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Have you cleansed ur household of leaven?

Jethro Bodine

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Why do I have to get rid of leaven? I wouldn't know leaven if you threw it in my face. I would prolly say, "hey, why did you throw that paprika in my face?", or ,"why did you throw that crushed oregano in my face?"

Jesus wasn't too crazy about the stuff, but if I don't know what it is and what it looks like, so how'm I supposed to git rid of it? Why?
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Why do I have to get rid of leaven? I wouldn't know leaven if you threw it in my face. I would prolly say, "hey, why did you throw that paprika in my face?", or ,"why did you throw that crushed oregano in my face?"

Jesus wasn't too crazy about the stuff, but if I don't know what it is and what it looks like, so how'm I supposed to git rid of it? Why?
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Leaven is a type of sin.

Paul teaches that various sin can spread and affect others, like yeast can affect the whole lump of bread.

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.
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.
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.
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.
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.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?
13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."
1 Corinthians 5:7-12

Paul teaches us not to keep company with other Christians that are sexually immoral and walk in wickedness.

Their sinful lifestyle can spread and affect the whole Church community.


Likewise false doctrine can spread and affect the Church as well.

12Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Matthew 16:12


JLB
 
Leaven will make you rise.

Here are examples of leaven that will have you fall flat, per (Matthew 16:6)

"Ask Jesus into your heart", "Ask him to be Lord of your life", "Ask him for your sins to be forgiven"............these are all Pharisee talk examples. I'm sure there are a billion other things that are like this.

You can't ask Jesus into your heart. You have to believe his DNA (blood) is truly a little different than ours, but that will lead you to the realization of who he is (Lord). It will be an automatic turn around (revelation) and repentance when you understand.
 
Luke 13:220-21 Again he asked, "What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked through the dough."

Here is what the true leaven is. The gospel going around the entire world, but not twisted. Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

The gospel John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The Word of God became like us (human, but God also). He walked amongst us and those who have been given revelation know Jesus is the literal Son of God (One and Only) and he is the Christ. He is grace and he is the truth. He walked with ALL grace and he walked with ALL truth.
 
Sorry, I just had another thought. I grew up in a household that went to church on Sunday because my mom lead the folk-group. That is the only time we had any mention of Jesus in our house. It really was a Matthew 15:8 scenario. "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me."

It was a fake leaven situation.
 
LovethroughDove said:
Luke 13:220-21 Again he asked, "What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked through the dough."

Here is what the true leaven is. The gospel going around the entire world, but not twisted. Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
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It seems that, Biblically, leaven is what we hear and which then works it's way through us affecting the whole. We're to avoid bad leaven, the leaven of falseness, but embrace the leaven of truth.

I'd always been more inclined to think of leaven in accordance with it's bad connotation. But actually, leaven can be good or bad. The point being, whatever the leaven of what we hear is, good or bad, it works it's way through and affects the whole.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
Why do I have to get rid of leaven? I wouldn't know leaven if you threw it in my face. I would prolly say, "hey, why did you throw that paprika in my face?", or ,"why did you throw that crushed oregano in my face?"

Jesus wasn't too crazy about the stuff, but if I don't know what it is and what it looks like, so how'm I supposed to git rid of it? Why?
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Sure you would know it. The most common type is yeast used to make bread rise. Obviously the Bible uses it symbolically and there's nothing wrong with having yeast in your house if you bake your own bread... as I do... Come to think of it, now I'm hungry for some fresh bread right out of the oven...
 
Obadiah said:
Sure you would know it. The most common type is yeast used to make bread rise. Obviously the Bible uses it symbolically and there's nothing wrong with having yeast in your house if you bake your own bread... as I do... Come to think of it, now I'm hungry for some fresh bread right out of the oven...
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The leaven of false teaching that works it's way through the whole puffs up, but the leaven of the kingdom that works it's way through the whole exalteth.
 
Leaven in the Bible was a form of sour-dough - a bit of dough from the last batch that was used to seed the next batch. They didn't have plain yeast back in those days. Once a year, at Passover, they got rid of the old sour-dough. That was part of the old covenant which the Jews were under, but never the gentiles. Today there are many famous sour-dough cultures that have been alive for tens or hundreds of years. The most famous is probably the one used to make San Francisco sour-dough bread. There is also one used in the original pizza from Naples that some pizzerias still use.

