Leaven - Hypocrisy all through the Church. Lord help us!

[missmuffet]

Hypocrisy is a sin. It is the act of claiming to believe something but acting in a different manner.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.

 

[Cntrysner]

 Leaven does not represent sin or hypocrisy, it can be a positive or negative influence. We are a vessel and we must be careful not to be leavened with false doctrine and traditions of men (Mar 7:13).

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?

These hypocritical men were steeped in their laws and tradition not the scriptures (Luk 12:1). 

The Lord used “leaven” and the “seed sown” as like the kingdom of heaven. If leaven represents hypocrisy or sin or evil how is it like the kingdom of heaven? We receive God’s word, it’s truth is hidden in us (2:C04:3-4), and we share it with others and it spreads like leaven in dough to man and forms the kingdom of God in us (Luk 17:21). 

Mat 13:31  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 
Mat 13:32  Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. 
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 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

God’s Word is sown as a seed that grows in men and leads into eternal life in the heavenly kingdom. We have the bread of life (Joh 6:35) in us via the Spirit of Christ thus we rose with Him (Col 2:12), the Spirit in us is a permeating force like leaven that transforms. 

Lev 23:17  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.  

To receive the leaven of Christ in us (Col 1:27) we must purge out the old leaven of law, tradition and the things of this world and become a new unleavened lump which will prepare us to receive the leaven of the Lord’s table with sincerity and truth in God’s Word (1Co 5:7-8).