Pursue Godliness

Listen to what Paul taught the Corinthians in the context of remembering Israel's deliverance from Egypt: (1Cor 5:7-8 – The Message) Yeast is a "small thing," but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this "yeast." Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let's live out our part in the Feast (of life), not as raised bread, swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.

What Paul wants us to do is to pursue holiness and godliness as a member of the body of redeemed believers. The true church and sincere Christian get rid of “old yeast” in life’s dough and “bake a new bread” by pursuing a new life style which is sincere, truthful, simple, unpretentious – always being the “real thing” – an authentic Christian.

Because of Christ – his death and his burial – you are dead to sin and the “old yeast” influence of sin has been swept clean from your life. It died with Christ and was buried with him. You are now truly alive, sharing in the “new genuine bread” of Christ’s resurrection.

May you be blessed as you work at making this a reality in your life. We must live like the old bread is gone. We must live like people whose bondage and slavery in Evil’s Egypt has been left behind for good.