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The old yeast was the law of unclean who could not serve (Rom 8:3-4)

 

1 Cor 5:8 8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

Josh 24:15 15But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

 

What does it mean to serve the Lord?

It is the gospel being done in the church.  What is the gospel? Rom 1:16 to the Jew first then to the Gentile with the understanding we serve. But what is it to serve? What does it mean to fall away? To be stiff necked?  Is the church today?

 

(2 Chr 30:1-16, Heb 7:5) This is to the Jew first.

2 Chr 30:16 says it is the law of Moses verse 17 says the people were unclean yet it says in vs 18 they ate the Passover. In vs 21 the Lord’s Word, which is Christ, told us to sing, rejoice and praise.  Vs 18 the king prayed for the unclean and the ones that seek God and the Word, which is Christ, were pardoned by God. (Matt 6:33 Jesus said to first seek God’s will His kingdom and His righteousness)

 

Matt 7:21 21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

 

What if we rejected the Word of God which is Christ? To reject the knowledge of Christ is sin.

Heb 10:28-2928Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

 

So who is entrusted with the Word of God?

(Rom 3:1-2) The Jews are entrusted with the Word of God and it will take faith to serve.

 

Why did the Son come?

Rom 8:3-4  3For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, b God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. c And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

So we may have the faith of salvation that Jesus died so we may serve the law with Christ. (Rom 15:8) We are helping to build the kingdom to come through faith. (Heb 11:10)

 

Rom 15:8 8For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews b on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed 

 

Christ in us has become a servant of the Jew on behalf of God’s truth that the Gentiles may glorify God for sending His Son. We glorify God because of His mercy on the unclean.  (Rom 15:10) Rejoice of Gentiles with His people the Jews.

Rom 15:12-13 12And again, Isaiah says,

“The Root of Jesse will spring up,

one who will arise to rule over the nations;

in him the Gentiles will hope.” f

13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.