The Old Testament reading is Exodus chapter 12, verses 1 through 28. And this is God’s inerrant and infallible word. Exodus 12, 1 through 28. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, this month shall be for you the beginning of months.

It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the 10th day of this month, every man shall take a lamb according to their father’s houses A lamb for a household, and if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons. According to what each can eat, you shall make your count for the lamb.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male, a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lentil of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire.

With unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning. Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

In this manner you shall eat it, with your belt fastened your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand and you shall eat it in haste for it is the Lord’s Passover for I will pass through the land of Egypt that night and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and beast and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments I am the Lord the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are and when I see the blood I will pass over you and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt this day shall be for you a memorial day and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations as a statute forever you shall keep it as a feast seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses for if anyone eats what is leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days, but what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a statute forever.

In the first month, From the 14th day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the month at evening. For seven days, no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native in the land. You shall eat nothing leavened.

In all your dwelling places, you shall eat unleavened bread. Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe this right as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, what do you mean by this service?

You shall say, it is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover. For he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, but spared our houses. and the people bowed their heads and worshipped. Then the people of Israel went and did so.

As the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

You can keep your place there and turn with me to the New Testament for our New Testament reading, 1 Corinthians 5, verses 6 through 8. 1 Corinthians 5, verses 6 through 8. The best Old Testament commentary is the New Testament.

And in this passage, the inspired Apostle Paul tells us the significance of the Passover lamb, that it was a type of the coming Christ who would be sacrificed for us. So 1 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 6 through 8. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

You may turn back to Exodus chapter 12, the last Lord’s Day, In our look at the book of Exodus, we consider the 10 plagues as a whole or a unit. And this morning and next Sunday, Lord willing, we’ll give our attention, we’ll zero in on this 10th and final plague. Of course, this was the plague of the death of the firstborn in the land of Egypt. And so today and next week, we’ll focus on all the events surrounding this 10th and final plague.

And this morning our focus will be on the Passover, the Passover. So the word Passover actually refers to a couple of different things in this passage. First of all, it refers to the Lord’s going through the land of Egypt on that night and killing all the firstborn of the families of the Egyptians and killing all the firstborn of the livestock of the Egyptians. Of course, that is the tenth plague and instead of killing the firstborn of the Israelite families, when the Lord saw that there was the blood of the Lamb smeared on the doorposts and the lentils of their houses, he passed over that house and the destroying angel did not kill the firstborn in that home. And so the Passover refers both to that judgment against the Egyptians and to the salvation of the Israelite firstborn by the blood of the Lamb. But the Passover also refers to the celebration of that event, the ritual celebration that the Israelites were to have every single year. It was an annual commemoration of what God had done for them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

And so in our passage in chapter 12, we see a description of both aspects of the Passover. both the actual event itself, when the Lord passed through the land of Egypt, but Passover, the Israelite homes, and the institution of that annual celebration, that ritual meal that the Israelites were to have each year. So the night of the first Passover, this was the great work of God’s salvation for His people in the Old Testament. Someone has described the Exodus event as the gospel of the Old Testament.

This is what the Israelites looked to when they praised God for their salvation. In particular, this last plague, this Passover, when the Lord destroyed the firstborn of the Egyptians and brought his people safely out of the land of Egypt. That was the night when they were truly set free from the bondage to Pharaoh. And as we look at the details of this passage, both of what it tells us about that Passover event itself and the ritual meal that the Lord describes for us in this passage, we’ll see that this passage sheds light upon the far greater salvation, the far greater work of redemption that God has done for us in His Son Jesus Christ.

And so as we look at this passage, we’ll see what light it sheds for understanding that that greater work of deliverance that God has accomplished for us. And as we proceed this morning, we’ll consider three major parts of the Passover. We won’t be able to explore all of the rich symbolism of everything that’s described for us in this passage, but we’ll consider three parts of the passage or the Passover.

First, the lamb. Secondly, the shed blood of the lamb. And thirdly, the holy meal. And so first, let’s consider the lamb, the lamb that was to be sacrificed.

After the ninth plague, which was the plague of darkness, the Lord said to Moses that there was yet one more plague. And he said that this final plague would be the one that would at last force Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go. In chapter 11, verse 1, the Lord says, when he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. And so this will be the plague that will finally break the back of Pharaoh and the Egyptians.

This will be the one that is too much. Not only will they let the people go, but they will force them from the land. They will drive them away. And what is it that made this plague, unlike the earlier ones, so awful, so terrible, that Pharaoh would finally let the people go?

