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As the unleavened bread, Christ is for us to live a pure church life (1 Cor. 5:7-8):
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In the church there should be no leaven, which in the Bible signifies all negative things, such as wrong doctrines and practices, evil deeds, and sinful things.
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We need to be a new lump (v. 7)—the church, composed of believers in their new nature.
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The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasting for seven days signifies the entire course of our Christian life (Lev. 23:8):
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The course of our Christian life is a feast of unleavened bread, a feast without sin (1 Cor. 5:8).
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We have been redeemed from sin, and now our Redeemer, who is without sin, is the feast for our entire life (2 Cor. 5:21).
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Throughout the course of our Christian life, we should be enjoying rest, enjoying God, and enjoying our Redeemer.
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Having a holy convocation on the first and last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with no work of labor, signifies that we enjoy Christ corporately without our human labor, from the first day until the last day of the course of our Christian life (Lev. 23:8).
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The presenting of an offering by fire to Jehovah for seven days (a full course of time) signifies that we offer Christ as food to God continually through the full course of our Christian life (v. 8):
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At the Lord's table we make a display to the entire universe that each day of the week we take Christ as our unleavened bread, as our life supply apart from sin, and that we come to the table with Him (1 Cor. 5:7-8).
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Then we offer to God for His satisfaction the One whom we have been enjoying as our food (John 6:32-33, 48, 50-57).
Morning Nourishment
2 Cor. 5:21 Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
From the time of our regeneration, we began to have a new constitution. Christ as the unleavened bread became our unleavened food to reconstitute us so that we may become a new lump, the church....Now we have become a new lump because we are becoming unleavened. As the unleavened bread He causes us to be unleavened constitutionally, making us a new lump, a lump without leaven. This means that we become a new creation without sin (2 Cor. 5:17). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3147)
Today's Reading
The history of the children of Israel is a full type of our Christian life in the church life. The children of Israel did not live individualistically; on the contrary, they lived, camped, traveled, and fought battles together. Their corporate life typifies our life in the church. After experiencing the passover, they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This indicates that we also should keep this feast. The church life is a feast of unleavened bread. For this reason, any leaven must be purged out of the church.In order to live a life without sin, we must daily eat Christ as unleavened bread. Since we are what we eat, if we eat unleavened bread, we will eventually become constituted with unleavened bread. Then we will live an unleavened life.
First Corinthians 5:8 reveals that Christ is the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. As the unleavened bread, Christ is for us to live a pure church life. In the church there should be no leaven, which in the Bible signifies all the negative things such as wrong doctrines and practices, evil deeds, and sinful things.
Although in Christ we are unleavened, according to our natural being we are full of leaven. The crucial question is whether we eat unleavened bread or leavened bread. In other words, do we live Christ or do we live ourselves? If we live Christ, we eat unleavened bread, but if we live ourselves, we eat leavened bread.
In 1 Corinthians 5:7 Paul charges us to purge out the old leaven that we may be a new lump, even as we are unleavened. We need to be a new lump, which refers to the church, composed of the believers in their new nature. We are unleavened in Christ and should live according to Him, not according to ourselves. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3147, 3145)
Our Redeemer, who is without sin, is the feast for our entire life as believers. We should enjoy rest, enjoy God, and enjoy our Redeemer, apart from sin, for our entire life. (Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 2, p. 94)
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the people were to have a holy convocation and not do any work of labor (Lev. 23:7). This signifies that from the very beginning of the course of our Christian life we enjoy Christ corporately as our feast, without our human labor.
For seven days the people were to present an offering by fire to God (v. 8a). This signifies that we offer Christ as food to God continually through the full course of our Christian life. Christ is our food. After we enjoy Him as food, He becomes our offering to God to be food for God. At the Lord's table we make a display to the entire universe that during the week we take Christ as our unleavened food, as our life supply apart from sin, and that we come to the table with Him. Then we offer to God for His satisfaction the One we have been enjoying as our food. In so doing, we experience Him as our enjoyment.
On the seventh day also the people were to have a holy convocation and not do any work of labor (v. 8b). This signifies that we continue to enjoy Christ corporately, without our human labor, until the last day of the course of our Christian life. (Life-study of Leviticus, p. 470)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 309