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Are you [music] the one who was in [music] this to come? Who was this to come? We [music] lift our praise.

We lift our songs. We lift our songs. We lift our songs to our voices.

[music] You deserve it all. You [music] deserve it all. [music] Praise God.

Oh, blessings flow. Praise him all [singing] creatures here below. [music] Praise him [singing] above heavenly [music] host.

Praise father, [music] son and holy go. [music] Praise God from whom all blessings [music] flow. Praise [singing] him all [music] creatures here [singing] below.

[music] Praise him above [singing] the heavenly host. Praise [music] father, son, [singing] and holy [music] ghost. Sing this [music] again.

Praise God from whom [music] all blessings flow. Praise him [music] all creatures here. [music] Praise him [singing] above the [music] heavenly host.

Praise [music] father, son, [singing] and holy [music] be lifted up. Be glorified. [music] >> [music] >> Praise God the Father [music] who's the source.

Praise God [music and singing] the Son who is the course. [music and singing] Praise God the spirit. [music and singing] Who's the Lord?

[music] Praise God our portion [music] here be. [music] We praise your name Lord. [music] Praise God the Father [music] who serves.

Praise [music] God the Son who is the voice. [music] Praise God the Spirit [music] of Lord. Praise God our voice.

[music] Praise God. Praise [music] God the Father. The [music] source.

Praise God the [music] Son. is the voice. Praise [music] God.

The spirit [music] of love. Praise [music] God. I worship him.

[music] Oh, praise God from the [music] blessings. Praise [music] him all creatures. [music] Praise him.

[music] Heavenly [music] Heat. [music] Praise [music] God. [music] Heat.

[music] My son. [music] Amen. Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] Heat [music] No [music] heat. [music] Amen.

Amen. [music] Amen. [music] Amen.

Amen. Amen. [music] Praise God.

Face to face [music] we see the one who died to set us free. [music] The one who rose in victory. [music] Praise now for ever Christ our King.

[music] >> [music] >> Praise God when faced. [music] Face we see. [music] The one who died [singing] and set us [music] free.

The one who rose in [music] vtory. Praise now [music] for ever. [singing] Christ [music] I [music] >> [music] >> Praise God when face [music] to face we see the [music] one who might set [music] us free.

The [music] one who rise in victory praise [music] now forever. our [music] king. [music] Praise God when you [music] face we [music] die to set [singing] us free.

The [music] one who in victory. Praise [music] now for heaven. Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> Amen. [music] Amen. [music] Heat.

[music] Yeah. Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> You are holy, holy, are you [singing] Lord [music] God Almighty, worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb.

You [singing] are holy. Holy are you, Lord God Almighty. [music and singing] Worthy is the lamb.

Worthy is the lamb. [music] You [singing] are holy, holy [singing and music] are you, Lord God [music] Almighty. [singing] Where is the [music and singing] lamb?

Where is the lamb? [music] You [singing] are holy. [music] Holy [singing] are you, Lord God [singing] Almighty.

[music] Worthy is the lamb. [singing] [music] Worthy is the lamb. You are [singing] holy.

Holy [music and singing] are you, Lord God Almighty. [music and singing] Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb [music] for you [singing] are holy.

Holy [music and singing] are you, Lord God Almighty. [singing and music] Worthy is the name. Worthy is [music and singing] the name for you are holy.

[singing] Glory [music] are you Lord God Almighty. [singing] What [music] is the lamb? What is the lamb?

[music] What is the lamb? [music] What is the lamb? What is the lamb?

[music] Yeah. Heat. [music] Yeah.

Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] >> [music] >> God.

[music] Praise God. [music] Yeah. Heat.

[music] Praise now forever. [music] Christ our king. [music] [singing] Praise God from whom [music] all blessings flow.

Praise [singing] him all creatures. Praise him [singing] above. >> Praise father [music] God.

Sleep forever. So worth so worthy. So worthy [singing] Lord.

Oh be praised. be praised. [singing] All be praised.

[music] And I brought [singing and music] a [music] just to [singing] you. >> [music] >> and pouring [singing] my heart out [music] and bowing [singing] before you. Oh, [singing] I brought [music] a fragrance just [singing] to anoint you.

[music] pouring [music and singing] my heart out [music] and bowing [singing] before you. Oh, [music and singing] I brought a fragment just [music] to know [singing] you. Pouring my heart [singing] [music] and bowing [singing] before you.

[music] >> [singing] >> And I kiss your feet regardless [music] of who's watching. [singing] It [music] doesn't matter what they think of me. Oh, I [music and singing] kiss your feet regardless of who's watching.

[music] [singing] Oh, I just want to see you smile at me. Oh, I kiss [music and singing] your feet regardless of who's [singing] watching. [music] It doesn't matter what they think of me.

Oh, I [music and singing] kiss your feet regardless of [singing] who's watching. Oh, I just want to [music] see [singing] you smile at me. Oh Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [singing] [music] Jesus. [singing] [music] Jesus.

And I [music and singing] brought a fra [music] just [singing] to anoint you. pouring [singing] my heart out [music] and bowing before you. Oh, I brought a fragrance [singing and music] just [music and singing] to annoy you.

pouring [music and singing] my heart. I'm [music] bowing [singing] before you. Oh, I brought Oh, I brought a [music and singing] fragrance just [music] to [singing] anoint you.

I'm [music] pouring [singing] my heart out and bowing [music and singing] before you. [music] And I kiss your feet. [singing] Regardless of who's watching, [singing] [music] it doesn't matter what they think of me.

[music] >> [singing] >> Oh, I kiss your feet regardless [music] of who's watching. Oh, I just [music and singing] want to see you smile at me. [music] Oh, I [singing] kiss your feet.

Regardless [music] of who's watching, it doesn't matter [music and singing] what they think of me. I [music] kiss your feet regardless of who's watching. Oh, I just want [music] to see you [singing] smile at me.

Oh Jesus. [music] [singing] [music] Oh Jesus. [singing] [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Oh, this is for you. Jesus.

[music] [singing] Jesus. [music] This is [singing] for you. Jesus.

[music] [singing] Jesus. [singing] Oh Jesus. [music] Oh Jesus.

Jesus [music] beautiful Jesus. [music] Jesus. [singing] Oh, [music] I kiss your feet regardless of who's [music] watching.

It doesn't [music] matter what they think of me. Oh, I [music] kiss your feet regardless [singing] of who's watching. [music] Oh, I just want to [singing] see you smile at me.

I kiss [music] your feet regardless of who's [singing] watching. [music] It doesn't [singing] matter what they think of me. [music] Oh, I kiss your feet regardless [singing] of who's watching.

[music] Oh, I just want to [singing] see you smile at me. Oh, I [music] kiss your feet. Regardless of who's washing, [music] it doesn't matter what they think of me.

[music] Oh, I kiss your feet, regardless of who's watching. [music] Oh, I just want to see you smile at [singing] me. Oh, Jesus.

[music] Oh, Jesus. [music] Oh, [music] Jesus. Jesus.

[music] Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus. [music] Jesus.

We pour [music] on you. Jesus. [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Jesus. [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Oh, I kiss your feet [music] regardless of who's watching. It doesn't matter [music and singing] what they think of me.

I kiss your [music] feet regardless of who's watching. I just [music] want to see you smile at [singing] me. Oh, I kiss your feet.

