Jesus Our Passover Lamb

Jesus Our Passover Lamb

Welcome to our Easter Sunday time of worship. If you are visiting today, please fill out a blue card located in the back of the pews in the auditorium, and please turn it in at the Welcome Center in the foyer. We’d love to get to know you soon.

While we hope that every Sunday is significant in its own way, there is something just a little extra special about worshipping together on Easter. While we don’t really know when Jesus was born, we do know that he was crucified during Passover, and Passover is a time that’s easy to track each year. Just this past Wednesday night at sundown, Passover began.

Stretching back over three thousand years, Passover continues to be an annual time of celebratory remembrance of the night God crushed the strength of Pharoah and spared the lives of the Israelite faithful. It took place on the evening of the tenth and final plague that God used to punish the idolatrous Egyptians, and it marked the beginning of a journey of freedom that took the children of Israel out of slavery and toward the Promised Land. 

When Jesus died for us, he functioned as our Passover lamb. He was without blemish—innocent of sin of any kind. And yet he willingly suffered and died so that we could be free from sin and guilt. His death paid a price that we could not pay, and his resurrection pioneered a path that we still follow today that leads us to the Father. Those are clear reasons to be thankful and rejoice, and I hope we do that this morning. There’s also a lesson there for the way we should think about our time when we celebrate Communion (the Lord’s Supper) each week, but I’ll save that for another day. In the meantime, let’s enjoy this special day of worship together.

— Patrick Barber

Passover can be found starting in Exodus 12:21