Exodus 4:23; 7:14-25

Exodus 8:1-32

Exodus 9:1-35

Exodus 10:1-29

Exodus 11:1-10; Acts 8:32

Exodus 12:1-5,13,23,27
John 1:29

Our Passover Lamb

March 20-March 26

Father God,
Thank you for loving me and taking care of me. Bless my church, Pastor Ron and
his family. Bless my teachers for teaching me Your Word. I believe your love is
flowing through me to other people. Help me to obey my parents so things will go
well with me and I will live a long life on the earth. I will tell how great You are and
how much I love You. I thank You that by Jesus stripes I am healed.
In Jesus name, Amen

The Cross frees me from the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 5:7
I will never hunger or thirst because Jesus is the Bread of Life.
John 6:35
I am set apart to do the work of my heavenly Father.
Exodus 28:41

Jesus is our Passover Lamb.

I Corinthians 5:7, ...Christ has been offered up for us. He is our

Passover Lamb.

Passover is a day when Jewish people celebrate by remembering

something special God did for them a long time ago. The very first
Passover gives us many clues to understand how God laid out a plan
for our salvation from sin before the foundations of the earth. This
plan is sometimes called the Scarlet Cord that runs from Genesis to
Revelations. The people of God, called the Israelites, had been slaves
in Egypt for 430 years when at last God made a way to set them free.
God told them to kill a perfect, innocent lamb and then smear its
blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they belonged
to God. Our mighty God had already sent nine plagues to the land of
Egypt. He had tried to soften the heart of Pharaoh, and get him to
let the Israelites go free. Over and over, Pharaoh refused to release
the Israelites. God had one final plague or warning for Pharaoh. If he
did not let Gods people leave to find freedom to worship God, then
the first born child in every home would die on this night.
Each of the homes which were marked with the blood of the lamb
would not be touched by death; death would pass over their homes.
The lambs the Israelites used to mark their doorposts were called
sacrifice lambs. These little lambs are symbols of Jesus who came
hundreds of years later. Just like these lambs, Jesus was perfect. The
sacrifice lamb had no sin, but the sins of the family were passed onto
the lamb just like our sins were passed onto Jesus. The lamb was
innocent and didnt deserve to die; Jesus, too, was innocent. The lamb
shed its blood as payment for the familys sins; Jesus shed His own
blood and died for our sins. As Christians we are marked in our
hearts with the blood of Jesus, our Passover Lamb, whose death on
the Cross frees us from the power of sin.