The Passing Over to be Remembered

Exodus 12:43-51 

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it. 44 But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it. 46 In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it. 49 One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”
    50 Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

The Passover was to be remembered and kept by God’s people, not outsiders.  Though the promise to Abraham and his descendants was to bless all nations, those of other nations first had to join God’s people to partake of the Passover, just as now in Christ the Lord’s Supper is not for unbelievers, but believers; to participate in the remembrance feast, one must first be added to His family.  The sign of joining then was the circumcision of cleansing, but now it is a cleansed heart by God’s Spirit in regeneration and rebirth (Romans 2:28-29, Galatians 6:15, Colossians 2:11).  The principle applies now among God’s people, but circumcision and the Passover are no longer necessary, as we all together are His people in Christ and remember our deliverance from the bondage of sin as Jesus led us all out of it to be His.  So we should all follow this example who have been led out of the bondage of darkness into His marvelous light of freedom and fellowship and not bound by the Law’s remembrances and celebrations (Galatians 5:1-2, Romans 2:28-29, Colossians 2:11, 16-17).  This then is the passing over to be remembered, that we who are sinners justly deserving judgement and condemnation by God’s wrath on our sin have been delivered with the hope of the Firstborn from the dead and Firstfruit of eternal life, Jesus the Christ, our hope of glory!