Saved Out Of Egypt: Our Journey Of Salvation / Kingdom School - Lesson 4

Welcome to Lesson 4
of the Kingdom school.

I’m so excited to share this today.
It's a new year for all of us.

I’ll start with sharing a word with you
for this new year from Luke 13.

This is the Parable of the Fig Tree.

Some years ago God spoke to me
through this parable. It changed my life.

Now, it's a new year.
Every year, I read this parable.

“Then he told this parable:

A man had a fig tree growing
in his vineyard,

and he went to look for fruit on it
but did not find any.

So, he said to the man
who took care of the vineyard,

“For three years now I've been coming
to look for fruit on this fig tree

and haven't found any.

Cut it down! Why should it
use up the soil?”

“Sir,” the man replied,
“leave it alone for one more year,

and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.

If it bears fruit next year, fine!
If not, then cut it down.”

Some years ago, God spoke to me
through this parable.

I felt that I was this fig tree.

At that time, I’d been a Christian
for 6 years.

I’d never healed the sick or cast out
a demon. I’d never led anyone to God.

I’d never baptized people in water
and the Holy Spirit.

My life had no fruit like this.

When I read this parable,
I asked God to give me one more year.

I said, “If I don't bear fruit by this
time next year, you can cut me down.”

I felt God say, “Okay, Torben.
I’ll give you one more year.”

That day, I started a 40-day fast.
I started to change my life.

I start to obey God. Many things changed.

At the same time the next year,
I looked at my life.

Everything had changed. I had healed
the sick, and cast out demons.

I’d led many people to God.
My life had a lot of fruit.

This became a new beginning for me.
Now, it's a new year.

I want to challenge you. Is your life
bearing fruit? Are you obeying Christ?

Are many things happening?
If not, receive this word.

Do something about it, this year.
Let 2025 be a fruitful year in your life.

Don’t stand still and do
the same as before.

The man didn’t just leave the
tree alone for one more year.

He said, “Let's dig around
and fertilize it.”

You need to add things to your life.

If you continue to do what you’ve
always done, nothing will change.

God used that to really speak to me.
So, I say to all of you: Happy New Year.

Receive this word and do something.
May this be a very fruitful year for you.

We want to help you with this.
It’s important to pray, fast and obey.

It couldn’t be simpler:
Pray, fast and obey.

There are different useful
tools on our website.

One tool is the gospel cards, that I have
here. Today we'll look at the gospel.

I’ll start by encouraging you
this new year with a video.

You’ll see me sitting down
and using these gospel cards.

Some weeks ago, a runner up
of Miss USA and her team visited us.

I sat down with them and
shared the gospel. They repented.

They got delivered, healed, baptized in
water and filled with the Holy Spirit.

We see these things happening
all the time.

But I didn’t see them, for the
first 6 years of my Christian walk.

Then God gave me one more year to change.
I dug deep and added fertilizer.

I prayed, fasted and obeyed.
Then I started to see fruit.

So, here’s a little video to start with.

As I said before, this teaching is not
about giving you head knowledge.

I want to give you a foundation
and help you to live a fruitful life.

I want you to be a good fig tree.
Then you won’t need to be cut down.

May you please our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.

This video is just a few minutes.
Watch this.

Imagine yourself also doing these
things this year. God bless you.

(Torben) Guys, we are doing a
Luke 10 school now.

We just prayed for a runner up
of Miss America.

She came here with her team
from the United States.

They have been filled
with the Holy Spirit.

They were set free from demons.
They were baptized in water.

We experience so many things
in our everyday lives.

(Torben) It’s good seeing you here.
You are from the United States?

(Lady) Yeah. (Torben) When did you
arrive? (Lady) About three days ago.

We must recognize that
we’ve sinned against God.

We must repent and turn away
from sin and put our faith in Jesus.

Then God will take out our stony heart.
He'll give us a new heart of flesh.

It’s written in the Bible: “You shall
not murder.” But Jesus went deeper.

He said that if we have hatred in
our hearts we're already murderers.

Let go! Spirit of addiction, go out!
Come out! [Deliverance]

Die with Christ. Rise with Christ.
Happy Birthday! [Speaking in tongues]

Freedom right now! [Music]
(Lady) Praise the Lord. (Torben) Amazing!

(Lady) I feel like I saw my old self
just leave. She's gone.

She's never coming back.
I'm so happy [unclear words]

So, I wanted to share that video.

I encourage you to dig very deep and
fertilize in your life. Live this life.

Bear a lot of fruit like this.
See this kind of transformation.

We use these gospel cards a lot
when we share the gospel.

I love this because it's so simple
and powerful.

On these cards are pictures
that illustrate things.

This is Jesus, the king,
who was crucified.

He ascended to heaven
but will return as king.

After sharing the gospel with the
cards, I often ask people this:

“Where are you in your life?
Maybe you are here with a stony heart.

You’ve never really repented.
So, what is the next step?

You need to repent and then
you’ll get a new heart.

Maybe you have repented and
have a new heart.

But you’ve never truly been baptized.
What is your next step?

You need to get baptized in water
and wash away that sin.

Or, maybe you are here.
You’ve repented. You’ve been baptized.

But you’ve never received the Holy Spirit.
What is your next step?

You need to receive the Holy Spirit.

This is where God wants you
and everyone else to be.

I love sharing it this way with people.
I ask the people where they are.

I tell them where God wants them to be.
Then people point to one of the cards.

I ask them, “What is the next step?”
“I need to be baptized.”

“Then let's go and baptize you.”
Or “I'm there.” “What is the next step?”

“I need the Holy Spirit.” “Let's pray
for you to receive the Holy Spirit.”

So, these cards are on our website.
You can scan a QR code.

There you find videos that show
how to use the gospel cards as a tool.

Here’s another book: ‘The Call of Jesus:
finding the person of peace’.

I encourage you to get these resources.
Also pray, fast, go out and obey.

Then you’ll bear much fruit in your life.
So, that was my intro.

Lesson 4, is called: ‘Saved out of Egypt:
Saved from slavery to sin’.

The Kingdom school began
with the Garden of Eden.

Since then, we looked at the fall,
Noah and Abraham.

