The Passover Lamb: Redemption, Remembrance, and Communion

Praying longer won't remove the guilt nor will spiritual sacrifices or good deeds. The Lord doesn't say this, when I see your good works I will pass over you. We can only escape really the judgment of God through the blood of His Son. Of course we can't literally apply His blood to our heart when we receive the benefits of His sacrifice through faith. That blood once applied as our permanent means of access is a God's presence in this life and heaven in the next. [01:04:34] (37 seconds)  #OnlyByChristsBlood

The application of blood would make a distinction between Israel and Egypt. This distinction wouldn't be taken for granted because the Israelites would suffer the same fate as the Egyptian if they didn't obey what Moses had commanded. Blood was to be sprinkled above the door and on both sides to the post. Only the blood on the door would save them. A locked door won't keep the angel of death from entering. Pleading ignorance or some other reasonable excuse wouldn't spare them. [00:48:21] (39 seconds)  #MarkedByTheBlood

Christ is your Passover. And Jesus accomplished what the sacrificial lambs of the Old Testament only picture. He took away our sin, and he still takes away sin. And the only way you can be free from the shackles that bind you is to trust him for the forgiveness of your sins. If you're already a child of God, just as the Israelites would never forget what God had done for them, We we too must never forget what Christ has done for us. [01:08:16] (35 seconds)  #ChristOurPassover

So why this standard? Because the outward perfection of the lamb is a picture really of the inward perfection of our savior. The apostle Paul wrote in first Corinthians five, 21 that Christ knew no sin. And in Hebrews four fifteen, for we do not have a high priest unable to empathize with our weakness since in every respect he was tempted just as we are. And the only difference being that he did not sin. [00:39:49] (43 seconds)  #SinlessSavior

Those who had the blood on the door weren't partly saved and partly exposed to judgment. In fact, it wasn't even their estimation of the worth of the blood that mattered. The value God placed on it was all that really mattered. Perhaps some families may have been sensitive that they thought fresh blood was kinda disgusting. They probably preferred a more practical form of religion, like maybe prayers or or how about generosity or how about my good deeds? [00:49:48] (44 seconds)  #WorthOfTheBlood

And this list might have been tacked to the door reminding the angel that they were too good to be judged, but the firstborn would still have been killed. No substitutes for the blood were accepted. And today, millions a mere Christ, but they won't be saved. To esteem Christ as a mighty teacher and an example of love won't keep us from God's judgment. God had spoken, and and blood on the door was all that mattered. [00:50:32] (52 seconds)  #NoSubstituteForBlood

Christ had a level of holiness that couldn't be seen by the human eye. He wasn't just sinless, but he had the positive quality of righteousness that only belongs to God. And as the son of God, he was just as perfect and as righteous as his father. And this explains why we need his righteousness really to be accepted by God. And we become the righteousness of God in him, Paul tells us in second Corinthians five. [00:42:18] (34 seconds)  #RighteousInChrist

They couldn't see the blessing that was ahead of them, but thankfully, they couldn't see the trials either. And we can't control the events really in our life, can we? But it's only too obvious that our future is in the hands of someone else. It only makes sense to trust a God to whom tomorrow isn't a surprise. We're called to be pilgrims, folks, not tourists. Our focus is our destination, which is in heaven with our savior, our lord Jesus Christ. [01:02:03] (40 seconds)  #PilgrimsNotTourists