Our Christian life is a feast, since the Lord Jesus has delivered us from Satan’s usurpation and has given Himself to us to be the unleavened bread for us to enjoy every day. God ordained that His people would keep three major feasts: the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of the harvest, and the feast of the tabernacles.
The feast of unleavened bread follows the feast of the Passover and signifies that, after we enjoy Christ’s redemption and deliverance from Satan and his usurpation, we should live a daily life of feasting on Christ as the sinless life (the reality of the unleavened bread).
Leaven signifies sinful, corrupt, and evil things, and so we need to purge out any leaven from sight, that is, we need to deal with any sin that the Lord’s light exposes, by eating Christ as the sinless life supply.
If we tolerate sin once the Lord exposes it, we lose the enjoyment of God and the fellowship with the fellow believers, but if we deal with the exposed sin and eat Christ as the sinless life supply, we are brought further in the enjoyment of God, we will be unleavened, and we together shall become a new lump – the church.
The fact that this feast was to last seven days means that the entire period of our Christian life – from the day of believing into the Lord Jesus to the day when we see Him in glory at our rapture – should be a feast, a continual enjoyment of Christ as the rich life supply.
The world today is full of evil and corrupt things, and even Christianity, in general, has a lot of evil, corrupt, and sinful things and practices; we need to eat Christ as the sinless life supply so that we may be purified, unleavened, and become the church as God’s new lump, the unleavened bread prepared for God to enjoy and be satisfied.
Eating Christ as our Unleavened Bread, our Sinless Life Supply
How can we deal with sin? It is not by our will, desire, or determination, but by eating Christ as the life supply. The first thing we need to deal with in order to have a proper fellowship with God and to have a continual enjoyment of God is the sin that God exposes in us, the Holy Spirit shines on, and the word of God clearly points out.
If we tolerate sin, we lose our enjoyment of God and our fellowship with others will be interrupted. But when we take Christ as our unleavened bread, our sinless life supply, we shall become unleavened and sin will be removed.
The only way we can eliminate sin is by eating Christ’s crucified, resurrected, and sinless life, as signified by the unleavened bread. It’s not by our suppression or will power but our daily eating the real unleavened bread, the crucified, resurrected, and sinless life of Jesus Christ.
The unleavened bread signifies the sinless Christ who is to be dispensed into us, His believers, as the unleavened (sinless) element; as the unleavened bread, Christ is the spiritual and divine food that makes us unleavened (see Exo. 12:8; 1 Cor. 5:8).
Christ came in the likeness of the flesh of sin but He had no sin in the flesh; He committed no sin (1 Pet. 2:22) and had nothing to do with sin. Christ put on the flesh, but His flesh had no sinful element; Christ is sinless, and this sinless Christ passed through death and entered into resurrection to become the Spirit to be dispensed into us as our sinless life supply.
The more we eat Jesus, the more we are filled with His sinless life, sincerity, and truth. None of us can “unsin” ourselves or “uncorrupt” ourselves; we need a sinless element to enter into us and operate in us to eliminate sin little by little. When we take Christ as our life, this life purifies us.
Every day we need to enjoy Christ as unleavened bread by taking Him as our crucified, resurrected, and sinless life supply, and a most simple way to do this is to call on His name. When we call from deep within, Oh Lord Jesus! we take Christ as our life, and His sinless life spreads in our being to purify us and unleaven us.
Our whole Christian life is a feast of the enjoyment of Christ as our life supply without any evil thing, corruption, or sin. Outwardly we may be in a sea of people who sin, are corrupted to the core, and do many evil things, but by taking Christ as our sinless life supply daily, we live a sinless life in Christ and by Christ for the church life.
The fact that the feast of unleavened bread had to be kept seven days clearly indicates that the entire period of our Christian life, from the day of our conversion to the day of our rapture, should be a feast, the enjoyment of Christ as the rich supply of life (Exo. 12:16, 18-19).
From the time we receive the Lord and experienced His redemption (the reality of the Passover in our experience) to the time that we see the Lord when He returns we should live by Christ and in Christ by taking Him in as our sinless life supply.
Lord Jesus, we want to eat You as our sinless life supply day by day. Sinless Lord Jesus, we take You in right now. We eat You for our life supply this very day. We admit that we cannot suppress sin, we cannot overcome its temptation, and we cannot stop sinning, but we can eat You! Lord, we want to keep the feast of unleavened bread by dealing with any sin and eating Christ as our sinless life supply of sincerity and truth, absolutely pure, without any mixture, and full of reality!
Christ is the Unleavened Bread for us to Eat and Live a Pure Church Life
The result of our daily eating Christ as the unleavened bread is that inwardly and organically we are being reconstituted with Him as the sinless life and we become a new lump, the church, where there’s no evil, corrupt, or sinful thing. As the unleavened bread, Christ is for us to live a pure church life (1 Cor. 5:7-8).
Why are there sins or wrong doctrines or evil deeds happening in the church life? It is because we do not eat Christ as the sinless life supply. The church is a new lump; the real church is composed of the believers who have a new nature, people who are of the divine species living by another life – the divine life – to express Christ.
