Yeastless

Friday night begins the week-long feast of unleavened bread.

I wrote most of this a year ago:

Exodus 12:14-20; 13:6-10

"Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast - as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth." 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

It is interesting that God commanded aliens and foreigners to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but commanded that only Jews and converted foreigners eat the passover meal (The Lamb). Most of us are familiar with the symbolic significance of the passover lamb and Christ. And it was in his sacrifice that Messiah brought unity between Jews and Gentiles who trust in him.

It is required for all people of all times to get the yeast out. As a person goes throughout the house searching for crumbs of leavened bread to throw out, they are also praying and searching their heart for sins to get rid of. Traditionally, Jews use a candle, a feather, and a wooden spoon in their search for leaven. What do you think these items might symbolize?

Even the small and/or hidden sins can have a devastating effect on the whole of our being.

Try going a week without leavened bread, maybe even go buy some matzah; and at each meal when you decide not to have a burger, sandwich, or a roll, ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart for crumbs of malice and wickedness and to fill you with sincerity and truth.