews and a different way for believing non-Jews? No, what does it
say? It says that when you believe as a non-Jew and you believe in Yeshua and receive the
Ruach Ha-Kodesh, the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit, and your heart is circumcised then you're
able to draw near and perform the Pesah and you become as a native of the land.
There is no difference between you and the natural-born Israelite when you believe
in Yeshua and have your heart circumcised, you're a native, you're a native in what? Yisra'el. The
covenant was cut with whom the house of Yehudah, in the house of Yisra'el, isn't that right? There
is no covenant caught with a Roman-rooted Gentile church. Let's get it straight. That doesn't mean
that the Almighty doesn't love those people that are stuck in the Roman-rooted Gentile church, it
just means they don't understand, they don't have a full understanding of what the Scripture says.
You are not in Him if you are rooted in Rome. You've got issues. Now I'm glad I'm not the
judge, aren't you? I leave that to Him and I sleep well at night but we need to tell the truth,
don't we? And the truth is that we find ourselves in Yisra'el when we are in Yeshua, then we are
in Yisra'el. So let's look at this circumcision of Messiah really quickly, Colossians chapter
2 starting with verse 11. "In Him, in Yeshua, you were also circumcised with a circumcision
not made with hands," It's not about the flesh. "and the putting off of the body of the sins
of the flesh," So the the sins of the flesh, the evil inclinations of the flesh were dealt
with this is where we get the power over the evil inclinations of our flesh when we are
buried with Him at baptism, we are circumcised in our hearts, and we receive the power then to
walk in the Spirit and to obey the Torah. "In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision
not made with hands in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision
of Messiah," So Messiah is the circumciser. "having been buried with Him in immersion," Or
baptism. "in which you also were raised with Him through the belief in the working of Elohim who
raised Him from the dead." So when you believe in Yeshua then your heart is circumcised
not just the males but also the females, all right, and that qualifies you then
to draw near, to draw near and enjoy the benefits of the Passover Lamb, your Passover
Lamb, for Messiah our Passover Lamb was slain, Sha'ul writes. So let's take a look at Ephesians
chapter 2 starting with verse 11. "Therefore remember that you, once nations in the flesh,"
Or Gentiles. "who are called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision," So the
Jews call the Gentiles uncircumcised. "made in the flesh by hands," Verse 12 "that at that time
before you knew Yeshua," Before you believed upon Him and obeyed him. "that at that time you were
without Messiah excluded from the citizenship of Yisra'el and strangers," No stranger shall
eat of it, right? "strangers from the covenants of promise having no expectation and without
Elohim in the world." All right, that was then. Look at verse 13. "But now," This is now. "But now
in Messiah Yeshua, you who once were what far off have been brought near," What is He doing?
He's using the terminology that we just read in the Torah of the Passover, He's reflecting
completely on. This is not some new thought that Sha'ul had, he's reflecting on the Torah of the
Passover right here. But now in Messiah you who once were far off, you who once were strangers and
foreigners have been brought near, near to Elohim, and near to Yisra'el, the Yisra'el of Elohim by
what? By the blood of Messiah our Passover Lamb. "for He is our peace who has made both one," Both
believing-Jews and believing non-Jews. "and have broken down the partition of the barrier," Simply
talking about the wall of separation in the temple that separated the native- born Jews from the
converted non-Jews, there was a wall in the temple that separated the two groups. "...having
abolished in His flesh the enmity that which made us enemies the Torah of the commands in dogma,"
In other words, the oral tradition that prohibited Jews from having fellowship with non-Jews that
was brought down in the sacrifice of Yeshua. "...so as to create in Himself one renewed man,"
Or one new man. "from the two thus making peace," Making peace between the Jew and the
non-Jew, all believing in Yeshua. "...and to completely restore to favor both of
them unto Elohim in one body through the stake having destroyed the enmity by
it and having come He, Yeshua, brought as Good News," What is the Good News? We
talked about that last week. Peace to you who were far off, you Gentiles, He's brought peace to you
and peace to those near the Jews and this is a reference to Isaiah 57 verse 19. "Because through
Him," Through Yeshua, our Passover Lamb. "we both have access to the Father by one Spirit so then
you," Speaking of former Gentiles, the gares. "you are no longer strangers and foreigners
but fellow citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim," HalleluYAH,
praise YAH for that. So I want to encourage you to not adopt a second-class citizen status in your
mind and let no man put you back into slavery. Let no man teach you, there are two ways,
there's only one way. Yeshua said, I am the way, He didn't say two ways. I am the truth and I am
the life, no man comes unto the Father except by me. So there's one way, there's one truth, there's
one life. When you believed in Yeshua and received the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit and your heart
was circumcised, then you could draw near along with the believing Jew, you could draw near and you didn't become a second-class citizen.
