PASSOVER: JUDGMENT, MERCY & FAITH
UNDERSTANDING THE WEIGHTIER MATTERS OF THE LAW--JUDGMENT, MERCY AND FAITH THROUGH THE PASSOVER
JUDGMENT AND MERCY ARE IMPORTANT GIFTS OF GOD AND HIS LOVE, THAT CHRIST MADE KNOWN AND AVAILABLE AT HIS PASSOVER. Man as a sinner, must understand and by
Faith, accept these two works of Christ's love, in order to be forgiven of his sins and to be saved. Jesus Christ fulfilled God's law that commands judgment of death for sin by the giving of His life as man's sacrifice at the Passover, and through this laying down of His life for man, made available His Great mercy. The Passover provides the foundation every Christian must lay and accept in his life, to understand judgment and mercy, and in order to understand saving faith. The symbolism of a lamb's shed blood and its by faith acceptance by the children of Israel at the first Passover, Ex. 12;7-13, provided the beginning plan of God to help man, as a family and as a nation, to understand about God's judgment upon sin, and His mercy to forgive sin, Ex. 12:12-14.
TODAY'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND THEIR FOLLOWERS, ARE NOT TEACHING WITH UNDERSTANDING, ABOUT JUDGMENT AS IT RELATES TO SIN AND GOD'S MERCY. Why? Because they cannot relate Christ's sacrifice and death to God's law-His law that commands judgment against sin. Any person that is called of God must come to understand about God's judgment
first, to understand His mercy and saving faith. Today's church leaders and its people, understand that Christ came into the world providing mercy upon sinners, but not based on repentance from sin, identified by the breaking of God's law,
The Ten Commandments. Their knowledge of mercy is based only on a person believing and confessing of a christ, a false christ, that is not the Christ of the Bible.
Heb. 10:26-29--- 26 For if we sin willfully ( knowingly break any of God's 10 commandments) after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sin, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
CHURCH PEOPLE DO NOT TEACH, BELIEVE OR UNDERSTAND THAT CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD FOR JUDGMENT. Read it in John 9:39!
"For judgment I (Christ) am come into the world." Jesus Christ in Mat. 23:23 denounced the religious leaders of His day for not doing and teaching the people about the most important matters of the law. He says that the weightier-heavy, important matters of the law are
judgment, mercy and
faith. Luke's account, Luke 11:42, referred to the weightier matters of the law as judgment, and the love of God. In both accounts, judgment was mentioned first in importance.Why is judgment, and to do judgment, such an important part of the law?
Mat. 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! (the same can be said of today's religious leaders) for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
CHRIST TOLD THOSE LEADERS THAT THEY MUST DO JUDGMENT. WHAT IS IT ABOUT JUDGMENT THAT A PERSON MUST UNDERSTAND AND DO? Every person desiring salvation, must come to the place that he can recognize and judge sin in his life. He must study and learn to be able to identify sin in his life, and understand that God's law in His judgments commands and demands judgment against that sin and all of a person's sins, and then see the need to take action, to repent of those sins, of breaking God's law, in order to receive mercy. The religious leaders of Christ's day would not do this, judge their own sins, Mat. 23:23, because they were blind to their sins. Their main concern was all over money-God's tithe. Christ said of them that their outside was clean and white, but within, they were full of extortion and excess-much, much sin, which is commandment breaking!
Most think of those religious leaders because of today's false teaching, of being strict, legalistic, law-keepers, but they were not! They were strict by their own standards, man created commandments, but not by God's commandments and law, which they broke to excess. Christ said of them, that they appeared as beautiful grave sites, beautiful outward, but within, full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness, (much sin-commandment breaking). Read it in Mat. 23:25-28. Christ said they appear righteous to men, but are full of hypocrisy and iniquities (sin). This is such a fitting and appropriate picture of today's professed Christianity in our society! One of Christ's own, called disciples, Judas, would not recognize his sin and judge his sin because he was blinded to his greed for money. His whole concern was about money, and at the Passover his sin caused him to execute judgment on his own life. Mat. 27: 3-5, I Cor. 11:31
I Cor.11:31---For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
EVERY0NE IS A SINNER, AND MUST COME TO SEE THAT HE SINS AGAINST GOD BY BREAKING ANY OF HIS TEN COMMANDMENTS. Read about David's example, Ps. 51. Everyone must come to understand that there is a judgment of death pronounced against him and his sins, and in order to be saved from his sins and eternal death, he needs God's mercy and forgiveness. God and His law commands that the judgment of death must be fulfilled by the one that has sinned, and can only be pardoned--
passed over, by a qualified and God-accepted life, and substitutionary sacrifice. The
only one qualified and accepted by God the Father, that has both fulfilled God's commandments-His Ten Commandments, and fulfilled the demands of the law by the penalty of judgment and death against sin, is
Jesus Christ and
every sinner must
repent of his sins,
obey God's 10 commandments, and
accept by
faith Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection, to receive God's mercy and forgiveness. Christ was resurrected after 3 days and 3 nights in the grave, and ascended to the Father, to be accepted by Him as man's substitutionary sacrifice, that every sinner must have and accept to be saved, to live, to receive God's Spirit, and to be raised up, Rom. 8:11.
IN I COR. 11:27-29, CHRIST GAVE TO PAUL A WARNING THAT WAS DIRECTED TO EVERYONE PARTAKING OF THE PASSOVER AND ITS SYMBOLS. He said anyone who eats and drinks of the symbols of His Body at His Passover, showing His death, and does not understand the serious meaning of His broken Body and shed blood, eats and drinks judgment upon himself. Christ warns church people in verse 31, if they would examine-judge themselves-their sins, then they would not have to be judged by God. Because of the lack of personal examination and judgment, many are weak, sickly and many die (immaturely). Study Ex. 15:26 and Deut. 28:58-63. These verses say that because man will not judge his life and learn to obey God and fear Him, man can expect to receive curses, plagues and diseases of all kinds against him and his children, until both he and his children are destroyed from the earth.
Deut. 28:61-62 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon you, until you be destroyed. 62- And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
THE PASSOVER IS A SERVICE AND SEASON THAT CHRIST COMMANDS MAN TO KEEP EVERY YEAR, TO HELP HIM LEARN, AND NEVER FORGET ABOUT JUDGMENT, MERCY AND FAITH AS THESE HEAVY, WEIGHTIER MATTERS OF THE LAW-GOD'S LAW, RELATES TO ONE'S SALVATION. The Passover comes and goes every year as a testimony and a witness against everyone who neglects to keep those days, and who will not judge his own sins and take the meaning of the Passover very serious. The Passover is God's love to man, (John 15:13) but only if man will respond in repentance and acceptance of Christ as his Passover, and fails not to keep the Service in remembrance of His death, until Christ comes. I Cor.11:25-26.
