Preaching Outlines for Exodus 12

Sermon 1: The Sign of the Blood
Exodus 12:1-13

God gave guidelines in regard to four facets of the Passover.

I. The Selection: Selecting the Lamb (1-5)

Commands Recording the lamb.
1. Schedule (1-3)
2. Specification (4)
3. Superiority (5)

II. The Slaughter: Slaying the Sacrifice (6-7)

III. The Supper: Serving the Meal (8-11)

IV. The Salvation: Saving the Family (12-13)
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. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt (verse 13).

1 Corinthians 5:7-8 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (NKJV).

Sermon 2: Celebrating the Faithfulness of God
Exodus 12:14-51
The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

I. The Celebration of the Passover (14-28)

II. The Catastrophe in Egypt (29-30)

III. The Concession of Pharaoh (31-33)

IV. The Compliance of the People (34-36)

V. The Caravan of the Israelites (37-39)

VI. The Commemoration of the Departure (40-42)

VII. The Constraints for the Feast (43-51)