Before the Passover, God’s people can spend a considerable amount of time removing leaven from homes and workplaces.

How should a Christian view this process of removing leaven? It is perhaps here, more than at any time, when our preparation for the Passover might veer off track.

Gerald Flurry has said: “The Passover is not a time to focus on ourselves or even on repentance of our sins. It is time to focus on the sacrifice of Christ for our sins ” (Royal Vision, March-April 2010; emphasis added).

It is true that we should examine ourselves for sin. But as we remove leaven from our home, God wants us meditating on what our sin did to Christ. We must think about our sin in light of the sacrifice.

When a Christian finds a crumb of sin in his life, he should be moved to overcome because of what that sin did to God and Christ. Our sins killed the Son of God!

1 Corinthians 5:7-8 explain: “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

The word for is used as a conjunction, or a word that establishes a relationship between two thoughts. This same word is elsewhere translated “because,” or “seeing that.”

The Apostle Paul taught that “because” or “seeing that” Christ died for us, we are to go on to purge our lives from sin. The greater our esteem for the sacrifice of Christ, the more earnest will be our effort at lifetime conversion.

The greater our appreciation for the Passover sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the more meaningful will be the Days of Unleavened Bread for us.