Don't Forget!
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Intro
Intro
Church historian Clare Davis describes Christian life as “a combination of amnesia and deja vu.”
we forget the lessons God has taught us only later to remember, “Oh yeah, I remember forgetting this before.”
Israel and the church, mankind really, forgets. we forget what God has taught us over and over again.
So he gives us reminders just as he did the Israelites, he gave them festivals to remind them of important things.
Feast of Unleavened bread
Feast of Unleavened bread
The passover and the feast of unleavened bread are not one and the same. They are both a part of a week long celebration
The purpose of the passover
salvation
blood spilt for sin
God looked down and saw payment for sin was made
The people looked up and saw their sin was covered
what is unleavened bread
remember friendship bread?
you had to use part of the starter for each batch, or it would never work
that small piece of leavened dough would incorporate into the new batch causing it to rise
Israelites would save some the leavened dough from the day before and use it for that days bread
But for this festival they could not
why?
had to leave in a hurry and did not have time for bread to rise
Leaven and sin
Scripture in both new and old testaments, use leaven as a picture of sin
as the yeast spreads through all the dough causing it all to rise
so does sin. a little sin in our lives infests and grows until either it is removed, or it infests every part of us.
hold on to one sin you find yourself compromising time and time again
1 Cor 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
In the middle of talking about the passover, Moses was instructed to declare this feast of unleavened bread
the passover was to remind them that God saved them from Egypt, that he passed over their sin
this feast was to remind them of how quickly that sin can spread in their lives
God was going to free them from out of Egypt, but he also wanted to take the Egypt out of them
Sanctification
Sanctification
its sanctification
What is it?
they were to clean their homes to be sure there was no leaven anywhere to be found
not even a speck!
one small amount would spoil the entire house
if someone did not do this they were to be removed
in other words kicked out of the family, no longer an Israelite, no longer Jewish
After their salvation there was a removal of sin and check to make sure that it is all gone
for a little sin can come in and destroy and infect the entire home
Sanctification is the same process for us
it is the working out of our salvation
it is the seeking within our hearts and minds for the sins that would infect
Making sure we are repenting and not just being sorry
we have a tendency to hold back a secret sin or some harboring anger or hatred towards someone else
those sins can spread to other things in our hearts and minds, causing us to fall for more temptations and going further and further from our Lord and Savior.
2 Tim 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
we have a holy calling, we are to live a holy life.
we will fail from time to time, so we must repent and turn away from that sin, removed that leaven from our hearts, and once again be clean.