The Lord of new beginnings : New birth, New
Life ,, New Spirit, New
Commitment, New desires, Is
it time to have a new beginning in your life..?
The Lord says to go sell your car
( this is to be the best car that you have )
take some of the money and buy a lamb to eat.
Make sure that there is enough food for all of your family. If you have
too much food then you should invite your next door neighbor to join you..
Kill and eat the lamb. Put
some of the blood on the doorposts of your house.
If you don't do this then all of the first born of
your family and animals will die tonight at
Midnight.... It is
the midnight cry!
Scripture
Text:
Exodus
11:6 There will be loud wailing
throughout Egypt--worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But
among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any man or animal.' Then you will
know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Exodus
12:1 The LORD said to Moses and
Aaron in Egypt, 2 "This month is to be for you the first month, the first
month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day
of this month each man is to take a lamb {[3] The Hebrew word can mean lamb or
kid; also in verse 4.}for his family, one for each household. 4 If any
household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their
nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are.
You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each
person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without
defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them
until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of
Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the
blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where
they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over
the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat
the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire--head, legs and
inner parts. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till
morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak
tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand.
Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover. 12 "On that same night I will
pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn--both men and animals--and
I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. 13 The blood
will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike
Egypt. 14 "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to
come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD--a lasting ordinance.
Why?
Because He wants to show you and your family that He Loves You.. He is
LOVE!
God
made the difference. (Egypt
was full of crying, but Israel was calm.)
God
heard the cry of the people.
In bondage for 430 years in the land of Egypt before God was ready to make a
difference in the people.
God
sent the deliverer. Moses
came from God out of the wilderness to set the people free from the effect of
sin and bondage to Egypt.
God
delivered the people through the blood of the Lamb. The people had to believe the word of the Lord through the preacher
Moses. The people had to Apply the blood of the Lamb to their houses. And the
people had to eat the lamb that was slain for them. God gave them a new
beginning and a new life in a new land.
God
became the Lamb. Let him
be your lamb and the God will make a difference in your life.
The Blood
The
day is over, you are driving home. You tune in your radio. You hear a little
blurb about a little village in India where some villagers have died suddenly,
strangely, of a flu that has never been seen before. It's not ifluenza, but
three or four fellows are dead, and it's kind of interesting, and they're
sending some doctors over there to investigate it.
You
don't think much about it, but on Sunday, coming home from church, you hear
another radio spot. Only they say it's not three villagers, it's 30,000
villagers in the back hills of this particular area of India, and it's on TV
that night. CNN runs a little blurb; people are heading there from the disease
center in Atlanta because this disease strain has never been seen before.
By
Monday morning when you get up, it's the lead story. For it's not just India;
it's Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and before you know it, you're hearing this
story everywhere and they have coined it now as "the mystery flu".
The
President has made some comment that he and everyone are praying and hoping
that all will go well over there. But everyone is wondering, How are we going
to contain it? That's when the President of France makes an announcement that
shocks Europe He is closing their borders. No flights from India, Pakistan, or
any of the countries where this thing has been seen. And that's why that night
you are watching a little bit of CNN before going to bed. Your jaw hits your
chest when a weeping woman is translated from a French news program into
English: There's a man lying in a hospital in Paris dying of the mystery flu.
It has come to Europe. Panic strikes. As best they can tell, once you get it,
you have it for a week and you don't know it. Then you have four days of
unbelievable symptoms. And then you
die.
Britain
closes it's borders, but it's too late. South Hampton, Liverpool, North
Hampton, and it's Tuesday morning when the President of the United States
makes the following announcement: "Due to a national security risk, all
flights to and from Europe and Asia have been canceled. If your loved ones are
overseas, I'm sorry. They cannot come back until we find a cure for this
thing." Within four days our nation has been plunged into an unbelievable
fear. People are selling little masks for your face. People are talking about
"What if it comes to this country," and preachers on Tuesday are
saying, "It's the scourge of God." It's Wednesday night and you are
at a church prayer meeting when somebody runs in from the parking lot and
says, "Turn on a radio, turn on a radio." And while the church
listens to a little transistor radio with a microphone stuck up to it, the
announcement is made. Two women are lying in a Long Island hospital dying from
the mystery flu. Within hours it seems, this thing just sweeps across the
country. People are working around the clock trying to find an antidote.
