Mon.’s Devo - The Day to Remember

Read: Exodus 12:14-13:16; Matthew 20:29-21:22; Psalm 25:16-22; Proverbs 6:12-15 God told them that this day was a day to remember. This was the day of their salvation that would epitomize salvation for eternity. When we are saved we come out of our own Egypt of sin and idolatry and we participate with Passover, the shedding of Jesus blood on the cross. We apply his blood to the door of our heart and we enter through his door and are saved from eternal death. We then start our walk with the Lord. During our journey with the Lord we move into the time of unleavened bread where we are cleansing our thoughts and motives to choose God’s. We call it sanctification. We are to continue on to justification which is to live totally free from sin. Few can get past condemnation to get there but true freedom is when we realize our sins were taken on the cross and we were crucified with Christ and he now lives through us. The people of Egypt represented the seed of Satan and their first born son had to die to kill Satan’s power over the world. Satan’s first born had to be defeated before God’s children could accept his first born. They both had to die. Satan’s had to die to pay their penalty for what Satan did in Eden and God’s first born had to die to cover the sins of God’s people. He was the sacrifice. God told Moses that the first born was his and had to be bought back. That is a picture of our lives. God gives our mother the ability to produce life. We have to be bought back and die to our sin before we can be born again of God and free of the penalty of sin. On the night that the death angel passed over and killed all the first born of Egypt, Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and kicked them out of his land. He ironically told Moses to bless him as he left. The Egyptians also begged the Israelites to get out of town quickly. They gave them anything they asked for. The people had been instructed to ask for gold, silver, gems and clothes. They dressed their children in the wealth of Egypt and spoiled them. Exodus 12:38 says that a mixed multitude left Egypt meaning that not only Israelites but some Egyptians went with them. They had been in Egypt exactly 430 years. God gave Moses instructions about how to celebrate this festival every year. He said it would be like a mark branded on their hand on on their forehead. This is why Satan wants to mark his people with his mark on their hand and forehead. They were always to remember this day of deliverance. In Matthew, Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem to die for us. He was met with two blind men on the side of the road as he left Jericho. They begged to be healed so Jesus healed them. They could now see to follow him. At Bethphage which is on the Mt. of Olives, Jesus asked for a donkey to ride into Jerusalem. He would enter the opposite side of Jerusalem from the path of the pascal lamb. Every year a perfect lamb chosen for the last sacrifice on Passover that would die for the nation. When it entered Jerusalem, all the people would shout Hosannah and lay palm branches at its feet. This is what they did for Jesus as he entered Jerusalem because he was truly the Pascal Lamb that would die for the sin of the whole world. Jesus went first to cleanse the temple then to heal the people. The religious leaders saw all the praise and adoration that Jesus was getting and were more jealous than ever. Jesus went back to Bethphage or Bethany to spend the night and in the morning he saw a fig tree that was not bearing fruit and cursed it. The fig tree represented Israel who was not ready for Jesus. It had rejected him so Jesus cursed it and it died. Now the kingdom would be offered to the Gentiles for a time. Lord, thank you for completely taking all our sins with you on the cross. Thank you that we can walk free of sin and in victory. Help us to remember our day of salvation.