Leaven

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Gal. 5:9) - always in a negative context in the Bible</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">No meal offering to the Lord or blood sacrifice was to contain leaven - the penalty was to be cut off from the people</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Meal offering (Lev. 2:11; 6:17)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Passover (Exo. 12:15; 13:3, 7; Deut. 16:3)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Blood sacrifices (34:25) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leviticus 7:13 - Thank offering by a sinner (leaven)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leviticus 23:17 - Two wave cakes with leaven</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The wave cakes signify the church produced by Christ in His resurrection</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Two wave cakes - one signifying the Jews and the other signifying the Gentiles, both of whom are sinners (leaven), yet are made into the one new man in Christ (Eph. 2:15)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Christ Himself has no leaven, but in this age, we believers who comprise the church still contain leaven in our being due to our fallen, sinful nature</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Amos 4:4-5 - false worship mocked and rejected by God</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Matthew 16:6, 12 - leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pharisees represent the religious fundamentalists - legalism, deadness, hypocrisy</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sadducees represent the religious modernists - unbelievers, false teachers concerning Christ</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Mark 8:15 - leaven of Herod</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Herod represents politics and the world mixing in with Christ</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1 Corinthians 5:6-7 purge the leaven of malice and evil from the loaf</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Represents a change in nature from the pure loaf</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc00000000.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Galatians 5:9 leaven influences the whole lump - All-pervading and all-transforming in a hidden, silent, mysterious way</div> <bR> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" >He said therefore, What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I liken it-  19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of heaven roosted in its branches.  20 And again He said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God-  21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened. </FONT> (Luke 13:18-21)</div> <bR> <div> No meal offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Lev. 2:11)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it [unto them for] their portion of my offerings made by fire; it [is] most holy, as [is] the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Lev. 6:17)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (Exodus 12:15)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left unto the morning.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Exodus 34:25)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Lev. 7:13)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Lev. 23:17)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (Ephesians 2:15)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years:  5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this pleases you, O ye children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >  (Amos 4:4-5)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> And Jesus said to them, Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (Matthew 16:6)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> And He charged them, saying, Watch! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (Mark 8:15)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump-  7 Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(1 Corinthians 5:6-7)</FONT></div> <bR> <div> This persuasion is not of Him who calls you.  9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Galatians 5:8-9)</FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>