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Youth Worship 18th January 2025 : Keep the Passover

Text: Numbers 9:1-14
18 January 2025

YOUTH WORSHIP 18 January 2025

Text: Numbers 9:1-14

Title: “Keep the Passover”

INTRODUCTION

1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”

4 So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.

5 And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Numbers 9:1-5

1. The First Passover

a) This was held in Egypt
b) This was to be kept annually
c) There were many rich spiritual lessons to learn from the keeping of the Passover
d) This was recorded carefully in Exodus 12
e) The Commandment from the Lord was to “Keep the Passover” perpetually

2. The Command to keep the Passover

a) The Lord commanded Israel to keep the Passover
b) The children of Israel were in the Wilderness of Sinai
c) They were in the region around Mt Sinai for an entire year

3. The Commandment of the Lord was clear and precise

a) The Passover was to be kept at the appointed time
b) They were to keep it with all the rites and ceremonies
c) The children of Israel obeyed the Lord’s command

A PROBLEM AROSE

6 Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.

7 And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”

9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD’s Passover.

11 On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12 They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

Numbers 9:6-12

THE PROBLEM EXPLAINED

1. There were some who were ceremonially defiled

2. They had been in contact with a dead person

3. They were barred from partaking of the Passover

4. How may they partake of the Passover?

SPECIAL INSTRUCTION FROM THE LORD HAD TO BE SOUGHT

1. Moses had to seek the Lord on this matter

2. There was no provision for exceptions in the keeping of the Passover

THE LORD’S SPECIAL PROVISION

1. The people affected may keep the Passover

a) In the following month, on the 14th day
b) All the rites and ceremonies must be observed

2. The following reminders were given

a) A lamb must be slain at twilight
b) The meal must include bitter herbs
c) Only unleavened bread can be used
d) Nothing must remain behind (no leftovers)
e) The bones of the lamb must not be broken

THOSE WHO DELIBERATELY REFUSED TO PARTAKE OF THE PASSOVER

13 But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 9:13

1. The Israelite who refuses to keep the Passover

a) Though he is not defiled
b) Though he is not away on a journey
c) But he decides that he will not keep the Passover

2. Judgment from the Lord

a) He will be cut off from the children of Israel
b) He will have to bear his sin
c) He has not brought the gift of a lamb to God

THE STRANGER WHO BELIEVES

‘And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the LORD’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”

Numbers 9:14

1. He dwells with the children of Israel

2. He desires to keep the Passover

3. He may keep the Passover

a) With all the rites
b) With all the ceremonies

4. There is only one ordinance

a) It applies to the children of Israel
b) It applies to the stranger (the Gentile)

OUR CHALLENGE

1. To understand God’s ordinances and to keep them

2. To be obedient to the Lord through faith and wisdom