The Blood-Sprinkled Lintel

Exod. 12:22, 23

The Gospel is God’s own answer to the question He Himself has raised about man and his sin. None could raise the question, and none could answer the question but Himself; that answer is Christ, given by God freely in His love — Christ lifted up upon the cross as a sacrifice for sin — Christ raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, and Christ ascended into the heavens.

Now Ex. 12 speaks about a lamb, whose blood, shed and sprinkled upon the houses of the children of Israel, secured them when God passed in judgment through the land of Egypt. The Lord Jesus Christ is the great substance of which the lamb of Ex. 12 was only the dim shadow. What a blessed, wonderful spring is imparted to the soul when this is believed, that the Lamb, whose blood must be shed as an atonement for sin, is the only begotten Son of God, provided, given, sent, by God into the world for this very purpose. As it is written, “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, in that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” There is one point of great value and importance in Ex. 12 — everything is done under the hand of God. He provides all, so to speak, and then assures by His Word; this is most blessed to apprehend. The security of an Israelite in that night consisted in his being in a house whose lintel was marked with the blood of the appointed lamb, previously shed in death; the sense of his security, or the known enjoyment of it, consisted