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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: April 15th

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Exodus 12:17-27

Leaven, a type of evil, had to be removed with the utmost care (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8). We cannot lay hold of the work of Christ, and fully enjoy it, as long as we have not confessed and forsaken every sin of which we are conscious.

There remained one thing for the Israelite to do, commanded by the LORD through Moses in v. 7: he had to dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood of the lamb and sprinkle it on the framework of the door of his house. In doing that, the head of the house had to believe two things: firstly that the LORD was going to strike in judgment; secondly that the blood would have the power to protect him and his family.

We can ask, as the children in the Jewish families did: "What does this service mean for us?" (v. 26). Is it not a picture of the precious blood of Christ, putting us under shelter from judgment? "When I see the blood" the LORD had declared (v. 13), although the Israelites, from within, could not see it. Our salvation does not depend on the way we appreciate the work of Christ, or the intensity of our feelings on this subject. No, it depends on the way in which God sees it, and for Him the blood has full and complete efficacy to take away sin. So let us rest with confidence on the perfect work accomplished by Jesus and accepted by God (1 John 1:7).

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