A New Beginning for a World Changer: Leaving Sin and Guilt

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Pastor Greg Laurie points out how the story of Passover actually points us to the sacrifice made by Jesus once and for all account.

Pastor Greg continues his series called world will consider motions and how God was on his side confrontation with Moses the world changer was about to change the world for the Visit the nation Israel. He was going to lead them to a new beginning and a new lab now. God gives instruction for the celebration of the first Passover. The Lord said, go three days journey of the land you I have crossover and here's what it's all about Exodus 12 starting in verse one, while the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the Lord give the following instructions to Moses and Aaron. From now on. Lord says this month will be the first month of the year for you but also the whole community of Israel that on the 10th day of this month. Each family must choose all lab a young goat for a sacrifice.

One animal for each also have a family is too small to eat all animal. Let them share with another family in the neighborhood, divide the animal.

According to the size of each family and how much they can eat the animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a cheaper ago and noted that. There so they were to offer to the Lord. I hope the young lamb or goat and then they were to sacrifice that animal they were to take the blood of the animal and put it on their doorpost so imagine a doorway right here they were to take the blood from the lab of the goat, but the blood on the left side of the blood on the right side, but the blood on the top of the door. What is that remind you of Jesus hanging there on the cross, the crown of thorns pressed on his brow nails driven through his right hand and his left and this is what Passover was pointing to. It was pointing to Jesus Christ and really the Old Testament is pointing to the New Testament one revelation from Genesis to Revelation. There is not an Old Testament God in the New Testament God. That's one God and all of those Old Testament types and sacrifices all pointed to Jesus who would be the fulfillment of them is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. So what does Passover mean to us. Number one.

The Passover is a new beginning. If you're taking notes that Passover was for them and for us a new beginning, God starts by making this a new beginning for the nation of Israel.

Verse two this month will be the first month of the year for you and me, like I think today were starting the year over again because it hasn't gone so well. Have you ever wish you could start all over again. Maybe in your marriage. Maybe you and your relationship with your children with friends someone you fallen out with will in a way you can because second Corinthians 517 says if any man be in Christ he is a new creation.

All things are passed away. All things become new. You don't have to be crippled by your past anymore. You can put it behind you. Number two, the land, they were to kill was to be the very best was a land that was to be chosen and carefully examined.

According to verse three, with no defects that would still bring us sickly animal bring the fineness. The strongest why because we should give our very best to God right and they're bringing it an animal that they have developed an affection for he says bring your lamb lamb, so maybe it was even like a pet to them know people are very attached to their patents. Everybody's walking around with animals everywhere now you know their mom planes and taken in restaurants and I know there are service animals that have been approved and people that need them, but I question some of the people carrying animals now really assistance service animal and you know that the people leaving the give the food of the dog and it's just really that sanitary and then there is like people will spend so much money on animals, dogs and cats iron about something that is just opened up. It's a Hotel. I'm not making this up. It's an article I got my attention. As you know how much I love cats. I saw this headline the world's first five-star count hotel. I had to click the link. I didn't even know there were three star hotel forgot this is a five star hotel.

It's called Is only it is a spot grooming services and temperature control rooms.

It even as a dating service for female cats doing that's weird. You can book the VP I see the very very important cat room that includes a king size bed and a separate toilet. I think She was this these toilets, no a rep for the hotel said we think cats need holidays to pick and I book this place is that something a pretty nice place.

Then there's another luxury Caddo tell at a state-of-the-art sound system, fine dining. The menu it says developed by feline nutritionists has white fish ethically finished yellowfin tuna. I like that it's ethically finished and the chicken liver balls that but there cats right there like furball okay so she deliverables that it also has Wi-Fi. Why would a cat need Wi-Fi and TV screens.

I love this featuring birds in flight and for swimming so basically it's like food TV forgot what crazy thing.

But imagine seeking your beloved pet your dog or cat, and offering that is a sacrifice that God is asking Israel to do it so cruel away why the gun wanted to do that.

