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POINT 2 JESUS CAME TO BE THE GREATER PASSOVER LAMB (1 COR. 5:6-8).

6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little leaven
leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven
so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are.
For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
8 Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven
or with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth.

Explain:

Verses 6-7a (the bold words fill in blanks in the DDG):

As the church, because of Christ's saving work and sacrifice,
we are to pursue holiness, not letting sin continue to take hold.

Discuss:

• How should the church treat sin and sinful people?
• (even as we show grace to sinful people, sin should be taken seriously;
• though we are made righteous because of Jesus's sacrifice,
  our response should be a pursuit of holiness to be more like Christ;
• if Jesus took worship in the temple seriously, so much more should
  we take our holiness/sinfulness seriously being that
  we are the temple of the Holy Spirit)

Explain:

Verses 7b-8 (the bold words fill in blanks in the DDG):

Key Doctrine #58:

Christ as Sacrifice:

There are several signs, symbols, and pointers
in the Old Testament that foreshadowed Christ as being
the sacrificial Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world.
However, unlike the sacrificial system of the Old Testament,
whose sacrifices were unable to take away sin (Heb. 10:4),
Christ's sacrifice on the cross was able
to permanently, "once and for all," take away sins.

Transition:

As the promised Passover lamb to fulfill God's plan
for the salvation of sinners, Jesus proved Himself to be
the sacrifice greater than any ritual or animal in all of the Old Testament.
These all pointed forward to sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for us.

FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD

Beginning the day after Passover, lasting seven days,
the Jews were to eat pure, unleavened bread (Lev. 23:5-8).
The Passover was celebrated in one day, like Jesus's
one act of sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. But this feast
was seven days, representing the disciples' continual pursuit
of holiness."‰2