Pesach

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Pesach Session 1

• The Celebration of Passover

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A Story of Freedom from Bondage

• Passover celebrates the Jewish people's freedom
  from Egyptian bondage that took place
  approximately 3,500 years ago, as told in the
  first 15 chapters of the biblical Book of Exodus
  (Shemoth).

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Prophesied to Abraham Genesis 15

• 12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
  fell upon Abram and behold, terror and great
  darkness fell upon him. 13 God said to Abram,
  "Know for certain that your descendants will be
  strangers in a land that is not theirs, where
  they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred
  years. 14 "But I will also judge the nation whom
  they will serve, and afterward they will come out
  with many possessions. 15 "As for you, you shall
  go to your fathers in peace you will be buried
  at a good old age. 16 "Then in the fourth
  generation they will return here, for the
  iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."

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Commission of Moshe

• In Shemoth chapters 3 and 4, the Most High
  commissioned Moshe to go back and bring Gods
  people back to the mountain where they would
  worship Him.

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Resistance of Pharaoh

• When Moshe went back and presented this to
  Pharaoh, he would not let the children of Israel
  go. In fact, he made it harder on the children
  of Israel.

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Miracles and Plagues

• So God worked in many ways, through miracles and
  plagues to show the Egyptians His might, so that
  Pharaoh might release the Israelites.

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Gods Separation of His People

• For 9 plagues, God had made a distinction between
  Israel and Egypt. When a plague affected Egypt,
  it didnt affect Goshen (where the Israelites
  were).

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Gods Separation of His People

• Shemoth 822 - "But on that day I will set apart
  the land of Goshen, where My people are living

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Gods Separation of His People

• Shemoth 94 - "But the LORD will make a
  distinction between the livestock of Israel and
  the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing will die
  of all that belongs to the sons of Israel."

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Gods Separation of His People

• Shemoth 926 Only in the land of Goshen, where
  the sons of Israel were, there was no hail.

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Gods Separation of His People

• Shemoth 1022 So Moses stretched out his hand
  toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in
  all the land of Egypt for three days. 23 They did
  not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his
  place for three days, but all the sons of Israel
  had light in their dwellings.

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After Nine Plagues

• Finally, God said through Moshe that He had yet
  one more plague to place upon the Egyptians,
  where He, Himself, was going to go through the
  midst of Egypt (Mitzraim) and all the first-born
  in the land of Egypt were to die

• Shemoth 111-7

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EXCEPT.

• for the ones upon whose doorposts and lintels of
  their houses were covered by the lambs blood.

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God said

• READ Shemoth 121-14 21-24

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God would make a distinction

• By a sign that those who believed in Him would
  put on the doorposts and lintels of their houses
  the blood of an unblemished lamb.

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Faith of the People

• For 9 plagues, God Himself had made a distinction
  by Himself between Egypt and the children of
  Israel, now on faith, Israel was to make a
  distinction between itself and Egypt!

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Now, They Must take a Step of Faith

• Now, they must take the blood and apply it to
  their door-posts and lintels in order to preserve
  the life of their first-born.

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Hebrews 1128

• By faith he Moshe kept the Passover and the
  sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed
  the firstborn would not touch them.

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Faith and Works

• It takes faith to believe the Word of the Lord
  and to act upon it!
• God wants a people, a distinctive people, who
  will by faith obey Him!

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True Biblical Faith is Not Simply an Intellectual
Assent to Something

• Must BELIEVE and DO!

You believe that God is one. You do well the
demons also believe, and shudder. James 219
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Difference between Correct theology and a Saving
Faith!

• Though Demons have a Correct understanding of the
  Oneness of God, but they are lost! They will not
  DO what God wants them to!

• Having a correct biblical theology will NOT save
  you! Having a Biblical faith WILL!

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Correct Biblical Faith James 2

• 14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says
  he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith
  save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without
  clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of
  you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and be
  filled," and yet you do not give them what is
  necessary for their body, what use is that? 17
  Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being
  by itself.

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• 18 But someone may well say, "You have faith and
  I have works show me your faith without the
  works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
  19 You believe that God is one. You do well the
  demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you
  willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that
  faith without works is useless?

