Your Personal Passover by Mayada Naami

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?” (Mark 14:12, NIV)

Passover began last night and is a week-long celebration commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the destructive plague that struck Egypt and killed their firstborn. God instructed the Israelites to mark their houses with the blood of the lamb so that they would be spared.

“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.” (Exodus 12:12-13, NIV)

This past weekend, at the Gateway Dallas Campus, one of the campus pastors said to “remember your personal Passover.” Remember the moment you accepted Jesus as the precious Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). Celebrate that moment when His blood was placed on the door of your home to protect you from destruction and to free you from bondage. His precious blood was shed so that those who believe in Him shall never perish (John 10:28).

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect (1 Peter 1:18-19, NIV).

Throughout the Old Testament the sacrifice of lambs played a very important role in the Jewish religious life for the atonement of sins. The prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah foretold the coming of the One who would be brought “like a lamb led to the slaughter” (Jeremiah 11:19; Isaiah 53:7). When Jesus, in the Bible, is referred to as the Lamb of God, it is referring to Him as the perfect and final sacrifice for our sin. Those who choose to believe are covered by His blood and protected from the angel of spiritual death.

Do you remember your personal Passover when you placed the blood of Jesus on the door to your home to signify that you are covered by His blood?

Lord, thank you for shedding your blood on the cross for my sins. Your body and blood made a way for us. Thank you for the eternal gift of salvation.

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