Lesson 3 was called: ‘Called-out’.
We are the church.

We are called out to be separate.

“Touch no unclean things
and I will receive you.”

Today we'll focus on how the
Israelites were called out.

Lesson 4 focusses on the gospel
and our current journey as believers.

You’ll really understand that we must
finish the race, not just start it.

We’ll look at these things:

The gospel, the journey we are on,
and how we can finish the race.

This will be a long lesson, but we’ll have
a break in the middle as usual.

I’ll start with a prayer. God, I thank You
for this lesson. Help me to share this.

Open our eyes to understand
the gospel and salvation.

Help us to understand that we’re called
out of Egypt and are on a journey, God.

I pray that we won’t just
start this journey.

May we respond to the warning
in the Bible and finish strong.

God, come with Your Holy Spirit.
Help me share this.

Speak to each person, who is watching
this, in a special way.

In the name of Jesus.
Amen. So, let's start:

Last time, we looked at the church,
the people that are called out.

We examined the church in the wilderness.

Most of them were disqualified and didn’t
enter, even though they were called out.

They left Egypt, but Egypt
never truly left them.

This time, we’ll explore this:

How the church - God's people
- are called out from slavery.

We will look at the Passover
and the crossing of the Red Sea.

We’ll look at the wandering
toward the Promised Land.

We’ll look at why they did not
enter the Promised Land.

They were saved out but never
entered in. (Only a few did.)

This is important. Why? This illustrates
our journey of salvation.

This is a different journey to the one
usually preached about in churches today.

It’s not enough to pray a prayer.
That doesn’t save us.

It’s a journey of justification
and sanctification.

And on that day, those saints will
glorified when the Lord returns.

Understand and be sure that you’re not
just saved out, but that you enter in.

Consider these questions to start
with: What is more important?

To fully understand God’s kingdom
(teaching, knowledge and foundation)

- but not enter it? Or to enter it even
if you haven’t fully understood it first?

What is more important? That we understand
the kingdom but don’t enter?

Or that we enter but
don’t fully understand it?

The fact is, some people know more
about God’s kingdom that most of us.

But they're missing something
very important in their life.

They haven’t entered it.

They teach and talk about the
kingdom, but don’t enter in.

I know other people who may not fully
understand the doctrine of the kingdom.

But one day, they’ll enter it. Why?
Because they understand how to enter it.

So consider this: What is more important?

To have all the knowledge but not enter?

Or enter without having the full
knowledge? Here’s another question.

What is more important? How we
start our journey or how we finish?

Of course, the start of the journey
is also extremely important.

But the finish is even more important.

Some people today don’t have all the
knowledge, but understand the new birth.

One day, they’ll enter.

Some people didn’t start strong,
but they will finish strong.

Other people have all the knowledge
but won’t enter.

Other people started extremely strong
but will finish extremely weak.

But let’s do both: start
and finish strong.

Let's get the knowledge and enter in.

Now, I’ll look at some warnings
in Exodus and Numbers.

We’ll see that the Israelites kept
on failing after being saved out of Egypt.

Exodus 15: After crossing the Red Sea,

the Israelites complained about
the lack of water at Marah.

There, the water was bitter.
Exodus 16: In the wilderness,

they grumbled against Moses and Aaron
about the lack of food.

They wished, they had stayed
in Egypt. Exodus 17:

The people complained again
about the lack of water.

They questioned why God
had brought them out of Egypt.

In these 3 chapters of Exodus,
the Israelites complained and grumbled:

“It was better back in Egypt!
Why did you bring us out here, God?

We don't see your wisdom in this. We don't
have water. We don't like the water.

We don't have food.”
We read more examples in Numbers 11:

The people complained
about their hardships.

God’s anger was kindled against them.
He started to strike them down.

God's patience with them was running out.

Later they complained again
about the manna.

They dreamt about the food
they had had in Egypt:

“Oh, the food in Egypt was
so much better!”

What happened a few chapters later?

What happened after the spies reported
about the giants in the Promised Land?

The people cried out in fear.

They wished they’d stayed in Egypt
or in the wilderness.

Here we see that the Israelites
were saved out of Egypt.

But they complained, grumbled
and sinned repeatedly.

In the end, they really rebelled
against God.

So, God said, “Now I'm finished with
them. I'm going to destroy them all.

In Numbers 14, the Israelites complained
and rebelled.

This happened after they heard about
the giants in the Promised Land.

Numbers 14: “All the Israelites grumbled
against Moses and Aaron,

and the whole assembly said to them,
“If only we had died in Egypt!

Or in this wilderness!

Why is the LORD bringing us to this land
only to let us fall by the sword?

Our wives and children
will be taken as plunder.

Wouldn't it be better for us
to go back to Egypt?”

So, that was their attitude.
They complained and grumbled:

“We don't like this! God,
what are you doing?”

God became angry.
Does God get angry? Yeah.

“The LORD said to Moses, “How long will
these people treat me with contempt?

How long will they refuse to believe in
me?” Unbelief is to question God.

They knew God was real,
but didn’t believe in His promises.

“How long will they refuse
to believe in me,

in spite of all the signs I have
performed among them?

I will strike them down with
a plague and destroy them,

but I will make you (Moses) into a
nation greater and stronger than they.”

You need to understand this:
God gave a promise to Abraham.

God is faithful to fulfil His promises.

He said, He will make Abraham
a great nation.

Abraham’s descendants will
inherit the land of Israel.

But He didn’t say, whom exactly
He would use to fulfil His promise.

He saved the Israelites out of Egypt. They
had the wrong attitude. They grumbled.

They didn’t live in obedience.

So, God decided to destroy and wipe
them out. But, what about the promise?

God wanted to fulfil it through Moses.
Moses came from the tribe of Levi.

So, he was a descendant of Israel,
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

God wanted to fulfil His promise.

But He didn't promise to do it with all
who were saved out from Egypt.

He wanted to fulfil it through Moses.
Why? Because there’s always a remnant.

God will do exactly as He has said He
will do. But with whom will He do it?

He didn’t promise to do it with everyone.
This is the same in the church today.

