Passover: Invitation to Eternity!

God has rescued us from the power of darkness, Satan the devil!

Fred R. Coulter—April 5, 2025

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The Passover is the very key that brings us to God. That is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Get the book: The Day That Jesus the Christ Died. This entire book is a summary of the book: A Harmony of the Gospels.

Let's also understand something very interesting, which we can also say is an invitation into eternity. Now, what do I mean by that?

Let's come to 1-Cor. 2. We've gone here many times before, but we need to realize and understand, like Eduardo said, that what God has is so amazing and fantastic, and our understanding of these things comes a layer at a time, a bit at a time. Just like he said, that men thousands of years apart, writing at different times, all coordinates because of the Spirit of God!

Likewise with us, the Christianity of this world, because they lack little summaries, has become absolutely pagan. There is not one thing that they have that is really Godly the way that it should be. As a result, they don't understand what God is doing. They don't understand the verse that they love to quote:

John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish, but may have everlasting life."

They think if they know that verse, then everything is safe; everything is good. NO! That is a start—with a great deal of understanding in between—and that is the ending. That's the way the Word of God is. It's not like any other book you can pick up and read and you can understand what it's saying.

The depth that is in the Bible is contained in all of the Scriptures together. Those things we come to understand as we study and re-study and live and live and overcome and all of the things that Eduardo said in the first message here: A Requirement to Hate in the Bible  #2

Let's understand that this verifies exactly what I have said, because there's a prophecy back there in Isa. 29 that they're told to deliver the Book—the Word of God—to the learned; yet, they say, 'we can't understand it.' Then deliver it to the one who is unlearned, and he said, 'Oh, I'm not learned. I can't understand it.'

Here is the key right here, and this is the key for the Passover and hence everything in the Word of God, because everything in the Bible starts with what God is doing. The central focus of that in all of the time that we know of with history is the Passover on the day that Jesus the Christ died!

I did this years ago when Mel Gibson did his Passion of the Christ. He did a pretty good job, but they didn't understand it! Today we have the same thing. We have a return to Protestantism and Catholicism, but those are the two things that God is in trouble as a nation, as people!

1-Corinthians 2:9: "But according as it is written…" You will see that phrase quite often: it is written!

God wants it written down, and there is a spiritual power to the Word of God even in writing. That if you are willing to truly believe, and if you are really truly seeking to obey God, you will begin to understand! The more you study, the more you grow, the more you understand!

Then you add on year after year after year. Then the Scriptures literally become spiritually alive and have an effect upon your heart and mind that is absolutely profound.

"…it is written, 'The eye has not seen…'" (v 9).

Now here Elon Musk sent up four[transcriber's correction] astronauts to sit right over the top of the earth, right over the North Pole for a couple of days.

• What did they find?
• What did they see?
• Did they find God? No!
• Did an angel knock on his satellite and say, 'Hey guys, what are you looking at? No!

So they are brought back to the earth. I can tell you what they saw, but is it anything worthwhile that is not connected with God?

"…'The eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man… [by us trying to understand with sight and hearing] …the things which God has prepared for those who love Him'" (v 9).

The love of God is not just an emotional feeling of good, because a lot of people can feel that when they do things that are good. A good example is if you are a fan of a team and they win big time. Oh, everybody is happy and everybody is good.

That has nothing to do with the goodness of God! You have to love God; this is the love of God that we keep His Commandments. His Commandments are so deep, so profound and so meaningful that we learn and we learn and we learn, and we learn all the time, regardless of how long we have studied!

Verse 10: "But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit…"

There are certain things in the Scripture that were written right at the end of the Apostle Paul's life and right at the very end of the Apostle John's life in Rev. 21 & 22 that weren't in any other part of the Bible!

"…revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things—eventhe deep things of God" (v 10).

Now that is saying a lot. What are the deep things of God? God inhabits eternity, He lives forever! Can we comprehend that? No! But with the Word of God we can understand that what we are involved with, God planned how long ago, we don't know.

We're going to take the Passover this coming next Friday night. It's unusual for the Passover Day to fall on a weekly Sabbath, but that happens occasionally. Now, whatever you need to prepare on the day portion of the Passover for the Night to be Much Observed, that's fine to do, because the Feast takes precedent over the Sabbath for doing those things. So, don't worry about that.

Now let's see some of the deep things of God that are there, that are printed, that we can read, but we need the Spirit of God added to us so we can grasp the depth of what God is telling us.