Regardless [music] of [singing] who's watching, it doesn't matter [music] what they think of me. Oh, I [singing] kiss your feet. Regardless [music] of who's watching, [singing] oh, I just want [music] to see you smile at me.

Jesus, [music] Jesus, I pour out [singing] on you, [music] oh [singing] worthy one. Oh worthy. [singing] Oh worthy.

[music] Oh [singing] we pour out our love. before [music] us. Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat.

[music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat >> [music] >> up here. >> [music] >> Heat.

[music] Heat >> [music] >> up here. [music] Heat. [music] for you [music] to come.

You're so beautiful. [music] Oh, God. [music] You became You took place.

[music] You're so beautiful. Oh, [music] God. You became a man.

You took [music] my flesh. You're so beautiful. [music] Oh God, you became a man.

[music] You took flesh. You're so beautiful. Holy [music] God, [singing] you became a man.

You took our [music] flesh. You're so [singing] beautiful. Oh, [music] and I You became a man.

You took my flesh. [music] You're so beautiful. [music] Oh, you became a man.

You took on flesh. [music] You're so beautiful. Oh, [music] and God, you became a man.

[music] You took our flesh. >> [music] >> You're so beautiful and I kiss [music] your feet regardless of who's watching. It [music] doesn't matter what they think of me.

Oh, I [music] can see your feet regardless of who's watching. [music] Oh, I just want to see you smile at me. I kiss [music] your feet regardless of who's watching.

[music] Oh, I just matter what they think of me. [music] Oh, I kiss your feet regardless of who's watching. Oh, I [music] just want to see you smile at me.

Oh, Jesus. [music] Jesus. [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Jesus. [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Jesus. [music] Jesus.

[music] Jesus. [music] Jesus. Jesus, you are so beautiful.

Jesus, so beautiful. Jesus, [music] you became [music and singing] a man. You took on flesh.

You're so beautiful. Oh, [singing] and [music] God you became you. You took [music and singing] on flesh.

You're so beautiful. Oh [singing] God, you became a man. You took on [singing] flesh.

You're so beautiful. Oh, [singing] God. You [music] became a man.

You took on flesh. You're so beautiful. You're so [singing] beautiful.

>> You're so beautiful. You're so beautiful. >> You're so beautiful.

>> You're so beautiful. >> You're so beautiful. >> You're so [music] beautiful.

Awesome. Yes. Jesus.

[music] >> [music] >> Should I? [music] >> [music] >> Jesus. [music] Jesus.

Jesus. Beautiful. [music] Falling [singing] on my knees in worship.

Giving [music] all to seek your face. Lord, all I am [music] is [singing] yours. life [singing] I place [music] in your hands.

God [singing] of mercy, [music] humbled I bow [singing] down in [music] your presence at your throne. Falling on [singing] my knees [music] in worship, giving all I am to seek [singing] your face. Lord, [singing] all I am is [music] yours.

My [music and singing] whole life I place in your hands. God of mercy, humbled [singing] I bow down [music] in your presence [singing] at your [music] throne. Oh, you [music] worship me.

Falling [music and singing] on my knees and worship. [music] Giving all [singing] I am to seek [music] your face. Lord, [singing] all I am is [music] yours.

My [music and singing] whole life I place in your hands. God [singing] of mercy, [music] humble thy bow down in [music] your presence [singing] at your throne. I [singing] called [music] you answered.

[music] Then you came [singing] to my rescue and I want [music] to be [singing] where you are. [music] I called [music] I called you answer [music] [singing] and you came to my rescue and I [music] want to be where you are [music] falling. all [singing] kinds in worship.

[music] Giving all I am to seek [singing] your [music] face, Lord. All I am is [music and singing] yours. My whole life [music and singing] I place in your hands.

God [music] of mercy, humbled [singing] I bow down in your [music] presence [singing] at your throne. Falling [music and singing] on my knees in worship, giving [music] all I [singing] am to seek your face, Lord. All [music] I am is yours.

Is [music] yours. My whole life [music and singing] I place in your hands. God of mercy, [music] [singing] humble I bow down in your [music] presence at your throne.

[music] I call you [music] ser and [music] you came to my rescue and I just want to be well. [music] >> [music] >> I call you [music] and you [music] came to my rescue and I just want to be where [music] you are. >> [music] >> I call you [music] ser and you came to my [music] rescue.

Just want to be where you are. I [music] call I call you [music] and you [music] came to my rescue and I want to [music] be where you are. in my [music] life.

Be lifted high [singing] in our world. Be lifted [singing] [music] high in our love. Be lifted [singing] high.

Be lifted [music] high. [singing] in my life. Be lifted [singing] high in our world.

Be [music] lifted [singing] high in my life. Be [music] lifted high. Oh, [music] in my life [music] be lifted [singing] high in our world.

Be lifted [music and singing] high in our love. [music] Be lifted [singing] high. Be lifted [music] high.

Oh, in my life [music] be lifted [singing] high in our world. Be lifted [music] high in [singing] our love. [music] Be lifted high.

Be lifted [music] high in my [music and singing] life. Be lifted high [music] in my [singing] world. Be lifted high in our love.

Be lifted [music] high. Higher. Higher.

>> [music] >> In my life be lifted [music] high in my world. Be lifted [music] high in our love. Be lifted high.

Be lifted higher [music and singing] in my life. [music] Be lifted high in my be lifted high. [music] Be lifted high.

>> [music] >> In my life [singing] [music] be lifted high [singing] in my [music] be lifted [singing] high. [music] Be lifted high. [music] I call you ser [music] and you came to my rescue and I just want to be where [music] you are.

[music] I call you [music] and you came to my rescue. Just want to be where [music] you are. Heat.

[music] And you came [music] to my rescue where you are [music] be lifted [singing] high in [music] be [singing] lifted. Lift it high in all [music] love. Be lifted high [music] in our [music and singing] life.

Be lifted high in our world. [music] Be lifted [singing] high and [music] be lifted high. I [singing] called [music] you and you came [music] to my rescue.

And I just wanna be where you are. [music] I called [music] you [singing] [music] and you came to my resue. [music] Want to be where you [music] are.

[music] You answer [music] and you [singing] came to my rescue and I [music] just want to be where you are. [music] >> [music] >> Just [music] want to be with you. [music] Knowing [music] you, Jesus, knowing [music] you, there is no greater thing.

You're [music and singing] my home. You're the best. You're my joy, my rightousness.

[music] And I [singing] love you, Lord. Knowing [music and singing] you, Jesus. Knowing [singing] you, there is no greater thing.

[singing] You're my all. You're the best. [music] You're my joy, [singing] my rightousness, and I love you, [music] Lord, knowing [music and singing] you, Jesus.

Knowing [singing] you, there is no [music] greater thing. [singing] You're my all. [music] You're [singing] the best.

You're my joy, my righteousness. >> [music] >> And I [singing] love you, Lord. Knowing [singing] you, Jesus.

Knowing you, [music] there is no greater [singing] [music] thing. You're [singing] my all. You're the best.

You're my joy, my [singing] righteousness, and [music] I love you, Lord. [music] Knowing [singing] you, Jesus. Knowing [singing] you, there is no [music] greater thing.

[singing] You're [music] my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my [music and singing] righteousness.

And I love you, Lord. Knowing you, [singing and music] Jesus. Knowing [music and singing] you, there is no greater thing.

[music and singing] King. You're my all. You're the best.

