An Unleavened Bride

This is the sole festival for the developing firstfruits of the Kingdom of God. Jesus Christ, the first of the firstfruits, was represented in the first festival. This festival is the sole festival for the developing of the firstfruits that will be harvested in the next festival that we'll celebrate. The harvest of the firstfruits. This is the one that's serious. This is the one that God and Jesus Christ have poured everything into as the preparation team, the husband and the wife, the ones who will work together in total harmony and bring about the knowledge and understanding in all peoples during the millennium, and then following that the resurrection of all who have ever lived, and having their names written in a book of life, giving them the Holy Spirit and an opportunity to also live forever. The Festival of Unleavened Bread stitches these concepts together with Jesus Christ in Passover, and the title of the sermon today is An Unleavened Bride. When we look in Scripture about the days of unleavened bread, this festival, it's the day of action. It's the day of moving, of changing, a day of growing, a day of becoming, a day of following, a day of discipling, of becoming like and growing into and producing fruit. We need to understand deeply what unleavened bread is as we carry the symbol throughout our days, our entire life, not just for one week. This is just the seven days to really implant it in our mind, to help us grasp the concepts here of our calling and what God wants us to achieve during this time of life, during the present evil age. So today, let's take a look at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, some of the components. Obviously, there are many. We can't get to them all in this short message. But today, we are completing the second of God's annual festivals already. At sunset tonight, two festivals will be over. And as we observe each feast, it's interesting that God has us perform something. We don't just sit back and listen. We actually are involved. We perform. You know, at the first festival, the Passover, Jesus gave his life, blood. He gave his life fully in our place so that we don't have to give our life eternally.

And he asks us then to perform elements of his gifts. We actually participate. We perform. We don't just sit and listen and hear. We actually get involved. First, we humbly, humbly performed Christ-like service to others, getting down and washing feet. Second, we performed the need. We performed and showed a need for his torn body that was torn for us so that we can be healed. So we can be stitched back to God, the Godhead, the God family, the kingdom of God, because we were like sheep gone astray. And we need to be healed and sewn back in. And our bodies also, at times, need to be healed so that we can fulfill that for which God created us. And so we eat unleavened bread at the Passover.

We eat it. We chew it. We ingest it. We think about it. Thirdly, we performed a faith in his dying for us, his shedding of his blood, that life is in the blood and his blood ran out. And we drank a sip of wine and we considered, we actually performed an action linking ourselves and showing the faith and the trust in him replacing our destinence with his own. And finally, we performed a hymn, a hymn demonstrating our allegiance to God, our thankful devotion to God the Father and to Jesus Christ. We did that. We got up and we sang that to God and thanked him and endeavored to go forward. And now we come into this second festival. Interestingly, it is right on the heels of the Passover. There's only 24 hours between them. One flows with a connection right into the other because the second festival represents those whom God is calling now in this age and has been calling during this age. This festival within 24 hours represents those who are part of a covenant with him, like the Lord. Let's go to Luke 22 and verse 20. As part of the Passover, he links that Passover and that Passover festival right to us, to those who are striving and involved in being called to be first-roots. In Luke 22 and verse 20, it says, Likewise, he also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.

So it wasn't disconnected from us at all. It's the Passover to remember him, but then he connects it to a covenant that he is able now to make with us. And we then, with this Passover forgiveness, can begin a journey with him in what we call the Feast of Unleavened Bread, just as Israel walked out of Egypt. So these are linked tightly together. And as we have been keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread this week, let's look at some of the links with Christ, his sacrifice, with his life, and with our life every day from now until the coming of Jesus Christ. The first, Jesus Christ is the core of the new covenant.

We just read that he gave his life blood in verse 28 there. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. And that covenant is a living interaction of a husband and wife, of a Savior, and those whom the Father calls, of an elder brother leading the way and showing and bringing along those who will join him in the Godhead at his return. The second is, the death of the firstborn released those whom God called. God actually miraculously created the Israelites.