2-Timothy 1:7: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear…" We have the Holy Spirit of God, which produces:

• love
• understanding
• faith
• hope
• all the things that God wants us to have

"…but of power, and of love, and of sound-mindedness. Therefore, you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner; but jointly suffer with me for the sake of the Gospel, according to the power of God" (vs 7-8).

We are the weak of the world, the unknown of the world, but God has called us and invited us into eternity!

Verse 9: "Who has saved us and called us with a Holy calling…"

Now that's an interesting statement, isn't it? Because there's one day in our life as we're going along and BANG! God intervenes and begins to call us! You can probably remember that day in your life. I remember it in my life.

"…not according to our works, but according to His own purpose" (v 9).

Now it says back there in Psa. 57 that God will fulfill His purpose for us! That is to become His sons and daughters! That's an amazing thing to contemplate.

"…His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time" (v 9).

This is telling us God is giving us understanding of what He was planning before time! Quite an amazing thing indeed! So, here we are today in all of the things we've gone through with the Churches and everything that has taken place. Many of us are alone and scattered, and that's just the way that it happens to be. But God is not limited. We're able to use the technology so we can have live services. This technology then can be repeated and go anywhere in the world.

Showing that God doesn't need a big organization. He needs converted people, converted ministers who are able to teach and preach the Word of God!

"…before the ages of time. But has now been revealed… [tie in with 1-Cor. 2] …by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, Who has annulled death…" (vs 9-10).

What does that mean, because we're all going to die in Christ.

• the Apostle Paul died
• the Apostle John died
• the Apostle Peter died
• Jesus Himself died but was the only One raised from the dead

How does He annul death? To make it as though it never happened! Think on that!

"…and has brought to light eternal life and incorruptibility through the Gospel" (v 10)—through the Word of God!

The Gospel is contained in the whole Bible. It's a whole that must be put together the way that God wants.

Let's see something else about Jesus, and this will tell us that only He can be that sacrifice for the sin of the world. Let's come to a part of the Bible we know quite well. The very first chapter of the Gospel of John.

Of course, all of the unbelievers like to downgrade it and say that Jesus was not God. Well the Scriptures tell us directly that He was and is!

So, here we have in the ages of time past. God has His Plan. He's working it out. We don't know all the things that are associated with that. We don't know some of the things about how old the earth actually is. We don't know how long Lucifer and the angels were on the earth before they rebelled, and everything that happened with that. Those things we don't know! But here we have an understanding of what God has done.

John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word… [that's the One Who became Christ, and it is written] …and the Word was with God. And the Word was God."

That's very clear in the Greek. The Jehovah Witnesses like to say, a God. That's not what it says! He was God! Everything that God is.

Verse 3: "All things came into being through Him…"

• everything that there is
• everything on the earth

It's an amazing thing! We have an ability to understand this even physically by understanding the earth and so forth. Yet, there are still some so deceived that they believe the earth is flat. Well, it's not!

Verse 3: "All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him."

Now an easy way to understand that is this: God is ALL things to everything! Regardless of what it is. People are going to say, 'What about Satan and the demons?'

• Is not God going to take care of that in His time?
• In His way? Yes He is!
• What about when you have a trial and a difficulty?
• What about when God gives you correction?
• What is that for? To lead you to repentance!

So, God is ALL things to everything! From the greatest things that were created in the universe to the smallest little thing that we can't even see. In the smallest little thing that we can't even see; that's where we came from, from our parents. Look at you now, an amazing thing!

Now let's come back here to John 1 and let's go over some of these verses and see if we can glean some more things from it that are found in other parts of the Bible, as well.

Verse has to do with creation. This has to do with God making man and woman, male and female in the likeness and image of God and what took place there in the Garden of Eden.

John 1:3: "ALL things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him."

That's why I said God is ALL things to everything!

Verse 4: "In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men."

Isn't that amazing? Whatever we have in consciousness, that came from God. Whatever we have because we have the Spirit of God in conversion, that has come from God!

Verse 5: "And the Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it." What does that mean?

Isaiah 60:1—here is a dual prophecy: "Arise, shine; for your Light has come… [referring to the 1st coming of Christ as well as the 2nd coming of Christ] …and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you."

There it is right there! When is it going to come? It's going to come at the time of the greatest darkness that has been on the earth!

Verse 2: "For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people…"—talk about deceiving the whole world!

