THE NEW LIFE

Exodus 12:7  “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.   John 10:9-10  I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.  10  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 

There is a profound mystery hidden in the first Passover that becomes clear through a Hebraic lens. In Exodus 12, God commands Israel to place the blood of the lamb on the two doorposts and the lintel of their homes. This was not just obedience — it was a divine picture. When the blood was applied, it formed the shape of the Hebrew letter Chet (n), a letter that represents a gate or doorway. As the 8th letter, it carries the meaning of new beginnings — what comes after completion: new life, new creation, a new covenant. In that moment, God was declaring something deeper than protection — He was revealing a doorway into a new beginning. The house marked by blood became more than a shelter; it became a gate into life.

The Israelites were not only told to apply the blood but to remain inside the house. The doorway became the dividing line between life and death. This points directly to Yeshua (Jesus), who declared, “I am the door.” He is not only the Lamb whose blood was shed — He is the doorway that the blood creates. This revelation is echoed in Psalm 118, which was sung during Passover: “This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter.” (Psalm 118:20) As Yeshua entered Jerusalem and the people cried, “Hosanna,” they were unknowingly declaring the arrival of the One who is both the Lamb and the Gate.

In Hebraic understanding, the doorway represents identity, authority, and access. When the blood formed the shape of the Chet, it declared that the house had passed from death into life and now belonged to God. The protection was not based on those inside, but on what marked the entrance. And that same truth remains — it is not our strength or perfection that secures us, but the blood and the doorway the Lord provides.

This is not just a picture — it is an invitation. The blood was applied to create a doorway that must be entered. You can stand near it, understand it, even admire it — but you must step through it. The Lamb has been given, the blood has been applied, and the door is open. And the One who said, “I am the door,” is still calling — step through and enter into the abundant life He has prepared for you.
4/1/26   Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt; George Baltimore

SO WHAT IS THIS ABUNDANT NEW LIFE:
It is when we realize we now have the power over the temptations of our carnal flesh nature.  Victory over the sins of lust, greed and pride.  And that by faith we are no longer controlled by our physical world.   We believe our Creator has something better waiting for us.  That we now have the victory and the power to learn how to totally live for God and trust Him to provide for our every need.

In fact James puts it this way:  James 1:12, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
Every day we are tempted, but can enjoy victory and be blessed in faith by the power of God.
And Paul puts it this way:  1 Corinthians 10:13, “For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.

So God allows temptation to show us our needs and so to grow up spiritually to learn that we have victory in Jesus.  James 1:15, “Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”  So the temptation is not sin, it is only when we allow our flesh to conceive (sleep) with the temptation (enemy) that it becomes sin which can then take us to hell.

Hebrews 2:18, “For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.” Hebrews 4:15, “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”

All day and many times at night, we will have thoughts come to our mind that we will need to deal with in the victory Jesus gave us.  And what does not kill us only makes us stronger.  And if we trust in the power of God for our victory we will gain immunity in that area of temptation.  That is when you really experience John 3:8 and begin to learn to walk in the wind and to be free of fear.

2 Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”   1 John 4:17-19, “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.  We love him, because he first loved us.”    Rom. 8:31,“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  We need to learn to walk out the victory that we have in Christ Jesus and to become like HIM, 1 John 4:16-17. 

Yours, in HIS great love as we celebrate His resurrection and victory for us. 
 Pastor Ken <>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org     Ken@Trinity-Aloha.org