The Cost Of Freedom Is Blood

So someone in every Jewish home took hyssop, dipped it in the blood, & put it on the doorframe. And that night, just as God had told them, He brought judgment upon Egypt, & there was weeping & wailing in the homes of the Egyptians. But wherever God saw the blood of the lamb, those homes were spared.

The next morning, Exodus 12:33 tells us, “The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country.” After 400 years of bondage they were free!

God said, “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – a lasting ordinance.” (Exodus 12:14)

Over 3,500 years have passed since that day, & every year faithful Jews still celebrate, still remember Passover. And it’s important that we don’t forget, either.

II. THE DAY OF WORSHIP

A. Now the second memorial I want to mention is today - the day of worship.

It all started in the beginning when God created the heavens & the earth. God worked 6 days in creation, & on the 7th day He rested. The Bible tells us that God consecrated that day & called it the Sabbath, a day for rest.

In the Ten Commandments God told the Jews that they were to remember the Sabbath day & to keep it holy. So the Sabbath became a day of worship & rest.

B. When Jesus was crucified & buried & then raised from the dead, He was raised on the first day of the week.

Then the Day of Pentecost came, another first day of the week. The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles, & the church began as 3,000 responded the first time ever that the Gospel was preached.

Soon the early Christians were meeting regularly upon the first day of the week to worship God & encourage one another. And in the Book of Revelation the Apostle John spoke of this day of worship as “The Lord’s Day.” And so it is to those of us who gather to worship Him on this day.

I pray that this church will always recognize that whenever we come together we have come to meet a holy & righteous God - to remember what He has done for us, & to rededicate ourselves to Him.

II. WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE PIT THAT WAS PRIOR TO OUR SALVATION. Psalm 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

III. WE ARE TO REMEMBER THE TRUTHS OF GOD.

A. (John 14:26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

B. (Rev 3:3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

WE ARE TO REMEMBER THE LORD

(Neh 4:14) And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.