"…but the LORD shall arise upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you. And the Gentiles shall come to your Light, and kings to the brightness of Your rising" (vs 2-3)—or coming!

Now that gets into the Millennium. That gets into our being able to fulfill the will of God as the sons and daughters of God raised from the dead.

Now let's see what had to happen by Christ in order for us to :

• receive salvation and the promise of eternal life
• have the Spirit of God to overcome human nature
• have contact with God

so that we can:

• pray to God
• study His Word
• understand it

and all of these things are combined with it!

John 1:14: "And the Word became flesh…"

Now, He just didn't appear as a full grown mature man. No! We know what He did. (We'll look at that in just a minute.)

"…And tabernacled among us…" (v 14)—that means temporarily dwelt among men! Think of the time that Christ was on the earth, an amazing thing, indeed!

"…(and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of Grace and Truth" (v 14).

Now then, Jesus said to in John 10, when He laid down His life: 'no one takes it from Me. I lay it down.'

But He had to become fully human, just like us; He had to have human nature, which He got from His mother. That was so that He would not sin. Here's what He had to do.

Here's what the Father had to do—Philip. 2—we've been here many times, but let's understand what Christ really did!

Think about some of the things that after we have been called, we have to give up. Some of the difficulties and trials that we have to go through sometimes are very stressful and sometimes looking like nothing is ever going to work. But God brings us to those points, so we will turn to Him!

This is why Christ, as a spirit being, had to do what He did. Talk about humbling yourself! Let's see what it does in its application to Christ. This also applies to God the Father and Jesus Christ. Then this comes right down to what we are going to have on the Passover night of the flesh and blood of Christ through the symbols of the Passover.

Philippians 2:5: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus"

That's what we are to have, the mind of Christ through the Spirit of God, and not just a portion of what God is going to give us.

Because entering into eternity and God fulfilling His purpose for us is going to be so fantastic that we can't even contemplate it in the way that really gives us deep understanding. Just like it says there in 1-Cor. 2, God has to reveal it to those who love Him! It doesn't go to the world, they don't understand. But those who love Him,

Verse 5: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus Who, although He existed in the form of God… [meaning he was existing as God] …did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself... (vs 5-7)." Now, I don't know how He did that!

You read about Him there in Rev. 1; it says, 'I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the One Who was dead but Who is alive forevermore.' It shows Him in His glory. What did He give up? Read that in the first chapter of Revelation!

He gave that up to become a pinpoint of life and to be placed into the womb of the virgin Mary, to be born as a baby! Think about that! Now, that's the greatest humility ever!

He grew up and was taught by the Father every morning (Isa. 50). He learned from God. Now, Mary had to be quite a woman to take care of Him, to be entrusted with Him, to feed Him, to nurture Him, and He had to have diapers! All the things that we all go through! Think about that!

Verse 7: "But emptied Himself, and was made in the likeness of men, and took the form of a servant"—though He was to become King of Kings and Lord of Lords and rule over the earth!

He didn't come down here with great fanfare and say, 'look at Me, I'm the Son of God in the flesh!'

Think of it if Donald Trump were in charge of that: hey, you would have everything everywhere. Read in the book of Luke what happened when Jesus was born. Only two were given the announcement to spread the word!

• He wasn't born in a hospital
• He wasn't born in a house
• He was born in a stable
• His bed/His crib was a stack of straw

Then here are these two shepherds out in the field watching the sheep and all of a sudden the angels are singing glory to God, glory to God in the highest. The two shepherds were startled, 'What is this?'

The angels said, 'You go into Bethlehem and you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling cloth.' So, they went and found Him. And then they spread the word.

Herod didn't have the message; it wasn't given to him. It wasn't given to the high priest, none of them! They didn't know.

He was born in such a way that He was born. according to the Scriptures. in Bethlehem as it says. But Joseph and Mary didn't get there until just before He was born. It was right at the time of the Feast of Trumpets and there was no room at the inn. Homeless!  Imagine that! How's that for a humble announcement? Very important!

Then it goes right through all of His life, all of His preaching, all of His teaching, coming down to the resurrection.

Verse 9: "Therefore, God has also highly exalted Him and bestowed upon Him a name, which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow took the form of a servant, of beings in heaven and on earth and under the earth" (vs 9-10).

This is quite a thing! We will see a fulfillment of that which will probably be fulfilled many times over.

Revelation 5:11—this is bringing out about Christ and His glory: "And I saw and I heard the voices of many angels… [things in heaven bowing to Him] …around the Throne, and the voices of the living creatures and the elders, and thousands of thousands."

