Thursday, June 13, 2013
"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month to they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:"Exodus 12:2-3
Passover is also the day that Jesus would have entered Jerusalem 2000 years ago. Four days before Passover, the children of Israel would choose a lamb for the Passover sacrifice. Each man would take a lamb for his household. Four days were required to inspect the animal to make sure it was perfect and without blemish.
Can you imagine having a lamb at home for four days -- the children feeding it, petting it, perhaps even naming it -- only to know that it would have to die soon?
We also have a Lamb to choose today. Jesus, our perfect Passover Lamb who is without blemish. Some of us reading this today have already chosen Him. Some may have forgotten of our choice, others may be undecided.
Brothers & Sisters, as the scripture says, today is the day of salvation; those who have chosen Jesus remember His great work of atonement which brought us out of bondage from sin. This was a supernatural deliverance just as it was for the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. The Passover lamb, brought into the houses of the Israelites, became dear to them because of its precious innocence and because its death invoked the memory of the first Passover when the lamb's blood literally saved their lives from the Angel of Death. Our perfect Lamb, so dear to us, will do the same for all who receive Him; since the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Amen.
CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE!
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