Christ Our Passover, Slain For Us
April 18, 2025 · 1:42:44 · Watch on YouTube ↗
Summary
On the night before His death Jesus rose from the supper and washed His disciples' feet, leaving an example of humble, voluntary service (John 13). Even with the cross before Him, His concern was not for Himself but for those around Him, and He calls us to lift one another up just as He came to lift us out of our troubles and into fellowship with the Father.
Drawing on Exodus 12 and 1 Corinthians 5:7, the message recalls Israel's slavery in Egypt, the ten plagues, and the spotless lamb whose blood on the doorposts caused God's judgment to pass over His people. Jesus is that flawless Lamb (1 Peter 1:18-19); we are redeemed not by silver or gold but by His precious blood. Yet the blood must be applied personally - confessed with the mouth and believed in the heart.
The congregation then shares the bread and the cup, remembering His broken body and the new covenant in His blood (1 Corinthians 11). Because we eat from one loaf, we belong to God and to one another as His body. The service ends with a call to answer such love by giving Him our whole life - not half, but all of it - just as He set Himself apart for us (John 17:19).
Key Points
- Jesus washed His disciples' feet to show that true greatness is humble, voluntary service to one another.
- On Good Friday we mourn the cost of the cross while marveling at the mercy that spared us.
- Like the Passover lamb in Egypt, Christ is the spotless Lamb whose blood makes God's judgment pass over us.
- The blood must be applied personally: confess Christ with your mouth and believe in your heart.
- Communion is not condemnation but blessing - His body and blood living within us.
- Because we share one loaf, we belong to God and to one another as one body.
- Respond to His love by consecrating your whole life to Him, holding nothing back.
Devotional
Stand quietly tonight beneath the pierced hands of your Saviour and let the weight of Good Friday settle on your heart. It was not the nails that held Him to the cross but your sin and mine, and love kept Him there until the work was finished. Ask yourself whether the blood of the Lamb has truly marked the doorposts of your own heart, or remains only a remembered story. Then, like the thief beside Him, simply say, "Lord, remember me," and receive the mercy that passes over you. In gratitude, give Him not half a life but all of it.
“It was not the nails that held Him to the cross; it was my sin - and His love carried me away from judgment.”
“As Lord and Teacher He washed their feet, so that we too would stoop to lift one another up.”
“He calls us not to half a life but to all of it - to give Him everything, as He gave everything for us.”
