Hom. Monthly 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened… I. A lesson of SAFETY. 1. Emerson says, "Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. It seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word. You cannot wipe out the foot-track. You cannot draw up the ladder so as to leave no inlet or clue." That is no news. "Be sure your sin will find you out" is written in the Bible of the moral nature and in the Scriptures. 2. But man wants to know something more than Emerson's philosophy can teach him. This is man's passionate question — Is there nothing which can come between himself and the doom of sin? The passover was God's answer in type; Christ is God's answer in reality. There was one hindrance on that fatal night that the death-angel could not pass — the blood of the lamb on the door-posts. The barrier which wards off the penalties for sin is the blood of Christ. 3. Only there must be personal appropriation of the atonement. It was not simply the lamb slain in general sacrifice that brought safety. And this involved faith in what God had said, and obedience correspondent to the faith. The application is evident. II. A lesson of STRENGTH 1. Look at those Israelites. Their staffs are in their hands; their loins are girded, &c. Before them an exhausting march, behind them a sleepless night. But God has provided that they be strengthened. The slain lamb must be eaten. The Christian life is a pilgrimage. It is under burdens; it must meet conflict. But Christ is our passover for strength; we must subsist on Him. Thus in Christ shall there be strength for us. (Hom. Monthly.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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: |
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