You're my joy, [singing and music] my righteousness. And I love you, Lord. [singing] Knowing [music] you, Jesus.

Knowing [music] you, there is no greater thing. [music] [singing] You're my all. You're the best.

You're my joy, my [music and singing] righteousness, and I love you, Lord, [music] knowing you, Jesus. >> [music] >> Knowing you, there is no [singing] greater. You're my all.

[music] You're the best. You're my joy, [singing] my rightousness. [music] And I love you, Lord, knowing [music] you, Jesus.

knowing [music] you. There is no greater. [singing] [music] You're my all.

You're [singing] the best. You're my [music] joy, my righteousness, and I love you. [music] Lord, knowing you, Jesus.

knowing [music] you. There is no greater. You're [music] my all.

You're the best. You're my joy, my righteousness, and I [music] love you, Lord. Oh, knowing you, Jesus.

Knowing [singing and music] you, there is no greater thing. [singing] You're my all. You're the best.

[music] You're [singing] my joy, my righteousness. And I love you, Lord. [music] Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no [singing] greater thing.

You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my [singing] rightousness, [music] and I love you, Lord.

Lord, thank you that for for each one of us, God, When you saw us in the miry clay, when when we called, Lord, you you always answer. No one knows, Lord, where we would be if if it wasn't for your kindness. If it wasn't for your response, if it wasn't for your mercies and grace, if it wasn't for the way that you come and the way that you love us, the way that you you breathe on us and we're here, Lord, we We're not here to participate in a religious game.

We We've come to know our father and >> the good shepherd, our best friend, the one who's faithful and true and the wonderful counselor Emmanuel, God with us. Like we sang, Lord, like we sing as as you are. You're my all.

You're our all. We We have nothing else to live for. And if at moments it feels like we do, then God, we ask, strip us of that stuff, we we do know well enough to know that living for anything other than the purity and the truth of the gospel for your name's sake, for the revelation of the body, the blood, and the cross, there is nothing else worth living for.

Strip us of ourselves, God. We come hungry tonight and longing, but but not a longing that seeks not for a longing that seeks your hand without your face. Lord, we're so thankful that we can hold your hand, but what we're after is to see your face.

We're so thankful for the way that you provide and the way that you come through, the way that you love us. But what we really want to see is the beauty of your face. And so tonight, as As we open up the scriptures, we ask, "Holy Spirit, reveal Jesus to us.

Open our eyes to behold the lamb of God, the one who was slain forever seated at the right hand of the father and making intercession for us. Help us to see the one, the one true God, the one thing that's needed, the name that is above every other name, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, to behold Jesus the Christ. We recognize, God, that life has a way of distracting us in in so many ways.

And we ask that our love for you would would be so deep. It would it would be rooted so far into your heart, Lord, that truly there would be nothing nor anyone who can pull our affection from yours. Thank you for your presence with us, Lord.

For the way that you come. Thank you that you never fail. Lead us tonight deeper into your heart.

Soften our hearts to greater measures of the revelation of Christ. And keep us hungry, Lord. Keep us hungry.

We turn to you. We love you. And we pray all of this in your most holy name.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

You may find your seats. Thank you. We're so glad you're here tonight.

If you need a seat, there's there's several scattered around the room. [clears throat] I do want to ask, is there anyone who's joining us for the very first time? Like you've never been to a Sunday service before.

Awesome. Welcome. Welcome.

[applause] Um, we love Jesus and we want to know how to we want to learn to love him more. [clears throat] [sighs] All right. Um, for those of you who have been here before, you probably know we've been going through Exodus 12 the last several weeks.

I uh, we're going to be here, it seems like. I don't know. I thought it was going to be 3 months.

It looks like we're [music] probably going to hit six or seven months in in Exodus 12. Um, but all of it [music] points back to Jesus. And the good news is we have the rest of at least my life to do this.

So um uh so we're not in a rush to get anywhere. We just want to see Jesus and see him rightly. And so we're going to continue in Exodus 12 today [clears throat] and uh and find Jesus in the Old Testament.

But before we before we get there, I just I want to receive tonight's offering. And um um I say this a lot is [snorts] the primary purpose of the Christian life is not to uh go to church. It's it's not even to get to heaven one day.

The primary purpose of our Christian life, of Christianity, is not to be a good person. Um, it's not just to be kind. It's not just to be generous.

The the ultimate purpose of the Christian life is to look like Jesus. But in Jesus, what you'll find is that he's kind and he's generous. Um, he's loving, he's compassionate, he's without sin, without blemish.

Which means that all the things that are found in Jesus, you and I are called to. But you and I are not called to become the things that Jesus says. We are called to become like Jesus is.

It's impossible to look like Jesus if if we don't know him. It's certainly impossible to look like Jesus if we don't, you know, spend time with him. Uh, and it's certainly impossible to look like Jesus if we refuse to do the things that he does.

And so, unfortunately, in in the Western church and and really much around the world is generosity has been tainted by people's mistakes. And the beauty of it has been removed because there's someone out there who who messed it up. And it's it's as silly as saying that marriage is is not important because there's people who who've messed up and have been divorced before.

Marriage isn't special because a man and woman come together. Marriage is mostly is excuse me, marriage is most important because in marriage we find the clearest revelation, the clearest picture of the love of Christ for you and I for his bride. And in our in our generosity, we don't give for the sake of proving that money doesn't have our hearts and our lives.

we give because in the revelation of Jesus when he hung on that cross when Jesus hung on that cross and he's bleeding suffocating gasping for air there's people who looked at him and they mocked him and they said he who could save others cannot even save himself not realizing they were observing the ultimate act of salvation and they said if he really is God let get himself down from there. Not realizing that in the palm of his hand, his pierced hand, he was holding every molecule of their existence that they were able they were even able to form the phrase. And in our deepest, darkest moment, that moment that you've probably never told anybody about because you're so ashamed of it.

In that moment, Jesus saw you and he thought you were worth hanging on a tree for. Which means that he redefined he redefined what sin was trying to define you as taking all of us from sinners to to children of God. which means that my generosity, my giving has nothing to do with proving that money doesn't have my heart.

That is so it is so shallow and it's it's just it's dumb. That's what it is. It's just it's just foolish.

Our giving is not to prove something to God. Our giving is a is in light of God's love for us, in light of who Jesus is. is that when he hung on that tree and he gave you and I life, he gave you and I life and he the Bible says he rejoiced doing it.

It was for the joy set before him that he endured the cross. So our generosity has has just about nothing to do with proving yourself to God or to me or to anyone else in the room. You're talking about God.

You're talking about the one who knows absolutely everything. He you can't prove anything to him. But what we can do is we can look to Jesus, look to the lamb, know who he is, what he's like, and do our best in prayer, through worship, through a pursuit of Jesus to look just like him.

And so when God says, "Man, test me in this. test me in your giving and see what will happen when you when you come into communion with me in this area. And so giving has just about nothing to do with proving points.

It has everything to do with looking like Jesus. And he is more than worthy of everything he asked for. So when he's when he requests a tithe, it's it it's and there's no questions asked.

when when he asks for offerings to bless people or ministries or all around the world. It's not it's not a question in mind because my goal isn't to save money in life. My goal isn't to be anything but a deep representation of who the Christ is.

who is loving, merciful, full of hope and compassion, grace, kindness, tenderness. He's faithful, constant, consistent, endorsed through the ages. Emmanuel, God with us, king of kings, lord of lords.

