A Beautiful Type
Teach Us To Pray
January 12, 2020
Rev. Gabe Sylvia
Exodus 12's Passover—household lamb, blood as sign and seal, and a memorial meal—prefigures the Lord's Supper by making God's saving, substitutionary judgment tangible, adopting sinners into a people, and directing believers toward their true, future home.
Summary
The sermon examines Exodus 12 and the Passover as one of the Old Testament sacraments that anticipates the Lord's Supper: each household takes a lamb, eats it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and marks the day as a perpetual memorial. Placed between the ninth and tenth plagues, the Passover made God's saving action tangible; the private sacrifice becomes public at the doorway, the blood functions both as a sign and a seal, and by eating the flesh the people symbolically take the sacrifice upon themselves. This demonstrates how God's righteous judgment is satisfied so he can adopt a sinful people. The Lord's Supper should play a similar role for Christians—overseeing our week, lifting our eyes from this world, and pointing us to the ultimate meal and home still to come.
Key Points
- Exodus 12 (Passover) is an OT sacrament that foreshadows the Lord's Supper.
- Key elements: a lamb per household, roasted flesh, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and a memorial feast.
- Passover made God's saving action tangible and public; the private sacrifice was displayed at the doorway of the year.
- The blood served as both sign and seal; eating the lamb meant the people took the sacrifice to be their own.
- God's righteous judgment had to be satisfied for him to adopt a sinful people.
- The Lord's Supper fulfills and expands Passover's meaning: it should govern our worship life and point to another, ultimate meal.
- The sacrament lifts believers' eyes off this world and reminds them of their true home to come.
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