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  • Jesus our Passover - Posted: Sunday, April 8, 2012

    Jesus Paid It All

    It’s almost here folks. The most important Holy Day in human history. Planned by God the Father before He created the earth, everything on it, the universe and even the sun that warms our day. The Jewish Passover of Exodus 12, instituted by God to foreshadow the very event we are about to celebrate. No,… not Easter the tradition that gets it’s name  “Astarte” (a pagan deity)… but Passover. In 1 Cor 5:7 “…Jesus our Passover is sacrificed for us.” In Hebrews 9:22 we are reminded that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. (The purpose of the sacrificial system) Some animal or in this case someone has to die in order to pay for our sin debt. Sounds gruesome I know but that is a picture of how awful and foul sin really is no matter how used to it we get.

    Jesus the Messiah, found to be innocent by the Gentile courts (without Spot) Like the Passover lamb back in Egypt all those years ago.  He was examined for anything that was worthy of death. The Jewish leaders wanted Him dead, Especially since he said he was “The Son of GOD” But He was found …. Not guilty! Now when He was crucified anyway, being innocent, Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to take away our sin (innocent). This was God the father’s plan all along. The Jewish leaders thought they had a blasphemer who made himself out to be the Son of God.  The Son of God willingly put Himself in the position at the Father’s request to take the punishment for all mankind. God’s promise to Abraham was that in him (Abraham) all the families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:3). Jesus is that blessing! When He rose from the dead….. on that resurrection morning, the first day of the week, hope was given to mankind for the forgiveness of sin.

    With His blood applied (like the Passover of Exodus 12) we will be shielded from the certainty of death like that dark night in Egypt where all the firstborn of man and beast died. We will not be made innocent but forgiven if we will but trust and believe on the LORD Jesus Christ. We must agree with God that our sin debt makes it impossible to come to Him on any other terms.

    We must believe in Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection on the 3rd day (just as Jesus said), that God the Father is satisfied with the payment for our sin. In that we are made clean from our sin, past present and future.

     

    You can be made clean. The price is paid. But you must welcome and enjoy Jesus as your master and LORD and receive the free gift. The gift of eternal life. We are bought with a price, we are not our own. Why…. Because He loved us with an everlasting love. The choice is yours,.. believe and live.

     

    The Triumph of Christ Through the Travesty of Justice! (Part I) – from April 6, 2012 – Good Friday Service

    The Triumph of Christ Through the Travesty of Justice! (Part II) – from April 8, 2012 – PM Service

    The Undeniable Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ – from April 8, 2012 – AM Service

    Dr. Joe Linares

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Is It really Palm Sunday? - Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

    Really, Palm Sunday?

    This Year, April 1st is “Palm Sunday”, but is it? What is “Palm Sunday”? Some say it’s the Sunday before Easter where people laid palm branches before Jesus, the arriving king, and in some temporal ways, it is, but it’s not. Others refer to it as the Triumphal entry of the Messiah/King to Jerusalem, certainly to the people of the time it was; but too, that is only a temporal view of what was happening. Still others see it as the “Sunday of the Passion”, the Sunday before Christ Crucifixion, the beginning of Passion Week, the Holy week, the week of events leading up to Jesus’ death. Again on the temporal level, that’s true, but it’s short sighted and misses the point, it is not those things.

    First we need to change the name from Palm Sunday to Lamb’s Sunday, at least for this article anyway; because Jesus is the Lamb of God who gave himself for the sins of the world (John 1:29). You see Passover, the ordinance that God instituted (Exodus 12) to remember God, who saved His people from Egypt. Egypt throughout the Bible is used as a symbol for the world. That makes Passover also a picture for the coming Messiah, Jesus. Let’s restate that; God had man sacrifice a lamb in remembrance of Him saving them from the world.

    Let’s bring this back to Lamb’s Sunday in the year of Jesus’ crucifixion. Israel needed to select the Lambs for the Passover, which in that year was Sunday, the first day of the week. It was also the day that Jesus entered into Jerusalem not as King but as the Lamb. In the coming days the Lambs including Jesus will be examined to be with spot or blemish. Jesus is examined by both the chief priests and the Roman authorities and found to be without fault (Luke 23:4).

    So it is the day the Lamb of God presented himself as the Savior of the world, from the wrath to come (1 Cor 1:10), without sin as a sacrifice to pay for that sin in our place.

    Next, the wrath of God is laid upon the Lamb of God, that we may be saved from that wrath and be forgiven.