Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Last evening I was one of the narrators for our church’s reenactment of the Last Supper. It was my fourth time in the role, but as my partner and I told the history of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread and watched as the men portrayed what it would have been like around Jesus’s table that night, I was struck, more than ever before, with a truer understanding of how sweet, how pure, and how compassionate is our Lord.

He washed the feet of his disciples – a job reserved for the lowest of servants – and reminded them that no servant is higher than his master and no master higher than his servant. He broke bread and shared sop with Judas offering him a bite of forgiveness even as we know Judas was preparing to betray him. He gave himself to his disciples – and ultimately to us – as a bridegroom proposes to his intended bride with a promise to love us and to give His life for us. He praised his Father throughout the night and ended with the making of a New Covenant to man. He took us from the rule of the Law of Sinai to a future filled with grace.

Jesus, our Passover Lamb, knew He would be mocked, beaten, tormented, and crucified in the days following that meal and still He took the evening to share His life and His promise with his disciples. He could have fled. He could have asked the Father to sweep Him up and spare Him that horrible fate. He could have abandoned us to death from our sins.

BUT God has a design. Jesus, our Passover Lamb, knew this and paid the ultimate price. Through the blood of Jesus and our acceptance of His sacrifice and His covenant with us, our hearts are marked with His blood just as the door frames of the Hebrews were marked with the blood of unblemished lambs on that fateful night thousands of years ago when the Angel of Death swept through Egypt killing the first born of man and beast. Those who followed God’s command and painted their door frames with the blood of an unblemished lamb were spared the death of their firstborn.

Jesus, our Passover Lamb, paid the price and we too can be spared. The wages of sin are death but Jesus paid the ultimate price. He died for our sin. He took the punishment for billions of people not yet born.

He is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

No man reaches the Father but by Him (John 14:6).

Powerful words from our all powerful Lord.

Our Lord who humbled himself to show us His love for us (Philippians 2:5-8).

Who died to set us free (John 8:36)!

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