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Now brethren let’s come back to Romans 5, and this is a key very important chapter.  Absolutely one of the most magnificent chapters in the whole Bible.  Paul was inspired to write clearly what it means to be unleavened in Christ by having your sins forgiven and having the imputed righteousness of Christ given to you.  Now let’s begin in verse 1.  “Therefore, after having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; By Whom also we now have the access by faith into this grace in which we now stand…”  And so grace is like a great umbrella, spiritual umbrella, under which you are standing.  And from that comes the love of God, the truth of God, the Spirit of God, the faith of God, the fruits of the Spirit, Christ in you.  All of these things are by grace.  The very fact of having the Holy Spirit is an act of grace by God to you.  It is a gift, and all gifts are grace.  “…And we ourselves are boasting in the hope of the glory of God” (Rom. 5:1-2, AT).  So when you really get down and really feel bad, start hoping in the glory of God.  That is, think about what it’s going to be like to have the glory of God given to you at the resurrection.  And the true total unleavenedness will be when you are no longer flesh but spirit.

Now let’s continue on, verse 3.  “And not only this, but now we also boast in tribulations…”  See we need to learn to ask God to give us a boasting or joy in trials and difficulties that come instead of complaining.  Thank God for it.  Ask God to help you to learn from it so that you can know God even more, that you can grow in grace and knowledge from that experience.  “…All the while we are realizing that tribulation [or that is trials] bring forth endurance, and the endurance brings forth character, and the character brings forth hope.  Now the hope of God never makes us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out into our own hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us” (vs. 3-5).  Now that’s quite interesting in the Greek, it just poured out.  And that’s what we need to realize and feel with the Spirit of God, especially during the Feast of Unleavened Bread when we are unleavened in Christ.  Let God’s Spirit pour out into us. 

“Therefore…”  Now here’s when God did all of this. “…When we were still without strength, at the appointed time Christ died for the ungodly” (vs. 6).  Because you see the truth is there was no godly people on earth.  Not one.  All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  Paul said, “We have proved that both Jew and Gentile are under sin.”   So He died for the whole human race, all ungodly. 

“For rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, and yet perhaps someone might even have the courage to die for a good man.  But God is demonstrating His very own love to us, because that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Therefore, much more [much more than Christ dying for us], having been justified now by His own blood [and through the resurrection], we shall be saved from wrath through Him.  For if, while we were still enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His own Son, still greater yet, after being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.  Now not only this, but we are also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the reconciliation” (vs. 7-11).  You have been reconciled to God through this whole operation that we are talking about.

Now what then about human nature?  Well, Paul interjects that here beginning in verse 12.  Now we have several tapes which covers that concerning the nature of Jesus Christ, and Romans 5:12 if you want to write in for that for a more detail study.  So we’ll just read on till we come to the important part concerning this topic at this time.

Verse 12, “Wherefore, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; as a result, death passed into all mankind…”  All received the law of sin and death, as we’ll see a little later.  “…And it is for this reason that all have sinned: (Because before the law, sin was in the world.”  And this means before the law was given to Israel sin was in the world because there were still God’s laws, which were required to be kept.  “Now then, sin is not charged when law does not exist; Nevertheless, death [which is a result of sin] reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who did not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the One Who was coming” (vs. 12-14).  No one else has sinned directly in the face of God, in the garden of Eden in the presence of God.  So his sin was great for all mankind

“But shall not as the offense was, even so shall the free gift be?”  Now the free gift, we’re going to see here is the gift of righteousness.  “Because if by the transgression of the one…many died, much more profoundly did the grace of God, and the gift of grace…”  Now we’re talking about the gift of grace.  There’s the gift of grace, which is given to you, under which you stand.  God gives that to you.  So we have the gift of grace.  Now we’ll see a little later there’s the gift of righteousness.  “…Which is by the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto many.  And the free gift is not like that which came through the one who had sinned: because on the one hand, judgment was by one unto condemnation; but on the other hand, the free gift is to the justification of many offenses.  For if by the offense of one man death reigned by the one, how much more profoundly shall it be to those who are receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness…” (vs. 15-17).  This is the kind of righteousness that is imputed.  If it’s imputed to you, you didn’t earn it.  It is a gift.  Now this is in addition to your keeping the commandments.  And this imputed righteousness, the gift of righteousness is the righteousness of Christ, or the spiritual righteousness that can only come from God.  And this puts you before God in a sinless state.  In other words you are completely and absolutely, through this gift of righteousness and the gift of grace, unleavened in Christ.  Absolutely no doubt about it.

