Sunday Shul - Special Passover Teaching
Shalom to you during this Festival Season of Redemption!
As a reminder, Sunday Shul will be this evening at 7:00 PM Central time. I will take leave of the subject of Messiah for one more week to speak tonight of the story of the Exodus. Next week I will resume the subject of the messiah, focusing on the “Son of David - a King Messiah”.
Tonight’s class will consist of quite a bit of reading. I think that this is an important part of building faith since we learn from Scripture that “Faith Comes by Hearing - hearing the word of God”. In our culture we have grown accustomed to a different style of teaching where the “preacher” quotes a few verses and then comments - often taking things out of context. The ancient practice of reading the Exodus story during Passover is one that we are commanded to perpetuate.We are told to tell this story and that is what I intend to do. I hope that you will be able to join us. If not, I am pasting in below the primary texts that are involved in the telling of this story. I sent this out last night to a smaller group. Feel free to share them with others.
Telling the story
I am certain that within our diverse group there will be multiple “versions” of the Passover. I wanted to send this out tonight for those that have never “kept” this festival before. Here are some basic things that you need to know.
First, if the sky is clear where you are, I want you to go outside and look up. See the moon? This is the way it looked when our ancestors left Egypt! The full moon gave them light on this night that began with a nation of slaves and ended with a people free to “serve” their God. So you too can experience this freedom.
Passover is about experiencing the past and future as well. It is about redemption and freedom. The Prophet Jeremiah says that another Exodus is coming for the people of God…an even greater exodus than the one we read about tonight! (see Jeremiah 16:14-15)
I am writing for you a series of verses that you can use as your very own Passover Haggadah. Haggadah comes from a Hebrew word that means to tell. Exodus 10:12, Exodus 12:24-27 and Deuteronomy 6:20-25 are the basis for “telling the story”. I encourage all of you to participate in this as it is perhaps the oldest religious practice that has been kept from the beginning of the history of Israel. So tell the story tomorrow night to your family! If you are alone, read it to yourself. It is an incredible story and one that God tells us to tell!
Read the following:
The reason we tell the story
Deuteronomy 6:20-25
Exodus 10:12
Exodus 12:24-27
The Prediction and fulfillment of the Slavery and cruelness of Egypt
Genesis 15:13-14
Exodus 1:8-22
The birth of Moses to his flight to Midian
Exodus 2:1-22
A cry to God and the call of Moses
Exodus 2:23-3:22
The son of God / God’s charge to Moses
Exodus 4:21-23
Meeting with Pharaoh
Exodus 5:1-23
Exodus 6:1-13
The beginning of the redemption
Exodus 6:28-7:13
The Plagues and Israel’s Departure from Egypt
Exodus 7:14-12:36
Salvation In the Wilderness
Exodus 12:37-14:31
Other passages related to Passover
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
Leviticus 23:3-8
One should eat unleavened bread from sundown tomorrow for 7 days. This bread is also known as bread of affliction (Deuteronomy 16:3).
Eat some bitter herbs as well (Exodus 12:8).
Only those that are circumcised may eat the meal. Be circumcised of heart (Deuteronomy 10:12-16, 30:1-6, Jeremiah 4:1-4)
I pray that every shackle will be broken from your life so that you are free to serve the Living God.
Shalom and Chag Sameach!
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