Healing the Soul and Mind (Unleavened Bread Shows Us the Sinless Christ)

Unleavened Bread (Chag Hamotzi) illustrates Jesus' sinless life and burial. Leaven (consider the involvement and impact of chametz [hametz] often symbolizes sin; Jesus was the "Bread of Life" without sin (leaven), whose body was placed in the grave during this Feast. This Festival lasts seven-days and begins immediately after Passover (the very next day). It involves removing leaven (the symbolism is raw) from the home. It connects to the burial of Messiah, representing the removal of our sin, but only because His life is sinless.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread begins immediately [the next day] after Passover and lasts seven days. You see this in Leviticus 23:6. If you are the grafted-in believer, or spiritually adopted by faith and obedience to Jesus, it answers a simple question: If the Lamb has redeemed me, what kind of life should follow? Scripture often uses leaven as a picture of something that spreads—most commonly sin, hypocrisy, and corrupted teaching. That is why the LORD commanded Israel to remove leaven from their homes during this Feast. This is a lived out parable of separation from Egypt’s old life. Paul utilizes that same lesson to believers in Messiah: “Let us keep the feast… with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” –1 Corinthians 5:8

This does not mean you earn salvation by cleaning yourself up first; it means redemption produces a new pattern of life, because Messiah is sinless. He is the true “Bread of Life” without corruption. His burial during this Feast underscores that His body saw no moral decay, and His people are called to walk in that same sincerity. –John 6:35 & 1 Peter 1:15–16

Many Jacob related people and grafted-in believers use this week to examine their lives, repent of tolerated sin, remove corrupting influences, and renew devotion to GOD. It is a commanded remembrance. It is not to be treated like an occasion for gluttony, or just a ritual, but to embody what the Feast proclaims, “the old leaven of Egypt must not remain in a redeemed house.”

Over the years, in my pursuit of the Father and His Son, by the leadership of the Ruach of GOD (Holy Spirit), I have come to see more of what I have been missing. I am a grafted-in believer in Christ. The Week of Unleavened Bread serves as a sacred time of reflection, for me. It is a 7 day stretch that is dedicated to examining my life. 

Every year I see and experience the difficulty of living a submitted life of character and holiness unto my King!

I have found the value of the struggle and the commitment a person [“I”] am to make.