It wasn't that he sort of specially favored them, no, he created them. Remember Sarah was barren, and then he waited until she was so old that nobody would have ever dreamed that she would have had a kid, including herself. And then she had a child. And it was from that child who God named Israel that you have a nation that he called his. We also know that Jesus said in the new covenant that none can come to me unless the Father calls them.

So those who are called then get released at baptism through the blood of Christ. You can look in Romans chapter 6 verses 1 through 4, and you can see how we are welded to Christ sacrifice in Passover. We are just joined with him, and we then walk with him in newness of life. In this opportunity then, we are walking with God towards the Promised Land.

Another action, the whole picture of Israel coming out towards the Red Sea, pictured by today, was movement following Jesus Christ, going out in the dark, pitch dark, maybe with the moon, but with the bright light being led in the path that only Jesus Christ, the God of the Old Testament, or God in the Old Testament, was showing and directing them. And they followed, just like you and me. We have a narrow, difficult path that leads to a challenging destination which nobody can find, but we are walking with Jesus Christ towards that destination. In Romans chapter 1 and verse 6, it says, "'Among whom you are the called of Jesus Christ.'" We just focus on that. "'Among whom you are the called of Jesus Christ.'" You are connected with that Passover Lamb. You are following Him in the light, in the path of right, wherever He leads. And the third is, the Feast of Unleavened Bread is for the called ones to follow Christ out of human society, out of human mental concepts, and out of, actually, humanity. Just as Jesus Christ Himself walked, was perfected and died, so we are to walk, be perfected and redeemed as well. He says in John chapter 10 and verse 27, "'My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.'" All of these are themes and parallels of those who God is called, both in ancient Israel but also, more specifically now, they were a type of the first fruits to be that are walking with Jesus Christ at this point. 4. Jesus Christ is the New Covenant's mediator. He is our Lord or authority. He is our husband.

He is the Savior of the New Covenant saints, called a bride, called a wife in Ephesians chapter 5. His wife is making herself ready in Revelation 19.

In Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 15, it's an important scripture, Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 15, Jesus didn't just sort of give the passover and that was His role and now, I don't know, we're supposed to be unleavened. Let's look at Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 15. There is more to the New Covenant than that. And for this reason, He is the mediator of the New Covenant. He is in the New Covenant. A covenant is a relationship. It's a contract between two individuals and He mediates that. He's right there in the middle of it. By means of death for the redemption of the transgressions. You see, He is redeeming us.

He is redeeming us. By His death, He redeems us and He mediates. This is a living covenant.

This is something that's active. It's going on. Just as the Israelites were still coming out of Egypt, still moving along, so in your life, six days, I like to say, six days of unleavened bread represent our life. And this is what's happening. This is what's going on. But point number five, the Feast of Unleavened Bread is also for Christ to bring them totally out of the physical, totally out of Egypt. That was on this day when they came out last night with the impossible crossing, the impossible going down, something no human can do, could never do.

They transitioned out by miracle. And in verse 15, continuing in Hebrews 9, that those who are called may receive the promise of the internal inheritance. Do you know Jesus? The first fruit is already there. We know that in 1 Corinthians 15. He's already there. We are to follow at His return to that eternal inheritance. That's the goal. That's the whole purpose of unleavened bread was to get Israel out of Egypt with God. You and I have that blessing and opportunity. Let's see what Jesus says about this in John chapter 10 and verse 27.

It's not just about keeping God's law. Yes, we do keep God's law. It's not about just avoiding sin. Yes, we do avoid sin. Those are important, but why do we do those things? Let's hear Jesus tell us. John 10, verse 27, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. That should be very encouraging to us if we truly are walking with Him, following Him, hearing His voice, knowing Him, Him knowing us.

You know what it says in 1 John? He who says, I know Him and keeps not His commandments is a liar. So if He knows us, then we know Him. We are keeping His commandments, but we're listening, we're following, we're doing what He does. He's discipling us. We're becoming Christ-like. We're putting on the mind of Christ, and that's what this beast is about.

