Exodus 12 We'll begin reading in verse
14 and I want you to listen as we read And see if you can figure
out What the Lord means For these Israelites to do With regard
to 11 in these verses, if you can figure it out. You're going
to take some deep thought now. Verse 14, And this day shall
be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to
the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. Seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread. Even the first day you shall
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day unto the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall
be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be
a holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done
in them, save that which every man must eat. that only may be
done of you. And you shall observe the feast
of unleavened bread, for in this soft same day have I brought
your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall you observe
this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. In the
first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, you
shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of
the month at even. Seven days shall there be no
leaven found in your houses. For whosoever eateth that which
is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
of Israel. Whether he be a stranger or born
in the land, ye shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations
shall you eat unleavened bread." Is that clear? And I can hear
somebody somewhere among the children of Israel at that time
saying, well, he doesn't mean for us to eat no lemon. No matter how clearly God says
something, man will make it say what we want it to say. Was God's command in the garden
of Eden unclear at all? You may eat of every tree of
the garden except that one. In the day that you eat that
one, you'll die. That takes, well, let's talk
about that. Let's have a convention of some
kind and figure out what he means by that. How do people read this book
and say God loves everybody? Have you ever wondered that?
How do people read this book and say Christ died for everybody? It's because no matter how clear
God makes something, we will make it say what we want it to
say. And this is a, this is a reminder of that. And I'm not saying this
so we can sit here and think, Oh, how foolish they are. I'm
saying this because me, you, all of us rebel against the crystal
clear revelation of God. And we do it every day. And we're
all warned here and reminded by the clarity of this language,
how clear all of God's word is. It's all clear. And I don't mean
to say by that that I understand everything that's written in
this book. What I am saying is this, what God has revealed is
crystal clear. What God has revealed concerning
himself is clear as a bell. We know some things about God,
don't we? We know that he's holy. We know that he's sovereign.
We know that his law and his justice are inflexible. We know
that he's gracious. We see example after example,
illustration after illustration, revelation after revelation of
who God is in this book. We know what a sinner is, don't
we? There's just not any excuse for thinking that my good can
outweigh my bad or that I have any good at all. There's no excuse
for thinking that, is there? None. And we know how God saves
a sinner. There's just not any, there's
just not any good reason not to understand up here in our
minds, in our head, how God can be just and still justify a worm
like you. It's just as clear as it can
be. But we're going to make God's word say what we want it to say.
And by nature, we don't like God's truth. We don't like who
he is. We don't like what we are, according
to God. And we don't like how he saves
sinners. We just don't. The only thing we hate worse
by nature than God's law is his grace. And you know that's right. And we see that in the religion
of this world, where they make it say what they want it to say.
And what he has revealed is crystal. No leaven, no how. That's the
title of the message tonight. No leaven, Know how. Leaven is
what we call yeast. We know what that is. We know
what it's used for. We know what it does. And this
is not a feast, a memorial, an ordinance that we observe today.
We just don't. And you know why, don't you?
I asked each of you that question. You know why. We don't keep the
Feast of Unleavened Bread. We don't keep the Passover as
it was commanded in the Old Testament. because Christ has fulfilled
all of these Old Testament types and pictures and He is Himself
our Passover. Turn to 1 Corinthians 11. I want
to be thorough about this because God's Word is clear and I believe,
I know if God is pleased that we can, that we will learn Some final truth tonight 1st
Corinthians 11 verse 23 Paul said I have received of
the Lord that which also I delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus
the same night in which he was betrayed took bread And when
he had given thanks he break it and said take eat This is my body, which is broken
for you. This do in remembrance of me."
Now think about this, when he did this, they were eating the
Passover. You remember how that he told
them to go to a man's house and say, where's the chamber wherein
I'll eat the Passover with my disciples? And the man said,
here it is. And they went into that place
in that man's house and they sat down at a table together.
and they ate the Passover. But this is what happened when
they were doing that. The same night that the Lord
Jesus, the Passover was betrayed, he ate the Passover with his
disciples. And in that same night, he took
some bread and broke it. And he said, this is my body,
which is broken for you. This do. In remembrance, not of being
delivered from bondage in Egypt, but in remembrance of me. This
do in remembrance of me. And after the same manner also
he took the cup when he had sucked, saying, this cup is the new covenant
in my blood. This do as often as you drink
it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till
he comes. God said to Moses, you will observe
this Passover feast as a memorial throughout your generations.