Not everyone will enter.
That’s just a fact.

So, God wanted to destroy the people
and fulfil His promise through Moses:

“I will make a great nation out of you.”

But Moses interceded and said to God:

“If you put these people to death,
leaving none alive,

the nations who have heard the report
about you will say,

“The LORD was not able to bring
these people into the land

he promised them on oath, so he
slaughtered them in the wilderness.”

Moses interceded. He asked God,
“Do you really want to destroy them?”

Abraham did almost the same years before.

God had decided to destroy Sodom
and Gomorrah.

Lot was in Sodom. Abraham interceded.
Then God saved a few there.

“The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them,
as you asked.”

So, He didn’t kill them immediately.

“Nevertheless, as surely as I live

and as surely as the glory of
the LORD fills the whole earth,

not one of those who saw my glory
and the signs I performed in Egypt

and in the wilderness but who disobeyed
me and tested me ten times…”

And He declared that none of those
would enter in.

“But because my servant Caleb
has a different spirit

and follows me wholeheartedly,
I will bring him into the land he went to,

and his descendants will inherit it.”

So, most of those who were saved out of
Egypt didn’t enter the promised land.

But Caleb did. Why?
Because he had a different spirit.

He wasn’t like the others.
He had a different spirit.

He followed God, wholeheartedly.

“So tell them, “As surely as I live,
declares the LORD,

I will do to you the very thing
I heard you say:

In this wilderness your bodies will fall

- every one of you twenty years old
or more

who was counted in the census
and who has grumbled against me.

Not one of you will enter the land
I swore with uplifted hand

to make your home, except Caleb son
of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.”

So, we need to face this reality.

God performed miracles, signs
and wonders in Egypt.

God took them out of Egypt.
He saved them.

He was with them in the wilderness.
Lesson 3 was called: ‘Called-out’.

God called them out.
He performed signs and wonders.

But even so, most of them
didn’t enter the promised land.

They weren’t like Caleb.
He had a different spirit.

He followed God wholeheartedly.
What spirit do we have? How do we live?

Do we think that we’re already saved?

Do we think that everything is good,
and one day we’ll enter?

Or do we heed this warning:

being saved out, doesn’t automatically
mean that we will enter.

This is a warning for us today.

Paul had this exactly in mind when
he wrote 1 Corinthians 9 and 10.

We looked at these chapters last time.

Today, we’ll look at them from
another perspective.

Bear in mind that the God struck
the Israelites down in the wilderness.

They didn’t enter, apart from Caleb,
Joshua and those under 20 years old.

Bear that in mind while you read this:

“Everyone who competes in the games
goes into strict training.

They do it to get a crown
that will not last,

but we do it to get a crown
that will last forever.

Therefore, I do not run like
somebody running aimlessly;

I do not fight like a boxer
beating the air.

No, I strike a blow to my body
and make it my slave

so that after I have preached to others,

I myself will not be disqualified
for the prize.”

Almost the whole generation,
saved out of Egypt, were disqualified.

“For I do not want you to be ignorant
of that fact, brothers and sisters,

that our ancestors were all
under the cloud

and that they all passed through the sea.

They were all baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.

They all ate the same spiritual food
and drank the same spiritual drink;

for they drank from the spiritual rock
that accompanied them,

and that rock was Christ.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased
with most of them;

their bodies were scattered
in the wilderness.”

They had all this:

the baptism, the spiritual food and
drink, and Christ the Rock.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased
with most of them.

“Now these things occurred
as examples to keep us

from setting our hearts
on evil things as they did.

Do not be idolaters as some of them
were; as it is written:

“The people sat down and eat and drink
and got up to indulge in revelry.””

This refers to the idolatry
and the golden calf in Exodus 32.

“We should not commit sexual immorality,
as some of them did

- and in one day twenty-three
thousand of them died.

We should not test Christ, as some of
them did - and were killed by snakes.

And do not grumble, as some of them did

- and were killed
by the destroying angel.

These things happened to them as examples
for us.” This is for us today in 2025.

These things happened and
were written down as examples.

This is a warning for us who live
at the end of the present age.

It’s written to warn us. It's not just
history. Its purpose is to warn us.

“So, if you think you are standing firm,
be careful that you don’t fall!”

So many people have fallen.

I've seen so many people start in the
spirit and end in the flesh, and fall.

To fall is not just to leave the church.
It means to fall away from the first love.

Jesus said, “I have this against you.
You have left your first love. Repent.”

“No temptation has overtaken you except
what is common to mankind.

And God is faithful; he will not let you
be tempted beyond what you can bear.

When you are tempted, he will also provide
a way out so that you can endure it.”

It doesn’t matter
what temptation we experience.

God is faithful.
There’s always a way out.

It’s never God’s fault, if we fall away or
sin. God always provides a way out.

But will we take His way out? Or
will we fall away? I’ll read this again:

“Now these things occurred as examples

to keep us for setting our hearts
on evil things as they did.”

Many people preach this today:
“Hey, you’re saved.

Therefore, nothing can take
this away from you.

One day, you’ll enter the promised land.

You’ll go to heaven.” I know that this
is difficult for some people to hear:

Those with the mindset
‘Once saved always saved’.

We are not yet fully saved.
We are being saved.

Please understand this:
We don't have eternal life in us.

John 15 is about the vine
and the branches.

Branches don't have life in themselves.
If they are cut off, they will die.

They only have life in the vine.

In the same way, we don't
have eternal life in us.

The life is in Christ, and we
can be cut off from that vine.

We can be cut off from the covenant
and lose our birthright.

Hebrews 12 shows us that
we can lose our birthright.

We can be cut off. If we break
the covenant, we’ll be cut off.

We do have life through
God’s Spirit in us.

But we can sin against
and grieve the Spirit.

We can start in the Spirit
but end in the flesh.

This does not happen suddenly or
overnight, but rather over time.

You won’t suddenly wake up one morning,
wondering what’s happening.

But we read that the Israelites
rebelled repeatedly.

God said, they rebelled
ten times against Him.

In the end, God cut them
off from the promise.

God is full of grace, but we cannot
play around with His grace.

