Our entire Christian life is a feast – we are enjoying Christ as our unleavened bread, Christ as the sinless life supply for us to have a pure church life to express Christ corporately.
Praise the Lord, he has become our feast – he lived a sinless life by eating the father and living because of the Father, and he has become our sinless life supply for us to enjoy and live by, so that we may also live the same kind of life in the church life today.
Keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Deut. 16:1-8) typifies the purging away of all sinful things through the enjoyment of Christ as the sinless life supply (Exo. 23:15).
The feast of the Passover lasted for one day, but it was continued by the feast of unleavened bread, which lasted for a whole week, and which signifies the fact that during the course of our entire Christian life we should feast on Christ as the sinless life supply.
The fact that there was no leaven to be seen among the children of Israel during the feast of unleavened bread shows that any sinful thing or sins need to be dealt with, so that we may live a sinless life.
We may sin and not be aware of this, but when the Lord’s light makes us aware of a certain sin, we need to confess it, deal with it in the Lord’s light, and eat Christ in a fresh way as the sinless life supply, and we will live a sinless life because of the Christ we eat and live by.
But if we tolerate sin once it is exposed, if we don’t deal with the sin that the Lord shines on, our fellowship with the Lord will be interrupted, and our fellowship with other believers is insulated.
If we don’t deal with the exposed and manifested sin, fellowship is interrupted.
Our God is holy, Christ who is our bread is also holy, and the holy spirit in our spirit is holy, so whenever we exercise our spirit, the Lord shines on us and we are exposed of our sin.
The sin that he exposes in his light we need to confess and deal with, and when we agree with the Lord’s light, we will eat the Lord as the sinless life supply and become a pure church life, a church life without any seen leaven.
And when we come together to the Lord’s Table meeting, we make a display of the Christ we have enjoyed, the unleavened bread we have been feasting on all week.
We offer this Christ to the Father, for only he is the sinless, perfect, and acceptable one to God, and he satisfies God and man.
Feasting on Christ as our Unleavened Bread to live a Sinless and Pure Church Life
From the time of our regeneration, we began to have a new inward constitution; we began to eat the Lord Jesus as the unleavened bread, and He makes us a new lump, the church life.
We become what we eat, and when we eat Christ as our unleavened bread, we become a new lump constituted with Christ.
As the unleavened bread, Christ causes us to become a new lump, unleavened, for us to be a lump without leave, which is the church life. This means that, when we eat Christ as the sinless life supply, we become a new creation without sin (2 Cor. 5:17).
The history of the children of Israel – as revealed in the Old Testament – is a full type of our Christian life in the church life, and the things they went through and experienced are a type of what we experience in the church life today.
If we study their history, we will see that they did everything together; together they were delivered from Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, camped, lived, travelled, and fought the battles.
After they experienced and enjoyed the Passover, they keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This means that, as soon as we eat Christ as the Passover, experiencing His redemption and applying His blood for us to live and experience Christ in our Christian life, we need to keep the feast by eating Christ as our unleavened bread to live a sinless and pure church life.
The church life is a feast of unleavened bread, and any leaven is being purged out of the church. How can we purge out any leaven? It is by eating Christ as the unleavened bread so that He may constitute us with the unleavened element and remove any leaven.
The way to live a sinless and pure church life is by eating and being constituted with Christ as the unleavened bread. In the church there should be no leaven, which in the Bible signifies all negative things, such as wrong doctrines and practices, evil deeds, and sinful things.
We need to be a new lump – the church, composed of believers in their new nature.
Praise the Lord for bringing us into the church life in the Lord’s recovery; here we are both individually and corporately living a pure, sincere, and truthful life, and any leaven is being purged out for us to live a sinless and pure church life.
Under the ministry of the age we are being supplied with the bread of life, the unleavened bread, and anything of leaven is being purged out of us day after day, week after week.
There is no other place on earth like this, with this kind of purity; in the church life we do not seek to have a position or achieve something, and we are not after the appreciation of others.
Day by day in the church life we enjoy the pure word of God and we get into the ministry, and any leaven is being purged out of us; in this way we enjoy a pure recovery, a pure church life, a new lump.
We need to have such a feast during the entire course of our Christian life. We have been redeemed from sin, and now our Redeemer – who is without sin – is the feast for our entire life (2 Cor. 5:21).