He is our healer, our savior, the beginning, the end, alpha, omega. He never changes. His grace is sufficient.

The body, the blood is enough. The cross has declared it is finished. And when when he asks of us, none of us are forced, but all of us should be compelled because of who he is.

Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen.

Awesome. Well, we have every regular way of giving. Um, if you need an envelope, please just raise your hand and our ushers are more than happy to to get you an envelope.

Um, otherwise I'm going to give you a few minutes to to do that for all of us to do that. And um, and then we'll be right back. We'll pray and we'll get right into Exodus 12.

So we'll be right back. [music and singing] >> The world in [music and singing] your side. This is real love.

The holes in your hands, [music] the scars on your back, the wound [singing] in your side. [music] Oh, this is real love, the holes [singing] in your hands, the scars on your back, [singing] the wounds [music] in your side. Oh, this [singing] is real love.

The holes [music] in your hands, the scars on your back, the holes in your side. [singing and music] Oh, this is real life, the holes in your hands, [music] the scars [singing] on your back, the holes [music] in your side. Oh, this is real life.

[music] The holes in your [singing] hands, the stars on your back, [music] the holes in your side. [singing] Oh, this [music] is real. The holes in your hand, the stars on your walls [music] in your [singing] life.

This is real life. Oh, this [music] is real life. Oh, this is real.

Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [singing] Heat.

[music] [singing] [music] Heat. [music] [singing] [music] Heat. [singing] [music] Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] [music and singing] Heat. [music] [singing] Heat.

[music] All right, let's pray. Jesus, we love you and we thank you for your presence with us. I thank you Lord for um every dollar that was sown and we ask that you would breathe upon it in it and through it.

Lord, you would establish greater measures of your kingdom here in the Northwest and Seattle that our region would be known as one after the heart of Jesus. I thank you Lord that you see every need in this room whether it's financial or any other and we thank you that you are a good father that you are a provider you take care and you never leave us in lack. So we thank you that you provide that you take care and we yield our we submit our needs over to you and we thank you that you're a good father always.

Thank you for tonight, God, for all that you're going to do, the way you teach us, lead us. Thank you that you're always with us. May we be moved and led by the wind of your spirit tonight.

And most importantly, God, reveal yourself to us. We've not come here to listen to a TED talk, to an encouraging word. We have come to behold the lamb of God.

We love you, Jesus. And we pray all this in your most holy name. Amen.

>> Awesome. All right. Why don't we open our Bibles to Exodus 12?

[clears throat] So, uh, last week we read through 17. Today, I think we're only going to get to we're probably only going to get through four or five verses. I'll read through I'll read uh I'll read verse 17 and we'll kind of we'll start there.

It says, "And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a statute forever. In the first month, from the 14th day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the month at evening.

For 7 days, no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavenvened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel. Whether he is a sojourer or a native of the land, you shall eat nothing leavened.

in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread. Okay, so God gives Israel the instruction for the Passover lamb. If you haven't been here over the last several weeks, I've just been I've been building a case or teaching um uh how all of this continues to point back to Jesus who is our Passover lamb.

Um we really pretty much go word by word through every verse about what the scriptures are teaching us. Um, I shared this at the beginning and this I just I want to share this again as a reminder is that we sometimes hear we or excuse me, we listen through God's instruction in the Bible and sometimes the thought can become like how is it that how why is God so specific about the way that he wants things done? Why is it that curtains have to be a certain color?

Otherwise that the lamb has to be has to be roasted, not boiled, not eaten raw, not anything else. It has to be roasted. It has to and God becomes very specific about the way that that uh his instruction is followed in the temple that all the details of every measurement, every color, every material is accounted for in the scriptures.

all of it. Uh God says, "You either build it the way that I've instructed you and I will live there with you or you build it the way that you want and I won't live there." It's because every detail, every detail in the scriptures, it prophesies of the coming Messiah. And so if God gives instruction, it's not because he's just like he's got OCD or something and he's like he's he's just specific randomly.

He's not weird about it. It's that every detail is prophesying of the coming Messiah, the son of God who was to come 1500 years later. And so if Israel was to participate of the Passover, of this meal in a different manner than what God had instructed, they would be participating in an act that no longer has the weight to prophesy the coming Messiah.

It's why in Revelations 19 it says it says don't you know or excuse me it says it says the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. In other words when you declare the testimony of Jesus you are prophesying the victory of what he's accomplished on the cross. What Israel did not know is that in the Passover lamb, as they were as they were as they were celebrating the Passover and and and in following the instruction of God for the Passover lamb, what they did not realize is that they were telling the testimony of Jesus through a physical lamb.

They were telling the testimony of Jesus. And in their telling of the testimony, what they were doing is they were prophesying the coming Messiah. It's why God says you are to celebrate this meal for generations, every generation forever.

It does not say every generation until the Christ comes. It does not say every generation until my son comes. It says every generation forever.

Because up until Jesus, they celebrated the Passover which was prophesying of the coming Messiah. Today we no longer celebrate Exodus 12 Passover. Today we celebrate the Passover lamb who is Jesus who is our Passover lamb.

>> It's why communion I again I'm just I'm kind of um uh backtracking a little bit doing a bit of a refresher. It's why communion is so deeply important. And one of the reasons the Bible teaches that we are we are as sick and dying, fallen asleep as we are is because we have missed the the the depths of communion.

We have missed the depths of the body, the blood, and the cross of Jesus Christ. It is a shame. And I say this I say this uh not with arrogance by by any means, but I do say this in some ways to sound an alarm.

is that if communion is a three to five minute ordeal between worship the end of worship and announcements we have we have lost something we have lost something deeply sacred you the the testimony of Jesus is the only thing that prophesies salvation freedom healing and wholeness therefore if we do not remember the testimony of Jesus all the benefits of the cross it's not that they're not available it's that we willingly reject it. There's a willful rejection of what Jesus has accomplished on the cross. And when there's a willful rejection of his accomplishments, the intention becomes to seek it somewhere else.

>> The Passover lamb was not a meal to celebrate deliverance. The Passover meal was the meal of deliverance. the meal of unleavened bread, the celebration of unleavened bread.

That was a celebration of deliverance, which we're we're about to get into. The reason God was so specific with the instruction of the tabernacle and the temple, go read it. You can read about it.

It's it's very specific. God has had has ideas of where every piece of furniture goes on what every piece what every piece of furniture is made of. He has the colors he wants.

He has all everything. All the instruction is in the Bible for how to build a home for his presence. And he says he says it clearly.

We we read it often in Exodus 25. We he says you either build it according to how I ask you or and I dwell there or you don't and I won't live there. Because the tabernacle and the temple both of them in their building the way they were built was orchestrated it was designed that in every detail they were prophesying the coming Messiah the one who rebuilt the who who destroyed the temple and rebuilt it in three days.

He destroyed a temple that every detail had precision and accurate description of what of who he was. That's why he said, "I can tear down the temple and rebuild it in three days." Because the temple, every detail about it, every color, every detail was speaking about Jesus himself. And if something about the temple was not built according to God's instruction, it would be speaking of a Messiah that's not coming.

And that temple Jesus wouldn't destroy and rebuild in three days because that temple was not speaking of him. And so when God starts giving us instruction when he when he us and the scriptures when we have instruction they're not suggestions for a good way of life. It is his instruction is death to self and alive in Christ.

