Unleavened bread symbolizes the purity and holiness required in our approach to God, representing our total inability to achieve righteousness on our own.
In Scripture, unleavened bread serves as a powerful symbol of purity and a reminder of our dependence on God's grace. During the Passover, God instructed Israel to eat unleavened bread, which signified the haste in which they left Egypt and the necessity of removing leaven, representing sin and pride, from their lives. In contrast to leavened bread, which can be seen as representing self-righteousness and hypocrisy, unleavened bread illustrates our inability to attain righteousness through works. By observing this ordinance, Christians are called to remember their total reliance on Christ, the true bread from heaven, to sustain them in both life and faith.
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