Now let’s review verse 17 again.  “For if by the offense of one man death reigned by the one [all have sinned and come short of the glory of God], how much more profoundly shall it be to those who are receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, that they shall reign in life by the One, Jesus Christ:)  So then, just as by the one transgression there resulted judgment unto condemnation to all men, exactly in the same way also, by the one act of righteousness [which was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which was the most holy righteous act that God could perform for His creation of mankind] shall result [in] justification unto life towards all men…”  And we might add: according to God’s plan as revealed in the holy days.  “Because even as by the disobedience of the one man, many were made sinners, in exactly the same way also, by the obedience of the One [Who was Christ], many shall be made righteous [because of Christ in us]” (vs. 17-19). 

That’s what is so profound about this.  Nowhere brethren, do we see any inkling what so ever that we now through grace have license to sin.  No, we now through grace are given the gift of righteousness to live justly before God.  Now we’ll see in chapter 6 how it tells us what we need to do.  And how he begins showing the contrast between the flesh and the spirit. 

So let’s finish here verse 20 and 21 in Romans 5.  “Moreover, the law entered, so that the transgression might abound [and that is that they might really know what sin was]; but where sin abounded, the grace did superabound…”  In other words grace has to be greater than sin, which it is.  Meaning it’s superabounded.  “So that even as the sin reigned unto death, in exactly the same way also, the grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

Now here’s what the Protestants missed.  I don’t think that they read this very often.  But we’re going to read it.  Romans 6:1, “What then shall we say?  Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound?”  And that’s what the Protestants do.  They say, “Oww, nobody has the power to obey, no one has the power to keep the law but through the grace of God we life.”  Then they just go on and sin.  Paul said, “What shall we say?  Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  MAY IT NEVER BE!”  That’s what it means in the Greek mi gnioto {check spelling}, MAY IT NEVER BE!  It doesn’t mean God forbid.  It means don’t even let this thought exist.  “We who died to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?”  You can’t do it.  “Or are you ignorant that we, as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death?” (Rom. 6:1-3, AT)   That’s what baptism is all about.  It is a covenant death that you pledge your death to God.  Because Christ died for you, you pledge your death in the lake of fire if you do not follow Christ.  That’s exactly what you’re pledging.  So therefore God let’s you be baptized to have a symbolic death.  And that symbolic death co-joins you into the death of Christ. 

Verse 4, “Therefore, we were co-buried with Him by the baptism into the death; so that, just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, in exactly the same way also, we should walk in newness of life.”  Not in the life of sin, but in a life of grace and imputed righteousness.  As Jesus said, “If you love Me keep My commandments.”  As He said, “If you abide in Me you keep My commandments.  If you abide in My love you will keep My commandments.”  Ok? 

“For if we have become co-joined together in the likeness of His death, so also shall we be in the likeness of His resurrection.”  And that is the whole profound meaning of being unleavened in Christ. 

Now here’s what we need to understand and this is what the Feast of Unleavened Bread pictures, right here, verse 6.  “Knowing this, that our old man was [crucified] with Him…”, or co-crucified, that’s what it means in the Greek.  Just as Christ was on the cross and being crucified, He bore the sins of all the word, which means for everyone worldwide in particularly of all generations down through all time and for each one in particularly.  So when you are baptized into this covenant death of baptism, you are “…co-crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed [which shows that this is a process], that we should no longer be enslaved to sin; Because the one who has died to sin [that is in the watery grave of baptism] has been justified from sin” (vs. 6-7).  So if you have been justified from sin you are to no longer live in sin, or be enslaved to it. 

