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Exodus 12:1-13 ESV

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. 7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

I. ATONEMENT
A. Atonement is a relatively new word used to describe the totality of what God has done on our behalf through Christ.

II. EXPIATION
A. Expiation is where God covers our suns and no longer sees them.
B. The blood of Jesus is our expatiation. (Relevation 7:13-17)

III. PROPITIATION
A. Propitiation is the truth that God’s righteous wrath against our sin has been turned away.
B. Those who have received propitiation will not pretend that Christ is cool with their sin. (Romans 8:3-9)
C. The purpose of propitiation is our sanctification and our eventual glorification (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8)

NEXT STEPS
1. God’s grace provided what God’s justice demands.
2. The Passover is prophetically pointing us to see Jesus.
3. Jesus is the Lamb of God, the substitute who has atoned for, expatriated, and made propitiation for our sins.
4. One day we will sing of the worthiness of the Lamb forever. (Revelation 7:7-14)

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