The Shadow of Death
RF: The Shadow of Death
R2: Exodus 12:21-23 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them,
R4: "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down."
R2: John 1:29 The next day John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said,
R3: "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
R2: Luke 23:44-46 It was now about the sixth hour of Passover, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice,
R1: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."
R2: When he had said this, he breathed his last.
RF: The blood had started in Gethsemane. The flogging streaked His back with blood; the crown of thorns caused blood to trickle down His head; the nails caused blood to ooze from His hands and feet. The blood that flowed was the blood of the Lamb, the Lamb of God that was slain, so that God might "pass over" our sins. Jesus was dead; the sacrifice was complete.
(extinguish candle, all lights off)
Let us silently meditate in prayer on the death of Jesus.
Song (solo in the darkness): Were You There?
RF: The Shadow of Death
R2: Exodus 12:21-23 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them,
R4: "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down."
R2: John 1:29 The next day John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said,
R3: "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
R2: Luke 23:44-46 It was now about the sixth hour of Passover, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice,
R1: "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."
R2: When he had said this, he breathed his last.
RF: The blood had started in Gethsemane. The flogging streaked His back with blood; the crown of thorns caused blood to trickle down His head; the nails caused blood to ooze from His hands and feet. The blood that flowed was the blood of the Lamb, the Lamb of God that was slain, so that God might "pass over" our sins. Jesus was dead; the sacrifice was complete.
(extinguish candle, all lights off)
Let us silently meditate in prayer on the death of Jesus.
Song (solo in the darkness): Were You There?