How to Really Celebrate A Happy New Year!
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I. Introduction
I. Introduction
Since this weekend marks the beginning of a new year, I wanted to find a Scripture text that coincides with this holiday. Unfortunately, there really aren’t very many passages in the Bible that explicitly talk about New Years Day. There is one though that I found that speaks about a new year and I’m praying that you will see that with me today and rejoice with me as I explain from the Scriptures “How to Really Celebrate A Happy New Year!” Look with me at 1 Corinthians 5:7b-8.
Since this weekend marks the beginning of a new year, I wanted to find a Scripture text that coincides with this holiday. Unfortunately, there really aren’t very many passages in the Bible that explicitly talk about New Years Day. There is one though that I found that speaks about a new year and I’m praying that you will see that with me today and rejoice with me as I explain from the Scriptures “How to Really Celebrate A Happy New Year!” Look with me at 1 Corinthians 5:7b-8.
7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
As we dive into this text today, it is important to remember that the Old Testament is foundational to our understanding of the New Testament. Jesus Himself said to the Jews:
As we dive into this text today, it is important to remember that the Old Testament is foundational to our understanding of the New Testament. Jesus Himself said to the Jews:
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
II. Christ is our Passover Lamb. (v. 7b)
II. Christ is our Passover Lamb. (v. 7b)
In 1 Cor 5:7b, The Apostle Paul asserts that Christ is our Passover lamb and that He has been sacrificed.
In 1 Cor 5:7b, The Apostle Paul asserts that Christ is our Passover lamb and that He has been sacrificed.
7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
To understand this concept of Passover, we look to the Old Testament to see its institution and significance.
To understand this concept of Passover, we look to the Old Testament to see its institution and significance.
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.
4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
III. Christ has been sacrificed. (v. 7b)
III. Christ has been sacrificed. (v. 7b)
IV. What Christ’s work on our behalf does. (v. 8)
IV. What Christ’s work on our behalf does. (v. 8)
8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
A. The reason to celebrate the redemption we have in Him.
A. The reason to celebrate the redemption we have in Him.
B. The reason to change one’s life.
B. The reason to change one’s life.
