Do You Work and Lack Peace?

Exodus 12:21-28
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb. 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.
24 And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.
25 When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has [d]promised, you shall observe this rite.
26 And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’
27 you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
28 Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Christ was our passover Lamb, the blood of bulls and goats could not take away the sin of the world, but Christ did.

It was the sacrifice of spilt blood, that covered the sin of the Jews in the OT picture of salvation. But not the blood of the animals, that was merely a picture of their faith in what they knew would be coming in the future. The sacrifice of Christ on that cross.

No where in these accounts the picture or the fulfillment do we see the works of man entering into the covering of sin. It was the shed blood alone.

Hebrews 9:12-14
"and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"

No where did God say to the Jews that they had to do something other than spread the blood on the door posts for a sign that they trusted the sacrifice of the Savior to come in the future, Christ Jesus. They didn't know His name or who He was, but they knew He was promised and what He would do.

Isaiah 53

53 Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
9 His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10 But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors."

How could anyone add to what our Savior did for us? No one can affect their own salvation in any form, no number of good works would atone for our own sin. Only the shed blood of a perfect Lamb could do that. We cannot shed our own blood for the atoning of our sin, and nothing less than the shed blood of a perfect Lamb would do.

We do not work our way to heaven, nor do we keep our salvation by our works.
The only way we could work for or keep our salvation is to die and shed our blood, but it would have to be a perfect person and no one is that, since we know blood of the Perfect Lamb had to be shed for us.

Shall we rest in the arms of the Savior, knowing He did it all!!!!!!

Leave Room for the Lord to Reach Them

Far too many believers are withholding important teachings and information from baby believer out of fear that they will run away from God. We don't have to worry about that. If someone is born again and seeking the Lord, they will want to hear wisdom from God's Word.

If they resist in the beginning because they lack understanding, then eventually God will speak to them.

I have read many books in my lifetime. Some of them I thought were wonderful, after reading them, I put them away in my library and didn't see them again some 20 and 30 years later, only to realize that I no longer agreed with what was in them, because I had grown in the Lord.


God works with us over the years, sometimes we reject what a sage believer has to say initially, but as we grow, we look back and realize they were right and we now agree with them.

Don't think that someone is hopeless because they do not see something in their babyhood, the Lord may bring it back to them later, then they will see.