“Now if we died together with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, after having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has any dominion over Him, because when He died to sin, He died once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to God.  In exactly the same way also, you reackon yourselves to be dead to sin, indeed, but alive to God through Christ Jesus our Lord.”  And that is how you are unleavened in Christ.  “Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal body by submissively obeying it in the lusts thereof” (vs. 8-12).  No, there will be sin in you, but don’t let it rule, see.  Don’t let it have dominion. 

Now we’re going to see on the Last {Day of Unleavened Bread} Great Day how to overcome sin by using the Spirit of God and letting God fight our battles for us.  But here it is here, “…do not let sin rule in your mortal body by submissively obeying it in the lusts thereof.  Likewise, do not be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin; rather, be yielding yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God” (vs. 12-13).  Now they have known that people who have gone through a death experience and have been able to come back to physical life, in almost every case they set to change the way that they live.  To change the way that they have done in the past.  And so that’s what we need to do brethren, because we have been made alive from the death of the watery grave of baptism, wherein all of our sins, which the wages of is death, have been buried. 

Verse 14, “For sin shall not rule over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.”  Sin is not to rule in is when we’re under grace.  “What then?  Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace?  MAY IT NEVER BE!” (vs. 14-15).  No. “Don’t you understand…”  Now you see how that flows right along here.  You are not under works of law for justification, no you’re under grace the faith of Jesus Christ.  So that does not give you license to sin.  The freedom in Christ, which we have as we pointed out, is not the freedom to sin but the freedom from sin so that you may walk in God’s way.

Now notice what the apostle Paul wrote here, verse 16, “Don’t you understand that, to whatever you are yielding yourselves as servants for obedience, you are servants to whatever you are obeying, whether it is of sin unto death, or it is of obedience unto righteousness?”  So here shows that with the imputed righteousness of Christ we have to have obedience.  So we have to have obedience unto righteousness.

Verse 17, “But thanks be to God, that you were servants of sin, but now you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you…”  And what is the greatest doctrine or teaching?  That you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your mind, and all your soul, and all your strength.  Is that how you’re commitment is to God?  If it is then you will have obedience unto righteousness and the imputed righteousness of God given to you through Christ.  So that’s a marvelous thing. 

Verse 18, “And after having been set free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.”  To serve God righteously through His Spirit, through the gift of righteousness, and “…all the commandments of God are righteousness” (Psalm 119:172).  “I am speaking from a human point of view because of the weakness of your flesh [Paul continues]; because just as you had yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now in exactly the same way, be yielding your members in bondage to righteousness unto sanctification…”  And sanctification means “to be made holy”.   “Because when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.  Therefore, what was the fruit that you had then, in the things of which you are now ashamed?  For the end result of those things is death.  But now, after having been freed from sin, and after having become servants to God [that’s what you are – the servants of God], you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end thereof is eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” (vs. 18-23).  And that’s how you are unleavened in Christ.

Now what about the human nature that you still have?  What about fighting and overcoming those things and overcoming what is in you?  Because you’re going to have sin and temptation come along, now what do you do? 

Now let’s come to Romans 7 and let’s pick it up here in verse 7.  “What then shall we say?  Is the law sin?  MAY IT NEVER BE!  But I had not known sin, except through the law [because the law tells us what sin is].  Furthermore, I would not have been conscious of lust, except the law had said, “You shall not covet.”  But sin, having grasped an opportunity by the commandment, worked out within me every kind of lust; because apart from law, sin was dead.”  There couldn’t be any sin without law.  “For once I was alive without law…”  He didn’t know about the laws of God.  And none of us knew about the laws of God, did we?  And one day God began calling us and all of a sudden we began to understand about the law and commandments of God, right?  Yes.  So you were living once with out law.  That’s what Paul was saying.  “…But after the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died” (Rom. 7:7-9).  In other words you understood what sin was.

