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November 15
Saturday


YOUR CHILDREN
WILL ASK

READ:
Ex. 12:13-17, 25-27
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When your children say
to you, "What do you
mean by this service?"
... you shall say, "It is
the Passover sacrifice
of the LORD."
__Exodus 12:26-27
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One of the most important events in Jewish history is the exodus, when God freed His people from the bondage of Egypt. Prior to leaving Egypt, the Israelites were commanded to eat a special meal called the Passover. As an act of judgment upon the Egyptians, God said that He would strike down every firstborn son, but He would pass over the houses that had the blood of the lamb on the top and sides of the door frame (Ex. 12).

To commemorate this act of judgment and grace, God's people would share in the Passover meal. God said that one day their children would ask: "What do you mean by this?" They were then responsible to retell the story of the exodus and God's salvation. God did not want the story of His great salvation to get lost in one generation.

When our children ask us about our values, lifestyle, prayer in decision-making, Bible-reading, church attendance, and worship, we have a responsibility to answer them. We are followers of Jesus. We must retell the story of how He became our Passover Lamb. His blood is the marker over our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin but are free to serve the Eternal One of heaven.

What are you teaching the children? __Marvin Williams
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````````````````How great, O God, Your acts of love!```````````````
`````````````````Your saving deeds would proclaim````````````````
``````````````````That generations yet to come```````````````````
`````````May set their hope in Your great name. __D. De Haan```````
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A parent's life is a child's guidebook.

**********Today's Bible Reading __ Exodus 12:13-17, 25-27*********

13 Now the blood shall be a
sign for you on the houses
where you are. And when I
see the blood, I will pass
over you; and the plague
shall not be on you to
destroy you when I strike
the land of Egypt.

14 So this day shall be to
you a memorial; and you
shall keep it as a feast to the
LORD throughout your
generations. You shall keep
it as a feast by an everlasting
ordinance. 15 Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread.
On the first day you shall
remove leaven from your
houses. For whoever eats
leavened bread from the first
day until the seventh day,
that person shall be cut off
from Israel.... 17 So you
shall observe the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, for on
this same day I will have
brought your armies out of
the land of Egypt. Therefore
you shall observe this day
throughout your generations
as an everlasting
ordinance....

25 It will come to pass
when you come to the land
which the LORD will give
you, just as He promised,
that you shall keep this
service. 26 And it shall be,
when your children say to
you, "What do you mean by
this service?" 27 that you
shall say, "It is the Passover
sacrifice of the LORD, who
passed over the houses of
the children of Israel in
Egypt when He struck the
Egyptians and delivered our
households." So the people
bowed their heads and
worshiped.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Animal sacrifices could never remove the stain of sin. Only the
blood of Christ can. "How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God.
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the lliving God?

(Heb. 9:14). __Dennis Fisher