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Exodus chapter 12, verse 13,

The blood shall be assigned for you on the houses where you are,

and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,

and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

If you're familiar with this chapter, it's one of the most important, well-known,

pivotal chapters in all the Old Testament, as God brings his people out of slavery in Egypt through the blood of a Passover lamb.

As the people of God bring a lamb into their home and care for it,

and then sacrifice that lamb and put the blood of that lamb over their doorpost so that on the night

when God executes judgments, that's the word in Exodus chapter 12 verse 12 against sin in Egypt, the people of God will be saved from those judgments,

not by their own merit, not because they're better than the Egyptians, but because of their

trust in the blood of this sacrifice that is over their doorposts and by being under the banner

of that sacrifice, that blood, they will be saved, delivered from death and from slavery.

And this becomes a picture, one of many in the Old Testament, of the

ultimate salvation that God brings to all who trust in the sacrifice of Jesus, in the blood of

Jesus, the Lamb, who makes a way for us to be saved from all our sins,

saved from the penalty of sin death and saved from slavery to sin in life.

And I just want to encourage you today, if you are a follower of Jesus, to see yourself

right now today in a fresh way in this picture. Your life is hidden under the banner of the

blood of Jesus, which has covered over all your sins. Not because you are better than

anyone else, not because of any merit in you, but solely because of your trust in the blood

of Jesus shed on a cross for you. You are forgiven of all your sin there is no condemnation for you you

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