Don't Forget!

Intro

Church historian Clare Davis describes Christian life as “a combination of amnesia and deja vu.”

we forget the lessons God has taught us only later to remember, “Oh yeah, I remember forgetting this before.”

Israel and the church, mankind really, forgets. we forget what God has taught us over and over again.

So he gives us reminders just as he did the Israelites, he gave them festivals to remind them of important things.

Feast of Unleavened bread

The passover and the feast of unleavened bread are not one and the same. They are both a part of a week long celebration

The purpose of the passover

salvation

blood spilt for sin

God looked down and saw payment for sin was made

The people looked up and saw their sin was covered

what is unleavened bread

remember friendship bread?

you had to use part of the starter for each batch, or it would never work

that small piece of leavened dough would incorporate into the new batch causing it to rise

Israelites would save some the leavened dough from the day before and use it for that days bread

But for this festival they could not

why?

had to leave in a hurry and did not have time for bread to rise

Leaven and sin

Scripture in both new and old testaments, use leaven as a picture of sin

as the yeast spreads through all the dough causing it all to rise

so does sin. a little sin in our lives infests and grows until either it is removed, or it infests every part of us.

hold on to one sin you find yourself compromising time and time again

1 Cor 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

In the middle of talking about the passover, Moses was instructed to declare this feast of unleavened bread

the passover was to remind them that God saved them from Egypt, that he passed over their sin

this feast was to remind them of how quickly that sin can spread in their lives

God was going to free them from out of Egypt, but he also wanted to take the Egypt out of them

Sanctification

its sanctification

What is it?

they were to clean their homes to be sure there was no leaven anywhere to be found

not even a speck!

one small amount would spoil the entire house

if someone did not do this they were to be removed

in other words kicked out of the family, no longer an Israelite, no longer Jewish

After their salvation there was a removal of sin and check to make sure that it is all gone

for a little sin can come in and destroy and infect the entire home

Sanctification is the same process for us

it is the working out of our salvation

it is the seeking within our hearts and minds for the sins that would infect

Making sure we are repenting and not just being sorry

we have a tendency to hold back a secret sin or some harboring anger or hatred towards someone else

those sins can spread to other things in our hearts and minds, causing us to fall for more temptations and going further and further from our Lord and Savior.

2 Tim 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

we have a holy calling, we are to live a holy life.

we will fail from time to time, so we must repent and turn away from that sin, removed that leaven from our hearts, and once again be clean.