The Meaning of Unleavened Bread
In Scripture matzah is sometimes called "the bread of affliction" (Deut 16:3). However, it is not "of affliction" because it is unleavened but it is unleavened because it had been born out of affliction. In other words, since the Jews had no time to prepare their bread on account of their affliction, the bread had no time to rise. The matzah, then, is not so much the remembrance of bondage as of the deliverance from bondage, and that which had originally been of affliction now became, on account of God's deliverance, the token of freedom...
Matzah also represents purity, since chametz is a metaphor of sin. None of Egypt's leaven was to pervade it; all the old leaven was to be entirely purged from their homes and lives. Chag HaMatzot, then, both memorializes Israel's deliverance from a life of slavery under Pharaoh after the sacrifice of the Passover lamb, but it also represents the Christian's deliverance from a life of sin under Satan after the sacrifice of Yeshua the Mashiach, the "Lamb of God." The prophetic and symbolic lesson of ridding your life of the leaven of Egypt is that you get rid of sin and replace it with purity and humility. Upon redemption, we are to become a sanctified, "unleavened people."
In 1 Corinthians 5:6 we read: "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?" Sin has a "leavening" influence upon the soul: you simply cannot include a little sin in your life without it affecting your whole spiritual life. Hidden sin (i.e., hypocrisy) spreads like spiritual corruption throughout the body and will eventually be exposed. As Jesus has said, "Nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light" (Luke 8:17).
Cleanse out the old leaven that
you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our
Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the
festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:7-8)
Here the apostle Paul enjoins you to undergo your own inward bedikat chametz
and become a "new lump" - that is, a new substance that is untainted by
the sour and rotting influences of your past life. Since the Mashiach
has been sacrificed as your Passover Lamb, you are a new creation, made
"unleavened" by the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore put away from
you the old nature - the yetser ha'ra - and purge from you the
old leaven of Egypt that inwardly cankers you and makes you sick. Walk
without hypocrisy in the truth of the love of God for your soul. Amen.
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