There is today the leaven of false teaching revealed in a host of isms that are not in line with the Word of God.
There is leaven of selfishness, the leaven of the works of the flesh, the leaven of worldliness creeping into the Church. Surely much of the Church has been permeated with the leaven of fermentation. That is what Christ come into His Church.
We hhave another matter to consider. Who is the woman who introduced the leaven into the meal? She was not a real woman , of course, but a symbol, as the meall, the vessel, and the leaven are symbols. There was only one woman that she could be. That is the woman of REvelation 17, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of all harlots and abominations of the earth. This woman is commonly supposed to be the church of Rome, but this symbolic woman involves her and more. She is the apostate Christian church. She is represented in any religion that seeks to dominate and direct world powers. She is the spirit of Jezebel that got into the church at Thyatira and caused the people to commit spiritual fornication, union with the world: ( Rev. 2:20).
When the Church joined in with the world, the world introduced its doctrine and its works of the flesh. The introduction of leaven into the Church was in guise of a friendly act, but actually it was insticated by Satan through the agency of the woman. The Church sought ease from ppersecution, to share in the splendor of the world. Instead of the Church's converting the world, the world brought paginism into the Church.
Notice that the work of the woman was not an open work, but a stealthy one. She hid the leaven in the meal. It was a covert act, like the enemy who sowed the tares under the cover of night. So it is that those who bring evil into the Church do so slyly under the pretense that they are bringing in a benefit. Their evil practices are all glorified and made out to be a good thing. The worship of Mary, the veneratioin ofvrelics, the selling of indulgences, and the countless pious frauds that are practiced are all extolled, defended and a good thing. But the Roman Church is not the only one affected 9 and there are born-again people in that church). The lukewarm Laodicean spirit is affecting all churches to some degree, even those who claim to be among the ranks of the Full Gospel movementy. The leaven of the world is doing its deadly work. The visible church as a whole will never be freed of this leaven. It is therefore, peparing for judgment. Read Rev. 3:15-18.
The leaven in Christendom will never be removed until Christ comes, but this does not apply to the individual or to the local church. To the local church Paul said, Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. as ye are unleavened ( 1 Cor. 5:7).
May God bless, golfjack
There is leaven of selfishness, the leaven of the works of the flesh, the leaven of worldliness creeping into the Church. Surely much of the Church has been permeated with the leaven of fermentation. That is what Christ come into His Church.
We hhave another matter to consider. Who is the woman who introduced the leaven into the meal? She was not a real woman , of course, but a symbol, as the meall, the vessel, and the leaven are symbols. There was only one woman that she could be. That is the woman of REvelation 17, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of all harlots and abominations of the earth. This woman is commonly supposed to be the church of Rome, but this symbolic woman involves her and more. She is the apostate Christian church. She is represented in any religion that seeks to dominate and direct world powers. She is the spirit of Jezebel that got into the church at Thyatira and caused the people to commit spiritual fornication, union with the world: ( Rev. 2:20).
When the Church joined in with the world, the world introduced its doctrine and its works of the flesh. The introduction of leaven into the Church was in guise of a friendly act, but actually it was insticated by Satan through the agency of the woman. The Church sought ease from ppersecution, to share in the splendor of the world. Instead of the Church's converting the world, the world brought paginism into the Church.
Notice that the work of the woman was not an open work, but a stealthy one. She hid the leaven in the meal. It was a covert act, like the enemy who sowed the tares under the cover of night. So it is that those who bring evil into the Church do so slyly under the pretense that they are bringing in a benefit. Their evil practices are all glorified and made out to be a good thing. The worship of Mary, the veneratioin ofvrelics, the selling of indulgences, and the countless pious frauds that are practiced are all extolled, defended and a good thing. But the Roman Church is not the only one affected 9 and there are born-again people in that church). The lukewarm Laodicean spirit is affecting all churches to some degree, even those who claim to be among the ranks of the Full Gospel movementy. The leaven of the world is doing its deadly work. The visible church as a whole will never be freed of this leaven. It is therefore, peparing for judgment. Read Rev. 3:15-18.
The leaven in Christendom will never be removed until Christ comes, but this does not apply to the individual or to the local church. To the local church Paul said, Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. as ye are unleavened ( 1 Cor. 5:7).
May God bless, golfjack