See what that one verse does when you put it together with others.

Verse 12: "Saying with a loud voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory and blessing.'"

All the angels, we don't know how many there are, but that was a fantastic thing right here! This is going to happen exactly this way just before the events of the end-time begin to unfold.

Christ is the One Who opens the seals; no one else can do it. None of you Sunday-keeper ministers out there have a clue as to when and how this is going to come because:

• you have a false Christ
• you have a false day
• you reject the Sabbath of God
• you reject the Laws of God

and

• you think you represent God
• you think you represent Christ

I tell you NO!

Verse 13—this fulfills what we just read back there in Philip. 2: "And every creature that is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and those that are on the sea, and all the things in them, I heard saying…"

This is going to be so powerful that the whole creation is going to cry out to God!

"…'To Him Who sits on the Throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing, and honor, and glory, and sovereignty into the ages of eternity.' And the four living creatures said, 'Amen.' And the twenty-four elders fell down" (vs 13-14).

Quite a fulfillment for one little verse back here in Philip. 2!

Col. 1—let's see how absolutely profound that it was. His physical birth and then His resurrection!

Colossians 1:12: "Giving thanks to the Father, Who has made us qualified…"

Now that's very interesting, isn't it? You've heard it said that you've got to qualify for eternal life. Who qualifies us? God the Father!

• that's why we pray to the Father
• that's why we study the Word of God
• that's why we yield to God in everything that we do

"…Who has made us qualified for the share of the inheritance of the saints in the Light" (v 12). Remember what we saw:

• He was the Light
• the Light of men
• the Light of Life

Verse 13: "Who has personally rescued us from the power of darkness…"

Now think about that. When you come for the Passover night, remember this: God has rescued us from the power of darkness which is Satan the devil! That's quite a thing! That's all part of taking the Passover!

We're looking at why Christ is the only sacrifice. Nothing else can do it!

Verse 13: "Who has personally rescued us from the power of darkness and has transferred us unto the Kingdom of the Son of His love."

That means we're under the authority of Jesus Christ. We're not in the Kingdom because the Kingdom isn't here, yet!

Verse 14: "In whom we have redemption through his blood…"—only His blood!

We've read of that there in John 6. IF you don't eat His flesh and you don't drink His blood, you don't have Life in you!

That's why the Passover becomes very important and the partaking of the wine and the bread becomes so very important.

Verse 15: "Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation."

Now some people look at that and say, 'You see, Jesus wasn't existing until He was born.' NO!  It means that His physical birth was greater than any other physical birth on the earth. That's what it's telling us.

Verse 16: "Because by Him were all things created, the things in heaven and the things on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether they be thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him."

Just like I said: God is all things to everything!

Verse 17: "And He is before ALL, and by Him ALL things subsist."

By the very word of His power, everything that there is, is sustained by Him!

Verse 18: "And He is the Head of the Body, the Church…"

Pope Francis, you better read that because you're the head of the wrong church.

"…Who is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead so that in all things He Himself might hold the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell" (vs 18-19).

• because of His life
• because of His sacrifice
• because of what He did and was resurrected

Paul is saying, I want you to understand the greatness of What and Who Christ is and your calling. Remember what we read? God has to reveal it to those who love Him!

Verse 21: "For you were once alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works; but now He has reconciled you"—through the sacrifice of Christ!

Forgiven our sins! That's why He's the only sacrifice for sin. Because as we have covered:

• He was with God before anything was created
• He created everything there is
• He made man and woman, male and female, and everything about us
• the whole Plan of God hinges on what He's going to do
• He knew right from the beginning because 'He was slain from the foundation of the world'

There has to be Satan the devil to come in so that we have a choice:

• What are we going to do?
• Are we really going to love God?
• Are we really going to believe Him?
• Are we really going to obey Him?
• What is it that we're going to do?

That's what it's all about!

"…He has reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death…" (vs 21-22).

IF the One Who created ALL things, ALL human beings, He's responsible for ALL! God created the genes and chromosomes and every time there is a new life it's because God has formed it!

Whether human life or other life, everything that there is, through His flesh, through death:

"…to present you…" (v 22)—this is what God wants!

This is why, as Eduardo said, 'What does God want us to hate?' Sin! Which looks so attractive.

"…to present you Holy and unblamable and unimpeachable before Him" (v 22).

