BeFranklin
04-10-2009, 04:11 PM
Happy Good Friday. The following is a Christian Passover poem I wrote - which explains what Passover is from a Christian perspective. (posted mainly because of something I saw in another thread reminded me. Passover isn't just a Jewish day.
Note: The purpose of this thread is to celebrate Good Friday.
Passover!
Jesus didn't die for dyed eggs and bunnies
And Santa doesn't come but once a year
Alcohol, drugs and sex isn't a party
And TV makes you dumb
There are no Christmas trees in the bible
And pagans worshiped trees
The heart of man is only evil continual [1]
Since Eve and Adam ate the fruit [2]
Angels aren't chubby cheeked babies with wings,
And devils don't have horns
And unsaved man doesn't come into the light
Or else his sins are exposed [3]
Easter isn't in the Hebrew,
and the last weekday is named from Saturn,
Mass doesn't mean the birth of Christ,
And God isn't worshiped on lips [4]
Repeating prayers won't save you *,
And indulgences are a whitewash
You can't work your way to heaven
And only the blood of the lamb will save you
For one did die to take your sins,
And make you white as snow, [5]
And caused the angel of death to pass you by [6]
When you were only going to die [7]
Oh sinner have you sprinkled your house with blood? [6]
And washed your garments in the blood of the Lamb [8]?
For Jesus Christ was crucified on Passover,
Unblemished, without sin, for you –
Behold, the Lamb of God! [9]
http://www.called2prayer.com/stjoanofarcpowell/wp-content/gallery/just-jesus/jesus-holding-lamb.gif
[1] Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
[2] Genesis 3:1-24
[3] John 3: 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the
light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
[4] Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and
honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. John 4:24 … they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
[5] Isaiah 1: 18-20 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat
the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
[6] Exodus 12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the
passover. 22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the
bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever. 25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD
will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean
ye by this service? 27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
[7] Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Roman 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[8] Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.|
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are
they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb.
[9] John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!
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* Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Note: The purpose of this thread is to celebrate Good Friday.
Passover!
Jesus didn't die for dyed eggs and bunnies
And Santa doesn't come but once a year
Alcohol, drugs and sex isn't a party
And TV makes you dumb
There are no Christmas trees in the bible
And pagans worshiped trees
The heart of man is only evil continual [1]
Since Eve and Adam ate the fruit [2]
Angels aren't chubby cheeked babies with wings,
And devils don't have horns
And unsaved man doesn't come into the light
Or else his sins are exposed [3]
Easter isn't in the Hebrew,
and the last weekday is named from Saturn,
Mass doesn't mean the birth of Christ,
And God isn't worshiped on lips [4]
Repeating prayers won't save you *,
And indulgences are a whitewash
You can't work your way to heaven
And only the blood of the lamb will save you
For one did die to take your sins,
And make you white as snow, [5]
And caused the angel of death to pass you by [6]
When you were only going to die [7]
Oh sinner have you sprinkled your house with blood? [6]
And washed your garments in the blood of the Lamb [8]?
For Jesus Christ was crucified on Passover,
Unblemished, without sin, for you –
Behold, the Lamb of God! [9]
http://www.called2prayer.com/stjoanofarcpowell/wp-content/gallery/just-jesus/jesus-holding-lamb.gif
[1] Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
[2] Genesis 3:1-24
[3] John 3: 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the
light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
[4] Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and
honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. John 4:24 … they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
[5] Isaiah 1: 18-20 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat
the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the
sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
[6] Exodus 12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the
passover. 22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the
bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever. 25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD
will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean
ye by this service? 27That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
[7] Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Roman 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[8] Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the
word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.|
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are
they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb.
[9] John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!
---
* Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.