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Exodus 12:1-14 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs… This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste, it is the Lord’s Passover. - Exodus 12:7, 11 Passover is such an amazing story along with everything that led up to it. It reminds us of how God is in total control of our world. God has a plan from the beginning of time. He calls people to serve Him, but we fail so he provides a way to come back. Passover is one clear sign of the way back to God. When doing a search on Jesusalive.cc I discovered it probably took four to five months to get through all the plagues of bloody water, frogs, gnats, flies, livestock dying, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness. These plagues led up to the final plague and the instruction to eat a Passover meal before the exodus from Egypt. We can learn so much about God’s ways as we study this account of God rescuing the Israelites from Pharaoh. It shows us how God works to help people repent and turn to Him. First: we see God using nature, making people helpless to manage on their own. They need God’s help. Second: when people repent there is always forgiveness offered by God and healing. Third: God doesn’t give up on people easily. Nine times God showed Pharaoh, the Egyptians, and Israel who He was. Finally: God gives the final warning—are we listening? It’s simple: put the blood of a perfect lamb on your doorframe and the angel of death will pass over. Have we listened closely today to God’s warning signs in our own lives? Repented of sins and sincerely believed in God’s control and love for His people? His provision of the perfect Lamb of God in Jesus? Is the blood of the Lamb of God on the doorframes of our hearts so the angel of (eternal death) will pass over? We can lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. We are precious in His sight especially in our death (Psalm 116:13, 15). This Maundy Thursday let us remember what Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. “In the same way after super he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Corinthians 11:25-26).