It was in this, that this plague, unlike the previous ones, this plague would bring death, would bring death on a large scale to the people of Egypt. In chapter 11 verses 4 through 6, Moses says to the people, thus says the Lord, about midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die. From the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

And so this plague will bring such devastation, such sorrow, such destruction upon the people of Egypt that finally they will let the people go. Every single firstborn will be destroyed. They’ll all be struck down dead in one night. Think of all the people you know who are firstborn.

They would all be dead. I myself, I would be dead. Robin’s not a firstborn, so you would still have her, so you have that consolation. But think about it.

Every family has someone in it who was the firstborn, and they would be struck down. And just like some of the earlier plagues, this final plague would strike only the Egyptians. The Israelites would be spared. However, unlike the earlier plagues in which the Lord spared the people of Israel from that plague.

In this particular plague, the Israelites would have to do something. The Lord calls them to take part, in a sense, in what He is doing in order that they may do something that He commands them in order to be saved from this plague. And what they would do is that they would sacrifice a lamb, they would smear the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and the lentils of their houses. The lintel, in case you’re not familiar with that term, that’s the frame that’s above the doorway.

And so the three parts of the frame of the doorway would be smeared with blood, the two doorposts and the lintel. And so when the Lord went out through the land of Egypt, he would see the lamb’s blood on the lintel and the doorposts of a house, and he would not allow the destroyer, probably an angel in the Lord’s service or perhaps the Lord himself, But the Lord would not strike down the firstborn in that home. And at the beginning of chapter 12, the Lord gives detailed instructions to Moses and Aaron about the lamb that they are to sacrifice and how they are to go about sacrificing this lamb.

And the most outstanding feature, the most significant feature of this lamb that was to be sacrificed was that it was to be a perfect specimen. There was to be no blemish on it, it was to have no defect. Chapter 12, verse 5, your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

And of course we know, as we have already heard from God’s own inspired commentary from 1 Corinthians, that this Passover lamb was a type, it was a picture of the coming Messiah, the coming Christ, who would be sacrificed for our salvation. John the Baptist, of course, understood this because when he saw Jesus, he said, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And just as the Passover Lamb had to be without blemish, had to be perfect, so too Christ, the Lamb of God, had to be without sin. And so he was.

Jesus was true man and yet by virtue of the fact that he was true God he was the incarnation of the Son of God by virtue of that and by virtue of the fact that Jesus as man was conceived not by man but by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary because of those things unlike every other human being who has ever lived Jesus was throughout his life entirely free from sin. He was morally pure. He was perfectly righteous.

Without even so much as a hint or shadow of imperfection, morally or spiritually, he was perfectly righteous. I mean, think about that. That’s something that’s almost impossible for our minds to truly grasp because in our own experience We have lived with sin in ourselves, we live with others who are sinners, this is all that we know from experience and yet here was a man, here was a human being whose every word, whose every action, whose every desire of his heart, whose every inclination of his heart was nothing but perfectly righteous and pure and holy.

He was truly a lamb without blemish. And part of the wonder of the gospel is that when God looks upon you as one who belongs to Christ by faith, because God has given you that righteousness of Jesus as your very own, when he looks at you As you are covered with Christ, He does not see your sin, your guilt, your impurity, and moral blemishes, but what He sees is the perfect righteousness of His Son, Jesus Christ. He sees you as you are in Christ, without blemish, holy, undefiled, innocent, unstained, morally, spiritually pure, even as Jesus is pure.

That Passover lamb without blemish was not only a picture of Jesus who would be without blemish, but also it was showing us that we in Christ would be without blemish as well. And so that is the lamb.

Let’s consider secondly, the blood of the lamb, the lamb’s blood that was shed. Once the Israelites had their lambs chosen on the night of the Passover, they were to slaughter the lamb and they The blood would be collected in a basin, and they were to take a bunch of hyssop.

A hyssop was a kind of shrub, and they would dip the hyssop into the blood in the basin, and then they would smear that blood on the doorposts and the lintels of their house. And so when the Lord went through the land of Egypt that night, He would see the blood of the lambs smeared on the doorposts of the Israelites’ houses, and He would pass over their homes. And the point of the blood was not because it was not that because blood is a bright red color that it would enable the Lord to see the blood on the house and to identify it as the house of an Israelite. The Lord didn’t need a visible mark to know that this particular house belonged to the Israelites.