In the church there should be no leaven, that is, no wrong doctrines and practices, no evil deeds, and no sinful things. In ourselves we are full of leaven; we are born in sin, we live in a sinful environment, and we are even encouraged and led to sin by others.
We need to refuse to eat the leavened bread of sin, evil things, corruption, and wrong doctrines and teachings, and eat Christ as the sinless life supply so that we may live by Christ and no longer live by ourselves.
We need to purge out the old leaven (1 Cor. 5:7) that we may be a new lump, even as we are unleavened; we need to eat Christ every day and allow Him to remove sin in us and cause us to live a pure church life. The way for us to have a pure church life for God’s satisfaction is by eating Christ as the sinless life supply.
Through regeneration, we have received Christ, through baptism we have been put into Christ, and now we daily must learn to live in Christ and by Christ as our sinless life supply for the producing of a pure church life.
When we take Christ in as life, He purifies us from within and enables us to live the Christian life and church life for God’s satisfaction. When we eat Christ as the sinless life supply, we are unleavened in Christ and live according to Him a pure life for the pure church life.
Lord Jesus, thank You for being the unleavened bread for us to eat and live a pure church life. Lord, we want to purge out the old leaven that we may be a new lump, even as we are unleavened. Keep us eating You as the sinless life supply by calling on Your name, praying over Your living word, fellowshipping with You, and enjoying You with the saints so that we may be unleavened from within and live according to You, not according to ourselves. Lord, we want to live a pure church life by eating You as the unleavened bread, the sinless life supply!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother Minoru Chen’s sharing in the message for this week, and The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, msg. 20 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), week 9 / msg 9, Keeping Feasts unto God Three Times a Year Typifying the Full Enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# Let us eat Jesus every day, / Eating His flesh in such a way / That in the trials great or small / He as a Man will be our all. (Hymns #1146)
# We eat this feast and take God in, / And as we eat we live by Him, / For all the elements within / This feast are God Himself. / Yes, Jesus is our feast! (Hymns #1145)
# Thus will the Church be purified / To be the lampstand of pure gold, / To match the testimony pure, / The life of Jesus fit to hold. (Hymns #822)
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As the unleavened bread, Christ is the spiritual and divine food that makes us unleavened….Just as the children of Israel ate the passover lamb with the unleavened bread, we should eat Christ not only as the Lamb but also as the unleavened bread. When we take Christ as our life, this life purifies us. This life is an unleavened life, a purifying life. The more we call on the name of the Lord Jesus and take Him into us, the more we are purified from within. (Witness Lee, The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3147)
Amen! Our whole Christian life should be one of enjoying Christ as our unleavened bread, as having been crucified with Him, and of having been raised with Him, in His resurrected life. Hallelujah! The sooner we stop all our efforts to live a sinless life, and turn our heart to eat of Christ as our unleavened bread, the more we will be filled with His sinless life, and be purified by Him to live before Him in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Only Christ was without sin to live a sinless life, and He has become to us who believe into Him, the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. John 6:57 says, “As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so He who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.” The Lord Jesus lived a life of dependency on the Father living within and by Him, to do His will, and so should we live by Christ as our unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, not only to live a sinless life, but also to live to do the Father’s will, of being living stones, build up together to be a dwelling place of God in spirit, the expression of the Holy One of God, Christ our Lord, as the church, to form the Body of Christ. The more we eat of Christ as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, the more we will live because of Him, a sinless life for the church life, being purified, sanctify by the washing of the water in the word.
O Lord Jesus! We love You Lord, who first loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses and sins, made us alive unto God. Now, You O Lord, dwell within us as the life-giving and life-imparting Spirit in our spirit, and we want to dwell within You, by our eating more of You each day, as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, to live a sinless life, a holy life for the church life, to participate in the glorious process of You being the Builder of the church, the home, the abode that You are longing for, as the Body of Christ.
1 Cor. 5:8 tells us to keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
The “feast” is the Feast of Unleavened Bread as the continuation of the Passover (Exo. 12:15-20). It lasted for seven days, signifying our entire Christian life which we must keep, not with our old nature, the old leaven, but with unleavened bread, which is the Christ of our new nature, as our nourishment and enjoyment. He is our life supply of sincerity and truth, absolutely pure, without mixture, and full of reality.
Lord make this day a feast, an enjoyment of You as our banquet, as a rich supply of genuiness in everything we say and do.
Here is a new song, based on this note, set to a well-known tune from our hymnal:
tune: It Passeth Knowledge/154
https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/154
The “feast” is the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
As the continuation of the–
Passover. It lasted for seven–
Days, signifying our entire–
Christian life…
Which we must keep, not with our–
Old nature, the old leaven, but–
With unleavened bread, which is–
The Christ of our new nature, as–
Our nourishment…
And enjoyment. He is our life–
Supply of this sincerity and truth,
Absolutely pure, and without–
Mixture, and full of such reality.
Lord make this day…
A feast, an enjoyment of You as–
Our banquet, as a rich supply of this–
Genuineness in everything–
We say and do. O, hallelujah!
All we say and do.
source: based on note regarding 1 Cor. 5:8 above.