I want you to open your Bible to the twelfth chapter of Exodus
as we meditate for a little bit on the great event of divine
deliverance of Israel from Egypt. It is not lost on any of us, I
don't think, that at the same time of the year that we are
celebrating the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and His
resurrection, the Jews are celebrating Passover. That is not
some quirk of the calendar or some coincidence. It is true that
our Lord Jesus Himself died as a Passover Lamb on a Passover
weekend at the very time that Passover lambs were being slain.
The death of Jesus Christ then falls on the calendar at Passover
season. But I'm not sure that everybody really understands the
connection, and it's an important connection for us to
understand because it fills in so much of the richness of the
celebration of the Lord's death which replaces the Passover
celebration. The basis of the hope of an Old Testament saint was
that God had saving power. The basis of the hope of an Old
Testament saint was that God could do mirac