1Co
5:6 … Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co
5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co
5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with
the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth.
Leaven-
yeast that creates bread that rises. You put a little bit of yeast into dough
and the whole pile of dough rises. I made dinner rolls today using yeast. The
recipe called for 4 1/2 tsp of yeast, and 4 and 1/2 cups of flour. There are 216 teaspoons in 4 and 1/2 cups of
flour. Think about ratio….216 tsp to 4.5
tsp. And that's just the flour, that's not including eggs, butter, sugar, water
the other ingredients that made up this dough. The tiny bit in comparison to
the much larger bit is very significant.
Truly a tiny bit of leaven can leaven a whole lump.
What we
are being told here is that a tiny bit of sin will affect the entire person's
life and the life of others. To make allowances for sin is to endanger your
spiritual life. To accept sin without calling it sin, excusing it…is wrong.
A little
sin will destroy a spiritual life. The sin needs to be purged out before it
destroys the spiritual life of the sinners and those who allow and condone the
sin. We need to purge out sin so we can
walk in the newness of life. Christ died so we can be purged of our sins, not
so we can excuse them. We need to live our lives not with the sins that will
destroy us but with sincerity and truth in our lives. Sincerity and truth
cannot live in the lives of lies and cover ups of sin.
Sin can't
be hidden, don't think it can for even a single moment.
Purge out
the sin by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through His love!
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