TOPIC: LIVING AN UNLEAVENED LIFE
Text: Exodus 12:14-22
12:14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you.
12:17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
12:19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
STUDY:
God ordained the Passover as a sacred solemn festivity of Unleavened Bread for His people. Unleavened bread is prepared without any rising agent(e.g. yeast);while leavened bread is puffier and less dense. God gave specific instructions for the people-they would have a holy assembly on the first and seventh day; they would observe this festival when they settled in their land as an everlasting ordinance and a memorial to commemorate their release from slavery in Egypt. Only unleavened bread should be taken for those seven days of the Festival. Moses finally instructed the elders to kill the Passover Lamb and mark their door posts and lintel with the blood, so that the destroyer would not enter the marked houses at the sight of the blood.
Spiritually, a leavened life connotes one that is artificial, decked with many beautiful ornaments externally but lacking in spiritual substance (Gal. 5:22; 2 Tim. 3:5). A leavened life is less dense internally but superficially puffed. In the book, The Purpose Driven Life, Pastor Rick Warren exhorts us to go for significance, instead of prominence. He stated that believers are called to be spiritually significant and not necessarily prominent. The Lord will not accept a leavened sacrifice. The call is to present our lives as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:2). Are you a faithful child of God? Is your life leavened or unleavened?
Prayer:
Lord, purge me of every ‘leaven.’ Make me and mold me in Jesus’name, Amen.
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