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• 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works
  when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22
  You see that faith was working with his works,
  and as a result of the works, faith was
  perfected 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled
  which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS
  RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUS-NESS," and he was
  called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man
  is justified by works and not by faith alone.

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• 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also
  justified by works when she received the
  messengers and sent them out by another way? 26
  For just as the body without the spirit is dead,
  so also faith without works is dead.

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God began a Process of Separation at Goshen

• When Israel first moves into Mitzraim (Egypt)
  Genesis 46
• 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his
  father's household, "I will go up and tell
  Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brothers and my
  father's household, who were in the land of
  Canaan, have come to me 32 and the men are
  shepherds, for they have been keepers of
  livestock and they have brought their flocks and
  their herds and all that they have.' 33 "When
  Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your
  occupation?' 34 you shall say, Your servants
  have been keepers of livestock from our youth
  even until now, both we and our fathers,' that
  you may live in the land of Goshen for every
  shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians."

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Put Israel in a Part of the Land

• Where they would be Separate from Egyptians.
• Less interaction with them less being like them.

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We Need to Show Distinction between US and the
WORLD

• You adulteresses, do you not know that
  friendship with the world is hostility toward
  God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of
  the world makes himself an enemy of God. -James
  44

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Called a Holy (Kadosh) People

• Strong's Number  06918
•  kaw-doshe' Parts of Speech- Adjective 
• Definition 
• sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart
•  Translated Words KJV (116) - Holy One, 39 holy,
  65 saint, 12
• NAS (115) - Holy, 8 Holy One, 44 consecrated,
  1 holy, 50 holy one, 3 holy ones, 6 one is
  holy, 1 saints, 2

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Adjective

• word which modifies a noun, but which is not
  itself a noun.
• For example The brown table, the happy child.

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Deuteronomy 76

• "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God
  the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people
  for His own possession out of all the peoples who
  are on the face of the earth.

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Leviticus 2026

• 'Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the LORD am
  holy and I have set you apart from the peoples
  to be Mine.

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Deuteronomy 142

• "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God,
  and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for
  His own possession out of all the peoples who are
  on the face of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 289

• "The LORD will establish you as a holy people to
  Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the
  commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His
  ways.

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Numbers 15

• 37 The LORD also spoke to Moses, saying, 38
  "Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that
  they shall make for themselves tassels on the
  corners of their garments throughout their
  generations, and that they shall put on the
  tassel of each corner a cord of blue. 39 "It
  shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember
  all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do
  them and not follow after your own heart and your
  own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40
  so that you may remember to do all My
  commandments and be holy to your God. 41 "I am
  the LORD your God who brought you out from the
  land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD your
  God."

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A Holy People

• Should be living holy lives.

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God CALLS (Noun) us Holy

• Then God GIVES us His Torah so that we can LIVE
  holy lives.

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Shaul on the Torah Romans 7

• 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment
  is holy and righteous and good.

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May not always Understand why

• A commandment is given just need to obey Him!
• The commandment is given so that in our obedience
  to it, we begin to live what we are!

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God Makes us Holy

• By our keeping His Torah.
• The Torah creates a separation between Gods
  people and the world.
• We are Not to be like the World. Need to make a
  distinctive in our lives between us and the
  world.

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1 Peter 1 15, 16

• 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to
  the former lusts which were yours in your
  ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called
  you, be holy yourselves also in all your
  behavior 16 because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE
  HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY."

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Exodus 247

• Naaseh venishma Naaseh - we will do ve -
  and then nishma - understand.

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If you are new to the Torah Observance

• Need to do the same thing Like with Passover
• Observing the removal of chometz (do) Will talk
  about next Shabbat
• Then understand as you go along.

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Reminder Passover celebrates the Jewish
people's salvation from Egyptian bondage

• God didnt free His people from Egyptian bondage
  to place them under bondage again!
• The Torah is NOT bondage!
• The Torah is freedom!

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David - Psalm 119

• V - Vav
• 41 May Your lovingkindnesses (chesed) also come
  to me, O LORD, Your salvation according to Your
  word
• 42 So I will have an answer for him who
  reproaches me, For I trust in Your word.
• 43 And do not take the word of truth utterly out
  of my mouth, For I wait for Your ordinances.
• 44 So I will keep Your law continually, Forever
  and ever.
• 45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your
  precepts.