And they did. And now our Lord Jesus Christ
said, here when he ate the Passover with his disciples, as he was
on his way, in the same night he was betrayed now, the Passover
lamb is about to be slain, the Passover lamb. And as he's going
to do that for us, for these disciples and for all those who
believe on their word, You, if you're sitting here this night
with faith in Christ in your heart from God, he said, you
do this as a memorial of me and what I did for you and my broken
body, my shed blood. Remember me, remember me. This
is a memorial. And it's very clear and simple,
isn't it? The feast of the Passover, that seven day feast of unleavened
bread was a memorial of the Jews' deliverance from Egypt. And of
course, Christ is honored in that. Paul said the law was glorious. It pointed to Christ, but there's
something more glorious, the gospel. And the one who is pictured in
that Passover, Fulfilled became our Passover fulfilled that type
and Said to those whom he ate it with at that. He said with
desire. I've desired to eat this with
you I won't eat it with you. I won't drink of this cup again
till we sit down in the kingdom together and eat and drink together And Here he's clearly pictured
by that Passover lamb, but Christ says here don't remember that
your deliverance from Egypt of old. Remember me and do it with
bread and do it with wine, unleavened bread and wine. And that's what
we do. Turn to first Corinthians five
and verse six. First Corinthians five, six.
Now Paul is scolding the Corinthians as he did Concerning several
matters and here he's doing that. He said in verse 6 your glorying
is not good It's not good. No you not don't you realize? That a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump What's he talking about here purge out therefore
the old? Leaven that you may be a new
lump as you are unleavened For even Christ, our Passover, is
sacrificed for us. There's the fulfillment of it.
You don't need to picture it anymore. You've got the lamb,
the Passover, the sacrifice for sin. 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. And then look up at verse two,
in verse two of the context here in 1 Corinthians 5, we have a
reference to what leaven does. And it's not by accident. He
said, you're puffed up. That's what leaven does. It causes
bread to puff up, to rise. And he's using this illustration
all through here. And he said, you're sinning before
God and glorying in it. That's exactly what Pharaoh was
doing. That's exactly what Adam did in the garden. That's what
we do every day. But with regard to this, with regard to the sin
offering himself to the Passover lamb, you better partake of him
with unleavened bread. The unleavened bread of sincerity
and truth. And it's an understanding of
what leaven typifies. that we'll see the importance
of putting it out of our houses. We got to know what spiritual
living is. And that's what Paul identifies
here in this passage. It's not about just eating certain
things and drinking certain things. Our Lord said the kingdom of
God is not meat and drink. It's righteousness and judgment. It's a spiritual kingdom. So
we got to understand what spiritual leaven is, and then we'll see
it got to go. We got to put it out of our house
lest we partake of it. And then we'll learn what's taught
in our text in Exodus 12. And these words, sincerity and
truth are key here in 1 Corinthians 5, 8. They identify the two definitions
that our Lord gave of what leaven is. These are the opposites of
them. They're not exactly the same.
Sincerity and truth, as we'll see from the word, are not exactly
the same thing. What's the opposite of sincerity?
Turn to Luke chapter 12 and verse 1. Luke chapter 12 and verse 1. We'll
just read a brief passage here, and then we'll see some other
scripture that sheds light upon it. Luke 12, 1, in the meantime,
when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people,
insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto
his disciples, first of all, beware ye of the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. That's the opposite of sincerity.
Sincerity is honesty It's representing yourself as just what you are.
