“LIFE BY DEATH”
OUR DAILY BREAD (Published Daily by Our Daily Bread Ministries)
READ: Exodus 12 (Focus vs.5–13)
MEMORY VERSE
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Exodus 12:13
BACKGROUND
Carl was battling cancer and needed a double lung transplant. He asked God for new lungs but felt odd doing so. He confessed it’s a strange thing to pray, because “someone has to die so I might live.”
Carl’s dilemma highlights a basic truth of Scripture: God uses death to bring life. We see this in the story of the exodus. Born into slavery, the Israelites languished under the oppressive hands of the Egyptians.
Pharaoh wouldn’t release his grip until God made it personal. Every eldest son would die unless the family killed a spotless lamb and slathered its blood across their doorposts (Exodus 12:6–7, 12–13).
Today, you and I have been born into the bondage of sin. Satan wouldn’t release his grip on us until God made it personal, sacrificing His perfect Son on the blood-spattered arms of the cross.Jesus calls us to join Him there.
Paul explained, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). When we put our faith in God’s spotless Lamb, we commit to daily dying with Him—dying to our sin so we might rise with Him to new life (Romans 6:4–5).
We express this faith every time we say no to the shackles of sin and yes to the freedom of Christ. We’re never more alive than when we die with Jesus.
INSIGHT
One of the wonders of Jesus’ crucifixion is that it happened on Israel’s national remembrance of Passover. In one eventful day, the stories of Moses and Jesus merged.
From then on, the world had a new way of thinking about the mysterious language of killing and eating the Passover lamb.
It was on this date on the ancient calendar of Israel that the God of creation judged the gods of Egypt by bringing to light their inability to protect anyone.
It was on that first Passover that the God of gods used the sacrifice of a lamb and a sacred meal to show that He alone was the source of life and freedom.
Yet it wasn’t until Jesus’ death that people would understand the connection between Him and the Passover lamb and what it meant to eat and drink from God’s own self-sacrifice.
By: Mart DeHaan
APPLICATION
Why is death the only path to life? How have you shown that you’ve received Jesus’ death on your behalf?
PR’s (PASTOR RICHARD) TAKE
He Died so we might Live forever – pr
PR’s RE-EMPHASIS (My Re-Emphasis from Post)
“When we put our faith in God’s spotless Lamb, we commit to daily dying with Him—dying to our sin so we might rise with Him to new life.”
PRAYER
“Jesus, Your death brings me life. Help me die to sin today and live my life through You.”
*YOUR TAKE? 
TODAY’s HYMN/WORSHIP/PRAISE/GOSPEL
“LIVE FOREVER” 116 (A Collection of Rappers)
My life a movie, must be why they tryna plot, yeah
They must forgot, yeah, yeah (Lemme talk to ’em)
My God is poppin’, there really no stopping
I hop in the coffin, I’m living like “poof”
Really, I got it with no other option
You livin’ in Gotham while I live in truth, ooh
Really, uh, they think it’s odd like I’m Timmy, yeah
Talking that life, I’m like: “Give me”, yeah
I live forever infiny
We gon’ live forever now (Yeah)
We gon’ live forever now (It’s lit)
With You Lord we’re better, yeah (Ayy) (Huh)
Unashamed forever (Yessuh)
Yeah (Yeah)
Off with my squad, full of zealots, you can’t tell a thing (Huh)
Yelling “Yessuh,” ain’t no fetish for amphetamines (Yuh)
Ain’t no day of expiration, this that evergreen (Woo)
Death is heading for us, but we yelling “Where the sting?”
Bump a song, but my soul never fall off (Fall off)
Call me Paul ’cause of Saul, it got sawed-off (Sawed-off)
All the glory I would haul, it got hauled off (Woo)
Second birthday, my death day was called off
Threw my pride in the red, count it all loss
Split the sea, so my path has been walled off
Ask me why I’m feeling bold:
’cause I’ve been delivered (Yeah)
I bow down to Him, who killed the killer
We gon’ live forever now (Yeah)
We gon’ live forever now (It’s lit)
With You Lord we’re better, yeah
Unashamed forever (Yeah)
Yeah, ayy
You know I can’t believe
Thought it was all a dream
Felt like consequence
Now I’m finally free
I wanna live (I do), heaven and earth the crib
(Heaven and earth)
Still in the field (I am), time to go kick the squib
time to go kick the squib
I’m on the grill (Huh),
time to go flip the ribs (Flip)
Lot of respect from bets, I told you we next,
I’m callin’ my dibs
Waited around for numbers to leave the house,
and then run in the spot (Ready to run)
Used to go deal some money when I was at Stevenson,
then we got caught (Used to go)
Now I believe in Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus: why would I not? (Hey why would I not?)
Even though that what I said, they shakin’ they head,
but guess what I got? (Guess what)
I got the faith with me for real (Real)
Give me the plate, the grace, the meal (Meal)
Look in the sky, the big reveal (Reveal)
Give him some dap to make the deal (Deal)
He got the slug, the Louisville (‘Ville)
I’m with the guy from Pleasant Hill (Holy)
And I came in with the soldiers
You better not run-up on one of these soldiers
We gon’ live forever now (Yeah)
We gon’ live forever now (It’s lit)
With You Lord we’re better, yeah (Ayy)
Unashamed forever (Yeah)
Yeah, ayy
Look, uh, can I reflect? Yeah
He brought my moms out the wreck, yeah
Brought my pops out the hood
Isn’t he good?
How can I forget this my calling
They been cappin’,
you can bank that, we been snappin’
Lord for me it’s automatic,
yeah, it’s Jesus over status, ayy, yeah
Now me and my mom is good
Crazy I waited for this moment,
bless, that’s understood (Yeah)
Even if God didn’t do it,
homie, I knew He could (Yeah)
I’m steady winning over demons
like I knew I would, oh
I gotta testify (Testify)
Yeah, I’m so free,
gotta live for Him for the rest of my life
(The rest of my life)
Sometimes, you just don’t see it
when He’s blessing your life
Uh, don’t wanna miss it no more (No more)
Got my knees to the floor (Floor)
Yeah, it’s time to go to war (Carvello)
I got so much on my mind, I coulda blacked
I was workin’ at the store, I took the trash out
I found true beauty in the rain
I found true peace in the pain
Put my whole life on the line for Him
When you live for Him,
then you’ll die for Him
You know I can’t believe (Yeah)
Thought it was all a dream (Yeah)
Felt like consequence (Yeah)
Now I’m finally free (Yeah)
We gon’ live forever now
Unashamed forever, yeah
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