Message. Days of Unleavened Bread: Movement Toward Perfection. Neal Parker

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1 Message Days of Unleavened Bread: Neal Parker

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3 Miracle Days of Unleavened Bread: Legs Feed The Wolf! Grow Through Pain! Challenge, Challenge, Challenge!

4 Seabiscuit Re-training To Do Things We Don t Normally Do. Train To React In The Right Ways.

5 Hooisers Days of Unleavened Bread: Focus on the fundamentals. Don t run out of steam before your opponent.

6 Remembering The Titans Perfection! Change!

7 God s Spring Holy Days Passover Night To Be Much Observed Days of Unleavened Bread Jesus Christ s sacrifice was the first step in mankind s ability to have an intimate relationship with God the Father Christians we must keep themselves awake and spiritual alert in a world of darkness. Keeping of God s commandments, which is another way of saying the putting away of sin and the putting in of Life.

8 Matthew 5 : 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Deuteronomy 18 : 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. New King James Version

9 What is Perfection? 1. To Finish 2. To Bring To An End

10 Delta of the Metaphysics 1. Complete Contains All The Requisite Parts 2. So Good That Nothing Of The Kind Could Be Better 3. Has Attained Its Purpose

11 Leviticus 23:6 8 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.' New King James Version

12 Exodus 12:15 20 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat that only may be prepared by you. So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, New King James Version

13 Exodus 12:15 20 for on his same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, New King James Version

14 Exodus 12:15 20 whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.' " New King James Version

15 Focus On Sin Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren. New King James Version

16 Why Does God Hate Sin? 1. Sin Hurts People 2. Sin Hurts You 3. Sin Hurts People Close To You God Loves Repentance!

17 Tools For A Spiritually Successful Spring Holy Season God s Word Psalm 119: Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. I have sworn and I will confirm it, That I will keep Your righteous ordinances. Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; and reproofs for discipline are the way of life.

18 Tools For A Spiritually Successful Spring Holy Season Self-Examination A reflective examination / looking inward (as of one's beliefs or motives); An examination of one's own thoughts and feelings.

19 Tools For A Spiritually Successful Spring Holy Season Self-Examination Job 13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my rebellion and my sin. Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

20 Matthew 5:20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. New King James Version

21 Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. New King James Version

22 Leavened Bread vs. Unleavened Bread Indigestion from Sin or Ingestion of Righteousness / Ways of the Body of Christ

23 Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. Psalms 18:30 As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. New King James Version

24 What is Perfection? 1. Freedom From Fault 2. Accurate 3. Satisfying All Requirements 4. Completeness or Lacking No Essential Details

25 If all Americans Operated From the 99.9% Perfection Principle: 22,000 checks would be deposited to the wrong bank account, in the next hour. 1,314 telephone calls would be misplaced, in the next minute. 2,000,000 documents would be lost by the Internal Revenue Service, this year. 20,000 prescription medicines would be written incorrectly, this year. 315 entries in Webster s Dictionary would be misspelled, this issue.

26 Philippians 2:12-15 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. New King James Version

27 Colossians 1:10-12 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. New King James Version

28 Saints Sacred (an Awful thing) Physically - Pure Morally - Blameless Religiously - Consecrated The Purpose For Us!

29 Application To Life To stand still on the summit of perfection is difficult and in the natural course of things, that which can not go forward slips back. - Velleius Roman Historian

30 Application To Life Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. - I Corinthians 5:8

31 Have A Successful Days of Unleavened Bread!