Passover: Christ Died for our Sins (Lev. 23: 4-5)

10/25/2008 8:54 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                    Focus:  Passover:  Christ died for our sins

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference: Leviticus 23:4-5

          Message of the verses:  “4 ¶  ‘These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.  5  ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover.”

            The Passover story is told in Exodus twelve, and it is the story of the firstborn of Israel beings saved from death through the blood of the lamb that they had slain and then applied that blood on the doorposts of their houses so that the death angle would see the blood and thus pass over their house and not kill the firstborn who lived there.

            The story of the Passover is a story of Jesus Christ’s death for sinners, for a sinner can be saved because Jesus Christ is their substitute who died in their place when He died on the cross some 2000 years ago.  Paul says in 1 Cor. 5:7b “For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.”  Jesus Christ died at the same time that the Passover lambs were slain.  I have been told that this was at three o’clock in the afternoon.  It is through the blood of Jesus Christ that a person is saved and thus becomes righteous in the sight of God. 

            The Passover lamb was a perfect sacrifice and so Jesus Christ was perfect in that there was no sin found in Him for when He was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary He had no earthy father, but was conceived by the Holy Spirit and therefore did not have the sin of Adam passed on to Him.  There was no sin found in Him, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him,” (2 Cor 5:21). This truth can also be seen in 1 John 3:5, and 1 Peter 2:22. 

            The Passover lamb was brought into the house of the children of Israel on the tenth of the month and then slain on the fourteenth of the month, therefore the lamb stayed with the family for those four days before it was slain.  When that first Passover lambs were slain the children of Israel fed on them, which is a picture of the child of God feeding on the Word of God to give them the Spiritual strength to get through each day.  No outsider could feed on the lamb, and one has to be born again into the family of God in order to feed on the Word of God and to be able to understand it.  The men children of Israel had to have the mark of the covenant in order to feed on the lamb, and the NT believers have to have the Holy Spirit in their hearts, which is given to them when they are born into the family of God by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior and Lord.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I can say that this section of Scripture has been a great reminder of what it was that Jesus Christ did for me in order for me to become a child of God, and what it is that the Holy Spirit is doing for me each day as He guides me and also gives me understanding to understand the Word of God, in order to give me the Spiritual strength to get through each day of my life.  He takes the Truth of God’s Word and causes me to understand it and thus apply it to my life in the situations that I need at that time.  Truth, faith, and love are all needed in order to live the Christian life in a way that is pleasing to the Lord. 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. Praise the Lord for the fact that He is my Passover Lamb.
2. Continue to learn from the Truth of God’s Word in order to apply it to my life in situations that God brings into my life and when I do this the Lord will give me the grace to get me through each situation that I face in this journey on planet earth.

Memory verses for the week:                                              Exodus 20:13-16

13.    You shall not murder.

14.    You shall not commit adultery.

15.    You shall not steal.

16.    You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17.    You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

10/25/2008 9:45 AM