UNLEAVENED BREAD Part 2 TWO ELEMENTS Fruit of

UNLEAVENED BREAD Part 2

TWO ELEMENTS ■ Fruit of the vine (Mt. 26: 29; Mk. 14: 25; Lk. 22: 18) ■ Unleavened bread (Mt. 26: 17; Mk. 14: 12; Lk. 22: 7)

PREVIOUSLY OBSERVED ABOUT THE UNLEAVENED BREAD ■ Reminder of the quick exit (Ex. 12: 39; Deut. 16: 3 -4) ■ Reminder of being freed from captivity

UNLEAVENED In the OT Ex. 29: 1 -2 – At priests’ consecration 1 “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to minister as priests to Me: take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

UNLEAVENED In the OT Lev. 2: 4 -6 – at the grain offering 4 ‘Now when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil. 5 ‘If your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil; 6 you shall break it into bits and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

UNLEAVENED In the OT Lev. 10: 12 10 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that is left over from the LORD’S offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

UNLEAVENED In the NT Matthew 16: 6 -7, 11 -12 6 And Jesus said to them, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ” 7 They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, “He said that because we did not bring any bread. ” 11 “How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. ” 12 Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching

UNLEAVENED In the NT Galatians 5: 7 -9 7 You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leavens the whole lump of dough.

UNLEAVENED In the NT I Corinthians 5: 6 -8 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 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. 8 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.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 1. It reminds us of Jesus’ innocence (Heb. 7: 26; 4: 15; I Pet. 2: 21 -22; II Cor. 5: 21) 2. It reminds us of our goal – As a church (I Cor. 5: 6 -8) – As a daily, individual commitment (II Cor. 6: 17 – 7: 1; Jam. 1: 27)

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. I Corinthians 5: 8