It's owning what you are before God and men. Hypocrisy is representing
yourself to be something that you're not. It's insincerity,
it's deception. And so let's look, let's remember
now this as we read these following verses in Matthew 6. Turn to
Matthew 6 and let's read these verses and remember what What
our Lord just said hypocrisy is and remember what Paul said
in first Corinthians five. And, uh, and particularly in
first Corinthians five and verse six, he said, your glorying is
not good. Don't, you know, just a little
bit of that. It just takes a little bit. It's one of the smallest
amounts of any ingredient that you put in to making bread or
anything that's bread based. And so he says, beware, beware,
beware. Matthew six, verse one. Again, familiar scripture, but
not seen recently, at least here in this context. And so light
is shed upon scripture by scripture. And the Lord is pleased to teach
this way. Look at Matthew 6 verse 1, take
heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them. Otherwise you have no reward
of your father, which is in heaven. Therefore, when thou doest thine
alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites
do. What's the leaven of the Pharisees?
Hypocrisy. Put it out of your house. don't
do what they do. They do in the synagogues and
in the streets that they may have glory. God said, I will
not give my glory to another. That's why he says to us, put
the leaven out of your house. This thing and God's glory is
seen and displayed nowhere like in the gospel. So when you're
partaking of the lamb, Particularly, it's got to be unleavened bread. There can't be any leaven in
the house. You try to rob God of his glory in this thing of
redemption, in this thing of God's justice, in this thing
of satisfaction and substitution, in the matter of his precious
blood. That's a bad place to be. That's
a bad place. I don't want to be there. I don't
want any leaven in my house to you, especially not now when
the Passover is being partaken of. We're talking about spiritual
now. All right. Don't do it. Don't
do it. Don't you get any glory here? Don't seek it. Don't desire it. Put it away
from you. If it's in your house, you'll
get hold of it somehow or another. You'll think of a reason why
it's okay to have a little leaven if you have it in your house,
put it out. I'm talking because I know myself. And since I know
myself, I know you, but let your, uh, verse two, verse three, but
when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth. That thine alms may be in secret,
and thy father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee
openly. And when you pray, thou shalt
not be as the hypocrites are. For they love to pray standing
in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that
they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you that they
have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest,
enter into thy closet. And when thou hast shut thy door,
Pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth
in secret shall reward thee openly. And we won't read all of this
because I think we're starting to understand, aren't we, what
this leaven is. It's hypocrisy. It's insincerity. It's representing yourself as
something that you're not. I'm spiritual. I'm holy. No,
you're not. No, you're not. That's a misrepresentation. In Matthew 23, we won't turn
there, but there's much more teaching like this concerning
the 11 of the Pharisees. You remember there, you'll remember
this as I quote it, but the Lord said to the Pharisees, you compass
land and sea, you hypocrites, to make one proselyte. Does this
sound like anybody? To make one, you compass land
and sea. Oh, we've got to go save the
heathen. We got to raise a million dollars so we can make a proselyte
way over there somewhere. And when you make them, you make
them twofold more the child of hell than you are. Boy, that's great. That's sobering
language, isn't it? No gospel, no truth, no Christ,
no true Christ in his glory. and his saving and redemption,
the message of his free and sovereign grace, his precious effectual
blood. But let's just make them like
we are. When you do, you make them just like you are, except
twofold more the child of hell. According to the Lord Jesus.
I'm sure you, you know, you're, you're, you're religious organization
to be proud of you. And he said, you clean the outside
of the cup, you hypocrites, you hypocrites. Now listen carefully. I know
as I read this, if any of us, and I'm sure most of us have
had any experience with the religion of this world, you thought of
examples, specific examples, how this hypocrisy manifests
itself in the religion. of this world. It's clearly and
openly a religion of outward show and insincerity. There's
no doubt about that. But the lesson tonight is not
beware of the Pharisees. It's beware of the leaven of
the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. And if we
do not beware before we leave this building tonight, we'll
make sure we get some glory somehow or another. by making sure somebody knows
what we do and what we have done or gonna do or how important
we are. No, you're not. No, I'm not. No. It's more subtle among believers,
isn't it? Because we know how to hide it
better. But it's just as corrupting.
