Spring Cleaning Time, Almost here

To the most carnally minded assembly (1 Cor. 3:1-4), we ask: “What are you?” Not “Who are you?”

“Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor. 5:7).

See the answer? You are a new lump. Paul’s analogy comes from Israel’s culture—Passover and Unleavened Bread. If he were writing to Gentiles ignorant of these things, none of this would make sense.

He’s telling us it’s about new wine (Matt. 9:17), a new reality (2 Cor. 5:17), and a new man (Eph. 2:15). He’s emphasizing now, not later, but now. When we cleanse out the old leaven, we are now new.

Through the Lamb’s sacrifice (Ex. 12:21-22), He made leaven removal possible (Ex. 12:14-20). Through His death, you are already new. He accomplished what we couldn’t (Gal. 2:19).

Finished? Not quite. Notice Paul’s imperative: “Cleanse out.” We must remove in practice what’s been removed in theory. Yeshua’s death gives us legal freedom from Egypt. Now we must make that freedom real. Purge the leaven! That’s the meaning behind cleaning your home before Unleavened Bread.

We must do this inside and out (Matt. 23:25-26). We can’t wait for God to do it—it’s a command for starting the new year (Ex. 12:1): make yourself a place where the Spirit can dwell.

We agree: get rid of bad stuff. But we’ve lost the cultural context. This action isn’t just heart-scrubbing—it’s about my environment too. Ritual and moral purity together. Inside and out.

Those who’ve left Torah often make this only an interior matter. But it includes aligning with what God calls clean. Ritual purity can’t be separated from inner disinfecting. The Passover Lamb makes it possible. Now we make it real.

What’s in my house is what’s in my heart. Spring cleaning is coming 🙂 Passover is coming!

Shalom