When we eat that unleavened bread, we are actively saying, I endeavor to put on Jesus Christ, the mind of Christ. I endeavor to think and act like Jesus Christ. I endeavor to be the submissive wife, the helpful God, family member that represents and lives with God in me and have that relationship.

That's what I do as I eat unleavened bread. That's what we tell ourselves. We recognize that, well, this is the same thing that we took on Passover. This represents Jesus Christ. This bread is not the corruptible, putrefied bread that will rot in seven days. South Dakota University actually has an article using bread mold as a clock. It is so predictable when bread will mold that you can use it as a clock, they found out. Unleavened bread doesn't mold. Unleavened bread doesn't rot. You can, if you have any leftovers, put in a cupboard, it'll be there next year.

Look about the same. Unless you've, you know, combined something with like cottage cheese in it or something. But if it's just the pure, you know, the pure grain with the water and the oil and the salt, it's good. And that's what we're to be. Pure like Jesus Christ. The feast name is actually a symbolism of the new covenant. This is the feast of unleavened bread. We think that doesn't really mean a lot, but it should. It's what is expected from us. We are to become unleavened bread. It's not the feast of avoiding leavened bread.

Nowhere is that the name of the feast. Of course, we're supposed to do that. It's not the salvation by not sinning and not doing anything else. It's the feast of developing godly character represented by a bread that is pure, that is honest, that's genuine, it's humble, it's full of nourishment. It'll give your physical body life. And so if we go to Exodus 13 in verse 6, we can see how God establishes this feast.

This is one of many scriptures that say essentially the same thing. Exodus 13 in verse 6, seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. See, this is what the feast is made for, eating unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. Verse 7, unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. It's very important that we connect ourselves with what that bread is, what it stands for, and that we are actively participating in that. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. That shouldn't be there. Men shouldn't be there.

But righteousness, or right, doing right, performing agape, being Christ's life, following Christ, bringing in the mind of Christ, to replace the void of having put the leaven out, that's what we're to be growing on. Remember, the goal of God the Father is fruit, abundant fruit. He'll trim us and clip us and give us challenges and opportunities. With Jesus Christ as our vine, we're together. We are dwelling together like grapes on a grapevine, like wheat on a stalk. But it's through our desire to be unleavened bread that the wheat fills the heads. Otherwise, they're just empty. That the grapes come and form large grapes, maybe like the ones that they brought out of the land of Canaan, you know, with Joshua and Caleb, those big old grapes.

That's what God would be pleased with. So the point is, yes, we're to live leaven-free lives, but there's much more to the new covenant than just avoiding leaven. How many of you made a mistake, how many of us made a mistake this week and accidentally ate some leaven? Anybody? Just mine? Okay, there you are. All right. So, personal story, I was at a restaurant with my wife and there was some leaven on the plate, but it was over there and I'm not going to touch that leaven.

It was bread and I wouldn't touch that. So I was just careful to have a bite and I wasn't paying attention, I was eating and then in my mouth there was bread. How that happened? I was careful, I was upset, I just couldn't stand it. It bothered me so much. Now I've got bread in my mouth. What do I do with it? I'm still chewing, I think, you can't do that, you can't swallow it. How are you going to get rid of it?

You've got nothing to wash it out with. It was... A little later I was up walking around in the middle of the night and it hit me. That was a dream. I thank God I'm not like one of those sinners. Now I seem to have this puffed up self-righteousness, the leaven of self-righteousness. This stuff will get you no matter which way you go. So this is like Paul said, that which I want to do I don't do and that which I do do I want to do.

Even in my not eating leaven I'm self-righteous about not eating leaven and therefore I'm puffed up. See, I'm just giving you that as an example. True story, though, I felt really good there for a while. This walk is not only about avoiding sin and that's very, very important. It's filling the void. Okay? Filling the void. And so that's why we want to be eating unleavened bread. We perform elements of the new covenant in type because Jesus Christ performed them literally and he sets us an example.

