Jesus, our Passover Lamb

Jesus, our Passover Lamb

            As we draw close to Easter, Resurrection Sunday, I think more and more about what this day means.  In the book of Exodus, the blood of the lamb put down a cover that the death angel couldn’t go through.  The slain lamb was eaten by the people and brought forth a miracle service that healed every man, woman and child among the Hebrew people Psalms 105:37 AMP.  I believe if there was enough power in the blood of a lamb in Egypt, there must be at the very least that much power in the body and blood of our lamb, Jesus.  Paul talks about Jesus in I Cor 11 AMP concerning communion.  Because we don’t rightly discern the Lord’s body, many in the church are weak, many sick, and many have died early.  We look mostly at the man that died that day and we deal mostly in the sense realm and not the spirit realm.  We saw the man that suffered and died, but sometimes we don’t discern why.

            The Lamb didn’t do the people in Egypt any good without dying and using the life in that blood to turn back the death that was coming.  The flesh of that lamb gave strength and healing for the journey to the Promised Land.

            Our promise has come in the way of the cross and Jesus being raised from the dead for us.  Without Him being raised from the dead, the whole thing would have been for nothing.  His virgin birth, His earth walk, all the miracles and all the marvelous things He told us in His word, would have all been in vain if the Father couldn’t raise Him back up.

            Many people today say that there are many roads to heaven and they try to be politically correct in what they say.  Jesus didn’t say I am A way, he said I am THE way.  When He was in the garden and prayed, “Father, if there is any other way, let this cup pass from me”.  Don’t you think if there was another way, the Father would have found it right then?

            By the blood of our Passover Lamb, the destroyer still has to pass over us.  If we put our faith in His blood, the power of the blood still works.

            One of the main things we need to begin to look at in our own lives is, do we really believe what the Lamb of God has done for us?

            One of the things we major on with Jesus is the forgiveness of our sins.  I wonder if we stop to think about what this means?  God said in Isaiah 59:1-2 AMP, our iniquities have separated us from Him and our sins have caused Him to hide His face from us.  Remember when Jesus became sin on the cross, He said, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me”?  After the resurrection, the sin no longer separated us.  All that the Father wanted to do but couldn’t because of the separation, He can, now that the sin is out of the way.  He can move on our behalf and now can live in us instead of the Ark of the Covenant.

            The sin now is out of the way and now that it is, He is free also.  God had to restrain Himself and was brokenhearted because He had to stand apart from us because of sin, but no more.  That was the biggest think in the heart of God when He forgave the sin.  Because we are not separated, but have actually become one with Him, now we are (by the blood of Jesus) made righteous in Him.  Nothing He has is to be held back.  That is why the forgiveness of our sin was so important to Him.  Don’t look at the forgiveness of sin as the end of the sacrifice, but the beginning.

            No more sin to separate, no more sin to come between us, no more sin to make Him have to turn His face from us.  Now we have access by faith in the blood to draw near to Him and the confidence we are received.

            Who so ever the Son frees is free indeed.