But the point of the blood was to show that a death was necessary in order for the Israelites to be saved from this coming judgment of God. There had to be a death if they were to be spared the judgment of the death of their firstborn. And so the blood of the Lamb then in this way was indicating to the Israelites that their sin, their guilt could only be atoned for, they could only be forgiven, they could only escape the righteous judgment of God by the loss of life, by the shedding of blood. There had to be a life that was destroyed if they were to be saved.

Hebrews 9.22 says, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. And in this way, the Holy Spirit was indicating to the Israelites, and we see it clearly now in the light of the New Testament, that the Holy Spirit was showing forth by these types and shadows that the coming Messiah would bring them salvation. He would bring them salvation from the judgment of God by the shedding of blood, by the shedding of the blood of Christ himself. And of course, that’s just what Christ did when he came into the world.

He died for us. He died for sinners, for us. His blood was shed. And that’s why Paul calls Christ our Passover Lamb who has been sacrificed for us.

And notice that the only thing that saved the people of Israel from the destroyer who from the destroyer who brought death to the firstborn of every house of the Egyptians. The only thing that saved them was the blood of the lamb that was smeared on their doorposts. The Lord didn’t pass over the houses of the Israelites and then think, oh this house belongs to an Israelite family, I will pass over it simply because they are Israelites. No, the blood had to be there.

It wasn’t because the Israelites had better morals than the Egyptians, or that they were somehow less prone to idolatry. It wasn’t because they were inherently more righteous than the Egyptians. There was no reason in the Israelite people themselves, not even the fact that they were Israelites. that caused the Lord to pass over their homes on that night of the Passover.

But it was the blood. It was the blood that was shed by the Lamb and smeared on their doorposts. That was what caused the Lord to pass over their homes and spare them that judgment. And the same is true For you and me, as believers in Jesus Christ, what separates you and me from the world that is perishing in their sin is not anything that is inherently in us, such as our own superior morality or our righteousness or that we are wiser than others or better than others or even that we have grown up in a Christian family or grew up going to church.

The Bible is clear that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There is only one thing that separates you from the world that is perishing in sin. There is only one thing that saves you from your sin and guilt before God and that is the blood of Christ shed for you.

You are covered by His blood. That is the only thing by which we are saved. And so the blood of the Lamb taught the Israelites that if they are to be saved from the judgment of God, the blood had to be shed and they had to be covered with that blood. And so they were.

The third part of the Passover we’ll consider is this meal, the Passover meal, the Holy Meal. As you know, this week is the 4th of July. It’s coming up. And for our nation, the 4th of July is our Independence Day.

We celebrate as Americans the day that we proclaimed our independence from the tyranny of the King of England. And of course, we celebrate our Independence Day with fireworks. That’s our national tradition. People of Israel had their own Independence Day as well.

It was the night that they were set free at last from the tyranny of the king of Egypt. And God not only gave them salvation that day, but God also gave them the specific way in which they were to commemorate that salvation, the way in which they were to celebrate that salvation. It wasn’t with fireworks, but he gave them a holy meal, a meal that they were to repeat year after year after year to remember and give thanks to God for their deliverance. And every part of the meal would remind the Israelites of their experience in Egypt, their suffering, and of the salvation that the Lord worked for them.

The lamb of the blood would remind them of the blood that they smeared on their doorpost. The unleavened bread would remind them that they left Egypt in a great hurry that night. The bitter herbs would remind the Israelites of the bitterness of their suffering as slaves under Pharaoh. And so the Passover meal testified to the Israelites of what the Lord had done for them, what he had rescued them from in Egypt.

And the Lord wanted the Israelites to remember that year after year after year. That’s one thing that’s impressed upon us as we read this chapter, as we read this passage that God intended the Passover event and the whole exodus along with it to be remembered, to be celebrated, and to be remembered by his people from that time forth and far, far into the future. In knowing that, then, this explains kind of a curious feature about this passage.

And that is this, that right here, in the middle of the ten plagues, the exodus and all of that, right here in the midst of God’s dealings with Pharaoh and the Egyptians, He gives Moses, he gives the Israelites these detailed instructions about the yearly observance of the Passover. Starting in verse 14, the Lord gives instructions on how the Passover was to be prepared. He gives instructions about the Feast of Unleavened Bread, that week-long feast that followed the Passover, how it was to be observed year after year. And when you read it, it seems kind of out of place.

