Four Cups: Christ Our Passover Lamb

Four Cups
Christ Our Passover Lamb
(3/29/26)
Pastor Mark England

Exodus 6:6-7 (CSB) “Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. ⁷ I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians.

Salvation
Freedom
Restoration
Fulfillment

What is ?

Exodus 12:26-27 (CSB) When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.’” So the people knelt low and worshiped.

Luke 22:15-20 (CSB) Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. ¹⁶ For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ¹⁷ Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. ¹⁸ For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” ¹⁹ And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ²⁰ In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

1 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT) Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.

Christ Our Passover Lamb

John 1:29 (CSB) The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

• The Lamb was .

Exodus 12:5 (CSB) You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

• The Lamb was .

Exodus 12:6 (CSB) You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Isaiah 53:5 (CSB) But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities;punishment for our peace was on him, and we are healed by his wounds.

• The Lamb was .

Exodus 12:4 (NIV) If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. 

2 Corinthians 5:19 (CSB) That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.

Our Opportunity

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2 Corinthians 4:4 (CSB) In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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Romans 10:13-14 (TLB) Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ But how shall they ask him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?

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Revelation 5:12 (CSB) They said with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!