保罗在林前五章六节说，“你们夸口是不好的。岂不知一点面酵能使全团发起来么？”保罗在这里说到一点面酵，即使有一点面酵，一点罪，就能使全团，全教会，发起来，败坏了。保罗在七节继续说，“你们要把旧酵除净，好使你们成为新团，正如你们是无酵的一样，因为我们的逾越节基督，已经被杀献祭了。”这一节的“新”，直译，新有的。指在时间上是新的。新团指教会，是由信徒在新性情里组成的。
说基督是我们的逾越节，指明使徒认为信徒是神所拣选的人，已经过了他们的逾越节，如出埃及十二章者所豫表的。在这逾越节里，基督不仅是逾越节的羊羔，更是整个逾越节。为了作我们的逾越节，祂在十字架上被杀献祭，救赎我们，使我们与神和好。因此，我们能在神面前享受祂作这节。在这节中不可有酵，因为罪和救赎的基督不能并存。
圣经启示一件事的两面。有基督的一面，也有我们在堕落天性里所是的一面。按基督的一面，我们是圣别的，我们是在基督里的圣徒。因此，我们在基督里是无酵的。但按另一面，就是我们天然人的一面，我们是满了酵的。重要的问题是我们吃无酵饼，还是吃有酵饼？换句话说，我们是活基督，还是活自己？我们若活基督，就是吃无酵饼。但我们若活自己，就是吃有酵饼。保罗在五章七节嘱咐我们要把旧酵除净，好使我们成为新团，正如我们是无酵的一样。我们需要照基督的一面，成为新团。
保罗在八节说，“所以我们守这节，不可用旧酵，也不可用恶毒邪恶的酵，只用纯诚真实的无酵饼。”这里的节指除酵节，是逾越节的延续。这节期共有七日，即一段完全的期间，表征我们基督徒生活的整个期间，从悔改之日到被提之日。这是很长的节期，我们守这节，不可用旧酵，就是旧性情的罪，乃要用无酵饼，就是新性情的基督，作我们的滋养和享受。惟有祂是纯诚真实的生命供应，绝对纯净，没有搀杂，并且满了实际。整个基督徒的生活都该是这样的节期，这样享受基督作我们的筵席，作我们生命丰富的供应。
信息重点：基督是我们的逾越节，祂为我们被杀献祭，使我们蒙救赎并与神和好。我们在基督里是无酵的新团，因此基督徒的一生都该除去旧酵，不活天然的自己，乃天天享受基督作生命的供应。
应用祷告：主耶稣，感谢你成为我的逾越节，使我蒙救赎并与神和好。求你除去我里面旧性情的酵，使我不活自己，乃天天享受你作生命的供应。阿们。
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Christ Is the Passover — 1 Cor. 5:7
In 1 Corinthians 5:6 Paul says, “Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?” Here Paul speaks of a little leaven — even a little leaven, a little sin, can cause the whole lump, the whole church, to rise and become corrupted. Paul continues in verse 7, “Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.” The word “new” in this verse, literally translated, means “newly become”. It indicates something new in time. The new lump refers to the church, which is composed of believers in the new nature.
To say that Christ is our Passover indicates that the apostle considered believers to be those whom God has chosen and who have already passed through their Passover, as typified in Exodus chapter 12. In this Passover, Christ is not only the Passover lamb but the entire Passover. In order to be our Passover, He was slain and sacrificed on the cross, redeeming us and reconciling us to God. Therefore, we can enjoy Him as this feast in the presence of God. In this feast there must be no leaven, because sin and the redeeming Christ cannot coexist.
The Bible reveals two aspects of one matter. There is the aspect of Christ, and there is the aspect of what we are in our fallen nature. According to the aspect of Christ, we are holy; we are saints in Christ. Therefore, in Christ we are unleavened. But according to the other aspect — the aspect of our natural man — we are full of leaven. The crucial question is whether we eat unleavened bread or leavened bread. In other words, do we live Christ, or do we live by ourselves? If we live Christ, we are eating unleavened bread. But if we live by ourselves, we are eating leavened bread. In 1 Corinthians 5:7 Paul charges us to clean out the old leaven so that we may be a new lump, just as we are unleavened. We need to become a new lump according to the aspect of Christ.
In verse 8 Paul says, “Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” The feast here refers to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is the continuation of the Passover. This feast lasts seven days, a complete period, signifying the entire duration of our Christian life, from the day of repentance to the day of rapture. This is a very long feast. In keeping this feast, we must not use the old leaven, which is the sin of the old nature, but must use the unleavened bread, which is Christ in the new nature, as our nourishment and enjoyment. He alone is the sincere and true supply of life, absolutely pure, without any mixture, and full of reality. The entire Christian life should be such a feast, enjoying Christ in this way as our feast and as the rich supply of our life.
Message Main Points: Christ is our Passover; He was slain and sacrificed for us, redeeming us and reconciling us to God. In Christ we are an unleavened new lump; therefore, throughout our Christian life we should remove the old leaven, not live by our natural self, but daily enjoy Christ as the supply of life.
Daily Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming my Passover, redeeming me and reconciling me to God. Remove the leaven of the old nature within me, so that I do not live by myself but enjoy You daily as the supply of life. Amen.