Okay. [snorts] So he says, "And you shall observe," this is verse 17 of chapter 12, "and you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt." Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a statute forever." So earlier in a couple verses uh before in verse 15, God tells Israel, listen, you are going to sacrifice the the Passover lamb. You're going to roast it and sees you're going to uh there there'll be herbs and and it'll be blackened and and we kind of went through all those details already.

And then he says, "Once this once this lamb has been sacrificed, the very next day, what I want you to make sure you do is that you eat unleavened bread only." Again, we talked about unleavened bread last week. What it's speaking of is that Jesus is never to be added to. There is nothing you and I could add to him.

There's nothing you and I could add to our salvation that will enhance Jesus. Which means that there's no you could do to convince God that you're worth saving. He's already chosen to extend the hand of salvation, the blood of salvation.

God's love for you and I is not dependent. It is not contingent upon what we do or don't do. There's no sin dark, deep, broken, wicked, evil enough to change the way that God, his love for you, the way that he feels about you.

There's also no work that is grand enough, miraculous enough, wonderful enough, good enough to convince God to love you any more. >> He loves all of us. It's it's it's in his nature.

His love is 100% for all of us, 110 for all of us at all times, regardless of what we have or haven't done. It's extremely liberating cuz what happens often times in church is it's it really is it's so sad. We become so disconnected, at least in Western church.

I have just been in ministry long enough in church long enough. It's we become so disconnected from the nature of God that when we face trials and hardships in life, the immediate response becomes, oh, what door did I open? How did I upset God?

He's mad at me. And all of a sudden, every thought becomes about how do I impress this guy named God somewhere up in the clouds and just fully fully un unaware of who he is in nature, who he is in kindness and mercy that he demonstrated his love already through Jesus. we that all of that becomes forgotten because somebody cut me off on on the highway like and trials and tribulations become a result of God's carelessness rather than rather than an opportunity to love Jesus in the midst of hardship.

There's some offerings to God you will only be able to give him here on earth. You won't have a chance to that when somebody curses you and they spit in your face and they walk away, you won't have the chance in heaven to look back at them and pray for them and pray for the mercy of God for them and forgive them. You won't have that opportunity there.

There won't be an opportunity where you're lacking something and instead of complaining and grumbling, you love and worship Jesus and gratitude and honor him for his his generosity and his faithfulness and his kindness. There won't be any lack there ever. There's some measures of praise and honor and glory to Jesus you'll only be able to give on this side of eternity.

And so the Bible teaches do not add anything to Jesus. The scriptures teach for the day uh the Passover lamb happened and the next day they were to celebrate for seven days they were to celebrate uh the feast of unleavened bread. I spoke about this last time.

The week represents the the week is speaking of that from the moment that Jesus hung on that cross and we received him to the end of our days. It's speaking of time. It says to the it's it's what it's what the week is speaking of.

It's a measurement of time from the death of Jesus all to the end of our lives to the day we're with him in glory. We are never ever to add anything to our Lord. We have nothing worth adding.

We just have the privilege, the gift, the honor it is of receiving. >> That's why it's unleavened bread. Do not add anything to it.

And you shall observe the feast of unleaven bread. For on this very day, I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a statute forever.

Speaking of Jesus today, that we he is our bread and we have we do not want to add anything to him. He is our bread. In the first month, verse 18, in the first month, from the 14th day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the until the 21st day of the month at evening.

For 7 days, no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leaven, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourer or a native of the land. Watch this.

When God gives instruction for the unleavened bread in verse 15, he mentions nothing about sojourers. The instruction in verse 15 to receive of the unleavened bread was speaking of the moment that Israel was in that the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed. They were going to leave Egypt and out of Egypt they were supposed to celebrate their freedom in the unleavened bread.

The second time God gives them the instruction right in verse 17 and 18 and 19 and 20. The second time God instruction for unleaven bread, he says, "Do not uh uh excuse me." He says, "He who he who does not [snorts] follow this instruction, who he who eats of bread that is leavenvened shall be cut off from the people of Israel, whether native or sojourer." The native and so and sojourer is speaking of the fact that God is now giving them an everlasting instruction. And in the in the moment the mo the instruction of the moment he said receive unleaven bread.

In the instruction of the eternal covenant he said make sure that native and sojourer alike abide by these rules. It was speaking of that one day there would become there would be bread that would come unleavened bread where now Jew and Gentile alike would be able to receive of this meal. And whether Jew or Gentile, both must receive it according to the instruction of God.

Which means that if somebody receives un uh bread that is leavened, it says that they are to be cut off from the people of Israel. What is it saying? It's saying that when you add something to Jesus, when you make Jesus your own version, we I spent the entire service talking about this last time.

When you add to Jesus and you make your version of Jesus that you think is good and convenient and comfortable for you, what you do is you reject the benefits. You reject the fulfillment of what Jesus has accomplished because you believe in a Jesus that doesn't exist. That's why when it says turn the other cheek or bless those who persecute or forgive those who hurt you in our comfort in our with I don't know where the audacity comes from with all of us is like is how how is it that we receive it as a suggestion.

When I receive his instruction as a suggestion, what I'm saying is that I know better. And this Jesus that is that gives me instruction to turn the other cheek when it only when it's convenient for me. That's the Jesus I like.

And that means I'm worshiping a Jesus that doesn't exist. And a Jesus that doesn't exist has no power to save you. The only Jesus that exists eternally is the Jesus of the Bible.

which means that when when he gives instruction, when he gives us direction, when he gives us his leadership and his purpose and his plan, I don't have a choice. But it's not a scary thing. I don't I'm glad I don't have a choice.

I've made plenty of choices and I've most of the time I wish I didn't, you know, like when it's when it's me. And so he's saying when you experience the meal of deliverance, the Passover lamb, what I want you to do is for the next week from the day of this of the Passover lamb, all the way to the end of your life, from the day you receive Jesus to the end of your life, you must you must eat unleavened bread. You must eat the bread which cannot be added to.

Okay, I think you hear what I'm saying, right? >> If you don't um pray, pray for me. [laughter] [snorts] [clears throat] All right.

For seven uh verse 19, for seven days, no no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavenven, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel. Again, if you add something to Jesus, you cut yourself off from what he has accomplished.

You begin to live and abide and worship a Jesus that doesn't exist when you add to him. If anyone eats what is leaven, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourer or a native of the land. In other words, it's speaking of the fact that one day Jesus would open the doorway for the Gentile to receive of the promise and we abide by the same truth, by the same instruction that Jesus is our daily bread, and we we do not add to him.

You shall eat nothing leavened in all your dwelling places. You shall eat unleavened bread. Period.

Verse 21. Then Moses called the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your family and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hissup and dip it in blood that is in the basin and touch the lentil of the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin." Or or I I looked up the word that word basin.

Um, it's also it's also the same word that's used as for goblet, like a like a chalice. And so for the first up uh through verse 20, what's happening is God is giving Moses instruction for what the Passover lamb is and what it looks like. Starting in verse 21, Moses begins to teach Israel on what it means to receive the Passover lamb.

And so he says, Moses tells the people, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your family and kill the Passover lamb." This is what it's speaking of. We all belong to the household of God. That's why the Bible says we have been given the gift, the privilege to be called children of God.

And when the leader of a family or a clan would go and take a lamb for his household, guess what? He didn't care about if his three-year-old child liked the lamb or not or complained about it. This lamb that he selected was for his entire household.

