This Passover season, Rabbi Kirt Schneider is calling believers to stop looking back—and start charging into the future with confidence in the power of God’s deliverance.
“Is your past holding you back?” Rabbi Schneider asks in his message titled Passover – Charge Into a New Season. “Sometimes we don’t understand how what we’ve been through in the past is causing us to be ineffective today.”
Drawing from the story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt, Rabbi Schneider emphasized the miraculous power of God to set His people free, not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally too.
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“Our God, who’s a personal God, who has a name, Yahweh… is in the ministry of delivering people from their past,” he said. Referencing Exodus 14, he reminded listeners, “The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.”
But Schneider made it clear that faith isn’t passive.
“Why do you keep crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward,” he read from Scripture. “So you might be asking God for help with something, but there comes a time where you need to take a step forward… believing He’s going to do something as you go forward.”
He underscored that the Exodus moment was not just a dramatic historical event—it was a picture of what God wants to do in the lives of believers today.
“God delivers and sets free completely,” Schneider declared. “Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians… not even one of them remained.”
The opportune connection to Passover couldn’t be clearer. “Jewish people all over the world celebrate this story and tell this story every year… we consider the greatest part of the Passover the retelling of this story right here—how God delivers His people and delivers us today through… the blood of the Lamb.”
Rabbi Schneider also sang a paraphrase of the Song of Moses, declaring: “I will sing unto the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and rider thrown into the sea… The Lord my God, my strength, my song, has also become my salvation.”
He concluded the message with a personal encouragement to everyone carrying burdens from the past. “I want to encourage you today to stop accepting your past as a present reality,” Schneider said. “Let’s not let Satan’s lies cling to us… You’re destined for glory. Keep putting one foot in front of the other in the Lord.”
And as he closed the program, he left viewers with a timely reminder: “Chag Sameach. That’s Hebrew for happy holiday. And it is a time, it’s a season to be happy because Passover is about freedom and deliverance.”
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James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
