Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 163
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from the group Matt Redman singing … Your Cross Changes Everything … powerfully singing of how the cross of Christ was God’s final gambit in the game of life, ending the defeat of death forever.
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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Exodus 12:26-27 [NLT] …
26 Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ 27 And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
… Moses explains God’s charge to remember His “Passover” with the Sabbath celebration, commemorating God’s once-and-forever move to save His people.
Highlight Passage [Context]: … Exodus 12:24-28 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Moses, mandates and explains the celebration of “Passover” to God’s people who would one day enter His promised land because of His act of saving His people from certain death.
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Reference Passage: … Mathew 26:26-29 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus, with His 12 Disciples the nigh before His betrayal and crucifixion, prayed with His men and celebrated the Passover meal, instituting the eucharist, the celebration of the Messiah’s death and resurrection as the Lamb of God.
Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 11:23-26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b>
… Paul, remembers Christ instituting the eucharist for followers of Christ to regularly take of God’s cup and His bread in remembrance of what The Lord did on the cross as the Lamb of God, shedding His blood for salvation of those would believe on Him as THE Messiah.
Reference Passage: … Hebrews 9:26 [NLT] …
26 If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But now, once for all time, He has appeared at the end of the age to remove sin by His own death as a sacrifice
… God, thru the author of Hebrews, relates the truth about Christ becoming the “once for all” sacrifice to save all who would believe on Him as Messiah from sin and death. .
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Katara Patton … USE THIS LINK … tells of her friends naming the move of laying down all her letters in the game of Scrabble (see photo) to win the game, using her name, “Katara,” to signify the finality of the move.
And that “game ending” move, rather cleverly illustrates God’s “game-ending” move at the cross, where Jesus became “the Lamb of God,” ending the sting of death. And that final move was also illustrated by God for His people, the Jews, by the Passover (see highlight passage above), when the Lord showed His saving blood to illustrate what His Messiah would one day do to defeat death with one game-ending blood letting on the cross.
And every time we Christians celebrate Eucharist (i.e., Communion), we remember that one move of God to end death in the game of life, with the death and blood letting of Jesus becoming the Lamb of God on the cross and His resurrection to show that He had defeated death. And certainly the Scriptures above illustrate that reality. SO; … Do I sense my readers joining me in a robust ”HALLELUJAH!!”
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … that I can celebrate You ending the sting of death by Your game-ending move to the cross to save me from death forever.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to stop and recognize Your game-ending move on the cross to defeat death for all of us who surrender to You as Lord. … Amen
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