Daily Affirmations - Day 5 - Lowly and Victorious - Passover Lamb
- Alisa B.
- Apr 16
- 2 min read
Day 5: Passover Lamb
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth… (Isaiah 53:7).
Israel was in Egypt, in extreme bondage... their incessant groans went up to heaven. God who avenges His own elect... at last, determined that He would... deliver His own people... (Exodus 12).
…Take a lamb... one for each household… [They]…must be... without defect… Slaughter them... take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes... When I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt (Exodus 12:3, 5,6,7,13).
I shall not have time... to enter into the whole history and mystery of the Passover... but... we shall...look at the Lord Jesus Christ, and show how He corresponds with the Paschal [Passover] Lamb...
We commence... with...the lamb. How fine a picture of Christ. No other... could so well have typified Him who was holy, harmless, undefiled... It was a lamb without blemish... And was not Jesus Christ even such from His birth? Unblemished, born of the pure virgin Mary, begotten of the Holy Ghost, without a taint of sin...
We must mark... the place where this lamb was to be killed, which peculiarly sets forth that it must be Jesus Christ. The first Passover was held in Egypt, the second... in the wilderness... And then... God... appointed a place for its celebration (Deuteronomy 16:5).
It was in Jerusalem... and there only might the Paschal Lamb be killed. So was our blessed Lord led to Jerusalem. The infuriated throng dragged Him along the city. In Jerusalem our Lamb was sacrificed for us... at the precise spot where God had ordained that it should be.
Oh! if that mob... at Nazareth had been able to push Him... down the hill, then Christ could not have died at Jerusalem; but... "a prophet cannot perish out of Jerusalem," so... the King of all prophets could not do otherwise— the prophecies concerning Him would not have been fulfilled...
The next point is the manner of his death. ...The manner in which the lamb was to be offered so peculiarly sets forth the crucifixion of Christ... The lamb was to be slaughtered... roasted; but it was not to have a bone of its body broken...
The penalty and death of the cross by which Christ suffered, must have taken in all these three things... blood-shedding; the long continued suffering.... and... by God's providence not a bone was broken, but the body was taken down from the cross intact... (John 19:32-34).
My heart rejoices to look on Him whom I have pierced, and see His blood, as the lamb's blood, sprinkled on my lintel and my door-post, and see His bones unbroken, and to... rejoice, also, to see Him roasted in the fire, because thereby I see that He satisfied God for that roasting which I ought to have suffered in the torment of hell for ever and ever.
~ C. H. Spurgeon~ Christ, Our Passover
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