A Little Leaven...pt 1

"Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
- 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

For years I never noticed this verse (mainly because I hardly read my bible!), but when I did begin to dig into the Lord's Word I soon noticed this passage. When I did I couldn't believe what it said, that Christ is our Passover! As John said,

"Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
- John 1:29 Jesus, the Son of God, was/is also the spotless Lamb of God! Because of His sacrifice our sins have been forgiven and we are now heirs with Him according to His Word (Romans 3:24-26).

There is no longer a need to offer up a lamb at Passover because He has once, for all, cleansed us by His blood and because He is the Passover Lamb.

This does not do away with His Feasts, it only makes them more relevant as we seek to keep them.

Today as I write this it is the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. A feast in which we remember the death, burial, and resurrection of the spotless Lamb of God - Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ).

Every year the feasts become more and more real in the work that God is doing in our lives. He is constantly removing the leaven (sin) from us if we are willing to obey Him. However, during the feast itself the intensity of the spiritual warfare is almost exhausting, except for the fact that YAHWEH gives us strength.

He is without sin, yet He became sin for us so that we might be saved through His sacrifice and now He has given us His Holy Spirit to war against principalities and powers AND against our own flesh!

One passage of Scripture that the LORD has led me to over and over again is Romans 6,7, and 8. It seems especially powerful during this feast of Unleavened Bread when Christ, the Bread of Life, came to redeem us from the power of sin and proved He was without spot or blemish by resurrecting from the dead! Because of this, all who place their faith in Him, repent, and obey His Word are no longer slaves of sin, but slaves of righteousness.

Now we look unto His coming at the end of the age! He has fulfilled the feast of Firstfruits by His resurrection and He will resurrect us...His bride who is without spot IF we are cleansed by the washing of His Word.

"But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who are asleep."
- 1 Corinthians 15:20