He wanted them to see the enormity of their sin and the practice of it, and by offering something they love that they had affection for it showed. Sin has a cost.

Sin is painful. Sin is deadly. So he said you bring this and offer it to me now and so is that not what Christ was. He was the perfect sacrifice for each of us. He knew no sin. He never send in any way shape or form that we know that second Corinthians 521 says that he never sin, but he was the offering for our sin. We can be made right with God through Christ. It was a sinless for this sinful, the perfect for the imperfect but flawless for the flawed so we could all have a new beginning.

Absolutely amazing. Number three. If you're taking notes the Lamb had to be slain. The Mrs., the Lamb had to be slain.

It wasn't the life of the land that save the people from judgment. It was the death of it. Hebrews 922 says without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin. So you have to have the cross, if not the life of Jesus that the death of Jesus. That's the resurrection of Jesus that gives us access to the father. That's why Christ said in Matthew 26. This is my blood given in the new covenant for their forgiveness of sin talk a lot about the blood we sing about the blood, so we should we sing. Would you be free from the burden of sin. There's power in the blood power in the blood.

I also love that song nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can wash away our sin. Nothing but the blood of Jesus and another song the blood will never lose its power. You know if you're new to the Church of England man. This is like one real blood. He religion talking about blood all the time. Yeah were talking about the blood of Christ that was shed for us and gives us access to the father in a moment.

Pastor Greg, it's very practical and shows how to apply the blood of Christ to the sin in our lives. Good information for sinners.

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Let's continue the next point the blood had to be applied that this is a big one. Don't miss it. The blood had to be applied. So yes the land had to be slain, but you had to apply the blood if that lamb was killed, and you did not take the blood imported on your doorway. The judgment of God, the angel of death.

That judgment will come upon you, even if you slow the Lamb. Even if you spill the blood you still had to apply the blood otherwise you would not have your home passed over in the same way we too need to apply the blood is able with what is that mean to apply the blood he let's get specific now let's say that you committed the sin cripple. How many of you have ever committed a septic I'm talking to you committed to set let's say it was years ago and it's possible that that's in this hunting you today. It may have been a decade ago. Two decades ago. Even longer, in fact, the enormity of that sin is come on you like a ton of bricks and you realize how bad it was even more than you realize. Right after you committed in and haunt you now and wakes you up at night and troubleshoot you walk around with a guilty conscience and you don't know how to get rid of that sin okay you need to apply the blood zero Greg, I'm trying to forgive myself you talking about the Bible never tells you to forgive yourself. You can't forgive yourself know you know neither.

Forgive yourself you need to understand the power of the blood and what God is done when he through Christ forgave you. You need to apply the blood is what it was. I mean for someone seven says that we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all sin to hear that cleanses you from all sin. Not just some sin not just the big giant gnarly sins. All sin will forgive you but what you need to do if you will confess your sin. What is that mean the word confess literally means to agree with God's own God says that we will confess our sin he thinks I want you to see sin the way I see set and I don't want you to marginalize it or minimize it or rationalize it. I want to call it what it is because we have new words for sin, so we don't feel as bad set of even saying we sin mosaic will I'm not perfect so I made a mistake, you perfect weight. There's a difference between a mistake in the sin dictionary definition of mistake is an error fall resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge or carelessness. A misconception or misunderstanding. I was supposed to turn right on that street and I turned left. It was a mistake. I wasn't paying attention. It wasn't deliberate but it happened it was a mistake is seen as deliberate and something I do at will, and so I need to call it what it is a five been guilty of sexual sin.

