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Leviticus 1-3 I love to make homemade bread. Over the years, I have made more yeast breads than number could count. I have seen the effect of yeast to change the dough. God told Moses if any were to bring a grain offering, it was not to have any leaven. In that day, honey and yeast were the leavening agents because they caused fermentation. Both are an illustration of sin. You can’t see the leavening agent, just like you can’t see sin, but you do see the effects of it. Leaven causes the dough to rise and change form, and sin changes me inwardly and sometimes outwardly. Is there any leaven in my/our life when I offer myself to God?

Then also, God gave instructions to Moses about the sin offerings. He required that they be pure and set apart. They were to have no blemish of any kind. Am I set apart when I present myself to God? Am I/are you without blemish, pure and holy without sin? As the sin offerings were burned on the altar, they produced a sweet aroma. Am I/are you a sweet aroma to God?

Such practical lessons!

1 Cor 5 If you have ever made bread, you know it doesn’t take much yeast to make it rise. Two teaspoons mixed in about six cups of flour will make two large loaves of bread because the yeast permeates the entire dough. In scripture, yeast represents sin, and just like in bread dough, that sin will permeate the whole batch of dough or the church. Perhaps that is why God commanded that it be unleavened bread for the communion table. To be a pure church, we must eradicate or remove the yeast of vice and evil.

The yeast of immorality existed in the Corinthian church, tainting its purity. To be pure, the church must not associate with sexually immoral people. Instead, they should have judged this sin, remove it, and the person or persons living this lifestyle. But, the Corinthian church not only allowed this immorality to co-exist, but they also did not condemn it. All we need to do is read Revelation’s second and third chapters to see how devastating sin is to a church. First, it loses its first love, then fear which is a snare, creeps in, then that sin becomes a stumbling block, and finally, false teaching taints the body.

Precious believers, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves as you discern and judge sin. Keep yourselves pure, and the church will be pure.

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Do I have leaven in my life?

“Yeast.”