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Exodus 13:3-10
Excerpted from: Unleavened Bread Basics

Some among us like to count things in Scripture. Now, maybe you weren’t counting, but this passage contains three more references to God’s deliverance—in verses 3, 8, and 9.

In verse 3, God says to remember the day in which they went out, and verse 9 also calls this feast a memorial. Memorials cause God’s people to remember something foundational, and as we rehearse them, God’s lessons become imprinted into our being.

Thus, it is essential for us to have the right perspective of the memorials that God commands so that we remember the things God wants us to remember, and not merely remember something that is true, but which misses the larger object that God intends.

Something similar happened in the histories of Israel and Judah. Under some of the kings, the feasts were observed, but the people didn’t remember the correct things. The books of Amos and Isaiah record that they had a good time and they paid lip-service to God, but the feasts did not produce anything lasting. The people did not tie their observance to the correct reasons, and so the feasts lost their effectiveness—their God-given power. Without the focus that God intends, the feasts became good times with a religious gloss, but they were not truly kept to God. They can even be times of debauchery, as we saw with the idolatrous Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel last fall. Over the centuries and millennia, Israel and Judah forgot what God said to remember, and it has all gone downhill.

Now, just as we saw in chapter 12, this passage states the reason and the object of this feast, which is to remember that God brings His people out of slavery. God’s merciful deliverance undergirds everything else this feast entails.

Verse 9 here contains a critical detail. It says part of the reason we eat unleavened bread and avoid leavening is “that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth.” This is curious because what is physically in our mouths this week is unleavened bread. But here, God begins to show that the unleavened bread is symbolic. It is a token or a teaching vehicle to bring something more important to mind. We are not going to explore this just yet, but make a mental note for now, and we will come back to it.

Exodus 13:2-10
Excerpted from: The Pharisees (Part 3)

In Exodus 13 we will see the command. But, what we are going to see is that the sense of His commands is metaphorical. It is not actual. Notice how He phrases this:

This is just after He mentioned to them to tell their sons what has been done in Egypt and why. This eating of unleavened bread, then, was to be a sign to the Israelites for what God has done.

Exodus 13:3-4
Excerpted from: Passover (Part 9)

There is the subject: the time they came out. The subject continues on into chapter 13.

Now there "the month of Abib" is directly connected to the day that they went out.

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Sermons
Consequences of Resurrection and Ascension
Go Forward
Remaining Unleavened
Sincerity and Truth (Part One)
God's Law in Our Mouths
Psalm 119 (Part Three)
Corporate Faith
Corporate Faith
Do You Recognize This Man? (Part 3)
Overcoming Is A Choice
Themes of I Corinthians (Part 4)
Why Are We Called To Overcome?
Principled Living (Part 3): Growing in Righteousness
Our Walk With God
James and Unleavened Bread (Part 3)
James and Unleavened Bread (Part 1)
The Unleavened Life Is a Happy Life!
The Wilderness Trek and Judgment Begins

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