Let's notice some words of His. Let's go to John chapter 6 and verse 53. We'll spend a little time here today. John chapter 6 and verse 53. Jesus said to them, assuredly, you can count on this, right? I say to you, unless you eat the flesh or the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Now there's action, you see. He didn't say, now, if you just avoid breaking any of the Ten Commandments, sign that little sign, make sure you check those off. You'll have life. No, he says, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

Eating unleavened bread is a performance we do and it's a symbol. It's a symbol of a goal we have, a symbol of a genuine intent of what is good and right about what God tells us to do.

In Luke chapter 22 and verse 20, again, he said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you.

The covenant is a word that we need to understand. It comes from Strong's Greek word 1242, which says, specifically, a contract, vines, one of its definitions, is an agreement, a mutual undertaking. If you want to read more about this, get the Grace booklet.

Turn to page 68. What did that word mean in the first century? That reciprocal, favorable, reciprocal covenant relationship. There's a lot of work that we do there.

So I'll let you read that if you like. I would encourage you to. That's starting at page 68 in the United Church of God's booklet entitled, Grace. We have, then, a covenant, an agreement, and part of that agreement is, I will die for you if you'll repent. And if you repent, I will forgive your sins.

And if I forgive your sins, then you can receive the Holy Spirit. And if you receive the Holy Spirit, then you can have faith, some of my faith, and you can have a helper to begin to put sin out of your life. And as you put sin out of your life, you put more righteousness in. I will give you some of my thoughts, and you can fill your life with me and my thoughts. You can fill them with the deeds. God will inspire you and help you more and more to become like Him. And the end of that covenant is if you do this and you are doing this when He comes, we'll raise you up and put you in the the bride of Christ and the family of God and sitting on the throne. That's a great relationship. So that's what we're to be involved in. You can see some of that again in that Grace booklet on page 68.

Now, the real significance of Unleavened Bread is what we're about to get into now.

What we're talking about is doing. Let's go to John 6 again. Here's where we're going to spend some time, and we're going to start in verse 27. John 6 and verse 27. Jesus Christ here is going to talk to us about our lives and about bread.

And about bread.

It says, Do not labor for food which perishes. Bread was such an integral part of life back in the biblical times that bread often is just used for food. You know, they broke bread. What did that mean? Well, they had dinner or they had lunch. Bread was often very synonymous with eating, staying alive. He says, Do not labor for food which perishes, but labor for the food which endures to everlasting life. So we see part of this covenant then is to labor, to work, to go, to do, to be involved in. And it's labor. Paul talks about running a race, fighting a fight.

There are various things there. Walking, running, striving, always motion towards the kingdom of God. Labor for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you because God the Father has set his seal on him. That's where we get it. And we want that bread of life. We have to come to yearn for it. Now, if you're like most people, you're not a big fan of unleavened bread. I mean, really. We're trying to make it palatable and put stuff on it and fix stuff. But everybody's looking forward probably to later on, oh, soon. And in comes the leaven. You know, all the other stuff will come in. But here's the important thing. If you're laboring for something, if you hunger and thirst for unleavened bread, you've had a switch. You now recognize, you now recognize that unleavened bread is not corrupted by the leaven, the yeast that came in and destroyed everything, putrefied everything, soured everything, and puffed it all up into something that, yeah, appeals to us carnal humans. We kind of like that. And we kind of like that in society as well. When was the last time you saw a good movie about righteous, godly people?

I'm developing a blockbuster for the millennium. I'll clue you in on it. It's a blockbuster movie. It goes like this. And here are some people, and they're all happy, and they have good marriages, and their children are going about life, and everything's fine, and they're sitting under their vines and their fig trees, and the weather is good, and the animals are tame.

But wait! There's some drama! Oh no!

