Our Passover Lamb

 DEVOTION

THE 1^ST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS

OUR PASSOVER LAMB

1 Cor 5:6-8

6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

NIV

Although we are back at the warning about boasting, for as we have concluded before, there is nothing within us that is worth boasting about. There is nothing that we do, no work, no service in the church, no position we occupy, the amount of education, or wealth that we have is worthy of boasting. However, Paul is making another point in comparing our previous life before Christ, to our present life in Christ. However, it is related to boasting in that it is like the little yeast that works through our whole lives. Boasting becomes our lives, in that we cannot find any worth unless we make it ourselves through boasting. But when we came to  Christ, we got rid of the old yeast, that old way of life, lifting ourselves up before others, and we started a whole new life without any of that yeast of our former life. This is what we called being born again, with the old self, being put to death, and being raised a new creation in Christ. Because Jesus is our Passover lamb, we have done the same thing the Israelites did at that first Passover. The only difference is they slaughtered the lamb, but they poured its blood on the doorposts of their homes so when the death angel came he passed over their homes. Although in a sense because of our sins, we also slaughtered the Lamb of God, however, because we have been washed in his blood, or having poured his blood on the doorpost of our hearts, the death angel is going to Passover us. Of course, at some point, this body we currently occupy will end its time and use to us. This body will be put in the grave, but we will live on in the presence of the Lord until that time when he resurrects our bodies in a glorified state and we then can live in them forever and ever in the new creation of God. However, for now, we have put aside that old yeast of malice and wickedness and made our lives without that yeast, one of sincerity and truth because we have been born again and live as one who is washed in the blood of our Passover Lamb.