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Luke 22 7-13 PREPARING FOR THE PASSOVER MEAL 02 Luke 22 7-9 Christ our Passover
📖 Luke 22:7-13
*FRIEND OF GOD*
Thu08Jul2021 - *Christ our Passover* - _Luke 22:7-13_ - PREPARING FOR THE PASSOVER MEAL (02) – Bible reading: _I Corinthians 5:6-8_
It is a privilege for us to be in the presence of our Master. The Lord has made everything available for us to live life to its fullest. We need to be in that intimate relationship with Him and walk before Him, pleasing Him in every way.
_Luke 22:7-9 Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. (8) And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." (9) So they said to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare?"_
_Exodus 12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel._
For the Jews, during this period of seven days of the Passover feast, leaven should be removed from their meals. The Jews are to eat only unleavened bread. This was an important part of the Passover festival.
It was such a serious matter that anyone who ate leavened bread, was to be cut off from the people. As a community, they were to eat only unleavened bread, during the Passover celebration.
The unleavened bread represents the body of our Lord Jesus. He is the one who is set apart. The one in whom there is no sin. His body was given to us.
_Romans 8:3-4 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: *He condemned sin in the flesh*, (4) that *the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit*._
*Out of our flesh, we cannot please God*.
The eating of unleavened bread symbolises our separation for God. This separation is not an external separation but it is an internal separation of the fleshly nature in us. This fleshly nature in us does not allow us to please God. This is why Jesus came and gave us His flesh for us to be separated for God.
_I Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, (2) that *he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God*._
Suffering in the flesh is not about body mutilation but is about separating ourselves from the lusts of the flesh and of the world. In order to please God. We cannot do this in our own strength and ability.
Jesus came and gave His body for us. When we receive His body, which is the unleavened bread, and we consume His body, by faith. That is when we are able to live a life of being separated unto God. We know that that life of separation is nothing but the life of living in the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the one who makes it a reality in our experience that the body of Jesus is now operational in us and we are able to live the life of being separated unto God. *The unleavened bread of the body of Jesus becomes a part of us*.
_I Corinthians 11:23-29 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; (24) and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "*Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me*." (25) In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." (26) For *as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death* till He comes. (27) Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (28) But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. (29) For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body._
*The unleavened bread in the Passover meal represents the body of Jesus that has been given to us for us to live a life that is separated unto God*.
_I Corinthians 5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (7) *Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us*. (8) *Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven*, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth._
The old leaven can come into us in different ways. We need to be on guard. For a little leaven, leavens the whole dough. The Holy Spirit will alert us when the old leaven seeks to come in. It is at that moment that we invite and yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, to live out the unleavened life of Jesus.
This experience of the unleavened life is not an individual experience only but this is the experience for us as a community. This is why the entire community of Israel were to eat unleavened bread during the Passover festival.
We are responsible to ensure that the body of the church, beginning with our own homes, is experiencing the life of being set apart for God.
*Thought to ponder*
```We are to partake of the Lord’s communion, often, so that we are regularly reminded of our life of being set apart for God.```