The people who are about to go out and harvest the crop, they can't hardly get out there because the people coming in to seed are already there, and we have this collision out in the farm fields. There's so much to harvest, we can't get it out, and the people want to put the seed in there, and this drama, it's going to really unvisen to me really good. You know, honestly, when you want to see a good movie today, what do you want? Well, let's see, there's got to be a bit of murder in there. Maybe somebody's going to steal something, you know, some espionage, some lying and cheating, and maybe there's some adultery, or some, you know, some, some, that's what makes a blockbuster today, and that's kind of why humans like leavened bread. How much do we want the other type of the movie? You know, what about just a great movie? Let's just watch a family movie about, I don't know, vines and victories and not much happening. Everybody's happy, and everything's at peace. There's no war, and there's no schisms, and so you have to really want unleavened bread. You have to say, you know, look at life and say, all that this world has come to, who was it? Lord Byron, I believe, made a statement that history is the devil's scripture. You come to understand that the record of humanity is the, the, the trash left over from leaven, right? And then you come to appreciate that everything about God and unleavened bread and the purity of Jesus Christ and that way of life is good. You'll come to see leaven, you'll come to see leaven in the light in which we need to see it during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

We need to look at eternal life as something that requires effort.

In verse 33, Jesus said, for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Sounds kind of easy and straightforward to go to the next verse. Verse 35, and Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me, we have to come to him. We have to come to him in prayer through God the Father, actually, we come to God the Father, but we come through Jesus Christ, his sacrifice, and allows us to come to God the Father in prayer. We have to come to God the Father and Jesus Christ by putting their words. How can we say we're Christian if we don't read the words of Christ and we don't follow that? We don't put that into our minds.

And he who believes in me, you know, faith with works is alive, shall never thirst. So making a feast about bread, that Jesus is the bread, it may seem a little bit obscure. It works pretty well for us, but bread back when the Bible was written was the most important element of every meal. They didn't have forks, spoons, and knives back then. Nobody used them. They'd been in Vinit who were coming along, but people didn't use them. They ate with their hands.

And so in order to eat what was on your plate, your vegetables, your beans, whatever it was, you needed an instrument and that was you tore the piece of bread and you scooped that up and you took a bite of the bread. That was an integral part of eating your food. And if you didn't have bread, how were you going to eat? Bread was also a staple. It was the one thing that lasted all year round because, you know, your fresh crops, they spoiled. Harvest of fruits, they spoiled. Things don't keep through the winter months, but grain does. And so bread is a very important staple.

So bread meant life to the people at that time. And when Jesus said, I am the bread of life, they would understand, they could really understand that this was integral to their physical survival. That's why a part of the Lord's Prayer is, give us this day our daily bread. It's talking about food, but the bread was such an important part of it. And it also refers to Jesus Christ. Part of our daily prayer to God was, give me that Holy Spirit. Give me Jesus Christ in my life. I need that Son of God living in me. And Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So the spiritual side of us is how we would live and actually have life. Jesus is called the bread from heaven. He calls himself that. The bread of God, the bread of life. He is our bread for eternal life. In verse 48, I am the bread of life. So the Feast of Unleavened Bread is very crucial for us in our annual or lifelong quest to be in God's kingdom. This sets us up. It's right at the beginning. It's seven full days to really get this message across in this present evil age that is so cluttered with other concepts.

So how do we remove the spiritual leaven? Well, we put unleavened bread in us. We get rid of leaven by replacing with leavened bread. And that is what we really need to do in our lives. If you see things that are ungodly and wrong, you can't just take them out and replace them with a void. Something else will come right in. It's like the demons. Jesus cast out demons and there's more just waiting to come back in, he said. But if you replace it with something, then you actually are developing a character that will block out those wrong things.

In verse 49, Jesus said, your fathers ate the manna. That was food. That was bread in the wilderness and they are dead. Physical bread only supports physical life.

But verse 50, he said, this is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. We need to be eating of that so that we don't die. So we, like the apostle Paul, can say, there's laid up a crown of righteousness for me because I am in this contract. I am in this covenant. I'm not perfect at it, but God knows my heart and I am really striving and I'm desiring to be like him. Verse 51, I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. So you see, this is about the first fruits eating this bread and living forever. And the bread that I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world, all humans. We have another festival coming up, the Day of Atonement, that relates to the forgiveness and the atoning of sins for those who will come in later callings.

