ADVENT DEVOTIONAL | Day 5 | The Spotless Lamb

READ
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. 7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
Exodus 12:5-7

REFLECT
Yesterday we saw that Jesus is the Lion of Judah. Today we want to consider the fact that he is also the Lamb of God. These two contrasting images show us the beauty and complexity of The Promised One. He is both a reigning king and a suffering servant.

Hundreds of years before Jesus came, the people of Israel were slaves in Egypt. God heard the cries of His people and was going to set them free. After nine plagues were sent through the land, the final plague would come as the angel of death would pass through the land and claim the lives of the firstborn in each family. However, if the people of God would sacrifice a lamb without blemish and spread its blood over the doorposts of their house, death would pass over them and their children would be saved.

The New Testament tells us that Jesus is the true and better Passover Lamb (1 Cor. 5:7). He was sinless, without any spot or blemish, and He was sacrificed to save us from death. Our hope of salvation rests not in our own works, but in the blood of the Lamb.

Take just a few minutes to watch the video below to hear how the blood of the Lamb assures of our salvation and silences the accuser.
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RESPOND

• Why is it good news that our hope is not in the strength of our faith, but in the object of our faith? How can this good news encourage you today?
• Where do you feel like the accuser most attacks you? Are there certain ways that the enemy seeks to make you feel shameful or guilty? Go to the Lord and thank Him for the blood of the Lamb that silences the accuser.