Don't Passover the Passover

Tonight at youth group, we took a little bit of time to look at the Passover festival (the first day of Passover is next Tuesday). For your information, it is the time when God literally "Passed Over" the houses of the Israelites, sparing the lives of their first born sons. Those who did not have the door painted in the blood of a lamb/goat lost their first born son. It is amazing how such a catastrophic event had to take place before Israel was granted its freedom from Egyptian bondage. In Exodus 12, the Israelites leave Egypt, the men alone totaling 600,000. If this is a population captive to a higher power in another nation, how many of Egypt's citizens died as a result of the Passover events?

I think the thing that amazes me is the Power of God to free his people from captivity. He freed the Israelites from the physical captivity of slavery to the Egyptians, and he frees me from the spiritual captivity of my sin. God is so good indeed!