The Israelites had to choose to participate in the Passover. And that required choosing to think according to God’s instructions through Moses rather than according to their past conditioning. Today we deal with a world that is constantly trying to condition our minds to think in opposition to God. But as divine beings created by God, we are not our minds, and we can determine that our thinking will be according to His instructions for our lives.

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Show Notes:

At the Passover every family and every individual in Israel was instructed by Moses to put the blood of a lamb on the doorpost of their homes. Those who did escaped the judgment on the firstborn and walked out of Israel a free people. There are many things to say about this great deliverance. But this podcast focuses on one point: keeping the Passover was a choice. It was not a law. Everyone had to choose whether to do what Moses said or not. Even when the Law came, it was still their choice to walk in it or not.

Essentially, the Israelites had to choose how to think. They had to wrestle with their own thoughts to make the choice of putting the lamb’s blood on their doorposts that night. They could probably think of many reasons why not to do it. At the time they were still suffering under the whip of the taskmaster. Their people had four hundred thirty years of never seeing God move. Now they had to control their minds to choose the promise of deliverance through Moses. Their need to do that continued. All their failings in the wilderness were because they did not control their thoughts to follow the Lord.

It is the same for us in our walk with God. We choose what we allow our minds to think. This is the battle that is going on now. People in our world are letting their minds be controlled by speculations that are opposed to the will of God. But the weapons of our warfare are divinely powerful for the destruction of this fortress of speculations. And we continue to take every thought captive in obedience to Christ. We are the ones who renew our own minds and bring our own thoughts into alignment with who we are as eternal beings created in God for His purpose in the earth.

Key Verses:

• Exodus 12:3–4. “According to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.”
• Exodus 12:13. “When I see the blood I will pass over you.”
• Exodus 12:18–20. “Whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off.”
• Hebrews 11:28. “By faith he kept the Passover.”
• Deuteronomy 30:19–20. “Choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.”
• Joshua 24:15. “Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve.”
• 1 Kings 18:21. “How long will you hesitate between two opinions?”
• 2 Corinthians 10:4–5. “We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”
• Philippians 4:8–9. “If there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.”
• Romans 12:1–3. “Think so as to have sound judgment.”
• Romans 10:6–10. “With the heart a person believes … and with the mouth he confesses.”

Quotes:

• “Our deliverance, our release, is a simple experience of faith that we choose to participate in.”
• “We are divine beings having a human experience. And so nothing about our humanity do we want in charge and controlling how we’re living and what we’re doing.”
• “I choose to do what the knowledge of God is telling me to do because that is my salvation, that is my deliverance, that is my release, and that is what we should be doing as God’s people. We should be absolutely, positively focused on every Word that God has given us.”

Takeaways:

1. The Passover was a choice the Israelites made as individuals, as families, and with their neighbors.
2. Their deliverance at Passover and their life in the wilderness required continually choosing how to think.
3. Choice is essentially choosing how we will think—what we allow our minds to do.
4. We choose to renew our minds and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

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