Even a born-again Spirit-filled person
can sin against the Spirit.

Listen to the Holy Spirit inside you.

If you go astray off the narrow road,
the Spirit will try to bring you back.

The Spirit will tell you,
“Don't go that direction into sin.”

But many people don't listen
to the Spirit.

They don’t understand that they can
grieve and sin against the Spirit.

If you have God’s Spirit in you,
listen to Him.

I think, we’ve all experienced
this type of thing.

When people fall into sexual sin,
you don’t start with the action itself.

It starts by looking with lust and having
a sinful desire. What happens next?

The Spirit keeps on telling you:
“It's not good.”

But if you have no fear of God, you
won’t listen and take heed to the Spirit.

That person will then go away
from the narrow road.

If they go too far out, they can lose
the birthright they’ve been given.

Let me use some scripture
to explain this more:

Revelation 22 includes
a warning for us:

“I warn everyone who hears the words
of the prophecy of this scroll:

If anyone adds anything to them,

God will add to that person
the plagues described in this scroll.

And if anyone takes away from this
scroll of prophecy, God will take away

from that person any share in the
tree of life and in the Holy City.”

So, God gives us a clear warning here.
What'll happen if we do these things?

God will remove our access to
the tree of life and the holy city.

Those people had it but
God will take it away.

Some will say: “Yeah, but
God is gracious and full of love.” YES!

But we can’t play around with Him.

The Israelites did that,
after they were saved out of Egypt.

In the end, God rejected them and took
away their share in the promised land.

There are also other examples.
Revelation 2: “Whoever has ears,

let them hear what the Spirit
says to the churches.

To the one who is victorious, I will give
the right to eat from the tree of life,

which is in the paradise of God.”

To the one who is victorious, I will give
the right to eat of the Tree of Life.

Somebody will argue: ‘But does the
Bible not say it is for all

who have their name written in the book
of life? Yes. Look at Revelation 20:

“Anyone whose name was not found
in the book of life

was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Here’s another warning:

“The one who is victorious will, like
them, be dressed in white.

I will never blot out the name of
that person from the book of life,

but I will acknowledge that name
before my Father and his angels.”

So, God promised this:

Never to blot out the names of
victorious saints from the book of life.

Why did He say that?

Because it’s possible to get your name
removed from the book of life.

It's possible to lose your birthright.

Then you won’t be able to enter in
to the kingdom of God.

You won’t be able to access the New
Jerusalem or eat of the Tree of Life.

You won’t enter into promised land.

What happened to the Israelites,
is a very clear warning to us.

I know that many don’t preach
that in churches today.

But I long for us to have this
understanding: We’re on a journey.

We need the fear of God. The promise is
for those who are victorious like Caleb.

Caleb followed God wholeheartedly
and had a different spirit.

People like that will be able to enter.
Others that grumble and sin.

Others can have their names
blotted out of the book of life.

They’ll lose their inheritance
and birthright.

We saw that happen to the Israelites.
I’m starting with this.

I know it's a strong word for people
who haven’t heard this before.

But we need this. Let's look here
at the gospel in Exodus.

Before we have a break shortly,
I want to share some other things.

I want to get started with this:

The Israelites were slaves in Egypt,
like people are slaves of sin today.

Moses called them out. Jesus, who is
greater than Moses, now calls us out.

Moses told Pharaoh to let God’s people go.
Pharaoh did not want to let them go.

God sent the first nine plagues,
that we can read about.

Now I’ll read about the tenth plague,
the death of the firstborn.

Please read all off Exodus to get
the detail. Exodus 12:

“The LORD said to Moses
and Aaron in Egypt,

“This month is to be for you the first
month, the first month of your year.”

This is important.

This was the first day of the first month
of the biblical calendar of Israel.

This was a new beginning for Israel.

Today, we also experience a new beginning
in Christ. So, this is important.

“Tell the whole community of Israel

that on the tenth day of this month
each man is to take a lamb for his family,

one for each household. If any household
is too small for a whole lamb,

they must share one with
their nearest neighbour”

This was the beginning of the year.

Each man needed to take a lamb and
share it with others if it was too much.

“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.

On that same night
I will pass through Egypt

and strike down every firstborn
of both people and animals,

and I will bring judgment on all the
gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

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.”

That’s where the word ‘Passover’
comes from.

God didn’t kill the firstborn in the
houses, which had the blood.

He passed over when
He saw the blood.

“No destructive plague will touch
you when I strike Egypt.

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.”

So, they were commanded to keep the
Passover for the generations to come.

We also keep the Passover today.

This points to Christ,
in Whom it has a new significance.

I'll talk about that later.

These things are important:
the blood and the Passover.

But there is something else
that we often miss:

“For seven days you are to eat
bread made without yeast.

On the first day, remove the
yeast from your houses,

for whoever eats anything
with yeast in it

from the first day through the seventh
must be cut off from Israel.”

We saw these words before, with the
Abrahamic covenant of circumcision.

God gave a promise to Abraham.

But any male who wasn’t circumcised will
be cut off and not inherit the promise.

Here in Exodus, we not only read
about blood but also yeast.

Yeast, a picture of sin, had
to be removed from the houses.

If the Israelites didn’t do this, they
would cut off even if they had the blood.

I want you to understand this message.

Many people think that the blood
of Jesus covers their sins.

But the blood couldn’t save them, if
there was leaven or yeast in their houses.

The blood couldn’t cover the yeast,
or sin. We need to understand this.

Jesus preached repentance
before He died on the cross.

We don’t start with the cross
and the blood.

We need to start with repentance
and then put our faith in the blood.

Some people think that they can put their
faith in the blood without repentance.

I’ll come back to that later.
This is extremely important.

So, they slaughtered the Passover lamb.

They put the blood on the door frame.
Death passed over.

Yeast had to be removed from the house
first. That’s what they did.

We don’t just keep the Passover; we also
keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

Both are connected. Exodus 12: “Celebrate
the Festival of Unleavened Bread,

because it was on this very day that
I brought your divisions out of Egypt.

Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance
for the generations to come.

In the first month, you are to eat
bread made without yeast,

from the evening of the fourteenth day

until the evening of
the twenty-first day.

