The Bible is not just about Jesus, but nonetheless it goes without saying that He is an integral part of the whole Bible – in particular the Holy Days.
John 17:25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
John 17:26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Matthew 11:27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Jesus was the God of the Old Testament – He was the one that interacted with the people and led them out of Egypt. Because He was the spokesman, it was necessary for Him to tell them about the Father.
All that being said He is central to the Plan of God and every step along the way.
Acts 4:12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Christ in Passover
He is very central to Passover and a necessary first step so that the rest of the plan of God could proceed. He is the Bread (of life) and Wine (the blood that pays for penalty of our sin)
1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
He was the Sacrificial Passover Lamb
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
feeble, impotent, powerless, without strength, weak; it was not within our capability to stand
Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
Can we empathize? Most would not be willing to do this, but it is exactly what Christ did.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Days of Unleavened Bread Summary
Leviticus 23 – Holy Days
Leviticus 23:6 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.
Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.
Leviticus 23:8 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.‘ “
The Days of Unleavened Bread represents putting sin out of your life. Putting physical leavening out of your life once a year is symbolic and helps us focus on our need to remove sin from our lives.
These days were kept in New Testament times as well AND after the death of Jesus
Coming Out of Sin
1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife!
1 Corinthians 5:2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.
1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 5:5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
It will affect everyone in one way or the other
1 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1 Corinthians 5:8 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.
1 Corinthians 5:9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
1 Corinthians 5:10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
1 Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
1 Corinthians 5:13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “PUT AWAY FROM YOURSELVES THE EVIL PERSON.”
Exodus 13:3 And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
Egypt Type of sin
1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
1 Corinthians 10:2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
1 Corinthians 10:3 all ate the same spiritual food,
1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
They murmured and longed to go back to Egypt – in effect back into sin
Set Free From Sin
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
God made it possible. We did not do anything to deserve it or earn it, yet He showed us favor so that we could begin to understand and be delivered from sin.
Romans 6:18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
We are set free from [the penalty of] sin
Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
We have been liberated from the hold that sin exerts in our life
Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Just like the Israelites in Egypt
Romans 6:21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
This is where this way of life leads
Romans 6:22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
This is where this way of life leads
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This is what we earn for our works of sin!
Eternal life or salvation is a gift we receive by the grace of God, by, in and through Christ
God works through Christ – the two are of one harmonized and unified mind. All things were created through the one that became Jesus and He is the spokesman for the Father and does His will.
It is through Christ that we are set free from sin. This is how we see Christ in this holy day. It is by His acts and power that we are able to come out of sin.
Once we do:
Do not return to Sin
Obviously as a Christian we are to come out of sin and stay out
Romans 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
The armor of righteousness (2 Corinthians 6:7), which is the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:11)
Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
Definitely closer now than it was when Paul wrote this:
1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
1 Thessalonians 5:5You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
NOW is the time to be doing what we are supposed to be doing
Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
Galatians 5:24 [we] crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die;
So once again we see that we are to put on Christ, use His help and power that He offers to us to remain free from sin.
Wave Sheaf
Many events in the Bible happened during this week of Unleavened Bread
These miracles could not have been accomplished without the power of God
Coming out of Egypt; Crossing the Red Sea; Deliverance of the Jews through Esther; Fall of Jericho; etc
But the most significant event that happened during these days shows us just how central Christ is to the Days of Unleavened Bread… and that is the wave sheaf offering.
Happens During the Days of Unleavened Bread, not Outside of them
Leviticus 23:9 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
Leviticus 23:11 He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
The word here for Sabbath always refers to the weekly Sabbath and never a high Sabbath, which is a holy day. This is why the day of Pentecost does not fall on a specific day of the year.
Leviticus 23:12 And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:13 Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin.
Leviticus 23:14 You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Meaning of the Wave Sheaf
Note that the harvest could not begin until the wave offering had been made.
It symbolized Christ first and then after Him the way would be made possible for the rest of mankind.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit [singular in the Greek] of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruit [singular in the Greek], afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.
Not only did He have to die, but He had to be resurrected and be accepted before God so that the rest of the plan could proceed.
Fulfillment of the Wave Sheaf
John 20:1 Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
John 20:2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
John 20:3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.
John 20:4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.
John 20:5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in.
John 20:6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there,
John 20:7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.
John 20:8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed.
John 20:9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.
John 20:10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
John 20:11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb.
John 20:12 And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John 20:13 Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”
John 20:14 Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
John 20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”
John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).
John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”
John 20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.
John 20:19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
Romans 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
He had to be resurrected and accepted before God the Father.
Definition of reconcile: Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement or enmity;
We are not saved by His blood but by His life by what He is doing now for us
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
2 Corinthians 5:19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.
Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Sin and its penalty was buried with Christ and died. In a similar way we go down into the watery grave and die as Christ did, the difference being is that we go down with our own sins.
Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Now notice how Paul continues to emphasize our union WITH Christ in this process down through verse 8. We do not do this alone – He goes through all of these things WITH us.