Now let’s apply this to the Sabbath.  There was once where you didn’t know about the Sabbath.  Then the knowledge of the Sabbath commandment came and your life living in Sabbath breaking now killed you and you died through the operation of baptism.  That’s what he’s saying here.

“And the commandment, which was meant to result in life, was found to be unto death for me [that is because he was breaking the law]; Because sin, having taken opportunity by the commandment, deceived me [and sin always deceives you], and by it killed me.  Therefore, the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good” (vs. 10-12).  Nothing wrong with the laws and commandments of God.  See the Protestants don’t understand this.  They think that the law is a curse.  They think that the law is unholy.  They think that the law is sin.  But Paul said, “MAY IT NEVER BE!”

Now verse 13, “Now then, that which is good, has it become death to me?  MAY IT NEVER BE!  But sin, in order that it might truly be exposed as sin by that which is good to me, which actually working out death [and he never knew it, and you never it, and I never knew it]; …that, by the means of the commandment, sin might accordingly become exceedingly sinful.”  You go back and rehearse again Psalm 51 where David repented of his sin with Bathsheba, and he was deceived by it.  And he had to repent of it. 

Verse 14, “For we understand that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, having been sold as a slave under sin;”  And that’s the way our human lives are without God.  “Because what I am working out by myself, I do not know [or I do not understand].”  Do you ever say that to yourself?  “I don’t understand why I did that.  I don’t know why I did that.”   That’s what he’s saying here.  “For what I do not desire to do, this I am doing…”  And as an apostle of some 25 years, now he’s talking about his inner battle of overcoming, and his inner battle of warring with what we will see is the law of sin and death within him.  Because even though you are unleavened in Christ you still have that.  And you still have to overcome that.  And you still have to begin to realize that the battle that is going on and warring in your mind is all a part of overcoming through the power of the Holy Spirit.  Because it’s God’s Spirit in you, which is telling you in your mind that this is sin and this is wrong.  It is Christ in you showing you when you are sinning.  So therefore this internal battle goes on and Paul is describing it here.

So he says, “For what I do not desire to do, this I am doing; moreover, what I am hating, this I am practicing.”  And some people still have a hard time overcoming smoking, overcoming drinking, overcoming cursing and swearing, overcoming taking God’s name in vain, overcoming lying, and all of those things.  That’s all a part of sin within you, you see.  “But if I am practicing what I desire not to do, I agree with the law that it is good” (vs. 15-16).  The law is convicting you internally and mentally that what you’re doing is not good.  It is sin.

“Now then, I am no longer working it out by my own self…”  That is he is not doing it of his own accord because he hates what he’s doing.  He doesn’t want to do it just like you hate it when you sin.  Just like you hate it when you do things that are not right.  You’re not doing it yourself, you don’t even understand sometimes why you do some of the things you do.  Same way with me.  I don’t understand and I have to go to God and go to God’s word and get understanding, you see.  And here Paul gives it right here.  “…Rather, it is the sin which is dwelling within me; Because I fully understand that there is not dwelling within me - that is, within my fleshly being – any good thing!  For the desire to do good is present within me [but that’s not the good thing]; but how to work out that which is good, I do not find [that is within himself]:  For the good that I desire to do, I am not practicing; but the evil that I do not desire to do, this I am doing.  But if I do what I do not desire to do, it is no longer I, working it out by myself, but the sin which is dwelling within me.  Consequently, I find [a] the law, that when I desire to practice the good, the evil is present with me” (vs. 17-21).  Now we are going to see this is called the law of sin and death as Paul defines it here in the next few verses.

Every human being has the downward pull of human nature, which is called the law of sin.  And this law of sin we have naturally by inheritance as part of our human nature.  That’s why it has to be by grace that God saves us, not by our own human works.  For if by our own human works we which have sin naturally within our members, how can we do that which is righteous enough of our own accord to warrant eternal life?  We can’t.  It has to be by Christ.  It has to be by gift.  It has to be by grace.  It has to be by imputed righteousness.  It has to be by faith. 