Notice what it says, you become citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household
of Elohim. HalleluYAH. That's who you are. And Romans chapter 11 verses 17 through
24 tells us that we're grafted in, we came out of a wild olive tree, our branch
was broken out of the wild tree and grafted into the tree of Elohim. You can read all about
that in Romans chapter 11 verses 17 through 24. And then I want to close with this, this is the
fifth mystery that a lot of people in religion don't understand - Passover is a celebration of
unification under one Torah. What? That's right, under one Torah. The Torah. The Torah is
the wonderful teachings, the wonderful principles what some would call law
of how the Almighty wants us to live. Now does He only want one segment of
of the population on the planet to live that way? According to His
guidelines and instructions? Has He given a pass on everybody else?
Haven't we studied out of Romans 2 that the very standard of judgment for both those who
are without the Torah and those who are in the Torah is the Torah? Have we not made that clear?
So how can the Torah be the standard of judgment when religion gives a certain group of
people who say they believe in Yeshua a pass at the Torah? There's something very, very wrong
about that. Now let me show you in Scripture what iIm talking about. Exodus chapter 12 starting with
verse 49. "There is one Torah," How many torahs? One set of instructions, one set of guidelines.
"There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger, or the gare, who sojourns among you,
the one who's joined himself to Yisra'el through circumcision," And we're joined together with the
Father through the circumcision of the heart. How many torahs? One Torah for the native born and
for the stranger who sojourns among you. Verse 50 "and all the children of Yisra'el did as YAH
commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did, and it came to be that on the same day that YAH
brought the children of Yisra'el out of the land of Yisra'el according to their divisions."
All right Leviticus chapter 24 and verse 22, it says, "You are to have one right-ruling for
the stranger and for the native, for I am YAH your Elohim." Now let me ask you this, is the one
right-ruling only talking about one particular aspect of the Torah or is it talking about the
entire Torah? The entire Torah. How confusing. You'd have to keep searching. Well is this part
of the Torah that I'm held responsible for or not? No, let's not complicate it. We have finite minds, let's make it simple. All
right? This says, there's one right-ruling for the stranger and for the native, for I am YAH
your Elohim. Is He your Elohim? He's my Elohim. Numbers 9:14, the last part of that verse says,
"...you have one law both for the stranger and the native of the land." One law.
And the final verse, Numbers chapter 15, we'll start with verse 14 and we're
going to close out with verse 16. "And when a stranger sojourns with you or
whoever is among you throughout your generations and would make an offering made by fire a sweet
fragrance to YAH," Notice. "as you do so he does." Is there two different ways or one way? "One law is for you of the assembly and for the
stranger who sojourns with you," That gare who wants to join himself to the people. "...a law
forever throughout your generations." So a law forever, notice this, a law forever throughout
your generations is that there is one law. That law is a law forever, one law
for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you. "as
you are so is the stranger before YAH. One Torah and one right-ruling is for you
and for the stranger who sojourns with you." HalleluYAH. So the Passover is
also a celebration of unification under one Torah. We come together as one nation
as one chosen race, as a royal priesthood, and we come together unified under one Torah.
Now all of the things that we've taught in this sermon and all of the other sermons
would make absolutely no sense if we came to the conclusion that religion
does and that is that there's more than one way that the Torah is only for believing-Jews and not
for believing non-Jews, it completely destroys continuity in the Scripture when you say
that, but that's the level of scriptural understanding that many in religion
have today we have one Passover Lamb who died for us all and in dying
for us, He dealt with our sin issue. In believing upon Him, we receive that wonderful
blessing of the promise that was made to Abraham and his Seed, Yeshua the Messiah, that those
who would believe upon Yeshua would receive the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit. When we
receive the Indwelling Set-apart Spirit and are lead to water baptism, in that act our hearts
are circumcised, when our hearts are circumcised then we draw near and we enjoy the benefits and
the blessings of the Passover Lamb, we become as a native-born of Yisra'el, so you're in the covenant
because you're in Yeshua and you're in Yisra'el, you're grafted in. And then
we're all unified as one nation under one Torah. These are marvelous mysteries
of the Passover that you must understand to get the fullness of the richness of this tremendous
celebration that we're about to enjoy. HalleluYAH.