For seven days, no yeast is to
be found in your houses.

And anyone, whether foreigner
or native-born,

who eats anything with yeast in it must
be cut off from the community of Israel.”

They were also cut off from the promise.
“Eat nothing made with yeast.

Wherever you live,
you must eat unleavened bread.”

These are all shadows or pictures
pointing to Christ.

I also mentioned this in Lesson 1-3.

“Obey these instructions as a lasting
ordinance for you and your descendants.

When you enter the land that the LORD
will give you as he promised,

observe this ceremony.

And when your children ask you,
“What does this ceremony mean to you?”

then tell them, “It is the
Passover sacrifice to the LORD,

who passed over the houses
of the Israelites in Egypt

and spared our homes when
he struck down the Egyptians.”

So, this is an everlasting
ordinance or ceremony.

It’s also for us, although today
it has a new meaning.

I’ll talk about that later.

Now, let’s read about the tenth plague,
the death of the firstborn.

“At midnight the LORD struck down
all the firstborn in Egypt,

from the firstborn of Pharaoh,
who sat on the throne,

to the firstborn of the prisoner,
who was in the dungeon,

and the firstborn of all
the livestock as well.

Pharaoh and all his officials and all
the Egyptians got up during the night,

and there was loud wailing in Egypt,

for there was not a house
without someone dead.

During the night, Pharaoh summoned
Moses and Aaron and said,

“Up! Leave my people,
you and the Israelites!

Go, worship the LORD
as you have requested.

Take your flocks and herds,
as you have said, and go.

And also bless me.” Next,
we read about the Exodus.

The Israelites didn’t leave Egypt
empty-handed:

“The LORD had made the Egyptians
favourably disposed toward the people,

and they gave them what they asked for;
so they plundered the Egyptians.”

This is very interesting.
God had promised to Abraham in detail,

that this would happen
after 400 years of slavery.

God had prophesied what would happen.

Genesis 15: “But I will punish
the nation they serve as slaves,

and afterward they will come out
with great possessions.” I love it.

God's in control. This happened
after 400 years of slavery.

God prophesied this before
Abraham had one child.

One thing He had said was this:

When the people left, they would
come out with great possessions.

They did so in the middle of the night,
taking the unleavened bread with them.

They left Egypt as God had said.
Then they came to the Red Sea.

Please read it all. The Egyptians
followed them to the Red Sea.

Pharaoh had decided to send
the whole army after them.

The Israelites were trapped
at the Red Sea.

Exodus 14: “Then Moses stretched out
his hand over the sea,

and all that night the LORD drove
the sea back with a strong east wind

and turned it into dry land.

The waters were divided and the Israelites
went through the sea on dry ground”

What happened when the
Egyptians pursued them?

The water came over the Egyptians
and they were drowned.

This is part of the story.
Were the Israelites saved? Yes.

What were they saved from?
They were saved from Egypt.

In Lesson 3, we saw that the church
is called out. This relates to Noah too.

Why did God send the flood?

To save Noah and his family
from a wicked perverse generation.

Also, the Israelites were saved
out of Egypt.

They weren’t destroyed together with
Egypt. Now, we’re saved from Babylon.

We’re called out from this world.
The Israelites were saved in the Red Sea.

How? They were saved from
the people who had enslaved them.

The old life is gone. We don’t need
to look back over our shoulder.

We don’t need to worry about the
old life taking us back again.

After the Israelites were saved from
Egypt, the Egyptians came after them.

So the Israelites needed to be saved
again, this time from the Egyptians.

Of course, this is a picture of
the baptism that saves us.

Saving us from our old life of slavery
to sin and death.

So now we no longer need to look
over our shoulder. It works like this.

The one who sins becomes a slave to sin.

Let’s look at the gospel cards again:
This person has become a slave to sin.

He loves sin. He has a stony heart.

But through repentance and faith
God will take out that stony heart.

He’ll give us a new heart of flesh.

Now this person’s heart’s
desires is to do right.

But the body is still a
slave to sin and death.

So, what must we do with
that body? We need to bury it.

We need to go down in the water.

What happens when we
come out on the other side?

The body of sin and death, the old life.

That which enslaved us will not come
out of the water.

It is drowned in the water.
So, this is a really beautiful picture:

In water baptism, we are saved
from the body of sin and death.

Now, we can live a new life.

But it’s not enough
to be saved out of Egypt.

There the body of sin and death
is drowned in the Red Sea.

That is not the end or
goal of the journey.

It's the start line, not the finish line.

We shouldn’t think that
everything has been completed now:

“One day, we’ll die and go to
heaven. We prayed the prayer.

We repented and got baptized.
We got born again. It's done now.”

No. Most who were saved got their
names blotted out of the book of life.

Many did not enter.
The journey had only started.

After they came through
the Red Sea, they celebrated:

“Yes! Come on!” We have
a good reason to celebrate.

After the Israelites passed through the
Red Sea, they sang the song of Moses.

We should celebrate.
We’re thankful for our salvation.

But we need to continue living this life.
We read how God guided the Israelites.

Exodus 13: “By day the LORD went
ahead of them in a pillar of cloud

to guide them on their way and by night
in a pillar of fire to give them light”

So, this was the next stage
of their journey:

From the Red Sea to the Promised Land.

God guided them throughout in
a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire.

If only they’d just followed God and
done what God had told them.

If only, they’d had the fear of God.

If only they’d believed that God
could lead them from start to finish.

If only they’d all had
the heart of Caleb.

They’d have entered
into the promised land.

The way they were being saved
is the same way for us today.

Remember, this all points to Christ.

What did the early disciples,
including Peter and Paul, do?

They preached Christ out
of the scriptures. What scriptures?

What we call the Old Testament,
was their Scriptures.

The salvation and the exodus
points to our Exodus today.

Let's recap: How did they get saved?
The same way we get saved today.

Firstly, Unleavened Bread: Repentance.

Remove the leaven/yeast from your
life. The yeast is a picture of sin.

It is important to understand that
the blood did not cover the leaven.

Today, the blood of Jesus
doesn’t cover our sins.

