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Unleavened Bread

Words of Faith Final

Unleavened Bread
Words of Faith 10-20-2022
Dr. Jeffrey D. Hoy © 2022
Jeff.Hoy@faithfellowshipweb.com
Faith Fellowship Church - Melbourne, FL
www.faithfellowshipweb.com
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Exodus 12
[14] "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord--a lasting ordinance. [15] For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. [16] On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat--that is all you may do.
[17] "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. [18] In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. [19] For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born. [20] Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."

After God gave instructions to Moses regarding the remembrance of these events through the feast of Passover, He then gave instructions for a second feast-- the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Together, these would serve as a national celebration of God's redemption of Israel from Egypt.
Passover was to be observed on one night followed by the 7-day feast of Unleavened Bread. The Passover and the Unleavened Bread feasts were so closely connected that the two were often considered as one feast. No bread with yeast (leaven) was to be eaten for seven days. Homes were to be meticulously cleansed of yeast.
Throughout Scripture, yeast is virtually always a symbol of sin. Yeast itself is not unclean, or it would not have been eaten at all. Jesus talked about yeast as a symbol of sin, and the Kingdom of God (Matthew 13:33), and as an example of the bad teaching of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:12). Yeast serves as a powerful image because of the way it works through a batch of food. It only takes the tiniest amount of yeast to change an entire batch of dough. In the same way, we may cleanse our lives of 99.9% of sin, but that tiny fragment we leave behind can infect the whole.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a powerful reminder of the way that sin must be cleansed entirely from us, or it is not cleansed at all. The New Testament fulfillment of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is found in the burial of Jesus following His sacrifice as the Passover Lamb. He was placed in the tomb shortly before the first moments of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Jesus was the unleavened bread. "I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven: if any man eat of this Bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world" (John 6:51). Jesus became "sin for us... that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21). We remember this cleansing work of Jesus when we share in the Lord's Supper.
Today, we can rejoice in knowing that our relationship with God is not dependent upon our ability to cleanse our spiritual house from the yeast of sin. Jesus has done this for us-- entirely and perfectly. Our call is to trust in His completed work which we remember in the Lord's Supper.

Lord Jesus, I give thanks to You that You have cleansed my house from the yeast-like sin that so easily invades. Thank You for taking my sin upon Yourself so that I might walk in freedom. In Jesus' name.

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© Jeffrey D. Hoy 2022
Dr. Jeffrey D. Hoy - Faith Fellowship Church (EFCA)
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