In the Bible leaven can have a negative connotation. For example, in the New Testament, leaven is often referred to as a corrupting influence. This is why Jesus said: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy (Luke 12:1).<\/p>\n
Hypocrites put on a show of righteousness while hiding sinful thoughts and behavior. Christ warned His disciples that secret sins will someday be exposed to full disclosure (Luke 12:2; cf. Psalm 90:8; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Hebrews 4:13).<\/p>\n
Because of this, we are to reverentially fear God (Ecclesiastes 12:13), confessing and forsaking any sin (1 John 1:9; Proverbs 28:13; cf. Isaiah 55:7), and growing spiritually as His children (1 Peter 2:1-2; 2 Peter 3:18).<\/p>\n
Leaven has a positive connotation as well. It reminds us to guard against the permeating influence of sin in our hearts (1 Corinthians 5:6-8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the Bible leaven can have a negative connotation. For example, in the New Testament, leaven is often referred to as a corrupting influence. This is why Jesus said: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy (Luke 12:1). Hypocrites put on a show of righteousness while hiding sinful thoughts and behavior. Christ … Continue reading “A Look At Leaven – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}