Morning by Morning, April 15 - Our Passover Lamb and Resurrected Lord
Good morning, Lord Jesus. On this Good Friday, on this first day of Passover, on this year when these two days align, I look to You, Lord Jesus, our Passover Lamb and our Resurrected Lord. ...
“The next day (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who ranks ahead of me because He was before me.’ I myself did not know Him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that He might be revealed to Israel.’ And John testified, ‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him. I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.’ The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, ‘Look, here is the Lamb of God!’” (John 1:29-36)
Lamb of God, Resurrected Lord, You humbled Yourself from heaven to enter into our world -- conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, to be crucified, dead, and buried, and to be raised from the dead on the third day. All for us. That all of us could be forgiven and free -- free to now live our lives all for You.
On the first Passover, You called the Jewish people who were enslaved in Egypt to slaughter a lamb “without blemish” and apply the blood of the lamb to the doorposts and lintel of their houses, that the Angel of the Lord would pass over their home and their firstborn would not die during the judgment of the Lord against Pharaoh and the land of Egypt (Exodus 12:1-28).
You declared through Your servant Moses that this day of deliverance was to be remembered and celebrated forever:
“It is the Passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance” (Exodus 12:11-14).
That first Passover was as sign and symbol of our ultimate Passover, when You offered Yourself on the Cross as the Lamb without blemish, pouring out Your Blood for our sins that death would pass over our lives. Through Your Sacrifice of Love, You’ve delivered us out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light, out of the grip of death and into the embrace of life.
As You declared: “I Am the Resurrection and the Life. Those who believe in Me, even though they die, will live” (John 11:25).
You are the Lamb of God who has taken away the sin of the world. You are our Passover Lamb. You are our Resurrected Lord.
“For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
You died for us, that we might live for You. We were “bought with a price” -- by the Blood of Christ -- so that “(we) are not (our) own” any longer (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
By Your Sacrifice, we are forgiven and free, freely living for You by Your Spirit within us, declaring by faith and living by grace this truth according to Your will:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 NKJV).
Come live in me today and every day, by Your Resurrection Power, my Resurrected Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you remember and celebrate our Passover Lamb and Resurrected Lord, living in you as you live for Him, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
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