THE CHRISTIAN PASSOVER
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Christian Passover
a) It was at the Passover meal that Jesus taught his disciples to observe the Lord’s Supper. “Jesus took bread and gave it to his disciples saying, 'This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me';” (Luke 22:19).
“Likewise he took the cup after supper saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood shed for you. Drink of it, all of you'” (Luke 22:20; Matthew 26:27).
b) We noted earlier that Moses and the Israelites ate the first Passover shortly before the event it commemorated. Likewise, Jesus and his disciples, at their last Passover together, ate the first Lord’s Supper shortly before the event it commemorated — his crucifixion.
2. Christ Our Passover
a) Paul sees the Passover lamb as a symbol of Christ who saves us from death. “Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump of dough, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).
b) Paul has in mind that Jesus was proclaimed, by John the Baptizer, to be "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29,36). Just as the Passover lamb’s blood saved the children of Israel from the plague of death, so the blood of Jesus is the means of atonement for the world.
“...The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanses us from all sin. If anyone sins we have an Advocate with the Father. He is Jesus Christ the Righteous. And he himself is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world” (1 John 1:7, 2:1-2).
3. How Christians Keep The Feast
a) Now going back to Paul's statement, he also makes the “unleavenedness” of the Passover bread a metaphor for the Christian life: “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:8).
b) Here Paul is thinking of leaven as a metaphor for wickedness. He suggests that followers of Christ observe a feast of unleavened bread every day of the year not just for seven days. In Jesus Christ, we “keep the feast” (1 Corinthians 5:8) by practicing good works and “keeping ourselves unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).
The End ...
1. The Christian Passovera) It was at the Passover meal that Jesus taught his disciples to observe the Lord’s Supper. “Jesus took bread and gave it to his disciples saying, 'This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me';” (Luke 22:19).
“Likewise he took the cup after supper saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood shed for you. Drink of it, all of you'” (Luke 22:20; Matthew 26:27).
b) We noted earlier that Moses and the Israelites ate the first Passover shortly before the event it commemorated. Likewise, Jesus and his disciples, at their last Passover together, ate the first Lord’s Supper shortly before the event it commemorated — his crucifixion.
a) Paul sees the Passover lamb as a symbol of Christ who saves us from death. “Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump of dough, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).
b) Paul has in mind that Jesus was proclaimed, by John the Baptizer, to be "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29,36). Just as the Passover lamb’s blood saved the children of Israel from the plague of death, so the blood of Jesus is the means of atonement for the world.
“...The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanses us from all sin. If anyone sins we have an Advocate with the Father. He is Jesus Christ the Righteous. And he himself is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world” (1 John 1:7, 2:1-2).
3. How Christians Keep The Feast
a) Now going back to Paul's statement, he also makes the “unleavenedness” of the Passover bread a metaphor for the Christian life: “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:8).
b) Here Paul is thinking of leaven as a metaphor for wickedness. He suggests that followers of Christ observe a feast of unleavened bread every day of the year not just for seven days. In Jesus Christ, we “keep the feast” (1 Corinthians 5:8) by practicing good works and “keeping ourselves unspotted from the world” (James 1:27).
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