Once again in today's passage, we see God intervening on behalf of His people. Through Moses, God asks the people to slay a Lamb, eat the lamb and take some of its blood and put it on the top and the sides of the doorframes of their homes. This way, when the Lord would come to bring death to the Egyptians, He would see the blood, pass over and spare all the lives in that house! The blood distinguished between those who would live and those who wouldn’t. However in order for the blood to be placed on the doorpost, the death of a Lamb was required. This takes on greater significance when Jesus becomes our Passover (1 Cor. 5:7)
Questions to Consider
1. What would have happened to the Jewish family if they
failed to obey Moses’ instruction to put the blood of a Lamb
without blemish on the top and side of their doorposts?
2. Paul reminds us as Christians (1Cor. 11:22-25) that we are to
celebrate communion in remembrance of who and what?
3. The blood on the doorpost had the potential to save a nation,
Prayer:
Give thanks to God for His provision of Jesus’ blood to cleanse you from sin and to make you wholly (holy) ready to inherit eternal life!
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I was struck as I read the passage of the Passover, obviously by God’s great deliverance for us. That God out of his great mercy and grace, God continues to redeem his people. Something else though that I thought about as I read was the issue with the yeast. They were to make the dough without yeast and if any yeast is found they are to be cut off from the community. Ouch!!! That makes God seem rather harsh doesn’t it, I mean just because of yeast you are to be excluded from the community. That’s the problem with what we have done with our faith, the world wants to make God solely a loving God. They often forget that God is one of justice. Yeast is often symbolic of sin and God is Holy! God will not allow sin to enter into his eternal kingdom. Only by the cleansing of our sins through the blood of Christ are we able to pass through the gate of heaven. God does not want sin in our lives and will not tolerate, so of course God makes a declaration that seems harsh to us. Let’s remind ourselves though God made us not the other way around. I don’t make the rules, God does, I simply break them. So we need to ask ourselves this question if God hates sin so much and is willing for a person to be excluded from the community…Do we hate sin enough to exclude it from our lives or do we tolerate it, therefore allowing sin to work back into our lives?
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