Seder

Presentation Notes

Ex 10:1-2

1Now the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him, 2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your son’s son the mighty things I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

This is why we recount the deeds that God did in humbling Pharaoh and the Egyptians.

Ex 11:1-2

1And the Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out of here altogether. 2Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.”

3And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

This is how God fulfilled his promise back in Genesis 15:13

This was spoken in the hearing of the people. It says that God gave them favor and the Egyptians recognized Moses.

What do you think the Egyptians thought when Moses was telling them this?

Ex 12:1-27

The Israelites were to take a spotless one year old lamb.

6Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. … 11And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.

21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. 22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. 23For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

24And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. 25It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. 26And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ”

(Prepare while this is being read?)

Ex 13

Eating the Lamb - Communion - The Lord’s Supper

1 Cor 2 We are hosting the Lord’s body by eating the bread and wine.

Make sure we are eating it in a worthy manner.

Unleavened - without pride, hypocrisy, sin.

Introduction

Thank you

Why do we celebrate Passover?

It is a time of remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt.

It is commanded that this would be celebrated throughout the generations of Israel.

There are several elements that are commanded by God -
The lamb, the bitter herbs, and unleavened bread.

Traditional elements - symbolic.

We will go over these in detail.

Jewish people have celebrated the Passover for thousands of years

Meal, solemn time, celebration.

It is a night set apart from all other nights.

So why as Gentiles do we do it?

By believing in Israel’s Messiah, we become part of spiritual Israel and are grafted in.

We have the opportunity to reclaim an ancient path
Not only do we have reason to celebrate Passover

Yesuah, Jesus, filled it full of meaning beyond just the story of the Exodus.

Messiah himself became the Passover lamb.

We recognize Him this night. We will examine this relationship further as we go along.

I first want to give a brief history of the Exodus. Some here may not know what this night is all about. What is the Passover? What is the Exodus?

Many years before the Israelites were slaves Egypt, Abraham was a called out from among the Babylonians. God promised him that his descendants would be as the stars in heaven and the sand of the sea in multitude. This promise was sealed with a covenant. As He was making this covenant he told him,

Gen 15:12-16
13Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

As God promised, Abraham had a son with Sarah his wife and they named him Isaac. Isaac had Jacob, and Jacob had 12 sons, which became the tribes of Israel.

One of his sons was favored above all the others - Joseph! Remember the coat of many colors that Joesph had? Now, Joseph’s brothers despised him and sold him into slavery and he went down to Egypt. However, after many years God made Joseph great in the land of Egypt and used him to save the people of Egypt and the surrounding nations, including his own brothers that had sold him into slavery.

Jacob and his sons stayed in the land of Egypt and had many children. However, Egyptians began to mistreat them and forced them into slavery.

Deuteronomy 26: 6[T]he Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 7Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

That is where we find ourselves in the beginning of the Passover story. God raised Moses in order to deliver the people of Israel. Moses confronted Pharaoh and told him to let the people go, but Pharaoh would not listen, so God sent 10 plagues on them until Pharaoh’s heart was humbled. It was the last plague, the striking of the firstborn, that brought about the need for the Passover, which is what this night is about. At this time God delivered the Israelites from Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.

[1Co 11:23-29 NKJV] For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the [same] night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke [it] and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me." In the same manner [He] also [took] the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink [it], in remembrance of Me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes. Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks [this] cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

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