Scripture
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Exodus 12:15
Observation
It was the night that nobody in the land of Goshen was supposed to sleep. The children of Israel had watched the power of God expressed in the previous six plagues, but now the horror of the seventh and final plague was to bring freedom to God’s people.
With the coming of the Passover, the head of the house must cleanse his house of all leaven. For seven days no leaven was to be seen in his house. All in the house must eat of unleavened bread from the first day until the seventh day. Anyone found with leavened food in their houses was to be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
Application
The Passover symbolized the freedom God wanted to give His people… but that feast was followed by six more days that focused on the fact that God’s kind of freedom required His people to REMOVE things from their lives and their homes.
Today, God continues to deliver people from the bondage of sin and sets them on a journey to the Promised Land. We need to be careful to remember that God is holy and everything associated with Him is also holy or sanctified.
For the people of God we should strive to remove all traces of leaven (sin) from our lives.
Prayer
Lord, please help me to remember how holy you are. I admit there are times when I am tempted to think sin is not that big of deal. Open my eyes and my heart to see the truth.
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When the Israelites were leaving Egypt, I found it interesting that the Lord gave them favor with the Egyptians. The Egyptians (those who chose to believe after all those miracles and curses) sent the Israelites off with gifts and lots of stuff. So it appears to me that even though they had it tough, they were witnessing for God. And their suffering, actually benefitted someone else as well. It's so powerful how God works. He said they'd see His mighty works, and they did.
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