Repent and place your faith in
the blood. Remember this:

They preached repentance
before the cross.

At that time, there was no
blood of the new covenant.

But repentance prepared
their hearts for the blood.

Repentance is the first thing we do.
Then, we put our faith in the blood.

Secondly, the Blood of the Lamb:
Christ, the Cross, our Passover Lamb.

Forgiveness of sins is only possible
through the shedding of blood.

Repent first, and then put your
faith in the blood. But don't stop there.

Thirdly, baptism: The Israelites
passed through the Red Sea.

The Egyptian army drowned. The Israelites
left their old life behind in Egypt.

Likewise, we must bury our old selves
in the baptismal waters.

By doing this, we die to
this world and to sin.

Fourthly: Walk by the Pillar
of Cloud and Fire:

After the baptism in water, we need
the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

We need to learn to walk by the Spirit.
This is where our journey begins.

The Holy Spirit leads us through the
wilderness toward the Promised Land.

Now is a good time to take a break.

Then we’ll continue focussing on the
unleavened bread and the Passover Lamb.

We’ll focus more on the New Testament.

Then, you’ll see how this is all
connected. See you after the break.

[Music]

We’re back again. Let’s continue
by focusing on the New Testament.

We'll look at Jesus, communion,
the Passover and different things.

I hope that this will challenge you.

The problem is, we’ve taken things
out of context.

We believe in God’s grace.
But what does that mean?

We believe that we aren’t saved
by works. But what does it mean?

We believe that we can’t earn
salvation. But what do we mean?

We believe that we need faith,
repentance and water baptism.

Many believe that we need water baptism.

But what is their understanding of it?

Remember, the early disciples preached
Christ out of the Old Testament.

That was the context. But people today
preach out of a different context.

We need to take
those religious glasses off.

We need to be willing to
understand it in a new context.

Then it’ll become extremely clear.

You’ll see that now, as we’ll read about
the Passover in the New Testament.

Mark 14: “On the first day of
the Festival of Unleavened Bread,

when it was customary
to sacrifice the Passover lamb,

Jesus’ disciples asked him,

“Where do you want us to go and make
preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

So, during the Passover,
Jesus took the cup and said,

“This is the blood of the New
Covenant.” When is the Passover?

At the same time as the
Festival of Unleavened Bread.

Those two are connected.
Not only was the Passover lamb slain:

They also kept the Festival
of Unleavened Bread.

Both are connected. Here we see that
the Passover is our communion today.

“So he sent two of his disciples,
telling them,

“Go into the city, and a man
carrying a jar of water will meet you.

Follow him. Say to the owner
of the house he enters,

“The Teacher asks:
Where is my guest room,

where I may eat the Passover
with my disciples?”

Jesus celebrated the Passover.

He also instituted communion, the
Lord’s supper. Jesus changed the picture.

He said things that had never been
said before in connection with this.

The Passover was no longer about
the blood of the lamb.

The Israelites knew about that. Now,
this is Jesus’ blood of the New Covenant.

Why did He change it?

Because Jesus is the Passover Lamb,
who was slain for us.

So, this is an everlasting ordinance.

It was to be celebrated year after year
on the same day of the year.

The covenants in the Bible
point to Christ.

Circumcision in the Abrahamic covenant
points to our water baptism.

Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb.

“This is my blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many,”

he said to them.

“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again
from the fruit of the vine

until that day when I drink it anew
in the kingdom of God.”

We often forget something
about the disciples.

They took the communion
(the Lord's supper) with Christ.

They had been walking with Jesus.

They had celebrated the Passover
with Him before.

It was an everlasting ordinance,
that the Israelites kept.

But this time, Jesus changed it.

It was the last time He would keep
it during this evil age.

One day, He’ll drink the wine again
with His disciples in the kingdom of God.

One day, Jesus will return.

His saints will share Passover, communion,
with Him again in God’s kingdom.

It's really beautiful,
when we understand it.

We should take communion
in this knowledge:

Right now, Christ is in heaven,
sitting at God's right hand.

He is not with us, in the flesh.

But one day, His victorious saints will
sit and eat with him in His Kingdom.

Hallelujah! Communion is so much
more than what we think.

Jesus is the Passover Lamb.
Look at John 6:

“This is the bread which
came down from heaven;

not as your fathers did eat
manna, and are dead:

he that eateth of this bread
shall live for ever.”

In the desert, the Israelites were
eating manna, bread from heaven.

Jesus is the bread which
came down from heaven.

They ate but most of them didn’t
enter. We eat and will hopefully enter.

Communion is so much more
than what many have thought.

Let’s continue. 1 Corinthians 11:

“For I received from the Lord
what I also passed on to you:

The Lord Jesus, on the night
he was betrayed, took bread,

and when he had given
thanks, he broke it”

That is unleavened bread.
"and said, “This is my body.”

Jesus is the bread that came down
from heaven. We should eat this.

This is not the same as the
Roman Catholic doctrine.

They believe bread and wine physically
becomes the body and blood of Christ.

But there is a spiritual application.
These things have life in them.

Baptism and communion are both
important. Baptism happens once.

Communion is something that is repeated,
through which we keep the life in us.

Did Jesus say, “Do this in remembrance
of what God did in the Exodus?” No.

Until that day, the Passover was kept to
remember how God saved Israel from Egypt.

God had commanded them to
do that, year after year.

The children asked,
“Why do we do this?” –

“Because we need to remember
how God judged the gods of Egypt.

God saved us out of Egypt.”
But Jesus changed it.

Now, he said: “Do it
in remembrance of me.”

So we don’t only remember Exodus,
we also look back to the cross.

Exodus is a picture that
foreshadows the cross.

When we see this,
the picture gets bigger and fuller.

Jesus said: “Do this in remembrance
of me.” Later he also said,

“This cup is the new covenant
in my blood;

do this, whenever you drink it,
in remembrance of me.

For whenever you eat this
bread and drink this cup,

you proclaim the Lord's
death until he comes.”

So we take communion, focussing on the
day we’ll eat with Jesus in God’s kingdom.

We’ll continue to do this
until He comes back.

It points back to the cross, and forward
to the Christ’s return in the future.

