Spring Cleaning Sermon by Jeff Strite, Exodus 12:1-28, Exodus 12:1, Exodus 12:1-12

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Spring Cleaning Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)

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Scripture: Exodus 12:1-28, Exodus 12:1, Exodus 12:1-12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Summary: The Passover was the first and most important feast day of the Jewish people... but it was only the first feast day of "The Feast of Unleavened Bread". There was a reason for that. Do you know what it was?

Removing sin from their homes was not what made them free. Removing that sinful element was based upon the freedom God had given them. They removed the sin BECAUSE God had freed them.

Now that isn’t simply an Old Testament idea. TURN WITH ME to Romans 6. In the previous chapter of Romans, Paul explained that God loved us so much, it pleased Him to forgive our sins. So, in the opening verse of Romans 6, Paul basically says: If it pleases God so much to forgive our sins… why don’t we really make Him happy and sin a lot?

“What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Romans 6 is telling us that our freedom came from belonging to Jesus, and because we were now new creatures in Him, we should no longer engage in sinful activities of our past life.

Too often people will say that they don’t want to become Christians until they clean out their lives (Spring Cleaning). They fail to realize that it isn’t in removing the yeast of their past sins that will make them acceptable to God. We can only be free when we accept Jesus on His terms:

1. Faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior

2 Repentance of our past sins

3. Confession of Jesus as Lord

4. Baptism into Christ

Then and only then is Spring Cleaning effective and beneficial.

SERMONS IN THIS SERIES

Raising A G-Rated Family In An R-Rated World

1 Peter 1:17-1:19

Committing A G-Rated Marriage

Ephesians 5:21-5:33

Teachable Moments

Deuteronomy 6:1-6:23