The Blood Is Enough

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This Easter Sunday, Brian Hunter preached from Exodus 12 and traced the story of the Passover lamb forward to the cross. The central claim was simple: deliverance has never depended on the condition of the people inside, only on the blood applied to the door. He titled the message "The Blood Is Enough." Brian opened in Exodus 12, reading the instructions God gave Moses and Aaron for the first...

Read together

1. Exodus 12:1-13 Primary text for the sermon, read aloud in full as the foundation for the Passover and blood-on-the-doorpost teaching
2. Romans 6:23 Quoted to show that the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life
3. Romans 3:10 Quoted to establish that no one is righteous, not even one
4. James 2 (paraphrase) Referenced to say that breaking one law makes a person guilty of breaking all of the law
5. Isaiah 53:4-6 Read aloud as a prophetic passage pointing forward to Jesus bearing the sins of all mankind
6. Romans 10:13 Quoted to show that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved

What was said

• Read Exodus 12 and notice that the text puts all the weight on the blood applied outside the door, not on the condition of the people inside.
• If you stood up during the service or said that prayer in your heart, tell one person this week what you did.
• Spend a few quiet minutes and, in your own words, tell Jesus specifically what you are asking him to forgive, the way Pastor Brian walked through it during the service.
• If you have been living outside the covenant relationship you once made with Jesus, pray and ask him to reapply that commitment to your life.
• Bring someone with you to a regular Sunday service at the TMC so they can experience the smaller, conversational setting Pastor Brian described.

Talk about it

1. Brian pointed out that the text places a heavy emphasis on the condition of the lamb but says almost nothing about the moral condition of the families inside the houses. What does that tell you about what God was looking at that night, and what does it mean for how you think about your own standing before God?
2. Brian said that deliverance that night depended on the blood applied, not the people inside. Where in your own life are you tempted to rely on your own moral effort or self-reliance rather than resting under what the blood of Jesus has already done?
3. Brian used the gravity illustration to describe how consequences for breaking God's law exist whether a person believes in them or not. How have you seen that idea play out in your own experience or in the lives of people around you?
4. Brian drew a line from the Passover lamb all the way to John the Baptist pointing at Jesus and saying 'behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.' What is the difference, in your own words, between a lamb that covers sin and one that removes it completely, and why does that difference matter to you personally?
5. Brian described three categories of people he invited to stand: those who had never asked Jesus to apply his blood to their lives, those who had but had drifted from that relationship, and those who had made the decision privately but never publicly. Which of those resonates most with where you are right now, and what feels like the next step for you?