Christ Our Passover By Rev. John McNeill A Notable Sermon by the Great Scotch Preacher our 1sei!n^on section we aim to give the best sermons we can secure of those being preached from Sunday to Sunday, and also the best that we can -secure of sermons preaced in former years. .The sermon of this month was preached by Rev. John McNeill in Chicago, during the Columbian Exposition. Mr. Moody carried on a very extensive evangelistic campaign in all parts of the city during the World’s^ fair of 1893. He brought preachers to Chicago from all parts of the world. Many services were held every day, in theatres, halls, and temporary buildings. On one Sunday there were 132,000 people in attendance upon the services held tinder the auspices o f the Moody Bible Institute in different parts of the city. Of all the fPea™rs j • wer£ brought to Chicago during this campaign, probably none, except Mr* Moody himself, had so large and so favorable a hearing as Rev. John McNeill of Scotland. Crowds followed him from one part of the city to the other. Dr. Torrey presided on the night in which this sermon was preached in a large tabernacle on the west side, and could watch from the platform the great effect the sermon had upon those who heard-it. It contains the simple gospel, stated with remarkable clearness and force. ,
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ring to this very type, “ Christ our passover is slain for us.” “Therefore,” he goes on to say, “let us keep the feast.” Christ our passover is slain for us, and in that great blood-shedding is all our, salvation: “ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness o f sins, according to the riches o f His grace.” In Him we have shelter from a doom compared with which the. judgment that fell upon Egypt that night was a local, temporary, and small matter indeed. In Him .we have a salvation which is not only, so to speak, from night till morning, but all through time’s night till the eternal morning breaks —a salvation o f which we get the begin nings here through faith ip the blood of the Passover Lamb, but of which we shall sing through all efernity in the very words given-t& us in Revelation, “ To Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, be glory.” The Lamb, then, is all the glory o f this Old Testament deliv erance, and He is all the glory o f the New Testament Church.
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and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch o f hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin; and none o f you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning .”—Exodus 12 : 21 - 22 . I wish you to bear in mind all that comes before and all that comes after, but mainly to fasten your thoughts upon this particular 22nd verse, as being the hinge round which the whole o f this wonderful story o f that night in Egypt is made to swing; and I should also like to take just one word from the lips of Paul in the New Testa ment, in order to connect this whole nar rative with Gospel teaching, with Gospel doctrine and illustration. Paul gives us a headline for all that we have got tp say or think about this old story o f that night in Egypt when he says in^the first Corinth ians, Sth chapter, and the 7th verse, refer
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