I Corinthians 5:7-8 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.
As explained in the earlier post First Passover In Egypt and in God's Calendar the Passover that we keep today at the same time as that First Passover (Deuteronomy 16:1) (when the death angel passed over the Israelites in Egypt) which is to say 14 days following the new year (the first month of Abib (later Nisan) (Leviticus 23:5) according to God's Calendar which correlates to the end of our March/first of April). Passover this year (2013) is figured as follows: Vernal Equinox is March 20th + 14 days = Wed April 3rd-7th (it usually occurs that last weekend of March or first weekend of April depending on how the days of the common calendar fall). It is no coincidence that Christ was crucified at the exact dates of Passover as He became our Passover. His sacrifice on the cross was so that the 2nd death (spiritual death (1st death is flesh death)) could pass over us if we but just believe that Christ died for our sins and rose again. Christ nailed to the cross the blood ordinances covering our sin if we take the action of believing and repenting.
Colossians 2:14-17 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 10:16-18 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Hebrews 9:11-14 But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The Old Testament had laws (commandments and health laws), ordinances and statutes. Christ nailed the blood ordinances from the Old Testament to the cross. Those blood ordinances were the animal sacrifices for their sins, atonements, etc. Thankfully we do not have to practice those anymore and we just have to ask repentance for our sins as Christ died for those sins. He was our ultimate blood sacrifice. Christ did not nail the laws to the cross. The commandments are still very much in effect today as they were in the Old Testament times prior to Christ. We are not saved through obedience to these laws; only through faith and belief in Christ's sacrifice on the cross affords us this. Note however that we can only take our works (and our unrepented for sins) with us when we die so obeying and repenting are a part of how clean our slate is on Judgment Day. (Revelation 14:13; Romans 3:28-31; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 3:19) The health laws from Leviticus 11 are not laws against our souls but against our flesh bodies. God created our flesh bodies and what He knew would make those bodies sick prior to Christ still make our bodies sick after Christ. His sacrifice on the cross did not change how our bodies react to things God has told us makes them sick.
Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, not one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Christ our Savior became our Passover and our Sabbath (Hebrews 4), believe on Him and take rest (and peace) in Him, in His Word, knowing that He died for our sins if we but repent on them and will therefore abide by Him in Heaven! (I John 5:12-13; Ecclesiastes 12:7)
Titus 3:4-7 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, Which He shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
As explained in the earlier post First Passover In Egypt and in God's Calendar the Passover that we keep today at the same time as that First Passover (Deuteronomy 16:1) (when the death angel passed over the Israelites in Egypt) which is to say 14 days following the new year (the first month of Abib (later Nisan) (Leviticus 23:5) according to God's Calendar which correlates to the end of our March/first of April). Passover this year (2013) is figured as follows: Vernal Equinox is March 20th + 14 days = Wed April 3rd-7th (it usually occurs that last weekend of March or first weekend of April depending on how the days of the common calendar fall). It is no coincidence that Christ was crucified at the exact dates of Passover as He became our Passover. His sacrifice on the cross was so that the 2nd death (spiritual death (1st death is flesh death)) could pass over us if we but just believe that Christ died for our sins and rose again. Christ nailed to the cross the blood ordinances covering our sin if we take the action of believing and repenting.
Colossians 2:14-17 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 10:16-18 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Hebrews 9:11-14 But Christ being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The Old Testament had laws (commandments and health laws), ordinances and statutes. Christ nailed the blood ordinances from the Old Testament to the cross. Those blood ordinances were the animal sacrifices for their sins, atonements, etc. Thankfully we do not have to practice those anymore and we just have to ask repentance for our sins as Christ died for those sins. He was our ultimate blood sacrifice. Christ did not nail the laws to the cross. The commandments are still very much in effect today as they were in the Old Testament times prior to Christ. We are not saved through obedience to these laws; only through faith and belief in Christ's sacrifice on the cross affords us this. Note however that we can only take our works (and our unrepented for sins) with us when we die so obeying and repenting are a part of how clean our slate is on Judgment Day. (Revelation 14:13; Romans 3:28-31; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 3:19) The health laws from Leviticus 11 are not laws against our souls but against our flesh bodies. God created our flesh bodies and what He knew would make those bodies sick prior to Christ still make our bodies sick after Christ. His sacrifice on the cross did not change how our bodies react to things God has told us makes them sick.
Matthew 5:17-19 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, not one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Christ our Savior became our Passover and our Sabbath (Hebrews 4), believe on Him and take rest (and peace) in Him, in His Word, knowing that He died for our sins if we but repent on them and will therefore abide by Him in Heaven! (I John 5:12-13; Ecclesiastes 12:7)
Titus 3:4-7 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, Which He shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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