Mon.’s Devo - Freedom From Sin

Read: Exodus 34:1-35:9; Matthew 27:15-31; Psalm 33:12-22; Proverbs 9:1-6
God had Moses prepare the stones for the tablets he had broken. The people had broken the law in their hearts and Moses broke them in the natural, but God, in his mercy, gave them another set. God told him that he was making a covenant with them and before them he would do wonders never before don in any nation in all the world. He promised to drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hives and the Jebusites. They were to never make a treaty with any of the people already living in the land. Instead, they were to smash all of their altars of worship and not attend any of their sacred rites.
All of the tribes of the land represent strongholds in our own lives. God will drive them out if we keep moving toward him. When we stop and join in the practices of our weaknesses then they become a stumbling block to us.
God went back over the feasts that he wanted them to keep. These feasts would be rehearsals of their fulfillment. One day the feast would be fulfilled and they would recognize it if the rehearsed it year after year. They didn’t continue to keep the feasts after a while so when they were fulfilled, they didn’t recognize the symbols.
Unleavened bread was for the believer. If was the reminder to get sin out of their lives and live a life of holiness. It was to remind them of their great deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. Unleavened bread is very sweet. The yeast makes it bitter or soured. Yeast stands for sin. They were to eat unleavened bread for 7 days which was the whole feast. Once we are saved we enter into the week of unleavened bread. We are free of sin because of the blood of Jesus. They were to work the first six days but on the seventh they were to rest. The first six millenniums man must work as God did but on the seventh, we will rest. Unleavened bread began in the spring. Seven weeks later was the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost.
In Matthew we have the picture of the scapegoat, Barabbas. Barabbas was one of the biggest sinners in jail. He was offered as atonement for Jesus but the people chose the sinner and the sin of the world fell on the only innocent one - Jesus. Jesus became the sin offering and Barabbas went free. They dressed Jesus in his mock kingly outfit and presented him to the people.
Lord, thank you for atoning for our sin and making us righteous.