Old Testament Bread
Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth… 1 Corinthians 5:8
As mostly gentile as my audience tends to be, it’s not in our best interest to celebrate Passover because it’s neither our culture or terribly relevant to us anymore, as it was to Paul and the Jews of his time.
So what has this got to do with us today?
The passover is a festival celebrated in remembrance of the Angel of Death passing over the Israelites, and instead giving out death to the firstborn of every Egyptian family at the time. To us, that’s reminiscent of Christ saving us from death.
Death that we did deserve, as did every Egyptian child - and every Israelite child; for humankind was deserving of no less thanks to Adam. However, God, in his great love, gave us a way out.
There’s something else I want you to think about - in regards to missions, shouldn’t this give us a greater urgency to make sure God’s good news is spread to every man, woman, and child?