Now continuing verse 22, “Because I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.”  Yes, you love the laws of God.  Yes you see they are good.  Yes you agree with them.  “But I find another law within my very own being, that is warring against the law of my mind, and that is making me a prisoner to the law of sin [there he defines it clearly, the law of sin] which is within my very own being” (vs. 22-23).  As it says in the King James, “within my members.” 

Part of you, just like every cell of your body has your DNA identification on it, so you as an individual have the law of sin in you and every human being has that law of sin within them.  That’s why salvation has to be by grace.  That’s why the imputed righteousness is required unto justification, and unto eternal life.  So brethren just think of the marvelous thing that it is that we have Christ in us.  That with our mind we consent unto the law of God that it is good.

“But I find another law within my very own being, that is warring against the law of my mind, and that is making me a prisoner to the law of sin which is within my very own being. O what a wretched man I am!”  And this is the whole wretchedness of human life.  And this is the whole struggle and the twisting, and the turning and the fighting, and the warring and the overcoming that we have to go through.  And the battle within our minds.  We know what is right.  We have the Spirit of God, which is right.  But here’s the law of sin pulling us and tugging us, but remember Paul said sin is not to rule in your life.  It is not to have the dominion in your life.  It is the Spirit of God Who is going to have the dominion in your life.

Now let’s read on here.  “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”  And it is a body of death.  “I am thanking God through our Lord Jesus Christ for this salvation!  On the one hand, as a result of this inner war, I myself serve the law of God with my mind; on the other hand, with the flesh, the law of sin” (vs. 24-25).  And it’s not he that is doing it himself but sin that is in his very members and our whole continued life after baptism in growing in grace and knowledge is to come to the point of overcoming and conquering that law of sin and death within us which will…the final chapter of that takes place when we die. 

Now let’s come to chapter 8 verse 1.  And here is one of the most wonderful verses in the Bible.  Romans 8:1, “Consequently now, there is not any condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”  Do you understand that even though you have this battle going on within you, even though there is this law of sin and death pulling you down, even though it’s warring against the law of your mind that the Holy Spirit of God, that as long as you are crying out to God, looking to Christ to cover your sins, and repenting and growing, and overcoming, and letting the gift of righteousness be imputed to you, there is no condemnation.  Do you understand that?  God does not condemn you.  What God condemns is unrepentance, see.  But you see if you look to Christ for this salvation out of it, and to grow and overcome from it there is no condemnation.  You stand before God righteous.  You stand before God with the imputed righteousness of Christ, the gift of grace and the gift of righteousness by the One man Jesus Christ.  That’s how you stand before God.  Why?  Let’s read on.

“Because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has delivered me from the law of sin and death.”  You have been delivered from it though it is still in there fighting and warring against you.  And that deliverance comes from Christ.  “For what was impossible for the law to do…”  Because the law had no power.  The law only defines what sin is, and the wages of sin is death.  And the power of the law is death because of sin.  But the law has no power unto righteousness.  Do you understand that?   “For what was impossible for the law to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (Rom. 8:2-3).  Now that’s a powerful verse there, brethren, for you to understand.  So if you’re drawing close to God, and if you are being unleavened in Christ you have no condemnation.

Now I have a question for you.  Why do you want to go around with a guilty conscience?  Why do you want to try and justify your own sins?  Now the easiest thing to do is that when you find that you have sinned, you say, “Well I’ll repent when I’m right with God.”  Well the truth is this:  You’re never right with God unless you repent.  You can’t get right with God and then go repent.  It’s incongruous.  You can only get right or be justified with God when you repent.  So the key and the thing is here like we read in the beginning, if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us all our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

Now that is a daily activity.  That’s why when you have the model prayer, “Forgive us our sins…”  Now that’s a daily prayer.  “…As we forgive those who have transgressed against us.”  Now that’s another whole part of overcoming too, you see.  Because you are a sinner.  Don’t go around and condemn people in your mind because they’re not doing what they’re supposed to do.  Some of them don’t even know better.  Rather, pray for them that God may intervene in their lives and God may intervene in their minds to bring them to the point that you are.  Now that’s so very important.

