Our Passover
‘“‘ Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” — I Cor. v.
HAT was a terrible night when the last of the ten plagues fell upon Pharaoh and his land. How would you have felt if you had been one of the firstborn, and had heard Moses proclaim that about midnight the Lord would go out (Exod. xi. +), and all the firstborn in Egypt should die! Would you not have made haste to ask if there was not some way to escape being smitten? And would you not have been very glad and comforted to hear that there was a way by which you might be quite safe? It seemed a very strange way. A lamb was to be killed and eaten that evening, and the blood was to be sprinkled on the doorposts. And God said: “When I see the blood I will pass over you” (Exod. xii. — ). People might have said: “‘ But we don’t understand! wy shall we be safe inside when the blood is sprinkled?” Their not understanding did not matter at all; God had said it, and that was enough. Those that believed His word and took shelter under it were safe from the Destroyer; but as for all the Egyptians who had no blood sprinkled, ‘‘ there was not a house where there was not one dead.”
God does not say now, “the firstborn shall die,” but He says, ‘‘the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezek. xviii. ). And have not you and I sinned? But Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. So He says, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh ’ away the sin of the world” (John i. ). By His own blood (Heb. ix. )) aspotea lamb (1 Pet. i. ), He has obtained redemption and salvation for us. Nothing else can wash away our sins (Heb. ix. 3 REV: iB ), so nothing else could save us. This holy Lamb of God.has been slain; that was done long ago, and now we have only to take shelter under His precious blood, believing what God says about it, and we are safe. We do not have to wait till we can quite understand about it, and God does not wait for ws to see; but He says, “when f see the blood I will pass over you.” No destroyer shall touch the soul that believes God’s word about Jesus and His precious blood, and takes shelter under that.