" That was the meaning of their being baptized
in the cloud and in the sea. That was the meaning, and only a very
small part of the meaning, of their Passover. Would you not think,
my friends, that I had been speaking rather of our own Baptism, and
of our own Supper of the Lord, to which you have been all called to-
day, and that I had been telling you the meaning of them?
For when Jesus, the Lord, and King, and Head of mankind, died and
rose again, He took away the sin of the world. He was the true
Passover, the Lamb without spot, slain, as the scripture tells us,
for the sins of the whole world. In the Jews' Passover, when the
angel saw the lamb's blood on the door of the house, he passed by,
and spared everyone in it. So now. The blood of Jesus, the Lamb of
God, is upon us; and for His sake, God is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But the Lord rose again this day. And when He, the Lord, the King,
and Head of all men, rose, all men rose in Him. "As in Adam all
die," says St. Paul, "even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
Baptism is a sign of that to us, as the going through the Red Sea,
and being baptized to Moses in it, was to the Jews. The passing of
the Red Sea said to the Jews: "You have passed now out of your old
miserable state of slavery into freedom.
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