It's just as dishonoring to God. It's just as hateful. We must eat the lamb with unleavened
bread. Not ourselves being puffed up
or receiving any glory. You see how that's insincere,
how it's a misrepresentation of the way things truly are if
we get any glory? Because we don't deserve any
glory. We get glory to ourselves by
an outward show when we don't deserve any. All glory has got
to be to the lamb that was slain. And we puff ourselves up. And
I'm preaching to myself tonight, I pray, by insisting on having
our way or by hurting somebody else so that, you know, we do
right by ourselves, no matter what the cost is. Let everybody know how indispensable
we are when sincerity would demand that we take our place in the
dust. Nobody from nowhere just happy
to be included. That's sincerity. Christ must be eaten in such
a way that all the glory goes to him. That's what it boils
down to. To eat the Passover with the
bread, the unleavened bread of sincerity. Is to do so in such
a way that all the glory goes to him because you see the hypocrisy
of the pharisees Is to be seen of men to get glory from men
to get glory to self That's the only reason they clean the outside
of the cup much less have any thought for the inside It's so
they can get some glory out of this thing That's why they want
to get you in that's why they want to go over to To deep dark
Africa and make a proselyte so they can glory in you. They can
make merchandise of you. And secondly, and this is just
two points tonight. Paul said we are to partake of
Christ in sincerity and one other thing. Truth. Truth. Turn to Matthew 16. Matthew 16 and verse 5. And when his disciples were come
to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. And then Jesus
said unto them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and of the Sadducees. And I know that in a recent message,
we read this same passage, and I don't even remember what message
it was. And I had no idea when I read it that I was going to
be preaching on this this night. But the Lord He teaches that
way, doesn't he? He causes scripture to shed light
upon scripture, layer upon layer of truth, line upon line, precept
upon precept. And he says in verse six, he
said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
And they reasoned among themselves, verse seven, saying, it is because
we've taken no bread. Always thinking, you know, in
earthly terms, we're creatures of sense, creatures of, of dust. And when Jesus perceived it,
he said to them, Oh, you have little faith. Why reason you
among yourselves? Because you have brought no bread. Do you
not yet understand neither? Remember the five loaves of the
5,000 and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves
of the 4,000 and how many baskets you took up. It don't matter
whether you brought bread or didn't bring bread. I'm with
you. How is it that you did not understand that I speak it not
to you concerning bread that you should be aware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how when
he revealed it to them. That's when that's the then there. And he bade them not beware of
the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine, the lies, the false
doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. They're liars. They love not the truth. They
teach for doctrines, the commandments of men and all men are liars. They pervert, distort and withhold
and compromise the truth of God. The other has to do with how
we behave. Sincerity. This one has to do
with what we say. So in Thought, word, and deed, we partake
of Christ by true God-given saving faith, or we don't truly partake
of Christ. Thought, what we think of Christ,
is revealed in that we partake of Him, the whole Christ, even
those parts which are unpalatable to the flesh. He's palatable
to us now, all of Him. Where are we gonna go? Christ
is our bread, he's our water, he's our life, he's our all. By his grace, the whole Christ
is our manna from heaven, our water of life. We put his precious
blood on the door, owning him as our sin offering and therefore
our savior from the bondage of sin and the law before God. What
think ye of Christ? That's what our Lord asks. What
think ye of Christ? Is he your only righteousness
before God? Is he your only and all sufficient
sin offering before God? Then partake, partake. Secondly,
we behave in such a way that's glorifying to him who is our
savior. We deny ourselves any glory.
You can't worship him and get any glory. You can't be saved
by him and get any glory. Paul said, where is boasting
then? It's excluded. It's put out of the house. We
eat the lamb with the unleavened bread of sincerity, not putting
on a show in the flesh, not partaking in outward man-centered free
will religion that glorifies the flesh and dishonors Christ.
Not by saying, look what I did. I walked down an aisle. That's
hypocrisy. That's leavened bread. We don't pray, we don't give,
we don't do any other act of worship like the hypocrites do.
To be seen of men or to recommend ourselves to God. Look how spiritual
we are. By God's grace we just don't.