Nothing is working. California. Oregon.
Arizona. Florida. Massachusetts. It's as though it's just sweeping in from the
borders.
And
then, all of a sudden the news comes out. The code has been broken. A cure can
be found. A vaccine can be made. It's going to take the blood of somebody who
hasn't been infected, and so, sure enough, all through the Midwest, through
all those channels of emergency broadcasting, everyone is asked to do one
simple thing: Go to your downtown hospital and have your blood type taken.
That's all we ask of you. And when you hear the sirens go off in your
neighborhood, please make your way quickly, quietly, and safely to the
hospitals.
Sure
enough, when you and your family get down there late on that Friday night,
there is a long line, and they've got nurses and doctors coming out and
pricking fingers and taking blood and putting labels on it. Your wife and your
kids are out there, and they take your blood type and they say, "Wait
here in the parking lot and if we call your name, you can be dismissed and go
home." You stand around, scared, with your neighbors, wondering what in
the world is going on and that this is the end of the
world.
Suddenly
a young man comes running out of the hospital screaming. He's yelling a name
and waving a clipboard. What? He yells it again! And your son tugs on your
jacket and says, "Daddy, that's me." Before you know it, they have
grabbed your boy. Wait a minute. Hold on! And they say, "It's okay, his
blood is clean. His blood is pure. We want to make sure he doesn't have the
disease. We think he has got the right type." Five tense minutes later,
out come the doctors and nurses, crying and hugging one another -- some are
even laughing. It's the first time you have seen anybody laugh in a week, and
an old doctor walks up to you and says, "Thank you, sir. Your son's blood
type is perfect. It's clean, it is pure,
and we can make the vaccine." As the word begins to spread all across
that parking lot full of folks,
people are screaming and praying and laughing and crying. But then the
gray-haired doctor pulls you and you wife aside and says, "May we see you
for a moment? We didn't realize that the donor would be a minor and we
need...we need you to sign a consent form." You begin to sign and then
you see that the number of pints of blood to be taken is empty.
"H-h-h-how
many pints?"
And
that is when the old doctor's smile fades and he says, "We had no idea it
would be a little child. We weren't prepared. We need it all! But-but...You
don't understand. We are talking about the world here.
Please sign. We- we need it all -- we need it all!" "But can't you
give him a transfusion?"
"If
we had clean blood we would. Can you sign? Would you sign?" In numb
silence, you do.
Then
they say, "Would you like to have a moment with him before we
begin?" Can you walk back? Can you walk back to that room where he sits
on a table saying, "Daddy? Mommy? What's going on?" Can you take his
hands and say, "Son, your mommy and I love you, and we would never ever
let anything
happen to you that didn't just have to be. Do you understand that?" And
when that old doctor comes back in and says, "I'm sorry, we've-we've got
to get started. People all over the world are dying."
Can
you leave? Can you walk out while he is saying, "Dad? Mom? Dad? Why-why
have you
forsaken me?" And then next week, when they have the ceremony to honor
your son, and some
folks sleep through it, and some folks don't even come because they go to the
lake, and some folks come with a pretentious smile and just pretend to care.
Would you want to jump up and say,
"MY
SON DIED! DON'T YOU CARE?"
Is
that what GOD wants to say?
"MY
SON DIED. DON'T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I CARE?"
"Father,
seeing it from your eyes breaks our hearts. Maybe now we can
begin to comprehend the great Love you have for us."
Heb.
9:22, John 6:53, Lev. 17:11
Our Response to God's Love
>>>
1. Accept it as a little
child,, Don't talk back to God
and Reject his Love and provision and protection and deliverance...
2. Believe His Word as the truth that will set you free, and
become set free from the judge ment of God that is going to fall..
3. Go God's way . John
14:6
4. Take the next
step for your christian life..