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In verses seven and eight, Paul alludes to a past event in Isreal’s history. As the Hebrews prepared for their exodus from slavery in Egypt, they were commanded to prepare bread without yeast because they did not have time to wait for it to rise. Because yeast also was a symbol of sin, they were commanded to sweep all of it out of the house. Christ is our Passover lamb, the perfect sacrifice for our sin. Because he has delivered us from the slavery of sin, we should have nothing to do with the sins of the past(old yeast).

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.