Unleavened Bread: Separation from Sin (Lev. 23:6-8)

10/26/2008 7:31 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                    Focus:  Unleavened bread: separation from sin

Bible Reading & Meditation                                  Reference:  Leviticus 23:6-8

            Message of the verses:  “6  ‘Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.  7  ‘On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.  8  ‘But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”

            The feast of unleavened bread is described in the 12^th chapter of the book of Exodus and I have already written a SD about this feast, but will mention some things here in this SD.

            The feast began right after the Passover and it lasted for seven days.  The children of Israel were to make sure that there was no leaven in their homes for they were not to eat anything with leaven in it for the seven days of after Passover.  There are different passages in the Scripture that refer to leaven as sin and the reason is that it only takes a little leaven in the baking of bread to penetrate through the entire bread, and this causes the bread to rise, which in and of itself is not a bad thing.  The penetration of the small amount of leaven in the bread mixture is the example of how leaven and sin are similar because it may only take one person in a church assembly to begin to bring sin into the church and a few years latter the entire church is affected by that sin and could cause the church to be destroyed doctrinally and be unaffected for the cause of Christ forever. 

            The verses above describe how the Feast of Unleavened Bread is carried out and they are easily understood.  Jesus Christ, “The Passover Lamb,” was slain on Passover and was buried on the first day of this feast and raised three days latter and this demonstrates the salvation and the walk of the believer, for after salvation (Passover), the new child of God is to feast on the unleavened bread, (The Lord Jesus Christ), and thus they are to know that they are not to sin (eat leavened bread).

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I believe that the only way that I will be free from sinning is to feed on the Word of God as this feast from the OT has demonstrated to me.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. One of the things that will keep me from sinning other that feasting on the Word of God is to stay busy, and not spend my time doing things that are not profitable for my walk with the Lord, like watching too much TV.

Memory verses for the week:                                  Exodus 20:17 & Romans 6:1

17.    You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

6. What shall we say then?  Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
7. May it never be!  How shall we who died to sin sill live in it?

10/26/2008 8:15 AM