Leaven represents teachings that 'infect' our thoughts , starting out small but eventually taking over our whole mindset. The leaven of the Pharisees was one of hyper-legalism. It probably began hundreds of years before Christ with a few small commands intended to help people avoid sin, but it quickly expanded to the point where it virtually replaced the Law. (Similarly, even today with our secular law, we see it is very easy to add more and more laws and regulations to the system, but very hard to remove them.)

Perhaps we need to regularly go through what we believe to see if we've somehow added to what the Bible says, and clear out those fleshly regulations (Colossians 2:16-23). We're not to add or take away from what God has said.
 
AndyBern said:
Leaven in the Bible was a form of sour-dough - a bit of dough from the last batch that was used to seed the next batch. They didn't have plain yeast back in those days. Once a year, at Passover, they got rid of the old sour-dough. That was part of the old covenant which the Jews were under, but never the gentiles. Today there are many famous sour-dough cultures that have been alive for tens or hundreds of years. The most famous is probably the one used to make San Francisco sour-dough bread. There is also one used in the original pizza from Naples that some pizzerias still use.

Leaven represents teachings that 'infect' our thoughts , starting out small but eventually taking over our whole mindset. The leaven of the Pharisees was one of hyper-legalism. It probably began hundreds of years before Christ with a few small commands intended to help people avoid sin, but it quickly expanded to the point where it virtually replaced the Law. (Similarly, even today with our secular law, we see it is very easy to add more and more laws and regulations to the system, but very hard to remove them.)

Perhaps we need to regularly go through what we believe to see if we've somehow added to what the Bible says, and clear out those fleshly regulations (Colossians 2:16-23). We're not to add or take away from what God has said.
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Thanks for the illustration.


JLB
 
AndyBern said:
Leaven in the Bible was a form of sour-dough - a bit of dough from the last batch that was used to seed the next batch. They didn't have plain yeast back in those days. Once a year, at Passover, they got rid of the old sour-dough. That was part of the old covenant which the Jews were under, but never the gentiles. Today there are many famous sour-dough cultures that have been alive for tens or hundreds of years. The most famous is probably the one used to make San Francisco sour-dough bread. There is also one used in the original pizza from Naples that some pizzerias still use.

Leaven represents teachings that 'infect' our thoughts , starting out small but eventually taking over our whole mindset. The leaven of the Pharisees was one of hyper-legalism. It probably began hundreds of years before Christ with a few small commands intended to help people avoid sin, but it quickly expanded to the point where it virtually replaced the Law. (Similarly, even today with our secular law, we see it is very easy to add more and more laws and regulations to the system, but very hard to remove them.)

Perhaps we need to regularly go through what we believe to see if we've somehow added to what the Bible says, and clear out those fleshly regulations (Colossians 2:16-23). We're not to add or take away from what God has said.
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Interesting facts indeed. Thanks!
 
I had only recently discovered this biblical reference to what leaven is. It is mentioned in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, and probably elsewhere. (Here's another reference from a Jewish perspective: http://www.timesofisrael.com/use-up-your-flour-before-passover-with-homemade-pita/)

I had always wondered where yeast came from. I found out it's in the air, and you can start your own sour-dough culture by exposing some very wet dough (about 50% water/flour) to the air for a period of time. But it might not taste good, depending on what variety of yeast takes up residence in the dough. Not all 'wild' yeast is the same. Some is good for baking and some is not. (I'm just learning how to make pizzeria-quality New York pizza at home, and this was something I found out in the process.)

Likewise, there is good leaven (Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:21) as well as bad leaven. I think there's an interesting analogy of yeast coming from the air: the good leaven is of heaven, and the bad is from the prince of the power of the air. Whichever one you are receptive to is going to multiply in you.

(BTW, here's my latest creation... yum!!!)

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Of course, when you consider exactly what the yeast does that makes the dough rise, maybe it is rather bad afterall! :biggrin2
 
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