Just like you and I who are part of God's household, Jesus was the selected lamb of the father who was crucified who was given for our household. Which means that everything that Jesus has accomplished was accomplished for the family of God which was uh accomplished for the children of God who is you and me. And so he's saying what he is what he's saying here in verse 20 or what the Bible is teaching us.

It says, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your family and kill the Passover lamb." Which means that I do not have I do not get to choose whether I like a lamb or I wanted something else. I partake of the sacrifice of what was given. I partake of the lamb that was given for my family and I receive that.

You want to receive something else, you receive the fruit of whatever that thing is. But Jesus is our Passover lamb. And either we receive him for who he is and all that he's accomplished, or we reject him because we wanted something better.

We wanted something different. We wanted something more convenient, something that plays into the desires of our flesh. And Jesus doesn't play games.

So he says, "Go and select lambs for your house, for yourselves and your household." This is speaking of Jesus being our lamb for our household and kill the Passover lamb. Verse 22, take a bunch of hissip and dip it in blood that is in the basin or the go the goblet and touch the lentil and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. The hissup is speaking of faith.

And what Moses begins to teach the people is that once the lamb has been has been slaughtered, slain, there's a responsibility that now lands on our end is where we have to apply the blood to our our lives, our our homes. And so the blood is speaking of faith. We know this.

The Bible teaches it is by faith. And so I approach the victory of the cross. We approach what Jesus has accomplished on the cross.

And we plead his blood over our lives not through not through uh adding on to the cross, not to trying to prove ourselves to God. All we have to do, all the scriptures teach is that you take hissip, you take faith, you dip it in the blood and you apply it to your life. You apply it to the lintil.

I I talked about this several weeks ago now is that the lintil speaks of the sign above Jesus that declared his crime. What they didn't realize is that it was a prophetic declaration of who he is. For others who hung on the cross, it declared their crime and why they hung there.

For Jesus, that plaque that he hung on defied defined why his cross was different from any other, king of the Jews. And so he says, "Apply the blood. Apply the blood to the two doorposts.

The lentil applied. The blood has been applied to the cross. But you, you and I, we're required to take responsibility for that.

There's a there's a requirement that we receive of the faith. We we dip the hissip in the basin, in the bowl, in the goblet. We dip it and we begin to apply it.

Take a bunch of hissip and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and touch the lentil and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of the house until the morning. Meaning, why would you ever leave?

Why would you ever leave? Why would you ever leave the covering of the blood of Jesus? Why would we ever leave the mercy and the compassion of the cross?

Why would we ever step away out of the finished work of the cross? You apply the blood on the doorpost and you enter in Jesus hanging on the cross. Bloody two posts, a a plaque describes his crime.

You enter, we enter the presence of God through the blood of Jesus. Why would we ever leave there? None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

I'd also explain it this way is that you know like the burden on my heart um for the church and and I I honestly I think this is a part of our assignment at the finding like it's it perhaps might be our primary assignment is is I I feel like part Part of me is devoting my life to understanding communion the way God intended. You know, I've shared this before. It's like, how is it that the most powerful elements in and all of existence, the body and the blood of Jesus Christ that has that is intended to heal and to restore and to wash clean and to set free and deliver and all that stuff?

How is it that the blood and the body of Jesus that is the most powerful element in all all of existence far beyond anything we can comprehend? Why is it that we don't experience the benefits of it? It's a scary question to ask because once you give an answer, you feel like you're supposed to produce some result.

And my my approach a little bit is that I I may I don't have all the answers certainly, but I don't want the fear of not having an answer to keep us from from digging in that direction. And the sweet part about it is that we've seen breakthrough through the receiving of communion that that I know God is all over which tells me that I we we have to go deeper in this direction. There's something in the retelling of his testimony and the receiving of communion that it's not just lifech changing.

It it doesn't just change your life. It takes old old dead people and brings them into the new life that Jesus intended. You know, if you've received communion with us before, like we are our whole service is dedicated to it and it'll usually takes us about like two hours to get through communion.

It's not the the the statistic is not impressive in time. What it what it should be speaking of is that this is not something we quickly rush through and and come do in passing. There's something in the depths of the body and the blood that if we saw rightly, if we saw Jesus rightly and what he's accomplished, we would be seeing signs, wonders, miracles, healings in profound measure.

And if we're not, or at least I'll speak for myself. If I'm not seeing that those things abundantly in my life, then there's something about the cross, about the broken body, the spilled out blood that I am not seeing rightly, which means I am devoting my life to finding Jesus. So when he says take hissup and begin to apply, I'm like, I don't I don't even know what hissip looks like.

But I will gather every bush, every branch, and I will try and try and try again until I learn what hissip is to apply to the doorpost. So that when I enter and the people of my household enter through that doorway, we find that there's mercy there. There is deliverance there.

There's salvation there. [snorts] So if the elements are the most profound and powerful elements and existence. Then what I encourage people is like, hey, if you're like whatever it is you're walking through, and this this is just was one of this is a part of the way that we receive communion, however broken, however dark, whether it's a family situation, a financial situation, a sin situation, a an addiction situation, a whatever whatever under the sun that exists that doesn't look like Jesus, all of that stuff has been paid for and accounted for on the cross.

And so now when I come to the elements, the body and the blood of Jesus and I realize that in this in these elements is my complete redemption and restoration to look like Jesus. Then I must confess my sin. I must release that stuff and I must apply the testimony of what Jesus has accomplished on the cross.

You know, I shared it last week is in many ways the testimony of Jesus. I would I would draw a parallel is is that it's like the the the constitution of the Christian life. It is saying these are the rules.

This is the truth by I that I live by that when Jesus his his flesh was torn apart that I was healed because of the lashes on his back. That is the constitution. That is the truth that I live by.

And you can come and you can tell me whatever you want. Anyone in on planet earth can tell me whatever they want. But when I am found in America and the first amendment says that I could say whatever I want, it your opinion doesn't matter in the in the most respectful way.

Your opinion does not matter. So when the Bible says that by the stripes of Jesus, by this amendment, let's let's call it by this amendment, you have been healed, I don't care what the devils in hell think or want or wish did or didn't happen. I don't live by their opinion.

>> I live by a constitution. I live by a testimony. I live by a way of life that has been engraved.

It is written on my heart. And I will not settle for less. It's a shame when we settle for less.

It just shows that we don't understand which land we are citizens of. >> Take a bunch of hissip and dip it in the blood and in the in the goblet, which you know I I feel like I I think is a is a parallel as well where Jesus took the cup. Um both both words actually actually mean a um uh uh an item that is designed or created to receive food or a meal of both in the New Testament and the Old Testament when it talks about that Jesus poured the cup.

The word cup is speaking of a of an item that is used for consumption. Same thing with this word basin or goblet. It's speaking of something that is used for receiving it, consuming.

And so it's not that it's strange, but I I I see a parallel here is where they were instructed to put it in a cup and from the cup apply the blood. Just like Jesus handed the cup and they were to drink, they applied the blood. Just like when we come to the elements, we take of his blood and we apply the blood.

We That's why the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 11 is is before you receive the meal, examine yourselves because whatever it is you're examining yourself, that's the thing that you're you're pleading the blood over. >> And so if I examine myself and I'm like, "Oh man, I'm struggling with this addiction." And I realize that it doesn't look like Jesus. That's amazing.

