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.
“Close enough. And I’m picky.” I heard that phrase in my blue collar days more than I care to remember. It says what I say now more than ever. Mediocrity is the new excellence. Order a product online and be amazed when it arrives in a timely fashion and vaguely resembles what you ordered when you open it. Mediocrity will not save you. It would not save the Hebrews from the tenth plague God brought on the Egyptians. Only a spotless lamb would save the family who ate it. And they must eat the entire lamb. They must have the whole lamb inside them and apply the blood to be saved.
Come to Cape Community Church tomorrow and the goosebumps you may have right now from the previous connection will continue. Come and see how the first Passover led to the Last Supper. See how mediocrity will not save us from the punishment we deserve for our sin. We need a spotless Lamb inside us and his blood applied to our lives. Only then will his salvation arrive at the perfect time. Only then will we open the package to find that it is perfectly what God ordered for us. Then we will praise him as we partake in the Lord’s Supper to celebrate this perfect spotless gift.
Dear Lord, thank you for the perfect Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. May we partake of the feast. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Pastor Brad Boyer
Cape Community Church