Later in Exodus, we’ll read about all kinds of ceremonial laws that the Lord gave to Moses, and of course, later in the Old Testament. There’s all kinds of ceremonial ritual laws that the Lord gave to Moses. But here are these instructions right in the middle, right at the peak of the Israelites about to be, you know, all that they’re experiencing in the ten plagues, and they’re about to be delivered from Egypt, and yet he gives them these instructions right here. We can almost imagine Moses saying something like, Can’t all these instructions wait until later?

We have our plate full right now. We just want to get out of here alive. But the Lord wanted to impress on his people in the strongest, strongest possible way that the salvation that he was about to accomplish for them that night, that they were to remember it as a people, that they were to commemorate it, that they were not to fail to celebrate the Passover with this Holy meal year after year after year.

And so the Lord instituted this ritual meal. So year after year, decade after decade, century after century, the people of God would celebrate the Passover just as it was dictated to them by the Lord through Moses. But the Passover meal was never meant to continue to the end of time. And that’s because it was not only a commemoration of what God did for his people in bringing them out of Egypt, but the Passover was also anticipatory.

It was looking forward to the greater work of salvation that the Lord had always planned to accomplish for his people through the coming Messiah, the Christ. And for that reason, then, it was at the Passover meal, when Jesus, on the last night, on this earth before his crucifixion. He was having that last supper, the Passover meal with his disciples. And he says to his disciples, after he picks up the cup, he says, this cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood, the new covenant in my blood.

From that point on, the saving grace of God for his people would no longer be mediated or shown forth through the blood of a lamb but from that point on there would be a greater sacrifice there would be greater blood that would be shed for the people of God by which God would bring salvation to his people there would be a greater covenant that God would enter into with his people and that is through his son Jesus Christ from that point on it would be the blood of Jesus the blood, the only blood that can truly take away our sin and our guilt forever. And so God, from that point on, with the coming of Christ, has entered into a greater covenant with us by the blood of his son Jesus.

And so as Christians then, as those who have been saved by the blood of Christ, as those who belong to this new covenant, we don’t celebrate the Passover meal. but we have entered into the reality of everything that that meal was pointing forward to with the coming of Christ but we do celebrate a ritual meal we do have a sacred meal that God has given to us and that is the Lord’s Supper that is the sacraments of the body and blood of Christ that saves us from our sins that we are to remember to celebrate as the people of God today one of the functions of the yearly remembrance of the Passover was that it was meant by God to confirm the Israelites in their identity as God’s people, to sustain them in that, that they were truly the people of God.

They were God’s chosen, beloved people. They were not like all the nations around them, but they were special. They belonged to the Lord. and this Passover ceremony even had built into itself a way in which this identity as the people of God would be passed on to future generations.

Moses instructed the people at this Passover meal in verses 26 and 27, When your children say to you, What do you mean by this service? You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover. For He passed over the houses of the people of Israel and Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians, but spared our houses. And so God gave the Israelites this yearly Passover feast, this holy meal, to shape them in their identity as the people of God, to confirm that they belong to the Lord, that they were saved by His grace, and to pass along that identity to future generations.

And the Lord’s Supper serves a similar purpose for us as the people of God today. It is a means, or one means, that God has given to us to remind us, to confirm to us who we are as believers in Christ, that we belong to Christ, that we are saved by the death of Christ, that we are the Lord’s, that we are not of this world, but that we belong to our Savior Jesus. And so God gives us the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper to confirm to us, to remind to us over and over and over again who we are, that we are the chosen, the beloved people of God whom he has saved through his son Jesus.

Another lesson that the Passover meal teaches us is about the nature of faith, of true saving faith in the Lord. The Israelites, they were saved from their bondage to Pharaoh by believing in the Lord, by entrusting themselves to Him, by believing His promises, we could say that they were saved by faith apart from works. That is very true. However, they demonstrated the genuineness of their faith and hope in the Lord by their obedience to His commandments.

Again, with this plague, The Lord gave the Israelites something that he required them to do. They were to kill this lamb, to smear the blood on their doorposts. And so they did this by faith. By faith they sacrificed the lamb, by faith they smeared the blood on their homes.

Hebrews 11.28 speaks of this faith. It speaks of Moses saying, by faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood so that the destroyer, the firstborn, might not touch them. The Israelites were given very detailed instructions that they were to obey regarding the Passover meal, right down to the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs that they were to eat with the lamb. And Moses tells us that the Israelites were obedient.

They did what the Lord commanded them. In verse 28 we read, Then the people of Israel went and did so. As the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. They went and did so, and that was by faith, by trusting in the Lord they went and did what the Lord commanded.

