NO CONDEMNATION : YOU ARE NOT TO BE BLAMED PT 2
By Rev. Michael Benson Ajayi
1 Cor 5:7 KJV ” Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye
may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is
sacrificed for us”
The Passover lamb
was an offering dedicated to God as a memorial of the night the Israelites were
delivered from the angel of death while in the land of their captivity (Exodus
12:1-20) the lord appointed that on the night of their exit from Egypt ,each of
their families should kill a lamb, or that two or three families, if they were
small, should join for a lamb. They had four days to prepare the lamb and that
afternoon they were to kill it as a sacrifice not upon an altar, but as a
religious ceremony, acknowledging God's mercy, delivering them by the plagues
inflicted on the Egyptians.
The lamb so slain was to be to eaten, roasted
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, because they were to eat it in haste and
there were not to have leftovers; for God would have them to depend upon him
for their daily bread and not to take thought for the morrow. He was to be
their sole source of sustenance. .
Before eating the
flesh of the lamb, they were to sprinkle the blood upon the doorposts, thus
distinguishing their houses from the houses of the Egyptians, and so their
first-born secured from the sword of the angel of death, who was mandated to
slay all the first-born both of man and beast, and judgment executed upon the
principalities of Egypt( Num 33:4, Ex 18:11)
For the protection of Israel from this plague
they were commanded to sprinkle the blood of the lamb upon the door-posts, a symbol
of submission to divine authority and faith to God. The blood of sprinkling upon the doorpost which
is also demonstrated through the holy communion bread and wine is the born
again Christian’s security in times of common calamity; it marks them for God,
pacifies the conscience, and gives them boldness of access to the throne of
grace, and is the wall of protection round them and a wall of separation between
them and the rest of the world.
The feast of unleavened bread was to be
annually observed as a feast of the Lord in their generations. There was much
of the gospel in this ordinance. The paschal lamb is a type of Christ our
Passover, 1 Cor 5:7 He is the Lamb of God (John 1:29 ) Christ offered up
himself in the midst of his days as a lamb without spot (1 Peter 1:19.) The
judge that condemned him pronounced him innocent.
Reminiscent of the Jewish Passover offering,
Christ was crucified at the Passover, and He entered into Jerusalem four days
before, the very day that the paschal lamb was set apart. God placed His wrath
upon Him which is likened to a burning fire and Christ took away our curses and
became our curse–breaker (Ga.3:13) that’s why you don’t need to attend curse
breaking program. You are immune to curses by design.
The
blood was sprinkled on the lintel and not the threshold to avoid trampling on
the blood and making light of the redemption offering of Christ upon the soul
of the born again Christian. The blood, was a means of the preservation of the
Israelites from the destroying angel, similarly the blood of Christ sprinkled
upon our consciences, is our protection from the wrath of God, the curse of the
law, and the damnation of hell, Rom 8:1 AMP “THEREFORE, [there is] now no
condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus,
who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates
of the Spirit. The scriptures also says
in John 3:18 AMP
“He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on
Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him
there is no rejection, no condemnation — he incurs no damnation]; but he who
does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has
already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has
not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is
condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.”
As you read this now receive cover from calamity through the
blood of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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