Matt. 26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? This was the time that the passover was observed each year and the disciples came to Jesus to ask where they would keep the passover. At the passover they were to eat unleavened bread.

What is unleavened bread? It is bread that is made without any seasoning, or yeast. Not any thing that would make the bread to rise, or that would be a preservative.

They came to observe the passover and were to observe it with unleavened bread. The command was given to use unleaven bread when the children of Israel were delivered out of the land of Egypt.

As we come to this time of observance of the Passover, Jesus was going to keep the Passover with His disciples, and introduce the last supper.

Matt. 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, Take eat; this is my body. This bread was not leavened, but unleavened bread. As this bread represents His body, it must be unleavened. The body of Jesus was pure, and holy, nothing in it that would make it be puffed up, nothing in it that would be a preservative, as it would not spoil or become corrupt.

If we use bread that has something in it to preserve it or something in it to cause it to rise, it is not representative of his body. We usually use bleached flour, but the whole wheat flour seems to me to be a better representative of his body.

The question has been asked, why do we use unleavened bread in our communion service? The reason is that the bread is a type or points to his broken body, and his body had no impurities, preservatives or leavening agents, nothing that could cause him to be puffed up, or feeling to be better than anyone. He was the meek and lowly, Lamb of God.

So since this bread is representative of his body, we want to use bread that has no yeast or seasoning in it. To do otherwise is to misrepresent the body of Christ.

When we observe the communion supper, let us use bread that is unleavened, just as his body was free of leaven.


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