Exodus 12:21-51, Luke 15, Job 30, 1 Corinthians 16
The blood on the doorpost didn't just signal the release of the Israelites from 400 years of slavery but also a new tradition that pointed towards their redeemer. This mentally ingrained in the Israelites mind that guilty people deserve death and the only way to be delivered from that sentence is if an innocent lamb dies. A millennium and a half later, Paul writes to the Corinthian Church that Jesus (our passover lamb) was sacrificed for us, inaugurating a new covenant (1 Corinthians 5:7, 11:25). This took place on the festival of the passover, as if this new covenant connects the old with that to which it points; the death of our saviour. As his blood was spilled for us, God passes over those who are secured by Jesus blood.
Lord, thank you that the ramifications of sin no longer lay hold me back from eternal fellowship of sin. Help me grow in appreciation and genuine love for what you are and what you did, what a high cost to pay!
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