Remember This Day

Exodus 13:3 KJV

by

Adrian Yuen, Ph.D.

I love to study and teach from the first five books of the Bible called THE PENTATEUCH. There are many spiritual truths that are applicable and relevant for us today.

Take for example: Exodus 13:3, it states in the King James Version . . . AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, REMEMBER THIS DAY, IN WHICH YE CAME OUT FROM EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE; FOR BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM THIS PALCE; THERE SHALL NO LEAVENED BREAD BE EATEN.

Several things we need to look at . . .

First, REMEMBER THIS DAY . . . All of us need to remember the day the Lord brought us out of Egypt (the world). . . where the "burden of the heart rolled away, it was there by faith I received my sight and now I am happy all the day." (lyrics of a song) We need to remember the grace of God that was given to us while we were yet sinners and undeserving, JESUS SAVED US. We need not to forget how wonderful it was to meet Him as Savior and Lord.

Second, we came "out from Egypt." Somehow in the modern emphasis of a compromised message, exodus from Egypt is not a strong teaching. So many Christians have claims to put on the new man, but they still have the old man co-mingling. We need to come OUT FROM EGYPT. As long as we are in Egypt, we cannot enter into the Promised Land of Christian maturity, of a kingdom believer sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise, and the overcomer with the Mind of Christ and the image of God and His sustaining grace. As long as we are dabbling with the world, we are hindered from many blessings of spiritual outpourings in our lives, even physical blessings, because we are not fully "out of Egypt." But, we need to REMEMBER THE DAY IN WHICH WE CAME OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE LAND OF BONDAGE.

Third, from this point on in our discipling relationship with Jesus that "there shall no leavened bread be eaten."

This is so critical, a teaching lost in today's lite gospel churches where the truth is adjusted according to perception and the message is accommodating the self-induced process of growth. We need to eat unleavened bread and be taught the pure Word of God. There can be no compromise.

Someone may say, IT'S HARD TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. Yes, if you live it by your own strength. But, the Bible says, FOR BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM THIS PLACE." (Exodus 13:3)

Who brought you out?

Who delivered you?

Who forgave you?

Who is your source of strength?

THE LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM THIS PLACE.

Jesus said, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED . . . Satan wants a troubled heart. When our hearts are troubled, we eat leavened bread, we process things defensively, we think in terms of our own opinions and not in the mind frame of God's Word, the Bible.

When our hearts are troubled, we begin to eat LEAVENED BREAD.

When we are hurt with someone else, our spouses, our church family . . . hurt no matter who is the cause, the intent of every hurt is to trouble the heart and when the heart is troubled, we tend to eat LEAVENED BREAD.

When the message is preached from the pulpit addressing our issues, we respond with subjective resistance and we receive that pure Word with leaven.

When God gives us so many reasons to REJOICE, we remain in our troubled state.

And when we do, WE BEGIN TO SEE EVERYTHING IN AN LEAVENED PERSPECTIVE.

When love is given to heal the unloving memory, we reject it with suspicion.

When peace is given to silence the gnawing pain of hurt, we dig up the "dead bones" (Numbers 19) and re-defile ourselves.

When joy is given miraculousy to answer the charge of bad thoughts, we choose to stir in our disappointment and anger. WE ARE EATING LEAVENED BREAD.

So we are commanded NOT TO LET OUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED.

We speak to our troubled hearts and say, REJOICE IN THE LORD, AND AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE.

We speak to the enemy who wants us to be defeated by a spirit of trouble, by a weary heart, by a down-trodden soul and we say to life, I WALK WITH JOY, MY HEART IS REJOICING ON A GOODLY MATTER.. . . AND LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO, SAY SO . . . the joy of the Lord is my strength!

I will remember the day He brought me out.

And I will walk fully out of this world and take on Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. And with the spirit of joy and victory, the overcomer will never eat the leavened bread as he or she humbly walks in the light and in the Spirit . . .

We refuse to eat any leavened bread, we desire the full truth and nothing but the truth.

AND WHEN WE REMEMBER THAT DAY, we become more determined to experience more of Him and to LIVE ON THE YES SIDE OF GOD.

With much aloha,

Adrian Yuen, Ph.D.

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