We see that baptism is a symbolic Burial and Resurrection pointing to a literal burial at death then resurrection at the return of Christ
walk in newness of life … not only to we not go back to the sin and the old way of life but move forward in a different way ()
We are seeing a transition here between the way of life that we were once a part of and the new one that we are to be heading towards. But most importantly here we see that Christ is integral in both aspects: delivering us out of sin and guiding/directing us in the better way
Romans 6:5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
We are to follow the example of Christ with His help
Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Romans 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Freed from the penalty of sin and the hold it has on us
Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Ephesians 4:22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
Ephesians 4:23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Christ died, spilled His blood and paid the penalty for all the sins of mankind. We in turn died WITH Him and buried the old man, the sinful person that we used to be. We left that old man there and we arose out of the watery grave of baptism as a new man WITH Christ begin living a new life WITH Christ.
In these days of unleavened bread we see Christ in the beginning of it and in the midst of it and next time we will continue to see Him through the rest of the days of this feast.
PART 2
Was does an “Old Testament” holy day have to do with Christ or vice versa.
Christ Lives in Us
Leviticus 23:6 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.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exodus 12:6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
Exodus 12:7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
Exodus 12:8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exodus 12:9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails.
Exodus 12:10 You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
Exodus 12:11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
xodus 12:12 ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Exodus 12:13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:15 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.
Exodus 12:16 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.
Exodus 12:17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this 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.
Exodus 12:18 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.
Exodus 12:19 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, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
Exodus 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ “
1 Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;
1 Corinthians 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
So we see the symbolism come to light
Galatians 2:20 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.
1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them [false prophets, false ministers; those that are anti-christ or against Christ and what He stands for], because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that it may abide with you forever—
John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees it nor knows it; but you know it, for it dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
John 14:20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
John 14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 14:24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.
John 14:25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.
John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in My name, it will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
We have a life now of Christ in us. We do not want to involve Christ in our sin, but we want to involve ourselves in His life.
Displacing Sin with Righteousness
Days of Unleavened Bread is not only the removing of leaven from your house and your life but it is the eating of unleavened bread for the week.
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
1 Corinthians 5:8 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.
We put sin out by displacing it with righteousness.
Displace: take over the place, position, or role of (someone or something) cause (something) to move from its proper or usual place.
Replace: take the place of; provide or find a substitute for;
Not only do we stop the sin, but we start acting in the right way. This is whole meaning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We stop walking in that direction and start walking in this direction.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
Romans 7:16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
Romans 7:17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
Romans 7:19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
Romans 7:20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 7:25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Paul is speaking in present tense as an apostle of 25 Years (±5). Human nature does not go away…but we don’t have to be slaves to it.
We have two incongruent laws at work. God’s way and our/Satan’s/society’s way. These two are incompatible.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
This is his summary of these sections on the Application of Righteous. He is encouraging and admonishing the Romans to act righteously now towards everyone. If we are Christians and have an ear to hear then we will see that the admonition is for us too.
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
If you have God’s spirit you do not have to be subject to the penalty of the law which is death because Christ came and paid it on our behalf.
But the focus today is that we are led by the spirit and not the penalty of the law because now we are acting in a different way. No longer are we breaking the law, but we are now being helped and guided in a better way – God’s way.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, [immoral ways, filthy thoughts, and shameful deeds.].
Galatians 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred [hostility and opposition; making enemies out of people], contentions [quarrels], jealousies, outbursts of wrath [fits of rage; indignation], selfish ambitions [rivalries; strife], dissensions [factions; sedition], heresies [choice – as in another choice beside the truth],
Galatians 5:21 envy [ill will], murders [], drunkenness, revelries [carousing; being rioutous], and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering [forbearance; patience], kindness, goodness [viruous], faithfulness,
…Against such there is no law… there is no law saying we cannot or should not do them
it says the “fruit” not “fruits” of the spirit. you should be exhibiting all of these characteristics.
Galatians 5:23 gentleness [meekness; humility], self-control [temperate]. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Walking in Faith
Going through the Red Sea (type of baptism), but then walking in faith – towards the promised land
walk in newness of life …
2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 3:15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Ephesians 3:16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—
Ephesians 3:19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Ephesians 3:21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
Righteousness means a state of being right with God; state or condition conforming to the perfect law and character of god; same word as just/justification
…from faith to faith; from the faith we once had or the lack of it to a greater, better, more genuine faith; from beginning to deeper faith, we grow in faith; from old faith (Judaism) to new one; from physical to spiritual; any one would fit the meaning
…LIVE (ie Walk): we must do more than believe. We must live it. Romans is telling us how to really and truly live by faith, living by faith of Jesus Christ. Jews thought they could do it on their own, and perhaps we did too
Action; how we are to be acting; walk as Jesus Christ walked; walk with Him
1 John 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1 John 2:4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
1 John 2:6 He who says he abides [lives in Him by faith] in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
So we are being judged upon our walk now—this new walk, this entirely new way of life;
Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
We are no longer held captive by sin.
Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
We are baptized into His death, then we are raised in His life and act as He does.
Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body…
Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
Romans 6:18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
This is the newness of life that God wants us to walk in.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
Conclusion
2 Corinthians 13:4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.