Call it that awarded this phrase moral failure come from. Well, there's been a moral failure with the sunlight. What is that know if you committed adultery say I committed the sin of adultery or was the sin of fornication are nowadays only lie we don't see I live we think well I misspoke really that said, I misspoke, well actually I offered you alternative tax return of the fact no maybe you didn't understand something in and you said something but then you found out that what you said was not accurate. So you think. Excuse me. I said something yesterday but I researched it and found that I wasn't accurate in all my fax. Let me restate. Okay, that's one thing but allies. Another thing I know it's true, but I wanted to tell you this lie instead call ally ally call of sin is sin, and then listen apply the blood to the Lord. I've committed the sin, I'm sorry for this sin. I confess this sin. I repent of this sin and I accept your forgiveness because of the blood of Jesus that was shed and then you drop it you drop it, stop stretching it up. Stop bringing it up.

We should not choose to remember what God's chosen to forget now that doesn't mean there still may not be some ramifications if you got robbed a bank and your rusted you could say that the officer will minutes.

It's on the blood, no say while you're under arrest. Going to jail but you can pray on the way over to God will forgive you, there may be some ramifications depending on the sin, but it's under the blood and it is forgiven and it's interesting because in Revelation we read about these tribulation saints that were martyred for their faith in there in heaven rejoicing in the rejoicing because the accuser of the brothers is cast down, and that's the devil. The rejoicing because these In It Says and They Overcame Him by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of Their Testimony, and They Loved Not Their Lives until the Death You Want Overcome the Devil You Do It through the Blood of the Lamb. Applying the Blood in Your Life. Here's All the Double Work Whispers in Your Ear, and He Says Why Don't You Go Ahead and Commit This Sin. It's Going to Be Fun You Can Have a Great Time.

You Can Trust Me. So We Take the Bait and We Do the Sin Than the Dell Conduct Is As You Miserable Hypocrite. You Call Yourself a Christian, Don't Even Think about Reading the Bible and Praying Her Showing Your Ugly Face in Church Again. God Will Never Hear Your Prayer. That's Right, Apply the Blood Is Not Double, You're Wrong. I Can Approach Jesus Because of the Blood of the Lamb and It Drives Him Crazy. Using It Drives Him Crazy. Also, They Were to Be Ready to Move at a Moments Notice.

Ready to Move in a Moments Notice in Verse 11.

Here's Your Instruction to Eating This Meal Fully Dressed Where Your Sandals Carrier Walking Stick in Your Hand and Eat the Meal with Urgency for This Is the Lord's Passover Value All of My Meals with Urgency. This Is No Problem for Me. My Wife Told Me All the Time You Eat Too Fast and I Am A Lot like a Dog When I Eat It Own a Dog Needs to Know Come up for Air.

They Just Never Known the Legal Back Eating Again Is Look around Making Sure are Coming and Then Get Back to Their Food Again. Then You Try to Take Their Food and Are No like That.

That's All I My Wife. She Takes so Long to Eat Your Children Should Cut Bite so Perfectly Just the Right Size I Big Giant Bites Will Call You Horrible Cute Little Bite and Something to Be Talking and Holding on Her Fork, Which Is a Little Cute but I so Much Better Than Your Big Obnoxious Pipe and into the Healing in the Two Units on. I Know You Got a Fast Because This Is about Servers He Hears the Message God Was Giving You Guys Seem to Be Ready to Move Each Meal, but Be Ready to Go.

Have Your Walking Stick, Which Is What a Staff Was Effectively If We Updated It Today, You Would Say Have Comfortable Shoes on. Have Your Running Shoes on.

Even Better Have Your Phone Charge Have Gas in Your Car.

Be Ready to Go. Have Your Suitcase Back and Have a Right by the Door so It Is Time to Go, You Go Because Were Moving through This Wilderness. They Have One Big Obstacle to Face First, the Red Sea, Which Will Talk about Later, but Here's the Idea That's Being Conveyed. We Are Just Passing through This Place Called Planet Earth. I'm an American.

I'm Happy to Be an American, but My Greater Citizenship Is in Heaven. I'm Just Passing through This Place and I Met My Sandals on Now for All of You Birkenstock Words. This Is Good News. But Really the Point of It Is Have the Proper Footwear on and Remember That Were Told in Ephesians 6.

