Unleavened Bread: The Sinless Life and Burial of Jesus
Pastor Stephen Harvell
Part of The Lord's Festivals
March 14, 2021

I. Jesus’ Sinless Life and

Exodus 12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast [unleavened]. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

II. Our Determination to

Exodus 12:17 Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Don’t you know that a little yeast [sin] works through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast [sin] that you may be a new batch without yeast [sin] — as you really are [by faith in Christ]. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast [sin], the yeast [sin] of malice and wickedness [lingering sinful attitudes & actions], but with bread without yeast [sin], the bread of sincerity and truth [following Jesus’ teaching & example].

III. Christ’s Church and

1 Corinthians 11:23 … The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me” … 27 … whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing [perceiving the difference] the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment [legally guilty, due punishment] on himself. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment … 33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for each other. 34 If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment …

Three Worthy Manners for Taking Communion:

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Christ’s Sacrifice

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the Church is Christ’s Body

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of Our Known Sin