Power in the Blood

Today in the Bible reading the Passover was read. Many different truths and great theology stuck out to me. The lamb and it's foreshadowing of Christ in so many ways is clear the more you read through the text. Much else can be found and gleaned through the reading of the Passover story many times. But 2 things tuck out at me clearly the first time I read it today.

First, Pharaoh's sin and its effect. The story in Exodus 12 makes it clear that Pharaoh does not die at the hand of God but His oldest child does. Pharaoh is the man with the sin of pride and his rejection of Moses and the Lord. But others, many others in fact pay for that sin with their lives. How may times is this true in our lives. How many times do others pay more than we do for the sin we commit. In fact I am convinced that others pay with us for every sin we commit. The sin of lust...others besides us pay for that. The sin of pride....others will always feels the payment and effects more. The sin of gossip....always hurts others more than us. The sin of covetness....the other person is hurt as much as we are. The act of unbelief...God is hurt just as much as we are. So our sin, just like Pharaoh's goes far beyond ourselves and effects others in a big way.

The other truth I found reading through Exodus 12 is the power of the blood of the Lamb. Let me share this truth by giving you the words to one of my most favorite hymns, "There is Power in the Blood". Exodus 12 is bloody but there is power in the blood.

1. Would you be free from the burden of sin?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Would you o’er evil a victory win?
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
   
   • Refrain:
     There is pow’r, pow’r, wonder-working pow’r
     In the blood of the Lamb;
     There is pow’r, pow’r, wonder-working pow’r
     In the precious blood of the Lamb.
2. Would you be free from your passion and pride?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide;
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
3. Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Sin-stains are lost in its life-giving flow;
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.
4. Would you do service for Jesus your King?
   There’s pow’r in the blood, pow’r in the blood;
   Would you live daily His praises to sing?
   There’s wonderful pow’r in the blood.

Are you finding power in the blood like the Hebrews did in Exodus 12?