And then truth. The unleavened bread. is the
unleavened bread of truth, thought, deed, and word. We believe God's
word as it is. You have not so learned Christ,
Paul said. We've learned Christ from this
book according to God's clear revelation of him. And we believe
simply what God said. Beware of the doctrine of the
Pharisees. Not only do they do hypocrisy what they say lies
and not only are we not to do what they do we're not to say
or hear what they say don't even keep leaven in your house he
said don't even keep it in your house ephesians 4 11 let me read
this to you he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists
and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints.
God did that, didn't he? And for the work of the ministry.
That's how the work gets done. For the edifying of the body
of Christ. Those three reasons. Till we all come in the unity
of the faith. and of the knowledge of the Son
of God unto a perfect man, a mature man, a spiritual man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. I'm not there
yet, so let's just keep on doing it. You see what I'm saying?
Until, until, until. Let's keep on learning, let's
keep on studying, let's keep on worshiping. I'm not mature
yet, are you? But, that we henceforth be no
more children. We don't want that either. Tossed
to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine. God gave pastors and teachers
and arranged this that we're doing tonight so that we wouldn't
be children spiritually tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men. the deception of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby
they lie in wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love, key words there, speaking
the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things. which is the head, even Christ. We're still growing. I don't
want to be a child, though, to you. I don't want to be easily
swayed or easily distracted or easily moved from the path of
truth, from the gospel of the Lord. And we are by nature. We
just are. That's why we got to put the
leaven out. to teach that anything that the
sinner is or does adds to the finished work of Christ in salvation
in any way is to eat the lamb with leavened bread and God said
you cut off it's not just a little matter of opinion I wouldn't
take your time to not talking about it if it was just a difference
of opinion life and death to not Eat with the unleavened bread
of truth. To add to him or take away from
Christ and his finished work is to eat with leaven. And God
said you cut off from his true spiritual Israel. Your faith,
if you have true saving faith, the faith of God's elect, the
gift of God, it's not the cause of your salvation. It's the result. It is by grace are you saved
through faith, and that's not of yourself. God uses faith as
a secondary mean. He doesn't save you once he gave
you faith, though. He doesn't save you. We know
that's right. It's not the cause of salvation,
it's the result. It's the effect. The teaching
that Christ has done his best, and here's the alternative teaching.
That the Lord did his best, he did what he had to do, and now
he's left salvation up to you. He's left the rest of it up to
you. And that some are able somehow to produce faith and others are
not. Doesn't really matter how, does it? And God rewards those
who are able to come up with faith by saving them. That's the 11 of false doctrine.
and not according to this book. If they speak not according to
the word of this prophecy, it's because there's no light in them.
It's the leaven of the doctrine of the Pharisees. Eating the
unleavened bread of truth is to submit to and proclaim that
salvation is by God's grace alone, through faith alone, God-given
faith alone, without works, Faith in Christ alone as he's revealed
in the scriptures alone to the glory of God alone. You're not
getting any glory this way. God's way. And if you insist
on eating bread with a little glory in it for you, you're cut
off. And I am too. Here's what spiritual leaven
looks like. It looks like this. I know it's
Christ alone, but That's what it looks like. I know it's grace
alone, but, and then you know what the next word usually is
when they say but? I know it's, I believe what you
do, but, you know what the next word is? You. I know it's Christ, but you, it's not Christ in you, it's
Christ in me. Turn to Galatians five and we'll
be, we'll be through Galatians five one. Is it clear what spiritual 11
is our Lord was pretty pretty clear in his teaching? His disciples
about this The Galatians 5 and verse 1 And look at verse 9 first a little
11 11th the whole earth long i bet you've read verses one
through probably six either listening to a message or somewhere or
other and maybe read the whole chapter i've read i'm real familiar
with verses one through six but i've never seen it in this context
before verse nine a little 11 just a little 11 now look at
verse one stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free. What did he make us free from?
Sin, the law, the bondage of the law. Hell, ourselves. He's made us free and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I, Paul,
say unto you that if you be circumcised, that's the first thing under
the law that had to be done to every baby, eight years old,
male, under the law. If you be circumcised, it represented
law keeping. The Jews were called the circumcision.
