The Ultimate Passover!

As we have been looking we have seen that the scriptures definitely declare that there is only one God. We have seen that all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved, and we are faced ourselves with the very dilemma that Israel was faced with before we, as Gentiles, were adopted into God’s family. The dilemma we are faced with is this. But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" Romans 10:14-15 Israel was faced with this same dilemma all through out its history. Listen to the Psalmist: All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. Psalms 22:27

Shall we keep the name of the Lord our God to ourselves, and repeat the sin of Israel as she did not make his grace and forgiveness known to all the nations? For even Israel was to let outsiders, strangers, come to know the God of Israel and allow them to participate in the Passover. Here is what the scriptures say. And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native. Numbers 9:14 Just as Israel was to allow a stranger keep the Passover, which was God’s tangible showing of his grace and forgiveness, so we too are to let those who are strangers to God experience the ultimate Passover as they experience grace and forgiveness in the cross. And like the scriptures say, how shall we let them experience unless they believe, and how shall they believe unless they have heard the news, and how shall they hear the news unless you and I tell them? Shall we not get on our face and repent before a holy God for this most grievous sin?

Lord God and Father,
May I answer your call to missions, may I take your name to the peoples of all the earth, and may I start by telling those around me.