The Lamb and Your New Life | Passover and the Power of Deliverance

I'm going to be talking today about Passover and why it's so important for you and I to understand what God wants to do in our life that is connected to the theme of Pesach or Passover. Consider this, when Jesus, your Messiah, was first revealed to the world, he was identified by Yohanan or John the Baptist of the Jordan River as, get this, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. Think about this, Jesus was not known to the world. He was made known to the world through John the Baptist and John made Yeshua known to the world by identifying him as the Lamb of God. In the book of Revelation, Yeshua's primary title is the title of, get this, the Lamb. When you read the book of Revelation, more than any other title given to Jesus is the title of the Lamb. It's the Lamb before the throne in the book of Revelation. You and I are written in the Lamb's book of life. The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. We really need to think about this. It's easy to just let the words kind of roll off our back like water off a duck's back without fully incorporating what the message is. Yeshua is the Lamb and the Lamb's blood was shed, get this now, to bring deliverance. Passover is the story of redemption or deliverance. When we go back to the book of Shemot or Exodus 3, which I did on the last broadcast, what we read is that God came down, get this, to deliver Israel. Now on the last time I spoke on this, I helped our listeners and viewers to understand that sometimes we don't realize that we need deliverance. I don't really understand that because I know there's so much more. I know that the destiny that God has for his children is one of absolute, complete freedom, joy, strength, happiness, soundness of mind, health, prosperity. I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about every way, just fullness in God's kingdom. God said to Israel, I've come down to deliver you and bring you into a spacious place, a land flowing, get it, with milk and honey.

So I want to give you a bigger vision. I want you to believe for yourself that God has more for you and more for me than we're presently walking in right now. And it's a journey that as we continue to follow Yeshua, we enter into greater and greater freedom. We enter more and more into the spacious place of freedom in the spirit, the land of milk and honey. Now on the last teaching on this, I spoke about how when Israel was in Egypt, the sins of their Egyptian taskmasters entered into their own life. And the rabbis teach that because of this, they sank down into moral and spiritual corruption and impurity. And it was so severe that the rabbis teach that they sunk down to the 49th degree of impurity. Only one more step, they would have sunk down into the 50th degree, which would have been complete collapse. In other words, when someone is tormented and beaten on and abused and curses are spoken over their life and they're told how worthless they are, people lose a sense of God's identity. They lose a sense of God's love and they lose their way and they sink down into the darkness. So on the last teaching, I shared with our listeners and viewers how their sins that have gotten into our lives, maybe it was a teacher. I remember a teacher that told me when I was in seventh grade, I still remember it. And he said to me, if you're getting C's and D's now, you're going to get C's and D's for the rest of your life. I never forgot that. Thank God he stepped in and delivered me. By the time I got to Bible's college, I was getting like almost all A's. But the truth is, is that when people inflict things into us, when they put sin upon us, oftentimes what will happen is we'll internalize that. If you were bullied, if you were picked on, if you were rejected, if you were excluded, if you were told that you were worthless, if you were told that you were not pretty,

if you were told that you were not desirable, chances are that to some degree that's gotten in you. And now the way you're walking is not only keeping you captive, but it's affecting the way that you're relating to other people. You're not fully walking in love and peace. And as a result, you're sitting in relationships with people because of sins that were committed against you. In fact, the rabbis teach that Israel built the golden calf in the wilderness largely because of the sin that came into them while they were in Egypt. The oppressor's sin got inside them. The hate, the sense of not being loved, the sense of God not being there is what led them to build the golden calf. It was easier to get Israel out of Egypt than it was to get Egypt out of Israel. So that being said, we're going to move on now to another realm of Pesach and the deliverance that comes to us through the Passover Lent. We're not going to be focusing any longer on sin that gets into us through other people's harm, but we're going to be focusing now on decisions that we make that are sinful and what that does to us and how through Messiah, the Passover Lent, we can be delivered from our own sin and the consequences of it. I think the best way to really get a grasp of this concept is to go back to sin in its original conception. We're going to go now to the Book of Bereshit or the Book of Beginnings, a story that we all are familiar with. We're going to be looking at the sin of Adam and Eve. We're going now to Bereshit chapter 3. Once again, the grass withers and the flowers fade. This word is so old, so ancient, and yet it's relevant for us right now

