Praise to Christ Our Passover

Published by Debbie Taylor Williams
Posted in 365 Days of Praise

“Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.”

  1 Corinthians 5:7

Anyone want to guess what the context was for Christ being described as our Passover?

Paul was rebuking the Corinthian church because of the immorality among them. He called them arrogant because rather than mourning over the situation, they turned their heads the other way. Paul is spinning their heads (and maybe ours) back in the right direction.

  • Someone has DIED because of our sin and immorality: Jesus. How can we think that accepting abiding sin is okay?
  • Jesus, the pure Lamb of God, was sacrificed. His death, His blood, is our atonement; covering our black sins.
  • “Clean it out. Get rid of the sin.” Paul urges. Christ, our PASSOVER, has been SACRIFICED on an altar that has our name on it.
  • Demonstrate our love, honor, and respect the Passover Lamb, Christ Jesus, by living for Him.

Christ, our PASSOVER, forgive us when we live for what You died for – our sin.

Image: Ecce agnus Dei 12.4.2009: from Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim altarpiece, 1512-1516, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar

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