Our Passover Lamb - 04/06/08am

Our Passover Lamb

A portion of why we have the Old Testament still with us and for us is that it provides foreshadowing. We can look at the Old Testament and see a glimmer of what was to come with the New Covenant And of course, we look back to the Old Testament to help us understand the New Testament. Many of the concepts found in the New are found in the Old: often with the new covenant focusing on the spiritual side of the concept, and the old focusing on the physical.
Hebrews 8:5 -Tabernacle/temple a shadow of what’s in heaven
Hebrews 10:1 -The Old Law was shadow of what was to come
Colossians 2:16-17 -OT holidays were a shadow of the reality of Christ

I would like to take some time today to examine one of the celebrations in the Old Covenant that found it’s reality and fulfillment in Christ.

Exodus 11:1-10 -God promises the plague on the firstborn
-God makes a clear separation between those who do and do not follow Him
Exodus 12:1-30 -The Passover is instituted
-The Israelites must obey to be passed over
-If you were the firstborn, would you have put just a little blood on the doorframe, or lots? Would they have been eager to obey, or hesitant?
-The Israelites were saved by the blood of a sacrificed, and eaten, lamb
-The lamb was to be an unblemished 1 year old males (taking the place of firstborn males)
-The bones of the lamb were not to be broken (Exodus 12:46)
-God kept His promise, and destroyed the firstborn of Egypt

John 19:16-37 -The crucifixion of Christ
-If you remember, the time for this was the feast of unleavened bread, as described in Exodus.
-Christ was or sacrifice for us, and the fulfillment of the Passover.
He was an unblemished lamb (I Peter 1:18-21)
His bones were not broken (John 19:36)
Through His blood we are passed over for death
(Romans 5:9, I John 1:7)
The result is freedom from bondage (John 8:31-38, Rev 1:5)
We must partake of the Passover lamb, as the Israelites were to partake of the Passover lamb (John 6:51-58)


Christ is the fulfillment of the Passover. He was the ultimate sacrifice. As our Passover Lamb, He took our place in death. For the sins we are guilty of, He offered Himself, so that we could be passed over in the final day, and not suffer the second death. Through His sacrifice, we have opportunity to have life everlasting.
-Much as the Passover and feast of unleavened bread were to be remembered, so it is with Christ’s sacrifice for us (Mark 14:12-26)
Just as they were to remember, we are to remember (Acts 20:7)

Anytime we sin, we make the sacrifice of Christ, our Passover, of no account. We try to make it meaningless by those sins.
Hebrews 6:4-6 -Through sin, we crucify Christ again

So the question is, are we crucifying Christ again? Have we made His death of no account? Do we ignore His sacrifice for our sins?