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In addition to the roasted lamb and bitter herbs, the Passover meal was to include unleavened bread, or bread without yeast. For 14 days, all yeast had to be completely purged from every Hebrew home.
On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel…
Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel. Do no eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes (Exodus 12:15, 19-20).
Why such a strong injunction against breads containing yeast? In the Scriptures, yeast serves as a metaphor for sin (Matthew 16:6-12; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; Galatians 5:9). Specific to the story of the Exodus, yeast represents the sinfulness of Egypt that the Israelites are to leave behind. Like yeast, the sinfulness of Egypt could spread & stay with them long after their deliverance. When they leave in haste carrying bread that wouldn’t have had time to rise if leavened, it is to be symbolic of leaving behind the yeast of Egypt.
Idolatry? Leave it behind.
Oppression of others for personal gain? Leave it behind.
Grasping for power even to the point of denying & defying God? Leave it behind.
Today, those of us delivered from the bondage of sin & made free in Christ Jesus likewise are called to leave the yeast of our old life behind (Romans 6; Galatians 5).
Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.
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Read the Bible: Psalm 93
The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed, enveloped in strength.
The world is firmly established;
it cannot be shaken.
2 Your throne has been established
from the beginning;
you are from eternity.
3 The floods have lifted up, LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their pounding waves.
4 Greater than the roar of a huge torrent —
the mighty breakers of the sea —
the LORD on high is majestic.
5 LORD, your testimonies are completely reliable;
holiness adorns your house
for all the days to come.
Psalms 93:1-5 (CSB)
Read the Bible: Psalm 92
It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
to sing praise to your name, Most High,
2 to declare your faithful love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night,
3 with a ten-stringed harp
and the music of a lyre.
4 For you have made me rejoice, LORD,
by what you have done;
I will shout for joy
because of the works of your hands.
5 How magnificent are your works, LORD,
how profound your thoughts!
…
12 The righteous thrive like a palm tree
and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of the LORD,
they thrive in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit in old age,
healthy and green,
15 to declare, “The LORD is just;
he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
Psalms 92:1-5, 12-15 (CSB)
Read all of Psalm 92 using the link below.
Read the Bible: Psalm 91
The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say concerning the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress,
my God in whom I trust:
3 He himself will rescue you from the bird trap,
from the destructive plague.
4 He will cover you with his feathers;
you will take refuge under his wings.
His faithfulness will be a protective shield.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
the arrow that flies by day,
6 the plague that stalks in darkness,
or the pestilence that ravages at noon.
7 Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.
8 You will only see it with your eyes
and witness the punishment of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD — my refuge,
the Most High — your dwelling place,
10 no harm will come to you;
no plague will come near your tent.
11 For he will give his angels orders concerning you,
to protect you in all your ways.
12 They will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the young lion and the serpent.
Psalms 91:1-13 (CSB)
Continue reading all of Psalm 91 using the link below.
Sunday School is for All Ages!
The Passover meal described in Exodus 12 came with a very detailed menu rich with meaning. In addition to a roasted lamb or goat (unblemished, about a year old, see Exodus 12:3-6), and unleavened bread, Israel was commanded to eat bitter herbs. Why would God desire that His people taste bitterness as part of a permanent memorial of deliverance?
In Exodus 1:13-14, we read a description of the enslavement of Jacob’s descendants by the Egyptians:
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
Bitter herbs are meant to perpetually remind Israel of the bitterness of her former bondage. Annually, as they intentionally take bitterness upon their tongues, God’s people are to remember what it was like to be trapped in bitter enslavement.
Why? Because it doesn’t take us long to get out of a bitter season and begin to look back on it with rose colored glasses (which Israel will almost immediately do!). We need constant reminders to not turn back, but to remain in gratitude for our own deliverance from the bitter enslavement of sin.
Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.
Read the Bible: Psalm 90
Lord, you have been our refuge
in every generation.
2 Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity, you are God.
3 You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”
4 For in your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.
5 You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning —
6 in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.
7 For we are consumed by your anger;
we are terrified by your wrath.
8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 For all our days ebb away under your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.
10 Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
11 Who understands the power of your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due you.
12 Teach us to number our days carefully
so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.
Psalms 90:1-12 (CSB)
Continue reading all of Psalm 90 using the link below.
REMEMBER: Honor a Father Figure
Absolute deadline to submit: June 9, 2024
The fifth of the Ten Commandments instructs Christ followers to give honor to those who have served as mother or father figures. There are countless ways to follow this commandment and ahead of Father’s Day (June 16), we’d like to offer one more.
Use the button below to read more and to submit information for a father figure you would like to give honor.
Questions? Contact us.