How is he going to do that? He wants our full active participation in it!

• through love
• through obedience
• through studying the Word of God
• through living by every Word of God

Verse 23: "IF indeed you continue in the faith grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the Gospel… [you don't let anything interfere to take you away from it] …which you have heard, and which was proclaimed in all the creation…"

That's a prophecy coming clear down to our time, on into the Millennium, on into the Great White Throne Judgment!

"…in all the creation that is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant. Now, I am rejoicing in my sufferings for you…" (vs 23-24). This tells us:

• with the Spirit of God
• with the love of God
• with the understanding of His Word

God will give us the strength to handle the trials that we're confronted with, and we'll be confronted with them!

There's going to come a time; many times will come, but there will come one definite, profound time when you must stand for the Truth alone between you and God!

Everyone will have that! I don't know when you will have it. I don't know the circumstances around it, but it will be there!

Verse 25: "Of which I became a servant, according to the administration of God that was given to me for you in order to complete the Word of God; even the mystery that has been hidden from ages…" (vs 25-26).

• produce a book called the Bible
• have it translated in over 3,000 languages
• have it produced digitally as never before in the whole world
• have it printed on paper as never before in the whole world

That's quite a witness!

Verse 26: "Even the mystery that has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been revealed to His saints"—because we love Him (1-Cor. 2).

Verse 27: "To whom God did will to make known…"—God wants us to know!

• we have the conviction
• we have the knowledge
• we have the belief
• we have the faith
• we have the love

We have all of these things combined that has all come from God. That's an amazing thing!

"…what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (v 27).

So there we have it! That's what Christ has done for us!

Rom. 5—let's see something very important, and that God did this before we were even created, and after a great deal of humanity lived and died.

Isn't it very interesting when you think about it? Everyone wants to know, well, what's going to happen to all the people that lived and died!

God saved that for one sentence in Rev. 20. He talked about the first resurrection where all the saints will be raised and ruled with Christ. Then He said, 'But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were completed.'

One sentence is the key that unlocks the mystery: What is God going to do with all the people He didn't call? Those of us who were called for the first resurrection and we're the firstfruits of God, that's just the start! His Plan is so great and so fantastic that He wants all of us to participate in bringing about the greatest thing that ever was!

Romans 5:6: "For even when we were without strength, at the appointed time Christ died for the ungodly."

That Passover Day, not any other Passover Day, that one particular day!

Verse 7: "For rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, although perhaps someone might have the courage even to die for a good man. But God commends His own love to us because, when we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (vs 7-8). Had to be the sacrifice of Christ!

Now then, we're going to see what's going to take place in Jerusalem here, maybe in our lifetime, maybe past my lifetime, but into your lifetime if you're younger than me. There will be a temple built in Jerusalem.

Why is God having that built there? Because the Jews think that if they have the Temple of God there and they reinstate everything that they had previously—which God destroyed—that they will rule the world!

God is going to show there is no salvation in animal sacrifices! You're not going to rule the world because the first resurrection is going to take place, and Christ and the saints are going to return to this earth and they will rule the world! That's why that's going to happen.

Verse 9: "Much more, therefore, having been justified now by His blood…"—put in right standing!

That life of His blood was worth more than all the blood of all human beings of all time!

"…we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His own Son, much more then, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life" (vs 9-10). That's what we are looking for!

Verse 11: "And not only this, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the reconciliation"—put in right standing with God! That's what it's all about with taking the Passover.

1-Cor. 5—This is why it can only be Christ, and Paul  tells them that. It can't be on any other day, at any other time. It has to be on the Day of the Passover according to the Calculated Hebrew Calendar.

• it has to be at the time of the day that Jesus and the apostles took it
• it has to be an unleavened bread day as we have covered

because that sacrifice that He gave on that Passover Day was for the sin of the whole world!

Paul writes, because the Corinthians were glorying and, 'Oh, look, we've got grace to sin!'

1-Corinthians 5:6: "Your glorying is not good. Don't you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?"

Once sin enters in, it multiplies. It's just like a deadly mold. Unless you get rid of it, it's going to kill you.

Verse 7: "Therefore, purge out the old leaven…"

You purge out! We participate in what God wants us to do. We repent of our human nature and the things that we do, and we purge it out by:

• repentance and changing
• walking into Truth
• believing in Christ
• loving God with all our heart, mind, soul and being

So, this is the whole reason about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ!