May we, throughout the course of our Christian life, rest, enjoy God, and enjoy our Redeemer, so that we may live a sinless and pure church life!
The feast of the unleavened bread is for our whole life; we should not go back to where we were before, but spend the rest of our life to feast on Christ as the unleavened bread!
Lord Jesus, thank You for being our feast of unleavened bread – You are the bread of life, the living bread, the unleavened bread with no sin, leaven, or defiling things, and we can eat You to live because of You. We want to feast on You, Lord, as the unleavened bread, so that we may live a sinless and pure church life. Lord, we cooperate with You to purge out anything sinful and defiling, so that we may live because of the unleavened Christ that we have eaten. May we feast on You, Lord, for our whole life, until we become a new lump, with no leaven!
Enjoying Christ Corporately and Offering Him as Food to God Continually
The children of Israel had a holy convocation on the first and on the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and there was to be no work of labor (Lev. 23:8).
This signifies that we need to enjoy Christ corporately without our human labor, from the first day until the last day of the course of our Christian life. Christ is our unleavened bread, and we need to feast Him as the unleavened bread every day.
In Christ we are unleavened, but according to our natural being we are full of leaven. But do we eat Christ as unleavened bread, or do we eat leavened bread and live a leavened life?
If we are to live Christ in our Christian life, we need to eat Him as the unleavened bread, and we need to enjoy Him corporately in all our meetings, our holy convocations.
We need to purge out the old leaven and eat Christ to be a new lump, unleavened in its nature; we also need to enjoy Christ corporately in our meetings, feasting on Him as the unleavened bread and offering Him as food to God continually until He returns.
Our desire should be to meet with the saints and enjoy Christ, and our joy should be to bring the Christ we have enjoyed to offer Him to God, and to enjoy the Christ experienced by the other saints.
The church life is a corporate feast – a feasting on Christ as our unleavened bread, and a feasting by offering the Christ we have enjoyed to God as food.
The presenting of an offering by fire to Jehovah for seven days during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (seven days = a full course of time) signifies that we offer Christ as food to God continually through the full course of our Christian life.
Especially as we come together at the Lord’s table, we make a display to the entire universe that each day of the week we take Christ as our unleavened bread, and when we come to the table, we offer this Christ to God.
Daily we need to enjoy Christ as our life supply apart from sin, and when we come to the Lord’s table together with Him, we offer this One to God for His satisfaction.
We enjoy Christ as our daily food, we live because of Him as the sinless life supply, we are nourished and strengthened by Him to live a sinless life, and we bring this One to the Lord’s table to offer Him to the Father.
Praise the Lord for the feast of unleavened bread – Christ is our feast personally and corporately, and we can enjoy Him and feast on Him, and then we can offer this One whom we have enjoyed to the Father for His satisfaction.
We offer to God for His satisfaction the One whim we have been enjoying as our food (John 6:32-3, 48, 50-57).
Lord Jesus, we want to stop our human labor and just enjoy Christ as the feast of unleavened bread all the days of our life. May we feast on You both personally and corporately day by day, forgetting about ourselves and our labor or effort to please God. Oh Lord, we want to enjoy You and experience You as our sinless life supply so that we may have a portion of Christ to offer to the Father for His satisfaction at the Lord’s table. Amen, Lord, fill our Table meetings with much expression and offering of Christ as food to God continually for the Father’s satisfaction and joy!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by James Lee for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 309 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Leviticus (2), week 8, The Feasts (1) – The Sabbath, the Feast of the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- Hymns on this topic:
# Christ Jesus is the food we eat; / He is our bread, He is our meat; / He is our life-supply complete; / We daily eat of Him. / We daily eat of Him, / We daily eat of Him. / He is our life-supply complete; / We daily eat of Him. (Hymns #1145)
# Let’s enjoy Christ to reach the goal, / Partake of Him to beat the foe, / All His vast riches we extol, / Yes, we are freed from every woe! / We may not know a lot of things, / But we are kept from Satan’s stings / By eating Christ, and Christ alone! (Song on, Our Christ is so enjoyable)
# Whene’er we meet with Christ endued, / The surplus of His plenitude / We offer unto God as food, / And thus exhibit Christ. (Hymns #864)
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