February 25, 2026 - Deuteronomy 15-17

 “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.  And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God . . . that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt” (16:1-3).  Other laws and instructions are given – regarding the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Booths, justice, forbidden forms of worship, legal decisions by priests and judges, and laws concerning Israel’s kings – and all are important for Israel’s corporate life as a nation of God’s people.  But the Passover!  For all generations, the people were to remember!  They were to remember God’s great deliverance!  And, at the time of God’s choosing, on the very Passover remembrance spelled out here, the meal would point to God’s greatest deliverance:  “And as they were eating, [Jesus] took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is my body.’  And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.  And he said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many’” (Mark 14:22-24).

According to Thy gracious word,

in meek humility,

this will I do, my dying Lord:

I will remember Thee.

Thy body, broken for my sake,

my bread from heaven shall be;

Thy testamental cup I take,

and thus remember Thee.

When to the cross I turn mine eyes

and rest on Calvary,

O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,

I must remember Thee.

Remember Thee and all Thy pains

and all Thy love to me;

yea, while a breath, a pulse remains,

will I remember Thee.

And when these failing lips grow dumb

and mind and mem’ry flee,

when Thou shalt in Thy kingdom come,

Jesus, remember me!   --James Montgomery (1825)