"you shall keep this service in this month. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth" - Exodus 13: 5-9
The Israelites were to eat only unleavened bread every year during Passover to remember the Exodus from Egyptian bondage. Since the children of Israel left Egypt quickly, they did not have time for the bread to rise as you do when baking with yeast, so it was made on the first Passover without leaven or yeast.
"Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt" - Deuteronomy 16:3
As Christians we also need reminders about what God has done and is doing in our lives. We can easily treat God like we do electricity or water. It is always there and so we give it no thought until the lights don't come on or there is no water when we open the faucet. Israel needed a reminder every year that apart from God's intervention, they would still be in Egypt. In the same way, we need frequent reminders that apart from God's intervention, we would still be lost and headed for hell.
Jesus is our Passover Lamb. His blood is on the doorposts of our lives. When the final judgement happens - we will be passed over. You would think that meeting on Sundays would be enough - but that enough can become a spiritually empty ritual. It can become something we do on Sunday. We meet on Sunday because that is the day that Jesus rose from the grave. And so Sunday should be a celebration - a reminder of what God the Father has done through Jesus - His Son. A day of rejoicing.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." - John 3:16-18
Think about it – Pray about it – Believe it – Confess it - Walk in it. Let your light shine and give God the glory.
By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For His Glory Alone
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