This week we’re preparing ourselves for the remembrance of Good Friday and the Celebration of Easter Sunday. With this in mind, we will turn our attention to a very important part of the story of Jesus, His sacrificial death on the Cross.

Jesus’ death was the fulfillment of the Old Testament event called the Passover. As God was getting ready to release His people from Egyptian slavery, He executed a final plague against the Egyptians. It was the death of the firstborns. In Exodus 12:1-13 we see God’s instructions to the Israelites. On the night the death angel was to pass through the land of Egypt, God’s people were told to take the blood of a sacrificed lamb and paint in on the doorframe of their houses. The promise was clear. God said, “When I see the blood, I will passover over you, and the death angel will not touch you.”

The blood of the lamb had power! Jesus came as our Passover Lamb, and His blood has power today. It marks us different from the world. When the blood was placed on the doorposts of the Hebrew homes, their homes looked different than the Egyptian homes. Their homes were marked by the blood. Is your life, your home marked by the blood?

Pastor Dale