You notice something that is off that doesn't look like Jesus. And the more amazing part is now you can come to this cup that when you remember the testimony of the blood and you apply it all of a sudden that thing has to lose its grip. >> It does not have a choice because we don't care about its opinion when it comes to this constitution to this testimony.

Okay. Do you hear what I'm saying? Does it make sense?

>> Is like maybe you can come help me please. several years ago. Um I I don't know if you guys know who Louel is.

Um you know, he fasts like he's just built different. And um and one day uh he was sharing a dream that he had and I just uh I happened to be in I happened to be in the room and he was sharing a dream how he saw uh he called it the reading of America of America where like where America was becoming red like blood bread wash being washed over with blood. And at that time, you know, this was probably I want to say this is 2019 or so.

And so, you know, I heard and I was like, that's kind of kind of cool. I mean, it's exciting. And then he what he started to do, some of you may remember, he would do like these communion gatherings across America.

And um and I thought, man, this that's that's really cool. I wonder what God's doing. And then in 2023, uh the finding it was our it was our second year kind of being a ministry and we had our second conference and uh and I was we had ended the conference and a friend of mine uh a friend of mine Millie she was uh she called me and she's like hey I got this random call um saying that Luingo wants to meet with us and and uh he wants to share his heart for Seattle with us.

And I was like I was headed to another meeting and um it was kind of a funny not funny it was God was all over. I was I was driving to meet with Pastor Benny Hinn and I on my way to the meeting um I get a call. Hey, could you meet with Louingo?

And I was like, "This is like crazy." [laughter] And uh and I was like, "Well, let me see how long this other meeting goes." And then and then I would love to make the the next one. And [clears throat] and and it just so happened that Pastor Benny and Lou were staying in the same exact hotel just unknowingly. They just And so I was I was with Pastor Benny and then and then we talked for about an hour and he was actually the one that said, "Hey, if you don't start a church, you're going to you're disobeying God and if you don't do it, God will choose somebody else." Actually, his exact words were, "What are you waiting for?

God to hit you upside the head." And I was like [laughter] I was like, "That's fair." Um, so then I I I go down the elevator and and Millie and I met with with meet with Lou and he just starts sharing his heart for Seattle and um he goes, "Man, I I feel like God's doing something in the Northwest and he's just looking for people to say yes." And he's like, "If you guys say yes, if you guys say yes, God will use you. But if you don't, he'll just choose somebody else." And we both left that meeting and we're like, how do you even say yes to God like that? Like yes.

Yeah. You know, I we're here like do it with us. We're here.

We say yes. And it's like I don't know. I don't know what else to do or how else to say yes.

Yeah. And so I remember going home and I just like I was driving and just like getting chills and goosebumps and and just thinking all that God wants to do. And and then slowly our communion began to unravel more and more and more.

And there's a lot of context there, but kind of the point I'm trying to make uh to end here is that, you know, I don't have like super close relationship with Lou or anything, but I think God crossed our paths the way that he did is cuz there was a [music] there's a burden on God's heart in a in a good way, a beautiful way, a burden on God's heart for the church to understand the body and the blood, the cross of Jesus Christ. Again, how is it that for hundreds of years, people were willing to to have their heads cut off and they would lose limbs. They would be sawed in two.

I mean, they would fillet them. They would peel their skin off. They would tear their muscles.

They would gouge their eyes out. They would boil them, boil them in hot oil. I mean, they would do all sorts of just the most unimaginable things.

And all of these people were willing. They were willfully giving themselves to that to protect the gospel of Jesus Christ, to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ and in some weird way end up in a place where the testimony of Jesus is shared. Maybe maybe once a month, maybe if you're lucky, once a month for communion between worship and announcements.

And then maybe once a year, we'll kind of go into some of the details on on this holiday we call Good Friday. When the testimony of Jesus, it is the it is the purpose. It is the source of our lives lived.

I'm serious. I receive communion. I buy communion cups.

I probably receive communion [snorts] three to five times a week. Oh, I would say two two to five times a week. And every single time, it takes me about an hour and a half.

Every single time I walk away with God and I I just share the testimony again and again and again. I want to I want my life to be so marked like I want you know I think there was a saint some some time where they cut him open and they found like a they found like an imprint of the cross on his heart. I'm like I want to be so marked by the revelation of the body and the blood of Jesus that one day when they cut my throat because I preached the gospel and they pierced my heart and out of it comes songs of joy and it's sealed and seared.

It's marked with the Lord Jesus Christ. Like like you know and I was talking to some of our team this week is like I feel like the more I retell the story the more like details come to mind. Like God reveals details to me that I never realized before.

Like the way in Genesis, Cain killed Abel and Abel's blood poured into the ground. And since Genesis, his blood has been has been demanding judgment. And the way the Bible teaches that judgment, excuse me, mercy triumphs over judgment.

And then what we learn and that is that in the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus was praying and carrying the agony of the world, the agony and the pain, the wickedness of humanity, he begins to carry it upon himself and he begins to sweat blood. And it says that his his blood that he was sweating, it hit the ground and for the first time since the book of Genesis, the world, the planet, the the earth, it heard a voice that said something other. It demanded something other than judgment.

For the first time in thousands of years, there was a drop of blood that hit the ground that declared mercy over those who caused it to flow. God in the garden gave Adam a a kiss of life, so to speak. And man, Judas gave [music] Jesus a kiss of death in his betrayal in the garden.

And you realize that that the story of Jesus is like it's like an it's like an intricate tapestry that's It's woven from the beginning all the way to today. And our version of his testimony is that remember Jesus, he died on the cross for you and he resurrected. Let's receive the body and the blood.

Man, missed the entire point. They mocked him. He's hanging on the cross.

They mocked him saying, "He who could save others cannot even save himself." not realizing that they were they had the privilege the they had one of the greatest gifts in all of humanity that they got to behold thousands of years leading up to this one point where they were observing like I said earlier they were observing the greatest act of salvation and they sat there and they mocked You know, I like [music] like when we do communion and I tell the story, uh, I almost tell it the same time every single time because I'm not trying to I'm the goal isn't entertainment. The goal is to remember the finished work. And you realize that you know Jesus walking up the like this these thoughts they blow my mind that Jesus he formed a piece of wood that he knew he was going to hang on.

And he spoke into existence a mountain that was that is being held together in the palm of his hand, knowing that on that hill, on that mountain, he's going to die. And every molecule, every molecule of that tree that was one day to be caught into the cross, that was the one day to be made into the cross that he died on, every molecule he held together and he spoke into existence. Like if you knew you were going to die, you probably wouldn't help the person killing you make the weapon.

You'd be trying to slow it down. Jesus following up guards up the up Goltha. And with every step he's taking, blood is just pouring.

I mean, the Bible says that he was so marred beyond beyond human recognition. In other words, he did not look human anymore. And his blood flowed.

It says you can count every bone in his body. So he was so mutilated, so torn apart, you can count every bone in his body looking at him. His blood flowed and with every step as the guards are leading him, his blood is covering over again declaring mercy over the footprints of those who are leading him to a mountain that he's holding together while he's carrying a tree that he formed at his word.

and all of it. On top of all of this, he's carrying it up this mountain and he goes, "Man, 2,000 years from now, when that when that kid Raul is there, man, he's going to love this." And he thought the same about you. It's it's why the scripture says, "For the joy set before him that he endured the cross." >> And he's walking through this and he's holding all of existence in the palm of his hand and he's thinking of you.

