When I was a kid, I used to mix all the sodas at the fast food restaurants we went to, and it was a wonderful concoction of sugary heaven.

Yet, sometimes, the recipe wasn’t quite right, and since the liquids were already mixed, the whole experiment was poured down the drain. There was no way I could “unmix” the sodas to purify the drink.

But ‌God can unmix us.

Time and time again, for His chosen people throughout the Old Testament, he would “unmix” the sins of His chosen people by redeeming the broken partnership

with His people that was damaged in Genesis with Adam and Eve through grace. God’s grace is unmerited divine favor, which means we are forgiven even when we do not deserve it.

In Exodus and Ephesians, God uses this example of unmixing, aka redeeming his people from slavery and sin. During the last plague in Exodus, God instructed His people to make and eat unleavened bread for seven days. They were to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the doorposts because the blood of the Paschal lamb told the angel of death that he must “pass over” these houses. Thus, those people (Israelites and natives) were “saved” by divine favor.

This “meal” is an ongoing holiday celebrated today to remember the deliverance of all people who put their trust in the blood of the Lamb.

In Matthew 26:17, this meal became known as the Last Supper because the

Israelites were commanded to perform this feast continually as a remembrance of

God’s grace in Egypt.

Ok, back to the bread and why it was cooked with such specific instructions.

So, unleavened bread is baked without yeast, the yeast which makes it rise and become fluffy yumminess. Yet, without it, the bread stays flat and hard. Typically, bread without yeast is made in haste due to insufficient preparation time. Exodus 16:3 says God’s people will eat the bread of affliction because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.

The thing about yeast is that it takes time to work. It only takes a very minuscule amount of yeast in dough to create the fluffy goodness of bread. And sin has a way of working just like that. (Read 1 Cor. 5:6-7) It starts with a small, minuscule indiscretion that slowly spreads throughout your spirit and life, leading to a heart hardened against God. And no amount of redemptive work on our behalf will remove this leaven (sin) from our spirit and lives.

Through the redeeming love of our Heavenly Father, he sent His one and only son to die for us, and through His blood, our sins are forgiven. (2 Cor 5:21 and Eph. 2:13)

We are unmixed from the yeast of sin and replaced with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. It is through the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus that our sin is cleansed, and we are made worthy.