in a way that cannot be overestimated because sin is real. We're going to look at how it was conceived and we're going to understand better how sin is affecting our lives today. Let's listen to the word of God. God approaches Adam and says, Where are you? Continues in verse number 10. Adam responds, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself. This is so important. I don't have words to convey how deep this goes. Sometimes people hear the word sin today and it seems antiquated. They don't understand really what sin is. Sin is an action that we take either physically in our mind through a thought that we come into agreement with, through an impulse of our heart. Sin is when there's something in us that is contrary and out of harmony with the spirit of God. As soon as you and I step out of being in harmony with God's spirit, we sever ourselves from him and enter into the darkness. This is what happened to Adam and Eve in the garden and what happened to them is still our plague and struggle today. Listen to what happened when Adam ate of the tree. God once again says, Where are you? And Adam responds, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and get this,

and I was afraid. Adam wasn't afraid before he sinned. There was no fear. Fear did not enter Adam and Eve's mind. I want to ask you, do you ever struggle with fear? I know I do. If we were fully cognizant of how loved and protected we are, no fear would ever enter our mind. But because of sin, there's a sense of separation. Because of sin, we're not fully aware of how much God loves us and how safe we are because of his love for us. When we're fully aware, beloved holy brothers and sisters, of God's love for us, we'll have no sin. This is why the Bible says, Perfect love casteth out all fear. So when you think about being delivered from sin, what this means is you'll be delivered from all fear. Jesus has come to deliver us from our sin. When he was born, the angel spoke to his parents and said, you shall call his name Yeshua or Jesus, for he shall save or deliver his people from their sin. So I want you to know, as we celebrate Passover this year,

this is about being delivered from sin and from fear. Are you worried about your children, your grandchildren, your health, growing old, running out of money, your health, whatever fear you're dealing with, if you and I knew, how much God loved us, how much he's going to be with us regardless of what we face in the future, that because of his love, we're more than conquerors in him, that even if everything was sinking down underneath our feet, we still have the hope, but God, we'd have no fear. God wants to bring us into this freedom during this season of deliverance during Passover. And it's not just during Passover. Passover is a reminder to us of what we should be striving for to enter into. We forget what lies behind and we reach forward toward the upward goal of the prize in Christ Jesus. God wants to deliver you and I from sin and the consequences of it, which is fear. Let's continue on. Adam said, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid. Why did fear come in? Because of sin. Because I was naked. All of a sudden, Adam realizes he's naked. Adam says he was afraid because he says, I was naked. Now, let me ask a question. I know we all know the answer to this. Was Adam aware that he was naked before he sinned? Well, obviously he knew he was naked before he sinned, but he didn't have any consciousness of his nakedness before he sinned. Why? Because he was God conscious rather than self-conscious. Why did he all of a sudden become self-conscious and feel ashamed to try to hide himself because he felt naked? Because he no longer was conscious of God's presence first. He was now conscious of his own body. That's what sin does. It separates us from God's consciousness. It separates us from, I should say, God consciousness. And when we're not God conscious, we become self-conscious. God doesn't want us looking around, being afraid of what other people think about us, you know, feeling like everything we do, everybody, somebody's looking at us, people are judging. He doesn't want us to be conscious of all those things first. He wants us to be conscious of him first through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. He wants us to be confident in his love. So Adam needs to be delivered from fear, just like you and I. He needs to be delivered from nakedness or shame.