And as he's headed up there and his blood is covering the footprints of those he's who are leading him, then his blood is forming a red carpet to the foot of the cross that those that anyone who should follow him would find themselves in the loving embrace of a good good father. And just like the serpent in the wilderness that Moses set up, anyone who looked at it found themselves healed and whole. So now anyone who would behold Jesus on a pole on a tree, anyone who looks to him would find that they would be free of the curse of death.

And so what I like what I vow to I promise you this I will die on this hill is that we will never the best that I know how we will never approach communion this house. Not the not the communion Sunday version of communion. I'm talking about the body and the blood, the elements of our Lord Jesus Christ, the testimony, team, why don't you come up?

You hear what I'm saying? And so just like uh every other week I I during our time in Exodus, what I want to do is is at the end is I just I want us to go into worship and and I want us to love and worship Jesus remembering the testimony of the body, the blood, and the cross [crying] with gratitude with with joy and excitement and and a revelation of victory. I promise you that that whatever that thing you're going through or facing in life or whatever it is that happens, none of it can withstand the constitution of the Christian life, the promises, the victory, the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And if a in a moment it seems like it does, it just it's just because we do not see the land to which we belong, the citiz the land of which we are citizens of. >> Amen. Amen.

>> So, why don't we all stand up? We're not going to take much longer. I just I just want us to worship and sing uh or I should say rather worship in song Jesus for what he's accomplished uh on the cross.

So, we're only going to we're going to take a few more minutes and then and then I'll come up. We'll pray and and we'll call it a night. But I want us to look to behold Jesus today.

>> [music] >> on the hill [singing] in mercy spoke for me. Mercy spoke [music and singing] for me. Oh mercy spoke for me.

It was on God [singing] this sweet. His death brought [music] liberty. His death brought liberty.

Oh his death brought liberty. We remember [singing] Lord. [music] We remember [music] on the hill [singing] in Israel.

Mercy spoke [music] for me. Mercy spoke for [singing] me. No mercy [music] spoke for me.

It was on God [singing] the street. His death [music] brought liberty. His death brought liberty.

Oh, his death brought liberty. [music] May I never [music] boast in anything except the cross of Jesus Christ. [music] May I not forget the blood is shed for it is by his death I am [music] alive.

May I never May I never boast in [music] anything except the cross of Jesus Christ. me [music] I not forget the [singing] blood is shed for it is [music] by his death I [singing] am alive because of Christ I am alive [singing] [music] I am life. What a [music and singing] humble sacrifice.

A love that washed me clean. A love [singing] that washed me [music] clean. Oh, your love has washed me clean.

What a [music] blessed mystery. His punishment my peace. His punishment my [music] peace.

All his punishment my peace. What a [music] humble sacrifice. Love that wash me clean.

Love [music and singing] that wash me clean. Oh your love has washed me clean. What a [music] blessing mystery.

His punishment and my peace. [singing] His punishment and my [music] peace. Oh, his punishment my peace.

May I [music] never boast in anything [music] except the cross of Jesus Christ. [music] May I not forget the [music and singing] blood he shed for it is by his name [music] I am alive I never bo [music] in anything except [music] the cross of Jesus Christ may I love forget [music] The blood he said for it is mine is dead. [music] I am alive because of [music] Christ.

I am alive. [singing] I am alive. Because of [music] you, Lord.

Because of the cross, I am alive. [singing] I am alive. [music] And hallelujah.

[music] Hallelu. [singing] raised the world. Death has [music] lost his grip on me and hallelu [music and singing] hallelu Jesus and [music] he's alive in [singing] me.

Hallelu. [music] Hallelu. Praise the [singing] one who set me free.

[music] Death has lost his grip on me. Hallelu. [singing] [music] Hallelu.

Jesus rose in victory. [music] He's alive. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. [music] Praise the world to set me free. Death has lost his grip on me.

Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. Jesus [music] rose in victory.

He's alive. Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah.

Praise the one who is set free [music] on me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[music] I [music] may I never lose anything [music] except the cross of Jesus Christ may I not forget [music] the blood he sh is by I am [music] alive. May I never lose [music] anything except the cross [music] of Jesus Christ. May I [music] not forget the blood shed for it is by his death.

I am [music] alive because of Christ. I am [music] Hallelujah. Praise the one who set me free.

[music] Lost his grave on me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Jesus [music] victory. He's alive. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. [music] Praise the Lord and set me free [music] on me. Hallelujah.

[music] Hallelujah. Jesus victory. [music] He's the life.

Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah.

Jesus in victory. [music] He's alive. Jesus victory.

[music] He's the alive [music] victory. He's the alive [music] victory. He's alive for me.

Jesus losing [music] victory. He's alive for me. [music] May I never boast in anything except the cross of Jesus Christ.

May I [music] not forget the blood is shed. P is by [music] I am alive because [singing and music] of Christ. I am alive because [singing] of Christ.

I am alive [music] because of Christ. I am alive because [music] of Christ. I am alive because >> [music] >> And hallelujah.

[music] Hallelu. Praise the one who set me free. [music] Death has lost its grip on me.

[music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus lives in victory.

He's alive [music] in me. Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah.

There is no one set me free. [music] [singing] [music] Hallelujah. Jesus victory [music] alive.

Halle hallelujah. [music] Yeah. Heat.

[music] A [music] Yeah. Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] Hey, [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat up here. [music] Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat.

[music] Yeah. Heat. [music] Heat [music] up here.

Yeah. Heat. [music] Hallelujah.

[singing] [music] >> You reign forever [singing] more. Halle hallelu. [singing and music] [singing] >> [music] >> and hallelu hallelu.

Praise the [music] Lord who set [singing] me free. Death has lost its grip on me. Hallelu.

[music] Hallelu. [singing] Jesus rose in victory. [music] Is your life alive in me?

Hallelujah. [singing] [music] Hallelujah. Praise [singing] the Lord who set [music] me free.

Death has lost its grip on me. Hallelujah. Hallelu.

[music] Jesus rose [singing] in victory. is alive [music] in me. May I never boast in anything except the cross of Jesus Christ.

May I not forget the blood is shed for it is by his death I am alive. May I never boast in anything [singing] except the cross of Jesus Christ. May I not forget the blood is shed.

It is by his death I am alive. Because of Christ I am alive because of Christ. I am alive because of Christ.

I am alive because of Christ. I am alive. Lord, we ask that tonight you would uh you would sear our hearts, God.

[music] You would engrave us with the the testimony, the revelation of the finished work. And I ask for our house, God, for us in this room [music] that we would never ever ever far be it, Lord. really really far be it [music] from us to ever approach your table casually.

But in your faithfulness, you set a table before us in the presence of our enemies. But at the table, Lord, all you ask for is our love and affection. So we turn to you.

We thank you for your presence with us tonight. [music] the way that you always come. What a gift.

Seal us with the truth of your word. That as we would go home, Lord, we go home holding your hand and [music] be holding your face deeply in love with you. We love you, precious king, and in your most holy name we pray.

Amen. [music] >> Amen. Amazing.

Well, we love you all so much and and thank you for coming and loving Jesus with us. Um uh drive home safely. We will either see you on uh we won't see you on Tuesday.

There's no Bible study this week, but either Thursday or next Sunday. [music] Uh we'll see you then. We love you.

God bless you and have a good night.