For centuries, God’s chosen people have celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the first day being the more commonly known ‘Passover’ and also known as The Last Supper.

At that first Passover, the children of Israel were commanded by God to kill an unblemished lamb and take the blood from the lamb and put it on the doorposts of their home.  The blood was a sign for God’s spirit to ‘pass over’ the homes with blood-stained doorposts and the first born males in that house would be spared from death.

The exile and freedom from the Israelites out of Egypt is celebrated during this week, but what significance does all of this have for us today?

It is no coincidence that Jesus is crucified on Passover  – the very same time they were sacrificing unblemished lambs at the temple.  God was saying to the world, “ It’s done.  This is the Lamb of God and no more sacrifices are needed.  The blood of my son has become that which will cover the sins of the people from this day forward.”

Jesus Christ became the final sacrifice for our sins.  All we had to do was to believe.  Believe who He said He was and repent from our sins.

Can salvation really be that easy?

It wasn’t so easy for Christ to provide such a gift.  Undoubtedly writhing in pain as he hung there on the cross, He took on the sins of the world as His father turned His face away.  Imagine the isolation, the loneliness, the darkness.  He could have saved himself, but He didn’t.  Instead, He chose to save us.

He created a New Testament type of Passover.  If we believe He is the Son of God and died for our sins, that belief becomes the blood spread on the doorposts of our life and death no longer has a hold on us.  When God looks at us on Judgment Day, it won’t be me He sees, but the blood of His son, which covers me.  No gimmicks, no bucket full of works to save me – just grace found at the foot of the cross.

I don’t know about you, but that fills me with a hope and an excitement of things to come.  So, this week, remember the perfect Lamb.    The One who set you free from death when He allowed himself to become your sacrifice – if you just believe.