They Have Your Feet Shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace. So I Think the Ideas Look for Opportunities to Share Your Faith Look for Opportunities to Tell Others about Jesus. Be Ready to Go Because Jesus Is Coming, and He Could Come Back at Any Moment. Clearly This Passover Is an Event so Full of Meaning for Them and for Us Today. Now We Close with the Final Passover Celebrated on Earth by the Lord Jesus Christ. He Gathered His Disciples Together in the Upper Room and He Says This Is My Body. Take and Eat It and He Took the Cup, and He Gave Thanks and Said, Drink from This, All of You This Is My Blood of the New Covenant, Which Is Shed for Many for the Forgiveness of Sin.

But I Say to You, I Will Not Drink of the Fruit of the Vine from Now until the Day I Drink It New with You in My Father's Kingdom and They Sang a Hymn and They Went out to the Mall of Olives Disciples Would Be Thinking about the First Passover. There Would Be Thinking about the Lamb That Was to Be Slain, They Would Think about Applying the Blood Now Here Is the Very Lamb of God before Them in the Red Now Is a Symbol of His Broken Body and the Fruit of the Find Is a Symbol of His Shed Blood and He Said to Them, Do This in Remembrance of Me. One Last Thought from Exodus God Said to Them, Exodus 12 Verse Three.

The First They Were to Bring All Land Bring the Lamb. Then in Verse 40 Said It the Lamb. Then Finally, in Verse Five He Said It's Your Land That Sums It up Beautifully.

We First Hear about God We Know Is out There Somewhere. A Lamb. Jesus Is One of Many Choices We Think That One Day We Realize He's the Lamb. The Lamb of God, the Son of God. The Only Way to God and Then He Becomes Our Life Is Not Enough to Just Know God Exists Is Not Even Enough to Know That Christ Is the Way to God.

He Has To Be Your Savior in Your Lord or Your Lamb If You Will. When You Embrace Them and Say Forgive Me If You Don't Know Him in a Personal Way. If You're Racked with Guilt Today. If You Need a New Beginning or Fresh Start. This Is an Opportunity to Receive and Sing God Forgive Me of My Sin. I'm Sorry for It. I Take Responsibility for Own It and I Asked Jesus to Come in the My Life.

If You're a Christian Who Is Sin. Maybe You've Done Something Recently.

That's Horrible Thing but God Would Forgive You If You Confess Your Sin and Not Rationalize It and Ask God to Pardon You to Forgive You to Cleanse You, and Then Turn from or Repent of That Sin.

You Can Have a Fresh Start Today and You Can Mark This Day and Time That Said That I Had a Fresh Start.

That's It.

Then I Got a New Beginning of Our Heads Everybody Praying Please Father, Thank You for Sending Jesus to This Planet of Ours to Die on the Cross, Lord Jesus, Thank You for Coming and Laying Your Life down.

We Pray Now That Your Holy Spirit Will Convict and Convince Any Person Here or Watching That Does Not yet Know You Help Them to See Their Need for Jesus and Help Them to Believe in Jesus, Forgive and I Ask This in Jesus Name Pastor Greg Laurie and If You like to Make That Kind of Change in Your Relationship with the Lord Pastor Greg Wants to Help You with before We Wrap up Today's Addition of a New Beginning and He Also Has an Important Final Comment to Share with Us to.

