June 11 Eternal Mark

Lawful Obedience Mark 14:12-15 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?” 13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” THE PASSOVER feast is God’s command to Israel to remember how he passed over their homes in Egypt, preserving the lives of all in the Hebrew households marked with the blood of a lamb as he killed the firstborn sons of Egypt. The Passover was God’s final plague in Egypt to free his people from their bondage of physical and spiritual slavery. On this night as Jesus goes to eat the Passover with his disciples, God is again passing over his people to save their lives from sin’s slavery. And this time he will not kill the firstborn sons of a pagan culture, but he will kill His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus, the marked Son of God, dies on the cross to put his mark of salvation on those who confess him raised from the dead. Yes, that mark is for you. Put Jesus’ blood mark on your heart, and you will be saved. Sin’s evil will pass over you, and you will be free from sin’s bondage forever. Pause and consider how precious you are to be marked with the Savior’s blood.