And so, again, the Israelites were saved entirely by the grace of God, but they received that salvation by a faith that was shown or a faith that produced or resulted in the fruits of obedience. Think of what would have happened had the Israelites presumed upon the grace of God, had they failed to do what the Lord told them to do. If they did not kill the Passover lamb, if they did not smear its blood on their doorposts, what would have happened? The Lord would have passed over Egypt, or passed through Egypt, and he would have destroyed the firstborn of the Israelites as well.

They would have suffered the same judgment of God that the Egyptians did. and in the very same way as a believer in Jesus Christ, your salvation is entirely by the grace of God. You have been saved by the sovereign work of Christ and his shedding his blood for you that you might be redeemed. And that salvation is yours as you put your faith, your trust, your hope in the Lord Jesus Christ as you rest in him as your savior.

But that faith in Christ that saves you is a faith by which you will also seek to obey the Word of God. And there are so many ways that God calls us to obey Him. He calls us to hear His Word, to hear the preaching of His Word, to take part in His worship with the people of God, to pray, to repent of sin. God gives us His holy commandments that we are to obey.

The faith of the Israelites was proved by their obedience to God’s Word, and by that faith they were saved, and your faith as well in Christ. You are justified by faith apart from works, but that faith is demonstrated, it is shown forth in obedience to the Word of God. Not perfect obedience, but a sincere obedience from the heart. And that is the nature of the faith that saves us, the faith in Christ that brings us salvation.

And so the Israelites in the Passover show us the true nature and character of the faith that brings salvation to us. It responds to the word of God with belief and obedience. Now at this time, if you happen to be in Egypt at this time, and if you asked a typical Israelite who was about to be saved from Egypt, if you were to ask him, what is it that you need to be saved from? That Israelite would look at you, probably, like you were asking the dumbest question in the world, and he would say, what do I need to be saved from?

Isn’t it obvious? We are in this miserable condition as slaves to Pharaoh. He is a despot. He is a tyrant.

He has murdered our children. He has made our lives intolerable. We need to be saved from Pharaoh and from this terrible situation that we’re in. And of course, mostly, he would be correct.

But when you think about it, the Israelites’ plight as slaves doesn’t really explain the Passover. If slavery was their biggest problem, then why the blood of the lamb? Why the killing of the lamb, the shedding of its blood? Why smearing the blood on the doorposts for the Lord to see?

In all of these things in the Passover were meant to teach the Israelites this lesson that though yes the Lord was about to deliver them from their bondage to Pharaoh, he was about to rescue them from their miserable slavery, he was going to show them good in doing that. However, their greatest problem, the greatest problem that the Israelites had was not their slavery to Pharaoh, but their slavery to sin. They needed redemption above all else, from sin, from guilt, from the judgment of God that was coming.

And this is the main lesson I want to leave with you today from this passage of Exodus. And that is, as a Christian, to be saved is to be saved from sin and death. As Christians, we naturally speak of salvation. I have been saved.

The Lord has saved me. Sometimes we need to ask, from what? From what have we been saved? And the answer is, we have been saved from the judgment of God that is ours by nature because of our sin.

And we need to hear that because just like the Israelites at that time, when we think about our lives and what we want salvation from, the first thing that often comes to our mind is that we want to be saved from whatever suffering or affliction or hardship or maybe even inconvenience that we are struggling with in this world. But just as the Israelites’ slavery and misery was awful and as horrible as it was, it was not the thing from which they needed salvation most of all. So what you and I need to be saved from above all else is not whatever affliction or hardship or suffering we might endure in this life, but our greatest and most urgent need is to be delivered from the tyranny of sin, to be saved from the judgment of God that comes as a result of sin.

We need to be made right with God, to be brought to God, to be delivered from the power of sin, from the guilt of sin. And when you come to see that, when you come to see that salvation that Christ came into the world to accomplish for us, You really see then the truth of the gospel and the wonder of the gospel and the glory of the gospel. And you see more clearly that it is good news.

It is the best news that we could possibly hear. That Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that he gave himself up for us all, that he willingly offered his body upon the cross to be broken, his blood to be shed, that our sin might be taken away, that we might be forgiven, that God in His wrath and His judgment might pass over us, that we might be covered by His blood. And this is the salvation that Christ came to give us.

This is why we praise God for His love, His mercy, His compassion, because He has forgiven our sins. He’s given us new life. and he has done this because he has given us the true Lamb of God, the true Passover Lamb, the one who takes away the sins of the world. Let’s pray.

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