THE STORY, Chapter 3
Exodus 1-7, 10-14
Deliverance

The Passover

"On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn -- both men and animals -- and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt." Exodus 12:12-13(NIV)

"Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us." I Corinthians 5:7

The Only Way to Heaven is . . . .

Jesus’ death on the cross, the sacrifice of His life as a substitute for our death, the blood of Jesus “over the doorpost of my soul”.

Yahweh brought 10 plagues on Egypt convincing Pharaoh to allow Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery. The 10th plague was the death of the firstborn of all families except for those families who had put the blood of an innocent, first born, perfect, sacrificial lamb on the doorframe their house. The Angel of death “passed over” those houses and they were thereby saved. In the New Testament Jesus is the “lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

There is no other way to be freed from your sin. There is no other provision of God to enable your entrance into heaven. Without Jesus we die in our sin. When I meet God face to face one day and if he were to ask me “why should I let you into heaven” I have only one answer. “because of what Your Son Jesus did for me on the cross 2,000 years ago, (as foreshadowed by Passover)

Prayer

“Lord, I recognize that your death on the cross 2,000 years ago opened the gates of heaven to every person who ever lived. I also recognized that only those who trust, receive, follow, believe and enter your love are those who actually enter heaven. Lord, I choose to be among the latter by following you today. Amen."