Text: Exodus 12:1-28
Hymn: 421, Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing
Kretzmann Commentary: Exodus
I’ve done 421 before, last year on Episode 9.
Exodus 12: the Passover. The meal which Christ institutes as the Lord’s Supper later on. There are all sorts of interesting notes one can make, especially in comparison to the Lord’s Supper now. This is the meal God’s people ate to avoid death. No foreigners ate of it, and no slaves could eat it unless they were circumcised (today, baptized). All of it was eaten or burned — no reliquae allowed! 
Later on, Christ would become the Passover Lamb, his body and blood eaten and drank for the forgiveness of sins and the salvation from God’s judgement.
Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing
- Jesus, grant that balm and healing
In Your holy wounds I find,
Ev-’ry hour that I am feeling
Pains of body and of mind.
Should some evil thought within
Tempt my treach-’rous heart to sin,
Show the peril, and from sinning
Keep me fromits first beginning. - Should some lust or sharp temptation
Fascinate my sinful mind,
Draw me to Your cross and passion,
And new courage I shall find.
Or should Satan press me hard,
Let me then be on my guard,
Saying, “Christ for me was wounded,”
That the Tempter flee confounded. - If the world my heart entices
With the broad and easy road
With seductive, sinful vices,
Let me weigh the awful load
You were willing to endure.
Help me flee all thoughts impure,
And to master each temptation,
Calm in prayer and meditation. - Ev-’ry wound that pains or grieves me,
By Your wounds, Lord, is made whole;
When I’m faint, Your Cross revives me,
Granting new life to my soul.
Yes, Your comfort renders sweet
Ev-’ry bitter cup I meet;
For Your all-atoning Passion
Has procured my soul’s salvation. - O my God, my Rock and Tower,
Grant that in Your death I trust,
Knowing death has lost its power
Since You crushed it in the dust.
Savior, let Your agony
Ever help and comfort me;
When I die be my Protection,
Light and Life and Resurrection.
TURRIE on 
Dan
