King of Kings Worship Center's video: Jane Hamon - Passover Exodus 12:13

Jane Hamon - Passover (Exodus 12:13) Jane speaks at Vision Church at Christian International on 4/5/2023 You’ve been “blessed to be a blessing.” (Genesis 12:2) Pay it forward! For more videos, subscribe to King of Kings YouTube Channel here: https://bit.ly/2TRObAR If you need help with a personal problem email info@kingofkingswc.com. Donate to King of Kings here: http://www.kingofkingswc.com/donate/ We're going to let you guys be seated for a few minutes and we're just going to talk a little bit about Passover I read the chapters on Passover, Exodus chapter 12 today. I'm going to read a little bit of that tonight. You say, "That's Old Testament." What does that have to do with us in the New Testament? But you have to understand, that every time God did something miraculous and spectacular like this in the Old Testament, it really was the picture of what Jesus was going to do, what Jesus was going to bring in the New Testament. As a matter of fact, when John saw Jesus approaching to get baptized, he said, "behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." [John 1:29] We know that that refers back to the Old Testament religious process of sacrificing a lamb to cover the sins of the people. But we also understand, that it points back to the fact that, as he read in 1 Corinthians 5, that Jesus is our Passover Lamb. So, I want to take just a moment and we're going to read this, and then we're going to do something together. Because as I prayed about it today, I'm going to give you four words. You can write these words down or you can just think about them. I believe that Passover is about liberation. We're going to go back and talk about these, liberation. Time to be free in 2023. Somebody said that. That's right. Some famous person said that. That's right. So, liberation, revelation which is speaking about the future, it is about preparation and about proclamation. Now, let me explain what I'm talking about. Of course, we know that this was the time, where after 435 years of Egyptian bondage, Israel was being set free. Now, God I think it's fascinating, when you go back read Genesis 15, when God cut covenant with Abraham. Do you remember this? He said, "look at the stars of the sky, look at the sand of the seashore, and that's how many your descendants are going to be." Then He begins to prophesy about his descendants, and then He causes a deep sleep to fall upon Abram. God cuts covenant with Abram in a dream. You can go back and read it. I'm not going to read Genesis 15. But here's the amazing thing. God begins to prophesy to Abram about his descendants. Do you know in that prophecy He says, "there's going to come a time when your descendants will go into captivity for 400 years." That's not particularly good news when you're just cutting covenant. It's like, yes, I marry you, and I commit that in 10 years we're going to have major crisis and everything, but I really love you - and in 10 years it's going to be really rotten and really miserable. That's not such a great covenant base, except God was showing them, "I have a purpose." How many understand captivity is bad? Okay, it's bad. But how many also understand that God turns the curse to a blessing and that God takes the things the enemy means against us for evil and turns it for good. [Genesis 50:20] So who can tell me something good that came out of 400 years of Egyptian slavery? Go ahead. Tell me Audience: Well they did go into the promised land, two of them. Jane: They did - after that, they did go in and they possessed it. What was it about 400 years in captivity? Why would God like just go, "oh yeah and by the way, you're going to have 400 years of captivity?" That's right. They started as a family... they left as a nation! See, God wanted a people that were distinctive, that were different, that were united, that were unique from all the other nations. He understood that if He just left them in a land, they would be like all the other nations of the land, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the termites, the whatever was there. That they would be just like all the other nations of the land. They would partake of their culture... but in slavery, now they went into to Egypt. They didn't go in as slaves. But we know that the story was, that another generation arose that didn't know Joseph, [Exodus 1:8] didn't know the favor that was on his life. Slowly over the first number of decades, they were slowly enslaved, and the slavery got worse and worse. And yet, as horrible as that was, what God did, was He formed a distinctive nation that was different from every other nation that was on the earth. They were jealous and fearful of the people they enslaved. Which is why they enslaved them. That's right. This is not my good ear, so if I ignore my husband, it's not like I'm not trying to listen to him.