The Jews, in verse 52, quarreled among themselves, how can this man give us flesh to eat? And this was quite difficult because in Leviticus 17 and verse 14, God commands, you shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is in its blood. And Jesus is saying, eat my flesh and drink my blood. A human? And we're not even supposed to eat the blood of anything. Well, verse 53, he says, most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. See who he's talking about here. At the last day, when he returns, he's going to raise them up. For, verse 55, or because, you could say, my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. What is he talking about there? It's hard for us to visualize that. Well, one of the temple sacrifices was the peace offering. The peace offering is an offering where one part of the animal was burned, symbolically given to God, and the rest was given to the person who brought it for him, his family, friends to eat. That was called a peace offering, and it represented peace. A Greek word, irane, stitching together, reconciliation, healing. It was a reconciliation offering, or a healing offering. It brought them together. And so, as our offering, our Jesus' offering, we are stitched together with God through this Lamb, the peace offering, and reconciled with God and each other. We symbolically eat of that sacrifice, and what a beautiful picture it is. We are to be one. Jesus said in John 17, I pray that they will be one, as we are one. I in you, you in me, we in them, they in us. Fabrics stitched together, oneness reconciled to each other. And so, in verse 56, when he says, he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him, we are sharing, we are being shared with his sacrifice, and we are participating in the reconciliation that comes through him giving his life. When it says in verse 56, he who eats my flesh and drinks in my blood abides in me and I in him, see this is integral to the new covenant. It's a dwelling. Abide or remains in, or lives in, or dwells in. God dwells in us. We dwell in him. We live in. We continue to remain in, you see. That's the real... Jesus Christ isn't often heaven sitting on the right hand of God away from us, right? He said, I will come and the Holy Spirit, we, Father and I, will dwell in you. We will make our home in you. So spiritually, they are connected with us. Physically, he may be up there. He also has a traveling throne. He may come down, see his bride on holy days. We don't know. He says we're two or more, we're gathered together. I'm there in the midst of you. Can't say exactly where he is at any given time. But he is always spiritually linked and dwelling in us if we are eating his flesh and drinking his blood in the sense of desiring his nature and his spirit to be in us.

See, blood is equated with life. Life is in the blood, we read earlier. And so, there's one element of life and the other is the bread, the bread of life. We have those in the Passover. Here, he's telling us to participate in those things, to bring him into our life.

He says in verse 57, so he who feeds on me will live because of me. Didn't say he who nibbles, you know, he who likes the idea, feeding on me. In other words, this is our diet.

Give us this day our daily bread. We really need to bring Jesus Christ into our diet.

It's something we have to do all the time. It's something we need to hunger and thirst for.

Because without him, we can't live. We can't do anything. The number seven symbolizes completeness.

And the completeness that we really see today, I believe on this day, the Israelites had come through the Red Sea last night and were standing on the other shore and saw the agents of sin destroyed. And they were totally out of Egypt. They were now on the Sinai Peninsula in a different place with God. And that's what we look forward to. We want to be part of that family of God, literally. So in conclusion, the bread of the Feast of Unleavened Bread represents change, something wonderful to change into. There's nothing bad about unleavened bread. A whole grain piece of unleavened bread is a nutritious, wonderful thing, and all the elements are good for you.

We are supposed to change from a life of corruption, which we were all part of.

We are to come out of that to an unleavened life filled with Christ, filled with Jesus Christ.

Here's what Paul says. Last scripture, Galatians chapter 2 and verse 20.

Apostle Paul is a wonderful brother of ours that went before us, went through lots of hard knocks, made mistakes, was imbued by God's Spirit, was strong, thought about a lot of things. And here's how this change in him is represented. Galatians 2 and verse 20.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. That's a beautiful summary of the new covenant in our growing and developing the mind of Christ. Ultimately, once we grow and produce that fruit, we will have a glorious transformation into the divine family of God in the kingdom of heaven.

And this feast of unleavened bread represents our entire spiritual journey all the way to the kingdom of God. Be prepared to be led across that gulf between the physical realm and the spiritual realm by partaking of a daily true diet of unleavened bread, the unleavened bread of life, Jesus the Christ.