“Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.”
Exodus 12:15 KJV
Starting with the Passover, the important feast of unleavened bread continues for seven days when the Jews had to remove every trace of leaven from their homes or risk being cut off. Leaven is the sin in our life. For us, Christ our Passover and every trace of sin is removed from our life by the Holy Spirit, with our conscious cooperation. The Corinthian church was sanctified in Christ as an unleavened lump. Yet they would tolerate sin and Paul rebuked them for it. To fully experience our Calvary victory today, we keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. In Christ, we have His purity because of the tremendous cleansing and purging power of His Blood. Satan has no legal ground to harm us when we are in Christ walking in purity. Keeping the unleavened bread festival allowed the Jews to enter into God’s full blessings. That life which denies the miracle working power of life in Christ, which is the Gospel, is leaven. Let’s remove leaven (sin, compromise, corruption) and partake of the Bread of Life as a joyful celebration. Amen!
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