If You like a Permanent Copy of the Message Pastor Greg Broadus Today Get in Touch with a Study Called a New Beginning for a World Changer Will Give You the Details When You Call 1-800-821-3300. You Can Call Anytime 24 Seven Again at 1-800-821-3300 or Go Online for an Instant replay@harvest.org and then were so happy to make available a new resource from Sally Lloyd Jones called the Jesus storybook Bible, a Christmas collection and I'm looking at Sally's thoughts for each day of Advent and on December 4 I see the title for that day is a new beginning. Where have I heard that before. I don't know. Could be than the radio show good program for like it though you think that's a little self-serving that I have and how they lead him to the left that in the beginning where were glad that Sally Lloyd Jones, the author of father Jesus storybook Bible in this new wonderful resource for offering called the Jesus storybook Bible Christmas collection is with this in studio so Sally in this time of year when everything's changed because of the coronavirus. I think it's more important than ever to return to the real essential message of Christmas which there's many things we could say but very important part of the messages that were not alone in this world and that God is with that you should call his name Emmanuelle, which means God is with us. How could this resource hunk of this book reading this to our children. Help them to understand that maybe in a new way, or maybe in a way they've never understood before but I think tracing God's beautiful redemptive rescue plan from the very beginning which is what you basically today's threat Advent starting with creation. The full all the way through to the rest skipping bone I think it will help them. My prayer is that it will help them now in this time when they feel a lion and who knows how children are ready processing this. You know they they may. Children tend to think it's that full to everything.

So who knows what on what level but the Lord knows, and he can speak to them semi-prayer is we we provide the resources we tell them the story and that God would use whatever he can to reach that little hearts to let them know he visited this planet for them.

He would have, if it was just them. He says he's so delighted in them that he would move heaven and asked just to be net them. I think if they know that that God loves them that much that he would he would do everything to be close to them.

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Just write a new beginning. Box 4000, Riverside, CA 92514 or call 1-800-821-3300. We can take your call anytime 24 seven. Again, dial 1-800-821-3300 or go online to harvest.org Pastor Greg today you ramped up your message by talking about eternity. Yeah. How can somebody listening know that they're going to heaven.

That's a great question and I guess let me take it a step further. I know that is the most important question you can ask, how can a person know they're going to have let me say at the outset, I believe I'm going to have an effect on think it a step further. I know I'm going to have is a Greg is not kind of arrogant, not really, because I know this because God is made a promise to me and I've believed that promise. The Bible says we write these things to you that believe on the name of the son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. I've believed on the name of the son of God. Thus, I know I'll go to heaven when I die, here's my question to you. Do you believe on the name of the son of God, is there any more important issue that that I can think of one.

So I like to lead you in a simple prayer and this is a prayer will you will be asking Jesus to forgive you of your sin and you'll be asking them to be your own Savior friend Lord.

It's a prayer. Only you can pray pray these words. If you would, Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner but I know that you are this Savior who died on the cross for my sin and rose from the dead.

Jesus come in the my life. I want to believe in you. I want to follow you.

I want this relationship with you. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin and rising again from the dead, and I think you that you've heard this prayer and I believe you've come into my life in Jesus name I pray, amen. I want to help you grow in your faith. I want to help you grow spiritually so I have a free gift for you. It's called the new believers grow packet what's in it know not a bag of seeds to plant in your backyard.

I guess it's sort of a form of a bag of seeds because I want to sell some spiritual seed in your life to help you develop as a follower of Christ, so I'm of the send you a copy of the New Testament and the new living translation but it's a special edition that's called the new believers Bible and it's filled with notes that I wrote that will encourage you in this new commitment or recommitment you've made to Christ and there's some other materials in the new believers packet as well so order your copy today and I'm so glad I have this privilege today to lead you, and that prayer. God bless you. You've made the right decision.

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As you all know on November 3 begin to elect the president of the United States. Your vote matters. Listen, every Christian should register and vote. I cannot emphasize that enough. It's our responsibility. It is our duty, but it is also our privilege and we really have no right to criticize what's going on in our nation if we don't even take the time to vote for a candidate I'm looking to tell you to vote for.

But I'll give you some ideas when I cast my vote. I can tell you there's some things that factor into that I could talk about a lot of things but let me just pick two out of particular the candidate that will receive my vote will be one that is pro-life.

I would never vote for a candidate that would support the aborting of unborn children number two on the vote for a candidate that stands with and supports the nation Israel. God promises a blessing to the people that blessing God's people.

So those are couple of things to think about is you go to the voting you fill your content biblically and to vote and possible by harvest partners, helping people everywhere know God sign up for pastor grades free daily email devotions and harvest.org