Leaven is always negative

[tim-from-pa]

This is the week of Unleavened Bread. I celebrate that feast knowing that we are to remove the leaven from our lives (and pragmatically speaking I eat that bread). Christ always spoke of leaven in a negative way and is similar to tares amongst the wheat.

Notice that Unleavened bread is flat (because no yeast made it rise) and I thought of the passage "strait is the way that leads to life". If you look edge-on to unleavened bread, it is skinny and strait. That's the way: to remove the leaven. What Christ was saying was to remove the leaven and become strait like that bread -- that's one facet of interpreting that parable.

Remember: Parables were given to cloud the meaning so that most people don't understand what he was saying so they can't be healed. Only those with understanding do those parables help.

 

[reba]

Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 

[ezrider]

Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

In which I believe Jesus is telling us the leaven is the Holy Spirit.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

In which I believe Jesus is telling us the leaven is the Holy Spirit.

No, in that parable the leaven is primarily speaking of the word of God being inserted, or planted in small amounts but which then works it's way through the whole, overtaking it. Everything about the kingdom starts in seed form, or small amounts and grows to inhabit the whole. By the way......sin works the same way.

Notice that Unleavened bread is flat (because no yeast made it rise) and I thought of the passage "strait is the way that leads to life". If you look edge-on to unleavened bread, it is skinny and strait. That's the way: to remove the leaven. What Christ was saying was to remove the leaven and become strait like that bread -- that's one facet of interpreting that parable.

Arrogance and pride is the epitome of sin. Sin puffs us up like leaven in bread. Bread being so fitting to describe humans because we are likened to stalks of grain that grow out of the earth (from the dust you were made...).

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Mat 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

While I think the parable is intended to be a positive picture of how the kingdom works in this earth, knowledge of the kingdom coming in small amounts that works it's way through the whole, I believe it also has a dual application and is referring to how the earthly kingdom will be overcome in the end times by sin and corruption.

Unleavened bread doesn't spoil like leavened bread does. It's an interesting thing. It's a good analogy of how we are to be incorruptible bread--bread without leaven.

 

[ezrider]

In which I believe Jesus is telling us the leaven is the Holy Spirit.

No, in that parable the leaven is primarily speaking of the word of God being inserted,

The Holy Spirit, The Word of God, whats the difference?

 

[reba]

While I think the parable is intended to be a positive picture of how the kingdom works in this earth, knowledge of the kingdom coming in small amounts that works it's way through the whole, I believe it also has a dual application and is referring to how the earthly kingdom will be overcome in the end times by sin and corruption.

Unleavened bread doesn't spoil like leavened bread does. It's an interesting thing. It's a good analogy of how we are to be incorruptible bread--bread without leaven.

Christ is the head of the Church and you believe He fails? How does The Christ fail?

 

[Sinthesis]

Matt 13:33 clearly demonstrates that not all leaven is to be perceived as negative. Notice that whenever Jesus speaks of leaven negatively, He always specifies what kind of leaven He condemns.

Mat 13:33 - Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Mat 16:6 - Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Mat 16:11 - How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

Mat 16:12 - Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of theleaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Mar 8:15 - And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

Luk 12:1 - In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luk 13:21 - It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.​

 

[Obadiah]

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[reba]

Sorry Obadiah ... i messed up ...

 

[Obadiah]

My post was a reminder for everyone in the thread, including the OP who failed to cite scripture to be discussed.