I'd Like to Protest Against the Good Friday Fast with Some Passover Lamb For Dinner

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It's Good Friday and I think about what Charles H. Spurgeon had said in his sermon where he said these meaningful words:
The Lord of life and glory was nailed to the accursed tree. He died by the act of guilty men. We, by our sins, crucified the Son of God. 
We might have expected that, in remembrance of his death, we should have been called to a long, sad, rigorous fast. Do not many men think so even today? See how they observe Good Friday, a sad, sad day to many; yet our Lord has never enjoined our keeping such a day, or bidden us to look back upon his death under such a melancholy aspect. 
Instead of that, having passed out from under the old covenant into the new, and resting in our risen Lord, who once was slain, we commemorate his death by a festival most joyous. It came over the Passover, which was a feast of the Jews; but unlike that feast, which was kept by unleavened bread, this feast is brimful of joy and gladness. It is composed of bread and of wine, without a trace of bitter herbs, or anything that suggests sorrow and grief. … 
The memorial of Christ’s death is a festival, not a funeral; and we are to come to the table with gladsome hearts and go away from it with praises, for “after supper they sang a hymn” [Matt 26:30, Mark 14:26].

Yes there may be no trace of bitter herbs but I think about how they play a huge part in cooking some tasty dishes. Some people may complain that the bitter herbs have a strong smell. Some may be happy that they are no longer under the Old Testament. What they haven't seen is the wonderful plan of God's healthier diet in Leviticus and the health benefit of bitter herbs. These bitter herbs may taste bitter all the while they actually make certain dishes delicious when cooked right. Such a dish would be the Jewish or Middle Eastern way of preparing roasted lamb or goat for Passover.

I find it so absurd to commemorate the death of Jesus by abstaining from meat. 1 Timothy 4:1-3 warns of the following:
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Yup, the Bible that in the latter times that there will be so much apostasy. The Roman Catholic institution is a good picture of the Pharisees in Matthew 23. One of the most unnecessary burden they have done has been to forbid their Pharisees to marry, to let the faithful abstain from meat during Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all of the Fridays of Lent. But Good Friday commemorates the death of Christ which was on Passover. Passover was a time to eat the Passover lamb. When Jesus finished His work on the cross - it was at 3 P.M. that very afternoon when the Passover lamb was slain. It would be so absurd to abstain from meat on a day when it was time to eat lamb that's roasted with bitter herbs!

It would be a fun way for some Christians to actually try and remember the finished work of Jesus on the cross - by getting together and having a roast lamb dinner with unleavened bread. No, I don't suggest that Christians should collect the blood from the lamb and paint on their doorposts. Jesus is already the Passover. It's already finished. This is simply a fun activity that a church may want to have to get together, have a fellowship and singing hymns. There would be the grace before meals and some hymns about the blood of Jesus will be sung after supper. 

What hymns would I suggest to be sang after the lamb dinner with one's fellow Christians? I would suggest these songs to name a few of them:
  • Alas Did My Savior Bleed
  • Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
  • At the Cross
  • Down at the Cross
  • I've Been Redeemed (By the Blood of the Lamb)
  • Jesus Paid it All
  • Nothing But the Blood
  • The Old Rugged Cross
  • There is a Fountain 
  • Victory in Jesus

Every Good Friday, I just can't help but be thankful that if Jesus didn't die for me, I would still be lost in sin and I would have no hope. Maybe, I would still be offering animal sacrifices. But Jesus gave His very blood on the cross. He bled and died. He paid it all. How can I want to still live in sin that He took my place? That's the Good Friday I celebrate - I celebrate what has been done once and for all to defeat sin and Satan on the cross!

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