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YE ARE UNLEAVENED (II)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11
1 Corinthians 5:1-8

1 Corinthians 5:7

 

“For even Christ our passover

is sacrificed for us.”

 

YE ARE UNLEAVENED (II)
 
In order to keep our Christian life pure from “leaven,” Paul reminds us of our Lord Jesus, the Passover Lamb, “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” What is the Passover? When the Israelites were under the bondage of slavery in Egypt, God sent Moses to lead them out (Exod 2-3). Although Moses performed miracles and carried out God’s judgment upon Egypt, Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go. In the end, God sent the last plague, the death of the first born of both men and animal in the land of Egypt. God instructed His people to take a lamb without blemish, kill it and take its blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses in the evening. And that night, the angel of the Lord passed through the land of Egypt and killed all the first born, but passed over the houses with the token of the blood on the doors. They were also seriously instructed to put leaven out of their houses and to eat unleavened bread for seven days (Exod 12:19). Only with this plague, Pharaoh let the people of Israel go.
 
When on earth, Jesus performed many miracles to prove that He was the Messiah sent by God. He knew that His miracles could not save any soul. Religious leaders today claim that they may draw people to Christ through signs and wonders. However, miracles, signs and wonders can never deliver any soul from the power of sin and Satan. Only the Passover sacrifice, the Lamb of God, our Lord Jesus and His blood and His Truth can set us free from the power of sin and Satan.
 
Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night He was arrested. While other Jews killed the lambs for the Passover, our Lord Jesus knew that He was that Lamb and that Sacrifice (Matt 26:26-28; 1 Cor 11:23-25). As Jesus commanded, the Lord’s Supper is an ordinance we are to keep in place of the Passover. “Therefore let us keep the feast.” Are we keeping the feast now? How can we keep the feast? The requirement is: “as ye are unleavened.” Are we unleavened?
 
THOUGHT: Only Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, is our Passover Sacrifice.

PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee for Thy sacrifice.

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