Now verse 4.  Here’s why he condemns sin in the flesh.  “In order that the righteousness of the law should be fulfilled in us, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”  Now if you’re doing that then God is going to be with you.

Now let’s come back here to the book of Hebrews.  Hebrews 4, and let’s see what we are to do.  Let’s see how the intercession can be given to us through Jesus Christ so that we can always remain in this state of grace, and always have the imputed righteousness given to us and remain unleavened in Jesus Christ. 

Now let’s pick it up here in Hebrews 4:12 (KJV), because this will show you that it is the word of God and the Holy Spirit of God which is accomplishing  this to expose the inner sin within you that you may repent.  Verse 12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful [that means it’s living and powerful], and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”  So God knows.  God knows what human nature is because He gave it.  And God knows the solution for human nature and sin because He sent Jesus Christ as that solution so we could be unleavened in Christ and justified by His blood and His resurrection. 

Now verse 13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with Whom we do have to do.”  And the Greek there means “it’s laid bare.”  Now we can fool ourselves.  We may be able to fool other people, but we can never fool God.  We are laid bare before Him.  Now then, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest [this is a marvelous thing that God is doing], that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities [no He was tempted in every way like we are like it says here]; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin [therefore He knows what it’s like].”  And only He alone condemns sin in the flesh.  That’s powerful brethren.  “Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (vs. 13-16).  That you remain standing in that grace.  So you see you come boldly.  You confess your sins.  You come before God and ask Him to help you.  Ask God to just cleanse you from all unrighteousness.  Ask God to help you with your thoughts, with the way that you live, in keeping the commandments, in dealing with other people, and to overcome human nature. 

Now let’s see the kind of access that we have.  Let’s come to Hebrews 10 and let’s see this grand and glorious purpose that God has for us.  Now I know I’ve covered this leading up to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but this is very important during the Feast of Unleavened Bread we really grasp it so that we can be inspired, so that we can be uplifted, so that we can just thank God for the great and wonderful and magnificent thing that He has done to give us this kind of access.  To give us of His Holy Spirit, to give us of His truth, to give us of His grace, to give us of His gift of righteousness. 

Here’s the covenant, verse 16, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws into their hearts…” That’s the inner most part of your very being, so that then you can live by those, walk by those in faith, in truth and understanding.  “…And in their minds will I write them.”  And your mind is a place that God has created so He can put His Holy Spirit and write His laws and His commandments, and His truth, and His goodness in you as part of the grace wherein you are standing, and as the imputed righteousness of Christ.

Verse 17, “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”  They are completely put away.  Completely forgotten.  And every time you ask God to forgive you, you are forgiven.  That is provided you have the repentance of a contrite heart and a humble spirit.  They are forgiven.  They are not remembered, and as the Psalm says, “as far as from the east is from the west so far has He removed from us our transgressions and sins.”  Brethren, that is so great. 

Now this needs to inspire us to do this, verse 18,  “Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.”  There’s no more animal sacrifice that can do that.  That can accomplish that.  No, because the offering was Jesus Christ.  “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus…” (vs. 18-19). That is right into the very throne room of God.  Did you know that the throne room of God is only a knees bend away from you?  You get on your knees and say, “Our Father”, and you have direct access to the throne of God in heaven above.  That is fantastic brethren.  You need to understand that.  You need to use that.  You need to utilize that.  You need to make it a part of your every day way of living, that you can walk in righteousness, that you can live in truth, that you can keep the commandments of God, that Christ will be in you.

Paul says, “This is a new and a living way…”  New and living by faith.  New and living by the Spirit of God.  “…Which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil…”  That is through the veil unto the very holiest of holies in heaven above, “…That is to say, His flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart…”  An unleavened heart, an unleavened mind, under the grace of God with the imputed righteousness of Christ.  “…With a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;)” (vs. 20-22).

So brethren, that is how you are unleavened in Christ and you are cleansed from every sin, and all unrighteousness, therefore you are unleavened in Jesus Christ.