OUR LORD WHO FREES US FROM BONDAGE

Exodus chapter 13 verse 5 says this:

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

The Israelites were leaving the land of Egypt after the final plague of the death of all the first born of the land.

As they prepared to go, the Lord, through Moses, instructed them that when they arrived in the land promised to their ancestors,   they were to observe this special ceremony;

On the same month as their departure (Aviv), for seven days they were to avoid bread with yeast and they were not even to have any yeast within their borders.

On the last day of the seven day ceremony , they were to have a feast to finalize the week of no yeast and they were to tell successive generations that this ceremony was to commemorate when the Lord freed the children of Israel from bondage and took them to the land promised to their ancestors which was a land  flowing with milk and honey.

This ceremony represents the freedom from bondage that the Lord gave His people.

Yeast, and its ability to permeate every corner of the lump of dough, symbolizes sin and enslavement to it. The avoidance of yeast parallels the avoidance of the entanglement of sin.

The ceremony of the unleavened bread represents to us who are saved by Jesus, a call to avoid sin as we who are saved are set free from bondage and are longer slaves to sin but rather slaves to righteousness.

Bless our Lord who saves us out of bondage of sin and brings us into His kingdom of righteousness.

Amen.