Section 5
was a repetition of the Passover. According to Leviticus 25:10, in the year of jubilee a person could be returned to his own possession and to his own family. What does this signify? This sig nifies a return to rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment, a return to the condition and the state into which the people had been brought by the Passover.
A LIFE OF ENJOYMENT
Luke 15:23 indicates that the Christian life should be a life of enjoyment: "And bring the fattened calf; slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry." This indicates that we should eat Christ as the fattened calf, drink the life-giving Spirit, and be merry in the enjoyment of the Triune God and in the riches of the Father's house.
As we go on to 1 Corinthians 5:8 we see that the Christian life is a feast: "Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." The feast here refers to the feast of unleavened bread as the continuation of the Passover (Exo. 12:15-20). This feast lasted for seven days, the period of a complete course, signifying the entire period of our Christian life, from the day of our conversion to the day of rap ture. This is a long feast which we should keep