Did you eat lamb last night? Perhaps you did if lamb was on your menu or you attended a passover sadar. Then again, if you partook of the Lord's Supper yesterday at a Maundy Thursday service, you ate the body and drank the blood of the Lamb of God. In the words of Luke 22:19-20 Jesus,
took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
This feast was prepared before the beginning of time in order to bring us the Lamb who was slain on the cross some 2000 plus years ago today. Jesus came and died on the cross so that the angel of death would pass over us on account of His great sacrifice. As we meditate on Christ's sacrificial death today, we are horrified about what our sin has caused, but we take comfort that Jesus willingly died on the cross for us so that being joined in His death through our baptism we will never be dead to God again.
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