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The Passover: A Feast to Remember

In The Feast series, this sermon explores Passover as one of Scripture’s central meals of remembrance, rooted in Exodus 12–14 and echoed through the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation. Israel’s rescue begins with a people oppressed in Egypt, Pharaoh’s refusal to release them, and God’s decisive deliverance—yet Exodus interrupts the action with detailed meal instructions. That “cookbook in the middle” isn’t a distraction but a theological strategy: the meal is how future generations enter the story, not merely hear about it. Passover forms identity through embodied memory—bread, lamb, bitter herbs, and readiness to depart—so salvation is remembered as our story, not someone else’s history. The sermon then shows how Passover points to Jesus and the church’s practices of communion and baptism. Jesus chooses Passover week to give himself, filling the symbols with new meaning: the lamb, the blood, the deliverance, and the passing over. Drawing on passages like John 1:29 and 1 Corinthians 5:7, the sermon frames Jesus as the true Passover lamb whose death confronts oppression and whose resurrection opens a way through death itself. Like Israel passing through the waters, and like believers going under the waters in baptism, the gospel announces that God makes a way where there was no way—bringing his people from slavery to freedom, and ultimately from death to life.