If you have swept your house and cleaned out the leaven, searching for sin and purging it from your life. If you have chosen a perfect lamb and nourished and treated it as a member of the family for four days, now you’re expected to do the hardest thing…..sacrifice this perfect animal.
Because they were farmers and raised their own meat and grains and vegetables they would have known how to do this, cutting the carotid artery along with the nerve in close proximity, so that not only was the death quick, but virtually painless as well.
But, still, it is a death. However, it is the only thing different about the Passover lamb versus the true Passover lamb, Jesus Christ. Whereas the Passover lamb was treated kindly and gently, Jesus was subject to mocking, beating and whipping before not a quick, painless, death; but one of intense and drug out agony.
Jesus chose to do this and was comforted by angels as He prepared His mind and body for the excruciating ordeal that was to come. We get to receive the benefits of His determination and should be eternally grateful for the fact that He willingly chose to do this for us.
But, in fact, too many times we don’t consider His agony when making choices and we, to our shame, crucify the Son of God afresh (Heb 6:6). We bring shame to Christ when we willingly, and repeatedly, sin again and again with the same thing. Accept the power of the Holy Spirit, treat sin like a red hot stove not to be touched lest it leaves us disfigured.
Christ endured for us. Can we please endure for Him?
Pastor Brent