There is a teaching here about communion,
being as important as baptism.

I made it about six years ago,
as part of the Pioneer School.

There is a link together with this video,
to Lesson 28, focussing on communion.

You can watch it if you want to look at
communion more. Past, Present and Future.

We have the Passover.

This became the first day of
the first month for the Israelites.

Then we have Jesus, our Passover Lamb.

That becomes the first day of
the first month for us (the new birth).

So, we see like that Israel
and the church are connected.

Communion is not only connected
with the Exodus and the Passover Lamb.

But we also do it in remembrance
of JESUS, our Passover Lamb.

We do this until that day He comes again.
On that day, we will be with Him.

We’ll drink the new wine with Him
in the God’s Kingdom in the New Jerusalem.

This is beautiful. But we need to make
sure that we’ll enter the Kingdom.

Only those who are truly born again
will. Jesus said that.

Many people take communion, but
will not enter. They are not born again.

They don’t understand the gospel.

Let’s focus here on the response
to the gospel: Repentance and Faith.

First, they were told to get the
yeast out of their homes.

Then they slaughtered and
ate the Passover Lamb.

They'd already put the blood
on the doorposts.

This is also the beginning of our Exodus.

We repent from our sins (yeast).

Then we put our faith in Jesus,
our Passover Lamb.

If there's no repentance,
the blood will have no effect.

Here’s an example from the New Testament:

How are yeast and sin connected?
Sexual immorality defiles the church.

Paul wrote about this 1 Corinthians 5.
Notice the words he uses:

“It is actually reported that there
is sexual immorality among you,

and of a kind that even pagans
do not tolerate:

A man is sleeping with
his father's wife.”

Sadly, there was sin in the
church as there is today.

“And you are proud! Shouldn't you
rather have gone into mourning

and have put out of your fellowship
the man who has been doing this?”

There’s hardly any
church discipline today.

People live in sin, in the church,
and there’s no church discipline.

But Paul was very strict. A person in
the fellowship was living in sexual sin.

The people were proud.
They should have put him out.

Paul continued: “hand this man over to
Satan for the destruction of the flesh,

so that his spirit may be
saved the day of the Lord.”

Paul told them to give him time to truly
repent and understand what he had done.

“Your boasting is not good.

Don't you know that a little yeast
leavens the whole batch of dough?”

Why did Paul write this? He was
writing about sin in the church.

The people shouldn’t allow
the sin to continue.

Paul then talked about yeast.
I used to be a baker.

I know about yeast and
how it works in bread.

You just need a little yeast,
some salt and sugar.

Don't put the salt
directly on the yeast.

The water will come
out of the yeast. It'll die.

I know about the salt, sugar, heat
and temperature, and how it works.

I know all about yeast. I did a report
years ago as a baker.

It was actually one of the best grades
I ever received. Yeast is like a person.

It is 75% water. It has a brain.
Yeast is very interesting.

A small bit of yeast will fill the
whole lump of dough.

Why are we talking about yeast?
Because, it's a biblical picture of sin.

In Exodus, the Israelites had to get
yeast out of their houses.

Then they had to apply the blood. Paul
continues: “Get rid of the old yeast”.

Does that mean that that we, the church,
should only eat bread without yeast?

No. Paul didn’t write about physical
bread here. This is about sin.

Get rid of the sin. Put off that old life.
I talked about that in Lesson 3.

Put on the new life.
Get rid of the sin,

“so that you may be a new unleavened
batch - as you really are.

For Christ, our Passover Lamb,
had been sacrificed.”

Get rid of the yeast, or sin. Why?
Because Christ is our Passover lamb:

“Therefore let us keep the Festival,

not with the old bread leavened
with malice and wickedness,

but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth.”

So, we need to keep the festival,
understanding what it means.

We keep it in such a way that we remove
sin from our lives. Notice this:

Get rid of the old yeast, so that you
may be a new unleavened batch.

Get rid of the yeast.

Because Christ, our Passover Lamb,
has been sacrificed.

How are we saved from this world?
Just like the Israelites were saved:

Through the Passover, the unleavened
bread and the blood of the Lamb.

That is repentance and faith.
But there was more. Baptism to Christ:

They were baptized into Moses
in the Red Sea and in the cloud.

In the Red Sea, they were set free
from the Egyptians.

Likewise, we are baptized into Christ.

There, we're set free from the body
of sin and death.

We bury the old life once and for all.
Baptism comes after repentance and faith.

This marks the beginning of the journey.

But many people in churches have been
baptized without repentance or faith.

So, those are not real baptisms.
They’re just pool parties.

There's no life or transformation there.

You can’t bury that old body if
it’s not crucified.

You can’t be baptized
if you’ve not left Egypt.

If you're still in Egypt, you can’t
go through the Red Sea like that.

First, you have to come out of Egypt.
Then, you can go through the Red Sea.

Then the journey starts. Why do we
need to re-baptize so many people?

Because they didn't understand it the
first time. But there are two baptisms:

Just as the Israelites were baptized
in the Red Sea and in the cloud.

Paul wrote about this in
1 Corinthians 10:

“They were all baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.”

They were not only baptized into
Moses in the sea, but also in the cloud.

Likewise, we not only need to be baptized
in water but also in the Spirit.

What cloud? The spirit of God.

Throughout the Old Testament, we read
that God came in the form of a cloud.

Exodus 40: “Then the cloud
covered the tent of meeting,

and the glory of the Lord
filled the tabernacle.

Moses could not enter the tent of meeting
because the cloud had settled on it,

and the glory of the LORD
filled the tabernacle.”

The cloud is the Spirit.
We now receive the new birth.

Many believers need to get baptized
correctly and receive the Holy Spirit.

Let’s read this in Acts 19.
Paul came to Ephesus:

“There he found some
disciples and asked them,

“Did you receive the Holy Spirit
when you believed?”

"No, we don't know
about the Holy Spirit."

So Paul asked, “Then, what baptism
did you receive?”

“John’s baptism,” they replied.”
Then Paul explained these things to them.

“On hearing this, they were baptized
in the name of the Lord Jesus.

When Paul placed his hands on them,
the Holy Spirit came on them,

and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.”
This is the same for us today.

