Christ Our Passover

 

I am sharing this post today because tonight is Passover.

The Passover is a holy day recalling how the Lord passed over all the Hebrew homes which had the blood of a lamb on their door posts. Death came to all the firstborn males in Egypt that did not have the blood covering upon their house.

Exodus 12:12 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

Exodus 12:13 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Just as a lamb was killed to save the firstborn males in the Hebrew homes, Jesus the Lamb of God was killed to save all those that apply His blood to their “house” (their body). We apply His blood by baptism in His name Jesus. Jesus is the Lamb of God. 

John 1:29 - The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Jesus is our Passover Lamb. He was crucified at the same hour the Passover lamb was killed.

1 Corinthians 5:7 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened [i. e. devoid of the leaven of iniquity, free from faults (Thayer's Greek Lexicon)] For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1Corinthians 5:8 - Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

How do we do that?

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Act 2:39 - For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.

By His Spirit, living a holy and overcoming life, walking daily in His Spirit. (Romans 8:1, Galatians 5:16).