Weekly Outreach

Week Six

Hi everyone. Glad to meet you again this week. Let look into this week's bible study.

Bible verse:

Joshua 5:10, 1 Corinthians 5:7
The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

I just read an article and I wanted to share it with yo guys because I found it interesting and that person explained it really well.

So, here we go !

Hieroglyphics show that Egyptians as far back as 5000 years ago ate leavened bread.

Since they wouldn't have had a handy jar of yeast to add to flour, it's likely that they left their dough out to acquire yeast naturally from the air.

Eventually it would have been discovered that adding a lump of yesterday's dough to the new batch would sped up the rising process.

The old yeast could be worked through the new lump, then, voila, soft bread.

Paul makes a beautiful play on words in this passage. He uses the image of the Passover, the time when the Israelites were hurrying out of Egypt, freed from the bonds of slavery, rushing toward freedom with a lump of unleavened bread on their backs.

Like them, this bread was new, fresh, untouched with yesterday's yeast, untouched by yesterday's ways, untouched by slavery.

We are like unleavened bread too, free from slavery to sin. As Christians, we have a new life because of Jesus, our Passover.

In place of sin, Jesus is kneaded into our lives, into our marriages, friendships, professions, conversations, daily routines.

He is our leavening agent, making us rise to any occasion. So, purge out those old sins that try to creep back in.

You are empowered to be new!

I hope you guys enjoy this article. It truly blessed me and I can understand it really well because that person explained it really well.

God bless you all this week.

Task of the week:

I would like you guys to comment on one single thing that is clingy on you for some time and it's causing you to feel bad about yourself. With this done, we can all come together and pray for each other about the issue.