Make sure not only to listen to teaching
about the kingdom of God.

To get the full understanding is
not enough. We need that.

But even more, we need to enter
the kingdom of God.

Many of us have preached a
different gospel in the churches.

In the book of Acts, when did people get
baptized? Immediately after they repented.

But people don’t do that today.
Why don't we baptize people immediately?

Because we don't preach the
same gospel as the early disciples did.

If we preached the right gospel,
we would do the same as they did.

But some people say, “Yeah.
Let's baptize people right away!”

But they forget about the
Festival of Unleavened Bread.

They forget that repentance
and baptism are connected.

Then the baptism becomes something else.

This is the Gospel according to Exodus.

The early disciples preached
this response to the gospel.

We should also preach it today.

We need to repent and put our
faith in the blood of Christ.

We need to be baptized in water
and with the Holy Spirit.

Then, we need to continue to follow
the Spirit through the wilderness.

We journey toward our destination,
the Promised Land.

It’s not enough to be saved out.
We need to enter in.

I really hope this teaching will help us
to understand and preach the gospel.

I also hope that it’ll help us to
set our minds on the race.

We’ll also strike a blow to our bodies.

Then, after we’ve preached to others,
we won’t be disqualified.

We won’t be boxers beating the air.
We’ll go into strict training.

Why? Because we’re going to run
the race and get the crown.

That should be our attitude. So,
what have we looked at in Lesson 4:

The gospel according to Exodus.
I’ll finish with this.

We’ve been focussing on the cross.
It all points to the cross.

The cross is the sacrifice of
our Passover Lamb.

What does the cross represent?

The cross represents death,
burial and resurrection.

Now, we need to die to sin.
Bury that old dead life.

Christ was raised by the Holy Spirit.

Likewise, we need to be raised up
to a new life.

The death, the burial
and the resurrection.

Paul used the same words in Romans 6:

“Or don’t you know that all of us
who were baptized into Christ Jesus

were baptized into his death?”
There’s the word ‘death’.

“We were therefore buried” ‘Burial.’ “with
him through baptism into death in order

that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father,

we too may live a new life.” Here is the
death, burial and resurrection.

Paul continues: “For we know that our
old self was crucified with him”

Here is the crucifixion, death,
burial and resurrection.

It’s all about the cross:
Jesus died - we die to sin.

He was buried -
we bury the body of flesh.

He rose again - we receive the Holy
Spirit and are raised up to new life.

We should preach how
Peter preached in Acts 2:

“Repent and be baptized,
every one of you,

in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins.”

Get the yeast out of your house.

Here we see the Passover lamb, the
death, the cross and the Red Sea.

“And you will receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit”

We are following this pillar of cloud.

God is guiding us through the
wilderness toward the promised land.

We need a heart and a different
Spirit as Caleb did.

“The promise is for you and your
children and for all who are far off

– for all whom the Lord
our God will call.”

How do we survive in the wilderness?

We eat manna and we drink of
the rock that follows us.

That rock is Christ. This is the only way
we can survive the wilderness.

We eat the body of Christ and we drink
the blood. This is our communion.

It's not physical blood. It’s the life,
we have in Him.

We do this in remembrance of
Him and our Exodus.

What will happen if we stay faithful?

One day we won't continue taking
communion to remember Him.

Instead, we’ll sit and have communion
with him in God’s kingdom.

We take communion today to remember
Him, until the day He will return.

He didn’t simply die, get buried, rise
again and disappear somewhere.

No, after His resurrection
He ascended to heaven.

He’s now sitting at God's right hand.

He’ll return soon and bring salvation
to those who are waiting for Him.

That’s the message from Lesson 4.
Let's bring it to a close:

The Gospel in the Old Testament. Moses.
The unleavened bread: get the yeast out.

Passover Lamb. Blood. Baptism into
Moses in the sea and the cloud.

Keeping Passover in remembrance of
how they were saved out of Egypt.

Goal: Promised land. That points to
a new understanding in Christ.

The gospel in the New Testament.
Jesus. Repent and get sin out.

Our Passover Lamb, the blood of Jesus.

Baptized into Christ and
with the Holy Spirit.

Keeping the Passover in
remembrance of Him;

He is the one who saves us out of Egypt
– we are called out of Babylon.

Goal: The Promised land.
The new heaven and new earth.

New bodies. The New Jerusalem.
This is what I wanted to share.

We take up our cross:
We die to sin and repent.

We bury the body of sin in
our burial/baptism in water.

We receive the Holy Spirit,
which raises us up to a new life.

We continue walking by the Spirit
toward our reward when Christ returns.

We will drink it anew with Him in
God’s kingdom.

You can find all the lessons and notes,
and download the slides here:

torbensondergaard.com/kingdom
or thelastreformation.com/kingdom.

You can also get my book: ‘412 days’.
There, I wrote more about my journey.

May this year be a new beginning for
you. May it be a fruitful year.

May you really understand the gospel and
also enter the kingdom on that day.

Thank you for watching this lesson.
I look forward to see you next time.

Please type questions in the comments
section under this lesson.

God, I thank You for everyone
who watches this lesson.

I pray that You will bring revelation,
God. Open their eyes to this, God.

God, let this bring true
repentance to people's lives.

Let everyone examine themselves.

Help them see if they have yeast, sin, in
their life that they need to get rid of.

God, help us keep the Passover
in the right way.

Help us understand the blood of Jesus.

Help us understand that we need
to get sin out of our life

- then the blood can have an effect.

Help people to understand that salvation
is not just about starting the journey.

We need to finish the journey, God.

I pray for those who haven’t truly
buried their old lives in the water.

Those that haven't received the
Holy Spirit. May they receive it.

God, come with Your Holy Spirit.

Help us, God, to fully understand
the Gospel of Kingdom.

Help us to enter that Kingdom one day.

Jesus, we want to be with You one day and
drink the wine anew in God’s Kingdom.

We want to have the same heart
as Caleb so we can enter.

Come with Your Holy Spirit.
Help us to be strong.

Speak to us, God. In the name of Jesus,
we thank You. Amen. See you next time.