Verse 7: "Therefore, purge out the old leaven, so that you may become a new lump…"

• we become new in mind
• we become new in spirit

like it says in Rom. 12, be renewed in the spirit of your mind!

That means to be metamorphosed or transformed in the spirit of your mind:

• the way that you think
• the way that you act
• the way that you do
• the way that you evaluate everything in your life

"… so that you may become a new lump, even as you are unleavened…" (v 7).

Paul is saying that it doesn't do any good to unleaven your house:

• IF you don't unleaven your mind
• IF you don't unleaven and get rid of the sin that's within

The physical thing is only a reminder of what we need to do spiritually! A little leaven leavens the whole lump!

"…For Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us" (v 7)—all whom He calls! That's an amazing thing, isn't it? Then that starts for us the process of conversion.

Day-by-day, year-by-year, whatever length of time we live! Now then, let's see:

• why Christ is the only sacrifice for sin
• why He had to come into flesh

• The Day Jesus the Christ Died (pg. 12)
• The Christian Passover
• A Harmony of the Gospels

Now those three books together combine everything, and they all point toward the sacrifice of Christ and His crucifixion and:

• why He did it
• why He went through what He did
• how He was scourged
• how He bled
• how He died

so that we understand that sin killed Christ in the flesh, and He did it willingly!

Now here's why His sacrifice, and only His sacrifice, can be the sacrifice for sin.

• He was Creator—and is Creator—of all human beings

So that applies past, present, and future!
 

• He was Divinely begotten by God the Father

The only One, as we read, He divested Himself and became a pinpoint of life and became impregnated in the womb of the virgin Mary. Begotten by God the Father.

Now then, we have a begettal which is different. That begettal is the begettal of the Holy Spirit when we repent and are baptized and receive the Holy Spirit through laying on of hands. That is a start. A begettal, remember, is a start. It's not a start and finish. It's a beginning.

• He was God manifested in the flesh

Only one! He was the only human being to live His entire life according to the will of God. Now think about that.

From the very time that He was conceived until the day that He expired and gave up His last breath and said, the last words that He said were, 'It is finished.'

• He was the only human to live His entire life according to the will of God

• He was the only human never to sin

Now as Eduardo pointed out, Job thought He was the only one. But He wasn't! The only one to never sin; that's why it was a perfect sacrifice.

• He was the only human being never to yield to a single temptation of the flesh or of Satan the devil

He was tempted of the devil for 40 days and 40 nights. Now that's interesting, isn't it? He began His ministry with 40 days under temptation to see:

• Would He always go by the Word of God?
• Would He always never tempt God?
• Would He always look to God and not claim power in this world?

It's what He had to do was defeat Satan the devil, which He did!

• He was the only human being not to come under the penalty for sin

for His own sins because He didn't sin.

• He died because He laid down His life
• He died because He was the perfect sacrifice

So, when we come to the Passover and the Passover Day, it's got to be meaningful. When we partake of the bread and partake of the wine… Now some people out there are all alone and you have no one to wash your feet. Well, you can't wash your own feet, so what you do is pray about it because washing the feet means that you renew your dedication to walking in the way of God. And that is a part of what God wants you to do.

But you can take the bread and you can take the wine. So, when Jesus said, 'take eat, this is My body, which is broken for you':

• you remember the crucifixion
• you remember what He went through

Then He said, 'this is My blood, which is shed for you for the remission of sins.' He had to lose every drop of blood.

So this is why it's important that we fully comprehend, that we fully understand why Jesus Christ is the only true sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin, because He was

• God manifested in the flesh
• lived a perfect life
• became the perfect sacrifice
• willingly laid down His life for the sins of the whole world

Scriptural References:

• John 3:16
• 1-Corinthians 2:9-10
• 2-Timothy 1:7-10
• John 1:1, 3-5
• Isaiah 60:1-3
• John 1:14
• Philippians 2:5-7
• Revelation 5:11-14
• Colossians 1:12-19, 21-27
• Romans 5:6-11
• 1 Corinthians 5:6-7

Scriptures referenced, not quoted:

• Isaiah 29
• Revelation 21; 22
• Psalm 57
• John 10
• Revelation 1
• Isaiah 50
• John 6
• Revelation 20
• Romans 12

Also referenced:

Books:

• The Day Jesus the Christ Died
• A Harmony of the Gospels
• The Christian Passover

Message here: A Requirement to Hate in the Bible #2 by Eduardo Elizondo

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Transcribed: 4/9/25

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