Adam went on to say that he hid himself. He said, I was naked, so I hid myself. How many of us are trying to hide ourselves today because we don't feel that we'll be accepted if we are who we really are? We hide ourselves on our Facebook page by putting out some posture about who we want to portray ourselves to be, hiding from other people who we really are. God wants to deliver us from all this stuff, but we've got to be honest with him and honest with ourselves. The dialogue goes on and we find the next consequence of sin, blame. We've seen fear, we've seen shame, we've seen separation, we've seen isolation, we've seen guilt. All these came into mankind's life because of sin. Remember, Passover is about the Lamb of God that came to deliver us from our sin. And as a result, all these things that we've named. And let me ask you a question. Are these things that we've named, that I've named, are they applicable for your life today? What happens next? God begins to say to Adam, well, why did you eat? Who told you to eat? Notice what Adam says next. The man said, the woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate. So the first thing that we see here is God told Adam not to eat of the tree. Adam was the first creation. Eve was made from Adam's rib after him. But rather than taking responsibility for disobeying God, what does Adam do? He blames the woman. What's the woman do? The Lord said to the woman, what is this you've done? What does the woman do? Verse 11, and the woman said, the serpent deceived me. The next consequence of sin is blame. I wonder how many of us are walking around in bondage because we're continually blaming other people for our problems, for our anger, for our lot in life. It's our wife's fault, it's our husband's fault, it's the government's fault, it's the president's fault, it's our employer's fault, it's everybody's fault, and we never take responsibility for our own sin. Let me tell you, as long as you practice walking in a spirit of blaming others and making excuses, you will never and I will never be made whole. We have to say, Lord, save me, deliver me. I'm the one that ate from the tree. I remember years ago, the Lord convicted me about my anger. I would blame situations. blame people, blame my wife, blame this. The Lord said to me, you need to take responsibility for your anger and stop blaming people for it. That was a revolutionary change in my life. I mean, my life was completely flipped upside down

when I understood I'm the one that needs to take responsibility for my anger. I was delivered. And maybe I'm speaking to some of you right now. Maybe you're living under a spirit of bondage by blaming other people, because what happens is when you blame other people, you put yourself in a legal territory where the enemy can torment you. And so Passover is about being delivered from our own sin. We see Adam here trying to escape his own guilt by blaming the woman, the woman trying to escape her own guilt by blaming the serpent, but beloved, we'll never be set free when we're living in a spirit of blame and accusation towards other people. I remember years ago, I found myself in a prophetic dream. And in this dream, I was in a house and it was kind of dark in the house and there was something behind me. I couldn't see what it was, but it was oppressing me. And I was running in the house from room to room trying to escape this thing behind me that was oppressing me. And I ran to this room and it was still there. I ran to that room, it was still there. I ran to the next room, it was still oppressing me. Wherever I went, that thing behind me was following me, oppressing me.

Then all of a sudden, it was like the gaze of God from heaven locked me. I felt the Lord look down upon me from heaven. And the Lord showed me somebody in my life that I had ill will towards. And the Lord said, forgive them, release them, stop being angry at them. And immediately I responded and I said, I forgive that person, I release that person. I take my anger back, I take my ill will back. And as soon as I did that, you know what happened? That thing that was behind me that was torturing me and that I was running from all through the house, as soon as I took responsibility by correcting my own heart, that thing that was tormenting me left me. So beloved, sin, our own sin is multiplied when we don't take responsibility for it. But the Bible tells us if we confess our sin, Yeshua is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We need to be delivered from our sin. If you want to grow spiritually, and I want to grow spiritually, we need to practice self-awareness. We need to monitor our hearts. Lord, is there any evil impulse that I'm allowing to move in me? Is there jealousy? Is there pride? Is there ill will?

Do we not want to see somebody else succeed because of evil in our own heart? Do we engage in gossip? Do we give our energy to things that are bringing, that are coming really from the pit of hell? We need to take responsibility if we're going to be delivered by being conscious and aware of our own sin. And rather than making excuses for it, or saying it's okay because the world says it's okay, instead we need to lift it all to Jesus who came to deliver us from our sin. That's what Passover is about. It's about being delivered from the sin that we've internalized because of the abuse that we've experienced from the world and from other people. Being delivered so we can walk in freedom from that. And Passover is about being delivered from our own sin. The things that we've done that we need to take responsibility for and confess so that Jesus can deliver us. He loves us. He wants to deliver us. But if we try to hide our sin and don't confess it, we're not going to be delivered. I want to encourage you, my beloved, holy brothers and sisters, during this Passover season, take a moment now, just get down on your knees if you can, and just say, Jesus, please forgive me. I purpose to walk with you.

Deliver me from my sin and cleanse me, Lord Jesus, from every sin that I've internalized that's come upon me through the sin of others. Yeshua, you are my Lamb of God. Thank you for loving me and giving me the gift of yourself and deliverance. In the book of Numbers chapter six, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over him. his people. And the Lord said, when you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartation of the Lord's blessings. Yeh Vah Recheche Yahweh Vah Yishma Reche Ya'er Yahweh P'navei Leche V'hu Neche Yissa Yahweh P'navei Lecha V'asem Lecha Shalom The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up by his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.