Why? Not just because they did that,
but because they had the law. It represented the law keeping
that they did. That he is a debtor to do the
whole law. If you set out on that way of
salvation, God's going to be pleased with something I do.
Anything, it doesn't matter what it is. Circumcision, walking
in an aisle, saying a prayer after somebody, you got to do
the whole law in order to be saved that way. Can't just do
one thing and get it done. It don't work like that. Use
a debtor to do the whole law Christ is become of no effect
unto you. And you see the two religions,
the two ways. Though one of them is not a true
way. One of them is a false way. But you see the two ways here
of salvation. It's law or it's Christ. It's works or it's grace. It's
Cain or it's Abel. And it's all through the Scripture.
And it doesn't matter what you call yourself. You're one or
the other. You're a law keeper or you're a mercy beggar. One
of the two. If you're a law keeper, you better do it all the way.
That's what Paul's saying here. If you start out that way and
you can't go all the way, you're a goner. Because Christ on that
path to God, there's no Christ for you there. Christ will profit
you nothing. He's become of no effect unto
you. Whosoever of you are justified
by the law, you've fallen from grace. It's either law or grace.
For we, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness
by faith, by God-given faith that unites us to Christ, who
is our righteousness, who is our law-keeping. For in Jesus
Christ, keeping the law, not keeping the law, availeth nothing.
If you're on a law path to God, Christ availeth nothing. In Christ,
the law doesn't help you. It don't help. You're keeping
of it or not keeping of it has nothing to do with it. You're
in Christ He's your law keeping he's your righteousness. He's
your substitute. He's your represent. He's all It's one way or the other and
whichever way you go the other is of no use to you All right
now I can't be much clearer than this here In Jesus Christ, neither
circumcision availeth anything nor uncertainty. Oh, I know it's
Christ, but you've got to obey God. I wouldn't go so far as
to say you don't got to obey God. But I will say this, as
far as your salvation is concerned, your obedience to God is meaningless. And so is your disobedience.
That's pretty good news, isn't it? That's why they call it gospel. But here's what avails before
God, faith. What avails is not what you do
for Him, it's what He did for you. He gave you faith in Christ. He put you in Christ and Christ
in you by faith. Faith which worketh. Not by law though, by love. You
obey Him. And you wouldn't say, I don't
have to obey God. You wouldn't say that, why? Well,
because I got to get to heaven when I got, no, because I love
him. Because I love him. You did run well. Who did hinder
you that you should not obey the truth? Why are you eating
that leavened bread? This persuasion cometh not of
him that calleth you. You see now the context of verse
9, a little leaven, just a little bit of law keeping, just a little
bit of me doing something. Christ will profit you nothing. The whole lump is puffed up and
useless before God. You're a useless lump before
God. Unless it's all Christ, only
Christ. Is that clear? Is this whole
thing clear? This thing of 11 and what we're
to do with it, what we're to not do. I think the Lord made
it clear to the Israelites in Exodus 12 what they were to do
with regard to 11. Don't you think so? In those
verses, just about every verse, it's reiterated and clarified
in one way or another. And I also believe it's equally
clear what we're warned against tonight. Christ the whole Christ as he
is revealed in this book in truth and it's to partake of him in
sincerity without Representing yourself before God or man as
something you're not But owning yourself as a wretched vile sinner
before him and your only hope is give me some lamb I've got
to partake of him as I've got to partake of Christ, the whole
Christ, and nothing but Christ. Yeast is not evil. Hypocrisy
before God, self-glorying before God, exercising your free will
or doing something, anything to be saved before God, and false
doctrine are evil. Purge it out of your house. He
said twice, didn't he? Get it out of your house and
he gave a reason. Because if you eat of it, you're a goner.
You're cut off. The Lord knows us pretty well,
doesn't he? If it's even in the house, we'll think up a reason
to eat it, won't we? We'll justify ourselves. We're
leaven lovers by nature. But for his glory, let us partake
of him as a church and as individuals. with the unleavened bread of
sincerity and truth by His grace. Let's bow in prayer.